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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

John Gam, Chinaman who Keeps a
restaurant, speaks Spanish, French and
English, and wears no cue, is the first
one of his race to serve on a jury in
New Orleans.
An enthusiastic prophet predicts that
by the beginning of another year there
will be over $35, 900, 600 invested in cot
ton factories in the Southern States,
and that there will be $1O0,000,O00 in
vested in cotton manufacturing in the
South within the next dozen years.
There are fashions in coffee as in
other articles, and as the late arrivals in
Java have been pale, which is under
stood to be undesirable, the old brown
coffees are in demand at full prices,
while the new is being pressed for sale
at lower figures.
Five-cent and one-cent pieces are
rapidly growing in popularity on the
Pacific coast, but treasury regulations
forbid that the sub-treasurer shall keep
more of those coins on hand than are
required for immediate use. The sup
ply must therefore be met by banks and
mercantile concerns.
1t is the '.geod old custom" of the
PiuteS, who believe in the survival of
the tittest only, to Kill off all children
that are deformed or idiotic. Near Day
ton, New, lives squaw who has de-
formed and idiotic boy. The other day
delegation of braves went to her hut
to kill the boy, but the mother fought
so valiantly with tongue, teeth, and
nails that she held the eXecutioner and
his assistants at bay until some of her
white neighbors, aroused by her out
cries, went to her rescue and drove off
the attacking force.
sam MctiOwan appeared on the street
one day last week, seemingly in trouble.
''What's the matter, Sam?' asked an
acquaintance. ''Oh, I am afraid I'll be
an orphan" can orphan! HowP"
The ole oman is Sicker' II the devil, and
the doctor says she's got ter die.''
Pa" said the inqaisitive small boy,
what do they mean by unanimously
Unanimous, my son, n: nimous
why, when all the men want the same
thing, that's unanimous" politicians
is all unanimous, amt they, pa?'' mo,
my son; not by a jugful.' ''Well, I
dom see why, cause they all wants an
office, anyhow"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Wanted a Piano That Winds Up.

Said a man approaching an exhibitor
of pianos at Exposition Hall: II have
heard of new tangled piano that winds
up, and wanted to get one of them.
Do you sell such an Instrument"
''You mean music box"
''Maybe. Does a music box wind
up?"
''Oh, yes; child can work it easily
Can cause it to play all day long, if you
like"
s'Oh, I've got one of them now. You
mean the kind you bang with the fin
gersP"
mo; music box winds up sarae as
clock, then it plays until it runs down,
then you wind it up again, see?''
''This isn't the kind of wind up |
mean. want one that winds up same
as a man winds up his business. | don t
care whether it quits on account of fail
ing health, retires with II competency
or makes an assignment, so that it
winds up. Pve got one of the kind you
have here and it never quits. | have
seven daughters and they are all learn
ing to play. I've paid music teacher
pretty near twenty dollars to teach my
oldest girl and she's teaching No. 6, and
No. is instructing No. 5 and so on
! down, and it takes all day and half the
night to go the rounds"
Il see,'' said the piano exhibitor,
you want the furniture without the
| noise.h
Exactly
Il am afraid there is nothing of that
kind in the market; you see it's the mrI-
sic the people WANT
mo! Is that so?''
Fact
''Well, say! Haven't you got one that
only works eight hours day, has an
| hour for dinner, closes at one O'Clock
on Saturday, observes the Sunday law
and all the legal holidays? You ought
to have something of that kind"
''But we haven't. I'll tell you what
you must do. Put a combination LOCK-
ON your piano and forget the combina
| ton. How'll that do?''
Good scheme! I'll do it, sure. Thou
sand times obliged to you. Can't yor
run out and take something's Gin
Saturday Night.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Ornamental Plants

My Catalogue of 81 Dollar
Collections of Ornamental
Plants is now ready, and will
be sent to any one who will
write for it.
It may be had in Ravenna
Of Mr.. ALVIN n. Poe.
A. G.. BARROWS.
Kent, o., Feb. IS, 1882. 40
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
MAIN LIME GOING EAST,

- Accommodation train leaves Cleyelanl Union
Depot at $50 p- IN, arrives Hudson Is 81; D. M ..
Ravenna 1870 p IN.
All trains connect at Yellow Greek for " heel
ing and Beilairc.
ESsSn Fast Line runs through Sleeper to New
notk, pay Express runs through Sleeper 1"
Pittsburg.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
PORTAGE COUNTY HEDGE co.
G.. w. BOYDSTON,
MANAGER
Properly Constructed HEDGES are the B sa and Most Rndnhg Enclosures

ar tn ag orange
ftI
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Won cont
pash which nave
o the Raa rsor the Port
land
srdo btinayha vent
II o LEAF.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
House and Lot for Sale

- l offer for sale my House an Lot, situat,
GmiM on Elm street. Rayenna Ohio. The ousc
A@is nearly new. two stories high. conta IN :
nine rooms, convenient pantry. bedrooms and
closets and il finished in wCrkmanlike man
ner throughout. There is a small barn on the
water. anda number of fruit trees of the bes
Varieties, just beginning 20 bear. Any one dc
string to purchase first rate home in the vii
lage, is requested TO call and examine this
property. II. p. MORGAN
U. 1882 70S-2m
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
TUSCARAWAg BRANCH

IJSNAIsA n AF5 BFeANCH
Trains leave Bayard at Ii 80 q m and 10 u
M. afrlve Minerva II G3 p. IN and ) 20 \. III :
arrive Dover 1.29 p. m. and Us D. m, New
leave New Philadelphia at 7Gl 4 m. anI7i5a
M, Dover at 7.30 q. II &nu , 25 y. M Minerva
at y 10 a m. and 396 Q. m. Hayard at q.55 .
m. and Is p, M.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

A fine steamer is being fitted up at
Washington to transport TO England
specimens of the fish of the United
States for exhibition at the Information
al Fish Exhibition to be held next April
in London.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
Negro SUperStitiOnS.

Savage African beliefs, or superSti-
tions, as to the interference of super
natural powers in the affairs of human
life prevail everywhere among the ne
grOes of the South to an extent which
Northern people would scarcely imag-
inc without special study of the sub
ject. This is not to he wondered at
when we observe how largely prehis-
tOric forms of thought survive even in
cultivated Northern communities.
think there are no negroes, perhaps,
except the few educated Young men.
who are free from the influences of the
general belief in signs, charms, dreams,
spells and magical incantations. Near
ly every neighbOrhOOd has an old man
or an old woman who possesses un-
earthly powers, and who is constantly
consulted and appealed to for assist
ance i'll connection with the love affairs
and the quarrels of the cOlOred people,
and i'll cases of protracted or mysteri-
Gus sickness. The belief in the power
of the evil eye is nearly universal, as
is the notion that persons, domestic
animals, wells and particular places
can be 'tricked"-that is, have Il curse
or malign spell put upon them-by
anybody who knows the "charm," Ol
method of procedure which will pro-
duce such Il result. A nail driven into
the ground, with certain magical pre-
| liminaries and accOmpaniments, is 4
potent means of dire injuries and re-
venges. In matters of love, courtshil
and marriage the negroes are usually
extremely Jealous and suspicious, and
magical arts are commonly invoked t.
secure affection, to ALLEVIATE those who
are already attached to each other, and
to protect aggrcSsors from detection OI
punishment. There are various spells
or formula for such purposes. They
usually include the use of scrap Oi
some article of clothing which has
been worn 10y the person who is to he
tricked, or shred of his hair, piece
of Il tinger-nail or toe-uail, or even
some dust from his shoes. A volume
might be written on the beliefs of til,
colored people regarding the super
natural, and on this department O
their lk-lore, and the subject wOulC
probably as well repay attention as tn,
ideas and race characteristics of saw
age tribes in distant parts of the world
Il February Atlantic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
VOLUME 45---NUMBER 1924.

on the carpet in the corner of the room,
i'll accordance with the Eastern Gus
tom. In taking a furnished house in
Russia, on inquiring for the servants
bed rooms and beds, it comes out that
the Russian servants are in the habit
of lying anywhere the passage, on
the floor, on the mats at the room door.
or even on the carpets in the sitting
generally as near as possible
to the stoves in the winter season.
A physician of North Adams was
called by telephone about o'clock at
night from Briggsville, two miles
away. a child was suffering from
Group. The night was dark and stormy
and the doctor found nothing pleasant
in the trip. He called the Briggsville
house in which the little sufferer lay,
and requested the parents to bring it to
the telephone transmitter. This was
done. The child coughed its croupy
cough and the doctor listened intently
to every sound which came from his
patient. He prescribed a remedy, and
one of the members of the family pre-
pared and administered it, The relief
was immediate and the recovery rapid.
II Hartford Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10

in the outside office. They had all
gone in less than two minutes, Just
taking time to close the safes. Ny
brother, DIR. 5. Irenaus Prime, ran
without his hat, and his son and he
crowded down with the throng. The
smoke and heat, when got to the hall
were so strong that was afraid to try
the stairs, fearing that | wonld not get
back again. DR.. StOddard, who was in
my room at the time of the alarm, and
| opened a window and got out on a
broad stone ledge, which ran along the
World building to the Times building,
adjoining. We held on by the sign of
the Observer that runs along the front
of our building, and made our way to
the Times building. When | reached
the street, could see that my desk, at
which | had been sitting, was on fire,
and the sign 10y which we had climbed
out was burning.
Mrs. Ellen Bull, colored woman,
.janitress of several offices, was next
seen at Il window on the third floor on
the Park Row side. The smoke had
become too dense for her to stay ut the
window any longer, so wrapping her
clothes around her and gesticulating
to the crowd to move away from be
meath, she jumped into the air. She
made two revolutions before she reach
ed the ground, and then struck head
foremost. Blood covered the spot in
stantly. The woman was then carried
into an adjoining office and died within
an hour. A Mrs. Allen was hemmcd
in on the second story. She walked
around the caves, and being only Il
short distance above the ground de-
scended safely. Many other persons
escaped from perilous positions, whose
names were not known. A bootblack
climbed telegraph pole and united Il
wire which connected with the roof
and had been used to swing political
banner. By this act communication
was established between the building
and the ground. Three men in the
windows who had almost given up
hope caught the wire and slowly de-
scended to the ground.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
The Eina Life Insurance Co.

The Hartford, CT, papers comment
as follows upon the Ktna's annual
statement:
The Courant says ''The thirty
second report of the Ktna is the an
nual reminder of the continued success
of this reliable life insurance company,
and the figures which the report gives
tell in plain terms the extent and sue
cess of the years business. The ex-
penscs of management were smaller
than of any other equally large com
pany in the country. The figures are
made public by the Ena with par
donablc pride, and show what IA COM
pany conducted on sound business
principles can do"
The Post says: "For economy, in
tegrity, upright dealing with policy
holders, and solidity of investments
the Ktna Life stands at the head of
insurance organizations, now doing
business in the United States. 1t is an
absolute safe company to he insured
in, and its future will he one of con-
stantly increasing success and pros
perity."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
A Talk with II photographer.

81 suppose you photograph some of
the children often ~
"Oh, yes. Some mothers bring their
children every few months. Why, I've
watched Il good many children grow
up until they got to be 10 or II years
old. Then I've lost sight of them un-
til they've had children of their own
and brought them back here. | had a
curious experience the other day. A
very cheerful young married couple
came here with little boy. A real
nice little fellow he was, too. Well,
they wanted him photographed, and
photographed he was without any
trouble. He seemed to take it kind o
seriously, and kept very quiet. When
| was through the young man said :
Il don't suppose you remember us.
Well, | looked at them, but | didn't
remember them. Then he pulled out
two photographs, one of little boy
and one of little girl. That's my
wife he said, and the other one is my
self, and you took Them They didn't
blame me for not remembering them.
Hers was taken twenty years ago and
his about twenty-five years back.
They never met till Il few years before
their marriage. When they wanted
their boy photographed they wondered
if was still here, and when they found
ont was they We're greatly pleased
with the thought of having the boy
taken by me-"
IL suppose both the rich and the poor
want their children photographed ?"
eyes. have some of the wealthiest
people in New York for customers, and
then, again, some who have to save up
a long time before they can get baby's
picture. Once poor woman came to
me with Il forlorn sick little child, and
begged me to take its picture. She
said she hadn't any money, but she'd
| try and pay me sometime. looked ut
the child, and saw it wasn't long foI
this world. knew that when it was
gone its features would come like sun
shine into that poor mothers life, and
| took picture for her. Well, sir
about two months aiterward that wO-
man came to me and paid me will
tears in her eyes. | didn't ask any
questions, but just before she went she
said She's dead, Mister. My little
girls dead, and oh how do love hel
picture y New York Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10

bill. One day at dinner | asked her to
bring i'll the dessert, but she didn't
grasp my meaning, and through some
oversight brought in the dish-rag on a
tray. She wanted to wash the chill
dren's faces with the stove-rag and
brush their hair with the brush,
and i'll that way soon won their esteem
and regard. One day, while we were
at table, she brought in the soup, and
in an ungarded moment stuck about
seven inches of her thumb in the hot
soup i'll order to get more secure grip
on the tureen. In the first impulse of
coy and maidenly surprise she thought
lessly dropped the tureen and soup in
my husbands lap. My husband is a
shy and rather reticent man, but he
rose with graceful movement to his
full height and killed her with the
carving knife.
''After the inquest | got a hollow
eyed girl from Fort Collins. She was
an orphan, with pale hair that she used
to work up i'll the hash. She was pro
nounced impulsive in her nature, and
ate everything in the house. We used
to hear her in the middle of the night
foraging around after cold pie and frag
ments of rich and expensive grub. She
had singular yearning for jam and
an impassioned longing for preserves
that we never succeeded in quenching.
When the Jelly and fruit cake gave
out, she would sadly turn her atten-
ton to cold ham and mustard, with the
smOuldering ruins of baked beans and
cold cabbage and vinegar. We stood
1t till groceries came up so, and apples
got to be $3.50 Il barrel, and then we
asked her to send i'll her resignation.
Shortly after that my husband made
an assignment. What | would like now
is good girl, not so much as COM
panion and confidential promoter of
financial ruin, but more to wrestle with
manual labor i'll the kitchen ut SO much
per wrestlc and board. | am not diff
cult to please, but don't want to pay
the same salary that the cashier of II
bank gets just for the sake of having Il
pampered menial in the house who
doesn't do enough work to drive away
her ennui.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
GIcaningS.

The state of Iowa has nearly com
pleted its new capitol at cost of 81
S00,0O0.
John Quincy Adams was in the habit
of reading the Bible through every
year.
The bride and bridegroom of IA we'd
ding ut LatrObe, Pa, were run over
and killed on their way from church to
the railway station.
Col. Mosby says good dentists are
scarce in Hong Kong, and prices for
dental work enormous. He SAYS a good
dentist could make fortune in ten
years.
The New York Times has heard of IA
colored tailor from North Carolina who
is said to employ 100 persons and to
have made S50,000 since the war.
A traveller from Springfield to AL
bany, during the initiation of colonial
money, found himself both out of mon
ey and food. He therefore tore out
several illustrated pages of the New
England catechism, and offered them in
payment. The good wife put on her
spectacles, and, examining the bills,
said: "Tm glad Congress has at last
made some money with little religion
int"
We heartily rejoice at the escape of
IA majority of the officers and crew of
| the Jeanette. Poor fellows their
sufferings must have been intense, and
they are probably but the wrecks of the
men, who with such courage and rcsO-
luton sailed upon the voyage of dis
covery. There is nothing in the glory
they may have gained, certainly moth
ing in any discoveries they have made,
which can compensate for their loss OF
health. This should he the last expe-
ditiOn to the Arctic region. 1t is time
the expenditure of millions of dollars
and the waste of human lives, whose
value no man can compute, should be
stopped. The world is no better of
for any exploration of the region Oi
eternal ice. We hope it has learned
enough to he content with its ignO-
rance.
! DIFFERENCE IN BEDs.-Every ma
ton has its own opinions and customs
concerning beds, and their fitness foI
the comfortable repOse of the occupants
very much depends upon the Occu-
pants idea of what constitutes com
fort. A Persian ambassador was shown
into bed room where a grand cano-
pied state bed had been prepared fOl
him. He supposed it was a throne in
his audience chamber, received his Wis
itors seated on it, and retired to sleeT
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
Female Help.
WESTERN HOUsEKEEPER's EXPERT
ENCE.

4 WESTERN HOUSEKEEPER'S EXPERT
ENCE.
II desire to advertise for a girl to do
general housework," said a Laramie
lady to the business man of The Lara
mie Boomerang, recently. II have
had some little trouble and annoyance
the past year, and would like, if
could, to get good girl who differs in
many respects from those have been
wrestling with. Last fall heard of "a
good girl who had been working for a
ncighbor of mine, and went to work
systematically to get her. | found af-
terward that it was a put-up job on
me, and that my ncighbOr wanted me
to get the girl, more ont of revenge
than anything else. The girls name
was Cleopatra. She wanted S27 per
month and the use of the piano. ] was
so sure that she was good girl that |
engaged her Oh that layout. CleOpa-
ira had so many lovers that we had to
move the sofa into the kitchen on Sun
DAYS. and my husband and myself sat
around on the floor, while Cleopatra
woOed the festive mule-puncher. We
wanted to throw all the home influence
around Cleopatra, so that she would
feel perfectly cheerful, and like one OF
the family. She used to wear my
dresses when | was away, but when |
asked her to let me wear her wardrobe,
she seemed hurt, and her whole system
was churned up with cOnvulsive sobs.
Bye-and-bye my dresses got kind OF
shabby, as the result of continuous
wear by Cleopatra and myself, and so
she got discontented and went away.
"Then | got "A nice girl from Nebras-
ka but just as she had learned ia
make a pie that would yield to the
sOftening influences of time, she mar
ried man from Bitter Creek, who wa,
so crOss-eyed that, when he wept, the
scalding tears would roll down the
! back of his neck. then secured a girl
| from the old country. She couldn't
| speak the English language fluently
and so we didn't have a very socia
| time of it. When | would tell her I,
wash the dishes, she would generally
black the stove, or bring in a scuttle o
coal. | used to pour out my soul II
her sometimes, and asked her to cDn.
fide in me, but she had far-away look
like a man who can not pay his board
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
st. Johnsbury Church Directory

Aduent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services at
10 80 "A. m las and $50 p. III. Sabbath School IL
m Prayer Meetings at 7:30 D. m. Sunday, Tuesday
and Friday evenings.
Baptist-Railroad Street Corner Maple Rev
+. 4. Sandford Pastor. Preaching 1880 !. NJ. 5.
School l2 Prayer meeting 80. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 1880.
Free Bdptist-Main Street. Corner Prospect.
A. NJ, and 6:30 Sabbath School at ~ NJ. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 73O.
Church Of the MessiGh-( UniversalistJ Eastern
avenue. corner Cherry street Rev. b. NJ. TillOt-
Sabbath School at IL N. "Wednesday evening meet
ing at 7:3O.
Methodist-Central street. Rev. E S Locke,
Pastor. Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1890 A. NJ, and $50 p. NJ Sabbath
school at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
7:3O.
North Congregational street corner of
Church. Rev. Henry w Jones, Pastor. sabbath
school at las p. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 7:3O.
South OongregationdI-Main street Rev Ed
ward L. Fairbanks Pastor. Sabbath services at
1890 A M. and $50 p N. Sabbath School at IL NJ.
Wednesday evening meeting at 7:3O.
Presbyterian Chureh-Rev. W. X. Laird, pas
tor. Services at Presbyterian Hall, every Sab
bath at 1880 a M, 300 p III. Sabbath school 200.
Prayer meeting G:3O. Bible reading Wednesday
evening 1870.
st AndreO's-( EpiscopalJ Main street, Rev
Rev. Mr.. Fisher, Supply. Services on Sundays at
1880 a. m, and p. IN. Holy days and Fridays at
a. III. Wednesdays at 7:30 p Sunday School,
at $3.50 p. III.
Bossonnault Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. /;
Vespcrs and BenedictiOn at 3 y. III. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. m,
and p. III. At Lyndonville same day at 1890 a. IN.
7. IT. O. A.-Meetings at the rooms of the Y NJ
e. A, Browns Building Main Street Sunday
mornings at $3.50, Saturday evenings at 1880.