The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-07-07
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The Minnesota is to be made . re-
ceiving ship. and the New Hampshire
II to be stationed at Coasters Island
harbor. Newport
Isaac Farwell. Of Dorset. VT. is dead,
1t the age of 102. His health had been
remarkably good, and he retained the
use OF his faculties up to the time of his
death.
A Boston jury awarded q man 5000
damages for . slander uttered by q
ward politician at one of the voting
places at Jamaica Plain, at the NUM-
cipal election, the slander consisting in
calling him thief.
A Georgis paper makes the assertion
that fifty or sixty years ago, young girls
In that State ate young cotton-bolls with
- much avidity as they devour green
plums to-day. .fNrr
The granite monument to the memory
completed at the Maine quarries, and Is
nearly 40 feet in height and weighs up
wards of thirty tons.
A bald-headed eagle was caught by
1hree boys. near the Delaware Western
Railroad bridge, at Wilmington, Del.
The bird was engaged in combat with q
Newfoundland dog, and was endeavor-
ing to carry it off in his talons.
The revised Testament excites the
Richmond Wing to say: "Let every
copy be burned after 1t is looked at for
curiosity's sake;'' and it adds: LET
us stand by the venerable edition of
our fathers and mothers, and be damned
or saved by it with them"
A child of Mrs. Corcoran, of Lewis
ton, Me-, was terribly bitten recently
while asleep by rat that gnawed the
face and neck. and, strangely, did not
wake the child. although the wounds
wsre deep and the blood flowed freely.
The report Of the health officer of
Montgomery. Ala. shows that the city
is the healthiest in the United States.
The number If deaths per thousand of
population is 7.07 among the white peo-
pie and 23.01 among the colored people,
or an average of 1904.
Harvard college has bought the build
ing occupied by Shreve, Crump & Law,
with 6, 74O feet of land, on the corner
of Washington and Sumner streets,
Boston, for &475. 900. The investment
is merely business one, and no change
In the buildings or occupants is likely.
Jerving Fay, Natick. Mass, school
master, is to be tried for cruelty to Ed
ward Goddard, IL years old. 1t appears
that because the boy threw some chalk,
Fay beat him with q rawhide three feet
long until his back was black and blue,
the marks of fifty-two strokes being
plainly visible, and he was nearly un-
conscious.
The house of Washington Irving. two
miles south of TarrytOwn, N. Y, is
greatly out Of repair, but it is said the
library is exactly ss he left it Even his
pen is ON the table where he laid it
down for the last time, and his papers
as he had arranged them on his desk;
they have never been disturbed.
The electric light is making great
progress. One of the effects of the new
illumination will probably be to change
the working hours from day to night in
the centers of population in hot regions.
There is no heat from electric light, and
work can be accomplished quite as
readily by its aid as during the day
time. f5.A
There has been discovered in the ar
chives of the war department a cipher
dispatch from Gen. Burnside to Gen. Hal
leck, then commander-in-chief, dated
September 80, 1868, containing q prop
osition to make q march ''by way of
Atlanta to the sea, to be undertaken
without trains, and the troops to SUBJ
sist on the country" This proposition
was made . year or more before Gen.
Sherman executed his famous ''march
through Georgia." and consequently, it
would appear. Gen. Burnside is entitled
to considerable credit for suggesting
the plan which afterward proved effect
ual
A table on the ratio of ministers to
members in various denominations
shows that in the African Methodist
church there is one minister to every
224 members; Reformed Dutch church,
4 minister to 147; Presbyterian, to ia;
Protestant Episcopal, 1 to 100; Congre-
gational, 1 to 10Y; Methodist Episcopal,
to IA. The average in seventeen de-
nominations is l to 141.
A Columbus, Ga, rural resident AYERS
that his wife had hen and chickens
that she permitted to occupy an unused
room in the house at night as roostine
quarters In the room was an old sofa
which was so worn as to be unfit for
use. For several mornings the lady
had missed some of the chickens, and
they went one at a time until they were
nearly all gone. An examination of
the old sofa by lifting the cushion re-
vealed n snake seven feet in length and
twenty-seven inches around.
The hangman who bungled at the ex-
ecution of the Nihilists at St. Peters
burg had primed himself for the task by
swallowing too much brandy. He was,
in fact, drunk when he officiated at the
gibbet. He was heavily flogged in pay
ment for his services, but this did not
add any impressiveness TO the remem-
brance of a spectacle which excited
the horror of all who witnessed it.
At Statesville. N. c.. a man named
John Brown, in order to break a little
him out to tree, threatening to hang
him. He tied rope around his neck
and swung him up the tree for the pur-
pose of frightening him, but on letting
him down found that he had carried his
experiment too far. The child died the
same evening from the effects of the
shock and injury.
Mr.. George Chainey, in his lecture in
Boston on lessons for To-day" found
ed on Walt. Whitman's Leaves of
Grass" said that Whitman was emf
nently the poet of to-day, aud while no
poet has been SO coldly received. the
writings of none beat warmer to life.
Whitman dared to write in his own way,
finding what nature had to say and fol-
lowed her rather than the path beaten
by others. 80 ="
81 take for text" said st. Louis
colored pastor. ''the words: 1t is more
blessed to give than to receive There
are many who come to church who
would do well to remember these words.
They are of that kind who come here
and eat and drink of the good things,
but who are never here at the time the
box is passed around" A tall brother
stood up and said: ..You are a liar,
sir-a liar-liar-liar." There was a
great commotion, ending in the ejec-
ton of the disturber. .ai' 81. go
The express company frequently car