The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-03-19
News Summary.

Dispatches from Northwestern Iowa
continued suffering among the set
tiers on homesteads in Oscsola, Lyon and
other counties IN the Extreme Northwest
caused by Che nilare Of crops.
The Legislature of Georgia have grant
ed to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Col
Raiford a charter for the st. Mary's and
AIlapaha Canal Company which 1t is K
pected will open the Okefenokee plateau
and bring into the Market not less than
2. 000. square miles of yellow pine timber
now wholly untouched by the axe.
NORWICH, Conn.,, March l3.-Rear-Ad-
miral Joseph Lanman, of the United States
navy, died at his residence in this city TO-
day, aged 6S years.
Iron ore of superior quality and in
great abundance has been discovered in
the northern part of Frederick county,
Maryland, and Adams county, Pennsylva-
MIA, adjoining. The land has been leased
to parties who are about erecting q rolling
mill there. The Emmetssburg Branch rail-
IOad will be completed. during this spring
Great Britain has now SO, 900, 1000 spin
dies in her mills, with nearly 100000
|lboms and 650,000 workmen. Next come
the United States, with 100000 spindles;
France, 100000: the German Zollverein,
100000, ofwhiehAlsace possesses l,700,-
900; Russia, 2,0O0,6 600; Switzerland,
100000; Austria, 100000; Spain,
1,400,o00;r Belgium, 600, 900; Italy, 500,-
900, and over 100000 for other coun-
tries. ''''1< .-a'
Every country in Europe imported
wheat from us last season; and France and
/ England, the largest importing countries,
are still without supplies adequate to the
demand between the present time and the
next harvest. The amount we sent to
England last year was 10, 742,000 cwt:,
/ Or 36,S50, 900 bushels, the value of which
in gold was $64. 100000. The importations
Of France amounted 10 about forty-one
| millions. -a $50 4oi .f.-rsi .s.a
There is one very unhappy mar in the
State o fNew York. He owned ''the $40,-
900 COW" and he could have soldier not
long ago for $4,000; but he kept her un-
ill last Friday when she died. What
must be that mans feelings when he gaz-
Is upoasthe carcass ofthat per6idous ami
hal and reflects dat with The money he
paid for her he might have started 3 daily
newspaper and today have been the proud
proprietor of a, concern Which would sell
for half what lie paid for it?ACOarier
Ho,,s.1OZ fNst Az Srtrg4ff =" l.-Er1 lH
20 lc ts'lIHHf nif las .ai.- fr
SECRETARY RIcHxRDsoE claims to have
reduced the public ~ebt $780, 00, during
the month Of Febrnary..H His official state
ment, however, shows that the same bond
ed indebtedness during the same time in
creased more than eleven million of dol
lars, while the debt in which interest has
ceased. since maturity was reduced but
81, 000,0 600 odd, making an actual increase
Of the bonded debt of more than $4,000
1000. aeF oai s''.i ,y't 90 r.
The receipts . the Government from all
sources for the quarter ending December
81, 1878, were $50,52l, 296, and the ex-
,penditures $62,283,3 7T, showing an excess
DYER receipts Of $1176l,5s1. 90 aina
The Cincinnati Commercial says There
are at least 1900 places in, Cincinnati
where malt and lspirituous liquors are re-
tailed, in addition to the drug-stores.
hotels, and FestauFants, and at least 100000
persons are represented by the men who
drink regularly. North and east of the
~lcanal~are tho1smds Of families In which,
beer is,a eommon beverage! Can sympa-
thy for this movement be obtained from
the mothers and daughters of these fami-
alies?" -32AV 4 DETrUa
Do LEWIS, in, trying to explain why
the Ohio method did not succeed in Wor-
~cester, says that the people of New Eng
land, and especially OF Massachusetts,, are
SO ~phritahieal and proud that they will
not deign to do anything that looks like
copying after their Western brethren.
MoDoC, CITY PA. Marrh ia disas-
trous fire broke out In the Oil Exchange
hotel to-day and swept all before it till So
buildings had been destroyed. The entire
business portion of the town was destroy
ed. -, -