The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-05-25
NEWS ITEMS.

In the Tennessee legislature on Monday,
the senate passed bill on thefirst reading,
prohibiting the inter-marriage of white
and colored persons.
A Mrs. Josephine Simpson. of Toledo.
has accumulated a fortune of $4,000.
She Is the owner of a canal boat, which
she commands IN person. She does not be-
long to woman suffrage society, either.
There was large fire at St. Paul, Min,
nesota, Thursday, and quite a number of
buildings We're destroyed. Two men in
Bryant and Stratton's s College were obliged
to Jump from a window, about one hun
| dred feet to the ground, and one of them
was fatally injured. A woman and child
Were also burnt up.
Mexican advices to the 18th state that
| the followers of Pedro Marterez. about 500
| strong, recently abandoned him and sur
rendered ts the Government The bandit
bravo Is still in the field with GOO fellow
ers. Congress Is now engaged on the sub.
Ject of finances having dropped railroad
matters. An extra session will probably
be called
A dispatch from Collingwood says the
steamer Chicora returned Wednesday even
ing. She was again refused permission to
the Sault Ste Marie Canal General Cooke
stated that his instructions were absolute
that nothing whatever connected with the
Red River expedition should pass the c.
nal
General Robert E Lee will attend the
Episcopal convention, in Wheeling, W
Va, on the 25th inst
Bullock, of Georgia, spent $4,000 of the
states money for incidental expenses
during the last year.
The conference of the African Methodist
Church, at Trenton, New jersey, adopted
resolutions declaring Fred. Douglas an in
tldel for Ignoring the interposition of God
in the enfranchisement of the colored peo-
pie.
An interesting and somewhat excited
discussion was had in the New York Board
| Of Education on Wednesday over the ques-
tlon of restoring corporal punishment in
the public school The arguments for and
against tiagellatiOn were put forth in WV
i'd language by partisans of either side
The matter was finally referred to special
committee with instructions to report
some plan of correction that shall meet
the views of all parties in the Board.
A Memphis dispatch says horrible
shooting affray occurred in a French gar
den near Fort Pickering, at two O'Clock
yesterday morning, during which Jerry
| Rlordan, barkeeper, was fatally wounded
Albert Baer, news-peddler, shot in the
| knee severely Josh. Moore, severely. in
thigh, 5. Howell has been arrested for
shooting Rlordan, and acknowledges il.
but says he shot him in self-defense.
General Ferry, .. S. Senator from Con-
nectlcut, was Union soldier in the late
war, and earnestly advocates general am
nesty for the South. Morton and Cameron
DC, oppose the measure and We're stay-at-
homes.
Much excitement arose at several of the
schools in New Orleans, on the 18th,
committee with negro children demanding
| admittance for them. Several of the
teachers could not take them and referred
the colored party to the superintendent
The penalty for refusal is very severe, the
act having been passed by the late Negro
Legislature of Louisiana. So we 90,
white folks.
Schenck's tariff bill seems to have come
to grief for this session and we hope
Schenck himself will come to grief and be
defeated for Congress at the next election.
Archbishops, Purcell of Cincinnati, and
Kenrick, of st. Louis, oppose the dogma
of lnfallibility, while the Archbishop os
Baltimore favors.
The radical leaders are not taking the
negro question out of politics very fast
They seem disposed to keepit in
Erie county, New York, in which is
Buffalo, gave Church for Chief Justice,
1900 majority. Last fall it went Radical
$50, Herkimer county gave Church $50
majority, heretofore strongly radical. So
the white resolution went all over the
State.
a little bit of a row in Portugal. The
old Kings ministers were unpopular and
some soldiers and other citizens attempted
to enter the palace to compel the old mon
arch to change them and form a new min
ist-y. They succeeded after a fight and
some killed. The King of course COM
piled. Kings are a great institution. If
they only had President like Lincoln, or
Grant, or Juarez, or that fellow in Hayti,
his name don't matter)l
Emperor Napoleon has made a speech,
on the Plebiscitum-adroit and Napoleon
ic. 1t is me, nay family, &c.