The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-08
MASsILLON CORRESPONDENCE,

Some oblgng friend at Washington sends u
the National Republican of the 26th ult containing
II letter from Philadelphia over the signature o
Ruhamah, and notice of the annual commence
ment Of the Law Department of the NatlOna
University at Washington the address OF Senator
Wright, and tie ceremony Of comforting the de
grees upon the graduates by President Grant, er-
9Ncio Chancellor Among the graduates we no.
tice the name Of Geo II, ScidmOre, whom, from
his name, we suppose to be grandson Of ConnoT
sweeney, long years since resident Of Canton,
II Is stated IN some Of the papers that 1t Is now
the law that all pension papers must be atteSted
before the Probate Judge or clerk Of the county
where the peusloner shall reside" That state.
ment Is not exactly correct. Private Dal2elpS law
simply requires that when applied t. by pension
ers the Judges aud clerks shall perform that duty
Tree of cost, ApensIoner may still go to a Notary
or Justice Of the Peace and get his quarterly pa
pers certified. he prefer so to do.
Certain citizens have petitloned the City Coun
ell for repeal Of the law restraining cattle frOm
running at large The wome who sweep the
sidewalks with their skirts are getting up a re.
mOnsrance,
Samuel 0ppenheimeT. in former days clothing
merchant IN this city and who has been an In.
n ate OF Ludlow Street Jail In New York for six
long years past, oil charge of fradd Of some sort
was on Wednesday last discharged. Sam was and
Is character, and has more genuine pluck than
any man of modern times. 'Tis said his black
hair has berome silver gray, He can say with
Byron's Prisoner Of Chillon
my hair sRray, tho not with years,
Nor grew 1t white In Il single night,
AS mems have done from sudden fears"
Sam has let patience do It's perfect work, and
has held out faithful and is entitled 10 his reward
whatever that may be.
All the military companies from other parts of
the state, that were here during the past month
have gone home Capt. JarviSs Company, mum
bering seventy.hve, being tho only one on duty,
The valuable barn of Rudolph sprankle, near
Navarro, was, with It's contents, destroyed by fire
on Wednesday night Of last week, The work Of
an inCendiary.
On Monday evening an old time MaSSillOnan
Warren Dulton Esq, of Tomales, Marin county
California, with Mrs. DuttOn and son and daugh'
ler comprising his entire family arrived In the
city on his way to Washinpton Baltimore, Phila.
delphia, New York and Boston, aud called on his
friends, the writer himself and the writer's far iy
whom he had not seen forthir,y- y-fve years. When
Il lad of fifteen Mr.. Dutton went mo the employ
OF the writer as clerk, and remained near three
yeals, during which time he so depOrted himself
aS to secure the aiieGtonate regard OF writer aud
Iamily, which has ever been cherished in The hope
that all mightmeet again. After leaving he lived
in Cleveland, Goshen, Indiana, and other places
when the discovery of gold in California took him
10 the Pacific slope of the Rocky Mountains, and
he at once went into the mines and worked for
two years with success, when he quit mining and
went into merchandising at which he continued
until few years since, when he turned his attep.
tion to banking and the building of railroads in
all of which he has been emnently successful
and now, at the age of tfty.three, is enjoying an
ample competence, the result of patient industry
AMI the same unyielding integrity that was his
prominent characteristic when boy, and which
now stamps his character as business man
among the solid men Of that land OF gold.