Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-05-21


Chicago, with about 650,0OO popula-
ton, collects 81 ,000,000 in license fees
this year from 1000 saloons.
Canton is without police protection,
but the citizens thereof declare that she's
doing business at the old stand.
/ The London Daily Telegraph has n
leading editorial warmly welcoming the
new United States minister, Mr.. Phelps.
William Penland, the sheep king of
Morrow county, CAL, has 1900 head of
sheep and 10000 acres of land under
fence.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late
President has accepted position as
teacher in st. Paul's School, Concord,
N. II.
The Bartholdi statue, which is COM
posed OF more than two hundred pieces,
is expected to reach New York this
month.
Fruit trees are so heavily laden in
places on the Pacific coast that hun
dreds are kept employed thinning out
the fruit.
According to New Orleans journal
there are at least l70, 900 people in that
city who have not yet visited the ex-
position.
President Cleveland has saved the
greatest part of his first months salary
SIS, SS,s7. No wife to go through his
vest pockets.
The Ottawa County Neacs says that a
man from Locust Point took I, 5,0OOmusk-
rat skins to Toledo to sell, the result of
last winters hunting. y
Through the efforts of the New York
World, a fund amounting to over $50
600 has been contributed to aid in build
ing pedestal for the Statue of Liberty
to be erected in New York harbor.
The State Miners Association last
Friday favored the general suspension
OF work in Ohio, but action was delayed
pending a request to the National Asso-
citation to consider National strike.
What is the cause of our industrial
depressions and what is the remedy?,
This is the question set down for dis
| cussion at the next Sunday afternoon
meeting of the Knights of Labor, ID.
A. y, of Toledo, O.
| The last scene in the elopementd drama
of Rebecca M. Kearsley and Isaac 8.
Osborne from Bucyrus was played in
the Crawford county court last week.
A divorce was granted the girl with
restoration other maiden name.
A hammer with which Gen. Andrew
Jackson's horse was shod, while on his
way to fight the battle of New Orleans
is in the possession of r. T. Sehmitton.
of Dickson, Tenn. 1t is to be sold for
the benefit of the Bartholdi statue.
1t may be of interest to some readers
to know that hell is substantially abol-
ished in the revised edition of the old
testament. In place of shell" we now
find "sheol, "the grave" or "the pit"
referred to as the place to which it is
undesirable to go.
The next meeting of the Ohio State
Association Of Mexican war veterans
will be held at Sandusky, O., Wednes-
day, May q, the headquarters being at
the West House. Excursion tickets
will be issued on all the railroads lead
ing into Sandusky.
A few evenings since the. cupola at
the Ohio iron cOmpany's blast furnace
in GAINESVILLE burst, letting the contents
run out in a blazing stream. The hose
connected with the works was turned
on and the fire subdued without serious
loss. The furnace will necessarily close
for repairs.
Senator Payne, Of Ohio, has sailed
away for London. He has not gone for
tour of the Continent, neither will he
take jim ireland or view any of the effete
monarchies of Northern and Central
Europe; but goes exclusively for the
ocean voyage, to breathe the atmos-
phere of the salted seas, and to get away
from the terrible bore of the office
seekers.
Homer I. Haslop, on the 18th inst,
brought suit in court of common pleas
against Postmaster w. G. Lyon and J..
M. lckes, proprietors of the Newark
american, for $5 900 damages for false
and malicious libel in publishing that
he had served term of one year In the
penitentiary for setting fire to the New
ark machine company's building in
1888. Criminal proceedings will also
be instituted.
DIR. Talmage, following the example
Of that pedantic monarch, James I. OF
England, sends forth ncounterblast
against tobacco" DR.. Talmage is per-
suaded that although God must have
made tobacco, even as He made the
strawberry, He didn't intend that man
should smoke OF chew it, but only use
1T to kill insects with. The doctor is OF
the opinion that tobacco is very nasty
herb, and that it poisons people and
gives them cancer. Therefore, and be-
cause the use of it is .slavish habit,
DIR. Ta.mage thinks good Christians
ought not to use tobacco in any form.
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| 1t cures fever and ague. This will
be glad news to the thousands of suf-
ferers from these distressing maladies,
operating with greater certainty than
quinine. Mishler's Herb Bitters does
not leave behind 1t any Of the un-
pleasant and even dangerous conse-
quences which frequently follow the
| use Of that long considered specific for
diseases Of the malarial order. Or. w.
TIT. Frank, of Chesterville, Mo, used it
with Uraaf siiccaSS IN tha case af :,