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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12
South American Cities.

Early on the following morning we
reached Montcvideo. This place, al
though so near Buenos Ayres, is en-
tirely different in character. Monte
yideo looks like q large provincial
town. while Bucnos Ayrcs has a cosmo-
politan appearance. In Montevideo
ure, French in style, and the streets
mostly wide and well paved and sew
cred, while in Buenos Ayres the streets
are narrow, the pavemcnts horrible,
and the sewers worse than bad,
much so that at times when the river is
high, the sewerage, in place of being
drained, fills some streets. Montevideo
has comfortable, dreamy sort of ap-
pearance. Still they have American
built street-cars. Owing to a constant
feeling of insecurity, the result of fire.
quent revolutions, improvements are
held back, and unlike the Argentine
Republic, Uruguay does not prosper
much. The president, Santos, is in
fact dictator, and maintains himself
through the clerical party, backed by
the military. The troops are picked
lot of men, well fed, clothed, and paid,
and are more check against than a
protection to the people. They are
well drilled and make q fine appear
ance. The officers all belong to the
conservative party. While ut Monte
video the Spanish residents had a cGlc-
bration. Fearing disturbances between
them and the Italians, the troops were
kept in the barracks. Returning from
the grounds in the afternoon, there was
n whole battalion, with officers, seated
three deep in regular ranks, on Ameri-
can chairs, taking up the whole side
walk, and making the people whom
they were admiring take the middle of
the street. Lately. through the COM
plants of many merchants, frauds to
the amount of 500, 600 were discovered
in the Montcvideo custom-house. Two
officials were at once arrested, but soon
released and reinstated. An inVesti-
CATION is still going on, and probably
will continue until the matter is f9h
gotten. when it will be dropped. Cor.
San francisco Chronicle.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12

"Vel' Meesder Lautenschlager. see
in der bapers dot der guvvinment vas
going to gif out a two per tsent bond. {"
.'Yaw. l vas hearin' mysellutf of dot.
Vas you going to dake some of dose
bonds. Meesder Levi?" "Vell, sposen
myselluff got to dake in some oof
dem. but told you Something's, Mr..
Lautenschlager." ''Vas 10 das?f ''Vell,
i hearin' dot dis guvvinment got so
much money dot in leedle While dey
issue bond and sharge you two per
tsent for der privilege OF puying it. -
Saa francisco Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12
Social Rivalry.

Mamma" said a New York girl.
edo you know that at the Fiizsimmons
dinner party yesterday peaches were
served in unlimited quantities?"
Yes, l heard about it."
''rhey are hateful set. They knew
that we are to give dinner party next
week and they gave theirs just to spite
u.s."
"Why SOP" asked the mother.
"Why SOP" the daughter repeated.
''Because they must have heard that
we are tc serve peaches, and they
wanted to be the first TO do so. i only
hope they won't go down any in price. I"
PHILADELPHIA Cal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12
Mexican "PeeIers" and Street Cars.

Newcomers in the City of Mexico.
says the New York Sun, are surprised
on finding SO many of the conveniences
common to large cities at home, such
rs the telephone, the electric light, a
police force, and an excellent street-car
service. The electric lights are on the
tops of iron rods running up from the
gas lamp-posts. The police are far
more soldierly than thereguIar. army of
the country. They wear blue flannel
suit, the coat buttoned up, and their
cap has a covering of white, which,
with the standing linen collar, is a
ways Immaculate. In their belts on
one side they carry club and on the
other large revolver. If one wishes
to see policeman he has only to 60 to
the nearest corner, and he win surely
find him standing there, for he has no
beat to walk over. The speed at waich
street cars go is astonishing. They
dash along as fast as mules can pull
them, and as they approach u corner
the driver gives loud toot on horn
for the purpose of warning people at
the crossing to get out of the way.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12

/ often see you with your mamma at
church, said young lady to little
boy in dresses, who had come to at
tend child's party at her house. Il
always CO." said little Howard, as he
Strengthened up and assumed a manly
tone of voice. 1 am intending 10 join
the church very soon."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12
A Public Benefaeter.
VIM. III. steiner, IN MeMber of the Ed.
itOrial staff of the New York
Herald; also eX.COm n Ssi one
err of Excise, New York

hOf90l StA1H Ihe new YORK
Herald; also cx.COm m Ssi one
eF of Excise, New York
Csty, 4S Ann St., says,
DIR. NJ. FENEER, Fredonia N. Y.-Dear
Sir-I have been II great sufferer from Bilious
ness. Nervous Irritation and dyspepsia Tor
years. My friend. Hon. H. c. Lake. OF the
New YorA Custom House, induced me TO try
your BLOOD ami Liver Remedy and NJ rye Tonic
BY the Sc of two bottles II have realized a com
plete restoration to health. 1 look upon it rs
the greatest remedy of the age. and upon you.
as the compounder OF the same, as a public ben
eiactol.''
FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
New York Tribune. New YoYs.
DR.. M. NJ. FENNER. Fredonia, N. Y.-Dear
Sir:-Please Sc, me two more bottles Of your
Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve TNAie. NJ Y
wife has been taking it and it has done her
good.
Yours truly. C. A TRACY.
Completely and entirely eleanses the
blood, relieves BilliOusness, COnstipa-
ton and headaches; cleans out and
heals the entire stomach and bowels :;
breaks up and cures Agues and form
ing Fevers cures pimples, skin erup-
tiOns and skin diseases; removes bad
breath is an antidote for the Blues !;
sOOthes, strengthens, and heals Weak
and Irritated Nerves, producing good
rest at night; and completely reno.
Yates and restores a disOrdered system
the disorder be slight or
grave.
DIR. FENNER'S KIDNEY AND
BACKACHE CURE-For all diseases
of the kidneys, bladder, urinary pas
sages. backache, dropsy, female weak
nesses, nervous debility, heart disease,
etc. The most successful
remedy that has ever been adminis-
tered in the diseases named. Get of
your dealer the memorandum book
entitled :. DR.. FenDer's Peoples Rem
edies are Used all Over the World"
For sale in Ravenna by
7S4 L. P. SEYMOUR.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-06-12
The Extent of Bill Posting.

An English stage manager, in a
pamphlet on advertising written about
1850, asserted that the business of pos
ter advertising, even then supposed to
have outgrown all reasonable proper
tions, was yet but in its infancy; that
the time would come when every inch
of blank surface in this mundane
sphere would be devoted to the purpose
of advertising. Curiously enough,
about the time this prophecy was made
scheme was inaugurated by single
individual on this side of the water
which was destined to 60 long way
toward its fuliillment. In the winter
OF 1849-50 a young sign painter, of
Brooklyn, finding his business very
dull, amused himself by going along
the Harlem Road and painting mis-
name, occupation and business on all
the rocks and fences. Several business
men were struck with the idea and en-
ployed the young man TO blazen adver-
tisements for them in various localities.
Soon after, securing large number OF
contracts for the work, he travelled
with his brush and paint up the Mis-
souri, river, exercising his peculiar tai
ents on the bare crags of the Rocky
Mountains. He journeyed into Oregon
and daubed her pyramids, down the
golden valleys of the Sac, over the gram
ite cliffs of the Humboldt range he
went, leaving behind him staring
legends of silver pills, ''ague pads"
etc., to terrify the wandering savage
and buffalo. We are happy TO say he
was shot at several times and had to
run to save his wretched hide. He was
pursued soon after by rival as fear
less and INSCRIPTIONS as himself
Finally, the two went into partnership
and between them transformed the
country into vast billboard. They
established their headquarters in New
York and undertook, at specified rates,
to advertise merchants, medicine, ETC.,
in as few or many states as desired. In
1880 the manager of this business-the
quandom Brooklyn sign-painter. now II
millionaire that he and his
partner had travelled 1,5OO,0 miles,
had painted 10000 signs, and used 500
barrels of linseed oil and $50 tons of
white lead. This was before they two
retired from active participation in the
manual part of the business. They
now have this work done by their /, 800
agents, through whom they can work
the whole United States on the bill
board plan. They charge for billing
patent medicine in seventeen states
$50, ,0OO-ChtcGgO Inter Ocean.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22
Spots Care for Shep.
How One Dog Cared for Another Tha
Wasfn Well.

Rovv One Dog Cared for Another That
Was In a Well.
from the Lewiston Journsl.l
Before the thaw Mark Sampson lost his
dog Shep. Shep was last seen playing with
Sampsons other dog Spot on the crust on
Benefits hill. Spot came home, but Shep
could not be found. Mark made inquiry of
every man and boy he met, but could hear
nothing of the lost dog Mark would rather
have lost COW. He travelled three days on
snowshoes, but could not hear word from
Shep. One night coming home late, hungry
and tired, after hours of unsuccessful search
ing, he threw himself on the bed, and during
the sleep that followed, Mark dreamed the
dog was in V. P. Benefits old abandoned
we'll. He dreamed the same dream twica.
Mark had no faith in dreams, hat 10 please
his wife he went and looked down in the
well. In the blscknesG he could see two
stars. The well was thirty feet deep and dry
He spoke to the dog, and he could see the
two stars moving round. He could hear no
tom of the well were Shops two eyes, Then
Mark cried Dog in the welI'' three times.
Mark is not low spoken in common CONVEX
sation, and when he yelis he makes the woods
and hills shake. In less than three minutes
q steady stream of boys was seen going up
HeDnett6 bill. A line was Drought, ana
George russell lowered into the weh. When
George reached the bottom he found Shep,
tiekIed almost to death to see him. He had
been in the we'll four days and nights. He
wasn't hungry, but was awfnlly dry. His
hunger had been stayed in this remarkable
manner:
While he was laying at tie bottom of the
old empty well, Spot was hanging around
MIR. Benefits every morning after breakfast
and every evening just after supper when he
would always be thrown a liberal amount OF
food. In the bottom of the well the boy who
went down in the bucket was surprised TO
find a considerable number of bones, and
piece or two of well>preserved meat, which
seemingly had been left over from Shops last
meal. The path leading TO the well, which
Spot had made, completes the story. He
had substantially remembered his companion
who had had the misfortune to fall into the
well.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22
Tuesday, April AZ. 1884.
scHEmN OF KING LEOPOLD.

AsCHEMG OF KING LEOPOLD.
Leopold, King of the Beleians. is an enter
prising gentleman. One Of his latest schemes
is, it is said, to make new route for ocean
| travel between this country and Europe pops
ular and profitable. It is undsnisble that
the present routes are not in all respects all
that could be desired. In going from New
York to Liverpool steamers must average q
| change of nearly fourteen degrees latitude
from South to North, and, with the excep-
tion of about five months out of the twelve,
have to contend against unpleasant weather
and dangerous seas. This confines frst-class
travel to the sumner months and adds great
ly to the cost Of shipping and insurance in
the winter months. Belgian enRiassrs pro-
nounce the port of Liverpool the most un-
great ports of the world, and declare it to be
their belief that because Of this and of the
long journey from Queenstown to the Mer-
sey, Liverpool must soon cease to occupy its
present importance as the principal port of
European entry. The solution Of the ocean
problem, these engineers declare, will only be
found in route with an Atlantic port at the
eastern terminus, which must be as nearly as
possible on line straight east from New
York, and iu Portugal or Spain. The route
approved by King Leopold will. it is said, be
direct from New York to about the fortieth
parallel and along that to the Portuguese
coast, with the European entry at Lisbon or
Cadiz. The Portuguese and Spanish gov
ernments have both been sounded upon the
subject, and will it is understood, do all in
their power to improve direct railroad com.
munication from the selected port to Paris,
and to improve the harbor facilities at the
designated port Of entry.
Some very important advantages are
claimed for the proposed new route. Among
them are the following: A clear ocean pas
sage, below the line of iceberes and winter
storms from port to port, enabling steamers
to run with full power the whole course.
Comparatively equable weather the year
through, enabling steamers to keep up the
average and regularity of their trips in win
ter as well as in summer, aud thus increase
the number of round trips per snnum from
the present average of twenty to Thirty. A
temperate parallel which will render passen-
ger traffic comparatively safe and pleasant
the year round and enormously increase it.
Entire avoidance of the dangers, icsbergs
and rough seas of the northern parallels, and
a consequent prolongation of the life of ships
and decrease in the costs of insurance Il is
also set forth that this route will be from
one hundred and fifty to three hundred milas
8 shorter than the route to Liverpool, and will
heve the Canary Islands as sort of halfway
station if necessary.
All this is interesting and plausible, but il
will be some time before the new route
amounts to much, if it ever doss. Il will not
be an easy thing for even the King of the
things.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

camel will work sevsn or eight days
without drinking. In this he differs from
some men who drink seven or eight days
without working. Lowell Courier.
Life is like game of copenhagen. Men
work themselves half to death for an unwil-
ling kiss, and tie kiss does not turn ont such
great thing after it Is won.-Philadelphi
Call.
A Michigan man has trained his cat to visit
grocery and steal maokersl for him. And
yet writer's on natural history claim that
Michigan men have no intOlligsnce.-Bur-
ington Free Press.
rooster has been bern with only one
wing in Dooly county, GA, in order to give
paragraphist an opportunity to say that it
resembles some chimneys-i g., has de-
fective few.-Norristovn Herald.
Dumas fills is sometimes severe. The con-
versation had turned upon Mrs. x, who had
been very beautiful. ''She has something of
q goddess" said faithful adnirer. Yes, !"
said Dumas, antiquity. French paper.
It is pity some one does not invent lit
tie vest pocket machine which can in a mo-
ment be attached to any piano SO as to play
it by cIockwork. The old folks up stairs
always feel contsntsd while the piano ia CO.
iBg.-Philadelphia Call.
A little toddler vent to Sunday school for
the first time, and when she came home she
was asked what she had learned, and she re-
plieds Bout Deans Twits an other fell
Ter what tsns wemembsr e name Of" The
''other feller" was sPaul.-Merchsnt Traveller.
No one has ever yek been able satisfactorily
to explain why q man gets up in better time
In the morning when he sets his clock half an
hour fast the evening before. This is one of
the mysteries of the dark and unfermented
henoeneas of the whittier ward.-NeW York
Commercial Advertiser.
Miss Amelia Artsel (who has Just returned
from a trip abroad for several years.
why! Mr.. st. Clair, I mistook that gentle
man With whom was converslug for you ]"
Mr.. st. Clair (with isgust)-'What that
ignowamus how howible ~ Miss Amelia
Arteel-FAnd I thought how much you had
improved. Boston Post.
Lady-'sHere, my poor man, is a ticket
for dinner at the soup kitchen; and you can
eat as much shere as will suffice for to NOR
row and the day after" Mendicant -
''Thankg kindly, mum; but I'd rather like
first to eat enough for yesterday and the day
before if it would make no difference to you
to write that down on the ticket."-Judy.
Several ladies who hal been reading
ports of Washington society, where Mrs
Senator Mrs. Congressman and Mrs. So on
we're mentioned, attended an entertainment
in Little Rock recently, and the next morn
ings paper contained the following notice:
t'Among the guests were Mrs. Justice of-the-
Peace Jackelton, Mrs. Deputy Sheriff Pugle-
more, Mrs. Policeman Lstsoaps and Mrs As
sistant. dog g-eatcher Bezierain. - Arkansaw
Traveller.
The hat she ordered,
Questioned not the price,
But when twas finished D.
Joyous cried, how NIGEL
Tie bill was rendered
And her husbahd-wsll,
When he had seeR it
Slow murmured,--.
Boston Post.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

1raekemen broke into the store of Lewis Sesflea,
the rostmsstsr of Brooklyn sonu-, Thursday night,
CRACKED the safe and stole 500 in cash and 500 In
ssapa The lock of the town safe in the same build
ing drilled 1Htn and little powder left In the
look The burglars were unsuecesAfuL
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

Mr.. Isaac Fl. Bromley is to write editorials
for the New York Evening Telegram, one of
James Gordon Benefits papers. We con-
grstulate the readers of the reIegrsm.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

George Roberts alias "Ned" Lyo. 8, has been taken
to Springfield and lodged in jail azait trial before
the May term OF the Superior court for Fobbing the
safe of George L Hitchcock, OF Palmer, in 1851 of
$3.50, for which he was indicted In that year.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

Oae of the great questions which trouble
the people of Australia is the rabbit ques-
tion. The herbags on which the sheep feed
has been consumed by the rabbits to such an
extent as to reduce the amount of wool pro
duoed almost 60 per cent. Though hundreds
of men are employed in destroying these
pests, they have multiplied SO fast that new
methods of dealing with them are demanded.
Since the meeting of Australian representa-
tives at Sydney last November fresh experi-
ments at determination have been tried, but
with such little success that resort is advised
to such dangerous procedure that the Lon
don Times has come out editorially against
It, The plan, which is suggested by cor
respondent of the Sydney Herald, and which
it is said has beeu effective elsewhere in de-
stroying hares, is to introduce Tuberculosis
among the rabbits. or, in other words, iuocu-
late them with consumption. The Times op
poses this new remedy as exceedingly dan
gerous as well as of doubtful efficacy. The
risk of affecting human beings with the
nalady by which it is eravely proposed to
extirpate rabbits is sufficient to discounte-
nance its adoption. There is no end of the
remedies suggested for the evil, bat most of
them seem to be worse than the disease. The
Times makes the most reasonable suggestion,
and this is to make the rabbits general arti-
Gle of food
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22
EDITORIAL hUIhS.

And now they have a sacred black
elephant in circus which is astonishing
the West.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22
Foster, Milburn g. Co., Props,
BUFFALO, ny.

GENUINE RUSSETr CIDER.
NNRoM New Hampshire, IA quarts and piutg sr.
n perior to anything Of the kind We have eyes
onekeo EDW. e. HALL SON.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

1t is said that Governor Cleveland is about
to restore Joe Coburn, the prize fighter, to
his citizenship, which he forfeited by his
term at Sing Sing. New York must be bad
ly in need of citizens.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22
Rare Old Wines

RAr6 Old Wines.
WE have on hand q small quantity of forty-year.
Wv old Port. Sherry and Madeira Wines IL
bottles which We guarantee to be as represented ss
regards age Nothing Amer can be had anywhere ~
any price, Particularly suitable the holiday Sea-
ON.
del4 EDWARD z. HALF. q SON.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22
SenrnaI sna Ggarier.
SINGLE COPIES rxNo OEHVs.

DELIVERED By CARRIERS N THR CTTY. IL
CENTS WEEK, AZ CENTS MoNTH, $500 a
YEAR. The SAME TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

According to Sir James Caird, who is high
authority, the danger to the American wheat
grower from Indian competition is not i'm
minent. Bis view is that the rapid increase
in the population of India is more than likely
to keep pace with the increase of the wheat
product at low cost of cultivation. The
augmentation Of the crop depends upon ir-
ritation, which is more or less expensive, and
its profitable transportation upon the con-
struction of railroads. Yet there is no doubt
that the British government is looking
toward India, as it is to Australia, for much
larger supplies of wheat than they have 80
far yielded, and as to Australia, there ia no
doubt of its ability to greatly enlarge its
product.
young gentleman who moves in good so
ciety in Savannah threatsns to sue q sorcer-
ess for getting money from him through
false pretences. She had agreed to make q
certain lady love him for S15, although con-
siderahly above him socially. He paid the
first instaIiment, bat saw no signs. of the
lady coming to his feet, as promised, or al
lowing him to bow at hers. The sorceress
demanded second installment to put the
spirit world in motion. but to no effect. Tho
spirits then struck for the whole amount
and the young lady's heart was as hard
as ever. The threatened suit against
the sorceress agitates society, because it
would bring the name of the young lady out
In court, which would mortify her family
deeply.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-22

King-of Arms stood forth and in q loud voice
said: Thus it has pleased Almighty God to
take out of this transitory life unto His
Divine Mercy the late Most High. Most
Mighty, and nlustrious Prince Leopold
George Duncan Albert, Duke Of Albany,
Earl Of Clarence, and Baron Arklow, Duke
of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
knight Of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter. Knight of the Most Ancient and
Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight
Grand Commander of the Most Exalted
Order of the Star of India. and knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George,
fourth and youngest son of Her Most Ex-
cellent Majesty Victoria. by the Grace of
God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith,
Empress of India, and of His Royal Highness
the Prince Consort.
It is evident from the action of the house
committee that no postal telegraph lsgisla-
tion will be adopted this session. But the
Washington correspondent of the Boston Ad-
vertiser thinks that it is becoming equally
plain that very soon some steps will be taken
in that direction, and that they will not I'M
eluds thspurchase of the Western Union
line. The representatives Of the Postal
Telegraph company have been active and
successful They have plenty of money, and
their progress in prejudicing members Of
Congress against the Western Union monop-
oily has been very satisfactory to them. The
officials of the latter company did not appre-
ciate the drift of opinion until lately, when
President Norvin Green appeared in Wash
ineton and established his quarters. He says
his attorneys have been blind, SO greatly
have they erred in their estimate of the hold
which the opponents of the Western Union
company have obtained in Congress. They
have made quite sure of favorable reports in
regard to postal telegraphy, which will be the
basis upon which, next winter, to ask for
congressional action. It is this which dis
pleases Mr.. Green.