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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

The Courier 90HraaI takes issue with
those Republicans who say that the Dem.
ocrats intend to raid the Treasury to the
extent of $500, ,ooo, 900, and cites the fact
that successive Republican Congresses
have voted away S4oo, 900 900 10 the
navy after the war closed, the most OF
which goes into the hands of the con-
tractors ring, 1t then calls upon some
body to put down in dollars and cents
the aggregate of the Republican raids
on the Treasury since 1865.
Our differential calculus not being at
hand, we shall not now undertake such
monstrous problem; but we shall un>
dertake to show that thirteen hundred
millions of the peoples money have been
squandered in the department of civil
service alone since the date mentioned.
In mousing over old records, we STUN.
bled upon the report of the joint select
committee on retrenchment, of which
the Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes, of Rhode
Island, was chairman, and which, after
three years Of exhaustive investigation
of the civil service system, reported to
Congress in 1862 among many other in
teresting things, the following facts;
"Oneethird more officers are appointed
than are needed. " "The Indians get
but twenty-cents out of every dollar that
is stem them" "Out of $500, ,ooo, 900,
called for annually by our tax and tariff
laws, but three hundred millions ever
reach the pnblic Treasury" Mr.. Jenckes
dads: This is an immense fact; one
dollar out Of every four, amounting to
$Ioo, 900, 900 every year, is lost or stolen
by the dishonesty or incompetency of
officers of the civil service. This sum,
if saved, would pay our National debt
before it falls due. Our problem is to
find men for the public service, honest
enough, faithful enough to seize that mis-
sing dollar, which in the course of every
year swells to the enormous aggregate of
SIoo, 900 900, and cast it into the public
Treasury instead of letting it slip into the
pockets of corrupt officers in the civil
service and their confederates." The
above is not the exbayte statement of a
paid attorney, but is the language of the
Republican chairman of congressional,
joint select committee, and accompanies
the report which he made to Congress in
1869. He makes no charge against the
disposition made of this money after it
has been placed on the books of the
Treasury, but states, in word, that one
dollar out of every four then called for
by law never reaches the public Treasu-
ry at all. but it is lost or stolen by Radi-
cal oficesholders. - WaShiNgtoN Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
THE HERorsM OF AN ENGINEER.


Knocked from his Cab by Broken Connecting
Rod, he yet stops the Train.
Train 36 on the Pennsylvania Railroad
left Philadelphia at 1885 on Wednesday
morning. It's time through to Jersey
City is one hour and fifty-four minutes,
and the passengers are due in New York
in two hours, There were five crowded
passenger coaches. Germantown juno
ton is the only stop. Leaving German
town, the train passed the small stations
In New Jersey and hurried through Tren-
ton on time.
Ed. Osmond the engineer was with
his hand on the throttle of the engine,
steadying it, but keeping it up to sixty
five miles an hour. Running these fast
trains is no boys play, Only the oldest
and most reliable engineers are intrusted
with the task. 0smond has been fifteen
years in the Company's service, and has
run an engine for ten years.
He was approaching Milestone juno
ton, about mile west of New Bruns-
wick, when Osmond felt something strike
the cab directly beneath him, and the
next instant he was lying PROSTATE on
the engine in front of where the cab had
been. II was knocked into pieces and
strewn along the track.
The engine, deprived of his control,
gathered fresh impetus every moment
from it's open throttle. 0smond, half
stunned, lay for second till he felt that
no bones were broken and his grip was
secure. There was burn or two, and
sCald or twoIbut he did not feel them, SO
great was the nervous tension. After he
has sufficiently recovered himself he saw
what had happened. The heavy con-
Meeting rod of the driving wheels on the
right side had broken, and one end of it
swinging round with immense velocity
had hit his cab with the force of trip.
hammer and knocked it skyward.
Slowly and carefully at first, but with
| increasing confidence, Osmond let him
self down upon his place. 1t was the
work of moment to reverse the engine,
and of another to apply the air. brakes.
| The train was at standstill before New
Brunswick was fairly in sight.
The fireman, who had witnessed it all,
was in his place on the left side of the
tender and so out of danger of the whirl.
ing arm; but when the cab was knocked
in pieces about his ears he thought all
was over with poor Osmond. He caught
the rear end Of the tender, let himself
quickly down, and took refuge in the
baggage car.
The passengers on train SO little knew
Of their narrow escape. 1t is impossible
to say what would have been the result
if Osmond had done what many engi-
neers would have done-jumped for his
own life, and left them to their fate. 1t
was an act of quiet heroism in the dis
charge of duty that has not often been
eqnaled in the fierce heat of battle.
Osmond needed no apology to Super
intendent Baker for being three.quar-
ters Of an hour late with train 36 on
Wednesday morning.-N, Y. San.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
WHO 5UT THE DEMOCRATIC PAR
TY IN POWER!

The man who handed the country
over to the Democratic party, by and
with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate, was General Grant, the great and
only ex-President. He began with ev-
erything, and State after State turned to
be Democratic soon after he displayed
his remarkable inequalities as a civil Of.
fcer. His chief advisers were Senators
who were in the San Domingo job, and
who fattered him on all occasions. The
consequences we're:
I. The humiliation of the Republican
party in the North.
Q. The overthrow of the Republican
State Governments in the South.
8. Unparalleled stealing in the North
and unprecedented murder in the South
4. Democratic majority in the House
of Representatives.
s. Democratic Governors and Legis-
latures in a majority of the States.
6. A Presidential election that would
have been utterly lost if it had not been
for the help ofthe Liberals.
7. The passing away of the Republi'
can majority in the Senate, the Republi.
can Senators of the old Grant group
meanwhile contending with passionate
energy for all the scraps of spoil.-Cm,
cinHah Commercial (Md).
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
OBITUARY.
MaIor.GenernI William mRrnn, Y. O.

One of the most remarkable officers Of
the British Army died on the 25th ut
at Woolwich, Major General William
Mclean, Victoria Cross, late colonel of
the Ninety, y,third Highlanders, in which
regiment he enlisted in 1885 as a drums
merNboy. When the regiment left Que
bee in IS48 he was company sergeant,
August 10, 1854, while serving in the
Crimea under Sir Colin Campbell, Color,
Sergeant Mclean became ensign, and
December lieutenant, besides obtains
the Crimean medal and clasp, the Med
jidie and the Turkish medal. He went
through the Indian campaign with dis
tnction, getting his captaincy April 10,
1883, with the Victoria Cross for "dis-
tinguished personal bravery in killing
eleven ofthe enemy with his own hand
in the main breach Of the Begun Bagh,
at Lucknow, March II, 1875" Besides
aiding in the relief of Lucknow he was
at Cawnpore, Saraighat, Lalee, Muddie,
Allegunge; Bareilly, Pusgaon, Russell
pore and Mithowlie, earning the India
medal with two clasps, as we'll as the v.
c, After this he was brevet major, Au.
gust 10, 1860 brevet lieutenant colonel,
July IA, 1871; major, June 8, 1872 and
lieutenant colonel, October 20, 1873 thus
realizing the ambition of his life time
to command the regiment of which he
had been the humblest drummersboy.
In every rank he proved his efficiency,
and he was idolized by the regiment in
which he passed the forty-three years of
his life. On the Ist of October last he
was promoted to its colonelcy, as Major
General M Bean. When, week before
his death, after undergoing hazardous
operation, he was told that he could not
survive many days, he expressed wish
that he might be taken to the hospital at
Woolwich, in order that he might Idle
amongst the soldiers" His wish was
complied with,-ET.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01

THERE are more ugly developments
about New York Savings Bank, that
has failed and swindled its poor deposi.
tors. Mr.. Hahn, ex>Secretary of the
Teutonia bank declares under oath that,
being urged to do so by the trustees, he
bought bonds for the bank at various
times, charged them in the bank books
at higher figures than he paid for them,
and divided the difference equally among
the trustees from time to time, taking the
money out of the bank funds. He gives
dates and amounts, and asserts that the
trustees knew perfectly we'll where the
money came from, and how it came. He
also asserts that up to 1876 percentage
of the salaries paid to the President,
Treasurer, and himself was actually di.
vided among the trustees.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01

What the Potter investigation is doing,
says the Nation, is not fastening guilt on
any person not hitherto suspected, or re-
vealing any flaw in the Presidents ii
tie, but letting the world know what kind
of people they were who had charge Of
the State government and worked the
political machine in Louisiana from 1868
to last year, To say that
Their manners and morals, and the
stories they tell of each other, read like
chapter of jail yard goisip, and every
one ofthem ought to be in the Peniten>
tiary, is putting the case mildly. 1t is not
exaggeration to say that it was an unlaw.
full thing to have left the government of
civilized community in such hands so
long, and lamentable and alarming that
the scamps should have been able to
palm themselves off so long as good
people at the North and suffering friends
of the black man.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01

THE Cleveland leader has found out
that the democratic leaders throughout
the United States have adopted substau-
tally the same tactics" " and that without
the slightest doubt they will continue
loudly ito repeat before the people the
same cries of Republican corruption, to
unite in boasting of Democratic econo>
my, and to observe unbroken silence all
along the line upon the unanswerable
charges brought against them by Repub-
licans." With the exception ofthe word
"unanswerable," which was probably
an inadvertence, this seems to be fairly
and felicitously stated. 1t is fortunate,
too, as the lsaaer will admit, as soon as
we call its attention to it that we have all
the facts necessary to sustain it, Wash
tngt0A Posi-. @
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01

FEssLER, the defaulting Treasurer of
Stark county, is held-to bail in the sum
of $275 900, for abstracting $4,000, un.
lawfully. The Constitution of Ohio says:
Section s, Bill of Rights, that, Gall per.
sons shall be bailable by sufficient sure
ties, except for capital offences where
the proof is evident, or the presumption
great. Excessive bail should not be required:
nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel
and unusual punishments inflicted" If
Fessler has not been required to give ex-
cessive bail, $275, 900, what would be ex-
cessive2 The statute requiring such a
bond cannot stand before the organic
law.-ErchGnqe.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
AT THE PORTER COURT MARTIAL.

Colonel Thompson is stout, good
hatured and very deaf gentleman, who
put every one in a good humor by his
witty replies to the counsel's questions.
" We were ordered to move against the
enemy, who were said to be falling back.
We went-but the falling back was on
the wrong side.-we did all of it." He
told how short of food the army was, and
said; For myself, all had that day was
ham bone, and as l mad left it behind
in the morning had to go in light
marching order" Describing his posi-
ton he said: We went across a creek
or run-the whole country was full Of
runs-everybody running.-Ne5O York
World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
WHIPPING THE SEA.

You've heard about Xerxes ? Ofcourse
you have; every history scholar that
comes into my field to study talks about
Xerxes of old and his great armies Well
1 heard very queer story about this
same Xerxes the other day-picked out
of one of the big books, you know. In
one ofhis wars he wanted his soldiers to
cross piece of water mile wide. So he
caused a bridge of boats to be made. But
before he aud his men had crossed,
storm came up and destroyed the bridge;
whereupon this brave general flew into a
passion, like little boy, and ordered the
sea to be whipped with three hundred
lashes, and a set of fetters cast into it, to
punish it for its disrespectful conduct
Dear, dear Pm told the little waves
are sobbing on the beach to this day.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
JOHN SHERMAN'S ILL-GOTTEN
WEALTH.

Perhaps Sherman used his official DO,
sition as chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance for his own personal
profit, and perhaps this accounts for the
fact that, although he entered Congress
few years ago poor, he is now worth
several millions Of dollars. 1t is no ses
cret that man occupying his position
can exercise a powerful influence on the
money market, especially during times
such as then existed, and an unscrupu>
lous man can use that influence in such
a manner as to increase his bank ac>
count by hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in the course of a year. Perhaps
John Sherman would disdain to use his
influence for such a purpose, but the
probabilities are, in view Of his past sin
uous conduct, and his past poverty and
present wealth, that he did.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
GRANT FOR LIFE IF FOR A THIRD
TERM.

1t is time people should part with illu,
sions on this subject. There is not much
Caesar about Grant, but the urgency that
he should be candidate in the name of
strong government is menance to the
public liberties. Any attempt to dis.
guise that will be foolishness. If Grant
is wanted for a third term he will be
wanted for life. His election would be
a popular verdict against republican
form of government, Consequently it
will not happen. The Grant movement,
therefore, is in the interest of the Demo-
cratic party. 1t proposes to turn over the
defense of Republican institutions to the
Democracy. If that is managed, of
course the Democracy must win. 1t is
certain that Grant will not be the next
President even if Pullman and Jay Gould
spend millions in advertising him.
Cincinnati Commercial.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
OUTDONE BY A BOY.

A lad in Boston, small for his years,
was errand boy for four gentlemen. One
day they were chatting him little about
being 80 small, and said to him
"You will never amount to much, you
never can do much business, you are too
small"
"Well," said he, las small as I am, 1
can do something which none ofyou four
men can do"
"Ah, what is that ?" said they.
81 don't know as l ought to tell you"
he replied, But they urged him to tell.
II can keep from. 8,Uearing" said the lit
tie fellow.
There were some bushes on four manly
faces, and very little anxiety for further
information on the point
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01

"WHY WE SNEEzE" is the title of a
scientific treatise on sternutation. Well
usually at this season, it is because That
Girl thinks it funny to tickle our noses
with straw when we are trying to get a
bit Of sleep on the grass. This, by the
way, would have been an even more OBJ.
jectionable species of humor than it is
now, itlpracticed before the time Jacob.
Until change in the law was procured
by that patriarch (who, for ought l know,
had an interest in snuff shop) men
sneezed but once, and then straightway
died. No truth is better attested than
that; it is affirmed in the Talmud.
Aristotle says we sneeze twice because
we have two nostrils; but this ingenious
old gentleman had obviously in mind
the misleading analogy of a double bar
relied shotgun. We sneeze twice be,
cause we do not open our eyes the first
time, and That Girl repeats her prank
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01

SENATOR HOWE, of Wisconsin, is being
pressed hard in the struggle for renomi-
nation by three mpetitors-ex>G Cover
nor WashbNrne, ex-senator Matt Carpen-
ter, and Governor Smith. There is evi-
IDENTIFY a widespread feeling among the
Wisconsin Republicans that Howe's
days Of usefulness are over CIeV. Her.
aid Hayes. ''i
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
Ditch Notice.

Notice Is hereby given that petition has been pre-
sented to the Commissioners OfStark county praying
for the establishment of ditch In Jackson and Plain
townships and described as follows Commencing on
the public road leading nom New Berlin in the said
county to Canal Fulton in the same county, on the
quarter OF section II in Jackson township
in said county, being on the lands Of Joseph Mar
chand and at point where q branch Of the West
creek running southwardy, nearest the
north and south line between Jackson and Plain
townships crosses the said public road; thence along
or as near the channel Ofsaid stream and southwark
ly as practical location for said ditch drain
ter course may be found.
Said petition will be for hearing at the meeting of
the Commissioners In their office In the Court House
to be held August Goth, 1878.
BY order Of tine Commissioners,
julylS.hw JAS, p. SOURBECK, Auditor.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
Victoria to Beaconsfeld :

Dizzy, dear Dizzy, come home TO me now,
The clock In the steeple strikes "wonl"
You said you were coming right home from Berlin
AS soon Is your days work was done
Come home, come home, come home,
Dear Dizzy, dear Dukey, come home,
Albany Journal
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
4ltsrrIIantous.
NOTICE.

My wife, Bella Flynn daughter Of VIM. Baxter
ex-Sherif of Stark Co., left my bed and board
without Just cause or provOcatiOn on the ninth
day of July so l warn all persons from trusting OF
harboring her on my account as | will pay nc
debts of her contraction
JOHN F. FLYNN.
Canton, o., July 8, 1873 S.dw
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
LADIES READT.

Instead Of suffering yourselves toIbe RWindled
Ierved you perhaps these many yearS, take Il %
Berry y Bostwick and have 1t made as good e
new. They can make any machine, no matter
how old OF what kind, or how badly broken, iuGl
@ good and just as nice q new. They can Inhks
can make machines that never did work wen
work perfectly. Improvements put on all ma.
chimes when ordered.
Most sewing machine companies rebuild and
resell the old machines they trade foE. II Il pays
them much more will 1t pay you.
Berry q Bostwick have twelve years actual ex.
pertence In Rebuilding and Repairing all kinds
Of sewing machines and have worked In the
leading factories They guarantee aHGhciOR
and warrant all their work.
Give them call.
Office, n North Market Street,
july& TIT -. GA1ToL OHIO.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-19
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 49,
letter from Mr.. McOaffrey ordering that garbage
be covered with street pilings or removed from

letter from Mr.. McOaffrey ordering that garbage
be covered with street pilings or removed from
the streets.
Witness adds that the material taken from the
dump was hard and dry, and is better than
street scraplngs for filling, purposes. The AMI
mails were removed from the streets on his own
responsibility. and the ward superintendent
favored his course. MS expressed in q conversa-
ton between them
II M MoCattrey-I don't think eyer [. spoke q
we've made. Originally I removed the dead
dogs Of my own accord. Afterwards received
instructions to do so.
BENJAMIN Zimmerman was next put on the
stand and said: attend the dump for Mr..
Kaiser. I bury the dead animals about four
ing In the pile. About three months ago u great
deal Of garbage was hauled away from. the
dump on orders from Mr.. McCafrrey to fill up
TO Mr.. MeCaffrey- stuff taken away Is SO
hard that Dickaxes have to be used. 1t Is rotten
Mr.. L. D. Allen took the stand and testified:
am sanitary policeman of the Second District.
4 great many complaints were made to the
Board Of Henlth about this garbage matter |
know that garbage WAS dumped on Orleans
street. between 9 aiborne. and Dorbigny 1t was
nothing but, garbage. man who was SUD
wod py ak Bury h2 he 69aa o Glider ths
garbage: then the carts that came that way
you'd turn them up again with their wheels:
between Galvez and miro; on Dorgenois street
below Cont, and on Galvez between Hospital
and Ursulines. / made reports Of the Same to
the sanitary inspector, DR.. Laundry, Com plants
were made also to Mr., Markey, the contractor.
I never noticed, any proper covering having
boon put over, the garbage. About that time
there occurred good denl of small pOx In the
localities named. My impression was at the
time that It favored the spread of small pox.
TO Mr.. BosWorth-The first time carbolic acid
was sprinkled this year was about the corner
of Claiborne and Cont streets-after Mr. Clark.
Of the Emily B. Souder,' was taken III with the
fever. on Claiborne street near Cont, some
where about the twenty eighth of May. The
next case. think. occurred on or about the
twenty first of July.
During his examination, Mr.. Allen offered
a report relative to the condition of the Clai-
borne street cemeteries. which will be found
elsewhere.
The committee adjourned until this morning
at II o'clock.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-19

continued work among us. We found him very
ready and willing to assist and relieve the
afflicted. Called here and there, with not mo-
ment for himself, going night and dn n ,a 81
ministoring angel sent 70 remove the af Ct, on
DO it. The expressions Of thanks. from the lips
he poor who found in hm friend fuoh as
Is seldom met ms name VIII remain I'll. a. nou ~
destroyer by his skill and untiring energy, us
we'll us Of nl our citizens,
In leaving us he carries with him the grail
t,lde Of MI Of our people.
70 your noble association we tender, our
heartfelt thanks for sending us q skillful physi.
to u.s. r. w. ELMER.
President Board OF Health.
D. W. CuuRCH. Secretary.