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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
ST. LOUIS.
The Southern Hotel Burned.

ST. LOUIS, April 1.-THE Southern
Hotel, in this city, was destroyed by fire
at two o'clock this morning. About fifty
lives are lost, as near as can be ascertain
ed up to this time.
AT I:25 this morning the Southern Ho-
tel, the finest edihce of the kind in the
city, was discovered to be on fire The
salvage corps responded to the alarm be-
fore it was sounded on the city bells.
Before the engines arrived the entire up
per stories were in flames. At o'clock
the scenes in the immediate vicinity of
the hotel were indescribable, the excite
ment being of the most intense character.
The windows in the upper stories were
crowded with shrieking men and women,
whom it seemed impossible to save.
A few were rescued by ladders placed
on the Fourth street portico, but on the
other three sides of the building bounded
by Fifth Walnut and Eden streets, the
largest ladders fell far short of reaching
the windows, Mr.. Peter Blow, son Of
the former minister to Brazil, was Sleep
ing in his room on the sixth floor, and
succeeded, after strenuous exertions, in
escaping with his life and a broken arm.
The building is six stories in height, and
Mr.. Blowe thinks that majority of the
inmates in the two upper stories of the
building must have perished.E
Two men, unrecognized, were killed
by jumping from the third story win
dows, and third one badly mangled.
Five women were rescued from the sixth
story on the Fourth street side by the
heroic efforts of fremen, who, after as
cending the patent ladders, succeeded in
getting a rope to the half suffocated crea.
lures. The fire is said to have originated
in the store room.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY
ON A TRAIN.
Iowa CITY, a., April 5.

Iowa CITY, IA, April 5.
Six men, supposed to be monte opera
tors, attempted to abduct Mrs. George
w. Watson, wealthy and accomplished
young lady, of Massillon, Ohio, from
the Rock Island train, last night. They
entered the train at Rock Island, and.
under pretense that she was an escaped
lunatic, kept her gagged and held her
down at each station. She escaped from
them at Wilton, after desperate struggle
during which she sprained her ankle,
'and persuading the conductor Of her
sanity. was allowed to take rooms in a
hotel here, where she is well known and
respected. The object was probably
money, as she was richly dressed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12

in 1927, he married Miss Susan, and with
her removed to Fulton county, in 1858,
where he resided until lis death on the
18th of March, having just completed bis
seventieth year. He was the father of
thirteen, children, and had thirty-fve
grand children, and five grand
children. His weight was sos pounds.
Jefferson, Ashtabula County village
and township went Democratic on the
Sth
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12

Pittsburg, April 6-The miners at Con-
nelsville, Bradford and along the lines
of branch roads in Fayette county, have
struck for higherwages. Theywere get
ting twenty FIVE cents per wagon and now
demand thirty three. They are opposed
to company stores, and want their pay in
cash, in stead Of part store orders.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
PrrLApELpHrA, April 70
WOOL MARKET.

BosroN, April 12.-The demand was moderate.
Medium and extra Ohio and Pennsylvania. was
held at 38a42c; Xxx, amp picklock 4SG50c;
Michigan and Wisconsin, se@SSc: for fair and
good iolB combing and delaine, 45652c; pulled,
super and X e0@40c; the latter guod super
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12

oand foreign born, white and black, DEM
rats and Republicans, to unite in a gran d
effort to restore the State TO its once hap
py and prosperous condition, when she
stood the peer and equal of any State in
the Union.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
MARKETS.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

P1TTsBUBG. Wednesday, Apr II, 1877.
The market which has been dropping all week,
was more depressed than usual, and the commits
sion men having exhausted themselves trying 10
make sales, We quote.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
CANTON RE7AIL MARKET
CORRECTED BY sExAUER a MILLER.
DEMOCRAT OFFICE,
nontop Ohio Apri1 10 1877

NehtOnb OhlOj APAh - Ao'hJ
The following will be found correct quotations
articles numed
FpRsn AND CrPEn MRAra
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12

Lester Stone the young man who was
arrested at Tifin under suspicion of
numbering Miss Russman has been ac-
quilted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12

Your destiny is now in your own hands.
1t is for you to shape it for veal or for
woe. You can, by imprudence or vic.
lence, undo the labor Of months and bring
, TO us all the scenes Of anarchy, misrule
and corruption which have prevailed, or
if you are prudent and discreet as you
have been you can soon place yourselves
in higher and better plane. beg the
white men to show to the colored men
that what have said for twelve years is
true, that you are the best friends they
have in this world. Iappeal to the color
ed men to recognize the Government
which is now firmly established, to trust
us for a while, and as they arestill in the
majority, if the government have estab-
lished does not carry out the pledgesl ]
have made them, throw out all the men
in Office at the next election and put in
anybody you please.
The Governor concluded with fervenil
appeal 70 all South Carolinians, native
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
Eminent Counsel.


The counsel employed to represent the
cases ofthe respective high contendlng
parties before the great court OF arbltra'
ton are men OF distinction, and yet the
charters OF the gentlemen selected on the
different sides are in some SORT typical OF
the character OF the cases. On the dem
ocratic side the case will be IN the hands
Of Jere ;, Black, the ableSt lawyer now
at the supreme court, a democrat OF the
Buchanan school, and a keen, lnclsiYe
reasoner upon facts as well as principles,
lie will be assisted by Lyman IrumbulI,
who has no superior as a clear. headed
constitutional lawyer; Matt Carpenter,
the brilliant but erratlc lawyer OF the
northwest, who is one of the most cogent
~reasonars at the bar, amazingly we'll
read in constitutional law, keen in logic
and severe in denunciatlOn; JudgeCamp-
bell, who has been himself an associate
Justice of the supreme court, and Ben
Butler, whose peculiar powers and ex-
cellent knowledge of the ms and outs OF
Louisiana politics, of which he himself
was in some sort the founder, cminently
fit him to cross'cXamlne the Louisiana
returning board. What Butler fails to
extort from Wells, kenner, Anderson
and Casanave will probably not be worth
knowing, This line of counsel shows
plainly that the democrats intend to
present the law before the court in the
strongest shape, and sift the facts in Tic
minutesl manner. In a word. they
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
The Moon and the tides.

As the moon reyolves around the earth
from west to east, says professor Ran
dolph, she advances castwaIdly in her
orbit about thirteen degrees in every
twenty.four hours. Hence, when any
part Of the earth in its revolution comes
under the part of the heavens where the
moon was the evening before, the moon
is not there, but has gone eastward thir,
teen degrees, and, therefore, the earth
must turn on its axis as much longer as
is necessary to bring that part again
under the moon, which requires gcner-
ally, not always, about fifty minutes.
The same thing occurs the next evening
and the evening after, and thus
the moon rises most OF the year
about fifty minutes later each day.
Now, as the tides are produced mainly
by the moon, it will at once beseen from
this eastward movement and the later
rising each day why they must occur
about fifty minutes later each dav.
While the lunar tide is thus daily lag.
ging, the solar tide occurs at the same
time. Hence these two tides always
begin TO separate after new moon, being
further apart each day, until they again
coincide At full moon. when there is, as
already stated a higher tide than usual,
called spring tide. Then again they
separate, until new moon occurs, when
they once more unite, producing another
spring tide. II must not be supposed
that the whole body Of the ocean to its
~profoundest depths is equally moved by
the tides. The tides arc mainly super
fetal, and, except where the water is
Of moderate depth, the lowest parts are
only slightly disturbed, but to what
depth the tidal current extends can
never perhaps be satisfactorily determ-
I ined.- WashinqtGa Sur.
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Pill, Political Points.

This isa bad year for the apostles OF
the bloody shirt. Boutwell,, Logan,
Hitchcock, Mortou-where are they
PHtsbmg Post.
The Louisiana situation is described
exactly in the old college song, A hoy
he had an anger, that bored two holes to
once
When Morton declares "upon his
honor as a senator, then look for clean
Endorsement of some radical ~villainy. It
is certain to follow every time.-h-
i]iau1l0is Sentinel.
Simon Cameron asks, "What neNt?'
Well. Simon, YOU could make your for
tune by walking along the Union Pacilc
railroad and picking up the empty cans
-Nsr York Hcya}i,
" To-day says Forncy, Ct we compare
Oliver Perry Morton, Of Indiana to
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts,. You
inav do it. Foruey, and do it safely for
Webster is CbicaGo Times.
If the proposed settlement involved
dishonor, or a humiliating surrender OF a
right or a principle, it could not he
adopted. 1t involves neither. 1t Is far
and right and ought to be sustained
Boston AiJertSer.
Morton fell off the fence yesterday in
the very middle of his speech, and peer
ing wistmlly through a k%not-hole, eN-
claimed " Great mercury was ! over
ON that side last year?'-BrooElw Ar
Jm. ,,
The " compromise BILL so-ealled, pre-.
sented in both houses of congress, IS not Il
compromise at all, but simply proposes a
method to count the electoral yoteswhlch
shall allay the popular excitement and
quiet apprehension Boston Transcript
Nobody can say that Mr.. Logan has
not rendered his country an important
service. He has staid away from the
senate in an emergency when his pres
ence would in all likelihood have been
an Internal nuisance C Chicago Times,
Senator Sargent objects to :" bringing
the supreme court Judges down to the
muddy pool Of politics. OF course sar.
gent doesn't want any clear water OF
clear sailing. His party has too long
fed on ditch.water - oujer -J0arnaL.
1t is now ascertained that of the touI
Judges chosen on the commission of arbi
tration, but one is a republican--Judg
Miller. Judge Strong was called to tn,
supreme bench from the P~ennsylyani;
supreme court, to which he had beer
elected as a Democrat 7oIeio CONNER
oiyI
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melted butter, y eggs, > even tablespoon
fuls soda dissolved in hot water, table
spoonful ginger, a little salt, and flour
sufficient TO roll out; bake in two square
tins; mark with a knife half an inch
apart on top.
Poor MAN PUpnIS6.-l cup molas-
SEES. / of sour milk, I cup butter or beef
drippings. l teaspoontul .oda, -four to
make AS stiff as can be easily stirred. Use
raisins rs taste or purse dictate. iut IN
A spouted cake-tin and steam three hours.
Eat with ~sweetened cream, or any sauce
preferred,
OYSTER SoUPF FOR INvAIIpS-rrocure
the largest oysters; remove halt dozen
from the can, one at a time, to a plate,
Insert a fork into the solid flesh, and
with a sharp knife make a slit up and
down and across the abdominal cavity;
slip the point of the knife under the dark
mass thus exposed and thoroughly re-
move it, being as nice about II as you
would in dressing any other fish, for the
abdominal bulness of one is a. unsuited
to the week stomach As the other. Put
into stew pans; pour out proper share OF
liquor, a pint of water and hall gill OF
cream; add salt; pepper il there be no
fever; a t|easpoonful of lemon Juice, or
two of pure cider vinegar. Bring Just to
the boil and pour into Il dish. Break III
cracker or nicely toasted thin slice VI
rr. . 1...1.. f-,-l l,tttyr ,,Ral. .
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

A writer in the Rural New Yorker
suggests the following plan of a cheap
smoke-house;
Dig a narrow pit twelve to eighteen
inches deep, throwing the earth all out
on II side, from near the bottom o f this
pit dig a trench of the length of one or
two joints of stove pipe at such an angle
as will bring the end away from the pit
to the surface of the ground. Over the
end Of this pipe set a common -four bar
rel or large cask, as may be needed, and
having removed both heads, bank up
around it with the loose earth, 70 that
no smoke al escape at the bottom.
Hang in the hams, shoulders, etc,
using something like a broom handle to
run through the strings. Putting a
cover on top of the sticks will leave
space enough for draught, to let the
smoke pass freely. Build a smoke fire of
corncobs, damp hard wood sawdust, or
fine chips, and you will have a cheap,
safe, and efficient smoke. house with very
little trouble.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

The interest in the long talked OF IN
ternational work is just now beng IT,
yiyed throughout our country by the re-
ports recently submitted to the govern
ment by the commission which was some
three or four years ago appointed TO tN'
anime rs far rs might be practicable the
different routes across the lsthmus so
far as such proposed water routes might
be deemed worthy of examination, ana
make fun reports Of the result OF such
examination. 1t now seems that the
commission has about come to the con
clusion that the route via Lake Nc
aragua is the one best adapted 10 the
making of a great inter-oceanic passage
way acros, the great land barrier that
has So long barred the passage OF shlIT OF
all nations from the Atlantic to the Ia
cifc ocean. and rjsa rrrsl. This route,
will have a length of one hundred ana
eightv.one miles from Greytown on tn'
Atlantic side to Bricto on the racine
side. In this distance there VIII ne "
run of fttv-s six miles through Lake Nc
aragua. The surface OF this lake Is onG,
hundred and seven feet above the level
Of either ocean, and the calculation Is
that If will require ten locks on the la
cifc side and ten on the Atlantic side to
overcome this elevation. On the Attain,
tic side the SAN Juan river Will he used
to create slack water navigation tor 4 dls.
lance of siXty-thrcc miles,
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rErLow,S LAST pew.

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I.rt.Ir TT called "a "A Dutch Picture. and %.
.rlu. simon nHug. n bold ula Nnt.nne-r, VINO
a1lnl '-IH-r. Oh, N-nia ni iM' h'hE OF l'la,
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T rr ,.rE ,+.f. .f ,rtrr1. STYLES
.rr,r, AMI .gstf. .85 rfl..
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I'm his tulip garden there by tho town,
Oyel09kiug the sluggish stream,
with his Moorish cap and ires,iDg-g0wu
TNroId sea uaptlIu. hale and brown,
Walksiu d walking dream.
AGnIlr in his grey mustaDhiolUrk>
Whencverhe thinks OF the king 0i Spain,
And the listed tulips look like Turks,
And the Silent gard uor rs ne works
Is rhanrel To- the Dean of Jaen,
The wirdmills ON the utermost
Verge of the landscape I'm tho haze,
TobIm are towers on the Spanish coast,
WIN wEfsscrpd seutiyrls 90 theft post,
though this is the river MgCse.
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pretentious Pests Of the Period.

Our expenditures must be made more
productive; the dignity Of Labor must
have more recognition, and the gentilitv
Of y%arisus counterfeits OF work rather
less, The country yields enough for all,
and We must learn to make all earu their
share Of its abundant wealth, The able
bodied tramp who lives on the earnings
Of honest toll is no more Of a social pest
than some more prctentious members of
society, who live by various ingenious
devices Tor levying toll on capital and
labor. A good many such have found
their natural level Of late, in our progress
toward sound business method; many
more gamblers, spectators and supernu-
ous middIeInen must fall by the way.-
Mem Yyrk 1,mes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

Among the most ~disagreeable pests of
Central and South America NAV be men.
toned a fly of the genus Lvciiia, which
is in the habit of laying its eye inside
of the nose of man, and which. when
Matched, crawls into the nasal cavities,
and produces very great distress, and
sometimes death. Their habits and in
juries al they occur in Costa Rica have
been well treated in a paper by DIR. Won
Frantzius. Quite lately a species of
LucIia, occurring in France and Belgium,
has been shown to possess a somewhat
similar habit, attacking, however, the
eyes of toads, the Larvae of which pene.
trate within, eat off the eyelids, and bur.
row in the face. The toads do not show
any special indications of being much
disturbed by tho Fayages, faeding and
their eggt A. usual,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
Hard UpOn the New York Gnmhlers.

The outlook for gamblers in New
York city is %unfavorable. The period of
their new tribulation may be short, but
it promises t~hreateningly for them at
the outlet. The keepers of a faro game
close to Madison square, a section of the
city where most of the heavy gambling
is done, went from judge GiIdersleeves
court last Monday to the p~enitentiary
Tor six months, The significance of this
Is that heretofore convicted gamblers of
that class have simply been fined. The
Judge intimated, too, that longer terms
would be imposed in future cases. Be.
sides, the grand jury has prepared a
statute for the legislature to pass, max,
ing pool selling a misdemeanor andsuch
a law, enforced, would stop most of the
sportmen's fun at tie horse races.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

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nnhts of Snnthern States.

Virginia owes about $4,000 zoe, and
insists that West Virginia is bound to
shoulder $4,000, OOO of it As her lalr
share but the latter state is not willing
to do this. North Crrolina's debt aggre,
gates about $40 1000, 600, Tennessee owes
about sol, O00, 000. The bonds are chiefly
held in New York, and the owners have
requested committee ofeminent banker
who are not themselves interested II
them to ondeavor to secure a recognl2a
ton of the debts upon an equitable basis
-PhAuieJphiu Press.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

The Moors, after occupying spain
over seven hundred years, and makingi it
during the middle ages the home OF agri.
culture, rs other arts and sciences, were
expelled Ia 1892, the galde year Calum,
bus A@lae0vtrnd lAp now M0lN
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
The United States Senate After
March /.

The election of Judge Davis to sue
coed Logan enables the Republican to
state definitely the political complexion
ufthe United States senateon the toruth
day OF march next, and nothing indicates
more strikingly the wonderful victory
achieved last fall by thedemocracy, With
s~eyeuty-fye seats filled in the senate to-
day the republicans have a majority OF
seyenteen, while with the entire seventy
.ix seats filled they will lawfully be
entitled to but two majority on the fourth
Of March, What majority they will
actually have depends, OF course, to a
great degree upon the extent to which
they can Use the majority they will have
in the portion of the senate holding over
MARCH 1, 1871, in seating the republicans
returned by the pretended legislature of
Louisiana and South Carolina, and deny
ing admission to democrats from other
states. 1t will be interesting to note,
however, the changes which will occur
in the senate during the next six years,
which covers the period OF Office for which
the new class Of senator's have been
chosen. BY adopting the phraseology
used in college catalogues and classifying
the senators according to the years in
which their terms expire, these changes
can be easily marked.
The first changes in the composition Of
the senate occur on March 4, 1871, and
will be as follows;
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MonsehoId Rpcaines.

QUICK WEDDING CAKE.-2l cupfuls
-four. i cupfuls sugar, l cupful butter,
cupful milk, . eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls
rum, nutmeg, J halt pound of raisips,
pound currents, t%oaspoonful soda.
0lp'F4aaIoSEp GISaERaRlAp 2
cuptgIs New Orleans m0lasses, | 0aptal
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Nothing need be palmer than lit, g.,

republican majority oftwo will instartly
vanish when 1ilden takes his aeat. 20
that his administration will begin with a
good working majority in both hrapcbcg
f congress, which will be greatly in.
ocreased after March 4, l879.-H. Lop
ReDabEicdn,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

american ignorance IN Horse Breeding
The great trotting-horscs of the coun-
try have not been foaled, in the proper.
ton that one might reasonably expect,
They have come, rather, before the public
from obscure sources. In many cases, as
with "Dutchman' and "Flora Temple
and "Rripton,' no one can tell up to
this day anything OF the sire or the dam.
The fact that three such horses, and
scores of others Of almost equal merit.
have no known parcntage, reveals how
rude and unsuccessful the breeding efforts
Of the country have been. Who can
conceive Of three winners Of the Derby
with no known pedigree? But here we
have few, if any, impartial and inteI.i-
gent students Of the problem. The most
intricate and delicate of all endeayors to
propagate great eXcellencies by the har-
monious union Of desirable qualities.
possessed in part by the sire and part By
the dam, has been, for the most part, un.
dertaken by men too ignorant or preiu-
diced to grasp cOmprehensiyely the rudl-
mental principles Of success. Hence it
Is that breeding in America has been an
innocent kind Of gambling, that is, a
venture in which good luck, rather than
an understanding Of and attention to the
business, was relied on for success. Hence
it is that our fastest horses are sent to ~
annually from the ban-yards OF un.
known, and, so far as principles of breed
ing go, ignorant farmers, We find them
AS "Dutchman" wa, found, in a tan.
dem-team, drawing bricks; or behind a
droyer's wagon, as Flora Temple" wa.
discoyercd--withou name or fame.
They come unheralded by any expec,a
tion, the result Of no plan, no knowl.
edge, no wisely-inycsted capital. Thi,
seems an in~disputable proposition, there
fore,-that one Of the causes Of @inancia
failures which have attended attempts al
breeding is to be found in the gross ig
norance Of the breeders Themselves il
the principles Of propagation.