The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-02-09
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livery, commencing March lst.
In the last ten years there have been
PCS divorces granted in Clermont Co.
THE American people paid $50 ,00O,-
600 tariff duty on sugar-a sort OF dis
solving sweet in the flavor of tariff.
THE Ohio Senate has passed Mr..
Alexander's bill giving Mayors and
Justices of Peace. jurisdiction in cases
brought for adulterating food and
drink.
IT is estimated that there are over
10000 persons in the Lehigh Valley
receiving assistance from the knights
of Labor.
In the year just closed, the Pennsyl,
vania Railroad Co.'S receipts at the
Union station in Pittsburgh were ST..
S93,OO5.6 50.
JOHN Pow, of Salem, has been elect.
ed President OF the State Board of
Agriculture. MIR. Pow is said to be
one of the best posted men on agricul
tnre in the State.
STATE Senator D0rr has introduced
q bill which provides that the amount
of property which man may hold
and be exempt from taxation shall be
raised from 500 to $500.
THE tiniest horse in New York is g
graceful little quadruped named Yen
Hoe, which recently arrived in this
country from China 1t stands just
So inches high, and weighs only sew
enty pounds.
BY remarkable coincidence the
same death day came to Americas and
Engiand's greatest botanists - Prof
Asa Gray and DIR. Thomas Irvine
Bosweli-their demise occurring on
the 3Oth ult.
THE Electrical Review says that the
lightning rod is relic of superstition,
and that the day will come when q
lightning rod on house will be re-.
garded in the same light as horseshoe
over door.
ROSCOE CONKLING was recently ask
ed if he believed there was such a
place as heaven, and ne replied that if
there was any place where politics
never was and never could be heard
of, it would deserve that name.
A KENUCKY man has taken a con-
tract to supply $1O,OO worth of bum.
BILE bees to Australians, who hope that
the bees will fertilize clover blossoms
and SO make the growth of that grass
possible.
A DRUMMER who was robbed by
highwaymen in the streets of Kansas
City has begun suit for 5000 dam.
ages, claiming that the city is respon-
sible for the safety of the lives and
property of citizens and strangers,
CHRISTIAN AT WORK: The man
who goes fishing and sits in cramp
inviting posture on a narrow thwart
from early morn till dewy eve and
calls it fun, is the same chap that new
er goes to church because the pews
aren't comfortable.
THE Republican State Central Com
nittee will meet in Columbus on the
14th inst, to arrange for the meeting
OF the State convention which will
select delegates to the national con-
vention to be held in Chicago June l9.
The Ohio Republican League will
celebrate Lincoln's birthday-Februa
~ 13th-by banquet at Columbus.
Among those in attendance will be
Colonels John Hay and John g. Nj
colay, private Secret aries of the mar
tyred President.
N. Y. SUN: $50 you believe in
cheaper whisky, do you?" Certainly
I do. Get the price of whisky down
to reasonable basis, and poor man |
like myself, with family to support, |
would have more money left to buy
bread wiih.'
SENATOR MASsIE has introduced a
bill in the State Senate, make the 2sth
and 18th of February one legal day
This is done so that bankers may know
when to protest commercial paper, as
one day too soon or one day too late
relieves the indorser
CoRTLAND, Trumbull county, was
visited by fire which made nearly
clean sweep of one side of its main
business street. Among the sufferers
was the Gazette, which lost its build
ing and much of its outfit. The entire
loss aggregates several thousand dol
lars, only partially insured
EDUARDO H. CATO, the liking of
Havana cigar manufacturers" will
shortly build in Key West, Florida,
the largest cigar mandatory in the
United States. The building is to be
of brick, iron, and stone, with a ca, ;
pscity for 10, 900 cigar makers, enabling ,
them to manufacture 200. .OeO cigars a {
day. The Cuban troubles, it is said,
was one cause of the removal. I
IN the aggregate production of gold
silver, copper, and lead, Montana has
taken first place among the States and
Territories of the Union having much
more than doubled her output in the
last four years. In 1887 this Territory /
produced over $25, ,OOO,O0 worth of the
metals named out of total Of about :
BlO3, 500, 900 in the entire country west
of the eastern boundary of Dakota and
Colorado.
A BILL has been introduced in the q
over House at Columbus, by Mr.. 81
Clarke, to amend the statutes so as to
permit all persons to become notaries
public. The intention of the bill is to
make females eligible to appointment
g notaries. There are doubts in the =
minds of some good lawyers as to the :
of such q measure. :,
t has once been declared unconstitu. =
ional by the Supreme Court. -
AN ANCIENT CHAIR.-What proba. Il