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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
LATE NEWS,

Henry Blgelow Williams, real estate agent, Of
Boston, has fled his petition in bankruptcy. Lila.
biliues 81 ,266,9Sl.
The printers on Linton's Legal Record, at Col
umbus o., have quit work on account Of re-
duction of wages and for back pay.
Laura McGlossin, of Evansville, Ind, who es
capped from the Warden Of the Tennessee Peni'
tentiary, was recaptured on Saturday,
1t is said that Right Rev. Caspar H, Borgess., the
Roman Catholic Bishop Of Detroit, has resigned
his Episcopate into the hands of the Pope,
A report received from Rapid City, Dakota, says
two hunters, Furgeson and Thompson, were muir
dered on the Goth, by Indians near that place.
The number Of hogs handled by Chicago pack
ing houses from November 1st to date sums up
272l, ,269 in 1889 2874 $40 in 1877 s. and l525,729
in 1867.
The Senate on Saturday, by vote of 45 to 1S
struck out of the Army Bill all the sections adopt
ed by the House providing for the reorganization
OF the army.
At a tie-camp in the Hatchie bottom, near Stan.
ton, Tenu., Friday night Joe ousley lost his life
at the hands Of Frank Johnson, The murder
originated from trivial matter,
The body of Bayard Taylor, late Minister to
Germany, was sent to Hamburg on Friday, and
was Immediately put on board the steamship Gel
lert which sails for New York on Wednesday
A telegram from Jscson, Breathltt county, Ken
lucky, says that Alfred Gambrel was Saturday
sentenced for life In the Penitentary for the mur-
der of Judge Burnett in November last.
The Chinese Government have purchased ma
chinery and engaged experienced engineers and
spinners TO establish cottonmills in China, so as
to free that country from dependence upon Eng.
lish and Russian imports,
A letter from the Russian Military Surgeon in
attendance on shere All says that the Ameers life
Is ldespalred Of. gaDgrene having attacked his
whole left SIDE 1t is, therefore, considered prob
able that he is already dead.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
SENTENCE OF ELECTION LAW VI
OLATERS.

Pitisburg February % Joseph Fl. Rousb and
W I. Scott, two members of the Seventh Ward
Election Board, who were lately convicted Of
fraud and conspiracy altering ballots, and chang
ing the result of the election for aldermen, were
called up in the Criminal Court to day and SEN
fenced To imprisonment in the county jail for one
year and pay a fine of one hundred dollars each
Joteph Grown, the other member Of the Board
who vas out on bail, failed TO put in an appear.
ance, and the court ordered his bond forfeited
and a process to issue for his arrest. The court
under which those par les were convicted charg
ed the defendants with having altered defaced,
substituted and destroyed ballots Judge Baily,
in pronounCing sentence, commented on the fact
that i was the most lenient possible under the
law he didn't regard vengeance as any part Of the
intenk Of the law but rather the protection of the
community. BE thought conviction In case Of
this kind Of more Importance than the intlicton
Of severe penalty and this, together with the rec
ON mmendRtiOn OF the jury for mercy, induced
him 70 make the sentence as light as possible.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
THE DEBTS OF THE SEVERAL
STATES.

The latest statistics show that the debts OF the
States OF the Union amount in the aggregate to
S8 8l5,297OOO Massachusetts, takes the lead and Is
followed In the descending scale by Alabama
viginia, North Carolina, New York, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, and Louisiana, each OF which owes
more than s2O,OOOO 900. West Virginia, Missouri,
Georgia and Arkansas owe materially less al
though the amount is over $40 100000 each, while
all the other States fall below the latter figures
Many municipal debts exceed the State debts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
A MAN WHO OwASLYNCHEDP PROV
ED INNOCENT,

dallas TEX } Dispatch St. Louis Globe Dem.)
At the farm house Of man named John Hsw.
kins a stranger, calling himself Robert Hum
phreys had been sick for some time. Finally
lust before he expired he made a confession "a
having murdered Jane Owen, In Madison county
Kentucky, In 1869. The scoundrel had charged
a Door inofenBive negro named Joshua Lively
with the crime, and Lively WA hung by Ku'
klux In consequence,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
KANSAS SENATORIAL ELECTION

St, Louis, Feb. ala Topeka dispatch says the
anti Iagalls element in the Legislature, after eau
cusing all night and until eleven o'clock today,
centered on Chief Justice Horton. On the first
ballot to-day, Ingalls, received ss votes; Horton,
90 Goodin, CDem,) 2; Mitchell, (Greenback) l..
Ingalls, was declared elected. He addressed the
memhers Of the Legislature The enthusiasm
here 10 unbounded.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
THE SONORA REvoLUrIoN.

San Francisco, CAL, February pa dispatch
from Tuscon, Arizona, says; Private Rdvlces re.
ceived this morning from sonora state that tn {,
Legislature has Just transferred extraordinary
pOWea on Governor Mariscal, and In pursuance
thereof the Governor was inaugurating most Wig
orOus measures 70 thoroughly suppress the revolu-
tion. Orders have gone out that each district
must furnish It's quota Of troops All this proves
the alarming character Of the revolution.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
TALMAGE AS A BASE BALLER. I.
Pyfr,cJ f,o,,, n 7 To,B,,.e b,, I.,reoyl TdlmdOe

AAhhaOE 40 IA DHAoA DAAN4A4A4A"'
Estrdct from Lecture By PrsOn Td8mdge.
belonged in Philadelphia to club composed
Of elergymen. When doctor Of Divinity had
struck ball, the ragamufflns Of the city would
cry, Go 1t, uncle p Another base, old beeswaxI'
by George, that old fellow Is ringboned and spa
vined and has got the .heaves" Aud when we
allowed some one Of these ragamufins to take the
bat with Us be would fly around the ring. hiH
clothing in tatters out At the knees and with flag
at half mast, pursuing some minister on hin way
70 the biahopric,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27
MuRpEREp BY INnIANs.

DeadwOOd, D, T., Feb22-A report has just
reached here from Rapid City that two hunters,
Ferguson and Thompson, we're murdered on the
20lh By Indiana near that place A party Of TWEEN.
~ men started from Rapid City 70 bring In the
bodies and notify the ranchmen In that vicinity
Of the danger.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19
THE EX-PRESIDENT.
How He wheedled Old Mrs. Dorse

How He Wheedleu Ola Mrs. Dorsey.
The way JEFF Davis got his Mississippi plan
tation is not calculated to increase the rever-
ence for that great man if Mrs. Dorey's
brother. Mr. Dahlgrcn, is to be believed. This
gentleman, il seems, lived on the estate from
March 5, 1877, to March %, 1879, at Mrs. Dor
sey's request, as the manager of the property.
He then left the place because Jefferson Davis
had become the practical owner and director
of the establishment. He says:
"At this time only Mrs. Dorsey and Davis and
myself were on the place, excepting, of course,
large retinue of servants. Mr.. Davis gradu-
ally, though not Extensively at first began as
suming the management of the place while
was absent at my office. My sister tolerated
it. She seemed to think that everything he
did was, of necessity, right His very tread
was that Of one born to control. He stalked
about the place in domineering and despotic
way. If he disliked o servant he had only to
intimate his dislike, and the servant was dis.
charged. saw him on one occasion kick
crippled negro down back stairs for some
fancied insult. The darky was an old
family servant, and perhaps presumed on the
fact The matter was referred by JEFF to my
sister, who discharged the servant, but
subsequently took him back after he had
apologized to the ex.President. Mr.. Davis
threatened to beat another negro for disregard
| ingan order Of his and carrying out one of
mine. BY this time things came to such pass
that never knew whether my orders would
be obeyed or not. Mr. Davis countermanded
| them. Our relations were otherwise still
pleasant. for we built and launched boat to-
gether. But soon saw that, completely under
| the control of Mr. Davis, as she now was, my
sister, Mrs. Dorsey, was greatly embarrassed.
| My sef-esteem would not permit me to re-
main longer, and told my sister would go
West. She pleaded with me to remain, and
said that | might have house and lot if /
would do so. l didn't accept the latter Offer"
Mr.. Dahlgren says that his sister made q
nominal sale of the property to Davis before
her death, ana gave him a deed so the ex'
Confederate President appears to have had
matters arranged to his own liking, The pic.
ture of this ancient rebel taking advantage
of weak minded old lady to secure property
to himself which rightfully belonged to her
own kindred is not particularly calculated tC
excite admiration.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19
THE DISTRICT GoyERNMENr.

We have had quite enough of grumbling
and now let us have some healthy action.
For months, in store Office, upon the street,
wherever two citizens have met, we have
had nothing but fault-fnding and censure
of the Commissioners. The water tax,
absurd, illegal and oppressive as it was,
was but specimen of the lack of fitness in
all directions. The acting of the Commits
sioners on all questions has been halting,
feeble and largely destitute of sympathy
with the people, or care for the Taxpayers.
They have demonstrated by large ma
jority that they are not the kind Of men
demanded by their olfice-pleasant and
honorable gentlemen as they may be. But
finally affairs eliminated in the foolish
water tax-now stamped out by the right
eous decision of the court-so nothing
remains but for the Commissioners
to resign, that the President (who,
we are happy to know, takes u deep interest
in the welfare of Washington may give us
men fit for the place. We want capable
men-men of business and of gumption-
men who, with their laudable enterprise,
will so mix stern economy that the burden
of taxation shall not be onerous, while they
build for us city that shall be the pride OF
every citizen. Our supply of water, our
pavements, our schools, our railroad sta
tions, our river front, our sewerage, our
taxes are all waiting for the coming of the
capable and resoute hand that shall set
each and all in proper order. With the
large aid now given by the Federal Govern
ment, with an efficient Board of Commits
soners, men who, in the duties of their
Office, find field broad enough for all their
ambition, Washington should be assured Of
rapid advancement along every line Of
improYement.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19
1864.
Personal.

-
DIR. I. NJ. BEMIsS of New orleans is at the Riggs
House.
MIR. and Mrs r. d. MoHuN are in the White
Mountains.
GENERAL @, A. GILMORE, U. s. A.. is In camp at
the Ebbitt House.
HoN. WILLIAM r. MORRISON, OF Illinois, has
rooms at Willards.
Hon; g; N. McGHEE, of Tennessee is registered
at the Ebbitt House.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS Morris, U. s. N, Is anchored
at the Ebbitt House.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will leave Today for Ohio
TO look after his fences.
COLONEL q. c. WHoRToN, of Louisville is quar-
tered at the Riggs House.
GENERAL W. Y. @. HUMEs and family have apart
ments at the Ebbitt House.
Mrs. COLONEL II. CLAY WOOD wife of Colonel
Wood, U. S. A., is at the Ebbitt House.
THOMAS NJ. MARsToN, C. B. Marston and John +.
Webster, of New York, are booked at the Arling-
ton.
A.. w. BRowN and F. B. Cotton. of Boston, and r.
r. Tousey, Of St. Louis registered at Willards yes
terday.
COLONEL ENocH TorrEN, Of our District bar was
among the arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel Lead
vile, Colorado, on the 18th instant.
AMONG the Americans who registered in Paris
Saturday were W. I. Mezerott, Miss L. Berthelotte,
Miss 9. Lemann, jacob Lemann and Myer Lemann,
of Washington.
AMONG the arrivals at the Riggs House yesterday
were Frank X. Is. Conger and wife, OF Michigan
Samuel ~ ey pGadeh g. " GSTs 1ow
"
Louis; Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; X. L.
Whitney and Mrs. X. Whitney, Louisville.
SECRETARY SCHuRzleftlast evening for an extend.
cd tourlwhich will embrace pleasure, politics and
| inspection of Indian agencies and reservations
| lie VIII speak in Cincinnati tomorrow night, and
subsequently pay visit to the Indians, TO become
| more thoroughly acquainted with the habits and
wants of the red men under his charge.
| NJ. DAVIS, Richmond. Va; /. IL. Gregory and
wife, Norfolk, Va; L. C. Goodwin Boston, Mass
| J. II, Bearsley, Cincinnati, o.; ]. II. Travis New
| York; w. NJ. Mixer, New YorE; s. p. McKnsley
and wife. st. Louis A. l.. Anderson, Baltimore
| Nd; n. Head, Virginia. and Rev. w. j. Smith
Salisbury, n. c., registered at the ST. James yeser
| lay.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

AN unjust discrimination against the
millers at Rochester, n. Y, by the railroad
communication through that city, is made
apparent in the investigations of Legisla-
tive committee now in session in that city.
Under railroad Determinations Western
produce is transported from Milwaukee to
New York by rail at $40 the carload, less than
is charged the Rochester millers. Against
this the Rochester milers protest, of course,
but if they don't like it they can send their
flour to market by canal or by teams. 1t
will make but precious little difference to
VANDERBILT so long as he holds the Legis-
lature by the throat.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19
THE THING FINED.

There has been more or less doubt and
some little anxiety in certain quarters as to
who would be the next Republican candidate
for the Presidency, General GRANT has
had friends presumptuous enough to think
that he stood some little chance to be named
as the Republican standard-bearer in 1880.
Senator BLAINE, who, if his friends had
stood by him faithfully, would have been
nominated in 1876 at Cincinnati, is not
one as without hope in 1880 Aud then
there is the stalwart Zach. CHANDLER, who
has admiring friends that are dIily increas-
ing in numbers and are becoming more and
more hopeful that the Presidential honor
may fall upon Michigan and upon his own
brawny shoulders, Then again there is
Secretary EyARTs, the pupils of whose eyes
begin TO dilate as he looks upon the next
Presidency. While Governor FISH, of New
York the quiet, ,discreetand good statesman, is
not without friends and admirers when the
Presidency in 1880 is considered There are
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19
DIED.

FLANNERY. August II, 1879. at 9:25 a. M, In the
7Tth year of her age, Mrs. ELLEN FLANNERY.
The funeral Will take place from her late residence
435 Mnssa husets avenue northwest Tuesday. at $3.50
p. M, and pr coed to st. Patrlcks Church. The
friends of the family are respectfully invited to at
tend.
MALLARD-on Monday, Augustis 1878, CHARLES
MALLARD, aged II years.
Funeral from his late residence, No 13i + street
northeast, on Wednesday, August ~, at 4 D. m. ~
SMIIH-The funeral OF JoHN IL. SMITH, son of
Thomas H. smith, who departed this life August II,
ls7j will be solemnized Tuesday 10th, ut Asbury
Church. at IL n m, promptly.
baltimore and Annapolis papers please copy.l -
TAYLOIL-August Is, ~ l:l5 Il. m, KATIE WITH
ERow daughter Of George w. and the late Kate L..
Tay or. aged year and days,
Funeral from her fathers residence, 1liO Eighth
street northwest the 10Th inst, at ~ q nj.
HURSr-On Saturday, the 10th ms, ut $50 p. M,
URIAs HURST In the 66th year of his age.
Funeral from his late residence, 207 Twelfth street
northwest, Tuesday 10Th inst, at o'clock p.
Relatives and friends Invited to attend.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

THE New York Herald now arogates to
itself great prescience, for the reason that
General GRANT, in conversation with the
Viceroy of Tientsin, revealed his " true in
wardness" in regard to being candidate
for the Presidency next year. 1t knew it
all the time, and hence it opposed the
" GRANT movement in the Generals inter
est. 1t was just so, we suppose, when it
raised the cry of imperialism in 1875, and
rung the changes over it until it became
pdrticeps criminis in giving the best interests
of the nation away to the late Confederates
and brought the existing perils upon the
country. 1t did all that in the interest OF
friendship for GRANT, no doubt.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

others whose ambitions arenot pent up, and
who feel that the prize is still open for COM
petition. N
What n shock it will bring to all these
statesmen of commendable ambition to be
informed that the question of the next
Presidency is settled, and the door is shut
against further competition for the tempt
ing prize. We proceed, therefore, to break
the news to them as gently and tenderly as
possible, by reproducing the following from
the Wilmington, N. c., Post of the l7th
inst.
We had the pleasure, while in Washington
few days ago, to meet Colonel VANCE, oil
West Virginia. He is one of the most iniiu-
ential Republicans in his State, newspaper
man of very superior abilities, who is exceed
ingly well posted in politics and whose judg-
ment is perfectly safe. And he says that Mr.
Secretary SHERMAN will certainly be the
nominee of the next Republican National Con.
vention for President, and the nominee OF said
convention will unquestionably be the Presi-
dent of the United States from 1881 to 1888.
The other gentlemen who have been fool
ing around the question of the next Presi-
dency may as we'll
LAY down the shovel and the hoe,
Hang mp the fiddle and the bow,
For there is no more work for poor old NED"
The jig is up. The die Is cast The
thing is settled for Ohio, and there is no use
of talking any mo-. Colonel VANCE is in
cautiously credited to West Virginia as "a
newspaper man of superior abilities,
vol, T., IL lol
that his services in journalism had been
chiefly confined to the State of Ohio, and
this accounts for his superior knowledge OF
coming events which seem to cast their
shadows only upon that noble State. The
friends of Senator BLAINE will please take
notice that there is no use in trying any
more against the inevitable. General
GRANTS friends can take down their sign,
put up the shutters and shut
shop, for their occupation is gone.
Governor FISH can hang Grape on his
door, and send for the political undertaken
and surrogate CHANDLER can retire to his
magnificent farm; EvARTs can 90 a-fishing
and other candidates for the Presidency
may 60 and do likewise, for it is now mex
orably fixed " that Secretary SHERMAN will
certainly be the nominee of the next Re
publican National Convention for Presi
dent" If this be so, why go to the ex
pense and trouble of holding a convention
at all? But we presume there are perverst
people who will contend that the popular
voice shall yet be heard on this importan
question, though the event shall be pre-
cisely as this modern prophet has announced
Somehow, the people always like to hav'
something to say on matters of public con
cernment. They do not like TO be summarily
choked off, so to speak.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

FIVE million bales of cotton, 100000
hogsheads of sugar and 6O0,00O,0O0 pounds
of tobacco are accounted as the staple
yield of the South this year. This will be
more cotton by half million bales, twice
as much sugar and at least 100000 more
pounds of tobacco than has ever before been
produced in that section in any single year
And still they talk ofbeing poor, and down
trodden, and devastated, and ruined by the
war, and all that sort of thing, down that
way. And, further, they repudiate private
and public debts just the same as if their
talk were true.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

THE plantation manners " developed by
the Narragansett Pier scandal have all been
exhibited by the anti-CoNKLING side of the
controversy, so to speak, Governor
SPRAGUE's shotgun raid was the first illus
tration thereof, and very strong one; but
since then the Democratic press has been
imbued with the same spirit, and has almost
invariably alluded to the fact that Mr..
CoNKLING was not killed by the infuriated
drunken hero Of this affair." with regret, If
all that they have charged and intimated
against him were true, it is possible that
the hero aforesaid would have been justified
in killing him half dozen times or more
but as it is we suppose it is q further illus
tration of plantation manners to insist that
he is guilty until he proves himself to be
| innocent
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

oners, twenty-seven horses, and one hundred
stand Of arms captured. Sioux Indians de-
stroyed the United States agencies at Yellow
Medicine and Redwood, and partially destroyed
New Ulm, Mimi, killing and brutally mutt
lating more than ono hundred persons-men,
women and children.
1868.
AUGUST l0-Tho gunboats on White River,
Arkansas, captured three or four rebel boats
with their cargoes and crews, and efiectually
cleared the river of rebels Guerrilas
attempted to blow up with torpedoes train
on tho Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
but failed. Fort Sumter crumbing under the
fire of Gillmore's batteries Steamer City of
Madison blown up by the explosion Of somc
percussion shells, with which she was
being loaded; she was literally blown to
atomsi some fifty persons were killed.
1864.
AUGUST 10-The rebels made a sharp attack
upon the Federal troops in possession of the
Weldon railroad, forcing them back to their
second line with heavy loss. The Federal
troops being reinforced, the enemy were in
turn driven back with great slaughter, and
the day was partially retrieved.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

IT would seem that the Opposition editors
of the country are jealous of President
HAYES because of his popularity as an hon
ored guest at the agricultural fairs But
there is no valid ground for their envy he
appears at these exhibitions simply as a
visitor and not as an exhibit If they
select to enter themselves thereat as prize
jacks or in any other natural capacity they
can do so without fear of competition from
him
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

against IL, admonishing T1LDEN that if 1t
is carried out nothing can prevent the
nomination Of Western candidate for
President by the Democracy. But the old
Cipher Ogre laughed at SPRINGER, and
tapping his bar'l suggestively, chided him
for his verdancy. Thereupon the Sweet
Scented Sucker of the Sangamon fell a vic
tim to the plan he had come to object to-
and the plan will be carried out, so far as
this year is concerned
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-19

THE numerous obituary comments from
all sources provoked by the announcement
of the death of Mrs. NELLIE GRANT
SARToRis have served not only TO de-
velop the latent love and kind regard of the
American people for her illustrious father
in the hour of his supposed bereavement,
but also TO point to the fact that such q
daughter could only have been born to q
father rs much unlike the General GRANT
of the Democratic newspapers as 1t is pos
sible to imagine. There are exceptions to
all rules; but in the matter Of rearing
children it is always safe to accept as a
criterion by which to judge the parents the
Scriptural axiom "By their fruit ye shall
know them" A bad son or q wayward
daughter, it is true, may be born of good
parents; but good child, in the common
acceptation of that phrase, is seldom, very
seldom, found in family wherein parental
influence and example are pernicous. The
tributes of respect and affectonate regard
to this young wife and mother, and the
acknowledgment that amid all the tempta-
tions of her surroundings she preserved her
sterling identity as true American girl,
are therefore, something in the nature of a
tribute to her father, and will so be accepted
by the general public, especially by the
heads of families and those who are seri-
ously interested in the subject Of parental
discipline.