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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
Notice of Bridge Lettings.

NOTICE is hereby given. that the Comm;S-
AN sinners of Portage County, ohio viii re
ceive sealed bids for material and construction
of two iron bridges i'll the south part of Nelson
township. Length of span in each to he fifty
two t52) feet; width of roadway, twelve Q2)
feet; style of bridges, ow Truss.
Also for one Iron Bridge in MantuH township,
about one mile east of MantuI Cor 'CrS. two
spans with continuous lower cords to rest upon
pier in center; whole leug II Of bridge TO be
one hundred and four feet AMI width of road
way twelve feet style, Low russ.
Also at same time and place, bids will be
received for taking to pieces and replacing and
repairing one King Iron Bridge at Hiram Rap
Ids in Iiram,
The capacity of all the above work to bc or
dinary. Contract will b" awarded TO the low
est res ponsiblG bidder The Comm siOrcTs re
serve the right to reject any or ali bids, and
viii he in session to receive bids AMI award
contracts May 16th 1882, ut one o'clock =. m
by order of the Board.
LEG RAND A. OLIN.
Auditor Portage County
RaVenna, o, April nth 1873. 7f4-4w
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
Proposed Amendment to the
Constitution of Ohio.
Section Eighteen of Schedule.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 50.

JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing Amendment to the Constitution.
Be IL ResOEoed by tie General assembly of tie
State Of ohio, That, 1T the general election To
he nuld on the second Tuesday of October, 1883
there shall be submitted to the electors for their
approval OF rel ject on two proposition to amend
the constitution OF the state. us follows;
FIRST PROPOSITION.
ten eighteen of the schedule shall be repealed,
and there shall be substituted Ion it the follow
ing:
The general assembly shall regulate the
against evils resulting therefrom and its
power to levy taxes or assessments thereon Is
not limited by any provision Of this cOnstitu-
ton"
SECOND PROPOSITION.
'The additional section - In and with =
tiOn eighteen of the schedule shall be repealed
and there shall he substituted for it the follow
ing;
toXicatng liquors to be used as beverage are
forever prohibited; and the general assembly
shall provide by Law for the enforcement Of
this provison.''
The electors voting in favor of the said first
proposition shall have on their ballots the
words Regulation and taxation OF the liquor
tritlic-Ees; - ami those voting in favor OF the
ballots the words, Prohibition of intoxicating
liquorS-YcS -
fether of the said two propositi Jns be thus
approved by majority of the electors voting
at the said election, then the amendment there
in proposed shall constitute a separate section
of article fifteen of the constitution.
o. j. HODGE,
Speaker of tie House Of Representatives..
R. G. RICHARDS
President Of tie Senate.
NAl Ami 4
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
TRAINS WESTWARD.

Trains no :. and II run daily.
Palace eeping Coaches on trains No, ]. 2 8
and - between Cincinnatiand NewYork daily.
sleeping Coach on No. j ard 70 between Gin
cinnati and Boston daily. via Albany,
Hotel Coach on trains No. and - hetwcen
Chicago and New York daily via Mansfield
Train No. 3 connects at Mansfield with
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad for
Chicagoand all points in theNorth- west. Con
ri!tsburg; at Meadville, Tor Oil City; at Cory
for Titusville; at Jam town for Buffalo and
Niagara Falls; at Salamanca for Bradford
and Rochester; and at Bin ghamton for Albany
and Boston.
Close connections at Cincinnati with trains
for the South and West.
No"stop-ovcr' allowed upon local tickets
A. r, CLARK,
General Passenger and Ticket B gent,
CLEvELANp, O.
j. w FERRIS,
sseneral Manager,
CLEvELAKH. o
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17

'.No, sir" said an old Indian down
in Maine, Il don't have my boy taught
arithmetic. learned it, and the curse
OF my life has been the remarks of peo.
pie who thought themselves funny, to
the effect that was very pleasant be-
cause was an Indian Summer
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
THE BEST REMEDY
Diseases Of the Throat and LUNGS,

In diseases OF the pull
monary organs a safe
and reliable remedy is
Invaluable. AYERS
CHERRY PECTORAL is
such a remedy, and no
otherso eninently mer-
its the confidence of
the public. 1t is a sci
entiiic combination of
the medicinal princi-
pies and curative vir-
tues of the finest drugs,
chemically united, Of
such power as to insure
the greatest possible
efficiency and uniform
ity of results. 1t strikes
at the foundation of all
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17

NOTICE.
YTNHE undersigned has been duly appointed
and qualified Executor of the last will and
testament of John NJ. Sapp, late of Portage
county, Ohio, deceased
s. d. NORTON.
Ravenna, May 4, 1888. 767
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
PfeSld
Adopted April 4, 1888.

UNITED STATES oE AMERICA OHIO.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
I, JAMES w NEWMAN, Secretary Cf State of
the State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that tho
foregoing is Il true copy of n joint Resolutio
adopted by the General Assembly of the State
OF Ohio. on the 4th day of April. A. ID 1883 as
taken from the original ro Is filed in this office
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. l have heFeantO
subscribed my name, and affixed the great seal
of the State of Ohio at Columbus. the 4th day
of April. A. d. 1883.
JAMES W. NEWMAN
SEAL Sscfsfas,Y Of State.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17

pulmonary diseases. afrording prompt relief
and rapid cures, and is adapted to patients of
any age or either sex. Being very palatable,
the youngest children take it readily In
ordinary Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat,
Bronchitis, Influenza, Ciergyman's
Sore Throat, Asthma, Group, and Ca
tarrh, the effects OF AYEE's CHERRY Pee
ToRAL are magical, and multitudes are an
nually preserved from serious illness by its
timely and faithful use. 1t should he kept
at hand in every household for the pro-
lection it affords in sudden attacks. In
Whooping cough aud Consumption
there is no other remedy SO eticacious,
soothing, and helpful.
Low prices are inducements to try some of
the many mixtures, or Syrups, made of cheap
and ineffective ingredients, now offered,
which, as they contain no curative qualities,
can afford only temporary relief, and are
sure to deceive and dsappoint the patient.
Diseases of the throat and lungs demand
active and effective treatment; and ii is dam
gerouS experimenting with unknown and
cheap medicines, from the great liability that
these diseases may, while so tritled with,
become deeply seated or ineurabie. Use
AYEH's CHERRY PICTORIAL, and you may
confidently expect the hest results. 1t is
standard medical preparation, of known and
acknowledged curative power, and is as
cheap as its careful preparation and fine
ingredients Will allow. Eminent physicians,
knowing its composition, prescribe it in their
practice. Thc test of half century has
proven its absolute certainty to cure all pull
monary complaints not already beyond the
reach of human aid.
Prepared by Or. j. c. Aver g. Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
Lowell Mass.
SOLD nY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17

The United States leads the world in
its number of cattle, having 38, 900, 900,
to Russia's 29,OOO,OOO and Indias 3O,-
100000. But Russia has 10000, 600
horses, and the United States comes
second with 10,500.000.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
Old Advice Reviewed.

Nearly every paper in the United
States has AT times advised boys TO re-
main on the farm, and not to trust the
wayward ways of fortune arising from
the diversified life of u city. In part,
this advice is very good. If a young
man expects to come to town and have
an easy time, he simply takes the wrong
view of the situation. Sometimes, while
driving around town on load of wood,
it may seem to the country boy that the
people in town are having an excessive
ly funny time, and that their life is a
magnificent fountain upon which chang
ing lights are playing. He may think
that every pedestrian he sees is walking
for pleasure, and that when he gets
tired of walking, he'll enter into some
other kind of pleasure, equally as SEN
sational. The country boy looks in up
on the newspaper man, and thinks, with
sigh: THAT fellow amt got nothing
to do but to set there and write, while [
have to work. Sitting there and writ
ing, young fellow, is harder, more ex-
haustive to body, mind and soul, than
any work you perform. You may think
that plowing with a jumping cutter is
trying upon the nerves; that keeping
the straw back from the tail-end of a
grounding threshing- machine is devoid
of humor; that pulling fodder possesses
but few charms; that drawing water
with-a wooden windlass, for a yoke of
steers, is uninteresting; that setting out
cabbage plants and watering sweet po-
tato slips with sour suds-may think
that these ''have lost their charms for
me, Silvy;" but they are pursuits en-
trancing, hilariously ethereal, when COM
pared with the undiversified work of
shutting yourself in room and contin-
uously moving your hand over paper
whose very whiteness, in the WEAKNESS
which comes, seems like the deathly
pallor of a-hanged if we know what.
No, young man. Continue to haul
your wood, but, look here! Can't you
bring little better article than that
which you have accustomed yourself to
handle? Wood is not sold by weight,
and you are serving no good purpose
when YOU pour water on your stock.
Let your wood be dry and honest, and
your chances for promotion in life are
good. You are driving steers now, but
If the people discover you are faithful
and honest, one of these days you may
drive mules.
''Stay on the farm" is the beginning
of hundreds of newspaper articles. AS
a rule they are written by men who left
the farm years ago and attained some
thing of success. The universal advice
of ''stay away from town" is worthy of
but little consideration. Many of the
most successful business men in the
United States have came from between
the plow handles. If they had remained
on the farm as their county papers ad-
vised them, they might now be the til
lers of mortgaged soil, the hewers of
rough wood, and the drawers of swamp
water. Where one man leaves the farm
and attains success, probably ten fall
by the wayside, but perhaps those who
fail would never make successful farm
ers. Of course there are young men
who should never leave the farm only
when uncompromising occasion de-
mands.-Ark0nSdt0 IraUeier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17

f. ID. Curtis writes as follows to the
CultiUatOr and Country Gentleman con-
cerning seed corn: A friend Il few years
ago undertook to improve his corn crop
by planting all kinds mixed together.
He confessed his plan was failure, as
he got no improved variety, but mixed
up lot, Just what the offspring would be
from a mongrel sire, illustrating still
further the similarity in the nature
(breeding) of corn and animals, A
great many farmers comfort themselves
with the notion that if they change seed
with some other farmer they are doing
big thing. This is mistaken idea.
Seed should be improved and taken from
the farm where it is grown, and to
which it has adapted itself. At home is
the place for improvement. The idea
that the little germ of a seed can carry
the qualities of a good farm with it are
ridiculous, but it can carry with it pecu-
liarities in its nature Growth and ma
turity) acquired in one place, which will
be unSuited TO another
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-17
BIG STOCK OF NOTIONS!

HOSIERY for Ladies, Gents and
Children.
KID, SILK aud Isle THREAD
GLOVES.
BLACK and COLORED SILK MITS
Hamdarg Edgings and Insertings.
Plain and Dotted Saoisses.
Lace Curtdjns, dc
Table Linen and Red DamaskS,
Linen Napkins and TOareiS.
Floor and Table Oil Cloths.
Oh Shades, IFinclOao Pictures, Curtain
FrihgcS, dc.
Latljes' and Gents Summer Under-
Ccar
La1ye stock Of Ginghams, Prints,
4SAeekingS, Ticks, Denins, dc
Lddies anil Childrcn's Shoes. Menu
fine Boots and Shoes
We keep constantly on hand choice
StOch Of GHONERIES.
Ress~ We cordially invite the Public
20 give uS a call. as we feel Onitient
.vn can SELL GOODS AS Low AS
ANY HOUSE IN THIS COUN rY
SN YDER d FREEM A n .
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31
Fans wager and the Butcher
Kentucky State Journal.

Hans Wager sent his boy to the cor
ner meat store, yesterday, for quar-
ter's worth of steak. When the boy
brought it home, Hans observed that
there was more bone than meat. He
became riled over the matter, and
relling up the stuff again in the paper,
wabbled off in great haste 10 the meat
store, where the following took place;
"0uf I vas butcher, und you vas
now one, and you sendt your leedle
poy for dwendy-ife cent meat, und /
gif him fifteen cent pones und ten cent
meat, you dinks dot vas light?"
"The rule Is, when you buy land
you buy stones, when you bay meat
you buy bones 1t sometimes hap
pens that there is more bone in one
cut than another"
"Vell, den; ouf sendt my boy anoth-
er dime you gif him anoder cut"
81 have to give out as they come.
| treat all my customers alike"
"No stree Bop You make you mis-
take. You vas no goot mans. You
don'd to yerselps do like you hat yer
selps do to odder peobles."
II always try to do right by my fell
low men,"
dot might be true ober you don'd
do rigid by yer Teller schmall poy.
OUT mine frau comes on dot shop she
got goot meat; OUT | comes on dot shop
got goot meat; ober ouf leedle Yacob
comes he got efery dimes dwice SO
much pones as he got meatl How vas
dose? You dinks got me tog family,
vot gan on pones litP Maybe you dinks
want to schtard pone yard j dinks
ouf | sendt leeple Yacob here for meat
und safe der pones soon get me a
pone yard SO bigger rs q whole town
lot. Dot vas yum mool meat shop
anyhow, make you present fon dem
pones und go to dwomoolmeat
schtore und git some meat"
And he wobbled out and off to q
meat store kept by two men down the
street.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31

Yes, she visited the country and con-
sidered herself superior to ignorant,
common farmers. She was learned in
botany, and with lofty airs told farmer
d. she knew every plant that grew.
The farmer coming from the field one
day plucked a cluster of blossoms and
carried them to the house. "Do you
know these blossomsH" he asked her.
80, yes, of course l do" she replied.
"They are very rare and 80 beautiful;
too sweet for anything. am perfectly
familiar with these flowers; know all
about plants; these grow on trees in the
woods" "What is their namt?' asked
Farmer D., with sly wink at his wife,
who stood by choaking with laughter.
"Why-really-I cant recall their bo-
tanical name just now; but / suppose
you have some vulgar name for them.
well" replied D., "we ignorant farm
ers call them potato blossoms" "You
horrid thing, cried she, spitefully, "to
bring me such a mean old weed She
cut short her visit and returned to town.
Newman (Ga Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31

in bone dust, or they can be more
cheaply supplied by the purchase of
bran, oil or cottonseed meal. Prof
Roberts, of Cornell University, after
careful experiment, estimates the IN
creased value to tho manure at I'll per
tor for every ton of bran or oil meal
fed to COWS. Here, thea, we have two
profits, one is the better condition and.
increased productions of the COW, ar
one of no less value returned to the so
The great improvement in the last
few years in raising corn without the
use of hoe, or marking out, planting it
with a horse, cultivating before the
corn comes up, and cutting with a
reaper, so lessons the labor and increas-
es the product, that the corn crop may
Justly be considered the most profit
able one farmer can raise, il fed upon
the farm, to make milk, beef or pork.
Yet corn is not complete feed OF it.
self and needs bran or oil meal, or both,
to produce the greatest profit. If We,
Wisconsin farmers, strive earnestly to
correct our mistakes, we need not fear
competition from the poorer land and
better markets of the East, nor from
the cheaper land and more distant
markets of the West.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31
A Dangerous Thing

Culture and education sometimes
tend to make guilt between parents
and children. In the life of one Of the
chief justices OF Eogland, the story OF
his rise from poverty to distinction Is
told. II is recorded that IN his DAYS of
power and grandeur he bought for his
father a farm and sent him many val
liable presents, but that he never went
to visit him. And the biogtspher adds:
eft was natural, but it was sadw
1t seems to us that there il a still
higher type Of man to whom it would
rot he natural. Carlyle, when he had
raised himself to be considered the peer
Of the best-placed men Of bis time.
never failed in either love or duty to-
ward the peasant parents. Indeed,
in reading his "reminiscences" one is
half tempted to think that these same
homely parents were the only people
he ever did really admire and honor.
Plenty Of the worlds noblest men
chung to some lowly mother with de-
voton that followed her with worship
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31
The Dispute Between France and China

The province of Tonquin, about
which there is now a serious quarrel
between France and China, is part of
the little kingdoIn of Anam. Several
years ago the French established q
"protectorate" over Tonquin, for pur-
poses of trade, soaring the Anamites in
to submission by a warlike demonstra-
ton. The Song koi river, which emp
ties into the Gulf Of Tonquin, is an inn
portant highway into Yunnan, pro.
vince of China. The French value il as
an avenue for commerce. But their
enemies in Anam and Yunnan-quite
numerous, itseems, and of a piratical
turn of individually closed the riv-
er to foreign trade two years ago. This
was the reason why France bombarded
the capital of TOnquin last spring, and
began to collect custom duties. The
"protectorate" which assumes to con-
troll the Song koi river comes into con-
hict with the King sf Anam, and also
with the Chinese authorities, in whose
territory the river rises. Despite MI
protests from the Court Of Pekin, French
gunboats and merchant vessels act
quite as much at home in the Song
koisas if France had bought and paid
for the stream. Hence Chinese in
dignation and a hutter of pigtails
IN the excitement of warlike prepare
tiOns
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31
LOVES FRIGHTFUL FALL.
Cupid Cast sheer Down From the
Tower aC NataIie's Castle in the n ir,
Frem the Chicago Tribune.


From the Chicago Tribune.
The tender gray twilight of June
evening was settling down upon the
earth as Natalie Mcintosh sat down on
a little rustic bench, whose coy look
made it tit place indeed for loves
tryst and vigil. Presently George w.
Simpson entered the gate and was soon
by her side. For an instant no word
Was spoken between them, and as they
stood there, her arms about his neck,
her hand upon his shoulder, Natalie
felt that without the love of this man
her life swould be a starless blank.
Here was deep, trusting, if-the-rope'
brakes we-are-gone love that made her
voice falter and die away when she
spoke to George about it.
"You love me?" she asked, looking
up to George with eyes in which there
shone the radiance of tenser, beautl-
full passion; Glove me better than all
the world besides: better than you
have ever loved any one IN your
whole life?"
George did not answer, for as Natalie
spoke there came to him haunting
memory Of dark splendid eyes a
bright face smiling and radiant and
dimpled, and dewy, scarlet lips that
had often met his own in sweet, cling
ing, neutrality-suspicious. value-your life
kisses. He thaught of all this as he
bent tenderly over Natalie, her golden
hair touching his cheek and the per-
fume from the lilies she wore ming
ling with his breath.
The girl noticed his silence. "Why
do you not answer me?" she said.
George did not reply, but drawing
her still closer to him would have
kissed her again.
az want no KISSES" she exclaimed
passionately, Withdrawing herself from
his arms, "from lips that are not sacred
to me alone. l have given you'll all
that woman can give--the love of her
whole nature. My heart has been a
flute for you to play upon, and yet
when | ask you if you love me there
comes no answer from your lips and
your eyes do not look into mine," and
drawing herself up in the imperious
whos-Emma way that beftted her so
we'll she sat down on the rustic bench
with dull, sickening tud that told all
too plainly of a broken bnstle.
In an instant George was by her side,
and Natalie was sobbing as if h er
heart would break. Forgive me, darl
ing" he murmured, in low, book. beer
tones.
"Bat demand an answer" exclaim-
ed the girl passionately, "snd again ask
if you ever loved another"
81 did," he replied. 'Loved her
wildly, madly."
"Who was it?' she asks, her cheek
afame with the hot flush of anger.
Bending low over her, George whis-
pers into her left ear the fatal words
'Lydis Pinkhsm!" and with hollow,
knocking laugh fees into the darkness.