The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-04
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AHc FcSS lof pA scO - Il cur, |
In ddEance.
AND now they call it e. II. o. p
gone up old party.
A SISTER of Grover Cleveland lives |
in Toledo.
TWENTY persons were drowned by
the collision of the bark Luke Bruce
with the steamer Durengo in the En-
glish Channel, on the 2Sth ult.
The National Bank of Middletown,
N. Y, has gone by the board. and it
is thought its entire capital and sur
plus will be wiped out.
WHAT caused the defeat of the q. O.
p? is a conundrum AS difficult of So
luton as that of "who struck the late
lamented Billy Patterson ?"
SEVERAL Republican papers are
booming James q. Blaine for 1885,
'Tis no use:
" lie has fought his last battle,
- No sound can awake him to glory again.
CONGRESS met on Monday, and as
the organization was already complete
no time was lost in getting to business
The session will end the 4th of March
next.
The Republicans all at once mani
fest a strong devotion for Civil Service
Reform. They don't want to step down
and out. But the people have declared
that 1.-THE rascals must CO."
SINCE the eletion several of our Re.
publican exchanges are anxiOusly in
guiring "Who will care for Maria
now?" Not they or DR.. Ball. Since
she failed to help them to victory,
they have no further use for her, and
will let her go to Bungay.
Mr.. HENRY THOMPSON, postmaster
of Middlefield, Geauga county, has
been removed for having voted the
Prohibition ticket at the State election.
though he voted for Blaine in No
vember.
THE Vermont legislature is anxious
to get off its statute book a law passed
eighteen years ago disfranchising Ger
tain Green Mountain boys suspected
of having united with the army of the
Southern COnfederacy. Not a case has
arisen under the law and the presump-
ton is that the law makers are asham-
ed of it.
We wonder what the Ohio Demo-
Gratis and Stark County Democrats in
particular, are jollifying about. They
didn't help elect Cleveland and Hen
dricks.-[M Massillon Independent.
If the Independent can guess what
it is that makes Republicans so terri
bly, down in the mouth these days, it
will need to wonder no longer.
THE decision of the Iowa Supreme
Court, that drunkenness in u husband.
where the woman knew before mar
riage that her future husband was adj
dicted to the use of liquor. is not suf-
fieient ground for divorce, is a wise
one. Divorces are obtained too easily
and few decisions of this character
will acs as eye-openers to persons con-
templating marriage.
THE charters of seven hundred and
twenty-ene National Banks, with an
aggregate capital of over $lS9, ZOO, 600,
will expire during the year 1885. This
is more than ON ,-third of the entire
number of National Banks now in ex-
istence. From the information al
ready received by the Comptroller, it
is expected that large majority OF
these banks will continue by extend
ing their charters, or by reorganizing
nnder other titles.
jim BLAINE, in a talk he had few
days since with reporter for New
York paper, thus smites Fraud r. B
Hayes in the face:
s'The Presidency is not desirable il
there be the remotest taint on the title.
A promotion of that kind no more
leads to honor than the possession of
forged paper leads to wealth."
Let Rutherford put that in his pipe
and smt ke it.
In Great Britain 99O, 600, 900 gallons
of beer are annually brewed; In Ger
many 300 ,OOO, 900; in the United States
800. 800, 900; in France, 157 ,5OO,OO III
Austria and Hungary, 2sO,OOO, 600 in
Belgium, 21O. ESQ, 600; in Holland, "a,
100000; in Russia, 8 900, 600; in Switz-
erland, l3,5OO,OOO; in Denmark, 2s,-
OOO, 1000; in Sweden, q .OOO,O in It.
ally, 100000. Total, 3.246, ,250, 900.
Verify, the field of the Prohibitionist
is very large one.