The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16

show next summer will cover field 466
feet long by 270 feet wide. 1t has given
employment to 800 men.
A track of six thousand acres of land
in Lincoln county, West Virginia, be-
longing to Gen. Jubal A. Early, is adj
vertised for sale for delinquent taxes.
A child that was recently discovered
dead in bed, at Syracuse, n. Y, was
found to have died of cyanosis of the
heart, or imperfect naturalization of the
blood.
This seasons ice crop on the Kenne-
bee river is estimated at 1,300,000 tons
not an insignificant addition to the
prOdigious harvest of the field and orch
ards of Maine.
According to The Eugene city (Ore.)
Gudrd, the American consul general at
Shanghai has lately sent twenty boxes
of bamboo cuttings for transplanting in
Oregon.
There are two colonies of Mormons in
Arizona that are free from territorial
and county taxes. They are SO isolated
that the cost of collecting amounts to
more than taxes.
The ice at the base of Yosemite falls
has formed in &. cone that extends up
the falling water forms a scene of sur
passing blilliancy.
A dentist in MOrgantown, VIVA, has
made from india rubber and gutta percha
an entire face for Elias Cartwright. of
Marshall county, who had his lips, eye
lids, and nose burned off.
A boys idea of having tooth drawn
may be summed up as follows: THE
doctor hitched fast on me, pulled his
best, and just before it killed me the
tooth came out"
The average daily error of the Yale
observatory standard clock which dis
tributed the daily-time signals to the
railroad telegraph offices of Connecticut
during the month ending Jan. 81, 1882,
was 25-100 of one second.
Newbern, sometimes called the Athens
of Carolina, has taken new start with
the tide of enterprise sweeping over the
south. Water facilities have been vast
ly improved and railroads are seeking
direct connections.
81 don't see the use of these arctic
expeditions" remarked Mrs Miggs,
peevishly. "They only get lost and
keep folks looking for them who might
be better employed" Perhaps you
don't see the use of them now," rejoin-
ed Mr.. Miggs, in a tone expressive of
contempt for his wife's Ignorance, but
if we have to pay two cents n pound for
ice next summer, you'll wish that Mr..
Bennctt's attempt TO organize an indie
pendent consumers anti-monopoly leo
company at the north pole had sue
ceedcd."
Tho coal beds of Yavapai county, Ari-
Eona are first encountered about twenty
miles west from Oraybe villages, and
about 17j miles almost direct north
from Prescott. They are part of the
great coal beds of Apache county which
extend from the Grand Colorado almost
to the Rio Grande.
A young lady in New York city, who
was accosted by a well-dresscd man in
an insulting manner, accepted the offer
of an old woman. who was grubbing in
an ash barrel close by, to ''cover him
with ashes for ten cents.'' The man
was pelted with handfuls of ashes, cov-
erng him from head to foot, before he
could escape. The old dame was re-
warded with a quarter.
Mr.. Manyaman arrives at the poarly
gate. ST. Petcr-''NNcll, Mr.. Manya-
man, you're here Mt last. l suppose
that during the summer you shaded
your sidewalk, and in the winter spread
ashes or sawdust when the bricks were
slippery?" Mr.. Manyaman-''Well, no,
| can't say that | did, very few of my
nei9hbors would do it, and thought it
of 10 use" st. Peter Sorry to hear
it Mr.. Manyaman; you can't pass in
here" Applause from within, while an
arriving devil, with u hollow laugh,
seizes Mr.. M. by the trousers and flies
with him to a locality where ice never
collects on the sidewalk. lk.-LOuiSUiiic
O. ricr-JOarndl.
ihe relatives of Daniel Webster now
living in Boston are the grandchildren
of Hon. Israel w. Kelley, whose father,
Moses Kelley, married Lydia Webster,
the niece of Ebcnezer Webster. Israel
w. Kelley, correspondent of the BOS-
ton Herald says, was the friend and
companion of Webster's early years.
He married Rebecca Fletcher, of Hop
kinton, Mr.. Webster marrying Grace
Fletcher, the younger sister of Rebecca,
at Judge Kelley's house, in Salisbury.
The parents of Grace did not approve of
the marriage, contending ''she might us
well throw herself away upon Il COM
mon farmer as wed a man, poor, un-
practical, and with his head buried III
books" Young Daniel first met Grace
Fletcher at the little church in Sails
bury, to which she came one Sabbath
morning ON horseback, habited in black
velvet, with a close-fitting bodice, and,
as he often afterward described her,
Cooking like an angel"
Deacon Eldridge's pretty daughter
fell i'll love ten years ago with James
Dunlap, a penniless boy on her fathers
farm near Lansdale, Pa. James loved
her in return, and, after two years of
ecstatic bliss, asked the deacon for his
daughters hand. The stern old man
refused because of James poverty. The
brave lad resolved that for the sake OF
the girl he loved he would carve out Il
fortune for himself, and, hieing away to
far-distant Wyoming, began his new
career as a stage driver. In a little
while he owned an interest i'll the line,
then he became a stakeholder in rail
road, next he started bank, and the
other day he came back and married
the young lady. The bride has rejected
many oilers in the past ten years. She
is the belle of Lackawanna valley.
wa pINhCu IIS lCOtiio OI CHlOi
creek, you say said an Austin rcppr-
ter, yesterday, to young man on wag-
on flied with pecans. Yes, sir" he
replied, ''that's where they came from. -
''Many up there?" Plenty of them
Believe I'll try few" quizzed the re-
porter, taking big handful of the
pecans. I'm sell you a whole peek foI
30 cents" said the man with swelling
eyes. "Only want Il few. Say, do you
know any news?" Not bit, sir; ev
erything is very dull up our way
'Don't you know anything?" ''Well
believe | did hear some news yester
day" ''What was it?" asked the re
porter cracking a pecan. There was
man got eighteen buckshOt i'll him
near where | live" ''Who shot him?'
II did" "What did you shoot hin
for?" asked the reporter, aghast. ''Fo
stealing some of my pecans out of my
wagon" said the cOuntryman, reaching
under the seat for his shotgun. The re
porter hastily replaced the pecans in th'
wagon, and after calling the country
man Colonel" disappeared around th'
corner.-Is9as SIttnas.