The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-08
PERSONAL VARIETY.

Hester PrebDerTy, C0lOred dled IN Baltimore
last week in the one hundred and twenty fifth
year finer age.
company at Montreal intends applying i'm.
mediately for a charter for the construction ofa
tunnel under the St. Lawrence river at that city,
A private dispatch from Arthabaskavile, Ont
says young girl, daughter Of farmer living
near there was murdered Monday night and the
body thrown in we'll The son Of a neighbor
named Lachance has been arrested on suspicion,
A crevasse four miles above Gretna, La, on
Thursday allowed the Mississippi river to over
flow Sharps plantation. Mr.. Paudely, Of the
Morgan Railway Company has a hundred men
at work on the break and hopes to close it in
few days
| In New York the $50 employees of Albert Weber,
the piano manufacturer have resumed work,
having gained the advance Of ten per cent. in
their pay, for which they struck after having been
locked out This leaves E, P. Hale the only man.
ufacturer maintaining the lock out,
Mrs LaVina GoOdell, the first woman admitted
to practice law in Wisconsin, died in her home at
Janesville Wis, last week. She secured the pas.
sage Of the bill through the Legislature which
permitted her admission to the bar. In the prac.
| tice of the law she is said to have shown good
sense and to have had some success, She was Al
years old and was womanly in her manner
On March 2ih the Apache Indians intercepted
and killed soldier carrying dispatches to Capt.
Hoo er's battalion of troops scouting in the San
Mateo Mountain New Mexico The same band
attacked the village of San Jose, about seventeen
miles from the Rio Grande, but two soldiers sta
| toned there as COurieTs aud several MeXiCans
fought them and drove them off In the affray
one Solder OF the Ninth Cavalry and one soldier
were killed. These Indians are supposed 10 be
some Of Victoria's band
Ex-Governor Tilden and Justice Field were
schoOmates, the latter boarding at the house Of
Mrs Tllden, Samuel US mother.
An explosion at Chllds steam forge at Buffalo,
Friday killed Superintendent Kammerer, Sc.
verely injured three men and demolished the
larger part of the building.
spark from locomotive on the Pennsylva.
MIA railroad started . fire near Amboy, n j.,
Friday, which burned over between 1900 and
5000 acres of woodland, Notwithstanding all the
farmers and laborers in the neighborhood fought
the flame for hours, Wood choppers houses,
wagons wood choppng implements and maple
sugar houses were consumed.
Andrew Young denied shooting and killing
Thomas Crow, but was convicted, Young's wife
confessed that she killed Crow and was acqut.
ted Juries are little uncertain.
Judge Black is reported as saying that his arti
cles on Buchanans Administration and the early
days Of the war are not drawn from diary. II
never kept the scratch Of pen" he declares II
draw upon the memory exclusively for facts in
regard to those days" The Judge is a firm be.
lever in old.time Orthodoxy Some one remark
ed In his presence that the lines that formerly di.
vided people in regard to religious matters were
falling out. Yes said the Judge, land notice
that the nice distinction between right and
wrong is going with them"
Boston lawyer told another lawyer who asked
him question that he usually received pay for
his advice. Then" said lawyer No. l, extend
ing so lcents, "tell me all you know and give me
back The change"
Victor Hugo has begun the publication Of the
= "difniuve edition" Of his works, The volume
y contains Hermann, :" marion Delorme" and lie
Roi :samuse," with some three hundred lines Of
. matter hitherto unpublished
; Mr.. John Swipton writes to his social Democrat.
- ic Greenback friends, with many thanks, regrets,
- etc, that he cannot be President because he was
|, not born in the United States
" States Senator has given the sum of 100000 to
y the Union Theological Seminary Of New York
City. The institution has prospered greatly of
> late years under the Presidency Of the venerable
- Dr. William Adams and is the leading Presbyte.
/ rian Theological Seminary Of that city.
A son of j. Madison Wells was nominated for
Surveyor of the port Of New Orleans but the nom.
nation was rejected, "soely because" as the
Washington specials say, "he was the son Of his
father" Well, that Is a strong objection, He is
known only as the son Of his father" and thst is
an exceedingly poor recommendation.
:, A skeleton found under hen house at Freder.
b, icksburg Lebanon county, Pa, is believed to be
!. that ofa young man named CrOcker, who sud
=, denly disappeared from that ueghborbood in
I. 1869. It's alleged tina he was murdered and the
body hidden away. An investigation is in pro-
gress.
A child was recently born near Yellow Springs.
o. which had no covering whatever over its
heart or its stomach. The beating Of the heart
could be plainly seen, 1t had but one haud, that
was webbed, as also its feet The head resem-
4 bled an alligator. The child lived several days
l. There are 40 900 American books in the British
Museum. which has thus, in a measure, become
a the depository of American literature,
q Secretary Sherman is reported to be delin.
. quent tax payer on more than twenty pieces Of
l., property owned by him in the District Of Coum.
Z. bia.
y Representative Aiken, Of, South Carolina is
e prominently mentioned as likely to receive the
q next Democratic nomination for Governor Of that
. State,
a The death is announced Of the Oldest commits
@ stoned officer in the English navy, Admiral
7. Philip Westphal, at the age Of 9S He entered the
/. the navy in 1874,
= General Imboden, the ex.ConiedeTate cavalry
L leader, who represents large number of North
. ern capitalists has purchased $4,000 acres Of
10 mining land in Scott county. Va, at So cents an
acre,
The recent piano strike and lockout in New
/. York are estimated to have cost the men over
i. 100000 and the manufacturers over 100000, All
J, this money and much bad feeling might have
. , been saved by little mutual concession and
O forbearanCe,
According to the Louisville COurierJotr1,di an
agent sent out by the colored people Of Louisiana
} to investigate the condition Of the freedmen Of
Kansas reports that Of the $1,000 people who have
emigrated to that State within a year at least
iour.1fths would return to their old home In the
q South II they had the means
d A carrier was recedtly arraigned for homicide
at the bar Of an English Court Of Asszes. AS hi
counsel was ending his defense the prisoner rose
d trembling In every limb, perspration rolling OIL
= him, and he screamed in agony: ~ see nothing !
!. All is darkness I'm blind I'm blindW There
was great excitement. The presiding Judge
, ordered physician to examine the prisoner, He
a a was found to be blind.
. Mr., Seward, in a letter to young man, just
published for the first time, said: 81 am glad to
. know you have got into the country, 1t is the
best place for young men, Allow me to give you