The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-01-13
NEWS ITEMS.

GOLD closed in New York Saturday
at 1854
The prisoners conVictedin the Jail at
GAINESVILLE made their escape through
an upper window of the concern on
Thursday night. and at last accounts
only q had been recaptured.
\ petition for the pardon of DIR.
Samuel Mudd, addressed to the Pres
ident and signed by Democratic
Senator'S and Representatives, has
been placed in the proper channel Tor
consideration.
The Cleveland PLGIadedIer says that
the recent election of a director for
the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad
resulted in a triumph of the Erie in
terest, which will control the road,
and By a third rail will be able to run
into the Union Depot at Cleveland,
from which it has heretofore been ex-
Guided.
In the Florida Senate, OH Saturday,
Liutenant Govnor Gleason. in vacat-
ing the presidential chair, called on
Mr.. Meacham. q colored member to
I'LL it. Gleason then retired and sent
in his resignation rs President Of the
Senate, the proceeding is deemed
Irregular in the high parliamentary
circles OF the fiowery State.
In the Kentucky Legislature on
Saturday, Mr.. Corbett, introduced a
Joint resolution, requesting Congress
20 remove all disabilities from citizens
of this State. under the Fourteenth
Amendment, as Kentucky WAS as
loyal now as in the past. urging peace,
harmony and fraternity to be best &C
eomplished by universal amnesty.
The resolution was referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations.
DOM PIArT writes the Commercial:
''ThiS Government is probably the
most demoraliZed Government in the
world. Its service is rotten to the
core. All the departments are run
by Rings and one-half Of the heavy
taxation collected from an opposed
people, Ii turned into private pockets"
A one thousand dollar bond has
been distracted from a package of
S5,e00 belonging to William Arm
strong. and deposited in the safe of the
auditor OF Allen county. The De-
mOcrat says: "'This is the strangest
robbery on record. $4,000 is taken
from q role of Is, 900 worth of bonds,
and $1,000 from a package of $1,000,
and the balance Left"
There is considerable excitement in
Kosciusko County, Indiana, on &C
count OF the murder OF George Bar
nour by George Hanes, near Warsaw
last Thursday night Hanes and Bar
bour had q officially to settle, which
resulted In the former stabbing Bar
bour in the heart, causing instant
death. Hanes has escaped. A brother
OF his has been arrested on suspicion
ofbeing accomplice; both of the par
ties were armed at the time,
The conference in Paris has met
and IL Is now believed that the East
ern question will be settled without
an immediate outbreak of war,
Speaking of the Tenure-of-Ofice
Law, General GRANT Is reported to
have said to q carpet-bag Southern
Senator the ether day, ."That law
must be repealed before we begin"
In that the PresIdent-eIect obviously
p~receives his best hold upon his Rad
zeal friends, and he will, il he is wise,
cling to it tenaciously. IOWA
Some Republican papers, are active
in showing that the present Congress,
IN all that concerns monetary or land
appropriations, lisa Congressofthieves
Yet the same journals sustain,
generally, this same Congress, and call,
on the people TO endorse it!
Chandler, of Michigan, it is said
will not even, in the midst OF winter,
take his whisky without ice, the reas-
on being that he has q liquor-ice tooth.
So says the Chicago Posi-
A Boston paper stops the press to
announce the fact that CoLFAx put
twenty-five cents in the contribution
box, last Sunday.
General Edward II Stoughton, late
OF New York, died recently at Boston.
He Is the same who was captured by
4osby IN 1853. and about whom Pres
ident Lincoln IL said to have remark
cd: II don't mind the Brigadier-I
a make a new one any time; but I'd
like to get those horses ~back-they
cost $l25 a piece"