The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-02


HENRY G.. CASSIDY has been ap-
painted po>tua-ter al NoungstnW u,
and Henry ID Beach al tushorinn.
GRNERALGRANT'sc condition ls rap
idly becoming more critiral. and he
cannot snrvice much longer.
EIasTy FOUR petitions for divorces
were filed in the Licking cnuaty COM
mon pleas court during 1884.
GENERAL ANsoN STAGEK, the dis,
tinguished electrician, died at Chicago
On Thursday last His remains were
brought to Cleveland for iRterment
THE Supreme Court of California
has decided that children of Chinese
parents born in that State are entitled
to the benefits of it's public schools.
On Saturday. the 2sth met, at the
primaries held in Canton, o., Archi-
bald McHregor. Esq of the Stark Co.
Democrat. received the highest NUM-.
Der Of votes for postmaster.
Hon. LEANDER c. COLE, one of the
Representatives from Stark county,
has been rendered the position of Sec
retary to Hon. Geo. Fl. Pendleton,
Minister to Berlin.
Mr.. CLEVELAND not emily pays for
his railroad tickets, but he refuses to
accept free boxes at the Washington
theatsrs. He daily crosses some moss
covered custom in Washington.
A BILL to grant SIS pension to Con-
fedsrates who lost both legs or arms in
battle, and also to Federal soldiers who
are not receiving an equal sum, passed
the Tennessee House.
THE bill passed by the legislatul e
for the redistricting of Columbus has
Supreme Court, the members of the
Court standing ; to against the law.
HENRY WEIR. aged A., while walk
ing over a foot bridge across the Ohio
Canal, at Akron, Saturday night, slip
ped and fell into the water and was
drowned. He leaves a wife and eight
children. He was sober.
THE English lion aud Russian bear
keep up a fierce growing and snarling
at each other. and the two countries
are calling out all their soldiers War
would seem to be inevitable, yet both
countries are said to be striving to
avoid it.
IT is expected that the question as
to the liability of county treasurers to
refund the money collected of saloon
keepers under the Scott law. will come
before the Supreme Court of the state
today. The eases Oh which the Court
will pass were carried up from Cuya-
&hogs county.
THE Republican papers are raisign
\ great howl over the appointment of
Higgins q. appointment Clerk by
Manning. They say higgins is q pol
itician Oh, did you ever One would
suppose from the fuss they make about
the matter that Republican admins
trations never did 40 outrageous 4
thing; but in fact they hardly ever"
did anything else.
A RECENT issue of the New York
Tribune says James Ct. Blaine and
Steve Elkins lost SEQ, 900 in the coal
mines of the Hooking Valley hy the
lsts strike of the miners. If memory
10 not at fault, the Republican papers
smphatically denied that Mr.. Blaiue
had any interest whatever in the Hook
ing Valley coal mines.
On the 18th ulL. the Supreme Court
of Iowa rendered decision affi firming
the constIintionality of the nrohibiio-
ry law Of that Stale The dispatches
state that the opinion is sweeping,
conclusive and complete. 1t sustains
the validity of the injunctions TO abate
nuisances which exist rs saloons, and
in every particular maintains the pro-
visions of the act as 1t stands OH The
statute hooks of the State.
THE Republican papers tell their
TesGers that there is great disatfeetion
among the hungry Office seekers W who
have failed TO reach the goal of their
ambition. Twas ever thus. When y
half dozen patriots are after place
that but one cain have, there are quite
likely to be a number of disappoint Ell
and disgruntled individuals who get
left.
THE Legislature has passed the joint
resolution submitting All amendment
. changing the time of the Fall election
from October to November, to a vote
of the people at the general State elec-
uon this year. The amendment will
doubtless be carried, as the voters OF
&ll parties have seen the great evils
attending the holding of our election
y month in advance of the time most
other States vote.
SECRETARY MANNING has ordered
general investigation of the United
States Treasury by several of the best
accountants of New York City and
bhS AIShoui$ DCpoI CuuCuC. n0 peO-
pie are anxious to know whether all
the stories about the crookedness in
the affairs of that Department of the
Government are true; and they are
likely to find out ere long.
TIE Diamond Match Company
works at Akron are shut down because
one hundred girls and forty boys are
on 3 strike. The girls protested be-
cause they were refused chairs on
which to sit while picking matches
and the boys struck for All increase OF
20 per cent. in wages. They were get
ting 50 and IS cents per day.
Hon. +. d. CLARK, of Mississi i,
the newly appointed Assistant Seri-
tary of the Interior, died suddenly Al
Washington at an early hour Monday
morning. He was guest at the home