The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-08

1T lS reported CnaL secretary FOlger
is Ill and that he will soon retire from
the cabinet.
MUCH excitement exists over the
discovery of gold near West Alexan-
der, Preble county, Ohio.
The bill for the. relief of Gen.
eraliFitz John Porter was left unacted
upon by the Forty seventh Congress.
THE River and Harbor bill was laid
over in the Senate on Saturday and
sleeps the sleep that knows no waking.
THOMAS JONES, JR., brother of
Senator Jones of Nevada, has been
appointed by President Arthur Post
master of Cleveland.
JOHN HUMMERoN, an old farmer
living near Findlay, Ohio, on the 2Sth
ult., chopped a tree down on himself
and was crushed to death.
THE marriage of ex-senator David
Davis, of Illinois, with Miss A. z.
Burr, of Fayetteville, N. c., is an
nounced to take place this week.
AN English inventor has patented a
process of making straw incombusti-
BILE, and now proposes to build cheap
straw cottages for the poor.
THE effort to secure the pardon of
Sergeant Mason, who tried to shoot
the assassin Guiteau, are not likely to
prove successful.
THE lowest water ever recorded in
the Ohio river at Cincinnati was l foot
IL inches, Sept. Is, '8l; and the high
est, 66 feet inches, Feb. 10, 'S3.
COUNTERFEIT silver quarters, dated
1878, are in circulation. They are sill
ver-plated and less In weight than the
genuine ones, and present greasy
appearance.
ACTUAL damage done to Cincinnati
by the floods, exclusive of loss to city
properly, railroads, street car lines,
telegraph and telephone lines, foots
up 81, ,2Sl ,935.
THE Cleveland Furnace Company,
operating under lease the Furnace and
Iron Company at Steubenville, failed
on the lst inst. Liabilities $50, 900 /;
assets $50, 600 to $4,000.
THE forty-seventh Congress has
petered out and done little or nothing
for the benefit of the people. It has
been the subservient tool of the monop-
olists and privileged classes.
THE center of population in Ohio
has been found to be between Sunbury,
Delaware county, and Centerburg.
Knox county, which is almost the
center of the State.
THE Presidential axe has fallen, and
the official head of Gen. Ed. s. Meyer,
United States District Attorney for the
Northern District of Ohio, is rolling
in the dust. Major E. H. Eggleston,
of Cleveland, is appointed as Gen
Meyers successor.
THE jury in the case oft he State
against George McMillen, for murder
for shooting and killing his wife in
their bedroom at night. last June, in
the Stark County Court of Common
Pleas at Canton, on Friday morning
returned verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree.
Two men named McInelly and
Brown, with their wives, attempted
to drive across the New Brunswick
Railway, at Canterbury, N. B., in
front of an advancing train, on the
28th ult. The train struck the wagon,
killing both ladies almos@ instantly
and seriously injuring McInelly.
1T is announced that our state Leg
islature will have another wrestle with
the liquor question this week. 1t is
little strange that, after two months
session the great, harmonious temper
a ice party, with its two-thirds MAORI
ty, has accomplished nothing upon
this great question.
GOVERNOR FOSTER tells cores
pondent of the Commercial Gazette in
New York that he has no doubt of the
triumph of the Republican party in
Ohio next fall by the election of their
State ticket. If memory is not at fault
the Governor expressed like confident
convictions during the last campaign.
His Excellency should by no means
allow his courage to flag.