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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
ATWATER.

Correspondence.
Charles Merrick, from Parkersburg,
w. Va, oldest son of Henry A. Mer.
rick, was visiting friends here short
time ago.
Mr.. Melcheri u Stanard, with his
wife and mother, made a visit here
among their relatives. Mr.. Stanard
and wife have gone, but the mother,
Mrs. Jane Broaddus, will remain a few
weeks longer. This young man is a
grandson of Eliakim Stanard, who
used to be so well known here. His
home is in Jeffarsonville, Clark Co,
Indiana, is lawyer, and has three
brothers, two of them merchants and
one farmer. These are all the de-
scendants of grandfather Stanard on
the male side. Both of his sons, Ed
ward and Platt are deceased.
Mrs. Josie Benjamin has gone to
spend a few weeks with her father,
DIR. Fred. Whittlesey, in Washington
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Andrew Lynn and wife ate
Thanksgiving turkey at Michael
HOuck's. Chas. FerreI, of Cleveland,
made visit in town on the same day
Mrs. Orrin Blakeslee is recovering
from a fall in which she bruised her
arm aud side.
Mr.. Wallace Ripple is recovering
from a bad cough that has been fol-
lowing him for some weeks.
Frank Green has a telephone from
the store to his house, which works
well, when it does not transmit hum
ming sound from the wire. Samuel
Townsend has one which does not
work as well as this.
Ansel Baldwin, from Lincoln, Neb.,
is visiting relatives here.
The winter schools at the Center
and at the Station, commenced last
Monday. Charles Cleverly is ruler at
the latter place and Mr.. Campbell at
the former.
Seth Cleveriy, from near Angola,
Ind. is visiting relatives here.
David Glass has bought the lumber
yard and planning mill and has put in
new scales and will deal in coal.
Nov. 20, 1856. w.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
Ohio Dairy aud Food Communion.

ASST COMMISSIONER OFFICE, I
JLFFEksoN, o., Nov. -, 'o6. !
a warning is hereby given to all
grocers, contectiOners, and dealers in
maple sugar aud syrup, that Jan. lst,
1886, our new food laws of Ohio re-
garding these goods went into effect
1t has been the practice of wholesale
and retail dealers in Cleveland for
few years past, every winter to re-melt
old stock maple sugar aud mix with
it glucose or sale sugar and then offer
it to the trade for new, fresh maple
goods, and the travelling statesmen from
that city commence to take orders
early il January for that kind of goods
L know this, for they have been in my
own store TO make the sales. The fine
now for these professional mixers aud
manufacturers is not less than $500
dollars for each offense, and the deal
ers fine is not less than Fifty dollars,
who sell the same.
This is u good and wholesome law,
and our food Commissioners will do
all in our power to put it in force this
coming winter and spring.
We have information now which
we think perfectly reliable, that tons
of old maple sugar are now held by
Cleveland merchants, ready for this
use and that many of them have heat.
ing furnaces in their cellars to cook
over maple sugar and make bogus
fresh maple syrup, weeks and months
before drop of sap has been gathered
by the farmers of our State. You are
not only wicked sinners for perpetrat
ing such fraud on your customers
but you utterly ruined the industry
last year for the farmers by this con.
temptible work. The pure maple
sweet is the most delicious flavor o.
sweet in the known world, when il
comes fresh in the spring from the
tree. People buy it simply for lux
ury and ought not to be so meanly
cheated.
Farmers can not make it unless they
can get far greater price than for salt
syrup, or glucose syrup.
L mention Cleveland simply becaus,
it is the head quarters for this kind o
sugar camps in my food district o
Ohio. The laws are general for tn,
whole State, ana we do hope the mer
chants of our State, will stop thi
fraud, and not lay the blame for thi
cursed work upon the farmers.
HENRY TALCOTT,
Assistant Dairy aud Food Conn.,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
Brace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your sp-
petite is poor, you are bothered with
headache, you are fidgety, nervous,
and generally out of sorts, and want
to brace up, Brace up, but not with
stimulants, spring medicines or bitters
which have for their basis very cheap,
bad whisky, and which stimulate you
for an hour and then leave you in a
worse condition than before. What
you want is an Alternative that will
purify your blood. start healthy action
of liver and kidneys, restore your vi
tality, and give renewed health and
strength. Such a medicine you will
find in Electric Bitters, and only so
cents u bottle. at G. p. Reeds drug
store.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

Mr.. BLAINE, according to the Wash
ington Capital, "does not expect to be
nominated in 1888. At the present
time he does not want to be. When
ever the matter has been brOached to
him he has said with great emphasis
to his intimates he could never again
accept the nomination for the Presi-
dency unless he felt morally certain
he would be elected. AT the present
time Mr.. Blaine believes that the
Democrats will renominate Cleveland
in 1888, and that Cleveland will be re
elected. Consequently, he will con-
tent himself with nominating Allison
or some other Blaine man in the he
publican convention of 1888, waiting
himself for the nomination in 1892 {"
Mr.. Frank Jones' positive statement
Mr.. Blaine did not want to run in 1884
gives color to this. He would like to
be President, but don't care to enconn-
ter another defeat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
wade Hampton,s Close Call.

COLUMBIA, s. c.. Nov. Ex-senator
Wade Hampton while deer hunting
on his Mississippi plantation Monday
became separated from the rest of the
party, who toward evening, snpposing
that the Senator had left the field
returned home. At 8 O'Clock that
nivht. General Hampton being still
absent, a searching party started out
and found the old General short
distance from the house, much ex-
hausted and painfully hurt, but drag
-,;ng his way homeward. At about 8
o'cieck in the afternoon as he was
r,S;ng through thick wood where
vines were numerous. supple Jack,
vine caught his gun and discharged
~ the load of bnckshot entering the
head of his horse. killing it instantly;
The animal fell on the Senator, and
10 his MANNED condition it took him
.ome time to extricate himself. He
had heen walking through the woods
for nearly five hours with only one
good leg.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
Our Postal Service,

To a large majority Of the people of
the United States the only way the
Federal Government directly and in-
timately manifests its existence i'm
their personal concerns is through the
postal service. OF course they are in
directly paying tribute on almost eve
rything they eat, drink or wear, but
they do not realize it. The postal SER
vice comes home to them, and is part
of the daily or hourly conveniences of
life in all the States and Territories.
and even in far off Alaska.
Postmaster General Villas report
presents some facts that merit greater
prominence than the hurried tele-
graphic abstract gave them. The post
al machinery now exceeds in extent
that of any other nation in the world.
OF pOstoffices, he says. no other nation
has One-third our number. We expend
annually more money than any other
to maintain postal facilities, and, if
the postal telegraph be excluded from
the reckoning, we derive q greater
scvenue. At the same time, no service
Ii maintained at more economy of ex-
penditure for results. Trustworthy
estimates place the number of letters
mailed during the last year in the
~ hlkCu OlAtC5 ~ OAC
more than were mailed in q treat Brit.
ain, long the leading letter-writing
nation. and nearly that number more
than were mailed in Germany, France
and Austria combined. Excluding
Germany it is thought all other postal
union countries do not together carry
so many newspapers in their mails as
did ours last year. OF all pieces of
matter mailed the proportion to each
inhabitant of the United States is esti.
mated at 66, of Great Britain at 81, of
Germany at 10.
Other countries have adioined to
postal administration auxiliary con-
veniences and systems, such as the
telegraph, savings banks, the parcels
post, the collection of moderate sums
of money, or the special handling of
letters of declared value, some of
which might be grated usefuliy upon
ours but in the essen tial features of
the postal service the statistical com.
parison furnished by the International
Bureau and other sources exhibits un-
the superior magnitude
which we have attained.
The appropriations of the current
fiscal year, the Postmaster General
says, are ample being $54, ,365, ,Qa0, and
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
WHAT RIRDS THE LAW Pho
TECIS.

III N ers Sh OuId Cut this ONT and
Preserve il, as Ii May Save Them
a Fine.
For the benefit of those who do not
know just what the law is in regard TO
killing of certain birds, we publish
below Section $3.50 of the Revised
Statutes of Ohio. 1t says;
Whoever shall at any time, catch,
kill or iujure, or pursue with such in
tent, any swan, sparrow, other than
Engli sparrow robin, bluebird mar
tin, thrush, mockingbird, swallow
oriole, redbird, grossbeak, catbird
chewink OF ground-robin, pewee or
phoebe bird. wren cuckoo, indig o. bird
nuthatch, crceper, yellowbird or frin-
gillo, yellowhammer or flicker, war
bier or finch, marvis, redstart, dunn
mock, nightingale, cross bill, croke,
Hungarian robin, great tit or blue-tit,
or disturb or destroy the eggs of any
such bird, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanOr, and on conviction shall be
punished as hereinafter provided in
section 1868 "
Section 1868 provides the following
penalty:
\. And whoever shall violate
any of the several provisions herein
containsd shall, for each and every
such Offense. be fined not more than
five hundred dollars ani not less than
twenty five dollars, which shall 90 to
a county fund in the county wherein
the Offensa was committed, to be call
ed the fish and game fund and any
persC n convicted of any violation of
any provision of this act and refusing
to pay the fine imposed, shall he i'm
prisoned thirty days, unless the fine
is sooner paid"
1t will be observed that the crow,
blackbird and bluejay are not protect
ed, and were probably cousid cred by
the trainers of law to be a pest, al
though it is considered by many that
these birds are useful in their way.
Turtle doves, pigeons, ducks, quails
and pheasants are protected during
certain seasons.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
How Rutterine is Made,

Oleomargarine is the raw material
from which butterine is made. 1t is
procured in this way: From the
freshly slaughtered carcasses of cattle
in the abattoirs of large towns the su-
perfiuous portions of suet are taken to
the butterine factories. The finest,
eleansst and sweetest portions only are
selected for making oleomargarine
The process of manufacture is as fol.
lows: At the factory the beef-suet is
thrown into tanks containing tepid
water, and after standing a short time
it is washed repeatedly in cold water
and disintegrated and separated from
fibre by passing 1t through meat
masher worked by steam, after which
it is forced through fine sieve. 1t is
then melted 10y surrounding the tanks
with water at a temperature of about
one hundred and twenty degrees Fab
ernheit Great care is taken net to
exceed this point; otherwise the fat
would begiu to decompose and acquire
flavor of tallow. After being we'll
stirred, the adipose membrane sub
sides to the bottom of the tank, and
Is separated under the name of .'scrao"
whilst clear yellow oil is left above
together with a film of white oily sub.
stance. This film is removed by skim
ming, and the yellow oil is drawn off
and allowed to solidIfy. The refined
fat, as the substance is now known, is
then taken to the press-room-which
is kept at temperature of about nine
ty degrees Fahrenheit-packed in cot
ton cloths, aud placed in galvanized
iron plates in a press. On being sub
iected to pressure, oil flows away. The
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

THE total value of all exports from
this country for the nine months end
ed september 30, 1886, was $476. Ali 1922,
against $462, ,6S5 .242 for the correspon.
ding time last year. In breadstuffs
and cotton there was large increase,
but in some other lines, especially
provisions, q considerable decrease
appears. 1t is noticeable that the ex
ports of cotton and breadstuffs were
nearly equal, there being $ll3. 200, 900
of cotton, an increase of $25, 900, 600
The exports of iron and steel fell off
$500, 600 in the nine months. being
$40, 500, 900. Petroleum fell off over q
million, and provisions and dairy pro.
ducts nearly eleven millions.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

he hopes to save a million or more of
this sum. The deficiency between
postal receipts and expenditures will
he about Sc. 100000. This results from
the reduction of postage and increased
allowance of weight that went into
operation July |, 1885. The postage
revenue is shown by the following
comparative statement by fiscal years:
1855 ........ .S43,Gl4 .033 1885 Si0.056 226
1874 40. 1883 lSS6-..-...... 4.4i7 U9)
The current fiscal year has afforded
start towards closing the wide gap
between revenue and expense. The
revenue has risen by a higher ratio
than the expenditures, 3 = for the for
mer to but 8 per cent. for the latter.
Here seems To be promise that the day
is attainable when the gain in revenue
will oyertake the gain in disburse-
ments if a firm economy be steadily
imposed, although in the meantime
every proper aud judiciOus extension
and improvement which the country
requires shall go forward. Al the rate
prevailing in 1888, the postal revenue
would have been Ii greater last Year than
for any previous year in the counury's
history.
There were 81, l57 pOstoffices in the
country on the lst ot October, aud
uhrlDB the year out OF =, I4I posi- mas
ters appointed only 1866 We're in place
of removals for all causes. The postal
receipts for 1856 81 are estimated ut
$4,000 00U, which is about the sum
total of receipts of the United States
Treasury tor the year 1850, and the
S5l 900 900 of postal expenditures
ahout the same as il cost TO run the
Government in l847. which was the
most expensive year of the Mexican
| war.
The department started in 1890 with
10 postoffices, ,875 miles of mail route
$37, ,935 revenue, S32, l40 expenditures,
with $S. 1913 in salaries, SD ,03l for
transportation of the mail. Compare
these figures with those OF the current
fiscal year: Postotfices, 53 $40, reve
nue., $44 O0O, 900 expenditures, $5l 600
600 extent of post IOutes .370, ,0OOmiles
salaries of postmasters, Sll 900, 200
transportation of the mails, SOB 500 900
1t is by such comparisons as this W,
get an idea of the magnitude of GU!
postal operations. They are now un
der the charge of one of the most ca
pable, wide-awake, 20 ahead Postnas
ter Generals the country has eve
seen = Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

If it be true, as alleged by the adVo'
Gates of q protective tariff, that hish
duties do not tend to enhance the
prices of manufactured commodities
but rather to diminish them, how Is
If that either the manufacturers OF
their employees are benefited by pro-
lection? The profits of the one and
the wages of the other are derived
from the sale of their products. and II
the prices of such products be not
augmented there surely can be no IN
crease of profits or wages.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
Refused to shake.

NEW YORK, Nov. % AT the Ar.
rhur funeral yesterday Blaine publicly
snubbed Mr.. Edmunds, the Senator
from Vermont. This is what happen
ed: Mr.. Edmunds was seated on a
sofa when Mr., Blaine entered the par
lor. Mr.. Blaine bowed To Col. CLAYTON
McMichael, and Mr.. Edmunds arose
and advanced to greet Mr.. Blaine with
his right hand extended, saying
Good morning, Mr. Blaine" Mr.,
Blaine Was in the act of drawing off
his gloves. He gave the Vermonter u
quiet look out of the corner of his
eyes, and without a show of recognI-
ton stepped forward to shake hands 5
with Colonel McMichael. Mr., Ed.
mundS appeared surprised. His face
flushed slightly, and he retired to his
seat on the sofa.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is the first
President since General Grants first
term who has been able to command
a party majority in the House at the
Congressional election next succeed.
ing his Inauguration. Before the wal
the same rule prevailed. Pierce's
overwhelming victory in 1852 was fol.
lowed by n Republican House in 1854,
and Buchanan's election in 1856 was
followed by a Republican majority in
1858. Even Mr.. Lincoln had q mar
row escape in 1862, rs New York,
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Indiana went
against his administration.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND hit the nail

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND hit the nail
squarely upon the head when he said
at Boston, recently: No public Off
Ger should desire to check the utmost
freedom of criticism AS to all official
acts. but every right thinking man
must cOncede that the President of the
United States should not be put be-
yond the protection which American
love of fair play and decency accord
TO every American citizen. The traits
of our national character would not
not encourage, if their extent and
tendency were more fully appreciated,
the silly, mean and cowardly lies that
every day are found in the columns of
certain newspapers, which violate ev-
cry instinct of American manliness
and desecrsts every sacred relation of
private life."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

cakes of stearine which remaiR are
sent to the candle-makers. The oil
which is now known as oleomargarine
is filled into barrels for sale or ex-
port, or directly made into butterine
by adding TO it ten per cent. of milk
and churning the mixture. 1t is now
cOlOred with aunatto and rolled with
ice to set it ; salt is added ; the process
is finished and it is ready for packing.
i Exchange.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

THE Republican newspapers of tn: a
country are hard to please. They find
fault with Mrs. Cleveland for not In
trudipg her company upon Miss Davis,
and they would haye found fault if she
had. If Mrs. Cleveland had met Miss
Davis and invited her to the White
House our Republican contemporaries
would have charged her with working
politics through the medium of the
ex.confederate presidents daughter,
and the bloody shirt would have been
unfurled to the breeze.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
PATENTS. sHxiats, Ss:t. and TF9as aspv-

riphtS obtained, and "il oiher business in toe
u : Patent Oh .- atteu.ien to for MODERs TE
tFES
CUR Oih~C IL apr,UsiI. tie u. >. Patent Office,
and we can obtain Patents in less time than
those relitot" from WASHINGTOE
Send MODEL Uh ''Ea WING. We advise as to
patentaiility free Of charge; and we make 30
CHARGk UHLESS We OsTSIE PAIENT.
We refer here to the Postmaster, the Supt. OF
Money Order Div. aud to officials OF the U, 3.
Patent Office For circular. advice. terms and
r, ferl noes to actual clients i'll your Cwn state
or County, write to
@. A. SNOW CO.,
Opposite Patent oaice, Washington, d. G,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

AS ONE result of the penitenliary
scandals, DIR. g. II Montgomery, for.
merly physician of the institution, has
sued the Ohio State Journal for libel
and caused the arrest of the business
manager and managing editor on a
charge of criminal libel.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

MOVEMENTS election day was not,
after all, such a great day for John
Sherman in Ohio as the gain of five
Republican congressman indicated.
That was accomplished by about the
most infamous gerrymander ever at
tempted in any State. Under it every
$4,000 Republican voters elect Con-
gressman, while it takes sc, 900 to do
the same for the Democrats, In other
words, the representative power of 100
Republican voters is equal to that of
$50 Democrats. Yet these fellows have
the audacity to talk of disfranchise-
ment at the south. The popular vote
in Ohio, Notwithstanding the gain of
five Congressman by Republicans, for
reasons stated, shows Democratic
gains. In a total of 700,5S2 votes,
Robinson's plurality was only IL ISL,
while the popular ms jority against the
head of the Republican ticket was
Is, 792. Robinson's vote, $40, ,S95 shows
Republican falling off from Fora
ker's last year of Is S,6lS, while Me-
Brides vote, 329, ,3l4, is only l2,5l6
short of that cast by the Democrats
for Hoadly. In 1884 Blaine carried
Ohio by a lurality of 81 ,S02, and a
clear majority over all of 1858. The
Prohibition vote in Ohio this year
more than held its own. being Is, ,657,
an increase of 576 over that or last
year. Unless some dominating ques-
tiOn develops before 1888, the returns,
not only from Ohio but from all the
States, indicates that the next Presi-
Dental election will be sharply con,
tested ill every Republican State. ex-
cept possibly Vermont and Kansas
Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

ITCH AND SCRATCHES of every kind
cured iii 30 minutes by WOeLFoRD'S S
This never fails. Sold by Belding &
Gibbons, Druggists, Ravenna, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
England and Free Trade.

IoNpoN Nov. 25.-Mr. John Bright
IN a letter approving the erection of
atatue of Golden at stockport, denies
that free trade is imperilled. He con-
finued : IAN American recently ask
Vi me if it would be possible to return
=" nrotection in EnSland. [ replied,
~ is not impossible, but it will not
come until the United States restores
slavery"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

WE pay seven and eight cents a
pound for our sugar. If the tariff was
taken from sugar we could buy it at
three and four cents pei pound. There
is not family so poor in the land that
does not use sugar. BY all means give
them cheap sugar.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

The Democrats have good work.
ing majority in the Lower House of
Congress, while the Senate will be
close, thus insuring to the country
snnna Uh nlasonno O loniSla ton
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

1T is again reported that Colonel R.
G. Ingersoll will appear for the An
archists before the Illinois Supreme
Court.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

marks at the Harvard sesqui centen-
NAL last week, took occasion to ami
madvert upon the liberties which the
press of the country, or a portion of
1t. at least, takes with his domestic
affairs, declaring that the private life
of the Chief Magistrate should be as
sacred as that of the most private cit
zen. And he is right. The freedom
and want of delicacy with which Ger
tain papers have commented upon the
domestic lite of the White House OF
late deserve and should receive the
condemnation of all decent Journals
and right thinking persons.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02

GERONIMo's band of Apanhes at
Fort Pickens, Florida. are said TO be
dying at the rate of four per day.
This is more rapid defamation than
was ever produced by the United
S:s'es army.