The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-03-31
MISCELLANEOUS.


A great "brute ofa husband" adver-
tIsed in the morning papers for q
strong, able-bodied man to hold his
Wife's tongue.
There are twenty-three veterns of
the war of 1872, the younest seventy
two years old, living In New York. In
abject want.
The London Telegraph calls Anna
Swami, the giantess, a "demseI of
harmoniousandh homogeneous, though
tremendous. inches.
The present tariff on sugar is five
cents per pound, but the sugar refners
are not satisfied, and desire to have
it still further increased.
It is estimated that in Great Britain
| the annual consumption of intoxica-
| ting liquors is Sl,025, 900, 900, upon
which tax of Sl20, 100000 is paid
The Westnlinste7' RecieU says that
"Miss Thackeray's new book will be
a great triumph to those who main
tain that genius is hereditary"
A lady with the ''Grecian Bend''
considered herself insulted when she
was told, few days ago, that rheum-
attic Jiniment would restore her shape.
The Lexington Enterprise says, the
PRESBYTERIAN Church in that town is
broken open by persons who steal
pork and bacon and go there to cook
it on the stove.
A we'll known author hung up his
stocking in jest last Christmas eve,
and his wife, very much in earnest,
put badly into it. whereupon the
author said: "My dear, darn that
stocking"
Seventy thousand acres Of land in
Florida will be sold at Jacksonville |
on the first Monday In April next, |
for division among the heirs. These |
lands are Spanish grants, and COM |
prise some of the most valuable lands |
in the State.
A Gentle swain, enamOred ofa Miss
Bread, perpetrates the following:
While bellies their lovely graces spread /
And fopS around them t1utter,
I'l be content with Anna Bread,
And won't bave and but her.
The hotel car that is designed to
accompany the first through train
from San Francisco to the East has
been completed at the Central Pacific
shops. 1t is thus described by a Cal
ifurnIa exchange: 1t is divided into a
large number of cOmpartments-one
lined with zinc for meat, several for
groceries, vegetables, &C., one with a
wire door for live fools, large tanks
for fresh waterfall arranged as neat
ly and compactly as can well beimag-
ined. at one end of the car there are
several berths for the accommodation
Of the train hands. The car is strong
ly built, and having both rubber and
steel springs, is one of the easiest rid
ing in the State.
At Columbia City, Indiana, John
Tyler is on trial for the murder of r.
P. Shepler, near there, last summer.
Taylor admits that he shot him, but
that it was done in self defense, they
having quarreled over some private {
matters, and come to blows, The i'm
preston prevails that he will be ac-
quilted.
In the New York Assembly the re- I
bort of Jay Gould, President Of the !
Erie Railroad, as to the capital stock !
# the road on the 19th of March, was !
presented. The common stock was |
z, 600, 600, preferred $8,0000,000, and
'Ort says the eflOating debt is too fiuct- :
IatIDg TO bestated accurately.
The New York Sorosis held its an !,
luaI on Monday. There are now r
ighty-three members. Jennie June
vas elected President. Mrs. Horace
ireeley and Fanny Fern are among
ne Vice Presidents. cl
a man named st. CLAIR, who recent E
Y attempted n rape on a woman near p
)gden, Utah, was shot at Omaha on y
be 23d. by the husband of the woman, II
7hiIe he was in charge OF the police. V,
Ie is not expected to recover. Il
Mr.. Xavier RingWold, formerly p
itizen OF st. Louis, but lately of Ste 81
comm itted suicide Of the pl
alter place on Monday evenino, IN o
Onsequence of financial emhaSresS lie
lent. He was engaged in the hfeU.
ig business, and had lost Sfz 900.
The special election for memherS of B
le Legislature was held in forfI,-six @
)unties of Indiana on Marcb % and A
ssulted, of course, in the refurn ofalJ J,
he Democratic members Who had re- al
gned. In very few Counties WAS te
lere any opposition, and in all the L
Otes cast was quite light. al
Harriet, the negro Woman who kill II
I Iitfly Nancy Wright in fhe woods th
ear Macon, Ga, has been arrested te
ne still wore the garments-some of
lem stained with blood-she had on
hen chopping her victims head to be
eces. 10
WALL PAPER.-A large assortment TO
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