The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
PERSONAL VARIETY.

to heaven or not and didn't care. He had not
the cheerful faith possessed by Caucasian muir.
deGers
George Helms, colored citizen Of Columbus,
O., came in the night and carried off the door OF
John Valentines residence because John owed
him thirty cents. John got cut a warrant and
had Helms arrested for burglary.
After the explosion of the Giant powder mill
at San Francisco the Coroner gathered up the
fragments OF bodies Of those killed in the explo-
sion and the whole amount weighed only three
hundred pounds. The pig tails Of all the China.
men were found uninjured.
The United. States relief ship Constellation will
undergo some repairs and sail for home about the
10th of May. The Duke Of Edinburgh, In the dis.
patch boat Lively took stores to the people on the
western coast Of COnnaught.
1t lis announced that last week steamer touch.
ed off Lundly Island at the entrance to Bristol
Channel fer the purpose ofuansferriDg two pas
sengers TO a fishing smack. The steamer is named
Helene and has a cargo Of 1900 rifles and 4OOO,'
900 cartridges and torpedo launch. These will
be landed in Crete about the end Of May, when a
revolution will break out IN various parts OF the
Island. The two passengers are Cretsn agents,
entrusted with the purchase Of arms This is the
ship some American correspondents said was In
tended for a raid on Cuba.
The English Parliament was formally opened
Thursday by Lord selborne, Lord High Chancel'
lor, the Duke Of Argyle, Earl Granville' Earl
sydney and Lord Norhbrook acting as royal
commission. Only twenty Tory and fourteen
ID
were present In the House Of Lords. In the
House OF Commons there was a meagre attend.
ance of Irish members. The conference on the
land question in Dublin detains Parnell and his
adherents. Some Irish members, including
O'Donnell and Fingon. sat on the Tory side and
others on the Liberal side The HJuse floors and
galleries we're very crowded.
The bloody tragedies which have been enacted
in San Francisco during the past year were the
work of Republicans who voted for Hayes,
superlntendents Of schools in Michigan go
armed. Superintendent GasO of the Niles public
schools, revolvered raging spitz dog the other
day and saved the community.
A benevolent Detroit dentist announced that
on certain day he would pull teeth free for
DOOR peTkOuH anu pIOVlue lhuBuluB bdn' AlS ueSN
700 gallons of gas and extracted III teeth.
1t IL comforting to know that while the Queens
politics are to be looked after by Liberal peershe
Queens petticoats are to be looked after by Lib
eral peeress. The Duchess OF Westminster has
been made Minister OF the Robes
Mr. Warng a recent candidate at an English
election adopted neat mode OF stgmatzlng an
opponent. He asked those he addressed what
they would call man who made such and such
charges, knowing them to be false, The response
came back; "a liar" We'll said the candidate,
81 will not contradict you"
The people Of Cleveland have bound up Cadet
Wbittakers wounds with rhetorical Salve, bonn.
barded the whites at West Point with whole
army of resolutions, and have looked with scOrn
upon General Schofeld and with favor upon
Martin l. Townsend, The colored committee on
resolutions fought noby.
Senator Davis, of Virginia, used to be railroad
brakeman. He has, however, got over the notion
of waiting to stuff the stove full Of fuel in no
weather.
A Wisconsin girl broke off her engagement be-
cause her lover had no romance She wanted to
be married on stills, and he wouldn't agree
Chicago Times,
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop visited the Washing
ton Monument on Saturday, for the first time
since July 4th 1SiS, when he delivered the oration
at the laying of the corner stone. We presume he
noticed It hadn't grown much in the meantime
Peter Weller, an aged and wealthy citizau OF
Woodside, o fashionable suburb OF Newark, N, Jn
committed suicide the other day by hanging.
The old mans suferiDgs from gout became un'
bearable and he determined to end them He
owned very large estate,
The Rev. George Chainey, Of Unity Church.
Evansville, Ind, used to be Unitarian, but he
drifted away from belief in any revealed relig'
ion. His congreg alton went with him to a certain
extent, but stopped short Of disavowal OF faith
in God, and finally passed resolution tha! they
were Christians. Mr.. Chaiuey has Therefore re-
signed,
boy In Hammersmith England named Han
cock, Is undoubtedly the person referred to In
the line, when the Coster's Done Jumping on
His Mother His mother wished him to work
for hisliving, and because she would not give
him money he celebrated Easter Monday by
thrashing her with skipping rope for Which ne
was sent to prison for six months,
Mr. William Huntley, pupil Of George Ste
phenson, has just died in England at the age Of
So. He erected the first locomotive that drew
passenger train, under stephensons personal su-
perintendence, and had the honor OF working II
with him on the memorable 26th Of September,
1926, the first day that a train passed over the
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VIM CASTOR and Thomas Wright had a fight al
Kansas City about a divorced wife, who was liv.
ing with CASTOR in adultery, and CASTOR was
badly beaten. CASTOR hunted up Wright and
shot and killed him.
J.J. Hoover, who killed a saloon keeDer named
Bennett at Fairplay, Col, in April, 1878 was taken
from jail and lynched.
The machine shops and contents Of several
Offices, and one locomotive, at Lambertville, Pa.
all the property of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, was burned, Loss heavy,
Mrs. Houston, living in Texas, In a at Of inssni-
ty attempted to murder her Eve children by driV.
ing knitting needle into their brain through
their ears. One was killed and two others were
seriously injured
Mr.. Bassey, an intelligent man, and formerly
one of the jubilee singers, applied for position
on the Hartford police force, but the Republican
Commissioners rejected him because OF his color.
Golly, white folks, how these Republicans do
like black man.
Maybe there isn't any God for the United
States" said a Canadian Mayor to Colonel Robert
Ingersol, "but there Is one for Canada and you
can't have any hall In this town in which to de-
fame Him."
The threatened withdrawal of s2OOoO0OO or
more OF foreign capital, in consequence. OF the
proposed hostile legislation at Albany, had an In.
furious effect upon the Wall street markets prices
Of stock falling 4 to per cent.
Mr. ]. Madison Wells is said to be lingering
around Washington trying to induce the Senate
to confirm him for some place or other As the
! Senate contains majority Of Democrats who
have not yet forgotten the Returning Board In
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