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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-01-29
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wounds, and all other sores. Will
positively cure piles, letter, end tkin
eruptions. Try this wonder healer.
Satisfaction guaranteed or mCn new re-
funded. Only 2h cents. For sale bv
RELpINa 4 ARasTkoNa.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-01-29
REV. A. J. MERCHANT, Presiding
Elder M. r.. Church, MeadviIle, Pa,

Rev. A. J. MERCHANT, Presiding
Elder M. r. Church, Meadville, Pa,
writes:
april l6. 1894. "Dr FENNER's Kidney and
lief. 1t effected a cure ompletely 1 have
needed nothing since took il four years ago.
FRANK +. PESCIvAL, Rochester, n. Y, writes :
april ) 1922 lone bottle of DIR Fenner's .
Kidney and Back-ache Cure helped me more
han all the Kidney Remedies ia ken in the past
two years, six bottles entirely cured me-
MRS. JAMES FULLER, Fredonia. n. Y. writes
March 1888 CDR Fennsr's kidney and
Back-Ache Cure has relieved me OF kidney
Disease. Heart Disease, ard Female Wsaknes
never had a medicine help 50 quickly"
Harry WATERS, Hamlet. N. Y. writes:
(JuIy ., Iss3 zone bottle of DIR. Fenper's
Kidney and Back ache Cure hi cured me OF
Kidney Complaint and Rheumatism after other
celebrated Kidney Remedi aRd Doctors had
failed"
Cures all diseases or the KIDNEYS,
BLADDER URINARY PASSAGES, BACK.
ACHE. DRoPSY, FEMALE WEAKNESS
| NERVOUS DEBILITY, HEART DISEASE
| RHEUMATISM, &c. The most success
| ful remedy that has ever been admin
'stered in the diseases named. Supe
rior to all others.
Get of your dealer the Memorandum
Book entitled "Dr. Fenncr's People,
| Remedis are used all over the World.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-01-29
ne Mission of The Victorious

democracy.
Hehator Eayne discuursed very ably
on the above topic at the celebration
oil st' Jackson's day at Columbus last
week. Among other things he said
Upon the Democracy on it's restora-
tlon 10 power devOive great IeSpoBsi-
oiiities. IL Is no longtr its Office to
hgnt opposition, critici>ing, exposing
anu resisting by parliamentary tactics
Tue hleaSufes of government. We
have to originate, formulate. define
and de"iare policy which shall not
only command the united support Of
our friends, but chaIleI,,.. Tia. scrutiny
and approval of the country. An in
teillgent aud well considered policy
WAS outlined III the platform at Chi
cago, was adopted with extraordinary
unanimitS, fully and cordially endnds-
ed by the candidates and ratified bv a
popular vote. An party, aud as in
dividuals, we are bound 10y every sen
timent of honor and duty to fulfill our
promises, aud, i'll good faith, redeem
cur pledges to the people. Let me
.NarueIate some of the leading features
i he rniicy:
-Retrenchmentof of government
sxpaI di:u ures ard corresp. n iirg e.
ductiun of taxation.
I,rond-A just and fair revision OF
tn tariff
IiirI-A genuine and radical refoI N
of the civil service.
| FOurth--A restoration of fraternal
relations between all tbs citizens OI
the Republic, and the fual subsistence
OF sectional hate.
! Fifth-A liberal but carefully guard
ed system of pensions for the Union
disabled soldiers nf the civil war,
Sixth-The resuscitation of navy
aud a mercantile marine.
Seventh-Trade and commerce with
all the peoples of the American cont
neut either By Legislation or reciproci
ty treaties.
These with the construction of pu!'
lie buildings, the Improvements u
rivers and harbOrs, sea coast defense.r
and the care of the Indians. will far
nish ample employment for Cong r.-
during the iir4t term of a Democrat
President, whose Inauguration | trus
aud believe will prove memorahi
epoch in the history OF the I arty an
the Republic. The limited time allot
ted me precludes discussion nf thes
topics in detail. [ can only take
cursory glance at few of the mos
prominent of them.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
rublio MORALITY in Germany.

IJent y June's Berlin letter.
The official residences add much to the
imposing exterior of the city, and they
enable the official to maintain his position
without resorting to petty tricks and
WEAKNESSES or wholesale bribery and cor.
ruption. Indeed. the standard Of public
morality is said to be, and seems to be in
reality, very high. A mai who would
steal from an individual, that individual
his own mother, would not steal from the
government The lowest depth Of do
pravity is reached when a man will de.
fraud his country-his fa~therland; noI
could he ever recover his standing socially
or in a business way If he had once com.
mitted any fraudulent act, for it is con.
sidered that he wrongs not one individual
alone, but the whole community, and ex.
ercises a publicly degrading influence. An
instance IF misuse Of public money is
hardly known in the history Of local gov.
ernments.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
1he typo writing Business.
New YORK Tribune.

The type,writing business has grown
and grown out of all proportion with the
expectations of its early promoters. In
telligent girls by the hundred are securing
work as typewriters at double the wages
they formerly earned rs shopgirls. In a
Broadway %type-writing establishment, the
other day, | wa told that machines are
now made to write in eleven or twelve
languages. The typewriter is an accom-.
plished linguist. The time was when a
type written letter was regarded as a cir
cular and consigned TO the waste basket.
Now, owing to the general use of stem.
ographers and type writers in all large
concerns, such a letter is stamped as i'm.
portant.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
San FRANCISCO Chronicle.


One of the mysteries Of London life is
the leading journals that, on application
to a certain office, advances Of money
from 100 to 20, 900 pounds sterling will
be made without security and merely on
the borrowers note Of hand. ut is some
times very useful, /" says this
ment, "to know where to obtain any
urgently required sum without the pub
licity Of an application to ones banker or
family solicitor.
In a case that recently came before the
law courts the mystery was partly solved
An officer in the guards had lost a large
sum of money at cards, and, as is the in
variable rule in the London clubs, the
debt Of honor had to be paid within
twenty-four hours. On application to the
oiice mentioned in the advertisement,
the officer, through his military and
social position, obtained a loan Of 500
pounds sterling on his note Of hand fol-
1000 pounds sterling, payable at one
months date. and there are many WHIT
are only too glad to avail themselves o.
such an agency, ever at these usuriou!
rates.
A celebrated nobleman, whose affair
were very embarrassed, made a heavy
losing on the turf and obtained an ad
vance of 10, 600 pounds sterling on his
own signature combined with that of his
brotherin-law, a rich earl. The usurera
granted the loan without a moments hest.
tation, as they knew that the earl's sigma.
ture was a forgery and that the family
would buy up the notes at any cost to pre-.
vent an exposure. These money.lenders
are of good financial standing, but al
though Immensely rich, they are looked
upon as outcasts in every class Of society.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Collision.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Nov. G-The
Daily News special from Lawrence
burg states that between 2 and 3
o'clock this morning the steamer
James W. Calf and Mountain Girl
collided at "Split Rock" two miles
from Aurora, sinking the latter and
carrying down to a watery grave seven
men and between thirty and forty
horses. The Mountain Girl was
leased by aportion of John Robinson's
show, travelling as a cheap price circus
and variety concern. 1t was exhibited
at Lawrenceburg last night and was
or its way to Rising Sun when the
disaster occurred. Ali seven of the
drowned men with one exception
Dick Harrel, a young man of
Lawrenceburg, were connected with
the show. None were dtckhands
except one.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Mnnnmant unvaIlad.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. THE magni6.
cent monument of Washington, which
has been placed at the head of Grand
Avenue Park, at a cost of $4,000, and
presented to the city by Miss Lizzie
Plankinton, daughter Of John Plankin-
ton, the pork king, was unveiled TO-
day in the presence of several thou
sand people. The monument is from
the studio of Sculptor R. H. Park, of
Toreno, Italy.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
To Illustrate northumberland
Professors Preparing to Carefully
DiSSeCt a Sea Cow.

To Illustrate northumberland
Professors Preparing to Carefully
Dissect a Sea Cow.
Interest was aroused in scientific
circles at Cornell University by the
intelligence that a very are specimen
Of the manatee or sea COW, shipped
from South America recently, had ar
rived and would be exposed to view as
we'll AS lectured upon by DR.. Wilder.
Dir. Wilder says that the manatee is
one Of the cases in which evolution
has produced just the opposite of its
usual offset. The manatee is an ami
NAL belonging to a family that had
evidently see better days. He con.
tinued: II predict that not many years
hence there will be found more and
more conclusive evidences that the
forms from which the mInatee and its
] relatives have been descended had arms
and legS and a very much smaller tail.
The hind legs have been lost in the
process Of evolution, the front legs
nave been degraded into fins and the
tail has become one for swimming
instead of one Mapping from side to
side"
The manatee will be carefully dis.
sected, with a view to demonstrating
the bearing Of its whole structure upoL
she question of r~etrograde metamor
phools.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
AN AMEsIoAN
Watch Making BY MaehiuoFy-Ezaotuoss
Of the Work IN Americas shops.

OF tno Work An American SHOPS
lBrookiya Eagle.1
Watch making By machinery Is az
American institution. IL has during the
past few years revoluti0nized the watch
trade Of the world. The plan Of manu-
facture Is highly philosophical and com
~prehensive, embracing every part Of the
watch, commencing with the rolled plates
OF brass. steel and silver, the wires used
for pinions, pins and screws, and the
gems for Jewels, and by means of punch
ing, swazing, cutting, turning, polishing,
furnishing, drilling, enameling and gid
ing, brings out the perfect mechanism Of
an unrivaled time keeper. Every part Of
the watch is made by machinery. each
machine doing its peculiar work to a
gauge Of pattern. with an exactness no
skill or handicraft eau equal.
With the exception of the jewels and
the pivots that run in them, every watch
is in every part exactly like every other
watch Of the anne style. The jewels are
first drilled with a diamond, and then
opened out with diamond dust, on a soft
hair-like iron wire, their perforations hav-
ing certain microscopic differences. In
like manner the pivots Of steel that are to
run in these jewels, without wearing out
in the least, must be exquisitely polished.
By this operation their size is slightly re-
duced. The jewels and pivots, after be.
ing thus finished. are classified by means
of a gauge, so delicately graduated as to
detect a difference Of the 10, 0O0th part Of
an inch.
The Jewels are classified by means Of
the pivots, the jewels and pivots of the
same number fitting each other exactly.
The sizes of the several pivots and jewels
in each watch are carefully recorded un-
der its number, so that if any oneo of either
should fail in any part Of the world, by
sending the number of the watch to the
factory. the part desired may be readily
and cheaply replaced with unerring Ger
tainty. All the other parts are made
precisely the same size, every dial plate
and case fitting one watch as well as
another. The escapement. which in for
eign watches have each its own individ
uality, are uniform in the American
watch.
No one who examines the machinei
employ ed in the manufacture of American
watches will doubt that the work Of thu
very best European watchmakers must b
equaled, and in some respects greatly OK
celled,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
TnMm

The New Orleans Pieayune, Ia
speaking Of the recent Democratic vic
tories, fiuingly remarks:
The value Of the victory to the
Democracy 10 general lies in It's char
acter as u political tonic. All over the
country this morning the Democracy
breathes freer and can scarcely give a
reason for it. The issues were almost
exclusively local. yet TO have carried
the most important parts Of the field
leaves on the mind a feeling Of cont.
deuce in the coming triumphs Of 1888.
The New York election was crucial in
this Respect. The party lines were
drawn more closely than in any other
State, AID the victory is more unmis-
takably Democratic than is usually the
case. This result is reinforced by the
prevailing apathy among the Repub-
licans oil Connecticut and Pennsyl-
vania those States do not exhibit a
Republican enthusiasm which can be
regarded as a set off against the Dem
ocratic enthusiasm in New York. The
Republicans have held their own, as
they were expected to do /; but they
have nothing to boast of, nothing to
give rise to a grateful reflection. Al
most the same conditions obtain in
Massachusetts and Iowa. Indeed, the
only States where the issue had
awakened general interest were New
York and Virginia. This is as much
as to say that where there was a fight
the Democrats were the victors.
Finally, we may observe that the
net result of yesterdays work is to
carry us into the campaign Of 1886
and so into the next Presidential can
vass with a good heart and a clear
confidence in the peoples cause.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
The Law to Take Its COURSE.

OTTAWA, ONT. Nov. 1.-THE Lieut..
Governor of the Northwest Territories
has been informed by the governor
general that the law is to take its
course in the cases of Little Bear"
Man Without Blood" "Bad Arrow"
and miserable Man." the Indians in
prison at Regina under sentence Of
death.
No instructions to carry out the
death sentence in the case Of Riel have
up to this evening been issued.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Spelling the Cstaract.
Chicago Tribune.l

The zeal for physical and material
progress in Italy Is so strong that the
falls Of Tivoli, world-renowned for their
great beauty, are about to be destroyed, a
scheme being on foot to plant manufac-
tories on the site where the river Arno
gains such tremendous water-power by its
descent of 300 feet There has also been
talk of utilizing the power for the electric
lightning of Rome-a city which also
furnishes strong evidence of The nineteenth
century spirit ~pervading the Italian.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
SAG Perlods Of Oaarantlne.


A Canadian medical authority has given
the following as being safe periods Of
quarantine, which teachers should exacI
Of pupils, who have suffered attacks Of
tile disease mentioned, before their return
to school: Scarlet fever, eleven days
Measles, sixteen; epidemic %roseola, six
teen; chicken-pox, eighteen; small -pox,
sixteen; mumps. twenty-one whooping.
cough, %twenty-one; diphtheria, ten.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Thought u Was Her voice.

New York SUM-.
Featherly making an evening calD-So
your mother has returned from the coun.
try, Miss Clara?
Miss Clara-O, no; she wont be back
until next week.
Featherly (surprised)-Strangel Is not
that her voice | hear upstairs
Miss Clara Qn a constrained tone)-No;
that's Bobby at work with his new scroll
saw
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
A Typical Landlord.
fno-.a csRsf~

II don't think you ought to charge me
$40 a month for the rent of this room.
When it rains the water runs right into
the room through the roof, it leaks so. +"
"Whatl There is running water on tho
premisesH You will have to pay SO ex-
ira for that How long have you been
enjoying the water privileges at my x
pense?"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Kille d HIsOpponents.

ST, LOUIS, Nov. TT is reported
this morning from Jefferson barracks,
fifteen miles south of this city, that a
fearful fight took place there last night
between a colored soldier, who is said
to be a desperate character, and two
white soldiers, in which the former
shot and killed both of his opponents,
and in spite Of every effort to arrest
him, he succeeded in making his es-
cape.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
VIII Be Prosecuted to the Full Elk
tent of the Law.


ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5.-The police au-
thorities gave out this evening that
they last night arrested David keenan,,
w. P. Sears, p. S. Burns, M. Weathers,
and Master Workman Pinkerton of
the Knights of Labor, all street rail
road men, for being engaged in the re-
cent explosions on the street car
tracks. Another man named John
Shaughnessy was arrested this after
noon and the police think they now
have the entire gang. These men are
all strikers and Knights of Labor and
were arrested at 2,1l9 Lucas avenue,
from which place they directed their
operations and where a quantity Of
dynamite was found. They pur-
chased the dynamite in Louisville
with money furnished by the Knights
of Labor ostensibly to buy food for
the strikers families, but the police
claim to have information that the
officers knew that it was to purchase
explosives. The men have all con-
fessed their connection with the plo
to destroy railroad property and they
will be prosecuted to the extent Of the
law.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Chinese Medicines.
tChic,go Journal

The San Francisco custom officers have
seized a chest of medicines belonging to q
Chinese quack, Among the medicines
highly recommended in an accompanying
inventory was a wasp's nest for pain in
the back; for vertigo scraping Of deer's
horns was recommended; for rheumatism
a quart Of boiled water made palatable by
q toad's skin and the teeth Of q snake.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Heavy Snow Storms Reported

B~RAINARD, MINI, Nov. IA heavy
snow storm set in here last evening,
and has been raging ~furiously for
several hours, with a prospect of con-
tinuing. A fall Of at least six inches is
looked for.
DULUTH, Nov. IA terrible north
east storm with rain and snow is now
raging, stopping all work around the
docks.
OMAHA, NEB., Nov, 7-Dispatches
received at the Union Pacific head
quarters state d heavy snow storm is
prevailing along the line and coming
eastward. At Laramie and Cheyenne
now was falling all day yesterday
and drifting badly on Laramie Hill so
a block is feared. Heavy snow also
at Denver Junction. At Ogollalla,
Neb., fourteen inches fell and drifted;
one freight train is blocked in a cut
east Of Ogollalla. The snow is still
falling at last accounts, AT North
Platte four inches has fallen and the
storm is still in progress. TEN pera-
ture north of Platte is 30 degrees.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Placed on Trial for Contempt of
Court.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 7-Superintend-
emit of Police Edwin Hudson was
placed on trial to-day for contempt OF
court and neglect of duty. Several
warrants were sworn out a few days
previous to the election, charging
different parties with illegal register
ing. These warrants were not served,
and the superintendent was brought
to court on the charge of purposely
evading his duty. The case was con-
tinued until next Saturday.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
DeoIded to Accept.

AToHIsoN, KAN, Nov. 7.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Click has decided to accept the
Topeka pension agency, and a letter to
that effect was forwarded to Secretary
Lamar to-day.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
"WOmen" a BETTER Word Than 'Ladles.'
Boston Transcript

The silly habit of speaking Of men and
women always as gentlemen and ladies
frequently leads to absurd expressions,
as, for example. the other day a really
cultivated man spoke Of "the ladies'
prison at Sherborn.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13

From statistics collected in the abattoirs
Of Munich and Augsburg, Strauss has
found that not more than n calf in 1907
600 is consumptive. The danger Of con-
veying consumption with vaccine OBJ
tanned from these animals Is therefore
aliCht.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Dead.

HALIFAX, Nov. Fright Rev. Mon
signor Sas, Vicar Apostolic, Of West
New Foundland, died from Dropsey
to-day.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13

Carlyle: We are firm believers in the
maxim that, for all right Judgment Of any
man or thing, 1t is useful, nay essential.
to see his good qualities before pronounc
ing on his head.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13

A Women Who Claims to have Origi
mated the "Pall Mall Gazette's'
Investigations--A Terrible Story
of London Prisons.
CINCINNATI, o., Nov. 1.-The Tele-
gram will publish tomorrow an inter-
view with the spiritualistic medium,
Mrs. j. William Fletcher, in which she
describes the origin Of the Pail Mall
Gazette Investigations La 1881 she
gave private and public seances in
London. She was arrested on the
charge of witchcraft and sent to jail
in Tothill Fields for Il year. While
there she became acquainted with some
of the most d~epraVed PROGRESSES in
London. Being a handsome woman
hersslf, she was worked upon by the
old hays, who said that she would be
a bonanza for them. They told her
how much money she could make by
seeing one of their wealthy friends
upon her release.
Mrs. Fletcher's stories Of London
prison life are horrible. Young and
virtuous girls, guilty of indiscretions
that would receive no notice in this
country, such as brecking a window
glass or being a little loud on the
street, would be thrown in contact
with designing women, who had
themselves committed. AS a conse-
queuce every one of these girls left
nrison IN become the victim of some
roue who paid to the procuress a big
price. The whole terrible system was
made known to Mrs. Fletcher who
took notes of what she heard, and
upon her release informed the clergy.
The church paid no attention to her
and she communicated with Editor
Stead. That information was the
basis of his subsequent investigation.
Mrs. Fletcher will write a book
descriptive of the terrible practices
which she saw.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Accident on the Queen and Cres-
oent--A Cyclone Strikes the Lit
tie Village of Brownsville, Ala.

Accident on the Queen and Cres-
oent--A Cyclone Strikes the Lit
tie Village of Brownsville, Ala.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Nov. IAN &C.
cident occurred this morning to the
south bound train on the Queen &
Crescent route twenty miles from here
while running over a piece of over.
flowed track. Three coaches including
two Boudoir cars turned over in the
water two or three feet deep, for
tunately the train was running slowly,
Passengers were pitched about and a
number severely bruised in addition to
being thoroughly drenched, but no
serious injuries reported.
Last evening about s o'clock a cy-
clone struck the little village of
Brownsville, in Sumter county, Ala,
about forty miles east Of here. 1t
come from the southwest and was
about a quarter of a mile wide, 1t
came with great force and the village
was almost totally destroyed, No lives
lost, but many persons injured. De-
struction of property was great. Many
houses were blown away, others un-
rooted. A number of cattle were
killed. The effects Of the storm beyond
Brownsville is unknown, as all the
wires being down.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13
Puneh.l

She (encOuragingly)-Your step suits
mine exactly.
He (nervouslyl-So glad to hear you
a so; know I'm such q bad walter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13

The cost Of repairing the Cologne
cathedral, begun in 1898, was about
s6,0 00 000