The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-12-22
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Mr.. Van Trump, of Ohio, on the 9th,
presented in the House of Representatives
TIE Joint resolution adopted by our State
Legislature, last winter, rejecting the pro-
posed Fifteenth Amendment 70 the Con-
stitution. 1t was referred 20 the Commits
tee on the Judiciary. q akf
W.. L. Smith, Democratic and working
mems candidate, was elected on the Tth
Mayor OF Springfield, Mass, Millyin, Dem>
,ocrak was elected Mayor of Lawrence, and
fWhitley, Rep. of HaVerhill. -
d. The eharter election in Hudson, N. Y,
resulted in the re election of Theodore
Snyder, Democrat, for Recorder, and the
balance Of the Democratic city ticket. The
Republicans elected two Alderman and the
Democrats two.
A six year old boy vas asked by his tea
cher to write q composition on water, and
the following Is The iprOdnctiOn: Water
Is good TO drink, to swim in, and to skate
on when frozen. When ] was little baby
the nurse nsed 10 bathe me every morning
in water I have been told that the In
juns don't wash themselves but once IN
ten years. / wish was an Injun"
In Cleveland, last week, there was con-
siderable excitement over q body snatching
case. The remains of an elderly lady,
Mrs. Schumacher, which were inferred al
the Catholic Cemetery ON Sunday after
noon . were stolen. Early on Monday
morning friends of the family lodged com
plairt At the Police Station, but without
success.
In Connecticut, by q new school law,
they require all children under IA TO attend
school at least three months IN every year.
A woman is captain of canal boat run
nmg into Cincinnati, and trahsacts busi-
ness, says the Enquirer, as well as q man.
Why nOtl ~
New York has Gambling help in
successful and uninterrupted operation,
with a church next door and apolice sta
tion opposite.
They have town in Colombo named
Purgatory. The name is perhaps hint tC
travellers that they may Ego further and
fare Worse.p
New York has zoo gambling houses,
5000 professional gamblers, and 81 800
900 capital invested in the game, while
$50, 900 changes hands nightly over the
cards.
Boston Is to have = monument to Co.
lumbus, erected by italian contributions.
There are to be ten executions for muir
der in the United States during December.
,aPere Hyacinthe has got back to New
York and sailed for France ~
Cnristy's Minstrels are carrying Ethiopia
into Australia. |-.
The Canadian press contemptuously calls
Winnipeg-dem the half breed Republic. ,
The State Entonologist of Illinois is
known In that section as the ''Bugmaster
General. t4tt ~ ti.sf
Six British detectives are said 10 BE
prowling about New York reporting the
departureof suspected Fenians for Ireland.
The Illinois Baptists have 1000 teachers
and so, 900 scholars in theirSundAy schools.
A man is now in Detroit with his scalr
in his pocket. The Indians took i OF tol
him. e1
Al economical old gentleman OF "a
was recently buried, in Connecticut, IN the
same suit of clothes which he had wOrr
at the wedding of his four wives
Chlcago has little girl Who obtains 4
livelihood by begging, popular sympathy
being excited BY her exposing hand con-
tanning five fingers and three thumbs.
Fifteen hundred different American
books have been published in LondOr
within thirty years.
It rained so hard in New Orleans the day
before Thanksgiving IS to break hundred
of panes Of glass. fi-