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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27
Right Smart Girls.

Robert Yergin one armed ex-con-
federate soldier of Dia's township
Laurens, has daughter of whom he
can be very proud. She has for sever
al winters acted as engineer, running
her fathers engine to gin cotton. using
her books even while at the engine for
self-improyement. BY her self-appli-
cation, energy and industry, she has
made money enough to educate her
self, first teaching, then attending
school She is now in the graduating
class of the Columbia Female college,
has been elected to write her class val
ed1ctory address, and holds the position
of first honor in her class. Miss Yer
gin is now but IL years of age, hand
some and intellectual She bids fair
to run bright and useful career in a
lady's proper sphere. Miss Mary Yer
gins younger sister, Miss Liiah, IA
years of age, now runs her fathers en-
gine and promises to follow in her
elder sisters footsteps. -GreenUiILe @.
CO. News.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27

There is not the slightest certainty
that any invention, however terrible.
would put an end To war; while there
is almost IA certainty that if such an in
vention were perfected it would griev-
ously increase the miseries of mankind.
Taken in the lump, men will face any
means of destruction whatsoever, if al
so they possess it themselves Give
two men pistols, and they will fight
across handkerchief. They are not
afraid of death, but only of death with
out chance of victory. King Theo-
dore, of Abyssinia, asked his courtiers,
when the rocket sticks fell at his feet,
if he could reasonably be expected to
face things like those, and ultimately,
in pure despair of defeating science
with unscientifc weapons, killed HIM
self; but if he also had possessed rock
cts he would have fought on. No men,
not even Prussian sailors or English
sailors, will face shells without shells
to throw back; but when they have
shells theys- 5lce the enemy's she'll as
bravay,:s theysdid the old round shot.
The methods of war are changed~by
science. but war is not extinguished::
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27

Suppose it true that able chemists and
meohaRicians could invent a meth cd
of throwing asphyxiating vapor on =
sleeping army, what would be the re-
sulte First, the adoption of some pro-
tective covering. such as iron-clad huts
for sleeping in; next, the adoption of a
nethsd of encanping which spread the
army ever a surface too great or too
uneven to be reached; and next, the
use of such devices rs were used by the
assailing force. Huxley would march
with his fishermen to choke Tyndali
and his Alpine climbers. War would
then consist mainly of efforts to obtain
advantageous positions, from which
showers of death would be thrown, but
war would not cease. Forlorn hopes
would be organized among chemists or
mechanicians as easily as among sold
Iers, enormous rewards would be paid
to the new warriors, and nations would
fight each other as briskly as ever
London Spectator
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27
Governmental Injustice te Authors.

At the outset L admit that ca the
question of international copyright, or
the claims of foreign authers to prop
erty in their books, the English are
right and the Americans wrong, SO
aagrastly wrong as to justify much of
the denunciation we receive. The po-
sitien of our Government upon the sub
iect regard as wholly indefensible.
Its pelicy is an outrage upon class Of
aIen who are public benefactors, dis
grace to the country, and scandal to
civilization. Grover Cleveland's re-
public does not recognize that Frederic
Harrison and Herbert Spencer have
any right of property in the products
of their brain-work. Their productions
when brought to the United States be-
long neither to them nor to anybody
else. They are not protected by law,
and may be appropriated by anybody
without violation of law. There are
many in this country who realize the
vice of this policy quite as vividly as
the foreign victims of it. and who ara
laboring hard to put an end to it But,
without offering a word of apology for
it, there is still something to be said in
behalf of those who are compelled to
act under bad state of things which
they reprobate, but are for the time
powerless to remedy. 1t is certainly
unjust to involve these in the indis-
criminate condemnation of the vicious
system. 1t is good deal easier to de-
nounce it at distance than to fight it
on the spot. Nor is it possible for
authors, living under a government
which so stringently protects them that
they acquire the habit of regarding lit
srary property as something peculiarly
sacred, to fully appreciate the difficult
ties Of publication and tho course which
business must take under entirely op-
posite circumstances, where literary
property is without any legal protec-
tion. With no International copyright
it is certainly impossible to act as if we
had one.-PrOtcSsOr Z. L. Youmans, in
Popular Science Monthly for august.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27
NATURALGAS.

Its Use and Prospects for Usefulness in the
City OF Pittsburg.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27

Likely to Kill the Local Coal Trade In That
District-HoW 1t Is Obtained.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27

The largest apple tree in the United
States is growing at Cheshire, Conn.
1t is 60 feet high, spreads 100 feet and
yields from IS to 110 bushels of
apples per year on alternate sides Of
tne We -E---Es FL -y
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27

Dr. Hitchcock, Professor of Athletics
at Amherst, is violent hater of tobac-
CO and says that half century more
of its use will produce a generation oi
WeakliDgs, --
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27
SOURCES OF SUPPLY.


These facts will probably serve to
show the progress in natural gas de-
velopment in this city and its suburbs.
The history of all of the wells sunk is
very much the Same, excepting as to
the number of gas veins struck. As a
rule, gas is not obtained under l, 100 or
/, 200 feet. A few mills are using gas
from wells on the mill property, but it
is not in quantities large enough to sup
ply the whole mill. For heavy manu-
featuring purposes no single vein of
gas that has been discovered under the
city seems strong enough, and to COM
bine the smaller ones at places where
they have been tapped and keep them
separate from the salt water is theo-
rem to be solved. Much greater vol
umes of gas have been set free from
their subterranean chambers, in the
adjoining counties of Washington and
Westmoreland, but in those portions
adjacent to Allegheny County, and
distant some eighteen or twenty miles
from Pittsburg At Tarentum, which
is about eighteen miles above Pitts
burg, and in Allegheny County, some
valuable wells are now in operation,
and being within easy piping distance
of the Smoky City manufacturing es-
Establishments, displace good quantity
of coal in the home markets. In Wash
ington County, which adjoins Alleghe-
nv on the south, number of wells
have been put down in the vicinity of
the great McGugan well, and this dis
trict forms another heavy supply for
the fuel market at Pittsburg. Then
last, but not least, comes the enormous
supply which the Murraysville natural
gas district brings. Murraysville is in
Westmoreland County, and about
eighteen miles east of Pittsburg. The
big Murrsysyills we'll which has been
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-27
q. n. PROCTOR. M. D.,
D. H. &RIFFIN.

DENTIST. Onlce over First National Bank
IL Ofice hours from q. m. to D. IN.
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C.D.I INGELL,

AssTTO RNEX AT Law and Notary
~ Publio. Oface in ever MIS-. smith's a aina- ~
an 6tore' Nantua Ssatien. Ohio. b4a-a
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01
Grant and the South.

Lee Camp, Confederate Veter- ans, of Richmond, Virginia, re- gently adopted the following:
 WHEREAS, Having learned through public report that the eminent sol dier, Gen. U. $. Grant, has been and is sorely afflicted by a painful malady, and being mindful of the fact that at the close of hostilities between the States and at other divers times since, he has shown himself to be true soldier and a friend of the Confederate soldier and of this camp; therefore, be it
 Resolved, That we tender our hearty sympathies to him in his severe affiiction, and our hope that he may by Divine Providence soon be permitted to regain his health and to pass hIs remaining years in peace and happiness; that the adjutant be and is hereby in structed to transmit this resolu- ton by mail without delay.
 The resolution was forwarded to Gen. Grant by mail, accompanied by a letter from Gen. Cooke, con- mander of the camp and former general in the Confederate army, and a graduate of West Point. It speaks for itself, demonstrating beyond quibble the fact that the Confederate veterans of the late war accepted the situation at the closing of hostllities. And, instead of harboring sectional hatred, as has been alleged, have ever evinced a due sense of appreciation towards ga foe worthy of theil steel" who, at the moment of tri- umphal victory, could be generou: as we'll as brave. The magnani nous terms extended by Gen Grant to Gen. Lee and the Army of Virginia, has kindled a flame 1T the hearts of the veterans of that army that will nevor die, like the vestal fires of Rome.
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The Forfeited Land Grant.


 The following notice has been sent to the Southern Arizona news papers for publication by Ben M. Thomas, register of the Tucson Land Office: Pursuant to in structions of the Hon. Commis- sioner of the General Land Office, dated March IT, 1885, the public is hereby notified that the odd num- bered sections of land heretofore withdrawn from entry by the grant to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, by the Act of March 8, 1871, has beon declared forfeited, and the whole of sad lands re- stored to tho public domain and made subject to disposal under the general laws of the Unitsi States, by the act of Congress, ap- proved February 2S, 1885. The books of this office are now open for the entry of said lands under the pre- -emption, homestead and other laws relating to unoffered lands, except that in case they arc taken by pre-emption or co mmuta ton of homestead entries, payment must be made at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, a: in the case of land in the ever numbered sections
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THE news relating to the misun-

THE news relating to the misun- derstanding-if we may so mildly term it-between Russia and Eng land, is rather puzzling. Although Mir. Gladstone has stated that an amicable agreement has been reached between the two powers, it will be observed that Great Brit ain is making military preparations on a most extensive scale. In the Woolwich arsenal men are work ing on double time, and vast fleet of transports is being rapidly col lected on the Thames. We are informed by the Associated Press cable that "these and other indica- tions convince the observant Englishman that the struggle be- tween England and Russia has been merely averted" temporarily. Meanwhile the wrath of Conserva- tives has been once more aroused by what they term the trickling policy of Gladstone.s They claim that he has made unpardonable concessions to the Czar's Govern ment. But if Gladstone had nothing to dread except tho empty and impotent censure of his Con- servative foes, he might live a life of perfect contentment- As to the diffic ulty in Asia, Americans are so little acquainted with the mysteries and phenomena of Euro pean diplomacy that it seems al most impossible to conjecture whether England and Rassla will eventually fight or embrace.-Chi- cago Tribune.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

A DECISION was rendered by the United States Supreme Court last week in series of five cases known as the polygamy suits, brought by certain Mormons of Utah to get decision as to the power of the Board of Commissioners ap- pointed under the Edmunds act to supervise elections in that Ter ritory. The principal question raised was whether the Board of Commissioners had the power to prescribe as a condition of regis tration of voters a discriminating test oath requiring the applicant to swear that he or she was not a bigamist or polysmist. The court decided that the board had no power to prescribe such an oath, that the complainants were clearly deprived of their right of registra- ton, and that the members of the board are responsible in actions for damages.
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A DISPATCH from Salt Lake says

A DISPATCH from Salt Lake says the general sentiment among in telligent Mor,nons regarding the decision of the United States Supreme Coart in the election cases, in which the Utah Com mission were respondents, is one of disappointment. While the test oath prescribed by the commission Is declared invalid, they state that the court went out of its way to practically declare the Ednunls act valid, when the poiat was not necessarily before it. The ruling that the inhabitants of the Terri tories are under the sovereign con trol of Congress- is viewed with amazement and regret, and is gen erally considered as a decision more opposel to republican form of government than any ever given since the Nation was founded. Ih4 Mormon5 fesl they al oeiao Ill, ,u- , i-L.- .ith.
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Heirs to sIoo.ooo.ooo.

The Utica (N. Y.) Observer of March 18th says:
 Mrs. Augusta J. Pratt, of Syra- cuse, widow of the late ex-State Attorney General and Judge, Dan iel Pratt, has been found to be an undoubted heiress to the Lord Townley-Lawrence English estate, valued at $10O,OO0,000, which is also claimed by Mrs. s. s. Brown, of Bagdad, N. Y. Mary Townley, to whom the estate was left, was Mrs. Pratt's great grandmother. Mrs. Pratt has heirlooms in silver and pictures with documents prov ing her claim. The other heirs are Mrs. B. G. Baxter, of Oswego, Mrs. Douglass Benson. of Erie. Pa, and Mrs. Chas. Metcalf, of Cleveland, Philip and Lawrence Malcolm, of Australia, Henry Evolene and Mary DeZeng, of Geneva, Mrs. Clarence Seward, of New York, Alice and Eliza Nor ton, Lawrence DeZeng, of Garth age, Emma Cotton, of Brooklyn, Anna and Charles McCully, of Brunswick, Me. Clarence Seward, nephew of the late William H. Seward, has all proofs of the heirship. He is prosecuting the l claim.
 If, as the above extract would seem to indicate, the Lawrence Townley heirs have prospects oi proving their claim to this estate, which has been held in chancery in England for upwards of LOG years, there are many others who will undoubtedly come in for then share also, among that number D. L. Sayre, of the CLARION, who is as direct an heir as any of those aforementioned, who are nearly all of them near blood kin. How ever, after an estate has laid 1T chancery for so long period there is but a poor show for tho heirs, who are scattered about tht four quarters of the world, to re ceive anything from 1t
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An Assasssaation Society.

The Texas State Rangers have arrested nineteen persons in Yer non, Wilbarger county, and four Tn Wichita Falls, accused of the assassination of Roy Morrison and Hettis Johns, who were killed in Vernon recently. The parties arrested have been considered as among the best men in Wilbarger county. Among the number ar rested are B. Wilson Edgell, editor and proprietor of the Vernon Guard; G. E. Douglass, Sheriff Of Wilbarger county; John Davidson Deputy Sheriff; A. T. Roger, ex- Sheriff; James Wilson a cattle man; aud Thos. Gibson, foreman of the w. B.Worsham ranch. They are under guard at Vernon. The Rangers say they have positive evidence against all the parties as having been implicated in the assassinations, and that they formed an organization to kill the persons named and several others. They say they have in their pos session the list and the oath of the members of the organization; that they had what they termed death list, containing the names of all the parties they intended to kill and that on the list, opposite the names of the persons who have been assassinated, they had marked the word ''killed." Il seems that Sergeant Grimes and Capt. Schmitt, of the Ranger force, have been working on tho cases for some time. They sent detectives to Vernon, who tool the oath of the organization, and by that means got all the evidence in their possession.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

REPORTS having been published
 in Tucson papers that Americans were in danger should they enter the Yaqui country in Sonora, the Nogales Frontier publishes state ment made by Cajeme, the head chieftain of the tribe, who says foreigners may pass through the Yaqui country without fear of molestation, so long as they don't interfere with the Indians affairs.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

AN exchange says: "We have often looked for a sentence that would clearly explain it A Mis- souri paper kindly supplies the want in this beautiful simile: "You might as well try to shampoo an elephant with a thimbleful of soap suds as to attempt to do business and ignore advertising"
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

It is rumored that upon the advent of colored troops into Ari- zona Gen. Crook will ask to be removed. Should such be the fact, then some measures ought to be adopted to have the order rescind- ed ordering the colored troops to Arizona. For of all men, the Territory can better spare any other than Gen. Crook. He is the only man who can hold the Apaches in check, for they both respect and fear him. So soon as he leaves this department, then there will be trouble and he will have to be returned to put it down. No; Arizona can't spare Gen. Crook, for in holding the Indians in check he is worth fifty thousand colored troops.-Tucson Star.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

BENJAMIN FORSYTH. a boy of 16, died, as it was supposed, at Free port, Ohio, last Thursday. The funeral took place Saturday, and at the mothers request the coffin was opeued at the grave. The body manifested unmistakable symptoms of animation, and after persistent effort the boy was re- stored to life.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

JUDGE DAVID $. TERRY, who killed David c. Broderick in a duel in San Francisco, which created such a sensation quarter of a century ago, is now 70 years of age and still practising law in Stock ton. Cal. He is almost unknown, having killed himself politically when he killed Bro1erick.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

ONE of President Clcveland's hobbies is that he will appoint no man to office whois not physically robust. He always inquiries con- corning an applicants appearance, weight and condition of health. Invalids have little chance of suc- cess at the White House.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

A PETITION, signed by over 1,OOO clergymen and laymen, including the most prominent divinos in the country, was presented to President Cleveland last Thurs day urging him to enforce the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy act.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

GENTLEMEN should not fail to comply with that provision of the law which requires the recording of all brands with the county re- corder.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

THE Nosaies Frontier mentions as an evidence of the future pros perity that the town is rapidly filling up with stud-horse poker sharps, three-card monte sharps and top and bottom sharps.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

A aAMBLER's advertisement in the Lordsburg Advance reads: "The tiger is running wild, with money in his jaws; but still as gentle as a child, just call at Arkansaw's." .-.-
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

PRESIDENT BARRIos has assumed the modest title of supreme Military Chief of Central Amer
 ica." It is suggested that had he merely styled himself Great Gall" tine title would have been much shorter and ten times as appropri-
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

The Champion is authority for the statement that the Atlantic x Pacific railroad company will shortly erect and finish large hotel at Flagstaff, the highest town in Arizona. and around which the scenery IS delightful.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

THE Tucson Index states that H.R. Jeffords and $. NJ. Franklin, two young attorneys well known in this county, have formed a CO., partnership.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

A prominent official of Idaho, formerly an eastern journalist, in aletter to an officer in Washington, makes an extraordinary statement as to the anti-Mormon movement in that territory. While as much opposed to polygamy as anyone can be he says that for business integrity the Mormons surpass the Gentilcs in Idaho, while the leaders of the anti Mormon crusade are simply unprincipled traders in office.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

The portion of mining claim sold to an alien cannot be patented while such owner is an alien: but on his declaration to become citizen his right dates back to his purchase, and he may therefore secure United States patent for his claim.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

ON the outside page of this weeks issue we publish a state ment of the expense account of the late Legislature, which aggre- gates S51,O00. The expense ac- count, however, IS but small item of the burdens which the tax payers of the Territory will have to bear on account of the mis- deeds of the fighting "Thirteenth. " On the faith and credit of the Ter ritory the following bonds were issued:
 Building ard maintaining insane asy- luu ........-............-- ...--.......-..s sioo.Vo Building university..... ............ 25,ooO Buil,liny normal school ............. 5,O0 Building wagon road and bridges in Apache county. y........-...------... l2uu Building bridge at Florence. 15,0cO IOtal.. . Aos .Vcu
 In addition to these bonds the following new appropriations from the Territorial funds were voted: Territorial Fair Association .Sl0,0U Immigration commissioner....... 4,5C Exhibit at Worlds Fair............... s.5oc Exhibit at Denver Exposition. ....... 2,OOO
 Total ,.....................-. .s2,lUC
 A total cost as far as heard from of s230.OO0 in round figures, and the Lord only knows how much more.
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Miss Belle Savage, worth S1OO,- 900 in her own right, who mysteri- ously disappeared from Swanton, Md, ten years ago, has been dis covered by her father in Balti- more garret, dying of consumption. Being too weak to speak, she can give no information in regard to her whereabouts during the last decade.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

Miss Mackay has married an Italian nobleman and Mrs. Tom Thumb will soon espouse another. The marrying of these fellows to ladies able to support them will tend to abolish the hand org'n nuisance. -Ex.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL l, 1885.

LELAND STANFORD, the new Cali fornia Senator. is.61 years of age, and is worth $I0,00O,000.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

TIE Southwestern Stockman, tue acknowledged organ of Ari- zona cattle-growers, is to be moved from Wilcox to Tucson.
The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-01

The finest tonic for nervous people is Hos feet digestion and assimilation, and the active performance of their. functions by the liver and bowels. As the system ac- quircs tone through the influence of this be- nign medicine. the nerves grow stronger and more tr.,uu..ii, hel aches cease, aAd that nameless anxiety which is peculiarity of the dyspeptic, gives way to cheerfulness. To establish health on . sure formulation. use ii,c I.','r,s-~ iii,' ,ralt. for ., all Drue,sists al.,. Do..4eI.s generally.
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THE Board of Supervisors will meet in regular quarterly session next Monday, in Solomonville.
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MT 5;;4I..y will be Easter.