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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01
STEAMER LOST.
The BOrussia Abandoned at sea-SurVIVOrS Lam
ded at Queenstown.

The B0ruBsla Abandoned az SeA-SurVlVOrS Ian
ded at Queenstown.
London, Dec. 25.-Part of the crew Of
the steamer Borussia, from Liverpool,
Nov. goth, for New Orleans, has been
landed at Queenstown. The Borussia
was abandoned in sinking condition on
the I'd inst.
The portion of the ships company of
the abandoned steamer Borussia landed
at Queenstown to-day, consisted of The
chief engineer, doctor, boatswain, and
six seamen. They were picked up on
the 9TH inst, in an open boat. The Bo.
russia had 18O passengers, of which
105 embarked at Liverpool and 75 at Co.
runna. The crew numbered 81 men. Af-
ter leaving Corunns, the oath of Novem.
Der, the Borussia experienced terrific
weather, and sprang leak December
1st. The severity of the weather in.
Creasing, the vessel was abandoned on
the 22d, about $50 miles southwest of
Fayal. The captain and second officer
remained with the sinking steamer. The
crew and passengers left her in eleven
boats. The survivors have no hope for
the other boats. Before they were stran
ded one boat was Cspsized and all the
occupants drowned.
Queenstown, Dec. 25.-The survivors
of the Borussia started Immediately for
Liverpool. 1t appears that panic oc-
cured among the passengers and crew.
The passengers state that no order was
given by the officers to launch the boat.
The crew themselves lowered the boats
without waiting for orders. About a
dozen passengers got into the boats with
part of the crew. The remainder of the
passengers went down in the vessel with
the captain, second mate, eleven fremen
three engineers, three stewards, the car
penter and two boys. One boat swamp.
ed alongside the steamer, and its occu.
pants, five men, were drowned. The
survivors state that at o'clock on the
night of the abandonment of the vessel
they .saw rocket ascend from the
steamer, and soon after her masthead
lights suddenly disappeared.
Liverpool, Dec. 25.-The survivors
from the Borussia report that the captain
and the majority Of the crew remained
on board the vessel. Only sixty persons
left in the boats.
A Cork dispatch reports that 1874 per.
sons were aboard the Borussia. The
captain on seeing that all efforts to save
the vessel would be useless, ordered the
boats to be got ready, some RATS prepar-
ed, and the necessaries provided. The
vessel was abandoned at night, there be.
ing then ten or eleven feet Of water in
the engine room. Four or five boats
were lowered about the same time, but
owing to darkness and heavy sea, they
soon lost sight Of each other,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

Ex Gov. MOVES of this State, and now
Hayes's minister to France, is reported
as saying he will return next spring to
take hand in the Presidential canvass
He will not resign bis position, but con-
tinue to draw $17, 500 per annum in gold.
He was one of the Republican states
men who went South to look after
Hayes's interests in 1875. He is having
fine time, for he spent the hot summer
months in cool Sweden and Norway,
and as the cold weather comes on, he is
about to start for three months tour
through sunny Egypt, where he will
bask in the sunshine of the Nile. This
excursion will be ended in time for him
to return home. Noyes, itseems, spends
nearly the entire year away from his
post but he gets the $l7500 all the
same-and it is likely he is not missed
in Paris,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

WE know of case where loyal Re-
publican, originally from Pennsylfany,
was candidate for the nomination Of
city marshal, having served on the po-
lice force for some years. Abe, for we
shall so designate him, polled the town,
and was confident of the nomination
but when the votes were counted, Abe
fell short badly, in fact, several hundred.
Next morning, in his honest indigna.
ton, Abe declared-"Th was more as
five hundred dam liars in this town."
At the way we hear Republicans swear
against Grant, declaring they will not
vote for him if he is nominated, Ulysses
could not carry Ohio, unless they are
like Abe's Republican friends here.
These gentlemen seem to be quite sin.
cere in their hostility to Grant and a
third term, but they may be whipped in
and submit, like good little boys. They
do not like third term; they don't rel
ish the monarChial appearance they re-
member the unsavory corruptions of
Grants eight years Of administration,
and we are sure that now they mean as
they say.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01
Canton, Dec. "a, 1879.

THE Union Dam is no more. The
Grand Jury having pronounced it a nui-
sance, the case was tried to the Court,
and jury, 30 Judge Meyer ordered the
nuisance abated, and ordered Sher'
if Rauch to carry out the mandate.
The Sheriff accordingly proceeded with
force to let off the water gradually, SC
as not to overflow the lands down stream
or do damage. The waters by Monday
were pretty well run off. and the numer'
GUS fish were confined to close quarters,
and bushels of large, fine bass and other
fish were captured.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

A PATENT.-Hon. D. T. Lawson oi
Wellsville, gentleman of varied attain
ments, has been granted letters patent
for, "Means for preventing explosions in
Steam Boilers" The Scientific american
expresses the judgment of its able pub
fishers, Messrs. Mum & Co., by saying,
Mr.. Lawson's invention lis possessed OF
great merit, based on correct principles,
and will accomplish what is claimed for
It,"
Mr.. Lawson is also taking out patents
in foreign countries; and has already
sold half interest in France, and is
about selling like interest in Great
Britain. The secret is not yet public,
and will not be till his patents are prop
erly secured in foreign countries. 1t
seems Mr.. Lawson has been engaged in
studying the causes of steam boiler ex.
plosions for thirty years, claiming that
erroneous views were generally enter
tanned,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

ACCORDING to Hon. E, F. Pillsbury, a
leading lawyer Of Maine, the action Of
Gov. Garcelon and the Council, compos-
ed of two Democrats and five Republi-
can Greenbackers was: l. Made man
datory by the Constitution and Nhe lave.
2. 1t was in accord with Supreme Court
decisions rendered by a Republican
Court. 8. 1t was in the strict line of
abundance of Republican preCedents
during the last twenty.three years. 4.
1t was sanctioned by the advice Of the
most eminent lawyers of the State, and
on the only point brought into court con-
frmed by Republican Judge.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

THE survey of the Baltimore, Pitts.
burgh & Chicago R. R., route progresses
favorably, j. r. Straughn, chief engi.
neer of the company, has reached a
point seven miles west of New Lisbon,
and from the mouth of the Big Beaver
in Pennsylvania, where he commenced,
has found the grades favorable; the
maximum being only thirty.one feet to
the mile. Mr.Straughn may have reach
ed Bayard by this time, which Was an
objective point, and will proceed thence
west down the Sandy valley to Beach city
and by way of Apple creek to Wooster
From Wooster it is proposed to run the
line to Ashland by way Of Jeromeville ;
from Ashland to Shiloh, from Shiloh to
Plymouth, the termination being sta.
ton on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
and five or six miles south of Chicago
Junction.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01
THE GAS QUESTION.

The Council last week cut down the
gas bill, on the plea that there was too
much gas burned. The committee in
their report did not claim the gas was
not burned, for that is matter Of record
by the meters.
1t is quite possible, as during Novem-
Der, there were many cloudy days, that
more hours Of gas were burned than US.
ual, or than otherwise would have been.
And it is matter Of plain fact, that a
five foot burner may burn six or seven
feet per hour. 1t is also true that bur.
ner on a meter post is not likely to burn
so much gas as burner that has no me-
ter connection, az the meter obstructs
somewhat the free passage of the gas.
We append an extract from Mr.. Ray
nolds's article in the Repository Of last
week, which speaks for itself:
$50 far as we know, all the burners on
the public lamps are the same size. The
city furnished them and put them all on.
For years we have urged the lamp'light-
ers to keep all the burners clean and
turn all on full, as we want the city well
lighted. We claim the right to keep the
burners on the meter posts clean, and
have done so, as we'll as frequently clean
ing other burners.
We have four public lamp meter posts,
and the charge against our company Of
boring out meter lamR burners, or tam
pering with lamp lights. is absolutely
false, and seems too absurd for reply;
but for the satisfaction Of the committee
and the Council, we lyolttd like 10 haze all
the burners taken off and cleaned, and
all tested in the presence Of the commit
tee and Council, or any expert they may
select on the test meter in our Office, or
any other test meter the committee or
Council may select And although the
burden of proof is on the Council, yet we
will pay half the cost of such test, and
will do the same in testing the meters
for we challenge the most rigid examin-
alton. We have in several instances
submitted to our Council cutting down
our bills for work done on the streets,
and in small way cutting down our gas
bills, rather than have controversy.
May it not be possible, Mr. Editor, that
the Wholesale fling and wholesale cut
ting down now under discussion, is the
result of our tame submission. Hoping
that this statement will bring the COM
mittee aud the Council to better state
of mind, We close.
JNo, F. RAYNoLDs."
Canton, Dec. "a, 1879.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

ACCORDING to the Tribune Almanac,
surely good Republican authority, the
Democratic voters of the United States
considerably outnumber the Republican
voters of the United States. The figures
given by the Tribune for the last Presi-
dental electors are:
Democratic vote 1924, ,265; Republican
vote 4.O33 295; Greenback vote 8l,737 3;
Prohibitionist 1922. Democratic ma.
jority over all 159711.
Good American citizens will acquiesce
in the deCislons OF the majority, the un'
derlying and vital principle of Repub.
lie, from which is no appeal but to force,
the vital principle of despotisms.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

OLD Hannibal Hamlin Of Maine, was
for years Democratic United States
Senator from Maine and changed, so as
to sail along on the radical wave of anti.
slavery and continue in the Senate, The
next Legislature of Maine must choose
his successor and he, of course, wanted
to succeed himself. The way Garcelon
and Council have counted it lceks bad
for old Hannibal, and hence his sharp
ened condition. He is round stumping,
and bowling for blood. The ends Of his
old spike,tail coat fairly snap. 1t ia
about time the old cuss was turned out
to grass.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

THE report is that a priest has been
sentenced to death in Turkey, for trans.
latiDg the Christian Bible into the Turk
ish tongue. The British minister, Mr..
Layard, has demanded his release, and
the dismissal of the chiefof police Of An.
CORA, who ordered the arrest. Mr.. Lay.
ard threatened to suspend diplomatic
communication with the Porte, if the
demands were not complied with. A
little medicine Of this kind is good for
religious bigotry.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

IT is claimed that if the votes cast fol-
&c, N. Potter" and for "Clarkson M. Pot.
ter" had not been thrown out under a
strict construction of the law, and had
been counted for Clarkson N. Potter, for
whom they were clearly intended, Mr.
Potter would have been elected Lieut..
Governor of New York. This was done
by county canVassers of Republican
counties. We hear of no howl from the
Republican party about this technicality
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

THE Grant programme is that he will
soon leave fol Cuba, and thence to Mex
leo, to remain away till June. On his
return it is expected to boom New York.
On June Sd the Republican National
Convention is to meet in Chicago. The
Grant manipulators are trying to fix the
thing up for his kingly majesty An ar.
istocracy must have crowned head,
and our moneyed aristoCracy want
Grant All hail. King Grant,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

THE organized army of Maine consists
of the Governor, who is commander.in.
chief, one Major General, two Brigadiers
two Colonels, two Majors, whole list Of
Captains and Lieutenants, and all the
way eight hundred privateS, rank and file
If the Republican rebels there get up a
fight, Gov. Garceloh cannst count upon
the soldiery. Blaine, Hamlin, Frye &
Co., will have to take the field. No dod.
ging this time for the Blaines and Ham
Inns
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

ROYAL CowLEs, jeweler IN Cleveland,
went amissing aborts year ago, and was
found few days ago at an asylum at.St.
Clairsville, and identified. Mr.. Cowles
had become insane, and could not give
his name and residence. The physician
of the asylum wrote an account of the
case for the press, and in this way his
friends learned of his whereabouts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

TEE anti.Grant Republicans of Penn.
sylvania are angry at Don Cameron's
haste in having the delegates to their
National convention chosen, the time
being early in February. The Republi-
cans opposed to the third term candi-
date in Indiana are also indignant at
the haste in that State, their State con-
vention being called for Feb. 25th. The
Grant tricksters are in a hurry to push
things.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

"a HAPPY New YEAR." is to-day the
common salutation, and we also thus sa-
lutte our readers. The year 1880 is big
with fate to the country. The Presiden.
tial contest will largely engross the at
tention of the American People. May
it be conducted and result in the inter-
est of Truth and Justice; and thus pro.
mote the prosperity and happiness of
the people "Let all the ends thou aims't
at be thy Country's, thy Gods and
Truths"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

BELKNAP, it seems, is east, and on
Wednesday had a long, private confer
enCe with Grant at Philadelphia, and
went to the Union League rooms in the
evening, accompanied by Secor Robin.
son, another of them. Belknap, it will
be remembered, was Grants plundering
Secretary of War, and escaped impeach.
ment and punishment because Grant &C.
cepted his resignation. In this and 9TH
or ways Grant screened and protected
his guilty and corrupt associates.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

REPUBLICAN papers admit that the
Germans are opposed to Grant. Indeed
comparatively few adopted citizens are
in favor of an American aristocracy,
with kingly military head. They know
the danger of such an arrangement. An
American poet, SAKE, says:
"a bridge across hundred years
mot even q couple OF rotten peers,
"a thing for laughter, fleers and jeers,"
Is American aristocracyl
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

Mr.. CowLEs of the Cleveland Leader,
was in Washington city recently, and
Gen. Boynton, correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, wrote up an interview.
The Leader editor says he "never uttered
a single sentiment contained in that dis
patch )" and "the whole was the creation
of the fertile lying brains Of General
Boynton." Mr.. Cowles finds out how
this interviewing goes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

NEXT week the solons of Ohio assem-
BILE at Columbus to legislste. About the
first piece of business after organizing
will bs to elect United States Senator
to succeed Senator Thurman. March 4th,
1881 opening and footing the returns,
and declaring who are elected to State
positions will also be attended to after
which the serious business Of enaCting
laws will be engaged in.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

THE editorial we" of the Daily Re.
pOsitory, Mr.. Walter E. Wellmsn, was
married on the afternoon of Wednesday
of last week, to Miss Laura McCann of
our city. Reverend Miller of the 1st M.
f. church officiating The happy pair
started that evening on a western tour.
May their shadows improve and multi
ply and Mr.. We'll man thus be better
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

Gov. BISHOP announced on Friday,
last week, that he would receive no more
applications for pardon. He had then
on file 1872 applications, which he desir-
ed to examine thoroughly, deeming 1t
not right to let them run over for Gov.
Foster. More pardons may therefore
be looked for.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

REPRESENTATIVE I. c. Snyder, Of
Waynesburgh, has departed for Colum-
bus, to assume the duties of law maker,
kindly taking Canton on his way. We
hope he will prove a wise and noble So.
lon. 1t is understood he stands by "ul-
innate Free Trade" Garfield.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

GAs.-Let all gassing on the gas bust.
ness be suspended, and 60 into a thor
ough investigation and test the meters
and burners. We would also suggest
that the gas committee of the Council
keep record of the meters as we'll as
the gas company. Do this and have
less gassing,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The Firth OF Tay railway disaster is
the only one on record with not q single
survivor. In the history Of disasters at
sea, many Instances are found Of such
total exiermination, but in railroading,
only this one.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The glorious 9th of January will be
duly celebrated as usual at Wooster, by
the gallant Democracy of Wayne county.
Hons. L. E, Cunningham Of Lima, Sam
uel Hunt Of Cincinnati, B. F. Nelson Of
Akron, and A. D. Metz of Wooster, are
the regular orators for the occasion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The Valley railway company, we learn
from the Akron Beacon, has refused thus
far to combine with other roads as to
rates on freight into Cleveland, espec-
tally coal. We trust the company will
remain free from all dangerous entangle.
ments and combinations. The danger.
GUS tendency is to monopoly.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The surrender of the Democracy in
1875, to avoid civil war, may have in
duced many Of our Republican friends
to regard and treat us as cowardly. Ham
lin, Blaine, Frye 6 Co., imagine they
can scare Garcelon and the rest, and SO
succeed with their schemes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

soME years ago in Louisiana, Grant,
when President, made the Legislature
of Louisiana Republican, by ordering
Gen. d'Trobriand to expel five Demo.
Gratis who we're elected, and admit five
Radicals who were not. Blaine, Ham.
lin & Co., said amen to this, and this is
why they want Grant again.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

Gov. GARcELoN's order to remove the
arms from Bangor was carried out on
Tuesday, without opposition or disturb.
ance. The streets were lined with citi-
zens, looking on as the teams passed
through the streets to the depot.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

FULL returns Of the vote of Louisiana
show majorities of 59,O72 for the new
Constitution; 9O,751 for Wiltz, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor; and 13-
976 for the Debt ordinance. The Senate
will contain 81 Democrats and 5 Repub-
licans; the House, 76 Democrats, II Re.
publicans, 2 Independents and l Green.
backer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

TIE Repository still maintains that Gar.
field is a "high protectionist," notwith-
standing his votes in favor of free coal
and reduced duty on iron, and. his be-
ing in favor Of ultimate free trade"
No leader does wrong in "the party of
great moral IDEAS"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

WE do not expect civil war in Maine,
Notwithstanding the fact that there are
bellicose Maine preachers anxious to
raise the devil. His satanic majesty has
his agents abroad, and these are ofthem.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The Bangor, Maine, Republicans want
the arms handy, and hence the mob pre-.
vented the removal of the arms from the
srmory, despite the order Of Governor
GaFcelon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

AT Portland, Me-, on Tuesday evening
an immense meeting was held to sustain
Gov. Garcelon. Sullivan G. Andrews
presided, Congressman Ladd and Murch
spoke vigorously, and after them L. D,
NJ. Sweet made long address, and Hon.
F. M. Fogg of the Governors Council,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

GEN JAS. B. STEEDMAN of the Toledo
democrat, had a recent interview with
Mr., Tilden, in which the latter says as
to the Presidency, he 'is in the hands of
the Democratic party" This means, of
course, he is willing to be reelected.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

THE Valley railway superintendent
Sam Briggs, returned from Urbana the
other day, where he had been to inspect
the passenger cars bought for his road
He found them all right.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

In speaking of Hayes, old Hannibal
Hamln Of Maine, says, "damn him !"
and in referring to Garcelon, he adds
another adjective. Hannibal fears he
will not be continued in the q. s. Senate.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The news is that the British troops at
Cabul were attacked in their camp by
the Afghans, and badly repulsed, when
the British sailed out and badly defeat
ed and dispersed them.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

"LAw and order" meetings are being
held in Belfast, Portland and other
towns of Maine, to sustain Gov. Garcelon
and the Council.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

The lawyers have been getting good
fees in Columbus, in a suit to decide
whether a change Of Biographies should
be made in the Public Schools. 1t is an
i'll wind that blows no good to some one.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

ONE of the best things Mr.. Cowles Of
the Leader has got off lately, is, that
"Ohio is tired of the everlasting Sherman
family" Mr.. Cowles, it is said, is for
Grant next.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

WHEN the man in the White House
who has no right there, heard the news
from Maine, be remarked that the spirit
of '76 was abroad. Wonder if he did not
mean 1876.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01

AN exchange says: For our own part
we do not intend to get excited over the
fact that Dan Rice has put on the livery
of heaven, until we see whom he propo-
ses to serve.