The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-19
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MRS. CAROLINE RICHINas BER-
NARD died in Richmond, Virginia, on
Saturday last, of smallpox.
THE trial Of Guiteau will doubtless
be concluded this week. There can he
but little doubt as to what the verdict
will be.
1T IL rumOred i'm Washington that
Judge AlphOnso Taft, of Cincinnati.
is to ba rendered the Berlin mission I'M
a few days.
+. y. FRITCHEY, of Coshoctop. has
recovered SilO0 from Pan Handle road
for a broken leg and other Injuries re-
ceived by being struck by one of their
trains.
The Boards of Health of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny, on the 10th inst, re-
ported thirty new cases of smallpox
within forty-eight hours-fifteen in
each city one death was reported.
ONE-SIXTH of all the murderers
hanged i'm the United States last wear.
according to law, We're hanged in Ar
kansas A good many others We're
strung up by order of Judge Lynch.
THE city dailies of Monday publish
ed thespeech Guiteau has written up to
be delivered to the jury trying him for
the murder of President Garfield. 1t
is mess of idiotic drivel which is alb
sointely disgusting.
TIE News and the Register, the two
daily papers (both Republican, of
Youngstown, have been consolidated.
and it is rumOred that the publishers
oil the Vindicater intend soon to start
Democratic daily in that city.
A DoCTOT i'm Massachusetts, town
was summoned by telephone to case
OF Group i'm another town two miles off.
The night being dark and cold, he or
dered the child brought to the instru-
ment, listened to its cough and wheez-
ing,and prescribed successful remedy.
Mr. MOsGROvE has introduced a bill
In the National House of Representa-
tives, at Washington, granting 16O
acres of land to every soldier, volun-
teer officer, musician or private. who
served two years or more in the Union
army during the late rebellion.
IT is rather early to discuss the polit-
ical outlook for 1854, but it is none too
soon to say that the idea of Mr.. Blaine
being the candidate of the Democratic
party in the contest of that year is the
most ehimerical that ever entered the
head of a politician.
In New York, says the Baltimore
Gazette, the Republicans are trading
with John Kelly; in Alabama and
Mississippi they dicker with green
backism; in North Carolina with the
whisky interest; in Virginia with re-
pudiation. This is true as gospel.
We, the saints" are getting down
pretty low.
SOME of the small-fry star route
thieves have been arrested, but the big
oiies-Dorsey, secretary of the Nation
al Republican Committee, and Brady.
late Assistant Postmaster General-are
still allowed the largest liberty. Are
the little fish to be punished and the
big fellows to go free?
The other thieves who stood i'm with
Fred Newberg and helped to rob the |
state treasury We're greatly alarmed for |
the honorOf the state if the Democrats |
should carry the election. They all |
feel that way when they take to steal
ing instead of performing their official |
duties.-lC lCOshOcton Democrat.
TUsCARAwAs county claims to have
the oldest man in The state, Jesse De-
Long, and he lives In Huron township.
lie Is one hundred and five years old,
and has lived in Tuscarawas county |
seventy-hve years He was married |
In. 1Si2, and has twelve children. the
oldest sixty-nine, and sixty grand
children.
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT occurred |
on the Hudson River Railroad about a |
quarter of mile east of the Spuyten
Duyvil Junction, on Friday afternoon.
by the cOlliding of two trains. The
cars telescOped and were set on fire.
and seven men and one woman burned |
to death, and several others seriously
injured. Among the killed is Senator
Webster Wagner, Of the Now York |
Legislature. The details of the sad |
affair are heart sickening.
1T has for some time past been gem
orally believed that Mr.. Blaine had |
become tired of the old party, from |
which he never can expect all that his |
ambitious mind Graves, and that since |
the death of Garfield the conviction
has gained upon him that the Repub-
Hcan party is doomed to sink during
the next four years, or if it does not.
that Mr.. Arthur will arrange his affairs
SO that no other man can receive the
against him.
In 1796, the year John Adams was
elected to the Presidency, the total ex-
penses of the Government, then in
sixteen States, was So, 2,55I ,3Os-
Is. For the year just closed, the cost
alone of running the Government
printing coucern at Washington was
s., 2l5, 1927. This single comparison
ought to arouse the people of the coun-
Try to a sense of the public extrava-
rance, and cause them to call a speedy
lalt upon it. 1t is no better than rob-
ery.-[Bellefontaine Examiner.