The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-13
PERSONAL VARIETY.

phases VI bOClely' Inc women mere ale very
much better informed than the English women.
American women possess q certain grace and
ease, what the French call chic that you will not
find even in the highest English society. ser.
want girl here will dress herself in a graceful,
nRtty way that an English duchess knows moth.
ing about"
The Methodist Bishops tell the General Confer.
ence that the 10000 Methodist churches under
their supervision owe debts aggregating $1,000.
900. They severely Cersure the conduct of those
trustees who mortgage the church property in
order 10 defray the current church expenses,
]. F. Glegg, Of the Cincinnati Gazette, and c, H
Gray, Of the Youngstown News, occupied the
same room at the American House. Columbus,
Wednesday night OF the Republican State Con-
Vention, and woke up Thursday morning to find
that during the night some one had entered the
room and carried of gold watch belonging to
Mr.. Clegg, and revolver, the property Of Mr..
Gray.
DR., Yost, jr,, Of W8uen, fell overheard from an
Ohio river steamer al Wheeling Thursday morn.
ing and was drowned
David Eckenberry, Of Preble county, fell from
a six feet wall Tuesday morning and broke his
neck.
The immense collection Of Ohio fossils in the
gatherings Of twenty years by the late Dr.. Dyer,
of Cincinnati, has been sold to the Agassiz nu.
scum for large sum.
Mrs, Joseph King, Of Gallon, was found dead
Ia her chair one morning last week at her home,
north of the creek, She was sitting in the chair
nursing her infant babe, and when found life
was extinct, and the babe was lying on the floor
crying piteously,
We are informed that the Ida Mining Company,
organized in Celina, has gone up In smoke A
letter from L. Jones, who has been In Colorado
for some weekssuperntending the mining for the
company says, that the shanties, engine houses,
ETC., were destroyed by Are.-Mercer Co. Standard.
II this "stroDg man" talk goes for anything,
the most available candidate is the Cincinnati
man who recently lifted 1851 pounds without the
aid Of harness or strap.
Ike Steele, Of Petrolia, keeps from $4,000 to
10000 in an iron safe in his house, and four DIFF.
ferent robbers have heen killed while trying to
rob him. His motto is Come and see me-
Early in June, by which time third rail will
be laid, the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
Railway Company will begin running a fast
train between Cleveland and Pittsburgh via
youngstown.
The whole population OF Waterson, N. j., are
fighting the forest fires, The flames swept thro'
the cedar woods to Oyster Bay. destroying resi-.
dence and FIVE yachts at anchor.
A courier from Magallon Mountains, at Silver
City, New Mexico, reports that Ternan Hunter
and their party, thought to have been killed by
the Indians, are all safe. The Indians are still
on the ground,
Four locomotives were stopped by drift in a
snow shed, on the Union Pacific Railroad. Snow
covered the roof completely so that no air could
get in and no SIN Ike could get out. The engi-
neers and firemen soon became insensbe. Fiji.
teen Cinnamon went to the rescue, and were
also overcome, All were nearly dead from suffo-
cation when finally taken out.
Christian shnader, of Lancaster Pa. vowed to
wreak frightful vengeance upon his wife and
Moore, who had eloped together If he could
only find them, so he said he would instantly
kill them both. His friend Ginder offered to
search out the runaway pair, II Shnader would
promise solemnly to punish them with death.
Shnader readily promised; but when the wife
was found, and she put her arms around him
and begged fer forgiveness he was soverjDyed and
took her home unharmed He even thanked
Moore for giving her up without trouble. The
disappointed and disgusted Ginder cursed the
party and left them.
Senators Cameron, Logan and Conkling are
now called Grants Syndicate Of Senators"
Theophilus Persons, Of Cambridge, Mass, the
famous writer oflaw books, is 81,
John Keller, of Galveston, Texas, mistaking
his wife for burglar shot her dead.
Ex-senator Pomeroy denies all knowledge Of
the letter recently published, purporting to have
been written by General Grant to my Dear Old
Pomeroy"
A white widower married black widow at
Cape Girardeau, NO. He had four white chill
dren, she had five black ones, and three yellow
ones have been born to them since, The family
presents varied aspect.
The amount OF money to be paid to tine en-
plOyes Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in
Altoona for the month of April is trihe in ex.
cess of S17O6OO the heaviest pay roll ever made
out.
Freemal Farris, colored life convict in the
Kentucky Penitentiary, was shot and instantly
killed while trying to escape,
Prof Ferguson will not lecture here this eve.
ming, as advertised" said the chairman Of
temperance meeting at Lincoln, Ill.,, as he Is I'M
avOidably detained at Peoria' Being pressed
for particulars, the chairman explained that the
professor had been arrested for drunkenness,
and sent to a work house for 40 days.
A horse biscuit is being manufactured in Rus
sia to take the place Of oats. tits made OF crush
ed oats and the -four Of gray peas, mixed with
hempseed oil and Salt, and is four inches in d.
ameter, days ration weighs about four pounds,
and is equal to ten pounds Of oats The horses
like the biscuits when soaked in water, and II
fed exclusively on them, though they lose in
flesh, are still fit for fatiguing work,
One hundred and twenty-five miles OF the
Canada Pacific Railroad have been let in British
Columbia from New Westminster east The es-
timated cost Of the road bed for this dsta nee ls
SO 100000, The contractors have advertised for
5000 Chinese laborers. This demand for this sort
Of labor, with that Of the Oregon Navigation and
Railway Company, who are building on a race
with the next harvest 129 m lies down and around
the distractions Of the Columbia, has put up the
wages OF chinese workmen Is cents day. The
Northern Pacific on Its Pend dOrellle Division,
has had to advance the pay Of its Celestial grs-
ders from s5 cents to one dollar per day.
An English antiJlnge election ballad runs
thus:
The Tories were rampant as wolves In a fold,
And the pubs were all blue where they lavished
their gold,
And the JingOs were lively as lively could be,
And the clubs caroused nightly In PIccadillie,
All eager for battle, like geese on a green,
That host just before the elections were seen;
Like the geese of their feathers pluCked ready