The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-06-24
THE NEWS.

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retary of Legation to London.
Boston has the smallpox, but then
it has gotten rid of the Legislature.
Horatio Seymour is said to have
written letter favoring the nomina-
ton of Chase for the Presidency.
Miss Winnie Ream is to be further
punished by +he Radicals in Congress,
by a repeal of the $4,000 appropria-
ton to pay for her bust of Lincoln.
Hon. VIM. Hancock, meal de-
scendant of John Hancock, died in
Durleye, Massachusetts, on Sunday,
aged seventy-six.
The blood-stained pIanks taken
from the spot in Ottawa where D'Ar-
cy MCGEE fell, have been burnt, and
the ashes sent to Montreal, to be de-
posted in his grave.
Complete election returns from
South Carolina indicate that the
Democrats have carried sixteen and
the Radicals fifteen of the thirty -one
districts which compose the State.
A physician in Michigan has been
arrested for Furnishing his daughter,
a woman grown, by deluging her
with water, while securely fastened in
| a chair.
The Chinese ambassadors at Wa sh.
ington spent Sunday in smoking OPT
UNI quietly in their rooms. Minister
BurLingame, being a Christian, rode
| out in four horse carriage.
A lynx measuring five feet and two
inches from the tip of the nose to the
toes of the hind feet, was killed near
Lewistown, Logan county, Ohio, a
few days ago.
The most recent elopement from
Lowell, Mass, is that of a boy of fif-
teen, who took a sudden departure
with servant girl CITY years of age,
and with an incumbrauce of five chill.
dren. The girl was in the employ of
the boy's parents.
The New York World. of Monday,
thinks that nobody ever seriously en-
tertained the idea of Chase's nomina-
ton by the Democracy, swhile the
Sun, of the same dav. says that the
real contest will be between him and
Pendleton.
Here is an insinuation. The ReUo-
Iutiomsays: "We trust there is enough
virtue in the American people to or
ganiZe new National party on this
broad ides, and elect an honest, liber-
aI-minded, sober President in the
coming election"
From one of our New York ex-
changes we learn that capital is Sc
abundant, that on Saturday loans
were made at the rate of one, per cent.
I'm per G'anat'a. This. we believe, is
without precedent in this country,
An old man named Edwards, who
lives in Springfield, Mass, and his
ewitching daughter, who doesn't
live with her husband, are said to be
confederates in a neat little game tc
sWindle countrymen. The female is
sweet on young men, induces them tC
invite her to ride, and the parent
starts after the young couple, raises &
breeze, and the young man, If greer
enough, pays roundly to avoid arres
for an attempt at elopement,
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, ,RoV
resident in Florida, thus makes VI
her testimony: "The Southern pee
pie are no more inclined to resist the
laws or to foster the spirit of rebellion
than Vermont is. They desire only
peace and the restoration of the
Union"
AT Hamilton. Ohio, Henry Hole
cher, while engaged In an alteration
with his wife, became so enraged al
his son for interfering in the same
that he seized shotgun and dis
charged it in the latter's face, inflict
ing "A serious if not fatal wound. He
was Immediately arrested, and is now
in Jail.
An old bachelor living near -Leba
non, Ohio, made a will twenty-five
years ago, devising his property to :
certain James Frazier, if he should
ever be found. After twenty-five
years he turns up an old man living
near Wheeling, and in very reduced
circumstances.
The papers announce that the Loya
League of New York has struck the
name of President Johnson off it's list
and turned him out of their society
From Mr.. Johnson it is learned tha
he never was a member of the League
and was not aware that anybody haC
put his name on the list.