The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-02-17
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PERSONALS.

Gen. Joe Johnston was serenaded in
Salisbury, N. c., recently, and made a
speech.
Collector Worthington, Of Charleston,
is not to be removed, though he's some
sort of cousin to Blaine.
Baron de SAINT Anna the Portuguese
Minister at Washington, has been nomi-
mated Centennial Commissioner.
Coe, Of Van Vert county, O., was born
July 4, l776, and is still living. So is
Mrs Coe, aged ninety, and nearly Coe-
temporary.
Cooper X. Watson, of Columbus, has
been appointed Common Pleas Judge by
Governor Hayes, to fill the vacancy in
the Erie District, oCcasioned by the re-
signation ofJudge Lane. GIN
In the U. S. Court at Cleveland, Judge
Welker, presiding, on the 4th inst, Dock
Stader, the Postofiice clerk who plead
guilty to the charge of purloining letters,
was sentencedto three years in the peni-
tertiary. Atthe same time McManus got
one year for passing counterfeit money,
No new developments have been made
in the investigation of the accounts of the
Treasurer of st. Lawrence county, New
Ysrk., The deficiency is stated at $685.
$50, portion of which it is believed can
be explained.
Judson Brothers, prominent pork
packing firm of New Haven, Conn, have
filed a petition in bankruptcy, Their
liabilities amount to probably $500, 900.
The amount of their assets is unknown,
but will probably reach $3.50, 300.
DR.. D. S. Johnson, arrested for causing
the death of Kate Mccormick, at Mem
phis, Tenn, and her child, in attempting
to produce abortion, on February Sd, was
held to bail in the sum of $4,000 to an
swer before the Criminal Court.
Jesse Downs, a well known citizen of
Bellefontaine, Ohio, committed suicide
on the I'd inst. by hanging He was
found in the stable of neighbor early
the next morning. 1t is supposed that
he hung there all night. The cause of
his committing the rash deed is not
known.
The father of Charley Ross repudiates
the late Tifin production.
Mcguire, seeing the inevitable, came
in like a man and entered plea of
guilty. Will Babcock follow suit
Rubenstein, of New York, the alleged
murderer of his COUSIN Sarah Alexan-
der, is endeavoring to starve himself to
death.
A man by the name of Reynolds who
keeps a saloon in the Sherman House, at
Mansfield, Ohio, on the I'd inst. attempt
ed to debauch the young daughter of w,
II. Rhodes.
King & Harris, of Mansfield, Ohio, hat
dealers, made an assignment on the Sd
inst. Their liabilities and assets are not
yet made public.
An unknown man, supposed tramp,
was found frozen to death on the I'd inst.
at Berlin Cross Roads, Jackson county,
Ohio, sitting in fence corner.
A Globe Democrat special from Garth
age, Mo-, says that Jas. M. Hardin, who
has gained considerable notoriety in that
section by reason of misconduct of vari-
GUS kinds, was shot from ambush and
killed on the Sd inst. while on his way
home, in the southern part of the county.
The assassins are unknown.
1t is reported that the negro assassin
Augusta, who killed Colonel Offuth, in
st. Landry Parish, near New Orleans, on
the I'D of January, was forcibly taken
from jail, shortly after his arrest, and
hung in the presence Of a large crowd Of
whites and blacks.
A drover from Medina county was VIC
timized recently to the extent Of $l,l00,
while on the P, Ft. w. & c. train, near
Valparaiso, Ind. There were three of
the rogues, and two were caught, but the
one who escaped had the money. The
victims name is given as John Raidy.