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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
HIRAM.

Correspondence.
Col. Copeland was greeted here with
an Overtiowing house week before last,
on the occasion of his fourth appear
ance here in the lecture field. Hand
some People," was his subject on this
OCCASION and. though his subject was
well and ably presented, he did not
give that universal satisfaction as here
tOfOre.
Dr. Thayer, of New Castle, delivered
! his Instructive aud well merit"d lee
! ture on Home" last Thursday eve
ming. On account of the inGiement
weather, the audience was not as large
ss might have been expected, consid-
III " the excellent reputation of the
s.eaksr and his interesting subject
Tnere will be No more lectures till after
the holidays.
AN attempt WAS made last week T."
steal some cattle fiom the farm of r.
& &. Young. ia Troy, Geauga Go. The
thieves -ucct teded III getting the cattle
IA head of steers the road, but
tnc itiipuS baI e ing VI u upS '"h pS
person. living opposite the field where
the cattle We're taken ont, aroused his
owner, who Went cut To ascertain the
cause of the cnuImo;iun, thereby calls
ing the thieves 10 abandon the enter
l prise. 1t is motto smnng thiey, = tt
beware of dogs, and in some eases they
. hsd better beware of shutguns
George White lost very valuabl,
colt few days ago, by being gored 10y
t y COW. 1t is never safe 10 allow horse
e to run with horned cattle. They gen
D orally escape without injury, but ther,
= is always danger.
3 We notice that the Cincinnati En-
!, quirer has made furious attack upol
d Col. Cotter. 1t appears that an Ell
. gineer estimated or measured som
Q work done on the State Houre by
: contractor. That Col. COtter certified
. to the measurement, as any office
o would have done, from the certificat
= of a competent engineer, and the con
% tractor received his pay. II was after
e ward ascertained that the engineer ha'
made an error in his estimate, b,
which the contractor had been pai'
$3.50 too much, which amount was re
a funded by the contractor. In Portag
u county it will require powerful len
t to discover wherein Col. Cotter is il
j. any manner in errori in the transaction
i We opine that the Col. in common
with thousands of other Democrats il
r Ohio, has questioned the democracy o
] the Enquirer, which is the cause o
!, this exhibition of the Enquirers mean
i ness, and not the $50, which was no
o lost to the treasury. When the dem
!, ocracy patronize democratic papers
Il they will be stronger in Ohio. III.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
The Tifhn News says: "A neat

The Tiftin News says: "A neat
fraud is being practiced as follows: A
venerable gentleman approaches =
farmer and talks of how farmers and
laboring men have to pay so much
tax, aud tells him he is getting up a
petition which he wishes all the far
mers to sign, and without hesitation
the farmer signs the paper. The re.
suit 10 that in few days note is pre-
ssnted to him, and In nine cases out
of ten the sharper gets the money and
is off before the farmer realises that he
is baseiy swindlsd." Our readers will
do well to be on the look, out for this
impostor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18


thur touching on the machinery by
electric wire from Washington.
THE quia muncs are still amusing
themselves fixing up Cabinet for
President Cleveland. These fellows
are very ehterprising!
THE Republican leaders are NOT
pleased with the views expressed by
President Arthur and Secretary Nc
CuIloch Oh the subject of the tariff,
GEN. GRANT has told the world
through Mr.. Mitchell. Chairman O.
Committee on Pensions, that he will
not accept pension from the United
States Government.
THE Boston Herald Qnd.) says
The four Northern States carried by
Governor Cleveland have population
of 5000, 900, or One-sixth of the entire
population of the country, and much
more than that proportion of property
BLAINE's suit for libel against the
Indianapolis Sentin Il has petered out
ss was expected. The case is barred
by reason of Dlaine's failure to answer
the Sentinel's last Interrogation in 8
certain period of time.
PAPER SHIRTS are a new invention
The bosom of the garment consists o
seven layers, one of which can be tori
of every day ,on the blotting pad prin
ciple, exposing a clean white surface
in its place.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
A lot of second hand Buggies at
a27-Lf n. F. THOMPsON's.

This extreme tired feeling we have
i'm the spring. fall and during the sum
mrr denotes torpid liver; we have nc
appetite and no ambition. Take DIR
jones Red Clover Tonic; it corrects
these troubles, restores good spirits. II
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blood purifier. Can be taken by the
most delicate. Price SO cents, of Bel
ding Il Armstrong.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

We presume the important question
of Water Works is being thoroughly
talked up by onr citizens, and that the
subject will be fully understood when
the day for final decision arrives; but
We had hoped that some one who has
taken pains to fully post himself on
the subject would give the public the
benefit of his information through the
| columns Of the PRESS. 1t is q work
which we have neither time nor facil-
tiles to accomplish. No one can doubt
that an abundant supply of good, pure
water would be of inestimable value to
our town, both in sanitary and ma
terial point Of view, and, in fact. seems
to be almost indispensable. The main
indes,', the only objection interposed
is the cost of the work. All, there's
tho rub. We cannot expect to have
any great public work without incur.
ring q corresponding expense. So the
real question to be considered is: Dc
we need the Works and will they war.
rant the cost? Let some one who ia
posted give the people light upon the
| question.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

BOSTON GLOBE: A mountain of wild
honey two hundred feet high and one
hundred and fifty wide has been dis
covered among the rocks of California,
says San Francisco paper. Probably
some young man has just fallen in love
for the first time, and this is only the
San Francisco way of expressing his
feelings.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

In the face of score of denisls from
both sides the Republican organs keep
on repeating the absurd story that q
bitter quarrel is going on between
Messrs. Cleveland and Hendricks.
The only thing that the Democratic
newspapers can do to Offset this is to
refer occasionally to the GOODNESS exist
ing between Blaine and Burchard,
which threatens to exclude clergymen
from participation in Republican pol
i!ics henceforth.-[W World.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

KEW. A. j. MERCHANT, Presiding
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writes:
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MRS. JAMES FULLER, Fredonia. n. Y, writes (:
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HARRV WATERS, Hamlet. N. Y. writes:
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
A Remarkable EScane.

Mrs. Mary A. Daily, of Tunkhan.
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with Asthma and Bronchitis, during
which time the best physicians could
give no relief. Her life was despaired
of, until last October she procured q
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery
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she was completely cured, gaining in
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Free trial bottles of this certain cure
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

"ALL the bosh with which Mr.
Blaine was trying to delude the coun
try a few weeks ago is cOOlly swept
away by Hugh McCullOch In his mas
terly report as Secretary of the Treas
ury," says the Springfield Republican
"All the campaign lies of ths Repub
lican organs and orators that the Nor
rison bill and the Democrats were re
xp0nsible for the depression, all MIR.
BIaine's plausible efforts to make il
appear that the tariff must be main
tanned in its present state-in short,
the whole basis OF the Republican cam
paign on the tariff issue, is cast as
rubbish TO the void by President Ar
thurs and President Lincoln's Secre.
tary of the Treasury, one Of the ablest
practical fiuanciers and s0undest
states men " ho have ever occupied that
office,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

THE hog cholera Is prevailing to an
alarming extent in the vicinity OF
Dayton. A paper of that city says
that in Washington and Van Buren,
townships and along the line in Greene
is where the greatest number have
died. From there it seems to have
spread TO the famous Poland China
section of Warren county. John Ea
gle, living few miles south of Day
ton, has lost all OF his hogs. J. w.
Coppiek has in the past few days lOst
twenty-nine head, and other farmeas
and raisers have suffered the same
Continued cold weather, it is hoped,
will eradicate the disease.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

A FEW ferocious Republican organs
are insisting that Blaine has plural
ity of the popular vote. This is arriv
ed at by a process of mathematics pc
culiar to disappointed people. 1t may
console these wretched editors TO know
that every vote cast for Cleveland, St.
John and Butler represented protest
against the continuance of the Repub-
lican party in power and the elevation
of Jim Blaine to the Presidency. Up
on this basis the Republican party
falls something like 353 1863 votes short
of majority In the Union.-LW World.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

A DANNILLE. Pa, dispatch, says:
Two men digging roots on an island
in the Susquehanna river struck a
metal box containing coins amounting
to nearly S47. 900. including SIG. 600 in
Mexican silver dollars, $50, 900 in gold
doubloons, and nearly 81 zoo in small
silver coins.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

RHODE ISLAND is a Rel ublican State
and is likely to continue SO. In 1880
its population of males ri years old
and upward was 76, ,S9s. At the recent
election its total vote amounted to 80.
S43, not one half of its male population
voting. A large number of them are
disfranchised because they are poor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

A BILL is pending before Congress
to suspend the coinage of silver dollars
for three years from March 4, 1885.
The same bill makes provision for an
International conference, composed oi
representative men from the United
States and the principal European
powers, to establish common ratio
between gold and silver, and by inter
national agreement, to secure fixity
of relative money value between these
metals.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

AN interesting feature of the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans will be q
united encampment of the veterans of
the war, embracing the soldiers of the
Union and Confederate armies. The
Board of Managers of the Exposition
have voted $4,000 for this purpose !;
l,OOd tents will be constructed for the
free accommodation of the veterans.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

THE town of East Liverpool. o. al
lows its street gas lamps to burn con-
stantly both night and day. They are
extinguished but once month, when
the lamps are washed and the jets are
cleaned. The town is lighted by nat
nral gas aud the people say 1t is cheap.
er to let it burn all day in the street
lamps than it would be to pay men to
light and extinguish the lamps every
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

The Springfield Republican says {:
The Republican newspapers seem to
have taken u perfectly devillsh animus
from their defeat, and aIe contributing
directly to the business depression by
the most gloomy forebOdings and by
direct suppression of all news indica.
in Mr.. Cleveland.n
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

The Republican papers delight to
harp upon the undue advantage of the
South in the Electoral College, but
there are some facts they fail to mem
tion, as for instance: Texas has I3
electoral votes, and it gave Cleveland
.:,3 223, POS votes. Maine, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Colorado and
Nevada-all Republican States-have
"A electors-1l electors more than Tex
as-while their vote for Blaine aggre-
gated ZIG, ,369-6, $50 less than Texas
gave to Cleveland. It thus appears
that the Republicans in these six Re-
publican States are about twice AS po-
tential in the Electoral College as the
Democratic voters OF Texas. Again ::
Nine Republican States - Vermont,
Rhode Island. Colorado, Maine. New
Hampshire. Massachusetts, Nevada,
Wisconsin aud Nebrask a--with u To
tai vote of ,l42, ,56s. cast 81 electoral
votes for Blaine. while New York with
total vote of Ito. .s3s, cast 36 electo.
raj votes for Cleveland.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

LONDON, Dec. 9.-Captain Dudley
and the mate OF the wrecked yacht
Aign0hette, whs were found guilty Of
murder in killing the boy Parker for
food to keep themselves alive, were to
day sentenced 10 death.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18

For sale cheap-Track Sulky, used
but few times. T. F, THOMPSON,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
The Press for $3.50 q Year,
Gn esdpdncs.

THE Worlds Fair at New Orleans
was opened on Tuesday, President Ar
thur touching OH the machinery by
electric wire from Washington.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30
4 Bogus Father.

The story of the long-absent husband
and father who returns after many years
loaded down with riches and anxious to
make amends to his deserted family for
his long and shameful neglect has been
told often and with many variations. In
general the story is pure romance. The
husband and father who intends TO be
honorable and care for his family like .
man does not hide himself for twenty or
thirty years and then appear at the elev.
enth hour and assume his legitimate du-
ties. Absent or present. he keeps up his
relation with his family and provides for
them as best he may. And the scamp
who has basely deserted his family for q
long period will remain a scamp till the
end of the chapter. The gullible New
Jersey woman who lived by boating on
the Morris canal and who has lately been
rejoicing in the return Of q long-lost
father and in $1,000 house, which he
had claimed to have purchased for hel
with trihing modicum of his Califor.
MIA wealth. has received an unpleasan,
illustration Of this general truth. Hel
bogus father failed to pay for the house
which he was to present her, but hi
didn't fail to borrow thirty dollars and
! an ovcrcoat from his too trusting daugh
ter and then skip to parts unknown. Al
j she resumes her boating avocation sh.
will probably give all repentant rslative'
who want to smooth her future pathwa,
| Il wide berth.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-C. H. Hobart.
superintendent of the National Park I'M
provement company. is in the city. He
wishes to obtain the passage of Il law
granting the right of way through the
National park for branch road from the
Northern Pacific to Clarke's Fork, in
Montana, to afford an outlet for the rich
mines in that region. the branch he
proposes to built would pass through the
northwest corner of the park, traversing
about forty miles of it. The distance
from the Northern Pacific is about tift.
miles. SO that the new line will I've about
one hundred miles in length. OF course
no subsidy is asked for, simply the right
of way through the park. The enter
prise is backed by prominent capitalists
in New York.
WASHINGTON, Jan 22-A bill will be
introduced in the house tomorrow by
Mr. Strait of Minnesota to meet the OBJ
jections to the pre-emption law and rem
der its entire repeal unnecessary. He
thinks the bill will meet with general
favor. and that it contains such restric-
tions as will insure its passage through
congress. IF passed, it would allow u"
man who has exhausted his right under
the homestead law to take claim under
the pre-emption law.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 222.-The house COM
mittee on public lands will take up the
Northern Pacific land question next Fri
day. 4 member of the committee said
to-day that there will be almost unani-
nous vote in favor of declaring the I'M
earned portion of the grant forfeited, but
that the committee are divided on the
question of declaring forfeited that part
of the grant where the road was not com
pleted within the time required by law
There is, however, a very strong feeling
in the committee in favor Of forfeitinR
the grant on sections of the road no,
completed within the time required un.
der the granting act.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30

may provide for the compulsory attend
! ance for at least three years of children
between the ages of five and fifteen years
when not educated by other means.
That in all school elections women
shall be entitled to vote the same as men
and shall be eligible to office under the
school law: that no school monies or
public funds shall be appropriated to any
church or sectarian purpose or to support
anv school or institution controlled by
any church, sect, or denomination. That
no religious or sectarian qualification
shall be necessary for the admission of
any pupil or for the employment by any
teacher. nor shall any sectarian tenets be
taught in any public school Of the state;
that the election of school officers mot
including school district ofiicers) shall
take place, if possible, at other than what
ii generally known as general election;
that four persons to be known as the
"Regents of the University of Montana"
shall be elected at the grst general school
election, their only compensation to be
the actual expense Of discharging their
official duties. The Regents shall choose
President Of the University who shall
hold office until removed by them. The
President shall preside at meetings of
the Board, shall be the principal execu-
tive officer of the University and shall be
a member of the faculty thereof. The
Board of Regents shall haye the general
supervision of the University and exclu-
sive control of its monies and lands.
The report Of the committee on reve-
nue. and taxation was read and referred
to the committee on finances, after which
the convention adjourned.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30

A woman in jackson, the mother Of
nine children, is afflicted with curious
sort of kleptomania. Beginning some
time since to save up small sums Of
money from her husbands earnings, she
found after awhile that her little store
was being pilfered from, but no trace Of
the thief could be found. It at last turns
out that she has been in the habit her
self of taking the money in her sleep, as
she has been caught at it. She has no
knowledge Of the matter, and now the
puzzle is to know what becomes of the
money. as no trace of it can be found.
The story is entirely authentic.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30

1t is singular that thepeople Of France,
who eat horse meat and call it quail on
toast. should 70 back on the great Ameri-
can Hog. There is not a hog In al this
broad land but is choieer eating than the
best superannuated hack horse thaa :
Frenchman ever laid his jaws to.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30
CONDENsITIEs.

Daniel Donovan has been arrested
near Baltimore. and identified as the
person who bea; Joseph Rynar to death
with billiard cue in New York saloon.
The man who has successfully worked
the bogus check dodge in various Iowa
cities. purchasing coffins for deceased
children, has been arrested at Sioux
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30
The Newspaper Reporter.

Reporters differ in many ways. Some
are purely descriptive. in some a bump
of humor is lIlagniticently developed,
some permeate story, short or long.
with indices Of personality. Others are
cast iron in recital, and make their
stories as piqnant as an algebraic pro-
blem. 4 good reporter. gifted with nor
NAL spirits and health, is a thing OF
beauty in any well-regulated newspaper
Office. Every door is open to him, and
the field of life is spread before him with
its sunshine and its shadow. In the
course of an evening he talks with presi-
dents and walks with princes, he sits
with the sorrowful and mourns with the
humble In church to-day in Jail to-
morrow, lnerrily dancing with Arion this
! evening, to drop down i'll coal pits with
| striking miners some other evening.
| Now he interviews a magnate Of land /;
and now takes the dying deposition OF \
! butchered thief Part of the evening is
spent in the cathedral fair, part in poll
teal meeting, part i'll police headquar-
| tiers. part in the debris of a railroad colli-
sion. No place is too sacred. none ts'
lowly, no man is too high, too rich, foo
great for him to serve He is as much Of
home in the palace of a millionaire as in
the hospital ward off prison. He writes
| With equal readiness to glib utterance "f
befrilled bishop and the narrowing
confession of poor devil in the Tombs
A good reporter must be discreet. How
much he hears he cannot tell. how much
he knows it would not be fair for him tc
reveal. He sees the best and worst
types of society, and has his land more
constantly upon the pulse of affairs thar
any minister, lawyer. doctor or merchant
The work of the American reporter
speaks volumes daily for itself Now
and then one is deceived and mlsled
fooled; hut by men at large. from Maine
to Georgia, from New York to Oregon
the American reporter holds his own il
the interesting, the instructive and en-
tertaining.-.Jor He""rd i" the Bosfo'
! Hfrnld