The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-12-03
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THE people are now anxiously await |
ing the decision of the Supreme Court |
in the Hamilton county election case. |
THE city dailies abound with ac-
counts of suicides and horrid murders,
which is far from being pleasant read
ing.
TIE contest for Speaker PROTEIN of
the Senate is between Edmuuds, ,Sher.
man and Logan with Logan's chances
thought to be the best,
WAR still continues between the
Bulgarians and Servians, but it is diff
cult to tell from the dispatches which
is ahead, and to US it matters little,
anyway.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND yielded Fl
nally to the persuasions of his
friends and did not make the journey
to Indianapolis to attend the funeral
of Mr.. Hendricks.
REV. DIR. LEONARD thinks the
Democrats will elect the President in
1888, and after that the Prohibitionists
will win. He says, the Republican
party is dead"
THE number of immigrants arriving
at the principal ports of the United
States during October was 25,918,
against 80, ,oe7 in the same month last
year.
THE election in Atlanta, Ga, on the
25th ult was an exciting one, and re.
suited in a prohibition victory. In a
vote of 1000, local option carried by
225 majority. The negro vote was
about equally divided.
DURING the war the government
levied an enormous tariff upon nearly
all kinds of goods to raise money to
carry on the war. But, after nearly
quarter of century of peace, the war
tariff is still being paid by the people.
JOHN VENABLE, alias Rogshead
john" the scoundrel whose crap
shooting den was made headquarters
for Republican repeaters, at the Octo-
ber election of last year. and where
Mullen made the famous arrest of
darkeys, has been sent to the peniten-
tiary for two years, for shooting man {.
THE circuit court of Hamilton coun-
ty granted the mandamus ordering
clerk Dalton to give the certificates of
election to the Republican candidates
for Senators, but they haven't yet got
their seats, all the same. The partisan
court should now issue its mandamus
to the Senate.
CONGRESS- will meet next Monday,
and one of the first things the Senate
will do will he to elect president pro
tenn, who, while he will not be vice
president, will nevertheless have the
right of succession to the presidency
If the place should from any cause
become vacant. He will probably be
Republican.
ALFONSO, the young king Of Spain,
died of consumption on the 25th inst.
aged aged % years. He was the son
of Queen Isabel and the Infante Fran
cisco, and was a weak and vacillatine
ruler. He leaves an infant daughter
as his only heir, and his death is like
ly to give rise to stirring times in thai
unstable monarchy. The republicans
hope to profit by it.
THE Republicans have some excel.
lent theories in regard to their recent
calamity in Virginia. In that State
there is a law which disfranchises ev.
ey man convicted of petty larceny.
The Republicans say that SO many OF
the negroes were convicted of robbing
hen-roosts, ETC., (as high as 1000 in q
single county, that in consequence the
Republican vote fell off largely.
THE grain and -four business of Min.
eapolis is astonishing-probably ex
ceeds that of any place in the world
The weekly wheat receipts now range
about /, ,2OO, 600 bushels, the output o.
-four about 100000 barrels, and the
shipments of flour eastward about
10000 barrels. Some millers are con
signing their flour and others erecting
sheds for its storage.
THE Pixies Peak Railroad, in Col
orado, when completed, as it is sool
expected to be, will be the most nota
BILE track in the world. It will noun
5000 feet higher than the Lima AM
Oroya road in Peru. The entire thirt,
miles of its length will be succession
of complicated curves and grades u
the sides of the great mountain, witt
no place of straight track longer thai
800 feet.