The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-02-23
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.


The trial and impeachment of the radi-
cal tyrant. Governor Holden, of North
Carolina, has been going on for a week or
two before the Senate OF that state. The
prosecution are ably showing up and prov
ing his cruelty and u~surpatiOn of power.
Knowles a miner in Illinois fell down a
coal shaft 5S9 feet the other day and was
killed.
Wendell Phillips says of VIM. H. Seward
that he is a able but tricky ~vagabund.
Wendell might say much more of him of
the "little bell".
Grants enemity to Senator Fenton of
New York is because the Senator once
called the President a wooden head.
The outrage committee at Washington
have just foundssa kuklux outrage, that
Of a white man shooting a negro for at
tempting to commit a rape On a little
daughter of ten years.
New York city has contributed ten
thousand dollars to relieve the perishing
people of France.
The body of the engineer Simmons, who
went down with his engine into the Hud-
son river in the terrible New Hamburg
disaster last week has not yet been found.
The engine has been raised to the surface
but no body found, neither Simmons's nor
thatsof the man who rode with HIM on the
engine. Since this was written both bod
les were recovered.
The Buffalo Gas Company is preparing
to bore into the bowels of the earth for a
supply of gas. At Erie, Pa, and at To-
nawanda, points respectively ninety and
eleven miles from Buffalo. natural gas has
been procured by boring, and the Bufa-
l%onians can see no reason why their in
tended operations should fail Of equal sue
cess.
Mr.. A. 7. Stewards sending five thou
sand barrels flour to the suffering people
of France. 1t will cost him from 81 to So
a barrel.
Mr.. Mungen, a democratic member Of
Congress from OHIO. got of a good thing
in his speech IN Paraguay the other day.
He said:
IT am down on Lopez. I am p~articu-
larly down on him because he murdered
all mis- relatives. He shot his brother,
tortured his mother, and starved his bro
ther-in-law. Now, our president don't
treat his brother-in-lsw that way"
An Atlanta firm received a remittance
of 5000 from a correspondent in Florida a
few days ago, in which were fifteen well
executed ten dollar counterfeit national
bank notes. Florida appears to be a para
disc for swindlers. They prey upon the
unfortunate little state and her people in
every conceivable form, from the radical
governor down.
Paducah has a poetess. The following
inimitable piece of poetry was composed
by a young lady Of the high school:
Monkey sitting on the end ofa rail,
Picking his teeth with the end Of his tail;
Calico sleeves, mulberry leaves,
All school teachers are hard to please"
In the Guernsey Co. Court of Common
Pleas, in this state, Mrs. Francis Watt re.
Gently recovered $4,000 damages from one
Boyd for selling her late husband intoxi,
eating drinks. The husband was at one
time a prominent physician and surgeon
and had represented his county IN the
Ohio Legislature. Failing into intemper.
ate habits. he lost his practice, squandered
his estate, and finally died from the effect.
of intoxication. The widow brought suit
alleging that Boyd, the defendant, con-
tinued during all this time to sell and de-
liver to her late husband intoxicating
liquor in quantities of from one pint t.
one quart, causing him to become an hab.
itual drunkard and incapable of attending
to any kind of business and claimed 5000
damages, for which amount she asked
judgment at the hands of the jury. After
argument by able counsel on both sides
the jury returned verdict for the plaintiff
assessing damages at $1,000.
Mr.. Richard Smith, editor of the Gin.
cinnati Gazette writing from Washington
says: 1.-THE republican is essentially ar
honest party. DOM PIATr, also radical
and correspondent for the Cincinnati Com.
D~1erciGl says: "The republican party is the
party of organized rascality." A Sigh
difference of opinionI 1t is no trouble fol
some men to say black is white.
Senator Frank Blair of Missouri, made
his first speech in the United States Senate
on the 18th in reply to senator Morton o.
Indiana. who spoke at length and with
great preparation against the joint resolu-
ton of the General Assembly of Indians
Withdrawing that states alleged ratification
of the XIV. amendment. Mr.. Blarr's reply
was able, o~utspoken, truthful and power
full. We doubt not. Mr.. Blair will prove
himself a full match for the best of the
radical senators.
DR. A. E. Jenner, senator from the
Crawford district in the Ohio Senate offered
last week in that body a joint resolution
protesting against the passage of law by
Congress granting a charter to the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway, in violation OF
the expressed will Of the people of Ken
lucky. Mr.. Jenner believes that states
have still a few rights which the central
Government should not absorb. The bill
for the Southern Railway was offered in
the o. s. Senate by Senator Sherman after
the bill had been defeated in the Kentucky
Legislature. Let the Ohio General As
Uembly maintain the states purogatives
and rights.
In South Carolina for instance there Is
a large majority of negroes. They are
trained by Northern carpet-baggers and
GRANTS offce-holders TO vote the repub-
lican ticket. Few of them pay any taxes.
The whites, who are Democrats, pay the
State and County taxes. and the negroes
do the voting and put on the levies. That
is the condition Of reconstructed South
Carolina. Is it not. lovely? How would
we like it in Ohio?