The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

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JOHN SHERMAN says he is in favor
of revising the tariff because it con-
tains unjust provisions.
EIGHTY-FIvE dead horses were re-
ported in Cleveland, up to Monday
night. in the month of January.
EVERY State in the Union. with the
sole exception of Mississippi, has a
National Bank, and every Territory
except Arizona.
THE weary statesmen of the Ohio
Legislature adjourned over from FRI
day till Monday. Still they assert that
the session will be short one.
THE insane department ofth Mason
county (Ill.) poor house was destroyed
by fire on the 4th inst. All the inmates
but two escaped; the latter are believed
to be at large.
IT is asserted that the stay of Judge
Folger IN the Cabinet will be of short
duration; that he will retire from the
Treasury Department at an early day
and give place to the royal Roscoe.
THERE are many people who think
Hayes was rather small to give only
$3.50 of the S2OO, 600 of Tilden's salary
which he drew while occupying the
White House, towards the Garfield
monumentifund.
GEORGE c. GERMAN, a man about
thirty years of age, and a book keeper
for Camp, Cooke & Co. at Cugahoga
Falls, committed suicide at the family
residence in that town, on the morning
ofthe 4th inst, by shooting himself in
the side with a pistol.
THE Guiteau trial is fast approach
ing its termination. The testimony is
all in, and the arguments of counsel
have been commenced, and before an
other week the jury will have rendered
their verdict, and as to what their find
ing will be there can be but little
doubt.
On Sunday evening one of the fine
buildings constituting Havemeyer &
Elders sugar refinery i'm that part of
Brooklyn called Williamsburg, was
burned, causing loss of a million and
a half of dollars, and throwing one
Thousand men out of employment.
THERE is a revolt in Tammany Hall
against John Kelly. The members of
that organization who do not believe
in being used as the tools of the boss,
have called a meeting to take measures
to dep0se him. The men who are i'm
the movement are Tammanyites, but
not John keileyites. 1t is evident that
the authority of the Tammany boss is
tottering.
POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE, in q
speech as late as October 80, last year,
declared 1.-THE Chicago convention
committed one of those blunders which
is first cousin to a crime when it NOM
mated Garfield instead of Grant for
President" This man now goes to
the cabinet, pushing out James. This
shows the purpose of the Guiteau ad-
ministratiOn.
FORTY students at the Keokuk, Iowa
medical college have been taken down
with smallpox. 1t is claimed that a
smallpox subject was sent to the college
from Chicago, but was not dissecled
because the disease was detected on the
body before it had been placed on the
dissecting table. It was handled sufIi-
ciently, however, to spread the conta-
gion. The college has been auaran-
tined.
A NUMBER of the Republican Rep
resentatives in Congress are mad
through and through over the manner
in which Speaker Keifer organized the
committees of that body, and are
threatening bolt under the leadership
of Representative Orth, of Indiana.
There is also a slight unpleasantness
among the members of the Ohio House
on account of the manner i'm which
Speaker Hodges constituted the COM
mittees of that body.
THE Republican papers are continu-
ally informing the country that the
star route rascals are to be surely tried
and severely punished; still the thieves
Continue in the enjoyment of their
liberty and occupy the highest posi-
tions In the party of "all the piety.
purity and patriotism in the land.
Is any one verdant enough to believe
that the Republican leaders want the
men who furnished the soap" with
which they achieved their political
success in 1850, punished?