The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-01-18
RAyENNA. THURSDAY. JAN. IS. 1888,

tue ldIe HOIel IITo WAS IuCeuuldTy'
1T is thought that Secretary Lincolr,
will be elected Senator from Illinois.
ENTIRE villages in Hungary have
been washed away by the recent floods
BY police canvass the population
of Cleveland is claimed to be 210, 900.
CLARK MILLS the sculptor, died at
Washington last Thursday morning.
THE bill reported in Congress appro-
pirates $sl ,OOO,O for the payment Of
pensions.
THE total of British army and navy
pensions is $l6,244,s ,s65; about one!
fourth that of the United States.
THE Poker Legislature, after ses-
sion of less than two weeks, ,radjourned
over from Friday last till Tuesday.
AN earthquake was generally felt
over the southern part of Illinois on
Thursday morning. 1t extended into
kentucky.
GENERAL GRANT is paying up old
scores. His recent grand dinner to
the Japanese Prince Is said to have
cost $4,000.
THE Republican State Central Com
mittee is called to meet in Columbus
on Wednesday next to fix up matters
for the coming campaign.
THE Warren Record says: "Cort-
land has young lady that can husk
forty bushels of corn per day" There's
a prize for some young chap.
BURGLARS attempted to crack the
safe of the Valley Railroad ticket office
at Akron last Friday night, but were
frightened away, leaving their burglar
tools behind.
DIR. SAMUEL A. MUDD, who was
sentenced to the Dry Tortugas for life
for harboring J. Wilkes Booth, died at
his residence near Bryantown, Md,
few days ago, after brief illness.
AN exchange asks the question, "Do
hogs pay?" No, they never do. They
live in the vicinity of free lunch coun-
ters, and will take a country newspa-
per till its gray-headed and never pay
for it.
THE National Hotel at Marion, Ohio,
together with part of its contents, was
destroyed by fire Friday morning The
fire caught from the furnace in the
dining room. Loss $4,000; insurance
$1,000.
THE grand jury of Seneca county at
it's late session had no other business
to do bat to examine the Jail OF the
coanty, and lreHer5- upon its condition.
Not a witness waa subpoened to go be-
fore it.
THE Republican members of the
Legislature are to caucus this WED
nesday) evening for the purpose of fix
ing upon some policy to be pursued by
them upon the liquor question which
has been giving them such world Of
trouble of late.
A NEVADA penitentiary convict says
he was sent to prison for being dishon-
est, and yet is compelled every day to
cut out pieces of pasteboard, which are
put between the soles of cheap shoes
made there and palmed off ON the pub
lie as leather.
w. s. TERRILL, senior proprietor Of
the Forest City House, Cleveland,
died suddenly at his room in that ho'
tel, about half past eleven o'clock
Wednesday night, January 10th, of
heart disease. Up to the moment of
his death he had apparently been in
good health.
GOVERNOR ELECT CLICK, of Kansas,
denies that the number Of persons In
the penitentiary has decreased under
the prohibitory law, and makes the
counter statement that there were
eighteen more convicts at the close of
the irst year of prohibition than at Its
beginning.
THE veteran actor and elocutionist,
Jas. E. Murdock, who lives quietly on
a little farm near Cincinnati, has sign
ed contract to play Hamlet in the
Cincinnati Dramatic Festival next
April, with Mccullough as the~ghost
Barrett as Laertes, and McVicker, OF
Chicago, as first grave digger Muir
dock is now So years old.
1T is charged that of So, 900, 900 col
lected by MIR. Evans, agent of Penn
sylvania, to collect that sum from the
United States government, advanced
to it during the war, not one cent was
covered back into the treasury, but was
stolen outright by prominent politi-
clans, two of them having gotten away
with 100000 each. The matter is to
be investigated.
THE bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter passed the Senate on Thursday
last by vote of 33 to q. Cameron,
Of Pennsylvania, and Sewell, of New
Jersey, were the only Republican Sen
ators who voted for the bill. General
Grant worked hard and successfully
for its passage. The friends of Cen
eral Porter are confident that the bill
will pass the House, though his enc
mics are of a contrary opinion.
IT is alleged that Merrick and Kerr,
attorneys on behalf of the government
N the Star Route trial, receive each
BOO per day, and Bliss, another one of
he attorneys, had drawn up to the
irst of December last $36, 900, and
y, eco since that time. He has receiv-
I'd $lOo day ever sluce the trial began.
II is somewhat questionable whether
t will not cost the government more
o punish these Radical thieves than
he entire amount of their stealings.