The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-10-25


"LoNe" John Wentworth (he was
six feet seven inches in height filled
the largest coffin ever used in Chicago.
ADVICE of DR.. John Hall to theo-
logical students: The way to get
out of q small place is to be very eff
cient in it."
A HANDSOME offer has heen made to
Col. Robert g. Ingersoll by foreign
manager to deliver forty lectures il
Europe next Spring.
SEVENTY EIGHT per cent. of the girls
examined for admission to the College
of New York were admitted. Fifty
two per cent was the tally of the boys
for admission.
THE farmers near Colfax. Wis, rails
ed such an enormous crop of potatoes
this season, that they do not know
what to do with them. The best price
obtainable is ten cents per bushsl."
THE first cargo of pig iron shipped
direct from Birmingham and Chatta-
nooga furnaces of Alabama and Ten
nessee has just reached Philadelphia
via. Savannah. Thers were 2lO0 tens.
RIDER BAGGARD has o curious the.
Ory regarding the fate of Henry NJ
Stanley. He thinks that the explorer
Is alive, but that he has been seized,
taken into the interior of Africa, and
deified by some of the tribes.
OUT of six hundred men discharged
from Joliet Ill. } prison and kept track
of for two years, over three hundred
have been returned to prison again
and not over one hundred and twenty
out of the whole lot were clear of sus
picion and surveillance.
ELIZABETH STUARs PHELPS, author
of "Gates Ajar," was married, Satur
day last, to Rev. II. ID. Ward, of the
New York Independent, Prof. Phelps
of Andover, father of the bride, Off.
ciating.
PHILADELPHIA RECORD: Be good
natured. Put on your fianne!s. KRIS
your wife, or what's the next best thing
your girl. Politics are almost over
and the Thanksgiving turkey is moi
pecking the fiinty grains of maize in
vain.
THE funeral services over the re-
mains of the late John Wentworth
were held at the Second Presbyterian
church in Chicago on last Friday. The
casket was borne to the hearse by six
firemen and the same number of pol,
icemen, and in the funeral cOrtege
were Mayor Roche, Hon. Robert L.
Lincoln, Potter Palmer, and many
other prominent citizens.
ONLY q cold -blOodsd partisan could
ait down ct such q time as this and
cody figure it out that if the frost
should keep off in Florida until after
the first Tuesday in November, and
yellow fever continues to rage so white
voters could not return to the State,
Florida might go Republican, and thus
elect Harrison. This is q straw" by
the Detroit Journal man, and he is
entitled to all the honor connected
with such remarkable foresight.
A NEW York dispatch of the 2lst
inst. says Col. Robert e. Ingersoll,
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, and Gen. VIM.
Malone are about to begin suit on be-
half Of Mrs. James u. Blaine, Jr.,
against James G. Blaine. Sr., and wife,
for 500. 600 for alternating young J. G's
affections. Mrs. Blaine, Jr., does not
sue for divorce, because she is Cath
Ollie, and divorce is not tolerated by
the church. One of the points which
will have bearing on the case is that
young Blaine is still minor.
Cry TREASURER AXwoRTHY, of
Cleveland, is said to have absconded,
being q defanlter to q large amount.
He has been absent from the city since
September 18th, but as all parties had
the utmost confidence in his integrity.
NO attention was paid to the fact. he
being largely interested in shipping
and other business which frequently
called him away. In some way ru
NOR was started that he had decamped,
and an investigation disclosed large
shortage in his accounts. His bonds
men, Senator Payne and J. II. Wade,
Jr., attached his property of all kinds
to secure themselves for the $500, ,OO6
for which they are liable. It is said
the shortage will reach nearly that
amount.
HUGH MCCULLOCH, Grants Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in his Men
and Measures of Half a Century,"
lust from the press of Chas. Scribner's
ssps, says: Wages depends upon