The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-04-20
NEWS ITEMS.

The principle portion of the town of
ForestvIlle, New York, was burned Mon
day night. The fire was caused by an ex-
Plosion of lamp in Straight &c Bros store.
The principal losers are G. Scott, Brown &
Pierce, Dee & Co., A. J. Webb, Straight &
Bors., A P PaTson. Bhe loss Is estimated
at 100000 half insured.
The Hartford Times and New Haven
Register figure up an actual gain TO the
Democrats in Connecticut of over 200
votes. A gain In Senators is made IN the
fifth, twelfth, eighteenth and twentieth
districts, but loss IS sustained in the six
teenth, thus giving the Republicans that
branch of the Legislature by only one ma
jority. Last year the Radicals had IA,
the Democrats Z members.
At the Congressional Convention for
the Fourth District, held at Connersville,
Indiana, yesterday, letter from Hon.
Geo. H. Julian was presented and read,
withdrawing his name, and recommending
the unanimous support of the party to be
concentrated upon Judge Wilson. Judge
Wilson was then declared the unanimous
choice of the Convention A resolution
was passed indorsing Mr. Julian's course
in Congress.
A Washington dispatch says that Gen.
eral Sherman has returned to Washington,
and has received dispatches from officers in
Tennessee, who report that all is quiet
and that the people generally are attend
ing to their work, and preparing for the
planting season. Sherman announces his
opposition to the policy of placing troops
under the orders of Governor Senter ol
any other civilian, and says nothing would
so soon destroy the efficiency of the army
George B. McCarter, Chief of the Bur
eau of Engraving and Printing, has beer
in New York for several days, engaged II
procuring stock and additional engraveri
to toward the completion of United States
bonds under the provisions of the fund
| ing bill when it becomes a law. He vii
issue on Wednesday next 81 100000 o
new fifty cent notes at the Treasury De
partment. This new note bears upon it
face a likeness of the late Secretary Slant
on. The paper is of a new design, said t.
be proved against conterfeiting.
The author OF a recent work on Indii
defends the climate of that country, which
he says, is principally dangerous to per
sons who do not take proper care of them
selves: and, inlillustration of this fact b
quotes the remark to the Irish gentleman
IN reference to Europeans in India
"They eat and they drink, they drink an
they eat, and then they die, and then,.the,
write home to say that the cimat
has killed them"
Charles Lamb was in the habit of wear
ing white cravat, and in consequence wa
sometimes taken for clergyman. Ono
at dinner table, among large numbe
OF guests, his white cravat coused such
mistake to be made, and he was called o
} to say grace. Looking up and down tn
table, he asked, in his inimitable lispin
manner, 'Is there no cl-cl-clergyman pre-:
/ ent p mo. sir" answered a guest "Tf
then" said Lamb, bowling his hea'
LET us thank God"
T Major Millinger, in a paper read befol
the Anthropological Society, tells us th'
all the ladies in Constantinople are slaN
dealers. Every woman who has any cal
ltal to invest becomes an imported of b.
e sex from Circassia. The business is So
!. and profitable, for white slaves are ne
esslty to the Mussulman dynasty. 1t
contrary to the statutes of the empire
s the Sultan or his family to marry al
but slaves, and in the seragho it is t
Clrcassians who receive the treatme
u and alone attain the highest honors.
!. intimately is slavery bound up with t
q social and political system of Turkey thI
3 3 IN the opinion of Major Millinger, the e
u Il function of the former must imply the {
Il struction of the latter"