The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-02-17

NEWS BREVITIB.

North Carolina has sixty-fve cotton
factories and two hundred and fifty to-
bacco factories.
In South Carolina there are 46, ,225
| members of the Methodist church, and
189 local preachers.
1t is said that five large panthers in a
herd have been seen within three or
four miles of Benton, Ark.
Immense quantities of deer, antelope,
and mountain sheep are being killed in
Wyoming Territory.
A well-known grocer of Boston, who
died recently, left $40 to be annually
expended in caring for his dog.
Over one thousand printing presses
have been shipped from Philadelphia
to France since the Centennial.
William Lockridge, of Highland coun-
ty. Va, says that he has killed in his
time as many as fifteen hundred deer.
Public lands in Dale county, Alabama.
are entered rapidly, sixteen or eighteen
hundred acres having been taken as
homesteads within single week, be-
sides purchases at Government price.
Wagner-not the composer, but the
palace-car man-began life as wagon
maker He is said to be unchanged by
his subsequent prosperity. The stock
in his car company now pays 90 per
cent. per annum.
The Queen of England has conferred
the order of knighthood on Mr.. Walter
! Hughes, an Australian celebrity. He
did better than 'sstrike oil;'' he discov-
cred the Walleroo and Moonta copper
mines, and became the richest man in
South Australia.
Julia Ward Howe has sued George
III. Norman and others for building
! dam across stream which flows through
her property at Portsmouth, r. l., and
which has heretofore furnished the sup
ply of a large ornamental pond and for
domestic purposes.
Judge Levi Parsons, who last winter
gave $4,000 to establish a library at
Gloversville, N. Y, which is to bear his
name, has just presented another $780,
600 to Union College, Schnectady, the
interest of which is to be used for the
benefit of worthy students.
A missionary church of Scotland
writes from China: cat Chin Yuen we
saw a herd of swine in boots. 1t seems
| that, having far to be driven to market,
the poor creatures feet get knocked up;
but giving them a pair, or rather two
pulls, VI UOOlS VI oUldW, Iucy dI0
enabled to do the journey without risk
of hurting their legs"
Rev. John Marshland, the Central
Village Comm clergyman whose dis
appearance and discovery at Bingham
ton, N. Y, caused SO much interest,
says he left his home to consult the
| church records at the house of the So
ciety clerk, and had no further knowl-
edge of the cause of his actions until
he reached Binghamton. When he
came to himself he made preparations
to return, when he was found by his
wife and taken back by her.
In the municipal cremation furnace
| at Gotha, in Germany, you can get
yourself incinerated for SIG. Since the
establishment of the furnace, two years
ago, thirty bodies of the nobility and
gentry have enjoyed it's hospitality.
Persons, progressive but poor, who are
prejudiced against interment should go
to Gotha while they can still call their
souls their own, since the German rail-
roads charge high rates for the carriage
of earthly tabernacles from which the
spirit has flown.
The San Francisco Alta has been
making computation of what Kear-
neyism has cost California. There has
been decrease of $33, 600, 900 in bank
ing capital, the improvements of prop
| erty have been checked, the number of
depositors in the saving banks has fall
len off, the loans of the banks have
been less this year than the repayment
of borrowers, there is no new railroad
building in the State, and the home cap
italists are transferring their business
to New York. California is the only
<h,f ,O< ol, in, bo o1
prosperity of the country.
The South Louisiana Canal and Nav
igation company in less than twelve
years, beginning about six miles west
of Fort Livingston, near the southern
fine canal, westward, nine miles long,
forty feet wide, and six feet deep at low
tide, cutting into Bayou Lafourche
about twenty miles above its mouth,
and extending nearly three miles far
ther west, into the back waters of TIM
boiler Bay. This gives safe and easy
inland navigation to Bayou Terrebone
at a point about twenty miles from the
gulf.
Four new French ironclads are about
| to be put on the stocks, and will be
named the Hoche, Marceau, Neptune,
and Magenta. They are all from the
same design of NJ. HUN, naval engineer.
They will be $50 feet in length, IS in
breadth, and will have a displacement
of 1866 tons. Their engines will be of
5000 horse power, and are expected to
give speed of IA knots. The armor
plating will be 1S inches thick, and the
armament will consist of three 14-inch
guns in turrets and eighteen 6-inch
guns in battery.
The recent prohibition of the sale of
one of the works of Heine in Germany
suggests the strict censorship which is
imposed upon literature and the drama
in that country and Austria. 1t is said
that short time ago a new piece was
accepted by the proprietor OF Vienna
| theatre, and in due course it was sent
to the censor for approval. One of the
characters is made. in the second act,
to call for chop. The official wrote
on the margin: ''On fete days let fried
sole, OF other fish in season, be here
called for instead of chop"
Some one who has taken the trouble
| TO count the patents issued to women,
finds that the number for the year end
! ing July 1880, was seventy, or ten more
| than the average. Most of the inven-
| tions of women have to do with house
hold appliance. Among the past years
are jar-lifter, bag holder, pillow
sham holder, dress protector, two
dust pans, a washing machine, f1uting
iron, a dress chart, fish boner, a sleeve
adiuster, lap table, sewing machine
treadle, wash basin, an iron theater.
sad irons, garment stiffener, folding
| chair, a wardrobe bed, weather strip,
a churn. an invalid's bed, a strainer, a
milk cooler, sofa bed, dipper,
paper dish, and plating device
The almost simultaneous events of
the death of Mr.. Croker and the publi-
lication of ..Endymion" have led to the
appearance of some incorrect versions
of the origin of Lord Beaconsfield's dis
like to Croker. The fact was that,
when Sir Robert Peel came into power
in 1871, Mr.. Disraeli was anxious for
Office and his modest ambition would
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