The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-12-13

POLITICAL AND NEWS.

The more newspapers and wire. pullers
try to figure out the Senator the less they
know about 1t.
Governor Allen has written letter to
the Enquirer declaring that he is not and
will not be candidate for Senator, and
expresses preference for Gen. Morgan.
No grander contest was ever made In
the U. s. Senate than that of Judge Thur
man to get General Butler the seat to
which he was fairly elected.-HoImeS Co.
Farmer.
Total depravity is not to be found even
in carpet bag Senator. Patterson and
Oonover voted with the Democrats to seat
General Butler.
The lessees Of the canals abandoned
their lease 10 the State ON the lst of this
month. What to do with the canals will
be a vexatious question for the incoming
legislature.
Dr. Linderman, the Director of the
Mint, insists that silver has declined in
value, and says the coinage of gold and
silver at the mints was $4,000 more this
year than last
The laws of the United States provide
that the Legislature shall commence vo.
ting for Senator on the third Tuesday of
January,which will be the 15th-the next
day after the Inauguration.
A. W. Fairbanks & Co. have sold the
Cleveland Herald newspaper to Ex. Con.
gresham r. G. Parsons and Col. w. P.
Fogg, for 100000 The book and job
department is retained by the old firm.
twill support Hayes's Administration.
A Chicago drummer recently raised
over $87 600 on single day to pay off a
church deb',a and now a hundred big bust.
ness concerns want him, knowing how
much more genius it needs to get SUBJ
sCriptions for salvation than for dry goods.
, Clyde, o., December 5.-The City Mar.
shal arrested two men this morning,
charged with robbing Jos. Brooks,y yester.
day morning, of a $50 watch and $40O in
notes.
Hilliard o., December 5.-Thos. John.
son, living four miles east of this place,
shot himself dead last evening while
cleaning gun which he did not know
was loaded.
Charlotte, Mich, December ga farm
or named b. P. Morton, of Walton Town
ship, while returning from Marshall last
night was waylaid by highwaymen and
beaten nearly to death, and robbed of
$500. No clue to the robbers.
Kansas City, Mo-, December 5.-A no
ted desperate and murderer named Bill
johnson, reached this city this afternoon
in charge of the officers from Wisconsin,
who arrested the man at Caddo in the
Indian Territory. Last April he murder.
ed his stepfather, near Madison, Wiscon-
sin, and, after setting fire to the premises,
fled the country. When next heard of
he was living in the Indian Territory and
the leader ofa band of horse-t thieves. He
killed man near Fort Sill last July, and
had to leave that section for fear ofiynch-
ing. He returned last week to Caddo, and
was arrested by detectives who had been
on his track for months.
Constantinople, December 5.-A dis.
patch from Suleiman Pasha, dated yes.
terday, confirms the capture of Elena,
with eleven guns, twenty ammunition
wagons and three hundred prisoners.
The Russian loss is estimated at three
thousand killed and wounded.
Hay es echoes sherman's policy of fore.
ed resumption, and adds that it must be
done without the aid IF fsilver.
The Richmond Enquirer, established in
1904, and for many years the leading pa
per Of the South has suspended.
V1cToR HUGO refused to receive visit
from Gen, Grant because the latter afhl-
iates with the Monarchists in Paris.
The army paymasters at LeavenAorth
paid ont 81 100000 last week.
Gen. Grant has left Paris for a trip
through southern France and up the
Mediterranean.
} Rande, the desperate recently arrested
in st. Louis, has been taken to Galesburg,
ILL.,, and plead not guilty of murder
Galesburg is the, county seat of Knox
county, where Rande killed three men.
His name is Charles Scott.
About fifty persona were drowned by
the recent foods in the Fast. The total
loss is several millions of dollars.
On Wednesday party of 80 persons
embarked on boat at Pittsburgh, in
tending to float down to Arkansas. Be-
fore going hundred rods the boat ran
into barge, and was broken ia pieces.
Five Of the party were drowned.
An International exhibition is announ-
ced to be held in Milan, Italy, in 1879,
Among the failures of last week was
that of the Second National Bank cf Laf-
ayette, Ind. It has deposits of over $780,.
600, mostly among farmers.
Doc McWharter was shot and instant
ly killed by his brother in Athens county,
last Wednesday.
Burglars got $1,000 in cash, $4,000 in
bonds, and large amount of jewery out
of the safe of Scott. and Son, Gambler,
Tuesday night.
Four roughs were convicted ofattempt-
ed rape at Sandusky, last week. The feel
ing was strong against them and they
were sentenced to Is years each at Col
umbus.
W. P. Noble has been elected President
of the Ohio Agricultural College.
Toledo is a good town for tax. x.payers to
keep out of. The bonded indebtedness of
the Board of Education alone is $384, 900.
The new bridge over Ashtabula Creek
was completed last week and is pronoun-
ced a very strong structure.
The wild beast which has created such
terror in Union county, was killed near
Marion, Saturday. 1t proved TO be large
leopard, and the two men who killed it
had a hard fight, one ofthem being badly
mutilated. 1t measures seven feet in
length, and is now on exhibition at Ma
rion.
Recruiting for the regular army has