The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-29

SECRETARY FoLGER is reported as
improving.
THE Grand Encampment I. o. o.
will meet at Akren April 30th.
A NEW oil well at Green, Trumbull
county. is said to yield fifteen barrels
a day.
IT is reported that the New York
World, newspaper has been sold to a
syndicate of Ohio men.
1T is estimated that the Ohio wheat
crop this year will be IS per cent. as
compared with that of last year.
THE East Liverpool Corporation
Glass Company has made an assign
ment. Liabilities and assets not vet
known,
THERE is movement among Re-
publicans to bring out Senator sher-
man as the candidate of their party
for Governor this fall.
The Republican State Committee
has issued call for the next State
Convention of their party to be held
at Columbus June 5th and 9th.
THE Tariff Commission was strictly
Republican affair, 1t cost the coun-
try sixty-nine thousand dollars, and
was not of the least practical value.
OF the fractional currency issued by
the government during the war, it is
said $3l ,000,0 900 worth is still outstand.
ing, and Uncle Sans treasury is that
much ahead.
STILLwELL's bill, providing that
claims for manual labor not exceeding
$500 shall be first paid out of the estate
of deceased person, has passed both
Houses of the Legislature.
Ex-GovERNoR VIM SPBAGUE has
been nominated by the Independents
and Equal Suffrage party of Rhode
Island,a endorsed by the Democrats
as their candidate for Governor of that
State in the coming contest.
By the Republican reform (?) tariff
act the cotton productions are left
unprotected, while the people are COM
PEELED to pay a tribute of forty per
cent. to the cotton manufacturers
That is the way the Republican party
looks after the interests of the farmers
and laboring men.
NOTWITHSTANDING 200 residents of
North Bloomfield, Trum bull County,
have petitioned the only saloon keeper
in the place to shut up shop, he stub
bornly refuses, and the ladies of the
place have betaken themselves to old
fashioned crusading, hoping by that
means to bring him to terms.
On Saturday last in the Ohio Senate
the bill abolishing the study of Ger
man in the public schools of the State
was Indefinitely postponed, the Dem
ocrats and few Republicans voting
for the motion. All those voting
against the postponement were Re-
publicans.
THE star route trial is still dragging
Its slow length along, aud it ia thought
1t will still last six weeks or two
months. The lawyers are about the
only ones who are likely to derive any
considerable advantage therefrom.-
The fees already amount, it is said, to
nearly $l20,O00.
The tax on bank capital is fifty
cents on a Thousand dollars, says an
exchange, while the tax on wool hats
Is fifty cents on the dollar. Who, now,
with this great truth staring him in
the face, will dare to affirm that the
Republican party is not the friend of
labor!
A SPECIES of wild potato has been
discovered on the table lands of south
western Arizona, in attitudes of 5000
to 1900 feet, which is spoken of as
superior in taste and flavor to the best |
cultivated potatoes. Experiments in
the cultivation of the plant are being |
made In the State Agricultural School
of California.
THE United States Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, d. c., have been
notified that most dangerous coun-
terfeit of the standard silver dollar has
made its appearance in Ohio and In
diana. The base coin has the exact
weight, ring, and appearance of the
and resists the acid test, un-
less the outer coating of silver is PEN
1t would be readily accepted
as genuine by merchants. Several of
these pieces have only been discovered
upon reaching sub.treasury. t