The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-05-07

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THE Ohio Legislature is no more. )
SNOW fell in Maine on Sunday to i
the depth of fifteen inches. Y
THERE was a reduction of 81, ,0O0, 600 l
in the public debt last April.
THE Capital of West Virginia has
been moved from Wheeling to Charles
ton.
IowA's Supreme Court has decided
that brandy is Intoxicating. This is
an age of wonderful discoveries.
GFN. GRANTS condition is repre-
sented to continue to improve, and he
is reported stronger and more cheerful.
On Sunday night ten Chicago fire
men wwere injured by being carried
TO the basement by the falling of
third story roof.
THE Republican State Central Com
nittee have fixed upon Springfield as
the place and June 10th as the time
for holding the next Republican State
Convention of Ohio.
TIE Ohio Legislature has passed
law abolishing local boards of under
writer's, aud preventing combinations
to regulate insurance rates. A good
law.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Secretary
Endicott Postmaster General Villas,
and Generals Rosecrans and Long
street met with the Union veterans at
Gettysburg ON Monday.
TwENTY-FoUR business houses and
fourteen residences in the village OF
.Caboy, Ill.,, were destroyed by fire at
an early hour Sunday morning, be-
Hsyed to be the work of incendiaries.
THEterrible plague that has stricken
the town of Plymouth, Pa, still con-
finues its rayages. Eleven deaths
were reported on Monday, and th'
doctors are said to have not less thar
200 cases now on their hands.
MOUNT VEsUvIUS is again in al
active state of volcanic eruption. TIL
fiow of lava, which is increasing il
volume. is in the direction OF Torr
del Greco and Pompeii, and has throw
the inhabitants of the surroundin
country into CONSERVATION.
ONE Of the boilers of the Tremor
Hotel, at Galveston, Texas, explode
at 7:3O o'clock Sunday morning, IL
stantly killing a number of person
and weunding several others. III
hotel and neighboring property VIZ
greatly damaged.
TIE population of Russia, ,accordin
to the census of 1882, is given at u
S79.52l in European Russia, of who
1861, ,677 were males, and 39,277,5
females. The total population OF tt
entire Empire, including Finland,W
\ little over 100000, 900, or about on
twelfth of the population of the gloh
MAYOR CARTER HARRISON, of CT
cago, has sued the Inter-Ocean I
100000 damages, Edwin Lee Brow
for $500, 900, and Brown and the Int
Ocean jointly for 100000. The sui
are based ON slanderous articles pu
lished in the Inter-Oceau and spee'
made by Brown and then publish
in the Inter-Ocean.
HEREAFTER professional erimlns
viii give Ohio a wide berth, for t
Senate has passed the Myers bill. pl
yiding for paroling convicts and pls
ing those who have served more tn
two terms in the penitentiary und
the jurisdiction of the penitentla
managers, who may confine them
,an anindefinite period unless they refor
The bill passed the Senate without
bate, and is now law.
WHEN the Republican members
the Legislature found out that
Democrats were quite willing to
,vestigate, but would insist upon
curing into the Sherman and Eos
methods and practices, they were
long in arriving at the conclusion t.
they didn't want any investigation
theirs, and were quite willing to
the subject drop.
NEW enterprises are being projec
in the South in large numbers,
1885 will show great progress In
usetion and marked advance in M
ufseturing industries. Thus far
year, $20. .5s1 900 has been invested
mills, ,foundries, machine shops, cot
factories. gold, silver, copper, iron
tin mining enterprises, ETC., show
that the depression prevailing in
other portions of the Union has
little effect there.
THAT forestry is of some accour
this country, may be estimated
the fact that the value of the II
crop in the census year, 1850, exec
S7OO, 600, 600, and that during the
wear the value of the iron and
nroduced was less than $500, 900
and the value of the anthracite
bituminous coal mined was less
S100, 900, 600. Truly, the eonserVs
of our forests is a wise work.
Anew Choiera cure.
MADRID, May A number OF
ple in Valencia are being innocu
with cholera virus, which proc
tremors and prostration for tw'
four hours. At the end of forty,
hours the patient is well. Al