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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
LATE NEWS.

Brownsville, Texas, Feb. 6.-Hon
Nester Maxan was killed in duel witt
M. de la Penna, at Matamoras, yester,
day. Both parties were residents o.
Brownsville. The cause of their enmity
is unknown.
Miss Alice Mckee of Chicago was un,
able 10 pay her rent, and constable en-.
tered to levy on her furniture. She pro.
tested, he insisted. refusing to show his
writ of authority. He had obtained en-.
trance by representing that he wished to
obtain board. Miss Mckee took a pistol
from bureau and shot the intruder dead.
On the trial it was shown that pieces Of
furniture on which he was levying were
exempt, and that throughout he had ex-
hibited insolence and stupidity. The jury
Immediately acquitted her.
A hail and rain storm at Augusta Ca,
last week accompanied with lightning
and thunder and earthquake rumblings
as well as cyclone did great damage
demoishing houses &c. The town mar
ket house was literally lifted up and de-
molished.
Dreadful distress is prevailing in Ho-
boken, N J. Nearly three thousand per-
sons are out ofwork, and many are starry
ing.
All depot ticket agents on the New Ier>
sey Central railroad have been instruct>
ed to reject trade dollars, except at a dis
count Of eight per cent.
Henry Clews, the banker and broker
of New York, was arrested on Thursday,
oflast week by (it is believed) Chataqua
county officers. He was at his Office Fri
day, where the legal proceedings
against him are characterized as forming
a case of outrage and blackmail.
In an official letter from Washington,
signed by the Attorney General. Judge
Bangs of Chicago, was told that his ser.
vices during the hearing of the whisky
trials on Saturday were not wanted, and
that to his work ]. N. Jewett had been
1t is thought Judge Bangs
will be invited to resign.
Mary A Vanwerst. aged thirty, of I76
Fulton street, New York, has been arrest
ed for conniving at the ruin ofyoung peo>
pie. She advertised for various sorts Of
help. Over fifty girls applied within a
few days. 1t is thought many Of these
seekers ofhonest employment have been
ruined by these devilish advertisements.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

FOREIGN BREvrTIEs.-Twelve Russian
battalions were to enter Constantinople
yesterday.
Though the Porte has refused permis
sion for the British feet to come to Con
stantinople, it is said he will probably
grant frman permitting the entrance
Of the British and other fleets.
The war feeling is growing in England
and the Times says: "The feet must 90
to Constantinople.' Lord Derby is se-
verely censured for his halting course
when decision and prompt action were
necessary, and when most of the Cabi-
net wanted to act.
The strike at the Northumberland
mines has ended, the men acoeding to
l23 per cent reduction. The Wigan weav-
ers, numbering 10000, will resist the
threatened reduction of wages. About
ten grain firms had failed in Belfast with
liabilities of a million or more.
The Greek army has come marching
home without even skirmish.
The funeral services of the late Pope
will be held at the Sistine Chapel, Rome,
on the 10th, 18th and 18th.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
NJ nrs,NEss MEN AND ADVERTISERS.


THE DEMOCRAT has he lorOea circulation ~'y
pansr IN s county, and lOuh Us vary moderate ra'eS
advertsO, Is to0rthy he notice Of all business me-" Oe'
eraLlv and other advertisers particularly
yearly advertisers alLooed ne priUle0e " c"a"0"O
their Advertisements quarterly
Do,lbls column advertisements @ per cent dddHondL
an transient advertisements must be accompanied
with Ue cash .,,. ,,,,
An adpsrtisenlslts discontinued before me eapTdt'@'
or he tne contracted for, iU be charged short rote'
Idrerti,susts 10 insure insertion must be handed IN
by Wednesday noon.
Rate, Of Advertising Furnished on application
business Otrds one dollar per Tine per year. NO cara
Inserted for Less than three dollars per year.
Business Notices IN ITEM cblunnS, on Wh page IN,
,,,,sd for ten cent, per Tine each Insertion Il inserted
m reading matter ttoenty cents per tne'
Articles for he bee Of prtUote and personal ousl,
rsy, tsre,s oRl be admitted to he reading columns Or
THE pEMocRAr, trtuolectionGbe al The rate Of toen-
" cents per Tine.
address all communications 70
THE DEMOCRAT,
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
IMPRISONED IN A MAD HOUSE..

Young Lady Confined for Seven Years In Luna
tic Asylum, In Order that her Brothers and Sis
ters Might Appropriate Her Share Of Their Faith.
er's Estate.
New York, February 9.-The case of q young
woman, for years shut up in an insane asylum by
relatives who wished to deprive her of the fortune
she inherited from her father is of unusual inter.
est Regarding It, the World says Miss Susan
Dickie, whose alleged insanity has been the SUBJ
ject Of inquiry by three Commissioners and q
Sheritf's jury since the 9th of last December was
to-day declared of sound mind and to have never
been insane, although she has been confined in
an asylum for over seven years. The present
proceedings were instituted against Miss Dickie
by her brothers and sisters.
II was found that Miss Dickie had been con6n.
ed in Bloomingdale Asylum since September, 1871.
that while there she had refused to associate with
the lunatiCs, and was in all respects like sane
woman. One Of her sisters persuaded her to leave
her fathers house In 1871, under the promise that
she would have much gayer time with her.
Miss Dickie consulted with friends, who advised
her not to go. She went, however, and after hay.
ing been In her sisters house about ten DAYS her
sister employed Or. Wm. Hanford, while her
friend and medical adviser, and he gave q oerti6.
cate upon which the young woman was taken to
Bloomingdale Asylum. Dr. White testified that
he had never treated Susan, had never spoken to
her, and had only seen her in passing through the
rooms Of the house when attending her father.
he examined her, however for a few minutes,
and then signed certificate Of lunacy. He did
not know the day or the year when the certificate
was made, and refused to say what he was paid
for It, Doctors Hammond, Clymer and Ranney
testified before the jury that Miss Diekie was per.
fectly sane, and able to take care OF her person
and property. 1t appeared from the testimony
thatin case she was adjudged alunatic, her broth.
ers and sisters would receive about $4,000 more
from their fathers estate as she would be unable
to make will disposing Of her share, and they
would receive all the accumulations. The sher.
IFS Jury rendered their verdict, declaring Miss
Dickie is not lunatc, and that she Is capable of
the government Of herself and the management
Of her property, Patrick Dickie, susan's father.
died on the 10th Of last November at an advanced
age, and imbecile, leaving property worth nearly
million Of dollars. He gave Susan the income
Of over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
the principal to go TO her children, or in default
ofchildren, to her brothers and sisters. The &C.
ton of the brothers and sisters Is regarded as an
outrage, and the physician who certified to the
young Womans insanity seven years ago comes in
for greater Indignation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

The Asiatic nations have used silver
as the standard of value for thousands Of
years, and a change of value is a thing
heretofore not even heard of among
them. A short time ago they absorbed
$3O,OOO,OOO to $4O,OOO,OOO annually, but
last year, taking advantage Of the cheap.
ness Of the metal on account of its de.
monetization in the United States and
Germany, Asia imported $l1O,0O000O in
silver, and this year even vaster amounts
of this metal will be taken. In one
day no less than $l,44O,OOO were re-
Gently shipped to Asia from San Fran.
cisco. The people of the Pacific slope
find ready market for their silver pro.
duct among the Celestials; John is as
anxious to buy as they are to sell. The
Canadians have shut out American sill
yer by discount of four per cent, and
it is brought back to this country in the
pockets of travellers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

The appointment of Hilliard Of Ala
bama, as Minister to Brazil has been
confirmed by close vote in the Senate
consisting of Matthews, Hoar, Burnside
and Christiancy who voted with the Dem
ocrats,and that saved Hilliard. Conkling
Hamlin and Edmunds made bitter as,
saults on billiards war record as well as
his moral character. Ben Hill respond.
ed, and is credited with the following
declarations:
Senator Hill sail that he had known
Mr. Hilliard from boyhood, they had at.
tended school together and we're mem =.
bers of the same church. His personal
character was above question, for Mr.,
Hilliard had mingled in the best society
in Georgia. Only recently in Atlanta
Mr., Hill had heard Mr.. Hillard preach
in his family church. If his having
made secession speeches in Tennessee
was a crime too heinous to be forgiven,
he reminded the Senate and House had
done the same thing.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
MAHL0N CHANCE AND THE PRESI.
DENTS WIFES NEICE,S HUS.
BAND.

Mr.. Mahlon Chance, late United States
Consul at Nassau, desires it to be known
that he has an honor, to>wit, that of res.
idence in the same town Of Ohio with the
President of the United States; and a
grievance, to wit, a Presidents wife's
neice's husband. To make room for this
person, Mr.. Chance has been supplanted
at Nassau after eight years of service.
The business houses on the island pre-
sented farewell letter to him. with $50
sisnatures), testifying to his faithful ser.
vice. The American visitors did the
same. Mr.. Chance undoubtedly bore a
good character at Nassau. He thinks it
hard that MI. Hayes's wife's neice's hus!
band should have his place, but still he
is willing to take another,-N. Y. Trib,
une (Rep.),
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

DooRKEEPER Polk of the House al
Washington, has been undergoing exam.
ination charged with misdemeanors.-
His trouble seems to have been that he
made too many promises to members to
give their friends places and he tried to
keep the seekers for place all quiet by
dividing up; fer instance, an assistant re-
ceipts for 81 900, but gets only sos, his
share. There is no appearance of de-
frauding the government for he has only
drawn for the number of assistants and
pages allowed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

THERE is probably no State of the
Union where there are so many unscru.
pulous men to whom perjury would be q
pastime, as there are in Louisiana.-Re-
pOsitOry.
Of course, judging by the Republican
leaders, Returning Board Wells, Ander.
son & Co. Of Louisiana, the above is, nc
doubt, correct. For once we agree with
the Repository A more infamous set Of
peGured scoundrels, than those Louisi-
ana Republican rascals, cannot be found.
Now that law, rather, than force, pre-
walls there, it is hoped they will get what
they richly deserve, SO that in all future
time no one will wish to count in a Pres
ident by fraud.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
AFRICA.
DEATH OF THE POPE.
Immediate Cause Of His Death-Hs Last Moments
Rome Remarkably Quiet

Rome Remarkably Quiet
London, Eeb. S.-The morning ourn-
ais fully confirm previous reports from
Rome. A special from Rome states that
the news ofthe Pope's death has already
been officially announced and gives the
following particulars:
The Pope at s o'clock Wednesday
night felt sudden sufocation. He rails
lied several times, but said to his physi-
clans: Death wins this time" He was
alternately lucid and wandering. His
last moments were lucid. He said:
Guard the church loved so we'll and
sacredly." The immediate cause of
death was the closing of wound in the
leg which made the humors mount in
to the lungs and brain. Cardinals Man
ming and Howard and many others were
present at the death, The conclave has
commenced. Cardinal Simeoni has det
manded troops and the government has
acceeded to his request. The Ambassa.
dors accredited to ihe Vatican have gone
in body to view the corpse. The ltal>
ian government "insures the independt
ence or the conclave, and offers any ser,
vices that Cardinal Simeoni may de-
mand.
Other accounts say the cause of death
was the mounting of water to the heart.
The Pope swooned and was in extremis
at o'clock, but death did not occur un.
til after the time announced in the first
dispatch from Rome yesterday. The as
pect of the city is quiet to indifference,
strangely contrasting with its appearance
on the death of King Victor Emmanuel
month ago.
A Rome correspondent of the Times
says: report is in circulation that Car
dinal De Pietro has been elected Pope by
acclamation, but It's not believed. The
Cardinal is young and highly thought of,
liberal and conciliatory, but unlikely to
have many votes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
KEILOGWs CONFESSION.
How Money was Raised to Pat Hayes In the White
HOuas--JOhn sherman Squeallng at the Return.
Ing Board Trlals-A Frantic Appeal on Behalf OF
tho Historic Ouartette Of knaYes.

1
How Money was Raised to Pat Hayes In the WhitO
HOuss-JOhn sherman SquealIng at the Return.
Ing Board Trlals-A Frantic Appeal on Behalf or
tho Historic QuartottO Of KnaVes,
New York SUM-
Washington, February 9,-An Interest,"
ing incident occurred yesterday in one
of the Senate cloak rooms. AS half q
dozen Republican Senators were sitting
there smoking and chatting Senator VIM,
Pitt Kellogg entered. His Republican
colleagues Immediately began to guy him
about the conviction Of Tom Anderson,
and wanted to know about his seat in the
Senate, when one member Of the Return-
ing Board that counted in the Legislature
that elected him was in Jail, convicted of
forging and altering returns, and the 9TH
ers we're about to follow. Kellogg did
not appear to be in a mood for jesting,
and retorted, "How about Hayes's title?
It's a curious coincident," he continued,
"that l should, on the very day that An
derson was convicted, be called upon to
pay to a Chicago bank $4,000, the mon
ey that made Hayes President of the
United States" And then Kellogg went
on to tell how ithappened. The visiting
statesmen were in New Orleans, and the
Returning Board were ready to do the
Job required of them but it was necessary
to have witnesses to get up evidence
of intimidation. Clerks had TO be en-
ployed, and the affidavit mill had to be
set going in the Custom House but there
was no money to do it with. There was
talk about passing around the hat to vis-
iting statesmen, but those gentlemen
were there to witness the count and give
encouragement, not cash. The money
must be raised outside of New Orleans.
They could not 90 to the banks there for
it, and it had to be had rightaway. Char
ley Farwell of Chicago, was there. He
was director of the Union National
Bank of that city, and he sent for the
money, Kellogg giving his note for the
amount ($20000), and Farwell endorsing
the same. 1t was payable on demand.
Farwell had no trouble to arrange it sat
isfactorily as long as Mr.. Coolbaugh,
president of the bank, was living but
when Mr.. Coolbaugh died his estate, of
course, had to be settled up, and payment
of this note for $4,000 was demanded.
Kellogg said he had just had to sell some
bonds at sacrifice to raise $4,000, which
he had sent to the bank telling the Off.
GERS that they must be satisfied with that
amount for the present if not, to let the
note be protested. He could not do any
better at this time.
This was Kellogg's story. He did not
tell that it was arranged that the Nation
al Committee was to make good the $780,.
600, but that after Hayes came in and
went back on Zach Chandler that worthy
refused to do anything more. Chandler
said he was out about SIS, 900, and he was
not going to invest another cent. "The
damned fraud in the White House" had
got $40, 900 out of him to save Ohio in
October, and he was damned sorry he
had ever been such a fool as to throw
away good money in that way.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

A NOTION of the burden in the way of
taxation borne by the city of New
Orleans may be obtained from recent
statistics of the State and city assessment,
which show that for the whole State the
assessment is $17000000, OF which $l1.-
100000 are put upon the city. A Pitts.
burgher who owns a dwelling house in
New Orleans informs us it takes his rent
to pay his taxes and he has to draw on
his other resources for insurance. Pits
btITgk Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

THE ALLIANCE LEADER. - Our friend
Phelps week or two since abandoned
the quarto and now issues his Leader in
folio, or four.page form. The change
otherwise is decided improvement
Whenever practicable the folio is to be
preferred for newspaper. The Leader
is spicy, newsy paper, always readable,
and to our table always welcome.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer, dined in London last week with
His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales,
at st, James's Palace, and the same eve-
ming leCtured to the Royal Geographical
Society, over three thousand persons be-
ing present. The Prince was present as
were Prince Louis Napoleon, and the son
ofthe Khedive of Egypt. After the lecture
he was complimented by Wales and Sir
Samuel Baker, also distinguished Afri.
can traveller.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
"A ROLAND FORAN OLIVER" !"

The editor of the Plain Dealer is not
fit to tie the shoe-string of single mem
Der ofthe Returning Board, when it tcomes
down to question Of honesty and truth
in the matter.-Leader.
And the editor of the Leadey is we'll
qualified to become the defender and
apologist of forgers and scoundrels who
willfuIly stole the vote of a state in order
to make Hayes President. And for de-
Tending the gentlemen" of the Return
ing Board Hayes sends him as one of the
Commissioners to the Paris Exposition.
--P2aiN Deaker.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14
DIMINUTIVE TRADIPS.
Two Boys Of Fifteen Start to Walk From MOnOngs-
hela City to Toledo.

Two Boys Of Fifteen Start to Walk From MOnOngs-
hela City to Toledo.
From the Cleveland Herald, 9th inst.
Two boys named George and John Lucy, claim.
ing to be brothers and aged respectively fourteen
and sixteen years, appeared at the Central Station
Friday evening about o'clock, desiring lodging.
The boys were both bright, intelligent lads, and
told the following story Of their wanderings with
some hesitancy bat with evident truthf1lnesg.
They had lived near Monongahela, Pa, at town
called Leechburg, where their father, who died
eight years ago, worked as o miner. Four yearg
after their fathers death their mother died, and
since then the two orphans had lived In cabin.
supporting themselves by working In the
coal mines, By this means they had been en-
abled TO provide food and clothing for themselves
until some weeks ago the mines closed and thew
could get no further work. Not knowing what 10
do, and being without friends OF money, they de.
termined 10 set out for West Jefferson where thew
thought they had an uncle living. Friday night
q week ago they started with the clothes they had
on, and without money, for Pittsburgh. Saturday
night they slept under the boilers of boat at that
place and the next morning started again for
Wellsville, some forty miles, From Wellsyilla
they trudged along the line Of the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh Railroad, sleeping in hay.stacks and
rolling mills, aud begging what they could to eat
until Thursday night they reached Bedford where
they slept In the station house They arrived AZ
the Central as above stated, about o'clock in The
evening, having had nothing TO eat since earlV
morning. They were given half a loaf of bread
apiece, the best the house provided, and a bed In
PoyeIty barn; This morning they will start for
Toledo on foot and from there will walk 10 West
Jefferson, some fifty. four miles beyond. They said
they thought their uncle lived Somewhere near
there, and hoped for better times when they found
hard wear thus far In their career. but did not
seem to mind their lot much, and, philosopher.
like, were hoping for brighter tomorrow.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

JUDGE JEwETT, receiver cf the New
York and Erie railway, was arrested
some week or more ago, charged with
perjury by one Of the stockholders.-
On the 9Th he was bailed in $40 900, ex.
Governor E. D. Morgan of New York 60
ing his security. Those of us in Ohio
who have known Judge Jewett for long
years, would not pick on him to commit
perjury or any other crime.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

RUSSIA is said to be short of funds with
credit below par. More than year ago
she could not meet her ordinary expend-
itures; and on December 8, II, the Gar
refuses to pay home creditors some thir-
ty millions of roubles of interest. A
ukase did the business in this case.-
The Car will need funds if England and
Austria get after him, and if he could sell
few more Alaskas to this country as
well as he sold the last, he might raise
the wind. But Seward is dead and
nothing but bankruptcy seems left for
Russia
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

The special committee to investigate
charges against David T. Corbin, in re-
gard to improper appropriation Of money
belonging to the State in phosphate suits
and also as to his bribing members Of
the Legislature to vote for him as United
States Senator in 1876, reported to the
Senate of South Carolina Friday, recon-
mending that the evidence be turned
over to the Attorney General with in
struCtions to institute civil or criminal
proceedings against Corbin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

WILL not Tom Saxton allow the new
advance editor of the Repository to in
form their few readers that the fill at the
Lupher bridge in Pike township cost the
county but ten dollars, instead of SIS, as
they stated few weeks ago? Tom al
ways was little reckless that way, and
then not particular about correcting
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

GRAIN AND FIoUR.-During the month
of January, the three great railways run
ming into New York city, delivered g.
lO2,O83 bushels of grain and 339,7l6
bushels of -four. This is about three
times as much as was delivered III Jan
uary, ". The exports of grain from New
York during the month of January was
$4,000 bushels, about one-half the
amount received.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

VARIOUS interests are rushing to Wash
ington to oppose the Wood tariff bill,
and it is possible the bill will not
get through the House, to say nothing of
the Senate. One way of killing bill of
this kind is to talk it to death. 1t is now
said it will be three weeks before the bill
is brought out of the Ways and Means
Committee, and probably be May or
June before decisive vote is reached in
the House on the bill.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

OCTOBER is a good many months off,
but we observe indications that the
=" friends" of Mr.. Eshelman, of Wayne
county, remember that there is to be an
election held there. The Union county
Journal suggests him as a candidate for
Auditor of State, and remarks that "if
the Democracy of Ohio act wisely they
will make his nomination unanimous."-
Plain Dealer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-14

HAYES, Sherman & Co. are much trou.
bled at Anderson's conviction at New
Orleans, and the radical organs are
bowling over it, calling it "mock trial
Toe "mock" count of the Wells-Ander.
son rascals, as we'll as the "mock work
of the Joe Bradley Electoral Commission,
was all right and lovely in radical eyes.