The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-02-02
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Georgia reporter in writing up"
bride.
DR.. Hammond says there are five
hundred too many physicians IN New
York city.
Cotton-growing is to be attempted |
in the neighborhood of Jacksonville, |
Oregon.
The latest estimate places the popu-
1ation of England and Wales at twen-
ty-eight millions.
The Protestant Episcopal cathedral
in New York is to be modelled after st.
Peters, at Rome.
A deaf-mute society has been organ
lied at Dayton. O., for mutual inter
course and instruction.
Some New York kitchen girls are
supplied with rubber gantlets to save
their hands in washing dishes.
Mrs. Jay, 65 years old, was married
to the Rev. Mr.. Sargent, 26 years DID,
at Cumming, Ga. recently.
The fir-pillow industry is good in
Maine this fall Contracts are given
by the ton in Castine and other places
on the coast
A man IN Giles county, Tennessee,
fired both loads in his gun into flock
of TWENTY-FIVE ducks and killed twen-
ty-twS of them.
Three hunters saw flock of black
birds near ALBANIA, Ga, and hrlng
among them killed seventy-siX.
In France small tve-ton boat has
been built which is to run by electric
motors and accommodating batteries.
There are eight thousand people in
Macon. Ga, who obtain means OF
subsistence by working in the mills
The latest thing in connection with
New York church weddings is to have
one or more pews reserved for family
servants.
Mrs. Amanda Hoy Smith, who was
born Christmas eve, 1875, died the
other day at Brooklyn, N. Y. She
never saw Washington.
All branches of business at San Fran
cisco are said to be remarkably pros
porous. The increase in business this
year is said to be marvellous.
In Maryland duck-hunting has been
reduced TO a trade Men are employed
to hunt the game, and are paid 30
much head for all they kill.
A marriage engagement is an
nounced between "The-Squaw-Who,-
Picks-tne- kleberry-Runnlng and
The-Man- Who -Takes-the-
Sam Thomas of Benton county, Ten
nessee. was arrested and brought to
the federal court for holding funnel
for another man to pour whisky into a
bottle.
A mounted policeman in the North
west territory has been sentenced to
six months imprisonment and hne
of 300 because he refused to clean an
officers boots.
To restrain crime the Savannah
News thinks that a dozen electric
lights and one policemen will prove
more efficient t;rau ii dozen policemen
without the electro light.
A letter addressed to ''Skaarr Eg-
gine" puzzled the Maine mail-route
agents as to its proper delivery, but
an agent solved the mystery by for.
warding it 10 Skowhegan.
j. B. Haskins of Bradley, Tenn.
raised last summers l39-pound pump
kin, the same vine producing severa
others, the smallest one OF Which
weighed forty-nine pounds.
Acorrespondent of the West Tennes
see Leader gives a crcumstantial ac
count of a rattlesnake % feet long tha
has its den in a pile of rocks near ths
waters of the ODion river.
Five silver dimes were recently SEN
the Reading (Mieh) Telephone on I
postal card. The pieces were placed
in looped Sits cut into the card and
held there by thread which crossed
the loops.
At Lexington. Miss, the men have
no chance with the women. Miss
Dixie Cole is the express agent, Miss
Emily Wright is the postmistress, ant
Miss Mollie Hoskins has charge OF the
telegraph office.
fisherman at Asbury Park, N. j..
picked up a sealed bottle on the coas
containing a map showing where al
alleged treasure is buried at place
near Wilmington, Del. The discovery
has aroused great deal of curiosity
here,
The Metiakhatla Indians who went
with Duncan to Alaska returned re.
Gently to their former village, and be.
fore the authorities could be called in
to prevent them they dismantled a
large and handsome church and got
away before being arrested.
George Brown, a well-known livery.
man of Pittsburg, Pa, who is now
visiting in Louisville, KY, was a
Jockey in his early life, and rode Gray
Eagle in his famous race against Wag.
ner at the Oakland track in 1889. He
was once employed as u jockey by Hen.
ry Clay.
S. B. Lowery, a colored man who
has been engaged in the culture OF
silk near Huntsville, Ala, for several
years, is at Pittsburg, Pa, organizing
stock company with large capital
to go into the raising and manufact-
ure of silk. The farm is to be located
in the vicinity of Birmingham.
John Langford of Lawrence county,
Arkansas. raised a potato that weighed
eleven pounds and laid it away, in.
tending to send it to the Little Rock
exposition. But his mother-in-law had
other views for the monster and when
Mr. Langford went away to mill she
cooked and ate it.
A boy employed in a foundry al
Smiths Falls, Canada, filled with
powder and iron filings a gas-pipe
eighteen inches long, and then applied
a match, and caused an explosion
which startled the community, shat
tering windows, damaged neighbor-
ing buildings, and shook the boy out
of his situation in the foundry.
Librarian Hubbell of the Pittsfeld
(Mass.) athenaum was surprised on
entering the art gallery recently to
find that some person had draped all
the large statues with curtain lace.
Some of the figures presented very
ludicrous appearance. On Apollo Bel.
videre was paper on which was writ
ten "Clothe the naked"
A Jackson (Mich.) father bought
his son handsome target rifle with
which to kill sparrows. The lad has
owned the gun nearly year, has shot
of clothes, has been tbrasbed bv .