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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

C.Foster is peranbulating the State
boasting about the great reform and
reduction Of expenses in the manage.
ment Of the State Government under
his administration as compared with
Democrats under Bishop. In his twad.
die Governor Foster takes care not to
give MS the figures. To show up this
political trickster, we give amounts
appropriated by the late Republican
Legislature and the previous Demo.
cratic Legislature, thus comparing
Fosters two years witk Bishops:
Appropriated in 1873. s7s .s4,57l,ss2 81 2 7s D
Total Democratic. 3. /. .$9, ,294 233 %
Appropriated in 1880. $4659, 756 90
1881. 80, 4,64l ,947 93
Total Republican. :. SO, ,3Ol ,9O3 SO
This shows difference in favor of
the Democratic two years of 81, 7,470 IS.
These figures are from the record, and
prove the utter falsity eff Governor
Fosters claim.
1t should be remembered that du-
ring the Democratic two years, the
laws of the State were codified and
published in large volumes at heavy
expense, amounting to thousands of
dollars. This was in addition to the
usual and regular appropriations. No
similar expense had to be provided
during the two years Of Republican
rule.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
THE MARKETS.
RAyENrA. Sent. IA 1ss

RAvENNA. Sept. II. 1881.
ATLANTIC MILLS FLOUR AND FEED.
FLOUR-New Process, 81 Is; Pastry 81 IS
per sack; O.K.$1 as.
FEED-Bran. 81 per 100 lbs; Aiddiings, 1.8O;
Chop. $1.50; Corn Meal. 81 65; Oil Neal. New
Process. 25 Old. q. 80 Cotton Seed Meal 81 rs
WHEAT-$1.s7 O. 40.
CORN-shelled brings s0c; ears, 45c.
OATS-45 cts.
RYE-No. brings 7Uc
BARLEY-Nonef IN market.
HAY-selling at $40 q $1a; according to
quality. Ready sale.
BEEF-Per cwt., e6 so.
HOGS-Dressed. 81 90. per cwt.
LARD-City rendered 14G.
SMOKED MEATs-City sugar Cured Hams
selling at I5c; Country 1she.
Shoulders. City CURED selling at Sc. Dried
Beef selling at 15:.
POULTRY-Small supply in the MARKET
Chickens, dressed. buyers pay 10 cents; live &c
Turkies. dressed. 100. live Tc.
BUTTER-25c.
CHEEsE-Boxed 1191ss Retails. Is q Isc
EGGS-buyers pay lac per dog.
POTATOES-75 q 9oc.
DRIED APPLES-sHc.
| BEANS-Choice handpicked in small demand
| ut 81 50 per bu. Medium 81 s5
| vINEGAR-rure cider .retails S0c per gal
| TALLOW-Buyers pay 5Hc.
| HIDES-Green. trimmed. No. I. &c
| FEATHERS-Best retail at 76e.
| WHITE LINE-$1 90 per Dbl.
WATER LIME-S1 80
sALT-Coarse sells at q 90: fine q GO.
wOOD-stove 81 sos CO., feet wood - o.
! q So 50 per cord.
| SUGARS
Conee sells for .......... lie
| Extra e NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10,
/ duuldtcO l1C
| Pulverized .................. 19,:e
| Crushed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i91<S
Brown OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES q IOl
| MOLAssES-
| New Orleans sells for, ,... % q TB<
| White Drip Syrup. - Is.
Gloden Drip - tn
| SEEDS
Glow Seed, prime .........,......4 4 o.
| Timothy. Observation-Disclosures 3 n
Red Top ..........................1 q
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

THE Star Route thieves who plum
dered the Treasury of hundreds of
thousands of dollars are all leading
Republicans, who occusy front seats
i'm the Republican congregation. They
devoted large per centage of their ill
gotten gains to promote the success of
the Republican party last fall with the
full knowledge of the leaders of the
party that the money was dishonesty
obtained. Howgate, of the Signal
Service, who is under arrest for en-
bezzling SAC, 900 of Government money
by means of false vouchers, is one of
the saints in that party of piety, purity
and patriotism, and yet the leaders of
the party possessing all the honesty,
intelligence and morality i'm the land
don't think the party should be held
responsible for the rascalities of these
fellows. Oh, no! of course not.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
An Abundance Of Reason.


Among the many reasons why John
Wesley BoOkwalter should be regarded
as the friend OF the wOrkingmen and
entitled to their support may be men.
toned the following:
Because he never had a strike in his
shops;
Because he never made a reduction
in the wages Of.his employees;
Because when any of his men are i'll
or injured, their pay is continued right
along,
Because during the late hard times
he advanced the pay of many of his
workmen
Because he accords to his employees
the freeman's right to vote as they
please;
Because he has always treated his
employees as men-as fellow-working-
men.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Bsekwai,er's Democracy.

Book walters Democracy.
The Republican politicians are great.
ly troubled about Bookwalter's politi.
cal status.
First, John A. Shipman, the Repub-
can "a stslwart) postmaster at Spring
field, in 1880 furnished an affidavit to
the Jacksonville, ILL.,, Courier, that
John Wesley Bookwalter had been q
Democrat for fifteen years.
Then they tell that Bookwslter fur.
nished "good money" to the Tilden
campaign, even taking care to aid a
portion Of the Democratic press in
his vicinity. He did not vote for Til
den because several days before the
election he was called 10 New York
City to attend to como very important
law points pertinent to his water
wheel patents.
Next, the Republicans Indignantly
tell the story that several years ago,
in Springfield, when Bookwalter was
offered q Republican ticket, he ground
it under his heel and said the hour to
rebuke such corruption had come.
In the Hancock campaign, when the
Springfield Democrats were tainted
that they couldn't get up procession,
and il they did, no gentleman would
march in it, Bookwalter organized the
largest political procession ever seen
in that city, and through the rain and
mud marched with torch, shoulder
to shoulder among hundreds offspring
fields workingmen.
Now the Republican press has gone
back on all these truths, which they
heretofore gladly Published, and de-
clare that Book walter is NO Democrat,
aud that his letter to the Jacksonville,
Ill, Courier says so. Then why not
produce and publish the letter in full
Give the letter to the people Of Ohio.
Not gsrbled extracts, but the real
original letter. Convict Bookwalter
by his own words.
Weighed and Found wanting.
The Bucyrus Journal, the Republic
can organ Of Crawford county, being
reminded that 1t denounced G. Foster
as an unfit man for Governor, declares
that it did say so, and it sticks to it.
Here is what the Journal said of Fos-
ter: "Fester has evinced neither
ability 40 an administrator, consisten-
cy as q partisan, wisdom as . party
leader, honesty as . politician, honor
toward other great mon of the party,
nor fidelity to the people wko elected
him." How do Republicans relish
voting for q man whom cempstent
authority pronounces des-
titute Of ability. consistency, wisdom,
honssty, henor aud fidelity2
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

diseases tnat
lead to Con
sumption. In
sanity. and an
early grave, or
both. EOnat-I
ter how shat
tered the sys-I
tenn m a y be-
from eXceSseSl
of any Kind, al
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

A LESSON FOR VIRGINIA. New
York Herald reads the following lecture
on financial integrity to Virginia:
"The State of Pennsylvania has issued
proposals for the purpose of funding sew
eraI million dollars of its five and six per
cent. loan, issued in 1867, at the rate of
three, three and half and four per ceut.
interest, to be decided by the Commission
ers of the Sinking Fund at the time the
proposals are opened. 1T will be remark
able, says Philadelphia journal, "if the
bids for the new loan do not exceed it's
amount tenfold.' Here is an instance Of
the value of financial integrity which
should not be lost upon our friends IN Vir-
ginia. The rulers of Virginia politics, es-
pecially those known as ''ReadjEsters,' .
should take this lesson to heart. There is
no reason why the credit of Virginia
should not stand as high as that of Penn
sylvania. Virginia is a rich State, capa-
BILE Of limitless progress, with unusual re-
sources, a people Intelligent, active and
farseeing. The contrast between Virgin
ia before the money markets of the world
and Pennsylvania is a lesson that should
be studied in every Southern State, and
also in our hayward, forlorn. repudiating,
misguided Northwestern Commonwealth
of Minnesota"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

DEMOCRATIC CAUCUs.-A caucus of
the Democratic members of the General
Assembly was held in the Senate chamber
Monday evening. at o'clock-Hon. Mar
shall Hanger in the chair, and Senator
William Lovenstein, secretary.
Hon. John W. johnson was nominated
for reelection as United States senator.
For circuit judges the Governors nd IN
terim appointees were all nominated
namely, Judges %. A. Grimsley, S. G..
Whittle, and B. T. Gunther.
For Judge Of Elizabeth City county Col
onel Tabb was placed in nomination by
Mr.. Charles F. Taylor, of Richmond. 4
friend of the Colonel insisted that it would
be no honor to him to have his name used
in this way, and asked Mr.. Taylor to with
draw it, which he did.
Just before the caucus adjourned the
desirability of establishing party-organ
at Richmond, was brought up, and the
mover Of the scheme suggested that not
only should the very best talent in the
State be employed upon it, but that. like
other successful organs, it should be dis
tributed gratuitously in country districts,
where the people most needed information
on political subjects.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

Nor THE GAME FOR HER.-Elizabeth
e. Zeller, a young girl, left her home gay
and happy, last Saturday afternoon for
school. In the evening she came home
with bruise on her forehead which she
said was only scratch she had sustained
while playing leap-frog with number OF
other girls. The girls, she explained 20
her mother. arranged themselves in a row
and she succeeded in making all the leaps
but one without the slightest dlf1cuity.-
When she attempted to leap over Ins
shoulders of the last girl in the row no5
dress caught on the girls head ana causeu
her to fall headforemost to the ground
Nothing more was thought OF the accloene
by her friends, and the leap-frog game Was
scarcely mentioned until Tuesday, When
it was recalled to memory by the glrIs
anxious mother, as soon as the girl resurn,
ed home from school in the afternoon anu
complained of severe headache and pc
gan to vomit. These symptoms were iol-
lowed by chill. On Wednesday morning
the severe pain that shot through her head
caused her to moan and scream, so great
was her suffering. She fingered with
consuming fever until Wednesday noon,
when she died. The coroner held an in
quest on her body and rendered as his yer
dict that the deceased came to her death
from congestion of the brain, following
accidental conclusion. The girl was on
the eve of her 18th year, bright child,
affectionate, kind, beloved by all her as
sociates and idolized by her grief-strlcken
mother.-St. Louis Republican.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

A CITY OF LAMBENT LIGHT, THE city
of Aurora, ILL.,, forty miles west of Chica-
go. affords striking spectacle of the rev.
olution in lighting cities by the electric
power plan. AT night the city Is bathed
in flood of lambert light, and her citi-
zens are in a state of delighted enthusiasm
over the SPLENDID practical results achiev-
ed. The system consists of six electrical
towers, made of iron rods and network,
each $50 feet high These are crowned with
electric lamps Of 1000 candle power each,
or equal to 125 gas jets. The cost complete
for each tower and apparatus is about
$1,000. One electric tower lamp, fed by
soft coal at So per ton, gives 1900 can
die light at q cents per hour-a ratio of
q to SO compared to corresponding use
of gas-light. The people of Aurora are
universally jubilant over the result of the
adoption of the new system, and express
the most earnest and complete satisfaction
with the Brush tower plan in all it's bear
ings and aspects.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

A RAILROAD ENGINE DAsHING WILD
LY THROUGH THE STREETS. singular
accident occurred in Richmond, last Tues
day morning on the connecting track be
tween the Richmond and Danville and the
Richmond and York River Railroads. A
train of freight cars was being transferred
from one depot to another. when, by some
defect in switch, nearly the whole train
was turned off on siding, leaving the
engine and several cars on the main track.
The conclusion caused the Unbelievable
of the engine to be thrown open, and, it
being out Of the power, of the engineer to
remedy the evil, the engine started Off at a
terrific speed down the track along the
street, crashing into two wagon teams and
killing four mules. 1t continued it's fright
full course through the lower part of the
city and for nearly three miles outside the
corporate limits. when the bursting of
flue gave escape to the steam and stopped
the engine. The engineer had jumped off
when he found he had lost control of his
engine, but the fireman and little boy re-
manned on the engine and escaped injury.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

GUITEAU ENJOYING A RECEsS-CALL-
ERs AT THE CITY JAIL-THE "PREs-
SURE" THEoRY.-Though he expected a
large number, Guiteau had but few visi-
tors Tuesday. Among his callers were 8
young ladies and two congressman. He
talked freely with them and was particu
Iarly anxious to ascertain something about
the feeling that was entertained towards
him by the general public II have no.
ticed" said Guiteau to lawyer who call
ed, ''that there is perceptible change in
the tone of the newspapers towards me,
and that the trial has caused them to dis
cuss the question of insanity in all its
bearings. What I would prefer is that
they will discuss the question of pressure
as the result of what claim to be 1nsplra-
tion." Most of those who saw him when
he wore a beard compliment him on the
change and improvement OF his looks since
his face has been clean. II don't know
whether there is an Improvement or not.
but the people who talk to me say So all
of them" said Guiteau IN talking about 1t
this afternoon, but people in Washing ton
have a way Of approving everything that
is. Whatever is, is right with them. Fred.
Douglass said in lecture some years ago
that everybody in Washington says Eyes"
to everything. That has been my expert
ence also, though I have read that Presl-
dent Arthur has the independence to say
'"No" when the occasion demands it.
One of the jail guards told the Sun"
correspondent Tuesday. that although the
scaffold in the East wing of the Jail is
within sight from the corridor Guiteau
occupies, he has never been known to look
at is. Tuesday couple of the ladies who
saw Guiteau walked up to the scatfold
after they left him, and spent some time
gossiping while standing on the platform.
The sculptor who took a cast of Gui-
teaus head on Sunday, promised that he
would send Guiteau one OF the first busts
made. He expected it all day. but it did
not come Washington Cor. Bait. Sun.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

AN ALEXANDRIA LADY'S STARVA-
TIoN FAsT.-Miss Chloe Ann Violet, a
resident of the Second Ward, in this city,
thirty-fve days ago to-day started out on a
starvation fast, under the impression that
the Lord she had served for many years re-
CURED another sacrifice, and that sacrifice
must be herself. Thirty-fve days ago this
lady, respected by all who know her, re-
ceived according to her belief, the Divine
command, and from that time she has alb
stained from all kinds of food for the body,
but spiritual food she has INDUCED in to
great extent. She has spent the entire
time of her fast in prayer and meditation
and in reading the Scriptures. Miss Vlo
lett claims that her fast is. in accordance
with an unmiStakable command from the
Lord Jesus Christ, who appeared to her
and told her that if she committed suicide
in any other way except by fasting she
would be guilty OF great sin and would
be held responsible, but it in a fast she
starved to death the gates of glory would
be thrown wide open to her. Many friends
of the deluded lady have tried to persuade
her out of her strange hallucination, but
their efforts have been in vain. She kept
up until yesterday, when overcome by
weak ness she had to take to her bed,
where she remains, as fully determined to
obey the supposed command OF the Lord
as when she first started out on her suici-
dal course.
Rev. DR.. Poulson, of the M. E Church,
at the request of friends, has visited Miss
Violet and conversed and prayed with
her, but to no purpose, for he left her with
her determination mistaken not to take
food. MisstViolett becomes excited at the
mere mention of food.-Alera1adria CD
zette.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

JOE JOHNSTON AND JEFF VIs.-Gen.
Joe Johnston is much annoyed at a publ
cation in Philadelphia paper in which he
is represented as having charged Jefferson
Davis with the sequestration, to use mild
word, of large amount of Confederate
gold. This is the essence Of an interview
running through several columns of the
Philadelphia paper alluded to. The General
is now in Washington, A representative
of "The World'' met him to-day and had a.
conversation upon the general subject. The
General said he had made no statement to
the representative Of a Philadelphia or any
other paper. intended for publication. He
purposes to write to the editor Of the paper
which made the publication, disavowing
any such intention and denying the accu-
racy of many or most of the statements
attributed to him in the alleged interview.
The General says he was beguiled into
talking freely about three weeks ago to a
gentleman at hotel in Richmond, Va,
whom he did not at the moment suspect
was a newspaper man, and that what he
did say was so expanded that it became no
more like what he said than he to Hercules.
He is made to put words in the mouth of
Beauregard and others and to say things
he didn't know, and which could only be
gathered from records or reported by some
one familiar with southern history and
Southern men. The general said that he
was to blame as we'll as the interviewer.
for he was old enough to know better. 1t
appears, therefore, that while much OF the
alleged interview never took place, some
was false and other portions inaccurately
aeported.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

CONFEDERATE TREAsURE.-ln another
column the denial on part of General Jos.
r.. Johnston, that he asserted that Presi-
dent Davis had sequestered several mil
lions of Confederate funds, is published.
A correspondent Of the dispatch"
from Richmond, says the person in whose
hands the money was placed weighed
It at the Danville depot, and its aggregate
was $3.50, 900, and that he carried and de-
rivered it to Gen. Reagan at Abbeville,
south Carolina, and that he thinks that it
WIS certainly paid to soldiers there, and
that President Davis was never near. and
had nothing to do with this money. Thus
dies another capard.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

AN EYE TURNED TO SToNE.-Dr.
Houghman, the well-known ocullst, re
Gently exhibited an ossifed choroid of the
human eye quite as large as silver quar-
ter and a couple Of times as thick. 1t was
developed by recent opera ton success
fully performed by the Doctor. l.. M,
Richards, of Jefferson county, came to
him some time ago and told him that
twenty-five years ago, while chopplng in
the woods, he injured one of his eyes. It
became lntlamed, but after years time
healed, leaving the eye totally blind. He
was not bothered with it any more until
about year or more ago, when again it
became very painful, and felt as though
there was strong pressure behind it. The
other eye, in sympathy with the injured
member, began to fail also. DIR. Hough-
man removed the eye, and was astonished
to find that ossiacation had set IN and the
choroid had turned to stone. There are
only two cases of the kind on record.-Mil-
apaukee Sentinel.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.--W hen | look
across the broad Atlantic see a new and
most welcome addition to our strength in
the critical relations which now exist be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain. loud cheers.) 1t is not the policy
of the United States to maintain consid-
cradle navy in the time of peace, but they
are potently our most formidable rival on
the seas. In former and less happy times
an unnatural jealousy divided the two
great branches of the Anglo-Saxau race.
The apprehension of a rupture with tbs
United States may have, indeed, been re-
mote, but it was a source of weakness, and
we are in proportionate degree reinforc-
ed by the recent manifestations in both
countries of the warmeSt sentiments of
mutual amity. Loud cheers The gen.
erous homage paid to the British flag at
Yorktown and to the Star Spangled ban
ner in the center Of our own metropolis
are incidents full OF bright augury for the
future. (Cheers.)
The United States and Great BritaiH
now stand shoulder to shoulder as they
have never stood before cloud cheers.) and
we number together 10O,0OO,OO0 people
(Renewed cheers.) LIZ speeches which are
W lOllOW tu6 CldiLlS VI tu6 LlU0ldl pau
will be urged by those who stand high in
the. counsels of the party. But I may,
perhaps, remind you that the generous rep
aration which was offered to the United
States at Geneva was the work of the Lib
eral party. loud cheers.) 1t was de-
nounced at the time by our political OPP
ponents as a national humiliation, but we
all accept to-day with deep satisfaction
the results which have followed from a
policy Of justice. (Renewed cheers.)-
Something yet remained to be done which
was beyond the scope of politicians and
diplomatists. "One touch of nature makes
the whole world kim" and Her Majesty
was enabled from her exalted station to
express what England felt on the death of
General Garfield. (Cheers.) Our message
of sympathy was conveyed with true
woman 8 tenderness, which has won the
heart OF America for the Queen and her
people. (Cheers.) The friendship between
Great Britain and the United States which
has been steadily ripening, and is now; |
trust secured to us forever, is more to
England than hundred ironclads. loud
cheers. )-Speech by SIR Z. Brassey, at B1as-
tot, ENGLAND.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23
SURPLUS WEALTH SEEKING INVEST
al

SURPLUS WEALTH SEEKING INVEST
MENT.-The Philadelphia Evening Tele-
graph says: sit is estimated by well-in-
formed business men that there is at least
$50, 100000 of capital in Philadelphia TO-
day seeking investment. A well-known
banker who has organized number Of
syndicates, stated to Telegraph repre-
sentative that he could 60 upon the street
and in half an hour, by presenting fa-
vorable investment, get UP a subscription
of S5,OOO,o0O Capital, he said, was not
particular in what it was placed, only that
a fair return could be shown. People were
wild for speculation and accepted any
thing good. Money, too, he SAID, brought
a small return in the regular channels,
and quick returns could be best made out
side. Coal and iron properties at this time
seemed to be the favorites for Investment,
and considerable money had recently been
put in slate lands"