The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-10-19
News Summary.

at Lake Village, N. H., Monday.
Grant hasn't been drunk in public for
more than two weeks.
Grants preferences are for fluids instead
OF solids. except in the matter of Seneca
stone.-Detrot Free Press.
DR., Livingstone has died so many times
these last few years that people are begin
ing to call him DR.. Livingstone.
Grant wants his visit to Bostsn to be
unattended by demonstrations He wont
object if it is attended with presentations.
Weston, the so called champion pedes-
trian, broke down in his attempt to walk
ll3 miles in twenty-four hours at Cincin-
natl.
The. Empress Eugenie is now in the pail
ace of her mother, the Countess de Monti-
10, where she will receive visit from her
mother, the Queen Maria Pla.
There are some who think Mrs. Whar-
ton, now confined in Baltimore, is the VIC
tim of unfortunate circumstances, and has
poisoned no one.
Governor Yarmouth, of Louisiana, re-
Gently announced that he had refused a
bribe of fifty thousand dollars. He was
Immediately thereupon repudiated by the
Administration at Washington.
Mr. Alexander, the well known stock
raiser of Kentucky, is about to marry.
His tenants and friends in Airdrie, Scot
land where his ancestral estate is situated,
intend to celebrate the event by sending
to their laird and lady a congratulatory
address.
Anna Dickinson has pocketed by her
lectures alone since 1860 the snug sum of
SSl 900, and Olive Logrn, who has been
only three years in the blowing business,
has raked in $4,000, Who says humDug
don't pay? Those two old girls are good
for another half century. lltsff-5 s.
The kind-hearted newspaper editors of
New York are getting ready to make war
upon one of their number, who is charged
with haYing procured an unlawful divorce
from a good wife in order to wed a bad
woman, and the man isn't Brick Pomeroy.
Those New York editors are nice fellows.
The welthiest silver mine owner in the
world lives in Mexico. His name is Jose
Corresco. One of several valuable mines.
which he owns yields him a monthly in
come of 100000.
Halifax dispatches estimate the damage
by the late hurricane at 100000. The
storm on Halifax harbor on Friday morn
ing presented the appearance of wreck and
ruin never seen before. The Wharves were
shattered, several vesselA were high and
dry, and others dismantled. Altogether,
thirty vessels, mostly fishermen suffered.
Three men were drowned off the harbor
while setting nets. The railroad track
from Halifax to Bedford was damaged to
the extent of sixteen thousand dollars.
Near Shelbyville, KY, last Saturday,
two negroes under arrest, charged with
attempting to outrage two white women,
were taken from the Sheriffs posse by five
hundred men, and hanged. Placards
were then pinned to their clothes, warn
ing all except the cival authorities against
cutting them down. 1nder the penalty of
the same. ~ t'-- So
An expedition to defend Manitoba from
those terrible Fenians will leave Colling-
wood, Canada. on Friday.
There has been terrible gale all along
the Canada lake coast, since Sunday night,
doing great damage to property, and caus-
ing some loss of life.
Fourteen per cent. of all the fires. in
New York, it is said, are caused by kero-
sene. -.
William J. Gleason, contractor on the
Midland Railroad of New Jersey, is miss
ing with $4,000 in cash, and it is feared
he has been murdered
Lima, Peru, advices of the 2Sth ult.
report rich gold discoveries at Haucho,
sixty-three miles from Callao. Rich de-
Poslts of gold and copper are also found
IN the vicinity Of lquiqui.
Ths conversions of the new postofice
building in Boston was laid Monday.
President Grant was present.
In the yacht race Monday, the Colum-
bia rounded the winning stake-boat TWEEN
ty-five minutes ahead of the English
yacht LiyOnia.
Snow fell to the depth of three or four
feet in Wyoming Territory last Thursday.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masous, of
Kentucky, met at Louisville Monday.
A cry for immediate relief comes from
the unhappy people of Manistee, Michi-
gan, who have been burned out of house
and home and, like their fellow-sufferers
in score of other places devastated by the
prairie fires, rendered utterly destitute of
the common neeessaries Of hfe The loss
es by the burning of Manistse are est;-
mated at 81 100000 7-' s.5 '-
Extensive -6res have been raging
throughout the Rocky Mountains since
August 81 The typographical work of
the geological expedition has consequent
ly been stopped. -. .s-.'.z.s..s .-.1E
r David Kently, alias James Wilson, was
hanged in Hartford Jail Friday for the
murder of a prison warden. Early Friday
morning theconvict attempted suicide by
to puneture his heart with a
small wire. 1t was believed that the
would prove. fatal, and application was
made for respite, which was refused
Partially recovering when the hour for ex-
ecntion came, he walked to the scaffold,
and made short speech justifying his
conduct, and finally put the rope over his
own neck and died without finching.
A wholesale slaughter of railroad pas
sengers by a gang of desperadoes from |
Chicago on Wednesday night was haPpi-
ly prevented by the alertness of the rail
road. authorities at Milwaukee. The ring
leader of the gang has been arrested.
President Grant hopes to annul the eff
feets of the Democratic victory IN Texas
by placing the Southern States under
martial law and occupying them by the
army, so that the soldiers may give Grant |
q majority OF votes in certain places.
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