The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-11
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OHIO NEWS.

Seneca county is to have new Jail.
B.F.H. Lynn, Esq, is to edit the
Cleveland Commercial RevteU.
John Palmer, ofSteubenville, has start
cd new paper called Pdlmer'S Nelus.
DAYTON adds new feature to the
snatch" fever. 1t is ciphering match
J. G. Synder, of Congress, Morrow
county. owns a German Bible 26O years
old.
Five teams have broken through the
ice, recently, in crossing the lake be-
tween Marblehead and Kelley's Island.
The vineyards in the vicinity of Gin
cinnati are reported in good condition,
but few of the vines being frozen.
The Southeastern Ohio Teachers Con-
Vention is to be held soon at the One
Study University. Scio. Harrison county
J.W. Sims; of Ashtabula county, is
said to have cow that has averaged 300
pounds of butter annually for the past
fourteen years.
There have been three deaths from
smallpox at Logan since Saturday, max
ing six deaths mall since the outbreak of
the contagion.
Efforts are being made to organize a
new county, to be composed of portions
of Sandusky, Seneca, Hancock and Wood
counties, with Fostoria as the county seat
The wine product of Kelley's Island for
1874 is put at 331, 700 gallons. The export
ofgrapes was large. There are thirty-six
manufacturers of wine on the Island.
A strange claimant for the property of
John Mccormick, who was murdered in
Monnt Vernon lately, has turned up in
the shape of his widow, with whom he
has not lived for over forty years.
A conductor on the Lake Shore Rail-
road has been on the road over twenty
two years, and in that time travelled over
an average of one hundred and thirteen
miles day, and in all, over more than
one million miles.
Very Rev. James Conlan, for nearly
twenty-five years pastor Of st. Patrick's
Catholic Church, Cleveland, and formerly
Vicar General of the Cleveland Diocese,
died at the Charity Hospital, that city,
early yesterday morning, aged seventy
four years.
Saturday night L. G. Hovey, City Clerk
of Urbana, while going home, was as
saulted by footpad, who demanded his
money. He drew a revolver, but before
he could use it with effect he was stabbed
twice. Fortunately the knife struck
some papers in his pocket, preventing
serious cuts. The villain escaped.
The Wapakoneta Republican says that
the severe winter has nearly extermi-
mated bees in that county. They are
also reported more or less frozen all over
the country. The Italian bees, although
brought from warmer country, seem to
stand the cold weather better than either
the native black bees or the acclimated
brown bees.
A travelling salesman, while in lonely
place near Napoleon, was waylaid by two
men who demanded his money. Hehad
two wallets-one of his own containing
six dollars, and one belonging to his en-
ployers with over a thousand in it. He
handed over the former, and the robbers
went off fooled. This should teach the
young that what is worth doing at all is
worth doing we'll
The Prohibition State Convention,
which met in Columbus, Feb, oath, nom
mated the following ticket: For Cover
nor, Jay Odell, of Cleveland; Lieutenant
Governor, H. A. Thompson, of Franklin;
Attorney General S. L. Adams, of Cleve-
land; State Auditor, Belmont Locke, of
Lawrence; State Treasurer, E. H. Young,
of Champaign; Supreme Judge, D. c.
Montgomery, of Knox; Member of Board
of Public Works, j. R. Buchtel Of Akron.