The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-06-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
cold closed Yesterday at 1874.

The negre Turner, appointed some
weezs ago postmaster of Macon,
Georgia, has not yet finished his,
bond.
The Irish disestablishment bill
passed passed to a second reading in
the Lords by 33 majority.
Frank Deakenmiller, foreman of
the Democrat Office at Fort Wayne,
shot and severely wounded a printer
named Wells, last Saturday. Wells
had assaulted.
AUGUSTA, Georgia, is shipping
ripe peaches to New York.
The grape crop on the Lake Shore
is said to be very promising. .
Mrs. HOLLENBRooK, a widow, re-
siding in Pittsburg, is under arrest
for infantIcide.
A PARTY of nine hunters, from
Wooster, bagged one hundred and
eleven squirrels one day last week.
TUE trial of James 81. Brown for
the murder of his wife at Berea, Ohio,
has been continued to November.
THE barber of Huron, Ohio. one Of
the best on the Southern shore of
Lake Erie, has been thoroughly re-
paired recently.
THE wheat is now being harvested
in Northern Georgia, and will sur
pass in quality and quantity any
previous crop for many years. 30
On Sunday evening, near Lancas-
ter, Missouri, Lucien Ashford and
Bush Lane, respectable farmers, had
quarrel, when Lane stabbed Ash
ford IN the breast, so that he died in
fourteen hours.
AT Toledo, Philip Steinmetz, who
recently shot Heck, near that city,
and Conrad Meier, who killed the
peddler. Feltenheimer, also in that
vicinity, have both been indicted
for murder in the fast degree.
SMITH, ring-leader of the party
charged with robbing a safe at st.
Marys. Ohio, two weeks ago, and
who shot Marshal Kemper the fol-
10 wing day, Was arrested on Sunday,
and delivered to the authorities of
Shelby County on Wednesday,.
AT Conneaut, Ohio, last Sunday,
the house of Mr.. Peck was struck
by lightning. Mr.. Peck was knock
| ed down and stunned, and one of
his sons was struck, the lightning
rending the latter's clothes and tear
inc his boots into atoms, but he was
not killed.
A NAN named Applegate, in Iowa,
is a wholesale prairie bre Iker. and
when he goes abroad ON business he
carries his family along with him.
| He has built a house so arranged
that he can haQli it from farm to farm;
| in this he lives, DsOUes, and has his
being, with new wife to accompany
him and keep house. re n.a
DENT, the great keeper roft the card
basket and custodian of the bootjacks
in the vicinity of President Grant,
threatens to annihilate the corres-
pondents for making fun of him.
He threatens to perform a dental
| operation upon them-to 'fchaW' EN-
up" in short. We rather feel sorry
for the correspondents. .-XeIlia Torch
light.
THE London Geological Society
has 5000 members, and its gardens
contain 1870 animals. They were
visited last year by 573, ,196 persons,
the admission fees paid being S124,
100 in gold.
TIE City Council of Baltimore
have passed an order to have the
lives of ali the members Of the fire
department of that city insured for
1
about $1,000 per annum.
ABOUT 10 P. NJ, on Friday, q con-
vict ran past one OF the outer guards
of the Sing Sing Prison and effected
his escape. Before the guard could
get his revolver ready to fire the
man had disappeared,
THERE is a pear tree in Danvers,
Mass, from which pears were taken
| . q,
says IL bears more fruit every year
than can comfortably be eaten nv ali
! the people in DanYers.
A CoLoRED man in Quincy, nli-
nois, has brought suit to recover
-, 600 from steamer company, for
having been refused the privilege of
eAtiRg dinner with the white folks.
The subscriptions in France for a
statue to Lamartine come in very
slowly, and though only about $500
more are necessary, it is feared that
amount will not be forth coming.
GEN. CANDY has announced to an
applicant. for registration in Virginia,
that Executive pardon does not re-
move political disabilities" -
GENERAL HAMILTON, in his can
| Yass for the GOvernorship of Texas,
declares that if elected he will never
pardon a fairly conYicted criminal.
A NEW YORK newspaper proposes
an asylum for decayed Journalists at
WeehaWken, every Journalists to be
sent there just as soon as he becomes
dull. :
THE. latest from the Boston Jubf-
lee is the intelligence that an indiVid-
uai5 yesterday applied there for a
situation to "shoVel rosin on to the
fiddle bOWs.'' a-
The new paper money to be is
sued at the close of the month. will
be Water-marked with large ~. S.
The paper is that known as the
-Frenchsilk paper. 7.@ =
THE New York Herald prints a
column about "the committee of
Ways and Means going across the
continent on pleasure trip at the
public expense" y
JESSE EDWARDS, negro, who
committed ripe on Miss Susan
FyIe, a respectable young lady of
hoekbFidge county, Virginia, and
then murdered her, was taken. out
of the county jail by four men and
hung to tree, six miles from Lex
1ngton. The lynchers gained ad-
nnlttance 70 the Jail on the pretense
that they had desperate under ar
rest and desired to imprison him.
The negro had previously confessed
his crimes. - -s :.
AN old man named Houston hay-
ing hung himself near Wayland, Ill,
few days ago. his wife saved his
life by cutting him down in time.
THE lronton Journal says that all
the bodies bat one OF the Seyen that
Woro dEONvIlod aU hanK1nss Point
(Crown City, have been recovered.
The two men belonging to the
schooner Trial, supposed to have
been lost near Cleveland. on Sunday
moEping, We're picked up and taken
to Detroit.