The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-18
MisfeAarteuus.
PERSONAL.

The granddaughter of Thomas Jetier-
son is in Washington, seeking employ
ment for herself and son.
According to Senator Jones, 10000
more persons settled in California last
year than left it.
A Baltimore thief had one hundred
and fifty hymn-books in his possession
when the minions of the law gathered
him in.
Forney says that the water of Europe
is so bad that everybody drinks wine,
but about that other little matter he says
nothing.
A little boy in Stockton, California, has
twenty-eight toes. Fortunately his par
ents are rich enough to employ help to
keep his nails pared.
Mrs. Hahn, the heroine of the four
babies of Baltimore, disbelieyes the re-
port that Chicago woman has performed
a feat similar to her own. She says it is
impossible.
Eli Crozier, an ancient citizen of Della
ware, swore thirty-One years ago to wear
the hat he then wore until Henry Clay
should sit in the Presidential chair. The
venerable beaver still crowns his wrin-
kled brow.
The London Standard says it is to the
credit of American women that they do
not attend the Beecher trial. The Ar
cadian wishes that somebody would kind
ly settle the sex of the creatures who do
attend in feminine attire.
Corier-Jomnal. Mrs. Sanford, of Con
necticut, lured by an Adonis of eighteen
summers, has eloped from her third hus-
band Perhaps Anna Dickinson will
stand up and say that nobody ought to
throw sand on that kind of a woman.
Miss Molly Allen, of Napa, California,
maiden of twelve or thirteen, has killed
more game with her telescope rifle than
any two hunters in that region this win
ter. She made thirty dollars on squir-
rels' tails last summer, getting only five
eentsa piece. AT shOoting-match last
year she took so many prizes that her
bearded opponents ruled her out of the
ring,
Won Molke married an English wo-
man, the daughter of gentleman who,
for his second wife, married Won Molke's
sister She lived for some time at Con-
stantinople, where her step-mother fire.
quently received letters from the Mar
shal, and it was through these epistles,
read aloud in the family circle, that the
young girl first learned to admire the
man whom she afterward married.
When a citizen of Great Britain ar
rived in Wilkesbarre the other day and
found that his wife, who had come to this
country twelve years before, was married
to another man, he drove his successor
from the house and gave his first love
and her daughter terrific beating. tbs
the constant recurrence of such little in
eidents as these that is gradually under
mining the public faith in that Enoch
Arden story.
Bessie Turner is now said to be the
Iong-lost and newly found daughter of
Bartlett McDermott, now living in Lee,
Mass, who placed her with two sons,
when children, in an orphan asylum in
Brooklyn, on account of the death of
their mother. He lost sight of the boys
for twelve years through their adoption
by different persons, and Bessie was
only discovered through the develop.
ments of fBeecher-TiltOn.
Mrs. James K. Polk has presente d the
Tennessee Historical Society with pen
made from an eagles quill dropped by an
eagle in Virginia and presented to Presi-
dent Polk in lS45. Mr. Polk signed his
FIRST message to Congress with the pen
made of this quill, the joint resolution of
Congress for the admission of the State
of Texas, the law to extend the laws of
of the United States over the State of
Texas, the act reducing the duty on i'm
ports, and for other purposes" and the
treaty of,peace with Mexico July A, lS48.
Enoch Arden cases have not been very
plenty of late, but Quincy, Illinois, now
furnishes one. John Bimpson, very
wealthy manufacturer, left that place six
years ago with two daughters for Eu-
rope, and was supposed to have sailed on
the ship United Kingdom, which was
never heard from. News is now re-
ceived that Bimpson and his daughters
are alive and coming home. In the
meantime Mrs. Bimpson has collected
5000 life insurance IN Mr.. Bimpson's
policy, married again, and has child by
her second husband.