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THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS! SAMUEL D. HARRIS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. R>VENNA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1874. THE pen with which Grant wrote the veto message should be put up for sale at auction. THE public debt statement put forth on the 1st inst., shows a decrease during the month of April of $2,900,000. SEVEN persons were killed and several wounded Saturday evening by the explosion of the rotary boiler in Condit's paper-mill, at Shawangunk, Pa. A CASE under the McConnelsvill oΓdinonce at Van Wert, has been taken up to the Common Please Court of Van Wert county. A THOUSAND children have been taken to the gas works in Hartford, Connecticut, this spring, to be cured of whooping cough by inhaling crude gas from the retort. LEAVING out specie, the imports at New York have fallen off $44,500,000, and the exports have risen over $34,000,000 during the nine months ending April 1, of the present year. That is not a discouraging showing. SINCE the beginning of ocean navigation by steam, thirty-three years ago, fifty-one steamers have found the bottom of the ocean. The first one lost was the President, and the last one L' 'Amerique. GIRL, supposed to be Kate Bender, and a man, supposed to be John Bender, have been arrested near Salt Lake City, and will be held for identification. AT Shawnee, near Lancaster, O., on the 29th ult., a dentist practicing without license, administered to a Miss Sullivan, eighty grains of hydrate of shloral, causing her death within a few minutes. The villain fled the country, and as yet has not been arrested. THE London Times advises the United States to substitute Treasury currency for National Bank notes.That is sensible advice, as the Government would save $20,000,000 or more gold interest and have quite as good, if not a better, currency. THE First National Bank of Mediua suspended on Saturday. It is said the assets will pay the liabilities. FOUR men were run over and instantly killed by a train of cars near Altoona, Pa., on Wednesday of last week. THREE persons were burned to death on the 29th ult., by a fire at the residence of Henry Penington at Hartzville, Clearfield county, Pa. ON Thursday last three men employed on the Steamship Ocean Quean, at East Ninth Street, N. Y., fell into the East River and were drowned. ON Wednesday of last week Stephen Hood (colored) was execnted in the jail yard at Cleveland, for the murder of his step-son, Greenberry Hood, on the 17th day of July last. He protested his innocence to the last. JOE WALTZ, was hung at Catskill, N. Y. on Friday last. On the day before his execution he brained his keeper, who was stationed in his cell to prevent any attempt at suicide. At last accounts the keeper was still alive, IT is announced that it cost last year $76,000 more for the government of New York City than it did in 1868, under the Tammany Ring. Yet Tweed is in prison and "reformers" are the rulers. GOTERNOR ALLEN returned to him home last week, and is now rusticating at his mansion on Fruit Hill. He is looking finer than ever. Columbus life seems to have agreed with him, and he has gained twelve pounds in weight since last fall.-Chillicothe Advertiser. THE Legislature of North Carolina has just passed a law which imprisons for five years "any person who manufacturs, sells or deals in spirituous liquors as a drink, of any name or kind, containing foreign properties or ingredients poisonous to the system." JOSEPH S. BROOKS, whom the State Courts of Arkausas have decided to be the legal Governor, is a native of Butler county, Ohio, was at one time editor of the Central Christian Advocate, at St. Louis, Mo., and was a distinguished opponent of slavery before the war. THE Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that the Fifteenth Amendment confers on colored children the right to attend the public schools, where no separate schools are provided for them. THE Democratic Legislature of this