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

MASSHLON CORRESPONDENCE.

ST. PATmCK's day in 1875 will be re-
membered as one of the most disagree
able March days ofthe season.
R,H. FoLGER will be a candidate for
City Solicitor.
ONLY one candidate for Councilman is
announced in any ofthe Wards.
THE City Council has published its an
nual balance sheet and it is business
document as every thing of the kind is
that is gotten up by City Clerk W. NJ
Gould.
Hon. s. d. Woodwork has laid us
under renewed obligation for valuable
public documents including the Nary
RegiSterf for 1875.
Susan Denim will be at the Opera
House three nights next week.
Mrs. Evarts & Guild will have in their
Illustrated Atlas biographical sketches
of many Of our citizens.
There is no ethereal mildness about
such spring as this. The author OF the
Seasons" must try again.
According to a Massillon jury a jackass
has right to bray at all hours OF the
night.-Exchange. :,
We know some jackasses who don't
wait for night to come. They bray all
day,
"BIBLloTHECA AMERIcANA."-" Cata-
logue of valuable collection of Books
and Pamphlets relating to America. The
United States Colonial and Revolution
ary; War of 1912; Mexican War; Rebel
lion and Slavery; Confederate Publica-
tions; State, county, and other local his
tories; Central and Far West; British,
Central and South America; Indians and
American Antiquities; Biography and
Geneology; photography, Travel and
Geological Reports, with descriptive
list of the Ohio Valley historical"
Our ever mindful friends Robert Clarke
& Co., Cincinnati. have favored us with a
finely gotten up brochure of lS0 pages OF
which the above is the title page. We
have given it a hasty examination, an
take the earliest opportunity to expires.
our thanks for their kind remembrance
The Ohio Valley Series of historical and
miscellaneous publications is especially
valuable. We can not do better than to
transfer to this. correspondence the fol-
lowing merited tribute from the His
torical Record" Referring to the Ohio
Valley Series. The Record says; "They
are all beautifully printed on fine paper,
with rubricated title pages rnd should
be in the possession of every intelligent
family in the Ohio Valley and held al
most as sacred as a family record. They
are Golden grains which compose the his
tory of the heroic ago of this country"
Messrs. Clarke & Co., ,kwill send any book
or pamphlet in their catalogue by mail
on receipt of the price, In this connec-
ton, we desire to say that their stock of
law books is unsurpassed by any either
in the West or East
STARK COUNTY ATLAs.-We have been
looking over the sketches Of residences
and private grounds in this city taken by
the artists in the employment of Messrs,
Evarts & Guild, for the purpose Of en-
bellisl ing the Stark County Atlas, now
in process of preparation for publication
by these gentlemen. We hope that none
of our citizens who have pleasant res
licences will fail to call on Mr.. Preston at
the American and secure a view of their
homes. at once artistic and elegant, and
which will always be cherished as an
heir loom next in value to family pic
ture. On Prospect Street we learn that
Hon. George Harsh and Messrs. N. S.
Russell, j. P. Burton and Chas. Steese.
also DR., Jas. Watson, are its patrons.
The pleasant residences Of Hon. A. G.
Wales and Kent Jarvis, and Herman
Shiyer, Esq, are also to grace the pages
Of the work. Our citizens who had
not subscribed for the Atlas on reading
the manuscript history of Perry Town
ship and Massillon, which will have It
prominent place its pages, subscribed
for it at once
We take pleasure recommending the
work to every body IN the county be-
cause Of its many points Of excellence.