The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-10-28
ELECTION Tuesday next.


NOT only go to the polls yourself,
but see that your Democratic neighbor
ia there.
A FULL Democratic vote in Ohio
mesps an overwhelming Democratic
victory.
DIPHTHERIA is raging in Coldwater
Michigan, IS cases and five deaths
have Leel reported.
THE valuable deposits of tin in Da-
kota, it is claimed, cover an area of
seven thousand square miles. The
mining of it has just commenced.
THE annual settlement of the Phil
adelphia mint shows that the weight
OF the silver coin handled was SAL tons
and gold coin Is net tons.
The gold product of the United
States in 1885, according to the report
OF the Director of the Mint, is $3l ,SOl,-
OO6, and the amount of gold coined
was $27. 773, ,0l2.
A LETTER from Cheraw,::S c., says
that rain falls from cloudless shy
there nearly every day between 8 am.
and p. m. There is no explanation
of the phenomenon.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, who
has been exhibiting himself in Great
Britain for some time past, as the
greatest American preacher, sailed for
home Saturday.
THE Democracy abolished contract
slavery in the pen;tentiary-the Re
publicans established it. Still the
Republicans claim to be the special
friends of the laboring man.
THERE are about dozen papers in
Arkansas owned and managed by col
cred men, and they have called for a
convention to meet in Little Rock to
fern 4 Press Association for their mu-
tual benefit.
REPORTS from various points in
South Carolina and Georgia confirm
the report of an earthquake shock
Friday afternoon. 1t was not severe
enough to do any damage, but gave
the people in some sections bad
fright. The shock was felt at Cincin-
natl and Columbus.
The Republicans allege that John
Mcbride is a bogus working man. 1t
is little strange that the miners of
Ohio should not have found that out
before, but for three successive
years have placed him at the head of
their Union. Guess the Republican
politicians fib little.
AN item of Democratic economy can
be found in the following: During
the last fiscal year the cost of the Star
Route service was $5,4l4, ,S04 "a decrease
of So, ,623, or 1.57 per cent. as compar-
ed with the preceding year. The
steamboat service was also reduced in
cost from $563, ,OO2 to SAG, ,4l9, or a lit
tie over 2Oper cent.
CHICAGO HERALD: Foraker is
bound to get the entire convict vote of
Ohio for his ticket by showing how
cruel the Democrats are to malefactors
confined in the State prison. This is
believed to be the only element in So
ciety Which the Buckeye politicians
have never before worked, but 1t is a
powerful one in Ohio.
RHODE ISLAND is an intensely Re
publican State, and is kept SO by dis.
franchising her poor. 1t is the only
State in the Union where a man is
denied a vote because he is poor. And
vet Sherman, Noyes, Foraker and the
Republican managers keep up their
hypocritical howl about a " free ballot
and fair count"
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out in
Eastport, Maine, last Thursday after.
noon, which nearly swept the town
from existence. Sixty-two dwellings,
eight factories, seventeen wharves,
two hotels, and one hundred and thir-
ty stores, offices, and business places
were burned, and about two hundred
families are homeless. The United
States Government are the heaviest
losers, the amounts ranging from
$4,000 to 100000.
Eaten by a Bear.