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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09
CALLAHAN TO sAMMETT.

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Below is given verbatim copy OF Gletter from
Callahan to sammett just before sammetts exc
cution. It has never before been published
Wooster, o., June %, 1880.
Mr.. JOHN sAMMET-Dedr Sir-Your espisle OF
the l7th came duly at hand, aud was glad TO here
from you. Your telegraph was received with the
greatest Of pleasure, thanking you, kindly for
the returned Accomplishment, also for the encour.
agemeut you gave me, Your time which is allot-
ted to YOU, indeede is Short and am glad to know
that your courage and that your trust you will
keepe till the last. Though you may be nsinua
ted upon, aud scourned at In this world, but the
world to come, II you are prepared for 1t, your
death will SCENE sweete and then you shall be
at rest
am we'll at present, and will keepe up courage
or at least try 1t very hard.
This is the last that may have the opportunity
Of writing or speaking with you In this world
but h world to come may embrace you In the
arms OF Jesus, this from your Fried.
respectfully JOHN CALLAHAN,
Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio.
THE LAST NIGHT
He bore up well, showing nerve and resignation
At 0 D. m Rev. Father Aukly came and remained
With him an hour. His father and mother now
came and staid with their unfortunate son until
one o'clock. For an hour afterwards he talked
to Deputy Sheriff Fisher Coulter and others. Al
| two O'Clock a. m. he laid down, and slept unul
| six O'Clock a. m at which time he got up and
dressed, eating hearty breakfast half an hour
| later
THE FATAL FRIDAY,
At nine o'clock the reporters, doctors, visiting
sheriffs and assistants were admitted to the jail
and assembled about the scafold, Sheriff Coul-
ter assigned the places and those assembled then
adjourned until eleven O'clock His mother and
lady friend visited him for the last time abopt
9;9O O'Clock and remained about an hour.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09

Monday evening, Nov. 20, 1880.
City Council met Monday evening pursuant TO
adjournment. All members present except
Warner and Poyser.
N,,,,,,o. =, ,o., r,oo,tno ,ood and adon,ad
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09

The news Of the Governors decision was bro
ken to Callahan Thanksgiving afternoon, Gala
han made no remark no outburSt but in hiseyes
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09
gnca1 qlems,
TRAVELLERS REGISTER.


vr WAYNE a CHICAGO RAILROAD,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09

Callahan was not sentenced until the close Of
the term Of Court, when he was sentenced to hang
Aug 9th; but few days before the date OF the
execution Gov. Foster reprieved his sentence un
til Dec. Sd.
This Il brief resume OF John Callahan crime,
for which he was hanged last Friday, The two
McGowsn's, father and son, plead guilty to man.
slaughter, and were sentenced to hree and FIVE
years respectively In the Penitentisry, and are
now serving out their time. saddler was tried
for the same crime at the last term Of Court, and
received nineteen years sentence He was re-
Gently taken to the Penitentiary.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09

Mayors report for November was referred to
ommittee on City ohicers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-09

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
To Prevent Drowning.

A Wesleyan minister, the Rev. w.
Cowen Brown, has patented, says the
Sheffield (Eng.) Telegraph, an inven-
ton which appears to be simple and
practical means of lessening the num-
Der of deaths by drowning. A chemic-
al preparation is inserted in a portion
of the coat. waistcoat or dress. 1t does
not add to the weight or in any way al
ter the appearance of the garment.
The preparation is inserted between the
lining and the cloth; in the case of
coat, it is placed on each side of the
breast and up the back. The moment
a man falls in the water the coat in
flates, and he cannot keep his head un-
der the waves. The invention was prac-
tically tested at the swimming bath of
the Sheffield Bath Company. First,
two small pieces of linen, with part of
the preparation inserted between the
folds. were thrown into the water. The
linen instantly inflated so as to form a
miniature cushion and hoated about the
bath. An attendant of the company
then put on a coat with the preparation
inserted in it. He first went under a
shower-tath, where he was thoroughly
drenched, to show that initiation would
not take place under the ordinary cir
cumstances of a shower. Under the
shower-bath the coat did not alter its
proportions in any way whatever. The
attendant then took "header" iuto
the water. He reappeared at the sur
face almost Immediately, and the coat
promptly inflated. Entering part of
the bath deep enough to take him up to
the eyes, he could not touch bottom at
all, and the water scarcely reached his
chin. BY struggle he dived partly
beneath the surface, but came up again
instantly. Divesting himself of the
garment, it floated about the bath till
it was taken out. The inventor then
attached piece of lead weighing three
pounds to his appliance, which presents
the appearance Of short, light sleeve,
or lining, and threw it into the water.
The sleeve on touching the water in
stantly expanded like small bolster,
and Aoated about the bath well out of
the water, sustaining the lead weight
till both were fished out. The expert
ments were as interesting as they were
successful. The inventor states that
his apparatus, which would simply form
an addition II lining inserted in por-
ton of the garment, would sustain a
person in the water as long as he could
possibly endure the exposure. For for
ty-five or fifty hours it would be effec-
tive for its purpose In the event of a
person losing Consciousness, the lining
in the back would form kind of bed,
and that in the breast a pair of pillows,
against which his head would rest.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Quincy system is to be intr0-
duced in the schools at Sacramento.
The Reformed Episcopal Church
has now nine Bishops, and q clerical
force of 1O1 ministers, including the
Bishops.
AT the examination of the boys and
girls for the New York Normal School,
the averages of the boys were below
those of the girls.
Fifteen thousand dollars are needed
to complete the sum required to tit up
q house for the Mccormick telescope at
the University of Virginia.
DR.. Cairns, now considered the
head of Scotch Presby terianism, and
principal of the Theological Seminary
in Edinburgh. at present in this coun-
try. is tall, slender man, of nearly
threescore years. with q rudy COM
plexion, prominent nose, firm mouth
and square chin. He has a strong Scotch
accent and is said to be speaker of
considerable eloquence.
-ACouncil General, representing the
entire Greek Church, is to meet at Mos
COW August rs for the purpose of re-
establishing the ancient customs and
rites OF the church, or drawing closer
the bonds of unity between the various
churches, of recalling to the bosom of
the orthodox church the Christian dis
sidents of the East and West, aud of
promoting the propagation by missions
of the faith of the church.
The lack of theological students is
in the Jewish ranks as we'll as in the
Christian, and it is charged to one of
two causes-a lack Of spirituality
among the young men, or a conviction
that the more intelligent the worship
ers are the less need there is for preach
ing moral and scientific truths. Per-
haps this is so, but the morals of the
community hardly keep pace with the
intelligence thereof. -Erchanqe.
To select the young as teachers for
the young is one Of the experiments of
modern times that has proved eminent
ly successful. The fresh interest and
enthusiasm of the instructor infuses it.
self into the pupils, who feel reliance
upon the sympathy and appreciation of
teacher who still wildly remembers
the difficulties of her own schooldays
Frequently the elder teachers. although
pAOO1U1y UCUIcI 1UCulSuCu Will pdGl6uCO
and experience, have become the slaves
of routine, bowed beneath the grievous
burden of a WEAKNESS of their work.
Exchange.
-Presbyterianlsm is said to be losing
ground in the South. The Louisville
(Ky.) Christian Observer reports a con.
siderable reduction in numbers since
1873 and steady decrease of theologi-
cal students every year. And the In
terror tells its readers that there are
nine fewer churches in Chicago to-day
than there were ten years ago, while
Cincinnati is in a worse condition than
it was thirty years ago. and New York
is said 70 be only 5000 b,.tc. OF in
communicates than it was three dec
AIDES ago. Rationalism, worldliness
and Indifference to religion are charged
with producing this laxity and loss.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
The GrindstOne Of Life.

Turning grindstones to grind scythes
is one of those heroic but unObtrusive
occupations for which one gets no cred
it. 1t is q hopeless kind of task, and,
however faithfully the crank is turned,
is one that brings little reputation.
There is a great deal of poetry about
mean for those not engaged
in it. One likes 10 hear the whetting
of the scythe on a fresh morning and
the response of the noisy bObOlink,
who sits upon the fence and superin-
tends the cutting of the dew-laden
grass. There is sort of music in the
"swish" and a rhythm in the swing of
the scythes in concert.
But if the scythes cut we'll and swing
merrily it is due to the boy who turned
the grindstone. For my part, / used
to like the grindstone that ''wabbled" q
good deal on its axis. for when turned
It fast it put the grinder on a lively
lookout for cutting his hands and en-
tirely satisfied his desire that I should
a." turn faster" l used to wish some
times that I could turn fast enough
to make the, stone fly into dozen
This is one q 49, reeaple tasks
of the boy farmer, ant. NIard as it is I
do not know why it is supposed to be-
long especially to childhood. But it is.
and one of the certain marks that Sec
ond childhood has come to q man on
farm is that he is asked to turn the
grindstone as if he were q boy again.
When the old man is good for nothing
else, when he can neither NOW nor
pitch and scarcely '.rake AFTER" he
can turn a grindstone, and in this way
he renews his youth. Being Bon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
Disciplinary Sticking Plaster.

The punishments inflicted on child
rem attending board schools are some
times brutal and always stupid; but to
Judge from the case of young woman
who is assistant teacher at the Farm
combe-street School, BermOndsey, and
who was summoned to Southwark PO-
lice Court on Saturday for assaulting q
little girl of five years, infantile torture
as now carried out in board schools is
assuming the aspect of the eccentric
and fantastic. The little girl child of
five would not, it seems, ''cease talk
ing" whereupon, to cure her To-
quacity, the ass istant teacher placed
piece of sticking plaster across the
small prattler's lips The child went
home crying; and, according to her
father, her lips were blistered, and she
was very sick all night. When the in
dignant parent complained to the
school authorities of the outrage COM
mitted on his child, the odd step was
taken by the school managers of re-
questing him to appear before the COM
mittee. He preferred to seek more
summary remedy at the nearest police
court. All that could be pleaded in
defense was that the child had not
been hurt by the strapping up of her
mouth, that the assistant teacher had
been reprimanded, and that she was
considered to be usually very kind
and attentive person. Under these cir
cumstances, the magistrate only ordered
her to enter into her own recognizances
to keep the peace for twelve months
and to pay few shillings costs. 1t is
to be hoped that the case will serve as
a warning to punishers of the eccentric
and fantastic kind. If Swapping up tho
mouth with diachylon passed unrebuked
we might next hear of the use of the
pitch plaster, or of downright gagging,
or of a revival of the old Scottish
''branks." Altogether, the ignorant
ferocity on the one side and the spite
full imbecility on the other, between
which board school discipline seems to
oscillate, tend considerably to strength
en- the doubt whether, after all, the
Marquis Townshend was not in the
right, and whether the only implement
of chastisement authorized in board
schools If any personal correction is
to be authorized there at all-should
not be the rod, even Solomon's rod
Fall Mall Gazette.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
A Puzzling Question.

A curious legal question of inheri-
lance has arisen from the lamen, able
railway accident in B]umenburg, which
resulted in the death of several passen-
gers. Among its victims were two
Breslau gentlemen. Messrs. Koschel and
Kallinich, who had been close friends
for many years, and were so strongly
attached to one another that, some
months previous to the journey which
proved fatal to both of them, they had
executed deed in virtue of which, on
the demise of either, the survivor
should become entitled to the whole
property of the deceased. As both par
ties to this !" Erbvertrag" or heritage
agreement persisted in the accident
above alluded to, their bodies having
been found among the ruins of the Sec
ond-class travelling carriage in which
they had been travelling together, the
questions arise, which, if either of them.
died last, thereby becoming his friends
legal heir, and, assuming that their
deaths took place simultaneously, what
disposition can lawfully be made of
their respective properties? The heirs
at-law to these gentlemen have applied
to the Breslau Court of Equity for elu-
cidatiOn of this somewhat complicated
problem, and the ultimate decision of
that authority is awaited with curiosity
and interest in Prussian lega! circles. -
London Telegraph. ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
Youths Department.
BIDDY RED WING s NEST.

Twas little Biddy Red-wing
That wanted q new nest;
And, while she was about IL,
She meant to have the bestl
30 Sunday morning, early,
The church-dO open wide.
Came pretty Biddy Red-Wing
And put her head inside;
Straight up the aisle she tip.toed,
And. far from noisy fiockA
She softly laid a nest-egg i'm
The cOntribution-bOx!
At length the bells stopped ringing;
Inc preacher rose to prav;.
When, up sprang Biddy Red-WjnQ. too.
And cackled forth her lay!
"Cut-cut! cut-cut! cut dal- cuty'
Right out in meeting, TOO,
Nor would her voice be silenced
Til she had said it through.
She had done all fowl could do.
This noisy little hen.
To help the cause! and earned her right
To tell it there and then!
And down the aisle, and to the door.
She proudly cackled! while
A deacon pa Used the box around
To cover up the smile!
And everybody something found
In pocket. purse or vest,
To lay beside the nest-egg there,
In B.dly Red-Wing's nest.
IS. C. Stone. in Youths Companion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05

toward some black chickens, caring
nothing for those having white or
mixed feathers. The chickens hardly
knew what to make of his advances,
for they were queer-such as pulling
their feathers, picking at their feet
and eyes; sometimes, though, he would
hill his throat with corn and disgOrge
TOR their benefit, which soon placed
them on the best of terms. And it was
q sorry day for Grip when his chums
were selected for fricasse. The exc
cutioner came along carrying pair of
black chickens squalling loudly. Grip
heard their cry of distress and fastened
to the rescue; the head of one was
placed upon the block, but their cham
pion made such furious onslaught
upon the executioner, flying in his
face, pecking and scratching, that the
sentence was suspended, at least until
the indignant bird was secured and
placed in the hands of the authorities.
"A friend in need is q friend indeed;"
and the crows championship for his
suffering friends would put to shame
the constancy and bravery of some of
mankind.
The wild crows were at variance with
our pet, probably despising him because
he ate pie instead of dead horses, and
if he flew toward the woods hewas i'm
mediately driven back by them, and
often it was necessary to 20 to his
rescue. So, an outcs It from crow soci-
ETY., what wonder that he sought that
of humankind-liking best to be in
his mistress ROOM, when he would fly
upon her chair-back and take down her
hair as deity as any lady's maid. He
would carefully pull out the hair-pins,
and when the last was out and the hair
came tumbling about her shoulders,
would whirl and 70 about and chuckle
with delight the mischief he had
done.
This is true tale, and it is a pity to
end it as do the fiction writer's of the
day, by drowning the hero; but such
was poor Grips fate. He was fond of
standing on the well-curb, and of look
ing into the wells mysterious depths.
He had often been scolded and driven
away, but, like some boys and girls,
he thought he knew best, and the re-
suit was that he lost his balance and
his life. He had been in the water
but few minutes, but the well was
so deep that it was impossible to get
him out until he was quite dead. He
was enshrouded in white paper, which
was pinned with black pins and tied
with black ribbon, and his funeral was
conducted with great ceremony--his
mistress being chief mourner. 1t was
a matter of great regret that he could
not be put beside that famous crow in
the Appian Way; as it was, spot
of unclassical ground received his re-
mains, and was duly decorated with
scarlet flowers.
Poor Grip! His untimely death was
much regretted, and his mischievous
pranks missed; but now that June has
come again, perhaps the sharp-eyed boy
will bring another fledgling of the crow
family, one tn at will in measure fill
his p1ace.-M. Y. Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
Recent Points In Etiquette.

Say "good-bye," not "good-morn-
ing"
Upon leaving room, one bow should
include all.
Never wait over fifteen minutes for a
tardy guest.
Upon introduction, enter at once into
conversation.
A note requires as prompt an answer
as a spoken gu 'sti0n.
Regrets in reply to invitations should
reason therefor.
Strangers arriving should notify
friends BY card or by their presence.
At table you are required to thank
the one who waits on you.
You should exchange calls with indi-
viduals before inviting them to your
house.
Only letters to unmarried ladies and
widows are addressed with their bap-
tismal name.
To return personal call with cards
inclosed in an envelope signifies that
visiting between the persons is ended.
Unless there is great difference in
age, q lady visiting should not rise,
either on arrival or departure OF other
ladies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
Trarnps.

The summer hegira to the West is
now in full blast and the average tour
list who is temporarily out of funds is
meeting with very little encouragement
The prevailing custom of getting in
to a box-car and riding in the face of
starvation for over a thousand miles
over the Union Pacific is falling into dis
favor.
Riding locked up in q box-car in this
way has its unpleasant features. For
instance, the porter is not attentive
enough and your special car is liable to
be side-tracked for week or two on
some lonely barren plain where the
scenery is not pleasant. One pair of
excursionists. from the East. taken off
here, had the good fortune to travel in
Car loaded with canvas-cov cred hams.
They had eaten all the hams when
taken out here and were middling thirsty.
The officer took them to a hydrant
and let them have the monopoly of the
city supply for a couple of hours.
These men got their refreshing drink
here, q pound of Vanity Fair smoking
tobacco and six months at hard labor.
They said they had never stopped at q
town where the people seemed so Law
ish in their attentions to total strangers.
They were billed for San Francisco
in September, but they have telegraphed
that they got lay-over here to do some
work in stone, at the request of promi-
nent citizens.
Some time ago tramp got into the
fire-box of a stationary engine that was
being shipped on a flat-car to the Pa
citic coast. BY some freak of misfor-
tune to him a careful brakeman closed
the furnace door on him; and the solita-
~ picnicker was alone with his con-
science and a few friends that had come
along with him to represent the National
Bug Bureau.
At first he thought it was a joke, and
he laughed smothered, hysterical
laugh, but as the hours drag yed on and
he didn't know whether it was day or
night, or whether it was the Fourth of
July or eternity, he concluded to attract
the attention of the outside world, so
he pounded on the inside of his cage
till his arms ached. He might as we'll
have tried to get out of fire and
burglar-proof safe with corkscrew.
One day, through curiosity, a railroad
boy opened the door of the engine fur
mace and looked in. The broad sole
of an old boot was turned up at the
door, and the brakeman took hold of it
and snatched it out. 1t was followed
by an attenuated piece of humanity that
ratified around on the car like an old
umbrella.
The bystanders reviewed him and
asked him if he didn't feel hungry.
He said he did feel kind of goneness
in the gastric regions.
An old man who was then acting
Treasurer of the Irish Relief Fund, took
the job of filling him up. That is the
reason why Ireland missed the beneficial
effects of the relief fund for several
months, at a time when she needed
it the worst.-~BiU Nye," in Denver
Tribune.