The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-03-10
a. McGRReOR. EpTTOR.
NEWS ITEMS.

ASNASA q CIV ONyS S4AlCG ny AnOCh-
ing him in the head with an AK.
The old man was in liquor and
was trying to shoot his son.
The Assemblies of the Old and
New School Presbyterian Church.
es meet in New York on the third
Thursday in next May. til is gen
orally believed a union ofthe two
bodies will be effected. %
The decrease in the value of
land in Florida is shown by the
fact that at Il recent sale by the
United States Marshall, several of
the most valuable tracts in Leon
county, sold under execution, at
a dollar an acre in currency. Be
fore the wal the same land was
worth 81 per acre in gold.
The Illinois State Senate is an
apt pupil of Congress in matters
of decency. A scene took place
on Saturday, which, for a time,
created intense excitement. A
Senator was making a speech,
when Mr.Eplar, of Witt County,
jumped up and called him a liar.
After a great deal of confusion,
the honorable gentleman took it
all back, and peace was restored.
John McMiller, a young man
living near Clifton, Clork County
Ohio, left his home Saturday morn
ing in a sleigh, and was brought
back at p. NJ. lying dead in the
sleigh, the horses having walked
home of their own accord. From
a bruise on his right eye, and from
other circumstances, foul play was
suspected; but a post-mortem ex-
animation showed that his death
had resulted from congestion of
the brain.
Between twenty and thirty stu
dents of the North western Chris
tan University, in Indiana, were
expelled Friday, for insubordina-
ton in having eommemorated
Washington's birthday by absen-
ting themselves from college with
out leave, and tossing resolutions
which were supposed to reflect
upon the faculty. Quite anumber
of the participants apologized to
the faculty, and were pardoned
but the rest, refusing to retract,
were expelled.
The boys who murdered Mr..
J. II! Rice, ofShanrock, Ohio, have
been caught. They make the fol
lowing explanation. On the day
of the murder Rice and the boys
were bottling wine in the barn;
the boys imbibed freely and were
partially intoxicated. Rice re-
primanded them, angry words en-
sued andlat length one of them
.seized7a Ratchet and killed Rice
instantly by a blow on the head.
The boys dug a hole outside of
the barn, riled the body of a
watch and one thousand dollars,
buried the body, and fled.
On Wednesday morning Mr..
Thomas Penniheld, residing seven
miles southwest of Rockville, Md,
went into the woods to chop wood.
Before he left home he took from
his truk about one hundred and
fifty dollars, which he had recent
~ received. Nothing was herd
from him until Saturday. when his
son-in-law, Mr.. Hill, went in sear'h
ofhim, and found him in the woods
about three hundred yards from
the house, foully murdued, and ly-
ing against a tree which he had
partly felled. His money was gone.
No clue to the murderer has yet
been discovered.
The election in Rock, Island,
Illinois, March 3, the Democrats
elected their Mayor, and carried
every ward. Last year the Repnb-
LEANS elected their candidate for
Mayor and had a majority in the
City Council. @
Pound Harties. Fare the latest
Boston Eotion. Those invited are
expected to contribute one pound
at least of something to eat.
Richmond has a "mathemat-
icaI Blind Tom, II years old, un-
educated, yet a solver of prob
lens who works with remarkable
rapidly. s.4I.. ~
The New York FenianS are pre-
pairing to gived Warren and Cos
telIo a reception at Cooper In
stitqte, in that city, a
Peppermint has become so pre-
in Wayne county N. Y.
that it is estimated that over fifty
peppermint distilleries will be
built next spring.
Williamsburg, N. Y, it is said,
contains among its population one
hundred Mormon families; some
of the saints" having as many as
eleven wives .4I.t
A Fog whistle, to be worked by
a tenhorse power engine, is being
constructed for Thatcher's Island.
off Salem, Mass. 1t will be ready
by the 1st of June. This viii be
the largest n most powerful fog
whistle in the world.
a Man has just been condem-
ed at Vienna to three months i'm
for offensive language
against the Empress Maria Theresa
who lied in 1850. Ajournal asks
what sort of satisfaction the au-
gust deceased can have received
from the punishment.
1t is said that before the estab-
of lighthouses on the
northern extremity of Scotland, |
the Orkney Island farmers and
wreckers used claret wine instead
Of milk in their barley porridge,
and fenced their farms with Hon
duras Theybitterly
opposed the erection of light
houses.