The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-05-31

A NOVEL just issued in Chicago ls
entitled "a Pure souled Liar"
DOM PEDRO, Emperor of Brazil, is
pronounced fatally ill at Milan, Italy
CHARLES A. DANA is to address the
Wisconsin State Press Association at
Milwaukee in July.
THERE are twenty-five papers in
Milwaukee published in German, and
only six in English.
DIR. NEWMAN, Grants old minister,
was elected Bishop at the Methodist
conference just closed in New York.
SIMON CAMERON is booming Gen
Alger as victim to be sacrificed in the
Blaine slaughter house at Chicago.
UNDER the high license system, the
number of saloons has been reduced
in Philadelphia from 5,773 to 1887.
THE Sunday closing law is being
generally observed In the cities of this
State, including the Paris of Ameri
Ca"
MRS. CLEVELAND was made . life
member of the Presbyterian Home
Missions Committee, at its session In
Philadelphia on the Goth inst.
AT the recent Methodist general
conference held in New York, the
time of the itinerancy was heightened
from three to five years.
1T is quite evident from the political
atmosphere that Blaine cyclone will
strike the convention to be held In
the windy city next month.
REV, LYMAN ABBOTT, d. D., has
accepted the permanent pastorate OF
Plymouth Church, to which he has
been called as the successor of the late
Henry Ward Beecher.
FRAGMENTS of the big raft that was
broken up while being towed from
Nova Scotia to New York have been
encountered 1900 miles east by north
of the place where it was lost.
THE DeSoto statue to be erected al
Arkansas City, Ark, is designed by
Senior Murvelle. of Madrid 1t will
be in bronze, heroic size, mounted on
a pedestal of Arkansas marble.
ALCOHOL preserves 10000 reptile
specimens in the Smithsonian Insti'
tuts. We have seen no statement a:
to the number of snakes hatched ir
boots by tkis same preservative fluid
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS delivers
an address on 1.-THE Reason and ths
Result of Civil Service Reform" before
the National Civil Service Reform
League in New York, today (Wednes
day..
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, who is ex
ploring the Dismal Swamp, writes
s'This is the most DETAINED land on tn
earth. The Dismal Swamp is tn
greatest sanitarium on the American
continent"
THE house of DIR. Gatling. the gur
inventor, was burglarised the othe
night and robbed of all the gold ant
brenze medals that have been present
ed to him during the past twenty years
THE French government is about t.
build an absolutely unsinkable man
of.war. This will be accomplished b!
the use of celulose amOrphe, a produc
of coceanat fiber, SO elastic that !
pierced the hole closes itself
Hon. FRANK HURD addressed |
large and enthusiastic audience II
Toledo on the night of the 25th inst.
on tariff reform. The speech is salt
TO be one of Mr.. Hurd's ablest ant
most eloquent efforts.
THE leaven of the unrighteous go
in its work in the Methodist Genera
Conference, just closed. when some o
the good brethren zealously tried t.
stuff the ballot boxes in the interes
of their favorite candidate for Bishop
MINISTER PHELPS was rendered I
reception at Burlington, the city o
his home, the 25th inst. at the resi-
dence of Elias Hammond. 1t is pro.
posed to give him public reception
in the same city June 1st.