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

Richard H. Dana, third, Of the Har-
ward law schools, has been elected pres
ident of the Thayer club. The old sys-
TEN Of class crews has been quite super
seeded at Harvard by the club system,
which ignores class lines.
Some surprise was created among the
Faculty of Yale college the other morn
ing by seeing the statue Of President
Pierson arrayed in the airy costume Of a
red flannel shirt, with demoralized silk
hat on his head, and seedy cotton UNI
brella in his hand.
A farmer in Oregon has had field Of
sixty acres OF grain eaten by rabits, and
all Of his other fields have suffered, al
though to less extent, from their depre-
dations. Hundreds are shot every day,
but hundreds more come out from the
sage brush and take their places.
1t is announced that Jones. the silver
senator of Nevada, is about to marry the
accomplished Miss Georgie Sullivan,
daughter Of Eugene L. Sullivan, of San
Francisco. The prospective bride is a
blonde, tall, slender, with a blooming
complexion; not pretty but very inter
estng.
Four Indians are at Montpelier to Sc
cure payment from the legislature Of
Vermont for lands of their ancestors be-
longing to the Cougnawaga and St. Re
gis tribe, lying between Lake Champlain
and the Green Mountains, which, they
claim, were never sold to the whites.
The legislature of West Virginia has
passed a law restricting the digging Of
ginseng to certain seasons Of the year.
The result is that the ginseng diggers,
who, by the way, are mostly Republi-
cans, threaten to rise in armed rebellion
in defense of what they call their natu-
raj right to dig ginseng"
A butcher named Klopp, drawn for
the jury in Judge Stocha's court, New
Orleans, declared that he was entirely
deaf. Judge Stocha remared in low
tone: "Klopp you may go, whereupon
Klopps deafness suddenly left him, and
he started out Of court. He was brought
back, however, and put on the jury.
There is living at the Delaware Water
Gap, Pennsylvania, man named Geo.
r. Labar, who is said to be at least ITO
years old. The records at Easton show
him to have been christened in that
place in I763, but other records at Cen
terville make the date 1889. He appear
ed at the fair few days ago, accompa-
MED by daughter seventy-three years
old.
The Rev. DIR. Dudley, pastor for many
years of Plymouth Congregational
Church, Milwaukee, has resigned.
DIR. Dudley is very liberal in his reli-
gious opinions, and though the majority
of the church agreed with and sustained
him, there was an influential dissenting
minority. With all he was on terms OF
friendship, and his resignation was en-
tirely from choice.
A sad accident occurred the other
day to Captain Price, master of the
Radnorshire and West Herefordshire
fox hounds in England. He was being
driven from Hampton Bishop to Here
ford to attend a polo match, and was
coming down a hill when the breeching
part Of he harness gave way and the
horse set kicking in most vicious and
determined manner, and before it could
be pulled up it had completely demol-
ished the trap, injured more or less the
whole Of the occupants, three in num-
Der, and broken both the Captain legs,
one of them so badly in two places that
it was deemed necessary by four sur
geons to resort to amputation. The pa
tent, however, lies in PROSTATE condi-
ton.