The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-04-21
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William Scott, nephew Of Sir
Walter Scott, died in Montreal,
Thursday, aged sixty-four years.
There were $4,000 deaths in
New York last year seyenty-six
per cent of which were IN tene-
ment rooms
Nine bodies OF persons myster.
iously murdered were found in
the streets and waters of New
York, lastweek.
An Oregon journal prints no
essFofdeaths under the head of
"Come !" marriages it styles
"Fxed to Stay and deaths it re
ports under the head Of"Gone."
A few days since, in Brooklyn,
m ahectionate wife named Mary
+. Wall, threw a lighted kero-
sene lamp at her husband The
lamp exploded, and Mrs. Wall
was so severely burned that she
died on Thursday night.
A butcher was arrested at
Pittsburg on Friday for having
unsound meat in his shop. The
bullock was taken from among a
drove that was being shipped
East so badly manned and inJur-
ed that it was with difficulty it
could be taken from the car. 1t
was afterward killed and dressed.
and sold to the butcher above not
ed. The party who killed the
animal was also arrested, and the
meat contiscated by the Inspec-
or.
In his recent speech Senator
Sprague spoke of congressional
corruption, and said he knew Of
a member who had been asked to
report a certain way, and the
temptation laid out before him
100000.
The Democrats of the Indiana
Legislature, after several days
spent in negotiations with the
Republican members, agreed to
conditions and took their seats
the 18th inst. 1t is not probable
the Fifteenth Amendment will be
thrust upon them till the neces-
sary legislation has been acted
upon.
In October, 1899, the English
man-cf-war Lutine foundered on
the sand banks off the coast Of
Holland. She had on board
100000 pounds sterling in gold
and the crown jewels of Holland
which had been sent to England
to be reset. Adult 200 900 pounds
of the money was recovered from
the wreck within a few years af
ter the disaster; and now the
English Lloyds r making prep
arations to explore the skeleton
of the ship and recover the mon
and valuables. lh
On a recent Saturday night a.
John Morrissey walked dowI
Broadway, he was appealed to by
a woman of haggard beauty, who
said that her husband was Ill and
her children vanishing. The ex
pugilist went along with the wo
man to her wretched DOM IL
Baxter street, where he found thC
sick husband and three children
cuddled together in a corner, "
ing spoon fashion to keep then
from freezing. Morrissey sent fol
his own physician, and gave the
waman fifty dollars for immediate
relief.
At q special meeting of the
P~ittsburg City Council or the II,
nearly all the members of the
old city in the select branch bolt
ed. A proposed act for the i'm
provements of avenues through
the rural districts of the city
which provides for 5-mill tax on
the old city in part payment for
the Improvement, was under dis
cussion. The act had reached
the second reading in that branch
and, fearing its approval, the
members from the old city retir
ed, leaving no quorum. The ru
rslmembers then organized, made
speeches denouncing the boilers
and passed resolutions ofcensure
"A terrible duel took place 3
few days ago at Bologne. The
Marquis Giovanni Mazzacorat
and the Marquis Pizzardi, fired
with pistols at one another at tel
yards distance, with the privilege
of approaching one anotner anC
shooting at pleasure. The Mar
quis Mazzacorati was instantly
Killed by a shot through the tenn
Pile. A strange incident tool
place previous TO the duel. wher
the dueIists and their seconds ar.
rived at the grounds selected TO
combat MazZacorati arranged ev
cry thing, and choose a heml
field for the dueElsts to take thei
stand in. Hizzardi said smiling
ly to him: sBut it seems to me W
shall injure NJ. Miughetti b.
trampling his hemp under foot
One of us,n replied Mazzacorat
with a somber expression, "wil
make up for the damage by er
riching the SOIL" A minute after
wards he was dead.
81 am transported to Q you,
--SoF cold fO the EanPs