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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-07-13
SAWED WOOD, FOR FUEL.

TlHE undersigned is prepared to furnish. al
Il. short notice, Cord Wood Sawed to suit Gus
toners. at the following rates. delivered il
6ap % % per CORD.
Orders left OF the 'ssplrit'' Office will be attend
ed to. DANIEL HEFLEBOWER.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-07-13
Summit Point Depot

SAAAAA1AAI - oAAAG AIeIooC.
F5SHE undersigned. having purchased the en-
i tire Stock of Merchandise of Messrs. Hileary
q Johnson At this place. are prepared to offer
doing a strtetty cash ttt'insse. have marked down
goods to a corresponding price, and solicit. a
share of their patronage. They ask of the pub
lie a trial. WILSON BROTHERS.
Summit Point. Sept. 0. lS74-3m.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-07-13
RESUMED BUSINESS!

HAVING purchased the STOCK OF GOODS
: the late W. q. Saeerer, (formerIy KearsIeJ
9hsoror,) 10 which hAVo made additions Of
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-07-13

and such article. a. ar. Feb.r,lly needed BY the
psopls. respectfully ask call from former Gus
temsrs aud the public generally. at tho old stand
where they can Judge for Themselves to quality
= - GEO. w:TK EARsLEY.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
OLD 1ICONDEBAGO

Was celebrated on Monday. One hun
dred years ago at day dawn Col. Ethan
Allen, with some so men, captured the
fort. The sentinel snapped his gun and
ran away, and Allen and his men ran in
and gave three cheers, waking up Capt
De La Place, who came out rubbing his
eyes and in his shirt, surrendering to
Allen "in the name fthe Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress" Allen
was then 30 years old, dying in 1889,
aged SO years. He captured two officers,
4S men, and 100 pieces ofartillery, and a
large quantity of small arms. In Sep
tember, 1775, with small force, he made
demonstration against Montreal, and
was taken prisoner and sent to England.
He was sent back to America few
months after and confined in prison
ships at Halifax and New York till 1878,
when he was exchanged. During most
of his captivity he was treated as felon
and heavily ironed.
Ticonderago was an old French fort
called Carrillon. In 1909, Champlain,
with the Algonquins, engaged the Iro-
quois in battle there. Montcalm, the
French General, with 5000 men defended
it July Sth, 1853, against $4,000 English,
for four hours, defeating them with loss.
The English got the fort with Quebec and
Canada in 1859. Burgoyne captured it
in 1777, but it was abandoned after his
defeat The English, under Haldeman,
occupied it again in 1880. The process
sion on Monday went over the line taken
by Ethan Allen and his men hundred
years before. The principal Grafton was
made by Col. Calkins, but speeches were
made by Rev. Mr.. Cook. Col. Joyce and
General Cole, of Troy.
Letters were read from Governor Til.
den, Governors Peck, Page and Stewart,
of Vermont; Col. Ethan Allen, of New
York, and Abel r. Torrey, of Detroit, a
son of one of Aliens men in 1775.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
TERRIBLE 0CEAN DISASTER.

Cable dispatches Saturday forenoon
brought news of a terrible ocean steamer
disaster the previous evening off the
English coast.
The steamer Schiller, of the Eagle
Line, left New York on Wednesday,
April 18th, for Hamburg, She had on
board, at starting, two hundred and forty
nine cabin and steerage passengers in all.
The most of the cabin passengers enter
ed on the agents books were Germans
and many from the west.
On Friday evening she was nearing
the Scilly Islands, preparing to round
into the English Channel in order to
make Plymouth, to land her English
passengers, AT ten O'Clock at night she
ran on to the rocks off one of the islands,
being prevented by the fog from seeing
either of the lights. The sea was run
ming very high, as it generally is at that
point, the outer islands having to meet
the full sweep of the Atlantic, and the
steamer became hopeless wreck. A
few Of those on board contrived to reach
the rocks, whence they were taken off,
but by far the greater number of passen-
gers and crew were drowned. The loss
is said to be 3II, with only some IS saved.
The Scilly Islands, where this disaster
occurred, have been the scene of numer-
Gus shipwrecks; although among them
lie several secure harbors The islands
and islets number about one hundred
and forty and form a group about thirty
miles in circumference. They are Of
granite, the same as the main land of
West Cornwall, with which it has been
conjectured they were originally conncc-
ted, and the rocks rise abruptly from the
sea with deep water all around. Between
this island group and the main land,
twenty-six miles distant, lies dangerous
reef of rocks known as "The Wolf, and
the intervening space between the Scilly
Islands and the main land is the site OF
the fabled "sunken land Of Lionesse, "
referred to in Tennyson's Arthurian
poems.
On these islands the celebrated Eng
lish Admiral, Sir Cloudesley Shovel, was
wrecked in 1903, when returning with his
fleet from the Spanish coast. Three
line-of-battle ships were lost, nj the
Admiral with nine hundred seamen
drowned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
THE GREAT CURSE or THE COUN-
TRY

Drunkenness is, undoubtedly las an eX-
change remarks, "the great curse of the
country" and not of this country only,
for other lands, called also civilized, are
as badly afflicted, if not worse, than this
This miserable condition Of things is not
confined to large cities, but prevails in
larger towns, and even in country locali-
ties, to a frightlul extent, carrying with
it suffering, immortality and crime. The
results are simply horrid to contemplate.
According to the report of the Police
Justices of New York for the year ending
October, 1874, there were 4o777 arrests
for being drunk or drunk and dlsorderly
OF those arrested 27,2o3 were men and
1854 women. Arising out of the arrests
were 5,IS6 convictions of men and 1927
of women. This drunkenness among
women is the most frightlul feature in
the return, because it means so much
children going to perdition, a ruined
home; everything, in a word, which is
most hateful and repugnant to the right
minded. According to return of April,
1873, the number of cases of drunken
ness in New York was 638 for every
10000, and there were S,4o3 liquor sa-
looms, being just one to every II9 men,
women and children Of all ages.
Startling as these figures are, they are
probably not greater, according to popu-
lation, than in most other towns. 1t
would seem as if nothing could be done
to stay this great curse, and yet drunk
enness is only an acquired habit. 1t
usually takes years of education in the
use ofalcoholic drinks to make drunk
ard But the habit once formed it rarely
happens the subject is reformed. 1t is a
great problem for the consideration OF
the benevolent. A thorough reform, we
fear, is in the far distant future, and may
require reform in diet, medication, to-
bacco, &C., as preparatory steps.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

IT is utterly unjust to accuse the Re-
publican party of even taint of Know.
Nothingism. The party, en- masse, is too
intelligent to entertain political hostility
to any class of people on account Of their
nationality.-Dayton 10arnal.
If that is so, what is the meaning of
the violent attacks upon the foreign born
and Catholic citizens which are now be-
ing made in all the prominent Republi-
can journals? Even our contemporary
explains that. There is an indication
that the old Know-Nothing secret lodges
have been established in the ranks of
the Republican party.-CiN. Enquirer.
The old Repository here is as fierce as
it was in 1854. At that time its motto
was-"Put none but Americans on
guard" Thomas w. Saxton, still in the
flesh, and still in the Repository, will
remember it all.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

WHAT is needed in this country Just
now is light upon the principles of poIiti-
cal economy in their application to our
fiscal and financial policy.-Etchange.
And the first step towards a correct
understanding of true fiscal and fnan-
-cial policy is to recognize the principle
that Government has no right, under
our Constitution, 10 diStHr6 VaiHeS. A
full recognition of this principle is abso-
iutely necessary as groundwork to that
understanding, An utterance of a PLAN
common sense principle sometimes does
more to explain and convince than long
and learned essays. The Democratic
doctrine is "even handed justice" in
Government administration, and this
precludes and forbids the idea of any
measure or set Of measures to disturb
values among the people. The settled
financial policy Of the Government, prior
to the war, was based upon this princi-
pie. Laws were not then framed to favor
certain business interests, to the detri-
ment and serious injury of all others.
Since, however. the present party came
into power the General Government
policy has been run in the interest of the
favored few. The result is, that this
country is in financial condition most
precarious and unfortunate. A return
to just and correct principles Of public
policy is absolutely necessary, and is all
that is lef' -.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

P. T. BARNUM remarked in a speech
at Philadelphia, reported for the Phila-
delphia Times, the other day:
81 will undertake and give bonds for
the fulfillment Of the contract, that if the
city of Philadelphia will stop selling
liquor and give me as much as was ex-
pended there for liquor last year, to run
the city next year. will pay all city ex-
penses (pause); no person living within
her boroers shall pay taxes (pause);
there shall be no insurance on property
(pause); good dress and suit shall be
given to every poor boy, girl. man and
woman (pause); barrel of flour shall
be given to every needy andworthy per-
son (sensation); and will clear half
million dollars myself by the operation !
[Cries of "Hurrah T. 1t would be the
best business speculation was ever in
Unfortunately they would not give i to
me. AS Ben Franklin sad We
are paying too dear for our whistle.
1t they have been having such hllarl.
Gus times in the "City Of Brotherly Love
in IS74-s, how can we estimate the glo-
rlous drunk they propose 10 have during
the &c tenrial year 2-CayyoH CHf0H'EIe.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
Democratic Nominating Meet
iRgS.

The Stark County Democratic Com
mittee met at the Ogden House pursuant
20 call, on Saturday. April 24th, 1876
Il was, on notion. determined to hold
lhe Democratic primary meetings on
Saturday, August 9TH, 1875, between the
hours of a in, and 9 p. m.
That the poll-books be returned to the
Chairman on or before Tuesday, August
1oth, following, on which day, at one
o'clock p. m, the Committee will count
she votes.
1t is expected each elector voting shall
be held in honor bound committed to
support the ticket nominated, and when
challenged, shall not be allowed to vote
unless he pledges himself accordingly.
Resolved, That this Committee deem
it the unanimous wish of the Democracy
of this county that our noble Governor,
William Allen, be re-nominated for the
position which he now so ably fills.
L. ALEXANDER, Chairman.
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
SHERIFF SALE.
Josiah Keim ct. al. VS.. NJ. seiberllng ct al.

Josiah Keim ct. al. VS.. NJ. Seiberling ct al.
BY virtue of pures order to sell Issued from the
Court of Common Pleas of Stark county, Ohio, and
to me directed, will offer for sale at public out
cry, at the door of the Court House In the city Of
Canton, on
Saturday, the 10Th day Of May, 1875,
the following described real estate, situate In said
county to wit: Lots number two hundred and
eleven (2ll) two hundred and twelve(2 (2l2) two hun
dred and thirteen (2l3J, two hundred and fourteen
q ~ two hundred and seventeen (2l7) and the east
half of lot number two hundred and eighteen (2l9
all in Daniel Chappiues' addition to Louisville
Stark county Ohio; also, part of the east half Of
the northwest part of II northwest quarter of sec
ton twenty eight (2S) in Nimishllen township
bounded as follows: Beginningat the centre of tho
south line Of said lot number two hundred and
eighteen (2lS) and running thence in northwes-
terly direction perpendicular to said south line CT
the north line of the p. f w. Il c. r. W. Co, to
the north line of lot one hundred and ninety $50
and being all that part of said lots Two hundred
and eighteen (2lS) and 100 lying east of said cen.
trail and perpendicular line. Also the steam
engine, boiler, line Shafting and machinery of all
kinds and descriptions then in the shop on the
aforesaid pren ises. Also, lot ettered "B' in DAN
iel Chappius addition TO the town of Louisvilee,
excepting all that part or strip of said lot which
lies east OF the road known as Mill Street, also, lots
two hundred and Fifteen (2l5) aud two
hundred and sixteen (2l6l In said Daniel ChappiuS
addition to said town of Louisville.
Sale to commence at one o'clock p m. Terms
cash. WILLIAM BAXTER. Sheriff.
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

THE DEMOCRAT Is furnished TO Subscribers a1s2
per wear; 81 for six months; fifty cents Tor three
snonths, invariably in advance.
CORRESPONDENTS, containing important news
solicited from all parts of the county, writers
game and address required on every communion
ON as a private guarantee ofgood faith.
Business Cards one dollar per line per year. NO
gard inserted for less than three dollars per year.
Business Notices In item columns on MN page.
inserted for ten cents per line each Insertion II
anserted in reading matter twenty cents per line
no notice will be inserted for less than fifty cents
Yearly advertisers allowed the privilege OF
changing thelr advertisements quarterly
Double column advertisements 25 per cent ad'
6itional.
Alltransicnt advertisements must be accompa'
ziod with the cash.
Advertisements, to insure insertion, mus De
sanded in by Wednesday noon.
Rates OF advertising furnished on application
Address all communications TO
A. McGREGOR & son.
Canton, ohlo.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
ECONOMIES or THE FRENCH
PEOPLE.

Ex.Secretary McCulloch, in his second
letter in the New York TtJAns, says:
Many causes may be assigned for the
wealth which France has been found to
possess in all great emergencies, among
which are the following: The French
people are an eminently economical and
thrifty people. A French family can
live, and live well, on less than
would be considered sufficient to save
from starvation an American family OF
the same numbers. An intelligent Bos-
tonian, who had spent some years IN
France, said to me last Summer, in speak
ing of the economical habits and skill in
cookery of the French people, that "a
French village of thousand inhabitants
could be supported luxuriously on the
waste of one of our American hotels >
The remark was not far from the truth,
III lnc dTl VI COOkCly "ClC uiiNSi''NNN
and practtced in the United States as tits
in France if our people knew as we'll
how to make the most of their provisions
as the French do, the cost of living, as
far as food is regarded, in most of the
States, would be reduced more than fifty
per cent. Domestic economy, as rule,
is neither practiced nor understood by
Americans as it is in France. 1t may not
be too much to say that the entire popu-
lation of France could be supported on
food which is literally wasted in the Uni
ted States. The number of people who
live beyond their income is less, and the
number of those whose incomes exceed
their expenditures is greater in France in
proportion to population than in any
other country.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

The Cincinnati Enquirer, in speaking
of the official acts of the water works in
vestigation, says;
"No personal or political considerations
should be permitted to shield them, The
penitentiary is the place tor thieves, and
the Democratic party, which is made to
suffer through the criminality of these
rascals, should leave no stone unturned
to secure their conviction and punish
ment."
That is the right kind of talk, Send
every guilty party who has betrayed the
confidence of the people to the peniten-
tiary for the limit of the law The De-
mocracy cannot afford to wink at any
stealing or official delinquency, Inyesti-
gate them, and if they are guilty send
them up here to dwell in the peniten-
tiary.- Columbus Herald
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the next regr-
~ lar session OF the County Commissioners OF
stark county, petition will be presented praying
for change in the road In Sugarcrcek township,
known as the Mt. Eaton road, cOmmencingfO for said
alteration at the Navarro and Wilmot road, thence
running west the section lines between sections
q and 28 to the bank of the creek thence north
westerly across the bridges north of VIM. B. XII.
cores barn; thence westerly to the WimOt and
West Lebanon road across the lands of Emanuel
and Frederick Sarquet and that said road may 10
made 33 feet wide as prayed for.
may675-td. A. PETITIONER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
THE following paragraph is from the

THE following paragraph is from the
Cleveland Herald. There are some Re-
rublicans who will not believe that the
Third Term" talk is not "all bosh:"
I'VE talk about the candidate for Gov
rernor, as the all engrossing feature Of
the convention, but the platform is in no
way secondary to the nominee; in many
respects it is more important than the
nominee, for as surely as the Ohio Re-
publican Convention follows the last
Connecticut and New York style of plat
form, Ohio is gone to the Republicans"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

A Scotch gentleman, Hon. George
Grant, stopped at Cincinnati few days
last week, on his way to his Kansas farm
of $4,000 acres. 1t is in Ellis county of
that State, on the line of the Kansas and
Pacific railroad and near the centre of the
State. He is colonizing his tract. and was
making some fine purchases of brood
mares and fine cattle in addition to what
he has already shipped, He also owns
1000 acres in Southern Colorado. He
wintered 1000 ewes, and his flock is to
be increased to 100000. The Summers
he spends on his farm, and he is selling
or donating small tracts, a section or two
to younger friends. Hon. Walter Max
We'll, son of Lord Heres of England, is
new settled on two sections. Mr.. Grants
age is about fifty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
SHERIFF SALE.
Enoch W. Townsend vs.. !. Conc

Enoch W, Townsend VS.. ]. Goucher.
Byvirtue ofa vendi exponas issued from the court
of common pleas of Stark county, Ohio, and TO mo
directed will offer for sale at public outcry at tho
door of the court house in the city of Canton, on
Saturday, The 10Th day o. May 1876;
the following described real estate situate in said
county, to wit Lots numbers 1871, 1S2, 1853. lS4,
1885, and G. feet in width off the east side of lot No,
1856 In Teeters, Lamborn & Co.'S addition to All
ance.
Sale to commence at one o'clock p m. Terms
cash. WILLIAM BAXTER, Sheriff.
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will be
IN presented tO the Commissioners of Stark
county, o.. at their next session. June 7th, A. u,
1875, praying for the establishment Of a county
road on the following line to wit: Commencing
at the centre of the road leading from Canton to
New Derlin, In said county on the section line
between sections II and 20 in Plain township;
thence east on said section line, and oil the section
line between sections 6 and q, in said township,
to where the same intereCts the road leading from
Centre School House to said road leading from
Canton to New berlin. PETITIONER.
mny6'75-AybA
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

SHERIFF SALE.
Wm. Castleman VS. Peter Adams.


By virtue of an order to sell issued from the
court of common pleas of Stark county Ohio, and
to me directed win offer for sale at public out.
cry, at the door Of the court house in the city of
Canton, ON
Saturday, The 12h day Of June, 1875,
the following described real estate situate in said
county, to wit; part Of the northeast quarter
of section one o. township twelve (l2), range ten
C0), beginning at stone in the center Of the road
ut the sOutherly corner Of ten acre lot owned by
Matthias Bazn one chain and thirty-lour links
north 66%o east, and running thence north 23l5o
west, three chains and eight links thence north
links; thence south 2315o east three chains and
wenty.seven links TO the center of the road;
thence south G6%o west eighty eight links 10 the
place of beginning containing thirty hundredths
of an acre
Sale to commence at one o'clock p. m. Terms
cash. WILLIAM BAXTER, Sheriff.
mayI375-w5.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
SHERIFF SALE.

George McFerren VS.. Amelia A. McFerren OF al
By virtue OF an order to sell issued from the
court of common pleas of Stark county, Ohio, and
to me directed, | will offer for sale at public out
Canton, on
Saturday, the 10Th day of May, 1851
the following described real estate situate in StalK
county, to wit: The undivided sixth part of tho
northwest quarter of section ten C0J township
eleven (lI), Sugar Greek, and range ten (l0).
Sale to commence at one o'clock p nj. Terms,
cash. WILLIAM BAXTER, Sheriff.
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13

THE Chamber of Commerce in New
York city had their usual celebration
the other day. We take fNm the Herald.
"The first toast given by President
Dodge was The President of the United
States-a worthy succ ,ssor Of the Father
of his Country, both in the field and in
the Cabinet. Cries of oh, ohp and
laughter, followed by cheers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
SHERIFF SALE,
Cyrus Young VS. James Johns ct. al.

Cyrus Young VS. James Johnset al.
BY virtue of an order to sell issued from the court
of common pleas of Stark county, Ohio, and to me
directed will offer for sale at public outcry, at
the door of the court house in the city of Canton
On SATURDAY. the l2h dag Of Jo,ae, 1875,
the following described real estate situate in said
county to wit: Lot number ten O0) in Summit
Hill, Lawrence township as described upon the
plat of said town and recorded In the Recorders
office of raid county.
Sale to commence at one o'clock p m. Terms
cash WILLIAM BAXTER, Sheriff.
mayl375-w5.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-13
SHERIFF. SALE.


Elizabeth Yeazley VS.. sylvanus Baker ct ux.
By virtue of an order to sell issued from the
Court Of Common Pleas Of Stark county Ohio, and
to me directed, will offer for sale at public out
cry at the door of the Court House in the city Of
Canton, on
Satudaylhe 5h day of June, 1875,
the following described real estate situate in said
county, towit; The west half of the following de-
scribed property and being part of the northeast
quarter of section number 25, township number 10,
range g. and bounded as follows: Beginning at
the northeast corner of r. N. Bucks land in said
quarter thence east along the center of the road II
rods and IA feet thence south rods and l2 feet
thence west II rods and Ia it et thence rods and
2 feet TO the place of beginning this piece of land
contains about one half acre the west half hero
mortgaged contains about one fourth of an acre Of
land, together with the privileges andappurtenan-
ces thereuntO belonging
Sale to commence at one o'clock p. m. Terms.
cash. WILLIAM BAXTER, Sheriff.
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