The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-04-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
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GENERAL GRANT left Galveston for
Vera Cruz, on the Both inst.
THE Ohio Legislature is talking
about adjourning on Monday next.
THERE are two States-Texas and
California-which exceed in area, by
over 10000 square miles, France and
Germany.
STRIKES for higher wages are crop
ping out in various sections of the
country, and they aren't caused by the
election of Hancock.
THE public debt, according to the
report of the Treasury department was
reduced during the month of March in
the sum of Sc, ,OOO,O 900.
THERE are five treaties with foreign
nations and about two hundred i'm.
portant appointments awaiting the
action of the Senate, but they must all
await the rewarding of Malone.
GARFIELD has been President about
five weeks, and 1t is the proud boast
of his Republican friends that he has
made only three serious mistakes.
Wonderful.
REBEL Brigadier Malone is the
"boss of the Republican party. He
has readjusted it on the platform of
love for the unrepentant rebel" and
reputation of State obligations. They
must be proud of Malone.
A NICE mess the Administration
made of it when they took General
Hazen from the army and put him in
charge of the weather bureau. But
then, he has had Vennor and that pes
tiferous ground hog TO contend with.
THE Republicans of Indiana, like
their brethren of Ohio, were very
"sweet' on the Prohibitionlsts before
the election last fall, but the Legisla
ture of that State failed to pass the
local option bill, alice same.
IT is reported that Gen. Longstreet
Is to be recalled from Turkey, and
made U. S. Marshal of Georgia. II
memory is not at fault, Longstreet
was not an officer in the Union service.
But the RAIDS hate " Confederate Brig
adiore - Ilao omoa
The negroes and Creoles of the val
ley of Canete, Peru, are engaged
in intimidating, bulldozing and mur-
dering the Chinese inhabitants, over
1900 of whom, it is alleged, have been
barbarously butchered.
THE Ohio Legislature adjourned
over last Saturday till Tuesday to ena-
BILE the members to go home and vote.
OF course little or no business will be
done during the balance of the week.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 1st
inst, says: "The President has de-
eided to appoint Capt. Henry, of Ohio,
United States Marshal for the District
of Columbia, in place of Friedrich
Douglass.
SMALLPOX is cured by Mexican
doctors i'm three days, and no marks
left, by treating the patient to cold
drinks of cream tartar and water. The
cream-tartar is first dissolved in boil
ing water. The Mexican method is
worth looking into.
ALONG Sullivan River, Maine, they
are taking out silver in large uuanti-
ties, and they seem to value the metal
very highly, notwithstanding the Bos-
ton gOldbugs have declared it to be a
base delusion and snare.
The Democratic Senators are dem
onstrating that the assertion of the
Republican politicians that ''lhe Dem
ocrats lack pluck" ia slight depart
ure from the truth. Let them not
weary in well doing, and they will
receive the appreciation OF the De-
mocracy everywhere.
WE see it stated by an amendment
to the revised statutes recently passed
by the Legislature, a Justice of the
Peace or Notary Public who draws up
q deed or otker legal instrument of the
kind, is not competent as a witness to
the same.
PHILADELPHIA offers to sell to New
York the Min Exposition Building,
and transfer it to New York for $780,
600 of stock in the new Worlds Fair
of 1888. The building cost when first
constructed. 81 100000, and could not
be built now for less than 81 100000
But New York does not seem TO be in
a hurry to invest.
ONE thousand million of dollars
have been paid through the Internal
Revenue Office into the Treasury of
the United States from spirituous and
malt liquors, since the law was cstab-
iished-one-half the whole amount of
the national debt-and yet the loyal
organs talk about legislation 10 pro-
greatest tax producing article of the
.; ;e.
The Republicans have no sympathy
f,r Reputation or regulators. Of
course not. Yet they have chosen as
their candidates for two of the chiof
Offices of the Senate Representatives
from the only two repudiating States
of the Union Riddleberger, from
Virginia, and Charley johnson, from
Minnesota. This may be only a coin