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Repairing of Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry. SC.

Special attention given to the Re
pairing of fine watches, clocks, &c.
Jewelry neatly repaired. All VOL k
warranted, and promptly done. Charg-
es as reasonable rs any place in the
city. JOS S. B. SWAIN,
Matchmaker and JeWeler,
Southeast corner Main aud Chestnut
6*roeAa -
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Shumway's Compound Cough Surup
is without doubt the most reliable
remedy for coughs and colds In the
market
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SECOND NATIONAL BANK,
RAVENNA, OHIO.
Capital Paid Up,$15o, 900
In United States Bonds.

u. 8. BONDS OF all kinds bought and sold,
and exchanged at current market rates
u. COUPON FOUR PEN CT. BONDS
ON hand for immediate delivery
E. Il. RICHARDSON, Tres I
ID. O GOODMAN, VIM. H BEEBE,
5H Vice President Cashief'
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DeLisle's Pink of Purity.

For the teeth. 1t cleans them, gives
natural whiteness, delightfully."- per-
fumes the breath, and costs but 25 cts.
l.. P. Seymour sells it. fEi-
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a GOOD FARM
LAKEWOOD, n. *.

: /
This favorte resort is now entering. upon its
eighth season. and continues TO hold its place
in the front rank of summer resorts.
Enough rooms have already been engaged at
the hotels and cottages to give assurance that
the coming season will be the most successful
To those who seek rest without stagnation.
pleasure without excitement. the delight OF
rural life without its ineOpveniences, and the
charm OF dweliing beside a large body of w4tor,
LAX ewOod recommends itself strongly to favor
a more beautiful spot would he hard to find.
trees; its velvet lawns sloping down to the
Lake; The church with its spire; the great no,
the lake in the foreground, it presents perfect
pictarc of reral lOveiiness. ssassss
from the extensive view of the Lake and its
Surroundings. to he had from this vicinty.is
directly on the line of the
New York, Penn. & Ohio Railroad,
formerly A. & g. W. q. r.
On the southern border of Lake Chautauqua.
and is not cached by any other railway.
The through New York, Niagara Falls. B0s-
ton and Saratoga Express trains pass directly
through this beautiful and popular resort. and
all trains stop regularly at Lakewood Depot,
to deliver and take on passengers. Conductors
are instructed to give st0p-oyer checks or all
through tickets. whether reading good for stop
over or not. This should be understood as Civ
ing passengers the right to reach Lakewood In
through cars and when they are ready TO re-
sumo their journey. they can step right into one
of
PULLMAN'S PALACE
UraWllg R00M OF SlGGplng CUdClGS,
AND GO THROUGH TO
Niagara Falls, Saratoga,
Nesc York or Boston.
This cannot be done by any other route. as no
other road ruEs through cars or Palace Sleeping
Coaches to or through any place on LAKE CHAU-
TAuoUA.
The visitor 1T Chautauqua who stops at Lake.
wood is not cut off from the outside world. but
has the same railroad, postal and telegraph IA
cilities at home. BY leaving Cincinnati at
8: 20 p. NJ. you are landed at Lakewood next
day in time for dinner; or. by leaving at 1: 90
r. M, You reach Lakewood next morning at
6: IA.
For Descriptive Pamphlets. Tickets to Lake
wood and return, and to Niagara Falls and re-
turn. good for stop-over at Lakewood apply at
offices of the Netc York, Pennsyfc mia d Ohio
RaiIrOad "a. IL G. w. R. II J. Also. at offices
of connecting lines West and South.
TICKETS are now on sale. good for re-
11OAhlO - turn until September S0th.
P. ID. COOPER. w, B. SHATTUC.
Genl Superintendent, GenI Passenger Ag't,
Cleveland. o. Cleveland o.
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The law firm of Phelps & Dussel has
dissolved. Mr.. Dussel has opened an
office in the rooms recently occupied
by the late DIR. Belding, in Wheeler's
building, while Mr.. I. III. Phelps re-
tai.as the rooms of the old firm in the
Frazer building.
Some young lady, speaking from ex-
periencs doubtless, says "a kiss with
out a moustache is like an egg without
SALT" which accounts for the fact that
so many young men are cultivating
hirsuit adornments under very dis
couraging circumstances.
The rooms of the Boston Clothing
House have recently undergone an en-
tire overhauling and refitting to ac-
commodate the largely Increasing trade
of the establishment. The first invoice
of goods for the Fall trade has been
received and they will he found equal
in quality to any in the market, and
marked down to panic prices.
James Whiften, young man hail
ing from Boston, was furnished safe
quarters at the county cooler OH Thurs
day, on a charge of stealing two gold
watches and chains from Mr. Amos
Benjamin, of Atwater. He was taken
before Justice Woolf. ofthat town, and
waving an examination, in default of
bail he was. committed.
In the case Of the Board of Educa-
ton of Ravenna Village against Mar
win Kent, ct al, to condemn one acre
of land in the east end of lot No. 4 for
school purposes, which was tried in
the Probate Court last week the jury
awarded 81 $50 as compensation and
damages, which would seem to indi-
cate that real estate within the corpo-
rate limits of our village, in the esti-
nation of our rural friends, is very
valuable.
The City fathers have been putting
down q new well or reservoir ON Bah
cock street, near Chestnut, for fire
purposes. The work is being done
under the superintendence of Mr..
Peter Reed. The excavation is twelve
and a-half feet in diameter. At the
depth of twelve or thirteen feet a vein
of water was struck which promises to
be inexhaustible. 1t rose at the rate
of two and .a.half inches a minute and
completely filled the excavation and it
became necessary to bring out the en-.
gine to pump it down to enable the
workmen to put in the curbing.
THE PIoNEERs.-The Directors and
officers of the Pioneer Association OF
Portage and Summit Counties met at
the Continental Hotel, in Kent, on
Saturday, and appointed the necessary
Committees to make arrangements for
the annual meeting Of the Society,
which takes place on Thursday, Sep
tember 1st. A number of speakers
from abroad are expected to be present
and the coming meeting promises to
be the most interesting and profitable
of any since the organization of the
Association.
| A PLEASANT SURPRISE.-On Satur-
day evening quite number of the lady
friends of Mrs. o. l.. Green, with we'll.
filled baskets, made her a very agreea.
BILE visit at the family residence on
Washington street, it being in com
memoration of the fiftieth anniversary
of her birthday, which occurred on
the following Sunday. Among the
many valuable presents of which Mrs
Green was the recipient was fine
carpet, an elegant easy camp rocking
chair and quantity of crockery. Th'
party was very pleasant one to al
who participated.
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YOUR NEIGHBORs SPEAK.

Tbo work entitled the PEOPLES CYCLIC
PEDIA. and published by Phillips Hunt OF
NOT the yery best of its kind. Without lnvolv-
ing the heavy outlay C .lled for by the Britan,
MICA or the American, 1t is admirably adapted
TO the use of families of moderate means. and
believe it fully justifies the praises bestowed
uDOn it by many eminent scholars ana wliters-
/ Iunhesitatingly recommend IL to those wIshinS
work of the kind.-REV, H. +. hANDoLrh' IA
E. Church. Ravenna. o..
endorse the above.-REy. A. J. BRoCkwAY,
Episcopal Minister. Ravenna. y.
dia has satisfied me that it has real value and
that it is worthy place in the library OF every
one who desires to be posted IN the lmportant
facts of the worlds nls.ofy.rhhh piSt Ch.r.h ReHen.
WILL SON, Pastor uniVersaiise Sh"icn' "A'e"
nj. O.
Ihaye carefully examined the Prospectus and
arst volume Iof the Peoples Cyclopedia am
uerfectlv satisfied that the Tables which are 70
than the price of the work The Maps. also are
later and better than have seen IN any other
t;yclopedia,-REv. A. III. HILLS. Pastor long.
Church. Ravenna, y.
Having examined the Peoples Cyciopedla as
carefully as a sitting of an hour or two would
hermit take pleasure in saying 1t has many
features of special value Its Maps are eAGSi-
!ent: its collection of Tables remarkable. Inc
condensation into two volumes Will recommend
il to many; its eheapness to ah-kkV. ~. -
ArwATER, Pastor Disciple Church, hanooipn,
Ihaye somewhat carefully examined The feo-
uIe', Cycio eedia, for which Rev r. sogei Is
agent in this county and heartily recommend
III as a work of great merit. more
general and classified knowledge can he OBTAIN :
ed from this work than from hundreds oil del
lars worth of hooks without the help oil a W
cIonedia REV u. w. LANE, Pastor III E.
Church, ROotstown. o.
p vOGEL, Cortland, o.,
; Agent for Portage County.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that on the 24th day
IN of June. 1881. a petition iiicd in the
Probate Court of Portage county. Ohio. praying
for the creation OF a Sub School District in the
northwest part of Sut1ield Township in said
Portage county. embracing a part of lots Nos.
81 43. "a, Al and As of said township, as shown
commissioners appointed by the Probate Court
for that purpose will meet to determine said
matter at the pottery of VIM. r Myers on lot
day of August. 1881, at 10 O'Clock NJ.
GIDEON SEY MOUR.
Probate Judge.
July IS. 1881 6734w
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Marriage Aid Associations.
CUSTOM SHOE SHOP.

THAvE opened a Custom Shop to manufacture
l TO order all grades of Boots and SHOES Ike,
pairing neatly and promptly done Ihankiul
for past favors, I solicit the public custom
Satisfaction guaranteed
Shop on Chestnut Street. first door north o'
Emnire Ruilding. 662
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The August meeting of the Horti-
cultural Society will be held on We'd
nesday, the 18th inst, at the residence
of G. L. Bartlett, in Ravenna. Essays
will be presented by Gideon Seymour
and Geo. P. Streator. A full attend
ance is requested.
ANDREW WILSON, Sec'y.
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CTEAD DY and Pc rm q nent Em Pl0y.
Sment to Ladies and Gentlemen selling cur
lad. rest Needle BOOK, containing t2j
large eyed English Needles, put up IN
the hest and most .ttractive manner. Sells at
sight without talking. Anv person willing to
work can average "a per day. Send stamp,
for circulars, or so cents for samples. Address
STANDARD NOVELTY co.,
sm-sv ClevelA0Aa o.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
RAvENNA. THURSDAY. AUG. II. 1881.

CEMETERY GATES open from SEVEN 4. Il.
tn EIGHT P. NJ. until further notice.
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fOrCaSe GO. .IPacherS institute
The Portage County teachers Institute will
be held ut the Rave ma Union School Building
Com m cncing August Sth, and contin-
uIng two weeks.
The Instructors for the two weeks are T. W =
HARVEY. and MISS JENNIE GREEN, of N.
Y. Sup't HARTZEL will also be present du.
ring the first week, and Supt. I. NJ, CLEMENS
during the second.
The Instructors are all prominent educators
MISS GREEN is we'll known as Reader and
Elocutionist.
Board can be procured at reasonable rates.
Teachers. make it your duty to be present
and share in the pleasure and profit of this
Institute
A. B. STUTZMAN
ANNA E. MCDONALD,
n. G. MCBRIDE.
Ex. Com.
BELLE CATLIN. Sec.
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CARPE 7 8!

We shall this week add about twenty new
Fall Patterns to our immense variety of Car
pets, Also. big line of RUGS. OIL CLOTHS,
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Miss Anna Shipman, of Springfield,
Mass, and Miss Eliza Watrous, of Ell
mira, N. Y, have been visiting rela-
tives in Ravenna and Charlestown
While in Ravenna they were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Brown. Miss Ada
Brown accompanied them to Elmira
on their return, last Saturday.
On Wednesday evening of last week
while Andrew R.. little ten-year-old
son of DIR. d. r. Jennings, of Cleve-
land, was playing about the barn of his
uncle, A. J. Jennings, in the north
west part of Ravenna, he ran against
a hay fork, three tines of which pene-
trated his left leg above the knee to
the bone. The wounds were painful
but the little fellow endures his mb-
foStnne Hike . hero - r=--sz1
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
Zero's History.

Zero, On the common thermome-
ter, like the fanciful names of the con-
stellations, is a curious instance of the
way wise mems errors are made immor-
tai by becoming popular. 1t may be
worth while to say that the word itself
(zero) comes to us through the Spanish
from the Arabic, and means empty !,
hence, nothing. In expressions like
900 deg. Fahr.," the abbreviation
Fair. stands for Fahrenheit, a Prus-
sian merchant OF Dantzic, on the Baltic
sea. His full name was Gabriel Daniel
Fahrenheit.
From a boy he was close observer of
nature, and when only 10 years old, in
the remarkably cold winter of 1909, he
experimental by putting snow and salt
together and noticed that it produced a
degree of cold equal to the coolest day
of the year. And that day was the cold
est day the Oldest inhabitant could re-
member. Gabriel was the more struck
with the coincidence of his little scien-
tific discovery, and hastily concluded
that he had found the lowest degree of
temperature in the world, either natural
OF artificial. He called the degree zero,
and constructed thermometer, or rude
weather-glass, with a scale graduating
up from zero to boiling point, which he
numbered 212, and the freezing point
32-because, as he thought, mercury
contracted the thirty-second of its vol
ume on being cooled down from the
temperature of freezing water to zero,
and expanded 180th on being heated
from the freezing to the boiling point.
Time showed that this arrangement,
instead Of being truly scientific, was as
arbitrary as the division Of the Bible in
to verses and chapters, and that these
two points no more represented the real
extremes of temperature than from
Dan to Beersheba" expressed the exact
extremes of Palestine.
But Fahrenheit's thermometer had
been widely adopted with its inconven-
lent scale, and none thought of any bet.
ter until his name became an authority,
for Fahrenheit finally abandoned trade
and gave himself up to science.
The three countries which use Fahren-
heit are England, Holland and America.
Russia and Germany use Raumer's Their
u4OuI666Is III WHICH, bue UVulllS pOluU Is
counted 80 degrees above the freezing
point. France uses the centigrade Their
mometer, so-called because it marks the
boiling 100 degrees from freezing point.
On many accounts the centigrade system
is the best, and the triumph of conven-
fence will be attained when zero is made
the freezing point, and when the boiling
point is put up 100 or 1000 degrees
from it, and all the subdivisions are
fixed decimally.
If Fahrenheit had done this at first,
or even if he had made this one of his
many improvements after the public bad
adopted his error, the luck of oppor-
trnity, which was really his, would have
secured to his invention the patronage
of the world.
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OF cnurse She Failed

$50 she's all broken up, eh?" re-
piled Detroit landlady when she heard
of the failure of another woman in the
same business in Toledo. "Wel, /
knew it was only question of time. l
was in her house for week, and [ saw
plainly that she had no economy about
her. I tell you landlady must think
and plan"
eyes"
"Not only in great things but in
small. There's philosophy in running
boarding house"
"How?"
"Wel, I can't stop to tell you more
than one instance. / have buckwheat
pancakes every morning for breakfast
for fourteen boarders. They use butter
on their cakes. I keep the butter on
ice until it is as hard as rock. The
cakes are all placed ON the table, not
smoking hot, but mildly warm j just
warm enough TO soften the outside of a
lump Of butter. In this way I make a
saving of two pounds of butter per week
over theusual way Of rushing on hot pan
cakes It's only one dodge out OF 100,
but the landlady who doesn't play more
or less Of them must ultimately come TO
grief. fire. Press.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

Gen. Sewen received the Republican
caucus nomination for the New Jersey Senator
ship on the twelfth ballot. In the Wisconsin
Republican caucus Philetus Sawyer received
ffty-eight votes on the final ballot and z. W.
Reyes twenty-five. When Sawyer's nomination
had been made unanimous, the caucus adopted
resolution recommending Reyes to Garfield
for the Postmaster Generalship.
The following United States Senators
were elected on Wednesday, the 10Th inst:
Thomas G. Platt Of New York Eugene Hale,
of Maine Benjamin H. Harrison, of Indiana ;
Joseph R. Hawley, Of Connecticut Henry L.
Dawes, of Massachusetts, Francis M. Cockrell
of Missouri, and Henry p Baldwin and Omar
D. Conger, Of Michigan.
Senator Allison has returned to Wash
ington from Mentor. He says Gen. Garfield
listened respectfully and attentiyely to his rep
destinations in behalf of Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa.
but did not commit himself by single syHA-
bic. 1t is believed by many that Gen. Green
B. Raum, of Illinois, the present Commissioner
of internal Revenue, will be rendered the
Treasury Department, or that at least Gen.
Garfield will give one place in his Cabinet to
Illinois
Secretary Ramsey Of the War Depart
ment has decided to retire altogether from
public life at the close of his present official
term.
Gen. Malone, Senator elect from Viz.
ginia has selected seat on the Democratic
side Of the Senate.
Gen. Charles II. Van Wyck was chos-
en- United States Senator from Nebraska, after
a somewhat protracted contest. Gen. Van
Wyck was Brigadier General of volunteers
during the war, and member of Congress from
New York. He is regarded as an anti-railroad
man. He owns large farm near Nebraska
City, and is member Of the present Legis-
lature.
The leading Republicans of Arkansas
gathered at Little Rock and adopted an address
to Gen. Garfield urging the appointment of Hon.
Miffin W. Gibbs, colorod, to position in the
Cabinet.
johnson N. Camden has been elected
Senator by the Legislature of West Virginia.
the twenty Republicans voting for A. W. Camp
bell.
s. B. Maxey has been reelected Sen
ator from Texas, Throckmorton standing sec
ond on the ballot.
The New Jersey Legislature elected
William J. Sewen to the United States Senate
Washington gossip connects Senator
WINDOWS name with Cabinet position under
the new administration.
Senator Allison, it is said, would not
accept the treasury portfolio if it were ten
dered him--preferring to remain in the Senate.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

A fatal coasting accident occurred in
Girardyille, in the coal region of Pennsylvania.
Miss Mary Cardiff and Miss Honora Dougherty
we're enjoying the exciting sport, when the boy
who was guiding their sled lost c ntrol Of it,
seeing his danger, rolled off and ef capped. The
sled crashed against telegraph pole, and
both young ladies were instantly killed.
William II. Westervelt, after COM
pleting term Of seven years for conspiracy to
hdnap Charley Ross, has been discharged from
the Eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia. He
pretends bhat he was Utterly innocent of the
charge on which he was convicted.
Rufus Hatch, the well-known New
York capitalist, has begun suit in the New York
Supreme Court to prevent the consolidation OF
the telegraph companies
There Is intense indignation among
the business men Of New York and other East
ern cities over the recent consolidation of the
telegraph companies, which will no doubt cul-
inmate in the formation Of an indie
pendent company in opposition to
the great monopoly. In connection
with this subject. a recent telegram from
New York, says the leading business men Of
that city "are strongly advocating the manage
ment of telegraph lines by the Government.
Those who have studied the problem most
closely see no remedy against the exactions of
this present monopoly except the adoption o,
Just such system as is in use in Great Britain
ana they note with pleasure that the idea is be.
ing agitated in all parts Of the country, par
ticularly in the West"
The Egyptian obelisk has been placed
upon its pedestal in Central Park, New York
Secretary Of the Navy GoT, Secretar,
of State Evarts the Central Park Commission.
ers, and many representatives of the Masonic
fraternity were among the nearly 10000 peo
pie who witnessed the ceremony.
An Erie railway train, having posta
and express cars and nino Pullman Sleepers
and running at the rate of thirty-fve miles al
hour was thrown from the track near
0weso, n Y, by the breaking of driving
wheel axle of the locomotive. By the
explosion of the oil lamps the postal car
took fire and burned like finder. -four
clerks being roasted to a crisp. The EXPRESS
messenger, Henry Q. Brewer, also expired in
the flames. The train employees escaped un.
hmt but ten members of colored minstrel
company from Binghamton were more OF less
injured. The mail agents were Messrs. Reid
niger, seybolt, Ingrahsm and Fox.
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John Gallagher, of Syracuse, leader
| in the Fenian organization, states that another
raid on Canada is contemplated.
The twenty-four hours ending Sun
day. Jan. %, was one of unusually widespread
meteorological violence, as shown by the tele-
graphic reports from the various sections of
the country. In New York heavy gale, ac-
companied by sleet which froze as it fell, set
in and lasted an entire day, doing an immense
amount Of damage. All the telegraph, tele-
phone, and fre-alarn wires were thrown down
by the accumulations of ice, and the
city was completely cut OFF from tele-
graphic communication with the world.
Messages were received and carried by mes.
sengers to Jersey City and other surrounding
points. Business was almost suspended. espe-
cially in grain and stock, owing to the inability
to get market adyices Mounted firemen pa
trolled the streets to give alarms of fire. Five
Thousand trees in Central Pork were ruined,
and much damage was done to cornices, CHM
neys. ETC., and a number of persons were seri-
ously injured by being hit by falling pieces of
ice Throughout large portion Of New En-
gland there was heavy storm Of alternating
rain and snow, amounting in the aggregate to
about twenty-five inches in depth, and travel
was largely blocked. 1t was accompanied by
a gale of forty miles an hour. In the region
of which Chicago forms the center, snow fell
to the depth of about nine inches. Snow slides
at Custer and Bonanza, Idaho, swept off seven
teen persons, all but four of whom were res
cued. There were from twelve to twenty
inches of snow at Helena, Montana, and con-
siderable losses of stock are reported. The
storm was quite general throughout Ne
braska, and serious effects upon cat
tie in the grazing regions are feared.
At Watertown, in Northern New York, the snow
was from two to four feet deep. Snow fell
steadily in New Orleans for eight hours, melt
ing rapidly away. There were snow drifts
thirty feet high in the vicinity of Kingston.
Ont
According to the Census Bureau, S.
653, 800 worth of 4, ~ and 5-per-cent. bonds
are owned in Chicago. New York owns $780,
724, $50, Philadelphia $26, 457, 45O, Boston S1s,-
95S, $50, San Francisco $40, 312, 45O, Washington
S11, 1854, $3.50, while Allegheny, Pa with popu-
latien of only rs. 681, owns 0,225, $50.
Mount Baker, i'll British Columbia. is
in state of active eruption.
The officers of the Western Union
Telegraph Company say that the consolidation
will not be followed by an advance in rates,
except in a few suburban points where the
facilities are not adequate.
During the last six months of the wear
1880 $4,000 more immigrants arrived in this
country than during the corresponding six
months of 1879.