The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-22
NEHH ANp KARIETY

The South Carolina Conservative Con-
ventiOn has indorsed the Independent
Republican State ticket
DIR. Rice, the Coroner of San Francisco,
has been held to answer before the
Grand Jury for embezzlement,
-Four persons were badly injured by a
collision on the North Pennsylvania
railroad yesterday.
Alta New Hampshire baby show, ac-
cording to a local paper, Glass m
cluded babies under IS years old.
A Richmond paper notes that game
has become very abundant in many
parts of Virginia since the war
According to a San Francisco journal,
there are in that city ffty-three persons
whose reported wealth exceeds $780,
600 apiece.
Twenty-one girls Of Kenosha, Wis,
have Resolved, that if the young men
won't come and see us, we will go and
see them.
The most unpopular man in this coun-
try at this season is said to be the man
who saws his wood too long for his
neighbor's stove.
The late Gardner's Brewers property
is estimated at S5,ooo,ooo, which is said
TO be the largest amount ever LETT by any
citizen Of Boston.
There is said to be portrait of Thos.
jefferson in a musuem at Munich, which
IS labeled George Washington, the
American patriot
Charles Phelps, the State Treasury de-
faulter, of New York, was yesterday
found guilty and remanded for sem
tence.
Senator Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio,
delivered an address before the Mary
land Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation at Pimlico recently.
Utah has five narrow guage railroads,
four of which are now in operation, and
the others will be open on the first OF No
vember.
A young lady of Sedgwick county,
Kansas, advertises that she will give S2OO
for young man who will love her in
kind and gentle manner.
A candidate for Civil Sheriff in New
Orleans offers to perform the duties OF the
Office for $4,000 year, balance to be dis
tributed for the public good.
Thirty-nine medical students we're ar
rested in Buffalo, New York, last week
for being found in the act of dissecting
bodies stolen from the Holy Cross Gem
etery.
Mr.. John Kelly has sued Mr.. Have
meyer and Mr.. Waterbury, Mayor Of
New York. for false and malicious libel,
laying his damages at $4,000 in each
case.
A fire broke out in the gutta-percha
and rubber mandatory on Twenty-tifth
street, New York, on the 9th, and caused
the loss of two lives and the destruction
of property valued at $l5O,OOO.
The recent heavy storms along the
coast have thrown up more than 5000
cords of seaweed at Point Judith
Cove. This is the largest crop ever
known there.
A horse raised in the town of Con-
cord, Me-, but sold to a person living 50
miles distant, recently got loose and
brought up in his old quarters, though
he had not been there for ten years
The Rev. Mr.. Osborne, Of Florida.
speaking of recent meeting OF the
National Holiness association, urged
the people to seek salvation from to-
bacco, from croquet, and from Freema-
sonry,"
A widow, who says that she is the
homeliest woman in Newport, Ken
lucky, advertises for husband. He
must be middle-aged, good-natured, but
not beautiful, las want to love him all
myself.
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, has
an old lady who recently refused the gift
of load Of wood from a tree struck by
lightning, for fear that some Of the
"huid" might remain in the wood and
cause disaster to her stove.
A Middletown IN. W paper gives a
circumstantial account Of cat in that
city attempting to srangle an infant, by
lacing paw on each side Of the child's
head, and pressing its nose into its vic
tins mouth.
The Louisiana negroes have issued an
address denouncing and repudiating
Kellogg and his fellow carpet-baggers,
and offering to join with the honest
white citizens in the interests Of pure
government.
Over three thousand deer have been
killed near the headwaters of Mad river,
California, within a year, the skins only
being used. Legislative action is called
for to put a stop TO such wholesale
slaughter.
Whiteley, Georgia carpet-bagger all
the way from Ireland, had a number of
boys arrested recently at Valdosta forser-
enading him with tin pans. A Deputy
United States Marshal effected the ar
rest, the charge being violation of the
Enforcement act .rr
Carpenter, Grant Postmaster at
Blackshear, Georgia, has been acquitted
of murder. The circumstantial evidence
against him was very strong, and. the
jury stood at first eight for conviction.
The victim was Carpenters nephew, and
the murder was most horrible one.
The people of Wilmington, Delaware,
are excited over the fact that there were
ten more ballots in ward box than
there were names registered on the poll
list. Considering that Wilmington is
only a short distance from Philadelphia,
it is not strange that the ballot-stufiing
contagion affects it little.
Bowen, the Bigamist Sheriff of Char
lesion. S. G., has an income from his
Office Of from $2O.OO0 to 10000 year. 1t
is said that he aspires tothe entire con-
troll of the county and its revenues. Al