The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-11-11

Lord Houghton has been visiting Bry,

Bannister Bond ia the illiterative name
Of the Oldest man in Iowa. He is l02
years old, and voted at the late election.
James Redpathe has retired from the
Redpath Lecture Bureau, in Boston, and
is succeeded by Hathaway & Pond.
General N. P. Banks gives husking
party for the benefit of the Centennial,
at Waltham, Massachusetts, tomorrow
night. ..,
A second cousin of Charles Sumner,
Mrs. Martha p Watson, died at South
Boston, last Thursday, in her one hum
dredth year.
Jefferson Davis was presented, at Fair
view, Kentucky, recently, with gold
headed cane made from q locust tree
which has father planted,
Rev. ]. L. Piatt, local Methodist
preacher of Dixon, Illinois, and man
highly esteemed there, suddenly and
unaccouDtably became insane last Sstur-
day. 'e
Ex-Governor Army, ofNew Mexico, is
on his way to Philadelphia, as Secretary
and Actuary of the Territorial Centen-
NAL Commission of New Mexico.
Governor Kellogg of Louisiana, has
signed the death warrants of six Crimi-
nails, convicted OF murder. Two in New
Orleans, two in Coushatta, and two in
Munro. Two are white and four col
ored.
General Sherman's book is said to have
netted him $780, 600. That confirms the
charge that the Generals statements are
fishy.
Parson Moody can utter two thousand
two hundred words in ten menutes. It
seems, then, that the battle is really to
the swift.
Nothing can be much more absurd
than poets and poetry. Tennyson's
"Airy, fairy Lillian" now spanks seven
solid children, all her own.
The corpse of the late Mr.. Carruth was
forwarded from Vineland to Camden on
the railroad pass the unfortunate editor
held during his lifetime. That's dead.
heading it in ghastly earnest.
Private Dalzell, since his election to |
the Ohio Legislature, has his eye on the !
Republican nomination for Vice-Presi- |
dent. He has one active supporter in |
the person of his partner, Mr.. Barnes.
Elisha Phillips, of New England, after
twenty years service in tho penitentiary |
has dug up the money he stole from |
the bank, and will begin life anew, as it
were.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax, having
presented handsome gold-headed cane |
to Mr.. Thomas Underwood, of Lafayette,
Ind, has been nominated for President |
of the United States-by Mr.. Under
wood.
Prince Louis Napoleon is suffering |
from weak sight. He strained his eyes
looking at the pretty girls in Cremorne
Gardens and the Argyle Rooms. Prin- |
Ces are very mortal-even those who |
have experienced the Baptism of fire.
Samuel and Raphael Shoeneman, two
Hebrew clothing dealers in Easton Penn.
sylvania, are said to have received notice |
that by the death ofan aunt in England
they, with another brother, inherit prop
erty worth 100000.
A French Canadian Rtterateur, of Otto
wa, Ontario, claims to have become pos
sessed of a document relating to the fate
of Sir John Fanklin, which has never
been published. 1t was sent to him by
friend who has lately travelled in the |
Northwest. ....u.
Mr.. Beecher has been entreating the |
Lord that Messrs. Moody and Sankey be |
kept humble--free from ostentatious |
pride. Will the exhorter and his music !
al assistant do as uCh in behalf of Mr. |
Beecher2
The Chicago Tribune bestows upon
Commodore Vanderbilt the title of "a
Marine Methuselah." The waters into
which the Commodore ventures are so
often unfathomable that his best friends |
have called him a monster of the |
deep" . .....
The London Lancet fails to perseive |
that the Prince of Wales will incur, as far |
as his health is concerned, any greater |
risks in visiting India than in remaining |
at home. The climate of India at |
the time the Prince will visit that |
country is as healthy as, if not healthier |
than, England. |
The Duke of Portland has an annual
income of 100000, most of which he
spends in vast building enterprises He
is a recluse himself. He Lever answers
q letter, and although member of four
London clubs he never goes to them. So
far as society is concerned, he is dead to
the world. |
When Tomaso Salvini came to Ameri-
ca rumor had it that his proper name was
Thomas Sullivan. Tom Karl, the tenor,
it is insinuated, is likewise Hibernian,
whose rightful cognoman is Thomas
Carroll. The latest development, so says
faCetious contemporary, is that Sig
nor Carlo Rossi is Charlie Ross in dis
guise. ..u. aa.... .e.s..
Herman Werts and man named Clay
ton went out turkey hunting from Keo-
kuk, Iowa, on Tuesday week. They went
by different roads, but gradually began
to approach each other, each making
turkey calls in answer to the other
Werts caught sight of Clayton partly be-
hind tree, and fred instantly, thinking
he saw a turkey Clayton will recover,
though his right shoulder contains most
of the shot from Werts gun. ''.'d |
Prince Bismarck remains in very poor
health, though his condition is not at
present considered 81 riously alarming.
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spirits in consequence of the illness of
his proposed son-in-law, and the death,
by an accidental gunshot wound, of his
favorite body-serNsnt, Heinrich Nieder-
gesaess, who has for ten years past been
in the Chancellor's service and enjoyed
his entire confidence. n la..l +. |
The Heather Chinee has invaded the
arena of religious discussion. Wong
Ching Foo, a learned Chinese lecturer, is
to hold a public discussion at Terre |