The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-06-03
PERSONAL VARIETY.

Colonel Bee, the Chinese Consul at San Fran
CISCO says that the Chinese immigration at that
part has substantially ceased and that steamships
are taking many Cinnamon home.
Secretary sherman's new dwelling in K street.
in Washington, has front Of twenty.seven feet |
and depth of seventy five feet 1t is built of
brick, with rich and elaborate stone finishing |
and will cost about $4,000,
The Vandalia Qnd) Railroad Company is sued |
for $4,000 by woman who, though she had |
bought sleeping car ticket, could not get berth
She claimed that night Of travel in an ordinary |
passenger coach ruined her health.
Francis Miles Finch, who has Just been ap.
pointed Associate Judge Of the New York Court
Of Appeals, is more Of poet than jurist He
wrote, among other popular bits, Nathan Hale"
The Blue and the Gray" and Sparkling and
Bright,
demure, diminuive girl, aged 49, is under
arrest in Philadelphia for bigamy. She has three
living husbands all Of whom she has married
within the last two years. When asked why she
had done this, she said: "They were all good fel
lows, and they coaxed me so,
General Miles, the famous Indian fighter is
quoted as saying: "The average Colorado squatter
sells his gun and ammunition to the Indians for
about four times its value and expects to have an
other furnished him by the Government when the
Indian begins 20 kill
Miss Wilson Is Delaware heiress and beauty,
She fell in love with farm hand, because she
thought him heroic; but when they eloped and
be ran away across the fields at the approach Of
her pursuing father, she concluded she had over
otoJ y md honb NaH
Jacob Bennett heard angry voices in his house
at sedalis Mo-, and on peeping in saw that the
wife whom he was living with was confronted by
| the wife whom he had deserted. He quietly stole
away and sent q policeman to separate the
women who were found fighting furiously with
knives.
The father OF the House Of Commons has again
been returned to 1t in the person Of Mr. Mansel'
Talbot who has sat for Glamorganshire since $780,
The fact that a man of n should have refused a
peersge and sought reelection is significant Of
the fascination which the House, reputed "the
pleasantest club in London" exercises over It's
members
Samuel s. scattergood was conservative i'm
porter OF Mediterranean fruits in Philadelphia,
and had amabsed about S25OOOO A year ago he
invested all his money in Leadville mining pro.
jects, and they have all failed. Not only was his
own fortune engulfed, but friends were led by
him into similar loss. He could not bear his ad.
yersity and hanged himself.
An excadet who resigned from West Point
because he whsled colored cadet, relates the
little incident as follows; subsequently, In dis.
cussing the matter, myself and U. s. Grant, jr,
who was in my class, bounced the boy and gave
him severe drubbing, beating him over the head
with tantpeg, and laying him up for while.
An investigation into the affair was had, the mat
ter Of beating the colored boy was sIfted down to
myself and young Grant and we were both mott.
fed that we could resign or be discharged, Either
young Grant or had to go and went"
T. G. Thurston, who sometime ago killed his
business partner at Lesvenworth, KS, met Col
Anthony on the streets in that city, and fred two
shots at him. Both bullets missed Anthony, but
one hit and fatally wounded an attorney and the
other lodged in an advertising solicitors head.
ThurstOn gave himself up at once, and was re-
moved to For! Leavenworth for safe keeping.
A chap in South Carolina convicted Of forgery,
drew pistol when the verdict was rendered and
fred two shots at the witnesses, woundipg one
severely. They allow prisoners considerable
privilege in that part Of the country when they
permit them to wear side arms to kill judges or
witnesses.
Bancroft, the historian, has In his house at
Washington fine painting OF the Emperor Of
Germany presented to him by the Emperor Will
liam himself. Bancroft will in october be 80
years old. He Is tall, thin and slightly bent, and
his weight is not above 100 pounds His long
thin face, with Its irm mouth, youthful eye and
full long beard, is surmounted by snowy hair
which covers a rather small head, His habits are
regular and he works early and hard until three
o'clock in the afternoon, when he rides horse
back thirty miles, and a scramble on foot over
rocks not being too much for him,
A law went into operation in Massachusetts on
the first of May that gives much trouble to liquor
sellers 1t gives licensing boards in towns and
cities power to order all screens curtains stained
glass etc., to be removed from the windows Of
liquor saloons from midnight until O'Clock in
the morning, and all day on Sunday. In Cam
bridge, where the law has been enforced, the
dealers say that the consequent loss Of custom
has amounted to fully fifty per centum Of the
former trade, and few assert that they will have
to leave the business.
They have a new guard in the penitentiary
named Colvin-a good loyal Republican. He
was put there in place Of a wicked Democrat to
preserve the order and morals Of the institution
| He had been on deck only a few day when there
occurred the discharge Of female prisoner. COL
vim hated to see her go out in the cold world
alone, SO he accompanied her, found lodgings
| for her, and so pleased was he with them that he
occupied them in her company a couple of nights.
Shortly after he left her she missed some valua'
bles, whereupon he was arrested and at last
accounts was in Jail. Next
Printed for private circulstion-counteriel
bank notes.
A W,stern Coroner recently had, In one day
three cases of did.not know.it was.loaded.
The Georgia Democrats are all good men, Gov
Brown the Senator, is Baptist, and recently pre-
sented S5OOCO to his denomination, General
Gordon is also an active church member, often
praying and preaching in camp and church
Governor Colquitt is member Of the Methodist
General Conference, President Of the Information.
al Sunday School Association, and good lay
preacher. With such leadership that $4,000 ma
jority in Georgia is easily understood,
A bride Of month went to married lady OF a
quarter OF a year and said; my darling says that
women are fools" Never mind" said the other,
"he is only studying nouns, Wait tuntil he reaches
sdjectiVes."
1t has been found that Senator Don Cameron,
when member Of the Pennsylvania delegation to
the National Republican Convention In 1868,
fatty refused to be bound by the instructions Oh
Three blind girls went out for a walk in st..
Louis. They were familiar with the street and
made their way with ready confidence; but knew
nothing Of a deep excavation recently made ana
so walked into It, One was killed, and the 9TH
ers badly hurt.
General Lewis r Parsons who IA urged by many