The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-08

Ihe loose talk OF drunkard In Portsmouth. NJ
H. has led To the arrest Of several persons for mar
ucipation In a murder committed eighteen yearH
ago. ''"
The second person to be punished in Virginia
under the new law re-establlshlng the whining.
post was white girl Of II. She received twentv-
nVe lashes on her back, In the Elizabeth City
Court House, at the hands Of negro constable.
Scotch gentleman plagued by poachen pro.
cured human leg from the hospital dressed IL
IN a stocking ana shoe, and sent II through the
neighboring village by the town crler, who pro-
claimed that II had been found In a man tran last
night In Mr. Rosss grounds, who desired to re-
turn 1t to the owner. No more poaching
In S7S Europe underwent visitation OF praSa-
hoppers far worse than that experienced here.
They are referred to In Spanish and German mo-
nastlc archives and are described as having hid
den the sun and deYoured crops on 100 acres In
one hour After devastating France they Were
supposed TO have perished In the Atlantic.
| Henry Jackson, aged II, took younger boy out
into deep water, at Leavenworth Kan, and de-
liberately drowned him. The deed Beems to have
been done without definite motive, except Ia
kill somebody. Jackson says that he had no III
will toward his victim, but he had made !up his
mind that he would like to be hanged as a muir
derer.
The conundrum about the pins Is well encugh-
but who breaks all the needles3 single factory
In Reddltch, England turns out between 100000
| and 100000 ofthem each week. or about 85OOOO.-
600 year which is equal to onethird Of the pop-
uation of the globe, With all the factories in the
world going who breaks these millions of nee
| dles2
The British legation In China has suffered Sc
we're loss In the death Of Mr.. Mayors Chinese Sec
retary an ardent investigator in the field of Chi
nese literature. He was the author of the "Chi-
nese Readers Manual" and has left ready for
| puplication Corean grammar. He ded;of typhus
| al the age OF 49, ltwas Mr. Mayors who bought
FOR the British Museum the great Chinese Encyclo-
p@dia of 5,O2O volumes
The laws Of Mississippi forbid the m arrIa0e NJ
widow and her fatherin-law. Therefore Alfred
boyce, aged 60, and Mary BOyce, aged 70. were
compelled to go to Illinois to have the ceremony
performed. He is sickly, and may die soon: His
iather is alive, at the age Of 80, and Mary SAYS
that she would as lief marry him, she likes the
family so we'll.
From the beginning Of the reign of George III.
TO that OF Victoria, upward of 200 duels were
fought In England. In three, both Combatants
were Killed in eighty one and in all, 100 were
wounded Upward Of twenty trials connected
with duels occurred, in which four duelists were
found guilty and two hanged. In the list of du-
elliss occur the names of York, Norfolk, Castle
reagh, Pitt, Fox Sheridan, Grattan, Burdett, Can
ming, Peel and Wellington.
The Congress of Berlin is to be followed by two
other international congresses in Paris of a some.
what different nature, that will not attract so
much attention nor be apparently of as much i'm.
| mediate Importance but that ultimately perhaps
will do more for the good of mankind One is
the Homeopathic Congress- to meet the 18th of
| August; the other, TO meet the 23d of September
is to consider the condition of the blind and
means for its improvement.
Shortly after Waterloo some changes in the mi.
form of the Guards were proposed and George w.
ordered gusrdsman to be sent for who was re-
ported to have cut down six officers at Waterloo.
Now said the King, after few questions had
been put to the man, "if you were going to have
such another days work, how would you like to
be dressed" In my shirt sleeves" was the
prompt reply. The British troops, until twenty
FIVE years ago, wore the same textures LII India as
in Canada.
The 9th anniversary Of the Guild of st, Alban
was lately held in London. lis chief aim has long
been TO labor among the young. In the London
division there are 60 brethren including u assist
ing sisters. The Provost said that since last wear
only one member of the guild had been taken
from them by death-"Una Hawthorne daugh.
ter of the late distinguished American writer, of
whom he had been told that she was the victim.
so to speak, of true religion, her fatal illness hay.
ing been incurred in her self denying effort for
others"
| William H. Stout went from Texas to Illinois
with companion, who was soon after murdered
Stout was accused of the crime and his defence
was an alibi-that he was in Nebraska at the time
of the murder. A tavern keeper near the place
of the killing, however said the men slept in his
house together. Stout was convicted and sen d.
fenced to death; but the punishment was altered
to imprisonment for life Now, after q lapse of
four years, an account book belonging TO the tav-
ern keeper comes to light in which is an entry
showing that the date of Stouts lodging was
month earlier than was supposed. There is other
proof Of his innocence and he has been par.
doned.
Any number Of English law lords and judges
have been men of humble origin Lords EdOn
and stowell sprang from coal filter; Tenterden
and ST, Leonards from BARRIERS Lord HardWicke
who became Attorney. General in "a, from Do.
yer attorney who according to some was hung
for forgery. Chief Baron POllock-whose brother
became Field Marshal-was a Charing Cross
saddler, Sir william FOllet-the ablest advocate
of the century-was son of an Exeter tradesman,
as was also Lord Clifford. When rising in the
world lawyers show strong conservative bias.
DR.. TOcqueville pointed out that they were the
conservative element in this country
An interesting probate decision has been rem
dered in Rochester, New York. Richard Fryers
a Scotch tavern keeper, made will on the 8th of
January, 1875. He kept the will in his possession
and talked about 1t to various persons eVincing
some dissatisfaction with Ats provisions. He also
made several eTasures, which he exhibited to sew
eral friends. Fryers died on July Is, 1876, and
when the will was offered for probate not only did
1t appear that there were several erasures in the
body of the instrument, but the name of the tes-
tator was also erased by line drawn through it
Parties contesting claimed that the erasure Of the
name made the will invalid. It was apparent
from the evidence that Fryers, when he made the
erasures, or when the erasures were made with
his consent and appreciation, believed that such
erasures worked a revocation Of the will to that
extent. The Surrogate, however, held the will to
be valid as originally executed, the statute pro-
viding that mo will in writing, nor any
part thereof shall be revoked or altered otherwise
than by some other will in writing, or some other
writing of the testator declaring such revocation
or alteration, and executed with the same formal
ties with which the will itself was required by
law to be executed, or unless such will be burnt
torn, cancelled, obltersted, or destroyed, with the
intent and for the purpose Of revoking the same,
by the testator himself, or by another person in
his presence by his direction and consent, and
when so done by another person, the direction
and consent of the testator, and the fact of such
injury or destruction shall be proved by at least
two witnesses"
General Gusts Lee, after years recreation, Is
SO we'll restored to health that he will resume his
active duties as president of the Washington and
Lee University at the opening of the coming seq