The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-04-21
NEWS BREVTTIES.
California sent to the eastern states
u, GOO, 900 worth of fruit last year.


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In the last twenty years the Comstock
lode has Welded Sc, 500, 600 tons of ore,
which averaged SAG 80 per ton making
the total value of the ore extracted
SS23, ,67I,6O5. OF this ore the gold
formed As per cent in value and the
silver 55 per cent
London and New York have met of
late on common ground The abomIn
able state of the streets has been the abb
sorbing and exasperating topic to all the
Inhabitants of either metropolis. and
politics have sunk into comparative
insignifcance-
A Hartford (Conn. man has invented
. contrivance for announcing the
stations on railroad trains, which can
be worked by steam from the engine,
or by electricity, and a company has
been formed with n capital of 100000
to manufacture it
The history of Germany and of Ger
man literature is being rapidly written
in bronze and marble. To Queen Louise
and to Goethe statues were erected in
Berlin in the course of last year, and q
committee for the raising of a monu-
ment to Lessing has issued an appeal to
all Germans abroad for subscription in
Aiu Oi the purpose
DIR. William A Hammond says, in
the International RerieIc, that he gave
water from Lourdes to a pious patient,
calling it something else, and her symp-
toms were at once aggravated; but
when he used common water, telling
her it was from the miraculous springs,
she as quickly improved.
Engine All on the Philadelphia and
Reading road is said to be the most
powerful locomotive in the world The
boiler is 5Sf inches in diameter, with
1S4 two-inch tubes; 10 feet % inches
long, and n CRATE area of 76 square feet;
cylinders 81 inches in diameter and p
inches stroke, 6S-inch driving-wheels,
and Ga, $50 pounds on driving-wheels-
A bill before the California legislature
provides that the widow or children of
any victim of murder, whether the
murderer be declared insane or not,
shall be empowered to proceed against
him in civil suits, and if he be dead the
action may be brought against his Wild
ow and children, or his heirs, admins
traitors, and assigns of any kind what
sOever-
The Republique FrancoiSe says that
CARLYLE pOpularized German notions in
England in ..Sartor Resartus." A pro-
fessed liberal he was rooted in the past. |
He denied progress, Knocked ut civiliZa- |
ton, and adored force. He was n |
writer without taste, but endowed with |
great imagination. He had the art of |
dressing up eccentric ideas in taking |
form. |
CARLYLE has been more fortunate than |
was Dickens in having his wishes in re-
gard to his last resting-place obeyed.
Dickens expressed in writing his desire |
that he should be buried in quiet |
church-yard in Kent. Clerical influence |
was brought to bear on the family of |
the novelist to have his body inferred in |
Westminster abbey, and that influence |
prevailed.
The ghost of Mexican bandit is said |
to haunt a cell in the Jail at San Jose. |
Cal, and the prison authorities use it |
to enforce discipline by playing upon |
the fears of offenders. 4 Young man |
who had .been sentenced to the chain |
gang, and who refused to work on the |
streets, was placed in his cell, but after |
passing one night there he gladly went |
to work as ordered.
Two hundred and forty-eight yards |
of velvet is a pretty tidy pile TO have !
concealed about ones person when pas
sing the custom-house officers. yet this |
is the precise amount which Mrs Ray |
Gordon concealed beneath her clothing |
on landing from the steamship Britain
mic, at New York. Shrewd officers de-
clare that dozens of such cases go un-
detected every day vessel arrives.
John Wright, of Windsor, was killed
by Canada Southern train at Windsor
in 1875. He had heavy accident in
surance, amounting TO S21 900, partial
ly placed in Canadian companies. The
latter contested the case, which has at
last, after going through numerous
courts, been decided in favor of the
heirs of Wright, the insurance compan-
les being compelled to pay costs and
compound interest.
: Richmond, Va, has grown 81 per
cent. in the past ten years. 1t had one
railroad in 1870 running out of the city.
over two hundred miles long, and will
soon have five trunk lines through to |
the west and south. 1t is the healthiest
city in the south, and manufactures S25,-
600, 900 worth of goods year, and has
paid the government in revenue taxes,
chiefly on tobacco, in the past twelve
years S32, 100000
As shown in the statistics of the de-
partment of buildings, the growth OF.
New York city was more rapid last year
than in any twelvemonth since 1872, |
when the speculative building mania
reached its height. That year the ex-
penditure on buildings was not less than
$27, 900, 900. In 1877 it was less than
half as much. 1t increased to sixteen
and half millions in 1878 The figures
of 1880 show an expenditure OF S24, ,000,-
600 for new buildings
Mr.. Fawcett, the English postmaster
general, is about to propose a parcel
post at uniform rates, regardless Of
distance The charge up to two pounds
is likely to be six pence; between two
pounds and four pounds, one shilling.
the payment in each case being made
by stamps. The railway companies
will carry and the postoflice will collect
and deliver, and the receipts will he
divided equally-one-half to the post
office and the other half to the carrying
The work of restoration and preser-
vation of the famous St. Marks cathe-
dral at Venice is proceeding steadily.
inclosed by screens oi
bamboo work, obscures n portion of the
facade rs it has for ten years that of the
ducal palace adjoining. The present
workmen are showing much ingenuity
in replacing and restoring the beautiful
marbles and mosaics, and this unique
edifice promises to be preserved another
thousand years for the admiration of
A man died the other day in Boston,
and some of his friends offered to lay
out the body. 1t was found necessary
TO call in assistance, and an Irishman
was summoned. In moving the corpse
the head was left without support and
dropped back, whercupon, naturally
enough, the eyes and mouth opened.
The astonished Irishman gave Il yell
and rushed from the room, calling out
to the mourners: ..Wait till | get a !
shtick and I'll kill him sure.''
When Gen. Joseph E. Johnston pub
lished his book on the war, some time
ano he kent hack IL Is saiH snnlc of | !