The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-01

leads to consumption. Shumway's
Compound Cough Syrup will cure you
Mr.. Ezra French, residing in the
Beech Woods District, left at our Office
on Friday morning. four hens eggs
measuring 81 by ~ inches in circum-
ference. They were laid by a last
years hen of the Houdan variety
which has laid 900 eggs since tho first
of last December. That is a pretty
profitable biddy.
Prof. G. w. Humphrey left on Tues
day for Buffalo, where he joins Cal.
Wagner's Minstrel troupe as leader OF
the brass band during the coming
season. This is the same troupe with
which our young townsman Henry
Sperra is employed as Musical Director
of the orchestra.
Our young friend, Dick" Has
brouck is soon to return to Bennett
Medical College, Chicago, to resume
his studies during another semester.
This will be Dicks second course of lee
lures and added to his former extensive
reading, will enable him to battle sue
cessf1lly With the great enemy.
Mr.. &c. Catlin left on Tuesday
morning for the happy hunting
grounds in the northwestern portion
of Michigan, where he will free his
mind from care for a while in chasing
the wild deer. He will be Joined in a
few days by Mr.. II. A. Beaver, of the
Atlantic Mills. These two Nimrods
are well armed and equipped, and we
trustthey will remsmbea their friends
at home by sending an occasional
haunch OF venison this way.
On Wednesday of last week, as Mrs.
Elizabeth James, a widow lady resid-
ing about half a mile west of the Cen
ter of Paris, was returning from the
cheese factory of John r. Thomas. her
horse became frightened and ran, the
wagon was overturned and she thrown
therefrom to the ground, breaking her
collar bone and three ribs. y Her inju-
ries are of SO serious character that it
is thought they will prove fatal.
On Thursday last the marriage of
Mr.. Matthias Miller with Miss Anna
Broderick, both of Raven ma, was cele-
brated at the Catholic Church by high
mass, Father B0wles officiating. The
affair was a very brilliant one, and
will be long remembered by those |
who witnessed 1t.
THUS twa have been made anc-
A woman and Il man
Lang be they Dest with happy life;
She with her husband, he with his wife.
And when their course of life is run.
Brilliant shine their setting sun
Mr.. John Goeppinger, his sister, Miss
Mary. and Miss Caroline, their cousin,
ofz Boone Iowa. are visiting friends
and relatives in Ravenna. They are
The guests of M. Gretzinger, Esq.
These parties, in company with G. F.
and wife, Mrs. Peter Flath
and her daughter Lotta, J. g. Flath
md G. J.. Brocklow, very merry
party, paid their devotions to High
Bridge Glens on Sunday last. They
'eport joyous time, with the single
of too much heat.
Messrs. A. N. Pierce & Co, have re-
,ently put down aquantity of Artificial
Stone walk about the new residence of
Mrs. II. p. Brigham, on South Chest
tut street. These walks are very neat
md are giving entire satisfaction to
hose who have used them, and, as
hey are much cheaper than stone
tagging, promise to become very pop
liar. Messrs. Pierce & Co. have been
Employed for several days past in sup
,lying parties in Kent with this walk,
md expect to be engaged there for
ome days to come.
The venerable F. A. Parker, of New.
on Falls, has been spending several
layH in the city, visiting his children,
dr. Asa Parker, Mrs. N. Converse,
Irs. Judge Seymour and Mrs. J. c.
Jatlin. He is in his eightieth year
'ut still retains much of the vigor of
1outh. He wears pair of fine boots
btained thirty years ago, and hopes
o wear them thirty years longer. The
ares and troubles incident to life have
eft less wrinkles on his brow than one
would expect at his ripe age. A rugged
rame and healthy brain 60 very far
0 make up the measure Of man.
Among the worlds great men some
ONE are large and some are small, but
he longest lived cope with them all.
Dur venerable friend verifies this say
ng. "'' "F
ges The New Mill.