The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
GENERAL NEWS.
October 20, 1865.

The Mississippi is to have another
bridge at Keokuk.
Brazil has spent two hundred MILL
ions gold in fighting Paraguay.
A negro named George Reynolds /
beat his wife 20 death with boOt.j2ck /
in Memphis on Tuesday,
Ghun-LocS. well-kuown San |
francisco Celestial, died there recent
ly, leaving half million dollars.
In England go acres are devoted.to
lavender farming, from which 1900
gallons OF lavender water are made.
Englishmen urge the establishment
of penny postage, single rate, be-
tween Great BIitaiu and this country.
In Great Britain in 1865, $500, 900
passenger trains ran over 100000
miles, carrying 252, 200, 600 passengers.
The Oneida Community, Mt Oneida,
y. Y, has raised q crop of corn husks
for mattresses on gEound TOO poor 10
yield a good corncfop.
In Vermont only about jJ, 600 OF the
76, 900 children OF school-a2e attend
,the-free schools, which are supported
Mt an annual expense OF S500,010.
There are fewer people, in proper
ton to the aggregate population, ems
gagged in the various branches of man.
ufacturing industry at the present
time than there were ten years ago.
At Norwich, recently, after a Sun
day-school missionary had closed an
appeal to the congregation for five
dollars, with which to purchase IL
brary that he might start q school, and
while all were unmoved BY his en-
thusiasm, little girl arose ard offer
ed him her pet lamb, which she said
would bring the desired amount. The
missionary was brute enough to take
the sneep and sell il, but some unre-
generate layman heard Of the affair,
redeemed tho lamb and sent him back
to his little mistress.
a plan has been projected to con-
meet the upper part of the Ohio River
with the Gulf of Mexico by new
water route. y canal thirty miles
long, between the Coosa Rive- and
the Tennessee, will form the principal
link in the channel Of communlca-
tion.
A State Convention of delegates
from Young Mems Christian Associ-
ations is in session at Cleveland.
Three persons were burned to death
on Thursday ,at Windsor Locks, Conn.
by the explosion of n kerosene lamp
The Democrats of the Eighth Con
gressional District of New York yes
terday nominated Henry II. Stevens
for Congress.
The bodies of five men who wert
buried, at New York, in the centra
shaft Of the Hoosac tunnel were re
covered yesterday.
A body, supposed to be that of JOIN
Burns, who disappeared from Pitts
burg about two weeks ago, was fount
in the Ohio River near that city
yesterday.
Alma, Peru, letter of Septembe
% says: Shocks of earthquakes ar
still felt in Arequipa and africa. bu
the cities are so thoroughly ruine
that no further damage can be intliC
ted.
Santa Anna has been ordered I
leave the Island of Cuba in const
quence of his Mexican complications
Juarez spy having unraveled all III
plots. He was given thirty days
leave and he is so poor that his friend
win have to pay his passage.
A Havana letter says the Captain
general will not trust the SPANS
men-oi-war any more than to let thel
have one days ratioDs at time,
prevent their putting to sea, as the
might otherwise do IL they shoul
conclude TO recognize the new Go
ernment at home.
Both Houses of Congress met ye
terday. Only about half g dOZC
a members of the House were presen
and but three Senator's. In accordsu,
with the terms Of the resolution {
the subject, passed at the meeting
September, both Houses were declar,
adjourned by their presiding ONCE
until the iOth OF Novcmber.
The Defiance (Ohiol Ds7aocrat sa
that it hears of men in every low
shid who neglected 20 vote, most
Democrats,
The Dayton Journal, of yesterd
-,.. (Radical), makes General Schenci
majority in the Third District sol.
says the exact majority Will not
known until the official count i5maC
The registered vote OF New 70
city is $4,000 more than last year.
is nearly all Democratic. New y 0
and Brooklyn, it is said, will 81
u Seymour and Blair over 100000 II
jority. Phe entire registered vote
New York will not be less than1T5,O @
~ Morgan N. Odell, ESD, OF NewaI
Ohio. was elected by the Democra
of Licking county, as the successor
the House Of Speaker Follett, who
now . resident of Cincinnati, and i
partner of Judge Barley. Mr.. Cd
is young lawyer Of promise.
General $. F, Cary, the workil
mems candidate for Congress in
2nd district, Cincinnati, was defeat
by some 500. He made gall'
fight,