The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-10-26
GENERAL AND pARTICuLAR.

The Pittsburgh Post nOmInateS Colonel
Thomas A. Scott, Vice President of the
Pennsylvania railroad, for the Democratic
candidate for President Of the, United
States. .siT - -ss1 r-e
On the heels of the desolating confa-
grafton in the West comes startling re-
port of devastating storms and whelming
floods in the Celestial Empire. tits said
that three thousand persons have perished.
A three-year old boy in Iowa City re-
Gently fell on open knife, which divided
the jugular vein. The blood spurted forth,
when the boys mother, with great pres
enee of mind, caught the severed vein IN
her hand and held it. two hours, until a
surgeon could arrive. The latter mended
the break, and the boy is recovering
Berks county bravely maintains her po-
sition as the Gibraltar Of Democracy in
Pennsylvania At the last election she
returned her old majority of nearly six
thousand for the Democratic State ticket.
Mrs. D. T. Patterson, wife of ex-senator
Patterson of Tennessee, daughter of e1-
President johnson, who presided over the
affairs of the White House during her
fathers administration, took the first pre-
MUM for butter, at the recent Cleveland
county fair in Tennessee. .v e.. .T
Intelligence from Yorkville, South Car
olina, is to the effect that quite a number
of prominent citizens of that section have
left the country, ostensibly on business,
but really to escape the penalty of the
law Senator Hayne, from Marion coun-
ty, alluding to the Presidents proclama-
ton, including Marion county with 9TH
Kfr- Inv nT1tr
committed in that county.
The prosecution in the Medlicott- Ruth
poisoning case at Garnet, Kansas, closed
on Thursday, and the defense opened.
Their principal witness was Professor
Wormley, of Columbus, o., who thought
the analysis of Ruth's stomach carelessly
made and unsatisfactory still he could
not swear poison was not found. Several
medical witnesses testified that Ruth's
symptoms were inconsistent with NOR
phine poisoning One or two of them
said the symptoms were. those of quinine
Mrs. Ruth will be examined.
Albany, N. Y, gives $40 OOOto Chicago
The churches raised $4,000. -i h=s
There were eighty-nine newspaper es-
adjustments destroyed in the Chicago
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and monthles.
A colored sovereign in Pittsburgh, wht
wanted to vote, swore that he was born il
1869. and was twenty-five years old. H
should have place under Boutwell,, b,
way of aiding the people in understanding
the condition Of the national debt.
The Chicago Evening Journal says tn
, supposed fire-proof vaults in the custom
house were shams of the worst character
An old iron safe which contained $35, ,00C
and stood outside the vault, stood the test
and, after the fire, gave up its content
unharmed, while about 81 100000 whic
/ was in the vault was reduced to ashes.
Alas, here is a melancholy domestic in
cident in Wyoming Mrs. Esther Morn
is justice of the peace, and in hee unim
5 partial Justice of her official duties, Mr.
Morris has been compelled to send he
: beloved husband to Jail as commo
drunkard
At Oceola, Clark county, Iowa, corn
0 selling at fifteen cents per bushel, potatot
# same price, butter fifteen cents per pount
q oats twenty cents per bushel. In Harr
son county, same State, oats are selling
ten cents per bushel, while corn is almo
given way.
q An Anti-Masonic Convention was he
If at Caldwell, Noble county, this State, {
i the 9th inst, which adopted declaratic
of principles. Quite number of curiol
D spectators were present.
's A Missouri husband, whose wife has al
It piled for divorce, writes protest to Il
d Judge, in which he says: "This dam thIr
called divorce has in my opinion part'
many man and his wife"
The Mobile Register prouounces Il
d story about the recent land sink in Oranj
county FLORIDA, ridiculous hoax.