The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-11-20
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MAssIILoN CORRESPONDENcE.

about as neatly as the thing could have
been done. About forty passengers got
on his train at Canton to come to Nasal
lon, each armed With his quarter in good
looking postal currency, and rendered it
to the Conductor in payment for the ride
the customary fee for ten years having
been thirty cents. Major Scott probably
remembered that the General Assembly,
at its last session passed an act entitled
can act to amend section Is of an act en-
titled an act to provide for the creation
and regulation Of incorporated companies
in the State of Ohio" passed May l, 1852,
to which We call attention, and took the
quarter. There were q great number Of
quarters about that night. The curious
reader is invited to page 161 vol. 10.
Ohio Laws, and if under that law for 3
ride of eight miles, on any railway in
OHIO. the road cannot fix its own price.
then We are much mistaken. The roads
for that distance may fix their own price
for passengers, and for ten miles and un-
der may fix their tariff for freight. Will
some one, VINO is good on the English Ian
guage, give the following words a con-
struction:
Section Is. "Such corporation operat-
isg q railroad in whole or in part In this
State may demand and receive for the
transportation VI PNSoOL6CAo IL 61IO IOdQ
not exceeding three cents Ler mile for a
distance Of more than eight miles, and
for the transportation of property not ex-
ceedIDg five cents per ton per mile, when
the same is transportedR distance of thirty
miles or more; and In case the same is
transported a less distance than ten miles
such reasonable rate assmay from time to
time be fxed or prescribed by law"
&C., &c.
In either case freight and passengers
are, for the distance named, entirely at
the Will of the readS over which they
may be carried, except that the Legisla-
ture may regulate the freight tariff.
One touch of panic makes the whole
world shin.
Monday afternoon was very dark. 1t
was necessary to have gas to write by at
3 o'clock P. NJ At 4 O'Clock a full head
of gas was put on.
We heard q Canal boatm2n say on
Monday that he must lay up his boat for
the season, as he could not get money
to pay his tells.
bishop Bedell, of the Diocese of Ohio,
will be at st, TImothy's on Sunday next
and will preach and administer the rite of
confirmation.
Taylor, of the Massillon Lndepend-
eRt, makes the following shot at-We sup
pose it must be the Masslllon correspond
emit of the Rep & Rep: "In one of our
exchanges received last week, we noticed
several items II its columns which would
haYe looked much better had a slight ref
erence been made to this paper either at
the beginning or at the end of the several
articles. We acknowledge to being mod
est, but when one Of our Contemporaries
copies six of our items in one week, we
are perfectly willing to receive credit for
at least half of them"
The types last week made us say that
the Y. NJ. q. Association had just received
= donation of 800 for their library, we
wrote it 5000.
-Welearn thatseyeral persons met the
other night in a private place to indulge
IN a little game Of draw" The game
proceeded nicely until it was discovered
that n of the party, like the Heather
Chinee, " had his sleeve full Of aces which
created q "4ittls unpleasAntness" in which
the table Was kicked over, the gas turned
of. and q general melee ensued. By the
time the gas could be lighted the man
with the aces had grabbed the money and
escaped; he was stranger who had come
to the city to get up g little game" and
bet Just enough to make it interesting.
-Messrs. Mong & Crawford will soon
be in their new building and be ready to
furnish doors Sashes, blinds, and all the
e eeLeTG Of 9 sash and blind mandatory,
They deserve much credit for their energy
and enterprise. -
If any body wants a frst-rate book
keeper and will call at the Massillon Bu-
reGU of the Stark county DENocRAT this
correspondents can give him the names Of
several that have had books out of our
library for a long time and are likely to
keep them for some time longer unless
this notice should stir them up to render
ing unto CssArthe books that are Cssar's!
Some of these -daysawe intend to publish
a list of our books that ara kept, with the
name of the keeper appended thereto.
If any beligerenE gentleman wishes
to try cancellations with the garlick- esting
Spaniards IN the way of a sea fight and
will 60 to New York and make his dispe-
sition manifest by the usual sign, he car
get a berth IN an iron clad, a torpedo
boat. or anything Of the SORT. The fight
ing will be a ~tolerably good square stand
up business, without a good chance to
run.
There were some typographical er-
rors in the Masallon correspondencs last
week, but the Intelligent reader" was
adequate to the occasion. He seldom
Capt. Seaman, the Marshal of this
city, occasionally has a character in his
csstle called the city prison. We were
passing that building the other evening
AND hearing swseE strains of vocal music
of a familiar air, We were induced to stop
and listeR 70 . stRnza Of Howard Payne's
familiar song, sHome, Sweet Home" The
vocalist dwelt with particular emphasis
Oh the line F 81 III
3 II ever SohuAble there's no place hkehOme.'
Feeling lnterestedin a prisoner who had
such streng domestic attachments, we
were induced TO inquire Of the Marshal
who he was and learned That he was a
man whom 9he Marshal had arrested for
4hrashing his wife; we don't mean the
Marshall yhe, bAt-6Ae~Eife of the prls-
oner. We had not a word to say.
The thapRs OF the Mass;llon CORES
pondent of the DENooRA9 are due to
Hon. Charles Whittlessy President North
ern Ohio Hlztoriea1 Society, for tracts No.
Is, Il and f7respsetively, containing pa
psrs relating\to the expedition of Cola.
Bouquet and Bradstreet in\Ohio in 1894,
and the correspondence of MAJOR George
Tod in the war OF 1872 Also 10 the
Faculty of the Medical Department Of
Wooseer University, Cleveland, Ohio, to
attend at the dedication Of the new col
lege building this, Wednesday, evening.
We regret much that want Of time pre-
vents i accepting the polite invitation.
Mr.. G. L. Russell, of Russell 6 Co.,
informs Us that they have shut down their
works in this city for the purpose of tax
ing their annual ccoun of stock and
when that is completed they. vii. resume
business with their usual force.
AT this wEiting good GOAL from Minz
nick's bank, in TuscaraWas county, Is
selling at 1928 per ton delivered in any
part Of the city. JsalLL
-MesSps, little, Brown & Co.. Boston,
Mass, favor us With Q catalogue of law
books embracing large list Of new and
standard treatises, all of which are most
valuable, among which We notice all the
of Bishop that have been published
or criminal law criminal procedure, mar
.Fiage and divorce, and q new work by the
same author on the law SSf married wo-
men. We notice also that they have in
press q digest of all the decisions of the
various courts within the D. S. from the
earliest period to the year 1870, compris-
ing all the American decisions digested in
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