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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
FOSTORIA,

In the sweltering days of July, 1868
when the fate of the Union was tremb.
ling in the balance, and there seemed to
be more than an even chance that it
would fall on the wrong side, little Char
ley Foster of Fostorla was behind the
counter in his store, measuring out cali
Goes and dispensing groceries at war pri-
ces, whereby Mr.. Foster prospered in
this worlds goods, his store grew to a
village, and in time became known to
the good people of the neighborhood as
Fostoria. Such is the crimsoned war
record of the Republican candidate for
Governor of Ohio, who rushes to the
front about an eighth of century after
it is all over, and waving the bloody
shirt on the end of his old yard stick de.
mands that the South shall be put down.
He wants the polls manned with soldiers
and the country swarmlDg with deputy
marshals, to arrest and imprison the
hapless opponents of the Republican
party. In peace the sword, in war the
yard stick
In those July days, which tried mems
souls, Thomas Ewing was marching and
fighting over the dusty plains of Kansas
and Missouri, where the battle ragged fu-
riously. 1t was desperate work. There
the enemy was to be met, not only in
open and fair battle, but in every bush
and behind every fence and stone wall.
Some of Gen. Ewing's methods have
been criticised for their extreme sever.
ity, severity, however, which did not
exceed that of Grant, or Sheridan in the
valley of Virginia, or of Sherman in the
march to the Sea. Ewing issued an or.
der requiring the immediate removal of
all disafected persons from large dis.
trict, and the confscaton and destruc.
ton of forage and other property which
might be of use to the enemy. This
certainly was not justice by "due process
of law" 1t was the wild work of civil
war in region where the conflict was
carried on with exceptional feroCity. But
there was fully as good reason and au-
thority for it as for the far more danger
GUS and equally unconstitutional use of
the army at the polls.
Gen. Ewing met the foe in arms in one
spirit; he meets him vaDquished and
submissive in another. Having fought
for the restoration of the Union and the
Constitution, he demands the complete
restoration of the rights and liberties of
the people under them. With him bat.
ties are battles and elections are elec-
tons.
Mr.. Charles Foster was not abroad
during the war, but if we understand
him Alright, he would like our future
elections to be battles with the embod.
led force all on one side.-N. y Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10

WHEN President Jackson vetoed the
bank bill in 1882 he accompanied his
veto with the following remarks upon
the use of that last resort of the execu.
tive:
"The veto is an extraordinary power,
which, though tolerated by the Constitu.
tion, was not expected by tie Conven
tion to be used in ordinary cases. 1t was
designed for instances of precipitate leg.
islation, In unguarded moments. \ y
The veto Is hardly reconcilable with the
genius of our Government. 1t is totally
irreconcilable with it if it is to be used
frequently in respect to the e1pediency of
measures, as well as their constiturionality.
1t is a eature of our Government bor-
rowed from a prerogative of the British
King. And it is remarkable that in Eng
land it has grown obsolete, not having
been used for upward of a century.
Ought the opinion of one man to over
rule that Of legislative body twice de.
iberstely expressedP"
The fraudulent President has sent four
vetoes to Congress, of bills prepared with
deliberation and voted for by clear ma
iorities in both Houses. Not one of these
vetoes has color of justification, and all
OF them belong to the lowest order OF
partlsanship.--GoShep Democrat
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

SAN FRANcIsco, July 8.-The Arctic
exploring yacht Jeanette sailed this af-
ternoon. Long before her departure the
pier heads and ships along the city front
and hill tops were crowded with specta-
tors, and the bay was lively with yachts
and steamers, Some delay occurred, and
it was not until four D. M. the order was
gwen to weigh anchor. The Jeanette
steamed slowly down the harbor amid
the dipping Of flags, screaming Of steam
whistles and salute of ten guns from
Fort Point. The Jeanette was deeply
loaded with coal and store, and her
progress was 30 slow that it was not tlll
half.past six that she got outside the
heads. Here she stopped fsw mo-
ments, while the wife Of Lieut.. DeLong
was transferred to the yacht Frollc. The
steamers and yachts IN attendance then
passed under the stern Of the Jeanette,
the crowds on board cheering Lieut.. De.
Long and the expedition. The Jeanette's
engine again started, and in company
with the schooner Fannie A. Hyde ,
which goes 10 Behring's Sea as coal and
provision tender, she steamed seaward.
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MYSTERIOUS MURDER
Prominent Citizen Found Dead In the p +
Seminary Grounds, New York, No Clue TO the
Perpetrators Of the Deed.

A Prominent Citizen Found Dead In the P. f
Seminary Grounds, New York, No Clue TO the
Perpetrators Of the Deed.
New YORK, July 5.-JOhn F. Seymour
a retired crockery merchant, brother
in-law of Bishop Seymour, of the Protes.
ant Episcopal church, was found dead
yesterday morning in the grounds of the
General Theological Seminary, with q
bullet wound in his heart. Bishop Sey-
mour is bachelor and Mr.. and Mrs.
Seymour kept house for him. The sem.
inary grounds are enclosed by wooden
picket fence. The grounds are a great
resort for tramps and dis reputable char.
hcters after dark, and Mr.. Seymour has
been in the habit Of going round every
night to drive out intruders.
Atabout $50 Thursday evening Mr..
and Mrs. Seymour were sitting together
at an open window. He directed her at
tention to what he said was a woman
dressed in white, sitting on the grass aud
an attendant gentleman near. Mrs.
Seymour said she could see the woman
only; took an opera glass and then said
yes" she did See man and woman"
A few moments afterward and little
before ten o'clock, Seymour said he
would go out his intention was to send
the man and woman out of the grounds.
About half an hour later Mrs Seymour
saw that the man and woman were
gone.
On the same evening Bishop Seymour
was away from home until about IL
O'Clock. When he came back he was
about to lock the doors for the night,
when his sister stopped him, saying that
Mr.. Seymour had gone out to walk
about the grounds, telling her that he
was going to look for tramps. Not hav-
ing returned by two o'clock in the morn
ing the two left the house to search for
the missing gentleman, and about mid
way between the Western Seminary
building and Tenth avenue they almost
stumbled over the dead body of the man
they were searching for. Mr.. Seymour
lay on his back on the grass, just at the
edge Of the walk. Examination showed
that Mr.. Seymour's death was due to a
single pistol shot in tne left breast. The
body was moved to the house, where
the ball was extracted and seen to be Of
what is called % calibre, which is used
in the smallest revolvers made.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
SENATOR THURMAN.
He Is Satisfied with the Result Of the Recent TX
ira Session.

He is Satisfied with the Result Of the Recent TX.
ira Session.
Baltimore, July yesterday Senator
A. g. Thurman of Ohio, and his wife,
arrived in this city from Washington,
and proceeded to the steamer William
Crane, to make trip to Boston. The
distinguished statesman was in pretty
good health and spirits, though suffering
from a. slight cold. He said he hoped
the trip to Boston would do him good.
He was running away from interviewers
and newspaper men, and wanted rest.
He did not propose to stay long enough
in Boston to give the interviewers any
chance at him. He expressed himself
as Satisfied with the result of the recent
extra session of Congress.
The Democrats gained all they expect
ed, except the United States marshals
bill, and there are no elections 10 come
of, except in California and one or two
other States, before Congress meets again
and by that time Congress might be able
w atOOupliou bumolulug. ne balQ ne
was very hopeful of a favorable result to
Ohio, as he was of the Democratic out.
look all over the country. He had great
hopes of Democratic success from every
point of view, and thoughtal all good dem.
oCrats ought to feel encouraged. Tie
extra session of Congress had done good
work, and he felt sure the party was on
better footing than ever before. They
would go before the country with rec.
ord in favor of free ballot.box, while
the Republicans had by their speeches
and votes in Congress, committed them.
selves against It. He thought appearan.
Ces and facts were decidedly on the side
of the Democracy. Mr.. Thurman said
when he arrived at Boston he would
probably extend his trip to New Eng.
land, but that depended on how he felt
when he got there. His hair is partly
gray; he has pleasant, intelligent coun-
tenance. Mrs. Thurman is small and
delicate lady; very amiable and pleasing
in department.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
KANSAS AND COLORADO.

A Kansas paper asserts that more gold
could bc dieged out Of the wheat fields,
and more silver in the corn fields Of
Kansas than could be extracted from
the flinty hills OF Colorado. A CORE
spondent of the N. Y. Tribune fully con-
firms this statement.
The product Of the live stock Of Kansas
for the year lS7S-that is, the animals
slaughtered or sold for slaughter, and
the product of dairies-aggregated SO
4l5 $3.50 32; and the increase in the value
OF live stock aggregated SO, 401 81 go ; a
total value of l6S71 2lO.62. This is two
thirds of the total of Colorado's mineral
products. Aud the products of the live
stock of Kansas alone equal in value the
entire mineral products of the famous
Leadville district.
The field products of Kansas for 1873
aggregated $40 9.9l4 ,4S4 SS. or double the
value of the mineral products of the en-.
tire State of Colorado.
The market garden, apiarian and hor
ticultural products Of Kansas for 1873
aggregated So 945 1921, or nearly one.
third OF the total mineral products of
the Leadville district.
The total valuation of the farm pro-
ducts of Kansas for 1873 was $3.50 .677, ,067.
81, or nearly three times the value of the
mineral products of Colorado.
We are glad Colorado is where it is,
and what 1t is. Unquestionably Colora.
do is one Of the richest mineral regions
on the continent, and will, within few
years, have an immense population en-.
gagged in mining industries. We believe
the time is near at hand when nearly all
the products of our fields, orchards and
vineyards will go West instead of East.
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona are
mineral and mining countries, and Kan
sas, an agricultural State, is their
nearest neighbor. The transportation
lines Of Kansas closely connect with all
the mining districts of these States and
Territories. And Kansas will, in the
near future, supply the busy delivers in
the mines of Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona with all the -four, meal, beef,
pork and fruit they consume. They will
be the best customers Of Kansas.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
A VOICE FROM MAINE IN FAVOR
OF EWING.


Gen. Sam Cary is in correspondence
with the leaders Of the Greenback party
of Maine in regard to the policy of their
party, both East and West. The follow
ing letter, from Hon, Geo. W. Ladd, one
of the members of Congress elected by
them, will show that they favor EwiDR's
success, believing that 1t will be Of sub
stantial advantage to them in the fight
in which they are now engaged with the
Republicans OF that far down East State !;
BANGOR, Me-, July 3, 1870. !.
GEN. CARY, CINCINNATI Dear Sir; We
were largely indebted to Hon. L. Ewing
for his noble position on the currency
question in the forty 6fth Congress. His
speeches on the Silver bill were used by
us like the club of Hercules for the sue
cess of the Greenback party in Maine
The result is, this year we are working
with zone heart and one MIND" Demo
Gratis and GreeDhaCkers, trying to Guido
each other in offering up upon the altar
Of our country former differences for the
paramount object of securing perma-
nent currency reform. If the Green
hackers of Ohio will initiate us, and gen.
erously come forward and support Ew'
ing (for he is deserving of il. He met
with us in conference in Washington.
and gave us help and strength by his
presence and counsel, so that we found
our differences more in name than in
principle); then they will add great in
centive to all Democrats to do likewise,
and vote for Smith; and If we can prom
ise our people that Ewing shall be elect
ed by the Democrats and Greenba kers,
we can hope and promise the full success
of ideas on currency reform. And in
1880 we can elect Senator tn represent
this State who will vote for the reform
we all desire and deem vital to our fu.
ture prosperity. The defeat of Ewing
in consequence of the action of portion
of the Greenback party who, have the
charity to believe, are labOring under y
misapprehension of our condition in
Maine, will put us back decade and
temporarily parslyze our efforts, as a
similar event did in OHIO to our soft.
money Democratic friends.
In union isstrength. Our watch-word
in Maine is, Those who think alike
should vote together"
God knows we have an enemy to fight
who sleepeth not, neither doth he tarry
in his efforts to control; and every tick
Of the clock he is strengthened, and we
are being weakened by tightening chains
forged in the Treasury Department in
Washington. If fail we must, let it not
be written as our political epitaph, "The
Greenback party quarreled on minor is
sues. died by dividing its strength" Let
our mission rather be as cosmopolitan as
that of the Savior of mankind, and let
the fishermen preach it from every house
top, until the men in high places learn
to bow to labor and industry, which has
alone made all we are as a nation.
Very truly yours,
GEO. w. LADD.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
FOSTERS TRIMMING.

Hon. Charley Foster has made speech
at Newark, Ohio, which the Cincinnati
Commercial mentions as not key.notes
but good music" II is indeed a regular
hallelujah chorus, with cymbals and tom.
tom and big bass drum. Here is fraQ
ment: Why, fellow citizens, not a scan.
dsl against the Republican party exists
anywhere in all this broad land.6 That
is prudent policy, certainly. He rises
boldly in the dock and says, not guilty
de denies everything. The time is past
When even reform in the party is neces
sary, according to his pleading. Ills true
the sins Of the party are SO notorious hat
no proof is needed but the distinguished
trimmer defes the record and waits for
technical errors in the court and other
good luck to float the party of the bar
Let the people Of Ohio see that iusti ca il
done him 6rst.-Boston Post
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
C0LORADO,s MINES.

q. L. White, the we'll known Corres
spondent of the New York Tribune, ID
In Colorado, and writes an interesting
letter to that journal concerning the
mineral productions of our sister State.
Mr.. White is an accurate Journalist, and
his statements are not only interesting,
but reliable.
His letter is from the Leadville district.
He says the wealth and extent of the sill
yer deposits of that region are wonder
full, but they have turned the heads Of
visitors, and ON no subject has there been
more exaggeration. The stories about
an annual product of thirty or forty mil
lion dollars are purely sensational. Near.
ly all the ore produced is smelted at
Leadville, because it would not pay to
transport it to other points to be smelt-
ed. There are eight smelling works at
Leadville, capable Of producing, if they
run to their fullest capacity, 400 tons Of
ore per day. The average product Of the
ore reduced is about 100 ounces of sil yer
to ton. This is very liberal estimate.
If all smelters there now had been run
to their fullest capacity, they would have
turned out, during the last five months,
about $6,0OOOOO worth of bullion. But
two or three of them were completed but
very recently, and as late as the last ol
February only three were running. So
that Mr.. White thinks So 100000 would
be a fair estimate Of the amount of bull
lion produced in the Leadville district
during the past five months.
After the first of July eight more
smelling works will be completed. These
will make the aggregate smelling capaC-
ity of all the works in the district about
$2S 000,00 per annum, but there is no
evidence that the mines about Leadville
will produce that amount of ore. He
thinks $4,000 600 will be a liberal esti'
mate of the amount of bullion that will
be turned out during the last six months
of the present year.
Mr.. White says the estimate of $l0O.
100000 or $l25,OOO,OOO as the outpot Of
silver in the carbonate belt of Colorado,
or in the whole State, is also great ex.
ageeration. The silver product of this
State last year was in the neighborhood
of $l2,000000. There will undoubtedly
be some increase this year outside of the
carbonate belt, but it will not be very
great-two or three million dollars will
probably cover it. And, in conclusion,
he gives as his opinion, based on the
best information he can obtain, that
Leadville will not send to market this
year more than $4,000 600 or $ll 600
600 worth of silver, and that the product
ofthe State of Colorado will not be more
than $25, 600 900.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10

CHARLES FOSTER said a few days since
at Columbus: II want to impress it upon
all my fellow-citizens, that this " i'll be the
great issue in the coming campaign
that national authority shall be supreme
that the State must be subservient TO
it," Mr. Foster goes further than Web.
ster, Alexander Hamilton, the Constitu.
ton of the United States, and the Decar-
alton of Independence in defining his
position. England tried to impress the
same doctrine upon the heroes of the
Revolution but has since discovered her
mistake. Foster will undoubtedly find
il a difficult task to convince citizens of
Ohio that England was right when she
tried to fasten the shackles of slavery
upon the colonies Hamilton Democrat.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
CLEVELAND.


CLEVELAND, o., July Sat ha.fpast
seven this evening FIRE broke out in the
upper story Of Denham's planning mill on
Scranton avenue and spread rapidly, de.
stroyiDg the Variety Iron Works, the
Atlantic & Great Western freight depot,
the tRo-story building occupied by Rust,
King & Clint, lumber dealers. and a
large quantity of rough and finished
lumber belonging to different yards. A
brisk wind was blowing and only by
great exertion the fire was gotten under
control. At one time it bid fair to burn
both sides of Scranton avenve from
Swing bridge to Atlantic passenger de-
pot. n
The losses are as follows: Variety Iron
Works, loss, $95 600 to $40 600; insured
for $l6 600, ] I. Denham's planning mill,
loss, 500, 900; insured for $1,000. Wood,
Perry & CO., loss on lumber, SIS 900 TO
$40 900; fully insured The loss offreight
in the Atlantic freight depot was light
All the loaded cars were pulled out and
5000 will cover the loss ofsmall freight.
The loss on the building is about $40.
900. The insurance is divided up in
small amounts among the different COM
panies the names and amounts of which
cannot be ascertained tonight.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10

Rev. ALEXANDER CLARK, editor of the
Methodist Record, died at the residence
of Governor Colquit at Atlanta, Georgia.
Rey. Clark was born in Jefferson county,
this State, and some twenty years ago
established in that juvenile educational
paper called the School dag Visitor, which
reached a very large circulation. It was
afterwards merged into the 81. Nicholas.
He was the author Of number of works
that met with ready sale, some Of them
reaching three and four editions. His
health failing him, he went South under
the advice of his physician, and was ia.
ken worse at his hotel in Atlanta, when
Governor Colquit had him removed to
the Executive mansion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
BOSS SHEPHERDS MINE.
Looking After the Property Of the Famous Mar
qulS Of Bustamente.


quis Of Bustamente.
For nearly six months Gov. Shepherd
has been negotiating with the owners for
what is known as the Batopilas mine, To-
Gated in the State of Chihuaha, about
300 miles from Mazatian, on the coast,
and Tuscon, the principal point in Ari-
zona. Two weeks ago the conditional
papers were signed, and yesterday the
adventurous Boss" accompanied by Gov.
McCook Of Colorado, Mr.. Stevens, both
of them interested in the venture, Mr..
Randolph, an eminent New York min
ing expert, and an experienced Mexican
miner, started to examine the property.
From Mazatian the party will make its
way eastward to the Sierra Madre noun.
tains, at the foot of which is the wonder
ful mine of the Batopilas. Up to 1920
the Marquis of Bustamente, a name that
has probably been considered as fabu-
lous as that of the explorer Gulliver, or
the veracious chrouicler Eli Perkins,
owned and worked the Batopilas mines,
and when the lucky old man was gath
cred to his fathers, he had extracted
therefrom not less than $50 100000. One
day the King of Spain heard of him and
his mine, and straightway ordered it to
be eschested to the State, but the crafty
Bustamente reckoned that a part was
better than the whole, and loaded up a
ship with million dollars worth of sill
yer bars, which he sailed with to the
palace door, and obtained reversal of
the order in council. In 1862 the we'll
known firm of Wells, Fargo & Co., OBJ.
tanned possession of the Bustamente
property, and have since owned and OPP
Grated it. The yield has not been near
so large, but it has been steady. A great
tunnel was projected, and has been push.
ed nearly half mile into the mountain,
crossing eighteen veins, one of which
$2. 100000 were taken out in six months
time. But Wells, Fargo & Co., have
grown old, and counting their wealth by
the tens of Millions as they do, have
finally agreed on price at which they
will sell the famous mines to Gov. Shep-
herd and his associates, and hence the
departure chronicled above Washing.
ton Post
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
HOW THE PRINCE rMPER1AL DIED.

The Prince Imperial, who was always
deslrous to be actively employed, was
anxious to join Lieut.. Carey, of the
Ninety-eightE, who was starting with six
men of BetteriDgs Horse on a reconnoit.
ering expedition. The staff objected TO
his going, but he laughingly overruled
theit wishes and started. Lieutenant
Carey, leader Of the reconnitering party,
gave the following account of the e,Epedi
tion "Weileft Koppie Allen at half-past
seven, rode to Itelezi and waited for the
Basutos. The Prince being impatient at
their non-arrival werode on without them
to hill seven miles and a halt this side
ofIshalwani hill; ;reconnoitered with tele.
scopes for one hour, but saw no one de.
sCended to deserted kraal in the valley
below, off saddled and rested one hour.
/ reminded the Prince of the hour. He
said, Wait ten minutes At length, as
we were about to resaddle our horses, l
saw the black faces of the Zuus peering
out between the maize stalks all ro1nd,
The Prince, looking around, said, see
them too We leaped upon our horses
and rode off amid sudden volley ofmus-
kerry from the Zllus, who, as soon as
they saw us mounting, rushed forth on
all sides from the maize. All rode of.
On crossing the doDgs, 200 yards away,
we noticed the Princes horse following,
riderless. / expect the Prince had been
killed in the kraal. Two of the escort
were killed." From all accounts 1t APP
pears that Lieutenant Carey and the
troopers who saved themselves ran away
at the first sight of the Zulus and left the
young Prince, who had some difficulty in
mounting from the tearing of the saddle
nips, to his fate. Later accounts say that
Lieutenant Carey galloped Ave miles
without stopping after the scare.--N. Y.