Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-05-28

APOLEON, HENRY C'
There are in the United States 81 ,000,-
900 of watered railway stocks.
A gold nugget weighing twenty-one
pounds, worth 5000, was recently
found near Victoria.
In Florida oil is thrown into ponds
and standing water to prevent mosqui-
toes from Matching.
War threatened among the state odd
fellows over the suspension of the Day.
ton lodge by Grand-master Young.
Senator Frye or Maine. sees nothing
in this administration to commend
That speaks well "for this administra-
tion.p
Smallpox is said to be spreading
rapidly in Montreal, and the mayor
and leading physicians are battling it
with vigor.
An exchange says a silver dollar is
too big, a gold dollar is too little, a
paper dollar is too small, and they are
all too scarce.
Four Legitimate children and three
forced marriages were the ''fruits" of
the skating rink in one ward i'm Toledo.
So says the Christian AdUocGte.
Washington is a remarkably religious
city. Statistics show $50 churches with
1881 members. OF this total MEM
bership, however, q 600 are in the col
ored churches.
A single COW cost Australia $44, 900, 900.
She had been i'll of pleuro-pneumonia
but was pronounced in good condition
and admitted. The result was gener-
al spread of the disease.
Gen. Grants dedication of his book
is not at all specific, being simply ''to
the officers and soldiers engaged in the
war of the rebellion and the war with
Mexico. This takes in both sides.
General Manager TaImage, of the
Wabash, has issued orders to the effect
that no employe shall be allowed to read
any newspaper, periodical, or any kind
of literature during working hours.
The Decoration Day address at Antie-
tam National Cemetery will be deliv-
cred by Gen. G.. B. Mcclellan, on the
30th inst. This will be his first visit to
the famous battle-ground since the war.
"Why, Blanche, don't you love nae ~
asked Mr.. Belden of Blanche Buckier,
an hour before the time for their we'd
ding, at Jamestown, O. "N-n-no, am
afraid | DON'T replied the weeping
Blasache, and the ceremony is off.
Gov. Hoadly spent Saturday in Hills
boro, looking into the case of Hans
Penn, of Walnut Hills, confined there
for shooting q man named Ledr0n.
HOadly will pardon him, if costs and
fine be paid. He says Hillsboro jail is
in horrible condition. -
a newspaper is to be printed in Wash
iugton, which will be of different poii-
ties on opposite pages. 1t will probably
succeed when people. shall be found
who are Democratic in one lobe and Re
publican in the other lobe of the brain,
Stay; after all, it is just the thing for
the mugwumps.
. The Democratic party handles the
reins of government under circumstan-
ces that make its. position somewhat
analogous to that of main in new
pair of shoes. They are not so comfor-
table as old ones, hut he feels with the
darkey that it is "a heap
better dan gwine bar footed.n
The country will soon be visited bv
two great broods of locusts of the sew
enteen year and thirteen year varieties.
This is the first time in two hundred
and twenty-one years that they have
in conjunction. They will not
prove greatly destructive, and the in
jury they will infiict will probably be
confined to fruit trees. The visitation
will be prolonged until late in July.
Official life in Washington has been
fatal. Not to mention the,
tragic deaths of Lincoln and Garfield.
of late years we have seen Hunt, Gar
fields Secretary of the Navy, dying af-
ter painful illness, while Minister to
Russia, in foreign land. Howe, Ar
thurs first Postmaster General, and
Folger, his first Secretary of the Treas
ury, died in his office, and Frelinghuy-
sen, his Secretary of State, few weeks
after retiring to private life. Now we
have Gen. Grant in precarious condi-
ton, and even Arthur's health has been
much broken.-M Y Sttn.
What prompts men away along in
rears to break up their homes, leave
,nir old friends and emigrate to a
: iId uncivilized country where men
must expect to endure untold hard
ships, is mystery. 1t certainly can
not be the love of adventure at their
time of life, nor is it poverty that
lrives them to it, and we cannot but
believe that they will be the worse for |
t. The West is just the place for
young men full of fire of health and
energy and desire to be independent
md make their own way unimpeded |
oy the customs and whims of an old |
md settled country, but the old have
no business there in the feverish rush
ng West and cannot cope with the
natives of such a country, much less
prosper there. Stay on the farm
awhile longer and spend your old age |
IN peace among the friends and ac-