The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-24

The Pratt coal mines Of Alabama
have been sold to . northern company
for 81. 900. 900.
The privifege-tax paid by the whisky
dealers of Mississippi is said to amount
TO 1920. 900.
A company is being formed to develop
the Cahawba coal fields on the line OF
the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad.
had expended 80, 900 In erecting an
engine-house, it was discovered that
the city had no title to the land.
Many Boston capitalists are interest
ed in the Inverness Oil and Land COM
pany, of Nova Scotia, which has bought
TWENTY-FIVE thousand acres of oil land
in Cape Breton.
At Big Greek, Ark, huge cata-
mount. caused stampede among the
stock in large pasture. 1t followed
the cattle to the house, went into the
yard, cleared OUT the dogs, and then
went under the house for n rest. A
gun was discharged and so was the
catamount
..Waiter." called Henderson, at the
eatinghouse, ..this Is the worst steak
ever encountered; it's just like leather"
.'Indeedr' said the waiter, his face
lighting up with pleasure. I'm glad.to
hear you say so, sir. There is nothing
like leather, you know"
The population of Eureka Springs,
Ark, is about fifteen thousand. Dur
ing the heated summer months it went
down probably to twelve thousand, but
now it is increasing daily. Brick chim-
neys and plastered rooms are coming
into fashion in Eureka Springs; so are
rlno ind sx.f rrrral dIofrlRfG nj
Arkansas
Suits against the Emma Mining COM
pany in Utah have been compromised,
and the working of the mine will prob
ably be resumed. This Emma mine,
through certain swindling operations.
became one of the most notorious in the
country. English parties lost large
sums of money in it, and that it is in
the hands of q new company, If any
richness should be discovered. there
would be a new howl.
The question who shall administer
the estate of the late Mark Hopkins is
before q San Francisco court. Mrs.
Hopkins was lately removed as admin
istrator. The public administrator asks
for it His application is opposed by
the legal heirs. Moses Hopkins is pre-
sented for the position by Mrs. Hopkins.
and he is opposed by Samuel F. Hop
kins, rs incompetent. The property is
valued at $15,0O0.0O0
+ Cap. Maxwell, British naval officer.
who has been cruising with his ship in
tie western Pacific, writes home that q
striking peculiarity of the Ellice island
ers is the entire absence of arms among
them.> He did not see club or spear,
or any weapon whatever, either in the
hands or houses of these natives. AT
Ponapi, in the Caroline islands, he was
greatly impressed with the magnitude
and solidity of the residences of former
chiefs, now in ruins. On one islet he
found four complete squares built one
in .he other, with walls, some of them
thirty-five feet high and twelve thick.
By the will of the late Josiah Parsons
Cooke, of Boston, $500 is left for q
monument at Northampton, Mass, to
Mai Aaron Cooke, one of the first
settlers of Northampton. who died in
1880. Prof. Cooke, of Harvard, son OF
the testator. in compliance has ordered
a sarcopbagus of pink Quincy granite.
seven feet broad and five feet ten inches
high. A fac-simile of the original stone
is craven on the sarcophagus, and the
stone itself is inlaid i'm the new monu-
ment-
w 6lCE WAS DCihee DOkON AOA os w OOeA'
vile, jefferson county, N. Y, and when
forty feet below the surface 9
fountain of water and gas was reached.
and the drill. weighing six hundred
pounds, was thrown up, and the water.
thick with some mineral solution. was
also thrown twenty-five feet in the air,
large quantity of gas escaping at the
same time. A pipe was inserted and
the well continues to flow. Six and
one-haf pounds of water was boiled
down to one-fourth pounds. when it be.
came solid matter, which, has a saline
pungent taste, the latter resembling
that of sal ammoniac.
Miss Braddon in trying to bring
Scott's novels within 1.-THE reach of the
poor and needy" is not satisfied with
merely condensing them. The London
Saturday Rerieso says she has not only
abridged Scott, but has altered him. In
''Rob Roy" she has recast the plot,
suppressed whole characters, corrected
the Scotch and added touches to the
humor. The Recie,c says the Bradd-
OniZed story "opens with a ridiculous
scene. which for its folly would be a
disgrace even to one of Miss Braddon's 8
own novels"
About a mile north of Durango, A. T.,
is a wonderful mountain of solid iron
ore called the Ccrro del Mercado. The
ore is said to be entirely free from phos-
phor and sulphur, and to assay from 80
to IS per cent. of pure iron- That part
of the mountain above the ground
measures $3.50 long, 1,20O feet broad,
and 702 feet high. The iron produced
is so soft that it bends and twist, like
wax. and will bear comparison with
the best Norway.
In recent explorations in the foothills
of the Cascade range, Washington Ter
ritory. there was discovered in a wide
ledge of conglomerate and trap rock
the petrified remains of thousands OF
fish-salmon, smelt, and cod. In at
tempting to remove specimens of eacl,
kind with implements at hand, they
were broken, and proved to be as hard
and white rs flint on the inside. The
elevation above the sea level is full,
fifteen hundred feet where the petrilica-
tions were found.
A young lady created quite a sensa-
tion in the public high school in San
Antonio. Tex. recently. After an ab-
sence of several weeks, her conditio
showed plainly that she was enceinte
She told the teachers that her uncle
had locked her in n room during the
absence of her stepmother. and with q
drawn pistol compelled her to submit
to his fiendish desires. This informa
ton is obtained from the scholars pres.
ent at the time The parties are re.
spectacle people. and therefore the
names are Withheld.
Nearly twenty years have elapsed
since work upon the Hite mine of Mari
posa, CAL. first commenced, and not
withstanding the labor of developing
has been vigorously pushed during thai
time. and a great amount of gold ex.
tracted therefrom. the mine at the
present, comparatively speaking. is in
its primitive state, undeveloped and
unexplored. With all the vigor at the
command of capital and best manage
ment, it will require another twenty
years to fathom and develop the re.