The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ic nominee, has been elected to succeed
Senator Ben Hill in Congress from the
Ninth Georgia District.
1t is now settled that Indiana is ia
have new State House. The Legisla-
ture has passed law to that effect.
]. G. Lee, late Lieutenant Governor OF
Ohio, was confirmed United States Dis
trict Attorney fol Northern Ohio.
Postmaster General Key has thirteen
hildren.-Erchange.
No wonder the Republicans wanted
him. They need reinforcements.
Warmoth, of Louisiana, arrived here
this morning. He is working in Mich
oils interest, and hopes, through Stanley
Matthews and Schurz to control the
Federal patronage of the state Wash
ington Special, 18Th.
The First National Bank of Allentown,
Pa, has suspended.
Albany, March 16.-The Governor has
sent to the Senate the name of General
George B. Mcclellan for Superintendent
of Public Works.
Friday night six Cinnamon employed
in clearing near Chico, CAL, were at
tackled by a party of whites and five of
them murdered in cold blood and the
sixth severely wounded. No cause is
assigned for the deed, save the antipathy
existing between the two races.
New Orleans, March 16.-The leading
bank presidents, insurance officers, cotton
factors, commission and produce mer-
chants of New Orleans telegraphed Presi-
dent Hayes to-day, endorsing the resolu-
tions adopted by the Nichols General
Assembly, and assuring co operation in
restoring confidence and fraternal rela-
tions, and guaranteeing protection of life,
liberty, and property to all.
Warren, March 16.-Hon: E. B. Tay-
lor, of this city, was to-day appointed by
the Governor to fill the yacany caused by
the death of Judge Servis. The appoint
ment could not be better and gives great
satisfaction.
Washington, March 15.-Judge Mackey,
of South Carolina, had brief interview
with the president" to-day, and read
him atelegram from Governor Hampton,
in which the Governor said the project
of a new election was the insult to the
people of the state and to himself. The
Governor also says that he does not wish
to be recognized; what he desires is that
the troops be removed from the State
House, then the will of the people can be
carried out, and carried out peaceably.
Aiken, S. c., March 16.-Nelson Brown,
Lucius Thomas, Adam johnson, and
John Henry Denis, all colored, were
hanged here to-day, for the murder of
two white men. Stephen Anderson ALSO
colored, was found guilty of the same
crime, but was yesterday respited for
thirty days by Gov. Hampton.
New York, March 16.-Peter B. Swee-
ney, whose name was associated with
Boss Tweed in the great Ring swindles,
and who has been an exile for the past
five years, has returned. He has not
been taken in custody, because it was
arranged with the Attorney General
that if he would return and be present
at the trial against him all proceedings
civil and criminal so far as arresting him
should be suspended during the trial and
for thirty days afterward.
W. D. Philips, of Austin, Mimi, ac-
cused of seduction, secured his discharge
upon technical grounds last week. A
few hours later he was found covered
with tar and feathers and badly bruised
the work of a number of women,
whose sense of justice was too strong to
permit the escape of a confessed seducer.
In the United States Senate, as in the
War Department, says the World, one
Cameron doth tread on another's heels,
and Pennsylvania's
Senatorial seat once won,
Bequeathed by aged sire and son,
Is still filled by Cameron"
The appointment of Fred Douglas has
created much comment in the legal pro-
fession at Washington, and no little dis
among some of the old fami-
lies. The office is worth from $4,000 to
$4,000 year.
The New York Sun, thus weeps for
Robson:
SeCOT hODeSOu, JllOu udbL lelL
But thy loss we can't deplore,
For of millions thou bereft us,
And vert ripe for millions more.
Gone, but not forgotten.
Stanley Matthews thus formulates his
belief; "In recognition of State gov
ernment the Federal Government exer-
cises political and not judicial power,
and in exercise of that power has right
to be guided by considerations of the
highest public policy"
indianapolis, March ia boiler ex-
ploded in the saw mill of Hunter Bros,
five miles east of Worthington, Indiana,
yesterday afternoon, killing twelve per-
sons and wounding seven, all that were
in the building. The mill ground corn
on Fridays, and was trying new set of |
corn burrs, and the day being wet the |
neighbors had gathered in.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in
he case of the st. Xavier Church panic |
n New York exonerates the church au.
norities and confirms the amplitude of |
he exits.
Pike, the murderer of DR.. Stevenson
Tones. of Chicago, has been held for
murder in the first degree and the muir
Tered mans wife has been held as an ac-
essory.
The Pine Bluff and Memphis steamer
Governor Garland burned at Red Fork,
N the Arkansas river yesterday, and
With her cargo is total loss. Four lives
iere also lost.
James NJ. O'Donnell was arrested in
,incinnati yesterday, by Peoria, Illi-
ois, officer, charged with swindling by
leans of false representations concern
lg mortgages on property in Covington,
,entucky.
Gov. Chamberlain telegraphs to Wash
lgton that the proposition for a new
lection in South Carolina is new one
, him, and does not meet with his ap-
roval.
THERE has never been time in the
story of Ohio when there was a greater {