The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-12-22
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GENERAL BEALE is to be Secretary
of the Navy.
Ex-SENAToR HOWE is to succeed
James as Posmaster General.
The President has nominated B. III.
Brewster for Attorney General.
IT is now thought that the trial Of
the assassin Guiteau may last till some
time I'm February.
THERE will be little or no business
OF great public importance done by
Congress till after the holidays.
The committee TO investigate John
Sherman premise to make thorough
job of it. So look out for rich devel.
opmenis.
The total number who lost their
lives by the burning of the Vienna
Ring Theater is seven hundred and
ninety-four.
The bill granting the franking priv
ilege to Mrs. Garfield, the widow of
the late President Garfield, has passed
both Houses of Congress without op-
position.
The President has nominated Chief
Justice Horace Gray, OF Massachusetts,
Supreme Court, to be Associate JUS
tice Of the United States Supreme
Court, vice Clifford, deceased.
SENATOR WILLIAMS, of Kentucky,
has introduced bill to place the sur
yivors of the Mexican war upon the
same footing az those of the war OF
1872, who are allowed $500 per month.
= Or the last six Treasurers of Hen.
dricks county, Ind. Gall Republicans,
four have proved defaulters. Never
theless, there are people ready to swear
that Republicans won't steal.
Mrs. DBURY, the mother of the
young man who was shot by sx-Gov.
: Scott, at Napoleon, Ohie, has, it is
said, commenced suit against Scott,
who was recently acquitted Of the
murder, for $4,000 damages.
ALL of Arthur's Cabinet appoint.
merits thus far are Stalwarts. FoIger,
Frelinghuysen and Brewster fake the
places Of Window, Blaine and Nc
Weigh. The Grant boomers hold the
cards and evidently mean to pIay
them.
A WASHINGTON telegram Of the 18th
inst. says: The proceedings In the
Guiteaa trial will very probably cems
10 a stand still for several days, in
consequence of the serious illness Of
the wife of juror Hobbs. At late
hour tonight the lady was reported
to be very low, and not expected to
live through the night. h
ONE billion, forty-six million, one
hundred and seven thousand, three
hundred and forty-eight letters have
been mailed In the United States du-
ring the last fiscal year. Three mil.
lion, three hundred and twenty three
thousand. six hundred and
of this number have found their way
TO fhe dead letter Office 81.
The New York Half Breeds having
failed to secure the election of step
ladder, transom-peeping Hiscock for
Speaker of the National House of
Representatives., now propose to ie-
venge themselves by running him for
Governor of the Empire State. Let
the dance go on. Personally the Dem
ocrats haye no objection, bat on the
contrary will be glad to see it.
The annual report of the Ohio pen.
itentiary shows that the Institution is
self-suppsrting and little moro. The
receipts for the year ending October.
81 were $l9U6l4, including .SI77,5OO
for convict labor; and the expendi-
lures were $lS7 S2.9SS as
fhe net profits. The number Of .pris.
oners on the 3lst of October was L.
l52- The average earnings of each
convict were Al cents aud a little over.
Iris reported from Washington that
civil actions are ts be instituted
against the members of the star route
ring, and it is expected that ssme
S5,OOOOOO will be recovered from them
by the Government. And this is the.
amount of the stealings from the pub
lie treasury under the pure admins
tration OF his FrauduIency, a large
per centsge of which went into the
Republican campaign fund last year
10 enable that party to retain power.
NEw YORK has her elevated rail.
ways whose cars are constantly throng
ed, still there is but little apparent
diminution of the crowd upon her
great thoroughfare, aud now they are
talking of tunneling the city under
Broadway, and constructing a railroad
with four tracks the whole length OF
the street. The engineers have pro
nounced the scheme to be practical.
The tariff question is coming prom
inently 10 the front, and promises to
become tho prominent question in
politics i'll the near future. In Iowa
the people have become tired of beiug
plundered for the benefit of the mo.
nopelists of the East, and are forming
anti tariff clubs, without distinction
of party, for the purpose of Kidding
themselves of the oppressive ,nf
plundering system. -1'
LONDON, December Is. "A boat con.
tanning fourteen persons left Galway
last evening for the Arran Islands.
Midway of the passage storm was
encountered, the boat sunk, and all
Eands perished.