The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-16
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Grant will spend the winter in New York and
Washington.
Brooklyn letter carriers have been assessed S25
each to help to elect Garfield.
Republican Hancock clubs are being organized
in different parts Of New York,
Gold is reported to have been discovered in the
Hot Springs at Calestoge, Col
The proposed amendment to the Arkansas con.
stitution has been defeated.
There was heavy frost ia Pike and Monroe
counties, Pa on Saturday morning.
The anniversary of the battle of North Point
was celebrated in Baltimore, Sunday,
Prof Agassiz's summer residence at Newport,
R. l., was burned 2unday. Loss, $4,000
The Washington Star says that 125 men were
put to work on Monday at the Capitol sending off
Democratic campaign documents.
Isadore Rosenthal, wholesale elothier Of New
York, has failed, Liabilities, 100000; assets
S95,OOO,
An Indiana commercial traveller writes Gar.
field is hospitable man, he offered us all some
apples and wind puddin.'"
Active preparations are making for grand
celebration Ofthe 150!h anniversary Of the found
ing of Baltimore next month.
Byrne, the young pedestrian, won the race be-
tween men and horses at Chicago, making $40
miles against Betsy Bakers SOS miles,
A general ten per cent. reduction in wages in
the Fall River factories is contemplated in con-
sequence Of the low price Of printing cloths
Many subscriptions are being sent in to the
Cincinnati Exposition managers to make good
the gift Of c, w. West Of $3.50 900 for an art mu.
scum.
News has just been received of the loss of the
schooner Rosa Epinger, near Cape Carnaveral.
The Captains son and a cOlored cabin boy were
lost
At depth of LOO IT,, an srtesian well at Little
Rock, Ark, developed strong vein Of salt water,
which rose to the height Of 700 #. in the we'll,
There are In Philadelphia 4S4 churches; in New
York city 954, and in Brooklyn 24O. In no other
American city are there more than 200.
The Treasury Department purchased last week
9O5OOO ounces of fine silver for delivery at the
San Francisco and New Orleans Mins.
During the past week there were paid out from
the mints s558 496 in standard silver dollars
against S22 500 for the same week in 1879.
satintown, Long Island, has an ancient and
highly respected resident in the person of Mrs
winters, with a sound body.
An English Earl has ordered s15O,0eO worth OF
diamonds from New York firm. FINER Bros,
tobacco works at Louisville, KY, was destroyed
by FIRE Friday. Loss S125.OOO; insurance S72, ,OOO
A Toronto alderman Of the typical ample dl.
menslOns, wandered around for awhile on the lst
day Of April, with placard across his back in.
Scribed; "Widened atthe expense Of the corpor.
atiOn."
Ex Governor English, Of Connecticut, who will
be the next Governor Of the State Is Of the opln.
ion that Hancock will carry Connecticut by
much larger msJority than Tilden received in
1876.
In the canvass just completed by the Demo.
crats of Genoa, Ottawa county, they find that
they will give Hancock from 60 to rs votes more
than they ever cast before, The Germans almost
to man are solid" for the General.
John R. Buchtel, prominent iron and coal
man at Nelsonville, 0hIo who W as a Grant cleo
tor in 1872, has come out for Hancock, and pre-.
sided at large Democratic meeting at that place
on Tuesday night.
Gen, James Longstreet, c. s, A., Minister to
Turkey, dropped off at Mentor last week to make
himself "solid" with Garfield, Mosby ought to
hurry back from Hong Kong to make few
speeches In Ashtabula county.
Jefferson Davis recently said that he doesn't
"feel like glOrifying Hancock for driving our
boys away from the plains OF Gettysburg" but
for all that he predicts Hsncocks election and
thinks 1t will have very harmonizing effect.