The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-11-26

6dv0ssce.
CONGRESS will commence Its session
one week from next Monday.
THE great strike Of the Hooking
Valley miners has about terminated.
OVER six thousand persons were
rendered destitute by the late terrible
fire at Galveston, Texas.
A MAN Is reported to have died on
Monday from yellow fever, at the
Chambers street hospital, New York.
THE Republican managers are max
ing preparations for grand blowout
on the occasion of Foraker's inaugura
ton.
THERE are said be enough Republi.
can members of the Legislature op.
pesed-to John Sherman to prevent his
reelection to the Senate.
The Ohio Supreme Court has rem.
dered a decision holding the Peniten-
tiary Parole law passed by the last
Legislature to be constitutional.
THE politicians of Cleveland are
much stirred up ON the question Of
closing the saloons on Sunday. The
city Lawmakers seem to be afraid to
] tackle the subject.
THREE billion, five hundred millisn
cigars and billion cigarettes were
smoked in the United States last year.
This is 800 for every. male above II
years.
STATE Auditor Kiesewetter, charged
with shooting with intent to kill w.
8. Elliot, at the Neil House. was dis
charged on preliminary hearing before
:; Mayor Wolcutt, Of Columbus.
EX-SENATOR SHARON, of California.
who died at his residence In San Fran
cisco on Friday afternoon. the 18th
inst, leaves an estate worth $15. .O00,
600. He was an Ohio man.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
of the 2sd inst. says that 5000 people
have been drowned and $50 villages
submerged in Orissa by yclone, and
that ,24l square miles in the Moors
headbad and Huddes districts have
been devastated,
A TERRIBLE cycloue swept over the
Philippine islands on the 21st inst.
Eight thousand >busldings, including
numerous churches and schoolhouses,
were destroyed, and % persons are
known to have been killed outright
JOHN HIPPLE MITCHELL has been
elected U. s. Senator from Oregon,
seventeen Democratic members of the
State Legislature voting for him He
has announced his intention to vote to
confirm the Presidents appointments
In Iowa it is said there are 955 farms
owned by women. Twenty of these
are dairy farms and are managed en-
tirely by women. There are in the
state 1872 women physicians, and five
women lawyers.
ALLEN o. MYERS Is lscturing on
Judas Iscariot. He thinks the old Elm
ner had some redeeming traits of char
acter, after all, for he repented, sur
rendered the price of his treachery,
and hung himself.
HARPER, who was hung in Arkan
sas lately, didn't say in SO many words
fbot ho uoo roi nO of 20 i~hf 70 l,ooya,,
but as the Sheriff was binding his legs
he propeunded the question, "Now,
don't this beat the devil?"
PARTIES digging q well at Augusta,
Woodruff county, Arkansas, the other
day, found large log of wood 4S feet
below the surface, in we'll preserved
condition, one side being considerably
charred by fire.
On Friday Peter Joseph. of Akron,
was awarded $7S5 damages in . suit
= brought against the Buckeye Sewer
Pipe Company, of that city. Joseph,
while working in defendants mills,
was 80 seriously injured that he claims
he will be forever disabled. He sued
for $1O. 200, and in former trial got q
verdict for 81 900.
SENATOR STANFORD, of California
makes a gift of $2O. 600, 600 for the
creation, equipment and endowment
. of q university in California. This
munificent donation will enable Cali
fOrnia to support a university that in
the talent of its faculty and other ed.
ncational advantages may surpass the
great Institutions in the Eastern STATE Q
and Europe.
CHARLES KURTz, of Athens, has
been selected by Governor. elect J. B.
Foraker as his private secretary. Mr..
Foraker, Governor elect, is a Cincin-
natl man, and the Hon. Charles Kurtz
is an agent of the book ring. He has
done some effective lobbying for the
book ring in times past. Mr.. Kurtz
as private secretary, is very accommo
dating to the book ring. It will have
an efficient agent right in the State
House. and the State will pay him
That's a nice little arrangement fol
the book ring,
WISE, late Republican candidate fol
Governor of Virginia. has this to say
about the late election in that State
1.-THE colored voters freely expressed
their will at the ballot box, and no OBJ
stacles, as I believe, were put in the
way of their voting, and believe tina
the count was honest. For some rea
son or other, where the colored vote il
the strongest, and where Republican
majorities have been greatest, they
vont nyar tn tho Dannorotro Sido II