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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

On motion adjourned to June 18th, al
10 o'clock a. m.
JOHNSON SHERRICK, Chm.
L. G. COLE, Sec'y.

IT seems Edison has much improved
his phonograph, his latest instrument
reproducing sound in greater force, but,
it seems from European papers, Prof D.
E. Hughes, of London, has succeeded in
intensifying tone so that sounds which
are inardible to the naked ear become
as palpable as objects appear to the naked
eye when placed under the microscope,
which are otherwise invisible. The
multiplying apparatus is described thus
Two pieces of charcoal, heated to a
white heat, are plunged into mercury;
they are then placed in glass tube and
pressed end to end, making part of an
electric circuit; if telephone is introdu.
Ced in the circuit, and sound is sent
through the two pieces of charcoal it
comes out at the end of the circuit much
increased in volume Heat, light, sound
and electricity are supposed by many
physicists to be interconvertible. The
probabilities are that we have here a
conversion of electricity into sound.
By the use of this electrical process
the lightest touches of feathers edge of
cancels hair brush on the sounding
board of the telephone produce "a crack
ling noise of which the intensity was al
most painful to the ear" while the foot.
steps of house fly walking across the
sounding board become distinctly audi
BILE. The application of this sounding
arrangement to the Edison machine
would be just the thing.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06
OREGON ELECTTON-THE LEGIS-
LATURE DEMOCRATIC.

Portland, Oregon, June 4.-Election
returns are coming in very slowly. Suf.
ficient have been received to induce the
Democratic to believe Whitaker is elected
to Congress. Earhart, Republican, is
generally conceded elected Secretary Of
State. Nothing can be definitely said
concerning the remainder of the State
ticket, There is a growing impression
that the l. 'gislature will be Democratic
The result cannot be positively stated fol
two or three days.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

The foreign news is decidedly peacea-
BILE. A Constantinople dispatch says
peace is assured. The representatives
Of the various Powers at the Berlin Con-
ference will be, Bismarck, Germany
Count Schouvalof, Russia Lord Lyons,
England; Count Andrassy, Austria NJ.
Waddington, France; Count Corti. Italy;
and Iadyk Pasha, Turkey. This Confer
ence, it is believed, will make a settle
ment. The English idea is, after satisfy
ing Russia, to gobble up Turkey for her
self, under the guise of protectorate and
reformed administration.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

Mrs. KATE SoTHERN, who murdered a
young woman through jealousy in ball
room in Georgia over a year ago, has
had her sentence commuted to ten years
imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.
On her arrival at Atlanta an immense
crowd met her at the depot to greet her
and applaud. Her husband, Bob" and
the baby are to stay with her. No such
night crowd was ever gathered in Allan
ia before. "The pale, quiet, refined face
of Mrs sothern won universal sympa-
thy" Petitions for full pardon are
still pouring in.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06
THE DEMOCRAT.

Is furnished 10 subscribers postage paid ats per year.
Al for sic months; my cents for three months tVdrta-
by in advance Is also delivered TO any part OF me
city at he same rates. --,,-,,.,
Correspondence containing important ne'oS' SoLcHea
om all parts Of he county WrHers naIe ana aolIeSS
y,o,iirsd on e,ery communication as priUdG gttdrdn-
tee Of good faith.
Any person sending IN Club Of FOUR CASH YEAR
1Y SUBscRIBERs ,OH be entitled 10 copy Of THE
DEMOCRAT free for one year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

The Philadelphia Ledger says Keys
letter will give offense all around, and
adds that whatever may be the sins of
members of Congress, it is hardly 10 or
der for Cabinet officer to be impeach.
ing their motives" Especially is this so
when Keys motives to keep his place
are so transparent.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

THE worst gerrymandered State in the
Union is Indiana. At the October cleo
ton of 1876 the Democrats of that State
cast for Congressman 2l22SS yotes,while
the Republicans cast 2O4.56l. By a fair
apportionment this would have given
the Democrats out of the l3 seats, but
the districts are 80 formed that the Re.
publicans elected 10 and the Democrats
but
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

THE Democrats of Knox county held
their county convention on Saturday,
elected delegates to the State and Con-
gressional conventions, and unanimously
recommended Gen. Geo. W. Morgan for
Congress. They nominated the follow
ing county ticket:
Clerk. Samuel J. Brent; Probate Judge,
G. E. Critchfeld; Sheriff, John F. Gay;
Prosecuting Attorney, Frank R. Moore;
Commissioner, Samuel Beeman; mfr
mary Director, Michael Hess; Coroner,
s. L. Baker.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

SOME journals are exceedingly anxious
to declaim against and depreCate the
Potter investigation into the Florida and
Louisiana Electoral frauds, which made
Hayes President, when he was not the
chosen Of the people. People, gener-
ally, are we'll convinced of the fraud, but
late developments are of such startling
character, that it becomes the bounden
duty of an honest Congress to investi-
gate. Investigation is all that is ordered
all that is incumbent at present. When
the full developments are before Con-
gress and the public, then, and not till
then, will it be proper to judge whether
or not further action is necessary, and
what that action shall be. One thing at
a time is the sure way to make progress.
1t is quite natural that the partisans
of fraud, and the benefCiaries of that
fraud should howl at and denounce this
investigation. The parties to the fraud,
seated in power by the villainy, fear ex.
posure, lest they may be unseated. No
one should expect them to favor the
Potter investigation.
No rogue eer felt the halter draw,
With good opinion Ofthe law
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

IT seems John Sherman visited Louis
lana once upon time, otherwise Hayes,
possibly, would not have been counted
in as President In this case an import
ant matter hinged on villainy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

HAYES wanted to requite Anderson.
He indorsed him and said, "Give this
man consulate in tOdrm climate" !" That
swarm climate" was good. Anderson
seems disposed to reciprocate, and give
Hayes, Sherman & Co., a warn climate"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

THE Democrats and Democratic journals
that opposed and denounced the Potter
investigation ought now to feel better.
At least they may lay aside former alarm,
The developments thus far show unmis.
takably the fraud.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

JOHN SHERMAN promised Weber and
Anderson that if they would "stand firm
in the position they had taken," they
would "bs prOuided for as soon after The 4h
of March as practicable" The position
was to give Louisiana to Hayes, and put
him in.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

The counterfeit $50 bills of the N. Y,
Broadway Bank and the Tradesmen's
Bank, introduced into this country
through immigrants from Germ any, are
said to be the most dangerous counter.
feits yet detected
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

DURING NAV ninety-fve failures occur
red in New York city alone, the total Ii
abilities being more than five millions
and half, and the assets less than one
million
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

DECORATION DAY" was duly and fair
ly observed in Canton, as it was the
country over. The exhibition of party
feeling is not observable as was the case
some years ago, The sentiment of hon.
oring the gallant dead is surely eminent
ly worthy of the living who fondly
cherish their memories.
"How sleep the brave who sink TO rest
With all their countrys wishes best."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06
JAS. 2. ANDERSON DEFENDED.
A Conservative Republican Paper Supports Its
Assistant Editor.

a OOnhbEfAuNb hbpuDllChn EhpbE DuppOTlb 1lb
Assistant Editor.
Secretary Sherman does not think he
wrote the letter to Weber and Anderson.
The rest of the country will generally
think he did
Make no mistake in weighing the test
imony of Jas. E. Anderson. No man oc.
cupying a position of honor and trust
ever risks making himself target for
obloquy and vituperation for the pleas
ure of lying. His story is not pleasant
one, but rest assured it is true.
Mr.. Anderson's testimony is confrma-
ton ofa prevalent belief that purity was
a thing unknown in Louisiana politics
We do not excuse any of the wrongs to
which he was party; but their exist
ence and his acquiescence are scarcely to
be wondered at, when we read of the at
mosphere of evil by which he was sur
rounded.-PhilG. N. american, Nag Sd.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

SENATOR Stanley Matthews in the o.
S. Senate on Wednesday, rose to a per-
sonal explanation and demanded investi-
cation. He denies the whole fraud in
fanny as told by ]. E. Anderson. 1t is
evidently troubling the "visiting states
man."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

POSTMASTER General Key-Hayes's
Southern Key-has earned his place by
"eating dirt" as evidenced by his late
letter, but the man has not earned the
respect of any one.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

J.E. ANDERsoN's testimony as to the
frauds in Louisiana is terrible on those
"visiting statesmen" John Sherman and
Stanley Matthews.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

THE poet and editor, William Cullen
Bryant, aged over so, tainted and fell
last week, and has since continued i'll,
but seems to be slowly recovering.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

The Cincinnati Enquirer is afraid John
G. Thompson will be again chairman.
John does well the business, has the ex'
perience, and is "true blue"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

By far the most eventful act of this ses.
sion of Congress, thus far, is ordering in
vestigation into the frauds by which Mr..
Hayes reached the Presidency.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

BY vote Of 1874 to 12O on Wednesday,
the House struck ont the enacting clause
of the Wood Tariff bill, thus it would
seem defeating the bill,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

The robbery of the wicked shall de-
stroy them.-SOlOmOn'S Proverbs.
We may soon have a case in point in
Sherman, Hayes & Co.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

WE do not believe Eliza Pinkston can
help Mr.. Sherman.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

If Mr.. McGregor, of the Stark County
Democrat should be nominated for Con-
gress in the sixteenth district, the people
will enjoy golden opportunity of testi'
flying their eager appreciation Of his pat
riotiC conduct during the civil war. Itis
understood that he attained a sort of an
aquatic pre-eminenCe in the late unpleas-
antness, that is to say he waded in wa
ter up to his neck in the cause of truth
Wooster Republican.
The Republican man seems to be all
at sea as to the facts. In short, he en-
braces "a golden opportunity" and ex-
hibits an "eager appreciation" of what
never occurred aqlatically, We assure
the editor of the Wooster Republican that
"Mr. McGregor, of the Stark Co. DEMO
GRAFT" had no aquatic pre.eminence," in
fact; although he may have "waded," risk
ed and suffered, "in the cause oftruth, " he
never "waded in water up to his neck"
nor even up to his feet History is pre-
carious when written up by such uncer-
tain quantities.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

EAST Feliceana Anderson has not sent
to John Sherman much felicity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

WE have been informed that it is the
intention of the Stark County Democ-
racy to present the name of A. MCGregor
Esq, the long g.time and efficient editor of
the Stark County Democrat to the Dem
ocratic Congressional Convention for
nomination as candidate for Congress,
to be supported at the ensuing October
election Wayne Co. Democrat.
Mr.. McGregor has certainly earned
some recognition from Lis party, having
been an untiring worker for 80 or 40
years. There is no man in Ohio whom
we would rather see nominated and elec.
ted to Congress than Mr.. MCGregor.-
LedOnia Reporter.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-06

LOUISIANA has six ex Governors at
Washington, and several left at home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
A Turtle Fight.

The seventy-five turtles in the fount-
ain basin near the Fourth avenue en-
trance to Gilmore's Garden had battle
yesterday morning. Such sight was
never seen before. At least seventy-five
turtles lay together in an apparently
inextricable mass on the bottom of the
basin. Two dead turtles foated on the
surface of the water.
"Stir 'em up" said Gilmore, and
taking ex-Judge Dittenhoefer' cane he
plunged it into the very center of the
mass. Seventy-five long necks craned
upward; seventy-fve mouths opened
wide; seventy-five little tails stood up
right--but for a moment only. Then
the fight was resumed. A queer hiss
escaped from each one. Then the heads
cautiously peering from the shell the
turtles rammed at each other. Now
and then one seized one another by a
leg and chewed it.
"Stop EN-" shouted Hamilton, " the
things cost dollar apiece"
Nonsense" said Shook, "let 'em
fight it out. It's worth more than dol.
lar apiece to see EN-"
Presently it seemed as though there
were two parties led by two extra large
turtles. Each party quietly moving to-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
Queer Tom.

1om Flossofer was the queerest boy
ever knew. l don't think he ever
cried. l never saw him cry. If Fleda
found her tulips all rooted up by her
PET puppy, and cried, and cried, as lit
Tie girls will, Tom was sure to
come around the corner whistling, and
say: "What makes you cry? can you
cry tulip? Do you think every sob
makes root or blossom? Here, let's
Try to right Them So he would pick
up the poor flowers, put their roots in
to the ground again, whistling all the
tlme, make the bed look smooth and
fresh, and take Fleda off to hunt hens
nts5 in the barn. Neither did he do
GAY differently in his own troubles.
i0Ne day his great kite snapped the
Sing and flew away far out of sight.
I'm stood still a moment, and then
tuned around to come home, whistling
Terry tune. "Why, Tom," said 1,
re you not sorry to lose that kite?"
"fs, but what's the use? can't take
MOI than minute to feel bad. 'Sor-
ry' will not bring the kite back, and l
wanto make another" Just so when
he bike his leg. Poor Toni cried
Fled, "you can't play any m-o-r-e!"
"Pn not poor, either. You cry for
me; Hon't have to do it myself, and l
have splendid time to whistle. Be-
side, hen get well l shall beat every
boy j school on the multiplication ia
Bile; fo l say it over and over till it
makesne sleepy every time my leg
aches. Tom Flossofer was queer, Ger
tainly;'ut wish great many more
people ere queer that way. -NurSery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
A Deg Mixes the Acquaintance Of u Bee.

A grocer on Carr street yesterday
placed o. the sidewalk in front of his
store sugar. hogshead, which he had
just emptid. The adhering sweets at
tracted myiads of flies and few hon
ey-beeS, which seemed to think they had
found bonanza. A vagabond-looking
dog was lying down in the shade of the
sugar logshead, and was pestered much
by the flies, which found the dogs nose
a goot place to roost after they had
filled themselves with sugar. After the
dog had wearied himself out by his in
etfectral snaps at the flies he buried his
nose htween his paws and took annoy
ance lhilosophically. At length bee
came cumming around him, and being
bigge game, the dog concluded to go
for it and watching his opportunity
snapped at it and caught it in his mouth.
Then he made sudden spring to his
feet as if he had just thought of some
ting that he had to do in a hurry, and
e .s hair all over him raised on end as
his head frantically as if he were wor-
rying a rat. A little black object
dropped from his mouth which he
looked at inquiringly for a brief in
slant, and then started off in haste to
see man around the corner, bowling
dismally as he went. The man was
not there, and the dog came back and
once more made an inspection of the
little black object that lay on the side
walk and poked it timidly with his paw.
He perhaps wanted to be able to recog-
nize one of those little things if he
should ever encounter one of them
again. After satisfying his curiosity
he went and lay down again with sort
of Observation-Disclosures look,
giving vent to his feelings. occasionally
by a subdued canine sigh.-St. Louis
Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
A City Under the Water.

In past ages, as the deacon once told
some of his older boys in my hearing,
the people of some parts of Europe
used to live above the surface of lakes
in huts built on spiles driven into the
water. Well, now l hear that some
one has found, under the water of Lake
Geneva, a whole town, with about 200
stone houses, a large public square, and
a high tower; and, from the looks of
the town, the shape of the houses and
the way the stones are cut, some say
that the place must have been built
more than 1000 years ago! Now, 1
can understand how men were able to
live in the way the deacon described,
but it strikes me that this other story
has something in it that's harder to
swallow than water. Who ever heard
of men living in cities under the water,
as if they were tishesP-" Jack-in-the-
Pulpit" ST. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
Qnr Donns gnMs.
MY p USS Y.

Little Kitty Whitefoot-little Kitty Iightfoot!
Don't you wish you had a mouse or bit of
cheese for dinner?
Oh, you're such puff-ball, rolling through the
long hall,
sometimes wish you were very little thin
nerI
0pussy, pussy, pussy-cst!
love you dearly, thin or fat;
For oh! don't you see you belong to neP
And love to make you say, every hour in the
New! purr! meow! fuzzy! spill put,
Now would you like to hear what my little pussy
Decided she would do one very pleasant dav2
one crept up the staircase, to a very quiet rare
place,
Where she could carry out her naughty.
naughty way.
Opussy, pussy, pussy-cat!
love you dearly for all that;
For oh! don't you see, you belong to rnsP
And love to make you say, every hour in the
Mew purr! meow! fuzzy! spit! puff
Well, there on the bed, as she took it off her
Poor grandmamma had laid her lovely, new
spring bonnet;
Ny naughty little kitty, without one bit of pity,
Flew right upon the bed, and jumped straight
Opussy. pussy pussv-cat!
| love you dearly for all that;
FOR oh! don't you see, you belong to n,es
day,
New! purr! meeow fuzzy! spit! puff!
She settled all her furry clothes in the middle of
the nice, fresh bows
That anyone would find her, she had no anx-
ious fears;
She wriggled in the crown, and she crushed the
roses down,
When up, came grandmamms, and boxed my
pussys earsl
pussy, pussy, pussy-cat!
IL served you right for all that,
That can see, if you do belong to me.
30 made you say, every hour of that day,
New! purr. meow! fuzzy! spit put?
Well, non she's very nice and she catches all the
mice
:, My papa says she is the greatest TREASURED
I'll tell her what he said, and she'll bow her
pretty head,
For that will give my puss the greatest, great
eat pleasure.
pussy, pussy, pussy-cat!
m very glad he said that,
For oh! don't you see, you belong to me?
And love to make you say, every hour in the
day,
New! purr! meow! fuzzy! spit! puff!
-Youth'S Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
A LOye.Sick Brave.

The Virginia New Enterprise says:
Some half-breed Indians from Montreal,
Canada, are in town peddling bead
work. They are the same people seen
at Niagara Falls every summer, and
the articles they have for sale are the
same that they peddle there. Our Piute
Indians hardly know what to make of
the newcomers. A day or two ago
Young Piute brave arrayed himself in
his best red blanket, hung all his beads
and bears claws about his neck, painted
his face in white and vermillion stripes.
stuck an eagle feather in his hat, and
then took up position against the side
of a doorway in which one of the for
eign squaws was squatted with her
basket of fancy goods. The brave
leered and smiled in the most love-sick
manner, but seemed too bashful to
speak. His eyes spoke plain enough
What was at work in his heart, but the
foreign squaw deigned not to interpret
their language. The brave was per-
sistent wooer and followed his idol
from place to place all the afternoon.
1t seemed to do his heart good to gaze
upon the superior being before him
and upon the wonderful works of art
she displayed in her basket. When
loked by passing whites the brave
looked as foolish as school boy caught
kissing the little girl of his heart, but
he held his ground in spite of all jibes
and jeers. The woman evidently looked
upon the Piute as regular savage, and
was not little annoyed by his persist
emit alteration and love-sick grimaces.
To see stalwart red-skin thus writh-
ing with the dart of Cupid fixed deep
in his heart was ludicrous in the ex-
IRENE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03

ward side of the basin. Then they
sSPlashed the water with their snake
IKE tails, and then with a volley of
MISSES the entire phalanx from either
rue pushed rapidly toward the center.
Inc TWO bodies came together near the
nase of the fountain, and for two or
tnree minutes there was lively mouth
70 mouth and shell to shell fight, at the
emu OF which all sank together to the
bottom of the basin.
ms went on for nearly an hour, in
winch time half dozen little fellows
were killed, and the leader-known to
!. a9y frequenters of the garden as
big Bliss"-of one of the sides lost
one OF his claws.-N. Y San.