The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-07-02
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THE Ohio State Fair will be held at
Columbus Aug. 3lst, Sept. 1st, I'd, Sd
and 4th.
AND now two cent stamp pays for
an ounce letter, instead of one-haif
ounce, as heretofore.
CoLUMBIANA county has five Presi-
DENTAL postoffices. which is more than
any other county has in the State
{ TRUMBULL and Mahoning Co. wool
growers have decided not to sell their
wool for less than 80 cents a pound.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragedisn,
has been placed in the Bloomingdale
insane asy lum.
ROBERT BONNER says he will send
Maud 8. to Cleveland, o.. shortly
where he expects her to make some
fast time.
On Saturday James d. Fish, Presi-
dent of the late Marine National Bank
of New York, was sentenced to ten
years in Auburn prison.
1T is reported that there is lack of
harmony between the President and
Secretary Bayard, and that the latter
is soon to quit the Cabinet.
THE yawp about "a free ballot and
fair count" by the fellows who stole
the Presidency in 1876, is enough to
crimson the cheek of cast iron mon
key.
THE g. A. r. boys had big time at
Portland, Maine, last week. 1t is es-
timated that &c, 900 were i'm attendance
at the reunion, 10000 of whom We're
: In uniform,
THE issue of standard dollars from
the mints during the week ending
June 81, was $444, 497. The issue du.
ring the corresponding period of last
year was $3.50, ,4Si.
THE paper to be used hereafter for
United States checks will be distin-
guished by a water mark of the letters
"U. 8. T. d." instead of by silk
threads, as formerly.
THE Republican Senatorial Conven-
tion Sr the district composed of the
counties of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga,
Summit and Portage, is to be held in
3. Warren on Tuesday. August 4th.
THE marble statue of the late Presi-
dent Garfield was unveiled Monday in
the statuary hall of the Capitol. The
statue is from the hands of the sculp.
tor, Niehaus, and came here direct
from Rome.
"A TERRIBLE row occurred between
two factions of Polish church in
Toledo on Sunday afternoon, which
resulted in two men being killed and
q number of others of both sexes Sc.
verely injured.
1T is understood that the Attorney
General will soon bring suit against
DIR. Loring, late Commissioner of Ag-
riculture, and his bOndsmen, to recov-
er the $22 900 misused appropriations
during DIR. Loring's administration.
THE Republicans of Summit county
are terribly torn up over the Senatorial
contest. The fight between the Grouse
Alexander factions is getting hotter
than SheOl, and promises to furnish
lots of amusement 10 lockers on.
The woods in Texas are bearing
big crop of horse thieves these days.
1t Ia reported that some twenty of the
gentry have been gathered in the short
space OF two weeks, lately, Judge
Lynch does up business with dispatch.
LAST Friday morning Jimmy Gill
man, boy Is years old, employed at
the Hotel Lincoln, Cleveland, was
caught in the elevator and frightfully
mangled. His tongue was cut in two,
his nose cut off, and his face and head
terribly inangled.
:" Col. OSCAR F. MOORE, a prominent
lawyer of Portsmouth, Ohio, dropped
dead at WaverIy On the Oath ult.,
where he was in attendance at court
He was Colonel of the Fifty-sixth Ohio
Regiment during the war. His daush b.
ter is the wife of ex-Secretary of State
Newman.
THE Republican State Convention
was profilse in its denlnciation of the
Democracy, but they could not charge
1t with organizing q star-rnute ring, a
naval ring, post-trader's ring, a cred
1T mobilier ring. a District of Column
bia ring, nor whisky ring. The G
o. p. will be left to enjoy monopoly
of all that class of honors.
DAN MANNING has, since March
10th discharged three hundred persons
in the internal revenue service, with
out detriment to the public business,
being useless attaches, whose daily
wages averaged $4.OO- This is neat
little saving to the government of ST.
200 per day. This is good for three
months work.
THE welcome of the French ship
Isere pronounced Eezair), with her
precious load, the Statue of Liberty,
took place on Friday. June 18th, and
was on a magnificent scale. There
was long procession of boats on the
water, and another of military and
civilians on land, and at the meeting
in the City Hall fraternal speeches
were very warm and complimentary.
DURING the months of April and
May there was saving in the Post
Office Department. in the expep ditures
Of transportation service, the sum of
$45, 5,596. This is simply one of the
many instances of economy that has
been introduced into the Departments
by the Democratic administration,
since it " seized the Government" as
brother Blaine expresses it.
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