The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-12
PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND 9TH
ERWJSE.

| Mrs Harriet Lane johnson, the neice Of James
Buchanan, Is staying at Bedford Springs Pa,
where her uncle used to always pass his sum.
mers.
Schuyler COliax will speak to the Odd Fellows
at Saratoga in September.
Darlington county 8. G., is the largest cotton
producing county In The United States.
nephew Of Colonel Bowie, the inventor of the
Bowie knife was put on trial In Texas for mur
der. When the District Attarney began to argue
for his conviction the prisoner could not endure
to be insulted, and sprang at the lawyers throat
but was prevented by the bystanders from doing
serious Injury.
Information comes un from Texas that what is
known down there as the Grand Army Of Occupa.
ton, an organization whose object seems to be
the invasion Of Mexico under Gen. DalrymDle, is
assuming considerable proportions
Boston man permitted his wife to obtain
divorce from him on the ground OF cruelty. She
married another man, who paid the first husband
| l,0OO.
Colonel Fred D. Grant, A. D. c., is still of the
opinion that father" should have been nominat
ed He refuses to become reconciled to Garfield
and to work off his anger is junketlng 1t in New
Mexico.
They say that Ulysses Grant, the son Of the Ex.
President is worth 5000 900, largely made in min.
ing specuations, and that 1t was at his solicia.
tion that his father accepted the presidency Of
Western mining company.
After the firing of a cannon at brief intervals
for seven hours had caused the death of an inva.
lid lady at Indianapolis, the Chairmen Of the
Democratic and Republican Committee signed
an agreement to pay for no sucD noise
The census man has found boy In Troup coun.
ty, Ca, who is only 70 years Of age but is married
to large, fine looeing buZom woman, and they
are living peaceably and happily on a farm. The
boy is thrifty young man.
Dora Young, favorite daughter of the late
| Brigham Young is In Chicago. She is described
| IS particularly handsome and attractive woman
with beautiful complexion and golden hair.
She dresses fashionably and in good taste. She
has considerable property, secured from her faith
ers estate by successful suit at law, and intends
to enjoy 1t, Two years ago she was Jealous
Mormon, but now she abominates the system and
has forsaken her home and friends.
The average cost of heather con vert was some
time ago estimated at $500
Don't play tag around the hind legs of this
mule" is placard in an indianapolis livery sta.
BILE.
summons in a breach of promise suit against
the bridegroom was sent In among the bridal
presents at an Iowa wedding.
At Keokuk picnic a dead snake was laid
across a sleeping mans neck for fun. The fright
was all that could have been expected, for he lay
half a day In cOnvulsions.
| During storm last month at Norance In Switz-
erand lightning struck one of two little girls
sleeping in the same bed and instantly killed
her without even touching or waking the other
one.
Now 1t is a Yankee Mr.. Samuel Bromley Of
Mystic River, in the State Of Connecticut who
! announces his ability to live for ten hours with
his nose and mouth Theoretically sealed Where
is this thing to stop?
| A letter to the Paris National from Senegal de.
scribes the slave trade in that neighborhood as
hourishing, and MS being carried on with the con.
sent Of the government A police agent denounc-
ed the syftem in open court, and was not contra.
dicted.
The King Of Bavaria has Just narrowly escaped
death. He was ascending mountain side In
carriage drawn by four horses ridden by pOstil-
ions when the animals while going at sharp
pace, fell, and the carriage was overturned. One
Of the riders was killed, fOotman was seriously
hurt and the King himself received bruises
The Fish Commission will now turn Its atten
ton to populatiHg the Eastern wate.ng places
with Goldfish arlstocracy,
Had St. Louis and Chicago had their way
throughout this country would have had pOpu.
lation Of fifty instead of forty.nine millions
A Hungarian exhibited In a phrenol oglcal
museum two skulls OF different propo rtions.
Who's Is the large skull ?" asked spectator. II
belonged to the celebrated Attilla, King Of the
Huns" "And the small one?' Also to Attilla,
but when he was child"
The population of st. Louis is about 100000
The population OF Nebraska increased from A..
| 494 in 1855 to AZ, $40 in $780,
While making deposit In the Dominion bank
| of Toronto, man named Petman, clerk Of
Building ann Loan Association, was robbed Of
1900 by two Americans who escaped He laid
his bank book and notes on the counter while
| getting his cheques marked. On turning round
q few seconds later both were gone
A special from Laramie says a man named A,
c. Angelo was found dead beside the Union Pa
citlc track Saturday morning He had been run
over by the cars and ended his life by shooting
himself through the hesd. The man II probably
| AnhHAu ~ ha 7
pool Courier, who was with Prince Napoleon In
Zululand wheh the latter was killed, and had
been writing up the West.
The ItatIan police have broken up q society at
Rome called the association OF malefs ctors"
which had accumulated 100000 francs by bur.
glary and forgery, the members living in lordly
fashion on the division Of the spOllS. 1t was this
society that committed the theft on the national
bank OF Syracuse and issued false shares Of tn
public consols. One Of lis members was taken
up as he was lsughingly talking with the perfect
about the society.
Ex-Governor Bgler died in Clearfeld, Penn.
| sylVania, Monday.
A caisson has to bs built before the bodies Of
the men killed In the Hudson river tunnel can
be rescued,
Secretary Ramsey thinks .hi the whitaker case
will be disposed Of within the next few days.
Pilot Bluff and Captain George D. Horn, Of the
steamer Garland, which, which ran down the
steam yacht Mamie on the Detroit river drown.
ing seventeen persons, have at the conclusion Of
the inquest been arrested for manslaughter. They
we're promptly bailed.
London Truth finds little laughter on the stage
Girls make grlmaces when they laugh, It does
not like to see q half inch ofplnk gum pass for a
laugh,
A shrewd farm hand bought for Sl6O the big
meteor which fell in Emmit county, Iowa, last
year. and was laughed at by his comrades He
has now sold 1t to the British Museum for s65OO.
Lady Cowper, the ancient Udads dame who has
Just died in England, was sixth in descent from
Frances Cromwell, daughter Of the great Proteo.
| tor and widow OF Lord Rich