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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
Ten Political Rules for Your Guide.


Rules 6y aobich one mag kaol0 he Is
politically right at all times, and ander
all circumstances.
1st- Possesses the spirit of liberty /;
advocate free and liberal principles,
and reserve the Constitution.
I'd. Always oppose tyranny and
despotism whenever found.
3d. Defend the right of the people,
"unawed by influence and unbribed
by gain" .....
4th. With a strict fidelity to the
Interest and welfare of the entire
country maintain equality of privi-
leges, equality of taxation, and equal
ity of States. r.a.-- 5s-.f ".
9th. Oppose all pecuniary advanta-
ges and exemptions enjoyed by any
description of person-Iet all men
have equal chances in the getting of
wealth-no privileged classes.
9Th. Advocate Union-not of
force, but of interest, justice, and
affection. s-
g 18th, Resist the political equality of
different races, and uphold the politi-
cal equality and rights of the same
race, as the sheet anchor of stable
society and government .G.E lr. 4
8th. Oppose great National debt,
that there may be low taxes, and la
Dor lightly burthened. ---.....
9th. Support the freedom of the
press, the freedom of disqusitlon, and
the freedom of religion for. as Jeffer-
son SAYS, terror is perfectly acceptable
when reason and truth are left free to
combat it. i" @ +
10th. Vindicate frugal simple and
plain decentralized system of govern
ment void of 'pomp, protecting all
and granting favors to none, opposing
all centralized, consolidated and ag-
gressive systems, disdaining the pow
er of wealth in politics and State
affairs. MAKE your political faith
harmonic with these rule and you
are right; you cannot be wrong, and
your rich reward is your country's
peace, honor and prosperity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
wonders Of Modern Surgery.


The following is brief summary of an
article in a late Atlantic Monthly on the re-
cent discoveries and improvements in sur
gerry:
By the local application of sufficient de-
gree of cold, insensibilitys can be produced
in any desired part, so that a man with
most exquisitely painful wound on the arm
or felon on the finger, can now look down,
in his perfect senses, upon the knife as it
enters his own body and performs the most
difficult operation without giving him the
least pain. A French surgeon has invented
an instrument he calls the ''ecraseur," or
crusher % perform operations dangerous in
surgery, on account of the loss of blood
from the smaller vessels If performed with a
knife. 1t is formed of a fine chain, gather
ed into loop, which incloses the part to be
removed, and by turning screw the chain
is frightened till the parts are separated. The
blunt chain so turns up and twists the ends
of the blood vessels that hemouhage is pre-
vented. -..s
The eye is now examined by an ins.ru-
ment called the opthalmocUpe, by which the
depth of the globe of the eye can be readi =
! ly and fully explored, and through its aid a
great deal of what has been found to be
wrong. The intricate passages of the ear,
the nose, and the whole of the windpipe
and passages of the lungs are now carefully
explored. s..-
Perhaps one of the best results of mod
eTn science has been through what is called
conservative" surgery, the rule of which
] is to save all that possibly can be saved from
! the amputation knife. Many of our brave
soldiers complained of the reckless haste
with which in the late war some surgeons
would cut off arms and legs on accoun9 of
trifing wounds, The complaint was often
| just. But one of the most distinguished
surgeons in the world has lately written .
''At Kings College it is rare 10 see an. am
putation in nine cases out of ten excision
| Cor cutting out of the diseased portion of
the limb, should be performed in its stead. -
A boy at the West was caught under a
falling log, and his leg broken and twisted
upon itself at right angles With his thigh, the
bones Protruding the flesh, and no doctor
near. He lived, and after weeks of suffer
ing was taken to hospital. Modern con-
servative surgery, instead of amputating the
limb as the old-fashioned surgery would
have done, sawed off the protrnding bones,
turned the leg back again to its place, and
put on an instrument of equal length with
the other, and now the boy stands, runs,
/ jumps with two sound legs. 'T 'f'
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
THE BUNCH OF HEArHER BELLS


As on thy stem a thousand bells
In fragrant beauty hing,
So, round my auld time-withered heart
Sweet recollections cling.
Thy bells to me have tuneful tongues,
That ring auld Scotia's praise,
And hallow'd thochts come rushing back,
To scenes o. bygane days.
Ere thorns o. care grew in my heart,
/ lap over messy dykes,
Whaur heather hnues sing their sangs
And bumbees build their dykes.
I've wandered over the weary waste,
And seen it wrapped in snaw,
Heard lammies beat on purple moors
Whalr scented breezes blaw.
o bonnie bunch o. blooming bells,
= My heart WI rapture thrills,
While thus I-hail thee as friend
Fresh frae my native hills.
Thou'rt red and strong WI mOorland health
And when compared wi thee,
The painted flowers o. tropic lands
Are sickly things to me.
. golden days o joyous youth,
What transports sweet are mine,
When mem'ry through the mists O. years
Glints back on auld langsyne.
o for ae blink o. Scotia's glens,
Her mountains wild and bare;
Bound by the ties that Gamma break,
My heart still fingers there.
JAMES LINEN.
SAN FRANcIsoo, October %, 1868.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03

THE municipality of Chicago has
just completed a practicable tunnel
for wagons and foot passers under the
river at Washington street. Being
divided by the navigable river, whose
active harbor business kept the nu-
merous bridges almost continually on
the swing, the communication was
much obstructed both on land and
water, This tunnel remedies that
difficulty on one principal street, and
is believed to be the pioneer of a sys-
tenn that will abolish the bridges on
all the great thoroughfares. Thus
egresS will be made free in every di-
rection, and the city may spread out
equally over all the e&panse of fiat
prairie which surrounds that city.
The Chicago papers speaks of 1t in the
Chicago style, as if it took rank be-
fore the seven wonders of the world !;
but it really is a great work for Chi
cago, and is very creditable to that
place.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
Modern Inventions for the Millions.


Among the ingenious and convenient in
ventioRs that New York can furnish, the
following may be enumerated:
The Bachelors Kettle, fiat in structure
aud capable of boiling quart of water over
farthing worth OF fireWood, ready for
shaving, ETC., before the owner is out of
bed.
Spirit iSlaUes and Spirit Kettles, very
portable and compact, using splits of wine
or "methyiated" spirit for fuel.
Tile asbestos Fireplace, in which the
asbestos glows like the sur itself in little
jet of gas, lights up and warns an apart
ment with all the effect of an onen fire.
place and cooks food, the asbestos remain
ing unconsumed and ready for use, again
and again.
Asbestos Boilers; gas conservatory boil
ers; gas kettle stands; AR and gas broilers,
and water dish heaters, the application of
which is indicated by their names, all came
under the same category of neatness, expe-
dition and cheapness.
The NOrl1egiG1l Kitchen, lined with felt
which cooks or Keeps icy cold all things
consigned to It as may be desired.
The BdciteLOr's OUeR enables the lonely
lodger to bake, fry. aud boil, at pleasure. in
tidy space and with pennywOrth of fuel.
The Mimic CtlIttdrOR, an English in
vention, is no bigger than a lady's reticule,
yet will cook anything not too bulky for it,
in any way.
The SaEdDl0I1Ier is applicable chiefly
where there is gas, and is q first rate porta~
bic kitchen.
Inc 1ttna lights its own fire, boils wa
ter, makes both tea and coffee at the same
time, and keeps them hot with less than
cents worth of methylated spirit
The Tea PercOLator and Tea Float are
familiar. They suspend the tea in the pot
or even in the cup, and as boiling water Is
poured over the herb, almost Instantly give
you delicious cup of tea free from sedi-
ment. E-t
TIE Ladies Tea Maker is . little wire
game silver cup TO hold the tea which ia
put into teapot full of cold water. A tiny
spirit lamp under the pot does the boiling,
and when the beverage. is ready ii QOOIgs out
Of itself, into teacup placed beneath the
spout
With this self-adjusting tea apparatus we
suspend our list for the present, to resume
It'and add many curious things, in an ensu-
ing number of our paper.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
FINE.


MoRN oALLETH fondly to fair boy stTaying
Mid golden meadows, rich with clover
dew; .F
She calls, but he thinks of naught save
playing,
And so she smiles and waves him an adieu!
While he, still merry with the fiowery store,
Deems not that morn, sweet morn, returns
no more. IEaa ~
Noon coMETH-but the boy to manhood
growing, t
Heeds not the time-he sees but one
One young, fair face from bower of jasnnin
flowing,
And all his loving heat with bliss is
warm.
So soon, unnoticed seeks the western shore,
And man forgets that noon returns no more.
NIGHF FTAPPETHGENTLY at a easement gleam-
ing or
With the thin freight ficllering faint and
low;
By which gray-haircd man is sadly dream
ing
OF pleasures gone as all life's pleasures go.
Night calls him to her, aud he leaves hi.
door, ri
Silent and dark-and he returns no more.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03

N@~SJ'
The Detroit Tribune tells the follow
ing curious story of a convict recently
pardoned by the Governor of that
State: ~
'The pardOning of Edward Murphy
who had been convicted of murder at
Mackinac, from the State prison, and
the application made by him to the
Legislature for compensation for SER
vices during the time of his incarcer.
alton, has given rise to some newspa-
per gossip. The person who commit
ted the murder was known as Patrick
Kearney. He committed the deed on
November 10Th, 1851, on the steamer
Globe, and was brought to Detroit on
that steamer.and placed ia jail, two or
three days later, too lare in the season
to be taken back to the scene of the
murder to be tried.
''On the night of March Sd, 1852,
Kearney, in company with eleven
others, escaped from the Jail. After
the jail breaking had occurred the
then Sheriff offered reward of TWEEN
ty-fve dollars for the capture of the
escaped prisoner, and this amount
was paid for the arrest of Edward
Murphy, VINO was afterwards ,convie-
ted of the murder, and although
innocent as it, now turns ouf, was
sentenced for life to the State prison.
"The arrest of Murphy was effected
in this manner: At the time the
murder was committed n an named
Cummings was pretty badly cut by
the criminal. Cummings afterwards
went to Chicago and became a police
man, or some sort of an officer. Eight
years after the crime was committed.
Cummings saw a person in that city
whom he believed to be the escaped
murderer. This man gave his name
as Edward Murphy, after being arres-
ted at the instance of Cummings, but
so firm did the informer appear to be
in his conviction that the prisoner
was really the criminal, that the De-
troit authorities were notified of the
arrest, and Peter Laderoot, who was
turnkey at the jail when the prisoners
before alluded to escaped, went to
Chicago to identify him. Both Lade'
root and Cummings were of the same
opinion relative to the man, and upon
the strength of their testimony he
was taken back to Mackinac and con-
victed of murder. Murphy, on his
trial, put in no defense, but protested
his Innocence to the last. There was
certainly striking resemblance be-
tween Murphy and Kearney."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03

A LETTER ftom John G. Rreckin-
ridge, dated Niagara, January 13, has
been received by one of his friends In
Columbus, Georgia. Breckenridge
says "I hope to leave Canada in q
few weeks and return to my former
home" The following incident is also
mentioned about his colored servant ::
''ThOmas went with me to Cuba, He
gazed on the Atlantic Ocean with
amazement, and was in great terror
when we launched our little boat, but
his fidelity proved stronger than his
fears, and he embarked with me. l
succeeded in sending him back to his
friends from Havanah, although he
wished to remain with me, and de-
clared that if ever returned he
would find me out and live with me.
The last heard of him he was solicit
ed to become a candidate for some
convention in Arkansas, but after in
quiring what a convention was, he
declined the honor"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
EObbing Newspapers.

The Cincinnati Gazette of 14th Jan.
1859, tells its readers that no less than
six Republican newspaper offices have
been destroyed Oy mObs in Louisiana,
end the proprietorS of neighbouring
Democratic Journals have generally
been active in the work" And it
adds with philosophic calmness, on
the authority of the New Orleans Re
publican, that jealousy, about county
printing had much to do with it.
''Henee private interest is Joined to
political hate in getting rid of their
rivals" The commentary is valuable,
and it may perhaps lead the public To
understand why SO many Democratic
papers We're mObbed at the North in
the days of Abraham Lincoln, and
why the circulation of others were
forbidden by ''loiI" Generals. Did the
readers of the Gazette ever hear that
one hundred Democratic papers were
mobbed and suppressed in those days
Did the Gazette ever hear of the Re-
publican robbery of a printing Office
in Cincinnati, and stealing Sebln
Hough's papers? Did it hear of mob
bing the Dayton Empire and murder
ing its editor, Mr.: Bolmeyer and of the
men who did it? Did it hear of the
second attack on the Office when
under charge of the Rubhards and OF
the acqulttal of the Shoulder-strap
fellow, who boasted in a Speech from
the Court House steps that he had
done it? Did 1t hear of moDbing the
Bucyrus Forum, the Democratic
Citizen at Lebanon, the Ohio Eagle al
Lancaster, the WdtcltnldI at CircleYille
the Stark County Democrat at Canton
the Sentinel at Cadiz, the Crisis al
Columbus, tine Mahoning Sentinel al
Youngstown, and the Democrat al
GreenVille? Was all this done by
'private INTEREST,"? Or was it ''a burst
of Republican enthusiasm" as the N
Y Tribune called it when the offices in
New York were mobbed p Ur6GnO
Union.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
MISCELLANY.

'rThe rightful heir Not the chign0n.
Transported for lfe-the man who mar
ries happily, s .'--.-
What is better than promising young
mans A paying one.
The only everlasting people on the earth
are the shoemakers.
Who were the first astronomers The
stars, for they first studded the heavens.
In becoming the lion of a party, does a
man necessarily make a beast of himself
A poultry riddle-maker asks, "why is
hen immortal" And answers, because
her son never sets. ...-
Why do cab men prefer short ladies to
tall ones? Because the higher the fair the
better they like it.. --.
Why is it important for physician to
keep his temper? Because if he did not he
would lose all of his patients. 90 -..
A Maine man has sued the husband of his
daughter for tea, cake and candies con-
sumed during the courtship
When hog is found at large in the streets
of Charleston, he is killed and his carcass
distributed among the poor.
The men who fiatter the women do. not
know them sufficiently; and the men who
only abuse, do not know them at all.
When charity walks into the lowest places
of want, we see the beautiful purity of her
robes most distinctly.
They have TRAITORS in Michigan. That
Is what Senator Chandler's friends call the
truly loyal who opposed his reelection.
The reconstruction Legislature of South
Carolina, il is stated, is costing the State
eight or ten times more than did the old
Legislature s-.e- ... ...s
1t is well enough to remind our readers
that the increase of the national debt during
the month of November was nearly, but not
quite two millions. aUG-. p
A Western editor says The march of
civilization is ownward-onward like the
slow but intrepid tread of a jackass toward
peck of oats"
No object is more pleasing to the eye than
the sight of the man whom you have obliged;
nor any music so agreeable TO the ear, as the
voice Of one that owns you for his henefac-
tor. .....
a man being asked, as he lay summing
himself in the grass, what was the height of
his ambition, replied, ''To marry a rich
widow with 3 bad cold" 10
Ike's last trick was to throw Mrs. Part
Ington's old gaiter in the alley, and call the
old lady down from the third floor to see an
alleygaiter. .-....
A polite philosopher once thanked lady
who had been singing to party an hour, in
the follwing manner: ''Madam you have
wasted our. time charminglyp E
A young lady intending to paint her
cheeks with rouge, put all the paint on her
nose, and did not discover her error until
she was requested to sign the pledge.
No matter how firmly we believe an
opinion, it is always strengthened by anoth-
er's assent, as aquatic plants, though living
in the water, are refreshed by a shower.
s.r'I tell you what, sir, . said Yankee of
his opponent F'that man don't amount to a
sum in arithmetic; add hm up, and there's
nothing TO carry ~ - a--
At a late reception in the West, one of
the prettiest costumes was a rich gross az
AfLiQlte point corsage, with lace chemisette,
rich white lace shawl, bonnet of pale laven-
der velvet trimmed with marabout plume
of point applique lace.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
Some Ground.

M. Washburne, recently made a speech
on the Pacific Railroad subsidies, in which
occurred the following remarkable facts:
Mr. Washburne CHI. took the floor and
addressed the House in opposition to the bill.
He called the attention of tine House and the
country to the fact that one third of the
public domain had been granted away to
railroad corporations. The quantity was es
timated at one hundred and eighty five mill
Hons of acres, which at the minimum price
OF the public lands, would have brought
$3.50, 900, 900 into the treasury. It was not
an over estimate to-day that the value of the
public lands voted,nway by Congress in the
last eighteen years has hot been less than
S5OO, ,OOO, coo. The Commissioner of the
General Land Office had estimated 1t as ex-
ceedIng in the aggregate 5000, 900 of acres
the entire area of the six New ENGLAND
States added TO the surface of New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia The grautsof The
Pacific railway lines alone were, according
to the sdme authority, within about one
fourth of being twice the united area of
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland. Guern-
sey, Sersey, the Isle of Man and the islands
] of the British seas, and within tenth of be-
! ing equal to the French Empire proper
| This extraordinary statement, he said, must
startle the American people if it does not
arouse their. interest Indignation, and this
was in addition to the untold millions of
money subsidies. The report of lessee L.
| Williams, the Government Director of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company shove d
that the entire length of the road would be
! LILO miles, and that the government sub.
sides in bonds amounted to $29, 500, 600,
being an average per mile of $26, $50 The
company's first mortgage bonds would yield
over S27, eco, 900, so that the funderealized
from those two sorces amounted to over
SOC, ,OO0, 600, being an average of $5I, ,O34
per mile, exceeding by $l6,000 the actual
cost OF constructiod and equipment. This
yielded profit to the company of nearly
| SIS, 600, 600.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
Wise Sayings of the Aneients.


They who defrauh virtue of its rewards.
robthe yonng of virtue itself-CAro MAJOR.
The young ought to use modesty in their
dress. .-ZENo.
The office OF a wise man is to discern that
which is good and honest, and to shun that
which is contrary.
Three properties are essentially requisite
TO the attainment of wisdom-nature, learn
ing and experience. ce.-ARsToTLE
The perfection of man consists in fore
seeing the future, as much as reason. can
possibly accomplish.-CHILO.
There Is as much difference between a
wise. man and a fool as between horse that
is properly broken and one that is not
ARIsrIPPUs.
They who know what they ought to do.
and do il not, are not wise and well institH-
ted but fools and stupid.
The most difficult thing is to know ones
SELF; the most easy to give counsel to ans
other, and the most delightful. to obtain the
completion of our desires.-THALEs.
To be ignorant of ourselves, to seem to
know those things whereof we are ignos
rant, borders on madness. -SooRATEs.
To be commended by those who might
blame without fear, gives great pleasure.
AGEsIAUs.
To praise what is estimable, is right; but
to flatter what is wrong, is the property of a
designing hYpocritical soul. l.-DEMooRIrus.
The beauty of fame is blasted by envy as
by sickness. .-SCoRATEs.
To desire little levels poverty with riches.
-DEAfooRITUs.
To be engaged, is good and useful; to be
idle is pernicious and evil. They who do
good are employed; but they who spend
their time in vain recreations, are idle
SOCRATES
To preserve physic for the dead, and adj
vice to the old, is the same thing.-DIoe-
ENEs.
The way to admired, is to be what we
affect to be thought. t.-SocRATEs
To expose ones self to great dangers for
trivial matters, is to fish with goldeh hook,
where more money may be lost than gotten.
-AGUsrUs CESAR.
The be&uty of the mind is more lovely
than that of the body.-SocRATEs =
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03

ANNA STARCY, of Hamilton town
ship, Van Buren county, Michigan,
has curious history. A year ago
last spring. she entered the township
attired in a mans clothes, bought
forty acres of land, with a house part
ly constructed, completed the house
with her own hands, grubbed out by
hand fourteen acres of heavy oak, and
fitted the soil for the plow; chopped
her own wood, split her. own rails,
and had the best fence in the township.
She has eight acres of land in wheat !;
has ditch on one side of her land
regarded as a superior affair; made a
first-rate bob-sled (she dug up trees
and sawed the runners out by hand, J
and has managed to supply her neigh
bors with axehelves and splint baskets.
After she had put her house to rights,
she put on woman's clothes and called
herself Ann Starcy. The account
adds that she lives alone.-Pitts. Post
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The United States Senator from FIori-
da-Hon. A. s. Welch, of Iowa,
Michigan and Florida.

The Tallahassee Sentinel gives the
following account OF one of Florida's
Senators, whom it dabs a ''carpet BAG
ger extraordinary" 1t will seem 30
TO all who will read what the Sentinel
says of the Senator. The Hon. A. S.
Welch, of Iowa, President of the Ag-
riculturaI College of that State, it saws.
''wlth 1000 year and a furnished
house, AND Senator from Florida fun
til March next Will soon be announc-
ed by the Jacksonville onion as a
candidate for the task of ousting Mr..
Gilbert from his seat as United States
Senator from this State. Mr.. Welch
was elected last July to serve the un-
expired term and shortly after accep-
{ ri the lucrative position of President
of the Iowa college, gave up his resi-
dence in Florida, removed his family
to Iowa, and his property here was
left for sale. His saw mill sold for
$4,000. His residence is held at So
500 with furniture. Mr.. Weleh has
just returned TO Florida. He proposes
TO pull up stakes instanter if the Leg
islature will be so naughty as not to
gratily him.
Gentlemen of the Legislature, we
have the high honor to take the bull
by the horns and introduce to your
acquaintance in January the Hon. Mr..
Welch, of Michigan, President of a
college in lowe, and at present Uni
ted States Senator from Florida!