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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26
TRUTH TO BE EVER REMEMBERED.


Three Years Ago.
Resolved By the House Of Representatives
of the United States That it is the duty
of the House to declare, and this House
does hereby solemnly declare, that Sam
uel ]. Tilden, Of New York, received one
hundred and ninety.six electoral votes
for the Office of President of the United
States, all of which votes were cast and
lists thereof signed, certified and trans
mitted to the seat of Government, di'
rected to the President of the Senate, in
conformity with the Constitution and
laws of the United States, by electors le-
gally eligible and qualified as such elect
ors, each of whom had been duly ap.
pointed and elected in a manner direct
ed by the legislature Of the State in and
for which he cast his vote as aforesaid /;
and that said Samuel J, Tilden having thus
received the vote of a majority of the electors
appointed as aforesaid, he waS thereby duly
elected President of the United States of Amer
ica, for the term of four gears, commencimy
on the Alb of March, A. D., 1877 and this
House further declares that Thomas A.
Hendricks, having received the same
number Of electoral votes for the office OF
Vice President of the United States that
we're cast for Samuel J. Tilden for Presie
dent as aforesaid the said votes having
been cast for him by the same persons
who voted for the said Tilden for Presi,
dent as aforesaid, and at the same time
and in the came manner it is the opin'
ion of this House that Tie said Thomas A.
Hendricks, of the State of Indiana, oOaS duly
elected Vice President of the United States for
a term of four gears, commencing on the 4th
dag of March, A. D., 1877. If.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26

after his entrance into public life. And
he met it as he has always met every,
public question, boldly, maniully' ana
without eyincisg the slightest desire to
dodge or equivocate on this question. de
attacked It as dangerous, damnable
heresy. He denounced 1t as utterly un-
American in inception and idea, and as
unworthy of any true man. He did this,
too, in the face of the almost universal
success of this doctrine in every section
ofIndiana. He made the canvass against
Know -Nothingism when it was danger
GUS. II required phi y sical bravery OF the
highest order. He went to the canvass
carrying his life in his hands in this
much vaunted peace. loving North. But
it required higher order of bravery,
that of moral courage which dares to
face q mob, to meet the advocates ofpop-
ular ideas, and, meeting them, to bear
down their every argument, to present
public questions upon their merits, and
to battle for principle. And he made
the contest strong and fierce, and he
made it only to win. When every other
Democratic member of Congress of In
diana, save one, was subjected to defeat
by the adherents Of this heresy, Mr..
English was re. elected again and again
by increased majorities. His Constitu.
ents appreciated the fact that he had
fought boldly against the most danger
GUS idea which ever acquired hold up,
on American soil. 1t was his bold fight
over this question which first drew at;
tention to him as a strong, well. balanced
nan, who never surrendered to pestilent
idea-a man who possessed that conser-
vative spirit, and yet that devotion to
the principles which underlie our form
of government, which 60 to make the
statesman. It is we'll that our people
should be reminded again of the strug-
gle he made for an idea in the past. 1t
is but promise, an earnest of what the
man will do in the future.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26
MIR. ENGLIsH's RECORD.
Gallant Fight Of the Democratic Nominee fol
Vice President Against Know NOthlngism.
Cincinnati Enquirerl

Cincinnati Enquirerl
Oul citizens of foreign birth have par
ticular reason to be proud Of Mr.. Eug-
lish, aud to give him their support, 1t
is to him hardly less than any other man
in the country that they owe the full and
final recognition Of tneir equal right with
native born citizens to all the blessings of
our institutions.
1t was lie who was foremost in the
struggle against the worst and narrowest
of ideas, Know Nothingism. He was
the friend of the foreign born citizen
when prejndices and passions were
strongest against him-when they were
lashed into fury by scheming dema-
gogues, and when the idea had taken a
hold upon the people of the country, the
strength OF grip Of which has never been
equaled by any other idea, Men who
were liberal in other matters were big.
oted in their treatment of the foreigner.
They professed to see in the rapid peep-
ling of the country from foreign shores
latent and terrible dangers, and in their
yea! they were carried to the most ex-
treme lengths. Voters of this genera
ton can hardly understand the intens-
ity of the opposition to foreigners which
ragged from 1852 to 1858. Public men
surrendered to it and attempted to lead
it for their own advancement. Whole
States threw off their allegiance to the
whole Wing party to give their adhesion
to this most pernicious of ideas. In Iu-
diana, especially, this sentiment became
most fierce. The secret, oath-bound or
ganization was everywhere. 1t preva
ded every town and ward ard voting
precinct. 1t formed mobs to inhict the
worst personal violence upon unofend
ing men, whose only crime was birth in
a foreign land. 1t burned down dwell
ings over the heads of innocent women
and children. It's frenzy did not stop
short of wanton, unprovoked murder
Foreigners were assaulted when quietly
at work on the highway or in the shop
or mandatory. They were denied work
for no other reason than that they frs
saw the light in Ireland, or Germany, OF
France, or some land beyond the seas
1t was this condition Of affairs int
which Mr.. English was projected soor
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26
PENNSYLVANIA DEITsH.
prser fun Pit sehretrslDrenner.

Schliffeltown, Aug. der 2St, $50.
Mister Drooker--Well, de silva dawg
sin u, un ich hob my fnfun.tzwansich
dawler OILS noch net, un iCh suspect aw.
fongs os Sc mich ON end drous b'sheisa.
Aver der Bill Bixler insist druf os ich
noch while tzl der party shticka set,
for ar bahawpt os wann ich aw fulshter
nivver g@ uf de onner side, don w@r me-
mond mae ivverich uf der Republican
side os yusht ar un der George Riser,
seller os de mail trawgd, un dino date
seller grose meilich ding, der Bill Bifile-
moyer ivverall tzu de lett sawga os all de
Republicans in schliheltown der Han
cock club gJoined hen except tzw@ Unit
ed States Office holders - der Pusht
Mashter un der mail carrier, aver so
long os ich dertzu shtick kenna sc sell
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26

especially subjected. The first of all is
sBepticism, Controversy is the lifetime
business of that occupation. Controver.
sy may be incid ntal or accidental with
u, but with them it is perpetual. You
get so used to pushing the sharp ques.
ton, "Why?" and making unaided rea-
son superior to the emotions, that the
religion of Jesus Christ, which is sim.
pie matter of faith, and above human
reason has but little chance with some.
A brilliant orator of the Republican
party in the last Presidential campaign
is foe of Christianity, and wrote book
on the first page of which he announced
this sentiment: IAN honest God is the
noblest work of mani" SkeptiCism is
the mightiest temptation of the legal
profession, and that man who can stand
in that profession, resisting all solicits-
tions to inf lelity, and can be as brave
as George Briggs of Massachusetts,, who
stepped from the Gubernatorial chair to
the Missionary convention to plead the
cause of dying race; then, on his way
home from the convention on cold day
took off his coat and threw it over the
shoulders of thin clad missionary, say.
ing: "Take that and wear it, it will do
you more good than it will me-" or like
John Mclean, who can step from the
Supreme Courtroom of the United S ates
to the anniversary platform of the Anne.
ricsn Sunday school Union, its most
brilliant orator, deserves congratulate N
and encomium. Oh, men of the legal
profession, let me beg Of you to quit ask
ing questions in regard to religion, and
begin believing. The mighty men Of
your profession, Story, Kent and Mans
field became Christians, not through
their heads but through their hearts.
Except as ye become as little child,
ye shall nowise enter the kingdom ei
God" II you do not become Christ.
ian, 0 man Of the legal profession, until
you can reason this whole thing out in
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26
M0rHERs sHOnLn REMRMRRR rims.

DR., crumpton's Strawberry Balsam Is the best
fruit medicine ever discovered for promptly
checking all running Oh at the bowels, summer
complaints, etc. Intelligent people should insist
on their druggist getting this medicine for them
and take no other.
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30
Taxes AND AssEss1fkNrs.

Changes Made by the State Board OF Equal
1zation In CouRty AssessInent-The State
Tax, Etc.
The work of the State Board Of Equalization
having been completed it appears that the az
sessments for taxation in Mlnnnsota amounts
to about $257, 600, 900, of which $54 000, 600 il
the valuation of personal property, above the
SlOO exemption of each tax payer, which exemp-
tion aggregates not less than S12, ,0O0, 900. The
amount of real property exempt from direct
taxation, including public lands and buildings,
school, church and railway property, cannot be
stated or estimated at present with any ap-
proach to accuracy. And as the assessment.
are greatly under the real value of property, il
would be difficult to closely estimate the wealth
IT the State. But the decrease In the rate of
taxation serves to indicate the rapid increase
Of wealth-the fact being that the one and
eighteenth mill tax of this year will produce
ss large revenue as the two and q quarter
mill tax did 9 few years ago,
The legislature authorized two mill tax for
his year, but the amount of money needed
lsill be provided with rate two-tenths of
tail lower. Except for the legislature meet
ing this winter not more than q one mill tax
would be needed and the state auditor now es-
Inmates that it will never again be necessary to
levy more than q one mill tax for carrying on
ihe State government. For one
hing, the commutation tax paid by
ailway companies on their earnings in lien of
MI other taxes is increasing rapidly. This
year their payments will amount to about
s27O, 600 and the insurance companies will pay
$50, 600 more.
The changes made by the State board of
equalization in the Sssessme nts of real estate
n the several counties are as follows:
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30
That Particular Night,

Recently, man charged with steal
ing chickens was arraigned before an Ar
kansas Circuit Court. The proof against
him was pretty strong, and when the
Prosecuting Attorney arose he showed
exactly how the defendant lifted the
chickens from the roost. He described
the surroundings and the excited haste
OF the prisoner, until the charged man
arose and said
"Jedge, I reckon you'll let me say o
few words" No objection was ex-
pressed, and the man continued "Jest
sign me down guilty"
"Do you plead guilty ?"
reckon I'd Jest as well. This fell
Ter is determined that I did steal the
chickens, an ruther than dispute his
word, fur he seems to be clever sort Of
feller, I'll let it go his way"
The question is, did You steal the
chickens ?"
No, Jedge, l was at prar-meetin' on
that night, an can prove it, but ruther
than make the young feller feel bad I'll
let him have his way"
You say you were at prayer-meeting
on that night?"
Yes, SIR"
Which night ?"
I" Why, on the night I stole the
chickens.
Ten minutes after his declaration he
was sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years.
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The Lake City, Wabashaw county,
Mimi, Union FaiDclosed successful three
days exhibition September %.
The tri-State talr at Toledo Ohio,
closed September 1S. Over 76OOO admission
tickets were sold during the fair.
More than halt the horses in Boston,
Mass, and suburbs, are suffering from dis
temper resembling mild form.of the epizoe-
tic of 1872, and israpidly spreading.
The national conference of the Unita-
rian and other christian churches. began its
biennial session in Saratoga, N. Y, on the
evening of Sept 81 with large attendance.
The mining trouble at Corning, Ohio,
has not yet culminated. Miners continue to
congregate, and the militia are still on guard
and other militia companies are en- route for
the scene Of the disturbance.
By the failure of the Cantwell publish
ing company ct Cincinnati, Ohio, The Star Of
the West, the organ OF the Universalist church
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30

death is the soundest of all sleeps. for
there is no awakening from It'll And so
he told you he loved you-you, not me |
What do you know of love9 What does
he know Of loves It is / who loves-I-
I-IY' and her voice rose shrill and high.
~ am going to kill you," she continued,
after q moments pause. HE cannot
love you then. He will forget you, and
then it will be my turn"
But the spell was broken. With one
wild, piercing, echoing cry for help l
flung aside the bed-clothes and sprang to
the floor.
Then came a sharp, fierce blow, an
agonizing pain, and then came darkness,
oblivion.
1t was twilight when I came to my
senses. The curtains were drawn, and
bright fire crackled in the CRATE.
Vaguely wondering as to what had
happened, I attempted to sit up, but the
only result of the exertlon was a weary
moan of anguish.
A gentle voice addressed me soothing,
and Mrs. Morton leaned over nae, and slip
ping her arm under the pillew lifted me
up and gave me some cooling beverage
to drink. I fell asleep directly, and
when I awoke again gray days light was
creeping in at the window, and nurse
was sitting by my side.
''Thank Heavenl' she calculated, Ter
vently, as I teebly raised my hand. "Ahl
but you are better now, my lamb"
Shave been ill9" I whispered.
ga little dearie," she answered, ten
derly stroking my hair.
"But-but what Is it? Why am not
at home?''
Hush my pretty. You mustn't talk
any more now. Lie still, and another
time you shall hear all about it.''
All, me what weary days, what weary
weeks, those were that 1 had to lie still.
Waking and sleeping, was haunted by
half delirious visions OF that dreadful
night. could not bear to 6e left alone
for even few minutes. A fiitterlng
shadow in the corner, fold of drapery,
would nearly send me into Mysteries.
At last, when the birds were blythely
carolling welcome to the spring, and
trees and hedgerows were bursting into
leaf, l was carried from my bed to sofa
in an adjoining room, and from that
time my recovery was more rapid.
Harvest was just over when Rupert
and I were quietly married al the village
church. The winter following we spent
abroad, papa joining us at Nice in Octo-
Der, and accompanying us on the remain
der of our travels.
Isabella Saloni is in private asylum
near London. Insanity, it appeared on
inquiry, was hereditary in her family,
though the fact had always been kept
secret. Poor, poor girl! I only think of
her with intense compassion and pity.
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30

out to his assistance, and he was rescued in @
very exhausted condition.
A special from Quebec Sept. 18, says
the brush fires of Parish st. George Bruce, are
reported to have committed fearful ravages.
SeveR or eight square miles of country is de-
vastated near the frontier, and q large quanti-
ty Of timber and grain, besides houses and
other buildings burnt Brush fires are raging
within few miles of Batterseau. Other fires
are raging in different parts Of the country,
and much valuable timber will be destroyed.
The fires in Russell and Ottawa counties con-
tinue and rain is badly needed.
A Des MONS, Iowa. telegram of Sep
tember % says Levi johnson of Norten
county, Kansas, is here soliciting aid for Phil
ips, Sherman, Decatur. Sheridan, Rapids and
other counties. In Norton county eighteen
hundred people are in absolute want of food.
The wheat crop in all the above counties
failed, and in June was Plowed up and planted
tocorn which was destroyed by the web worm.
johnson says one family lived eleven weeks
on wheat bran, and an other three weeks on
corn meal. He says the local State papers
suppress these facts as it will injure the State.
A public meeting is called this evening to
procure supplies for these people. -
A Mrs. 8. s. Harris, who has been q
guest at the Merchants Hotel in st. Paul,
Minn., since September 3, on Saturday, Sept.
IS, ordered a spirited livery team to ride
about the city with some lady acquaintances.
She prided herself on her ability to drive wild
teams. The lady friends who ventured into
the carriage with her became frightened at
the spirited action of the hon ses, and were
permitted, at their earnest solicition, to leave
the carriage, soon after which the horses got
beyond the control of Mrs. Harris, ran down
Robert street at fearful rate, collided with a
wood wagon and threw Mrs, Harris to the
sidewalk with great violence. She was taken
up in an unconscious condition, and carried to
her lodgings at the hotel, where she died on
Sunday night, Sept 19, never having recovered
consciousness. She played the role of lady
of wealth, but who she was or VINO her rela-
tives are, if she has any, is not known. Since
her death her trunks have been examined. but
offorded no clue. kilograms have been sent to
various points. but no information has been
gained. During her stay at the hotel she con-
Quoted herself in a lady like manner. Time
will doubtless remove the mystery that now
surrounds the case.
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30
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First Glass Facilities for dob work.

George Jones had the glory of perpetrat-
ing the first joke on him. He gave him
cigar with fire-cracker in it, and then
winked at the crowd to come: the thing
exploded presently, and swept away the
bulk of Nicodemus' eyebrows and eye
lashes. He simply said
| Il consider them kind of seeg' wars
dangersome,' and seemed to suspect
nothing. The next evening Nicodemus
waylaid George and poured bucket of
ice water over him.
One day, while Nicodemus was in
swimming, Tom McElroy tied his
clothes. Nicodemus made bonfire of
Toms by way of retaliation.
A third joke was played upon Nicode-
mus day or two later-he walked up the
middle aisle of the village church, Sun
day night, with staring handbill pinned
behind his shoulders. The Joker spent
the remainder Of the night, after church,
in the cellar of deserted house. and Mic
odemus sat on the cellar door till to-
wards breakfast time, to make sure that
the prisoner remembered that if any
noise was made, some rough treatment
would be the consequence. The cellar
had two feet of stagnant water in it, and
was bottomed with six inches of soft mud.
But wander from the point. It was
the subject of skeletons that brought this
boy back to my recollection. Before q
very long time had elapsed the village
smarties began to feel an uncomfortable
consciousness of not having made shin
ing success out of their attempts on the
simpleton of 'Old Shelby Experiment
ers grew scarce and chary. Now the
young doctor came to the rescue. There
was delight and applause when he pro-
posed to them OF frightening Nicodemus
to death, and explain how he was going
to do 1t. He had noble new skeleton
of the late and only local cele-
lage drunka1d-s grizzly piece of prop
perty which he had bought of Jimmy
Finn himself, at auction, for fifty dol
lars, under great competition, when jim
my lay very sick in the lanyard fort
night before his death. The fifty dollars
had gone promptly for whiskey. and had
considerably hurried up the change OF
ownership in the skeleton. The doctor
would put Jimmy Finn's skeleton in
Nicodemus's bed
This was done-about half past ten
in the evening. About Nicodemus's
usual bed time-midnight- the village
jokers came stealing stealthily throug gh
weeds and sunfowers towards the lonely
framed den. They reached the window
and peeped in.
There sat the great, long LEGGED pauper
on the bed, in a very short SHIRT and no.
thing more; he was dangling his legs con-
tentedly back and forth. and wheeling
the music OF "Camptown Races out of q
paper overlaid comb which he was press
ing against his mouth; by him lay new
jewsharp, new top, solid India-rubber
ball, handful of painted marbles, five
pounds of store candy, and a well-gnaw-
ed slab of gingerbread as big and thick
as volume of sheet music. He had sold
the skeleton to travelling quack for
three dollars, and was enjoying the result!
-M1rE IaodGn.
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30
BETTER Than Expected.

A crowd composed mostly of farmers
got to talking politics in hotel barn,
and the dispute grew so hot that two OF
the party came to blows. The affair had
just ended when an old man drove up in
a wagon, and he was at once informed
that his son George had been in fight.
Has he? Has he? And did he have
fair show ?" JF9oH
Yes s8I5Sbk
sit was square work, was it ?"
IT was, and your boy got licked"
"Noa p 3T.
Yes, he did. In three minutes he
was cleaned right out and used up"
Did he make an Apology"
He did,"
And said he was in the wrong%
eyes.
"And did he leave the barn on the
run? ?"
No: he walked over to the drug
store.'
Walked, ehl Bully for Georgel 1t
did make me feel little bad to hear he
was bounced, but the most / feared was
that he had started on the run for home
and leftme to load two barrels Of salt. :
Morris tribune., 1880-09-30

INCREASE OF OTHER ARTICLES.
On materials and manufactured articles
Goodhue and Houston counties are raised 50
per cent.
Mower county Ia raised 669s, Brown
so and Stevens 25 per cent. on shares of bank
stock.
Steele county is increased 100 per cent. on
elevators, and Hennepin, Houston and Waseca
counties so per cent. each on elevators, The
elevator in the village of Richland, Waseca
county, is increased 800 per cent, while the
one at Kasota goes up 100 per cent.
REDUCTIONS.
The following is the per cent. of decrease on
horses under three years: Grow Wing, ~;
Kanabec, 331s; Pine. 90; Watonwan, 10. On
horses three years and over: Becker, 10; Grow
Wing and Kanabec. 10; Clay, Otter Tail, Pine,
Washington and WilkiD, per cent.
Martin county has decrease of 20 per cent.
on cattle. on cows, 10 on melodeons and
gans, and 10 on pianos.
Carlton and Kittson counties are reduced 80
psr cent. on COWS, Grow Wing, 25; Rock, Is;
Lake and Marshall, 10; Martin, So.
Clay AMI Grow Wing are reduced Is per cent.
on mules, and KittsOn 10 per cent.
The following is the decrease on the assess