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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
THE MLSSO URI EXPRESS ROBBERY

.Sbccial dispatch to the Enquirer.
St. Louis, August I6.-A Sedalia spe-
cial to the Globe Democrat says; Two
man in the employ of the express and
railroad companies, engaged in hunting
the AJtervilIe robbers, returned from
Kansas yesterday, where they had been
to learn positive news concerning report
that two of the robbers, Pitts and Chad
well, were holding forth at the farm of
the father in law of the later named man.
near Godfrey Station. 1t was ascertained
the men had been there, but left together
on horseback some days before the arri-
val of the pursuing force. The wives of
both of the robbers are living with the
old man Robertson, Chadwells father in
in law, three miles east of Godfrey. Two
span of mules harnes and two wagons.
one new Studebaker and the other a
light spring wagon, were attached to day
by the Adams Express Company as the
property of one {. f. Wells and Sam
Wells, alias Charley Pitts, being the same
property captured few days ago in the
hands of young Wells, and, it is claimed
was bought with some ofthe money taken
from the Express Company when the
train was robbed at Olterville, Consider
able dissatifacuon is expressed here by
the man who were employed in hunting
down the train robbers at the course pur-
sued by Chief of Police Nc Donough, in
publishing the confession Of Hobbs Ker-
ry. The detectives claim that it gives
the robbers notice, and will result in dri-
wing them out of the country,'and at the
same time broke faith with Hobbs Kerry.
as it was agreed his confession should
never be made public until the parties
were arrested.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
Ytariep
ARRANGLMG.
Black spirits and white,
Blue spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may.

Blue spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mngle may,
Babcock is for Hayes and Wheeler.
Belknap supports Hayes and Wheeler.
Simon Cameron runs Hayes and
Wheeler.
General Hancock supports Tilden and
Hendricks.
District Attorney Johnson, of Pa, is
for Hayes and Wheeler.
Com. j. A. Hiestand, naval officer &C.,
of Phila., supports Hayes and Wheeler.
Collector of Revenue, MuhlenbeIg, of
PhiIa., is the same way, and 30 is Cam.
Fighting Joe Hooker has put on the
war paint in favor of Uncle Samuel.
U. s. Grant supports Hayes and
Wheeler in his own peculiar and happy
way.
Ex-Governor Andy Curtin is in hearty
support of Tilden and Hendricks.
Ex-Governor Palmer, (Rep.) of Hi
nois, is out in favor of Tilden and Hend-
riCks.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois,
supports Ti,den and Hendricks with all
his might.
ELL Kemble, of addition, division and
silence notoriety, is for Hayes and
Wheeler.
j. Morehead, leading Republican,
of Westmoreland, Pa, supports Tilden
and Hendricks.
The independent American people,
who favor common honesty and good
government, are for Tilden and Hend-
riCks
Fred. A, Conkling, (Rep.) a brother
of Senator Conklin, of New York, has
his sleeves rolled up for Tilden and
Hendricks.
General John F. Farnsworth, one of
the leading original Republicans of Hi
nois, has taken the stump for Tilden and
Hendricks.
Moseby, the guerilla leader, who dis.
tinguished himself during the war by
shooting unarmed team drivers, is for
Hayes and Wheeler
The Globe, a Republican paper of Mo-
bile, Ala, has hauled down the Gamer
oman Hayes and Wheeler banner and
raised that of Tilden and Hendricks.
1t isn't true that Grant demanded the
immediate resignation of the "Presi-
dent" the other day, as rumored. The
people must grin and bear until the 4th
of March next.
Hon. David Davis, oae of the Repub-
lican Judges of the United States Supreme
Court, and former law partner of Abra-
ham Lincoln, supports lilden and Hend-
ricks
All the Philadelphia "Pigrims," in,
Guiding ballot-box suffers, FOUNDERS, re
peeters, shoulder hitters, confidence men
and their allies and confederates are the
"boys" who meant to put Hayes and
Wheeler through-if they can.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
A DOUBLE ENDER.

Harper's Weekly has become double
ender gunboat of the latest improved
pattern. George William Curtis, the
civil service reform editor, declares that
Grantisn' is responsible for the ruin of
the Republican party, and that there is
no hope for Hayes unless he cuts loose
from Grant. Eugene Lawrence, the
anti-Catholic editor, praises the Admin
istration of Grant to the skies, and swears
that the existence of the country de.
pends upon the continuance of Grant
ISM st. Louis Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
THE LEGEND OF THE WOOD PICKER
A NORWEGIAN TRADITION.

Der firewood trencher the housewife bent,
With bare arms kneading the barley bread;
And her eyes to the path oft wandering went
That down to the Fiord led.
" He is late; no boat in the ofling yet
My loaf will be brown as pine-tree cone;
She mnttered with peevish fume and fret
AS she heated the baking-stone
Anon at the door knock was heard
And out in the cleaning, clear and keen
In well worn mante of lynX-skin furred,.
Was a shivering traveller seen.
Outstretching his frost -pinched palm, he spoke,
" For the love of God bit of dough,
Now lay on the hearth for me and bakel"
And ashamed to say him No.
A miserly morsel the kneader chose,
And as in her hand 1t nodded lay.
AS sudden it spread and swelled and rose,
Till it covered the kneading tray.
Nay-here is too much" and she rolled q piece
Like Curlew's egg; but, as quick as thought,
1t overran with It's strange increase
The table at which she wrought
See! ms shall sutliCe!" she cried and then,
Choosing what lightly an acorn.c cup
Might carry, she shaped it; 10, again
Itgrew to an armful up.
Beshrew thee !" she flushed, n I'D her cheek grew
bright
Asher crimson cap; Nor great nor small
Be any the loaf bestowed tonight,
My Olsen and keep ALL"
Then sternly the wayfarer child :" Even though
Thou hadst more than uttermostneeds suHlced
No crunb hath thy greed to give; now, know
The beggar who pleads is-Christ
d" To the doom deCreed thee henceforth hard
Thy food, as bird from thy kind accurst
Thou shalt painfully seek twixt wood and bark
And, save when it rains shalt thirst"
-Mdrgdret PreSiOR
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
REST.

Too little rest, too little sleep,
Too many hours to sow and reap
At last disease and pain
Weak grows the never-loosened hand;
The strongest rope parts, strand by strand,
Beneath ceaseless strain.
Let him who burns his midnight oil
In the lonely and unwholesome toll
Think, when he trims his lamp
That thus ne trims his life as we'll,
And hastens toward his last low cell
Its darkness and its damp.
He who would travel far and long,
And keep stately stride and strong,
Must rest beside the way.
A ceaseless pace at first may win,
But he who halts at wayside inn
At last shall win the day.
To weary feet all streams are deep,
All ruads are rough, all hills are steep,
As waywOrn travellers know
One hour of rest is Il precious boon
To him who tolls through heats of noon
With painful steps and SLOW
Then, ye who hope to make your mark
Ere your last night,fall cold and dark
And stand above the lhrong
On some far sun.kissed height of thought,
Or do some deed no hand hath wrought
Work, rest-and so be strong.
Essen P. AAerton
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

EUGENE HALE made great row in the
House on Tuesday over the prospects of
the Democratic party, and alleged that if
it were successful the country would be
saddled with about $l7O,OOO,OOO Of un-
lawful claims. Mr.. Hale's solicitude for
the public Treasury is remarkable, in
face of the facts that he has done all in
his power to beat the people out Of the
money owed by the Pacific railroads,
amounting to more even than the sum
he says will be lost by the accession OF
the Democratic party to power. Hale's
great friend is Blaine Elk.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

MORTON in his harangue on Saturday
night shows that if we spend $682 0OO,-
SS5 in one year, it is less expenditure
than when we only spend $77 7,055, l25.
The former were the gross expenditures
of the government in 1875 and the latter
in 1860, yet Morton claims the expendi-
lures in 1875 were the smallest.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
Road Notice.

Notice is herby given that petition will be
presented TO the Commissioners of stark O)unty, at
their next session Monday, sept. 4th, A. d. 1876
praying for the location and establishment of a
county road on the following line, tO-wlt: Begin.
nlng at point in the road about thirty (30) rods
west of the northeast corner of the northwest
quarter of section number twenty eight (2S) in
Lake township, near Moore's School House !;
thence south through the lands of A. P. Ream
Isaac Markey and Solmon Sell, to interspct the
road leading from GreentOwn to Harrisburgh.
July 18th, 1916 A PETITIONER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
Snow Flake Flouring
Mills For Sale.

Owing to the i'll health Of the senior member of
our firm, we offer for sale our Steam FIGURING
Mills. The building is of brick with five pairs Of
burs, and all the machinery necessary for first.
near the railroad depot in the city of Canton We
have Il large home trade, and the reputation of
the mill for doing good work is not eXrelled by
any mill in this part OF the country. Parties wish
ing to go into the milling Ousin IS will find it to
their advantage to call on or write to u.s. No bet.
ter mill property can be found anywhere.
I'm. DAVIS & co.
Canton, o., Jan. o. 1876.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

A SMILE costs the giver nothing, yet it
is beyond erring and repentng, the sad
and cheerless, the lost and forsaken. II
disarms malice, subdues temper, turns
enmity to love, revenge to kindness, and
paves the darkest paths with gems OF
sunlight.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

SOMEBODY has been writing that the
White House is an unhealthy place, un.
fit to live in for sanitary reasons, being
near noisesome pools, ,butthe noble Amer
lean who couldn't shoulder his Jug of
carbolic acid and march in and risk his
health for his country's good died long
nUO
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

TRIBULArIoN may come as flood into
the church; we may be disappointed
even in the brethren, but those who have
one eye fixed on Christ hold on their
way the word which they have heard
and which they keep is a strong link
binding them to Him, which is more
than all e'se to them.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
NOTICE.

On the 10th day of August, 1876 the Probate
Court, of Stark county, declared the estate of JEFF
ferson Rank, deceased, to be probably insolvent
Creditors are therefore required to present their
claims against the estate TO the undersigned for
allowance within six months from the time above
mentioned, or they will not be entitled to pay
ment
VIM. RANK,
HENRY HlLDENBITLE.
Admr's of Jefferson Rank, Decd.
Canton, Aug. IL, '76.-augl7w4
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

THrs anecdote is told of DIR. Samuel
Johnson and his wife previous to their
marriage: He said to her that he very
much wished to marry her, but there
were three obstacles: First, he was Of
very humble origin; second, he had no
money; third, he had an uncle who WAS
hanged, In reply, she said she honored
no man more or less because of his par
entage; second, she had no money her
self; and third, although she had no rels-
tive hanged, she had some who ought to
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
MIR. MORTON'S SPEECH

The "key-note" is sounded upon mol
dering string. 1t is bitter speech, even
for Mr.. Morton, and he is not noted for
gentleness. He makes a moderately
sweeping reference to a class of South
erners who are "lower," he declares, "in
the scale of being than the Sioux or Mo-
docs" His alIusion to "the ugly white
women of Georgia" shows morbid vim
dictveness and singularly bad taste.
The arraignment of the Democratic party
for its responsibility for the rebellion,
has tishy color. We have heard some
thing of that kind before. B"t the peo-
pie are thinking more of the robbery and
ruin of to-day than of the rebellion of a
dozen years ago, They are facing the
present and future, and not the past.
Mr. Morton's speech illustrates well the
unfortunate position of the Republican
party. 1t is arraigned for its robberies
and great crimes, and it can only answer
by calling the kettle black-by holding
up the past crimes of the Democratic
party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24

MORTON tells us that the election of
Hayes will mean the endorsement of
Grants Administration policy and its
continuance for the future. Just SO.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
Attachment Notice.

J. NJ SHELTER, Plaintiff. !
VS..
HENRY BOSE Defendant Before E. R, Speaker,
Justice of the Peace of Sugar Creek township,
stark county, Ohio, on the 26th day OF luly A. D.
1876 said Justice issued an order of attachment
in the above action, for the sum of forty.two dol
lars.
]. NJ. SHELTER.
Beach City, O., Aug. 8, 1S76,-aug17wS
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
SMALL FARM FOR SALE.
Prairie Lands.

The last chance for good agricultural lands on
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proved to be good. Send your address by postal
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-08-24
For Sale.
House and Lot for Sale at a Bargain

good two-story brick house of eight rooms
with lot 5Oxl50 and outbuildngs, all in good con.
dition. Location ia South Market street. If not
sold by April list 1t will be for rent For terms &c
apply to VOLNEY FULMER,
mar26m Canton o.
The Republican journal., 1876-06-22
Comments Oh the Candidates..
WASHINGTON, June II.

WASHINGTON, June H.
President Grant thinks Hayes is a strong
candidate and Wheeler would add strength
to the ticket
Senator Morton says the nominations
are excellent and thinks the Democrats
will have to nominate Hendricks.
Senator Conkling thinks the ticket is
excellent.
In giving his opinion of the ticket, Sec
rotary Bristow was even more enthusiast
tic than Senator Conkling. He eulogized
Gov Hayes, and said that he telegraphed
two days ago to General Harlan to trans
fer his (Bristow's) delegates to Hayes as
soon as he deemed it expedient lie
thought that us Schurz had supported
Hayes last year. he would work for him
in this, and that the ticket would carry
the support of the Republicans of the
Adams, Bullock and Bryant school. He
thought the platform was excellent, al
though in his opinion the hard money
platform was not so hard as it might
have been. Bristow also thought Hayes,
though Il hard money man, was not the
hardest of the hard The plank as to
Chinese immigration was piece of dem
agogism, but with these exceptions, he
approved of the platform.
81 suppose you will do all you can for
the ticket?" the reporter asked.
well. yes. as much us can" Bristow
replied, with some hesitation, although
| shall not be very much in politics after
this, as indeed l have not been in the
past"
The Republican papers generally COM
ment tavorably. The Chicago Times
says the nomination is a surprise and bit
ter disappointment to party managers.
Whether Hayes can be beaten depends on
the wisdom or folly which prevails at St.
Louis.
The Republican journal., 1876-06-22

The Prohibitionists have issued call for State
Convention in Boston july 9TH to nominate can
didate for Governor.
The Bunker Block, owned by Samuel Bunker at
No Ansou was totally consumed by fire. with its
contents Wednesday morning about four O'Clock
A young man named Collins, of Weld, committed
suicide Saturday night by hanging. The cause was
sickness and mental depression. lie was % years
old and unmarried.
The following is II verbatim copy of an e Expressive
letter young lady at the Centennial wrote to her
mother:
PHILADELPHIA, june, 1876.
Dear Mother OH Obi! Ohl,l Ohii!
O-o-o-o- o-o-oh!ii!!!
Tour atfectionate daughter, MARY.
boy named Charles f. Locke, while engaged in
scrapng down the mainmast of the schooner I.oella
at Bangor fell distance of so feet to the deck He
received a compound fracture of the left leg below
the knee fracture of the thigh and compound frac
ture of the right arm above the elbow.
Lynchers at Liberty, in Montgomery county, Kan.
sas, two weeks ago, hanged young man to tree
until he confessed the stealing of a twenty dollar
bill, and then gave him one hundred lashes. The
next day the man from whom the bill had been
stolen found it at the bottom of his trunk where he
himself had placed it.
The Republican journal., 1876-06-22

The Portland Advertiser, which can see
as far into political milestone as most
papers, and has an independent way of
recording its views, has this to say
When Lord Beacon was impeached for TAX
ing presents from persons who had suits in his
court, he said, 81 was the justest judge that
was in England these fifty years; but it was
the justest censure in parliament that was these
two hundred years." Mr.. Blaine may fairly APP
ply these magnanimous words to his own case.
The bearing of this remark, Of course,
is in the application Of it.
The Republican journal., 1876-06-22
Lord Byron said that he "liked good
hater," and elsewhere compliments
1.-The patient search and vigil long
OF him who treasures up Il WRONG

HAUL, anu eloeWueIo lplliueIllS-
1.-The patient search and vigil long
or him who treasures up wrong"
1t must have been with something of
this feeling that the editor of the Lewis
ton Journal, on sheet blistered by indig-
nant tears, wrote the following
"NIaine has short memory, but we appre-
bend her memory is long enough to recollect
that it is Massachusetts which has prevented
the nomination for President Of the noblest Re
publican leader. There is a story of an old
woman who was good deal irritated because
she was not invited to a neighbours funeral
'Sometime,' says she, we may have a funeral
in our family, and we'll see then who'll be in
vited!"
If we rccollect Alright, Blaine and Ben.
Butler had difference once, in course of
which the ex-speaker's sharp tongue gave
Butler a severe lashing. Ben is power
in Massachusetts, and has the habit of
treasuring up wrongs. Isn't it just pos
sible that Blaine has been too smart for
his own interests? However, this is
very pretty quarrel as il stands, and we
have no disposition to spoil it. Let the
little busy BIS proceed.
The Republican journal., 1876-06-22
And Nicanor Lay Dead in His


The Cincinnati Convention, that met os-
tensbly to put forward the foremost men
of the party, as opponents of its princi-
pies, is really remarkable only for the
slaughter of those who were its represent
atives. The result reminds the spectator
of the Roman arenas after the fights of
the gladiators The stoutest and most
valiant fighters lay prone in the dust
Blaine, who faced his enemies, however
numerous and powerful, with undaunted
courage, and who would SO fifty have head
ed the ticket, was treacherously stabbed
in the house of his friends. Morton, the
idol of the Southern Republicans; Brs-
tow. the champion Of reform; Conklng,
the favorite Of the party in the great EN-
pire State; Hartranft, the soldier Gov
eInor Of Pennsylvania all were slain,
and the hitherto almost unknown Hayes
stalks victor over the field. 1t is not by
any means an instance Of "the survival Of
the fttest" Talent, leadership, courage,
devotion, eloquence-all the qualities that
men admire in council and follow in the
field-were fatal gifts to their possessors,
and the choice fell on a man with no rep
utation beyond his own state-a man who
never said or did or suggested anything
above the commonplace, and fell on him
because he was candidate representing
respectable mediocrity. and that only
If the party had nailed to the mast the
name of one of its honored leaders, and
gone down with flying colors, it would
have saved its traditions, its sclt-respect,
its consistency and its honor 1t now
goes before the country with double
confession of weakness-of fear and trem-
bling in its councils, and lack of inspiring
leadership in the field.
What miracle the party expects to be
done in its behalf, by which it shall reap
victory from such a sowing, can scarcely
be conjectured. The responses thus far
have been few and feeble. Cannon have
sounded here and there, like the minute
guns of a funeral; few bands have given
out melody that was like the Dead March
in Saul; orators have spoken, but their
eloquence has touched the hearts of those
who remembered the dead Caesars, rather
than The living Brutus. This is the aspect
which the once great and powerful party
presents as the hours move on towards its
fate in the ides of November.
The Republican journal., 1876-06-22
BELFAST LODGE, No. 30. OF Bl LEAST,
Anril l2tll. lS.n.



Grand Lodge of Maine, |. o. of 6. T..
For making the largest gain in membership-750.
Since the above date the lodge has continually gain
ed in membership, and now numbers over 500.
THE RACES. The races on the Belfast trotting
park terminated on Friday afternoon after course
of three days. They were not successful, owing to
the foggy and rainy weather, which kept away the
crowd and injured the track. There were six races
in ALL and the purses trotted for amounted in the
aggregate to $1,000. The three minute race of We'd
nesday was won by F. w. Berry's horse, Henry F.,
in three straight heats-time 252 $40 2.45. In the
24 class Getchell's horse, Fred Logan of Water
ville took the first money--time 23S IL, 237 2.4l.
The $50 class on Thursday was won by Backing
tons horse, Ozro, of Rockland. Best time 2.42 IL
The 23s class was won by Wheeldons horse, Honest
Farmer, of Bangor. Best time, 239. The attend
ancc these days was very light, but Friday good
crowd was present There seemed to be great diff
Guilty in getting send of every heat, and it was
nearly seven O'Clock before the races ended. The
2.42 class won by Rowe's horse, Slowcome, of
Ellsworth-time, 2.40 "a, 2.44 4, 245 t. The 231
class taken by Getchells horse, Fred Logan, of
Waterve-time 2.3S on each heat.