The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
PERSONALS AND VARIETY.


The word from Western Australia is
that all the Fenian prisoners, nine, have
escaped in an American whaleshlp' the
Catalpa.
The anti-Chinese movement seems 10
be on the increase in California.
Blaine got awful mad the other day
when hand organ played "Mulligan
Guards"
Mulligan says "Blaine has not read all
the letters and never will; he will keep
back the ones that will do him the most
HARM"
The U. S. Senate has adjourned theim-
parchment trial of Belknap till July 9Th
Gen. Beauregard has petitioned Con-
gress for the removal of his disabilities.
A criminal who escaped in Texas has
written letter to an officer of that State,
asking for a pardon, saying that he "pre.
fers pardon and quiet life to stage
robbing"
An Oregon paper does up the Pacific
Coast labor question in asingle sentence {;
whether the honest laborer shall starve,
doing nothing, or live and work like
Cinnamon"
A number OF. young women in Con.
necticut are learning how to spin and
weave as our ancestors did, and will soon
have q public exhibition to show how
"homespun" is made
There are more visitors in Washington
now than at any time since the war. In
nearly all cases they have been to the
Centennial and are taking in" the Ma
tional Capital in one trip.
James Flaherty fatally shot Charles
Childs on Wednesday night at Rich
mond, Va. Both were drunk. Child's
fence was he plucked Flaherty's coat.
Governor Cheney, of New Hampshire,
was inaugurated on Wednesday. In his
message he recommends the abolition Of
the religious test, and biennial instead Of
annual elections of the Legislature.
A duel was fought at River Bend Col,
recently, by AlfrHd d. Jessup, Jr,, and
man named Davis, who were respectively
armed with Winchester rifles and Colts
navy pistols Jessup was killed in the
second exchange of shots.
William +. Veltman, book-keeper for
Bryce 4 Smith, wholesale dealers in
whisky, on Front street, New York, has
been arrested on charge of attempting
to obtain by fraudulent means nearly
$50, 600 from the Mechanics Exchange
National Bank.
Cochran, Mclean & Co., dry goo Is
dealers, 1862 Broadway, New York, have
failed. Liabilities one million five hun
dred thousand dollars; assets nearly two
millions, The firm state that they have
more property gone into liquidation than
failed. They can pay all they owe and
have 100000 to spare.
Canada sends to the Centennial a white
pine eight feet in diameter, estimated to
be 664 years old Think of it Two
and eighty-eight years older
than the discovery Of the American Con-
tinent by Columbus.
In the United States Court at Fargo,
Dakota Territory, recently, John White,
a soldier, was sentenced to ten years
for killing John B. Colby,
at Fort Pembina, on the 10Th Of May,
and William Bruguer to the same term
for killing William McGee, an employe
At the Standack Rock Indian Agency last
December. They would have been both
convicted of murderin the second degree
md sentenced for life if the grade had
Deen provided for under the United
States laws. Ira Baker was sentenced
% five years for larceny of Government
lorses, and August Wohlgemuth to two
md half years for manning.