The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-22
sAvrNsA. THURSDAY. NOV. ss. 1859

RHoDE ISLAND has abolished the |
property qualification for voting.
TT is proposed in Toxic. Japan. to |
eract a large monument to the meme
ry of Gen. Grant.
Col. LAMONT is given as authority |
for saving that the Clevelands will
spend next summer at Oak View.
THE Japanese Minister at Washing
ton describes gin fizz as something
that "buzzes like fly and stings like
a wasp"
CRAwFoRDsvILLE.I Ind, has new
"baby boy" whose unabbreviated sig
nature will be William Henry Harri |
son Tippecanoe Bratton.
ELIZA g. WEBSTER JONES. daugh-
ter of Noah Webster, died at her resi-
,ience in Bridgeport, Ct, on the 10Th
inst, aged s5 years.
PREsIDENT-ELECT Harrison's father
in.law is a hold over Republican clerk
in one Of the Departments at Wash
ingtOn.
THE majority against Prohibition In
West Virginia on the constitutional
amendment voted for, ia not far froin
10000.
PREsRyTERIANlsM will still be the
religion of the White House. Gener
al Harrison is an Elder in his IndiaE-
apolis church.
TRFRE are oyer 3 Thousand wome,
and girls in Pittsburg who work in
the iron mills engaged in making
ba,bed wire. They do mems work,
but they don't get mems wages.
THE city of Boston, where there are
more brains than can be found on the
same number of square yards any
where else on the American continent
gave Cleveland and Thurman about
10000 majority.
1T is announced that 1t cost $S5. 900
to have Mayor Hewitt's ballots and
campaign documents sent through the
mails to every man on the registry list
D. G, FRENCH is making q MAJ BILE
statue of Lewis Cass, to be given to
the Nation by Michigan, aud placed
in the Capitol at Washington.
PORTSMOUTH, n. II. has an inter
esting relic of days gone by, in the
shape of jury box from which the
names of jurors have been drawn In
that city since 1858.
METHODIST ADVOCATE: There are
lots of people who mix their religion
with business, but forget to stir it up
well. As result, the business inva
riably rises to the top.
A MAN who was severely injured in
a row in New York the other day had
his wounds photographers that their
extent could be shown in court after
they have healed.
IRRIGATION Is making Nevada
very productive State. A Nevadian
raised potato this season 80 large that
when he sent it to friend by mail,
he had to pay fifty cents postage on 1t
THE Tillamook light. near Portland.
Oregon, is to bs protected by heavy
iron shutters. The light, though $50
feet above sea level, has several times
during storms been extinguished, and
the glass broken.
WHILE the Republicans have car
ried Indiana, the Democrats have
carried both branches of the Legisla
ture, and have made a gain of three
Congressman, in the Evansville, Fort
Wayne and Terre Haute districts.
THERE is balm in Gilead, perhaps.
but where the devil is Gilead? is the
wailing inquiry of the Marlborough
Times, which has evidently lost its
bearings in the general confusion re
sulting from tho defeat of Cleveland.
THE wife of New York banker has
invented q machine for making wire
rope, the patent of which she has sold
to q San Francisco firm for $25, 600
cash and a royalty. The way she came
to hit upon this was from a devise she
used to twist her worsted.
Miss MARIETTA HoLLEY, Josiah
Aliens wife," is building herself q
new home at Adams. Jefferson county
n. Y, her native place. Miss Holley
has made fortune with her pen, and
Is enjoying the results of her labors in /
most rational and satisfactory way
ANNA DICKINSON, the irrepressible
enthusiast, orator and promulgator Of
reform aud purity. sayoring of woman
suffrage. has sued Matt. Quay for the
insignificant modicum of 5000, sup.
posed to represent in part the money
value of her influence for Harrison
GEO. HUBBARD, aged 104 years, of
Mspletown, Md, has cast his vote at
every Presidential election but three. |
his last vote being for Harrison and
Morton.
THE people Of Salt Lake City are
contemplating the erection of great |
salt palace, which is designed to lay |
In the shade all the ice and corn pal. |
aces ever constructed. The walls are
to be of quarried salt, chiselsd and
carved in artistic designs, while the
interior decorations will be made of
crystalized fountains from the great
Salt Lake.
TIE Postal Department Is soon to |
have q new style postal card. 1t is
very much like double card of the |
present pattern. The back folds are
split diagonally, and open out like q
four pointed star. The corners are
folded and Joined in the center, when |
the card is ready for mailing.