The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14
Personal VARIETY. /.

The portrait Of Milton, which was once oWnet
By Charles Lamb, has jHst been boughtin LondOl
by Mr. Qasritch for 1855. It was painted abou
le4o, when the poet was very handsome man.
The law In Rhode Island against intermarriag
between black and whites has been repealed
There is now no such statute In New England
but several Of the Northern States still prohibl
uoh marriages.
Our Republican friends In the Senate seem L
be in the position Of the too successful hunter
who got the bear by the tail. They want somC
one 10 help them let go Of Malone.
John Williams, colored wife murderer, wa
hanged at Waverly, Tenn, Friday afternoon. HI
received the rite Of baptism before going to the
scaffOld on which he said he desired death and
was willing to go out Of the world, and died
game and without pain, bis neck being broken.
The suit against Grinnell, former Collector o.
the Port Of New York, brought by Thomas Drew
to recover duty on spOtnets, alleged to have beer
overcharged, was yesterday decided in favor o.
the defendant. In other suits Of like character
over 81, 100000 are involved. ...
When asked II the nomination Of Judge Rob
ertson was not the work of Blaine, Senator Frye
thought it probable for why should he accept o
Cabinet place II he could not do something fol
bis iriendki
The Princess DogoroukI left her children be-
hind her when, three hours and a.half after the
Cars death, she was ordered to retire from st.
Petersburg. Her sister also, now OF Warsaw, has
received instructions to withdraw to Italy.
Instead Of being q period Of gloom, as mapy
had anticipated the Dublin season was this year
exceptionally brilliant, and 1t was marked as q
gratifying and unusual circumstance that the at
tendance Of persons Of distinction at the leveeE
and drawing rooms were irrespective Of party,
AT the city election In Chicago, on Tuesday
69,6S5 votes were polled, In Cincinnati, 1929
and al the February election in Pittsburg 2,22E
and in Philadelphia 150,6OO.
The American hog has been Vindieated The
French embargo OH American pork products has
been removed, which is a virtual acknowledge
ment that the alarm was unfOuuded. The French
hog should apologize. ....
The Countess Pourtales a lady who In hel youth
was favorite Of the Empress Josephine, died
lately at Geneva The Countess preserved hel
faculties unimpaired to the last, although she iv
ed to the age Of eighty. niue She had an excel
lent memory and was Brilliant tslker.
A German Socialist paper in London the Fret
heit, has been suppressed by the English Govern
ment and It's Office seized, for urging political as
sassinatioD outside the Queens dominion, as vel
as publishing libels concerning the late Gear. The
event has created something Of sensation In
London.
Ida Lewis, the sea heroine, cannot swim. The
secret Of her success in saving human life is un
derstanding the peculiar and dangerous currents
in the vicinity of the lighthouse and the man
agement Of her boat so that the drowning person
can not grasp 1t on either side, which nigh
swampit.
The lately burned 'Printempo' dry goods house
Of Paris was insured for over 81 100000 in twenty
offices. This fire has ELECTED loud complaint
against the Paris FIRE brigade, which, having nc
horses had to reQuisition those Of omnibuses and
cabs, cause, Of course Of great delay.
A Mississippi planter wanted 10 turn his land
into stock farm. His neighbors, who stick 10
cotton, applied to court for an Injunction to re-
strain him from sowing grass seed, on the grour d
that the grass would spread over adjoining plan
tations and unfit the ground IOr cotton. The in
junction was granted.
Col Thomas A, Scott, though physically broken
down from the enormous work Of nearly forty
years, has not quit poor He Is worth from $780,
100000 70 S9OOOOOOO, and has been giving away
b,,p aas - nda ~ tnut
with discrimination Snd an intelligence show
ing that no less in intellectual than In fiscal
things his judgment is sound.
The blind Postmaster General Mr.. FaWcett, has
won golden opinions In Great Britain, There is 8
tone Of conscientious regard for right in all thai
he does, and his working power has been very
great, while his natural gentleness has made hil
authority pleasan: and his quickness to Rdop
real improvements has advanced the interests o.
the public,
Mr.. Jay Cook o seat, ogOntz Is still unsOld, ARt
is likely to remain 90 until he buys 1t again as hC
does not intend any one else 10 have 1t, and hal
always taken measures to prevent 1t passing intC
other hands. 1t was named ogOntz after an old
Indian chief with whom Mr. Cooke was we'll 90
Quainted In bis childhood at sandugky, oh 10.
The New York World contains two long obitu
aries on JameB Buchanan Johnston, who died In
Baltimore on March 25th. he was the son Of Har
riet Lane Johnston, the niece of Ex.Preslden
Buchanan, the brilliancy Of whose social reigr
Rt the White House is so we'll remembered. He
son. although only fifteen years old at the time o.
his death, had given many evidences Of possess
ing extraordinary mental power.
Colored men are represented az having hand
some farms and valuable herds OF cattle in Tex
ss. Senator Burton OF Fort Bent County Is col or
ed, and is estimated to be worth $4,000. He 4
also an educated man, While slave In Virgins
he was taught reading and writing by his mis-
tress, She was made very poor by the war, anC
he then showed his appreciation Of her instruc
toR in former days by supporting her in her ad
versity until her death, On her daughters wed.
ding.dRy he sent present Of thousand .dolla
check. The whole Of his property has been &C
quired in Texas.
I The cable dispatches from Chios report a dis
tressed condition Of affairs on that afflicted island
The number killed and injured by the recen
earthquake is placed at 5000 and 10000 inhabi
tants are reported without bread, sGpPeis haVl
been sent from Pyrseus, Consisntin ople ant
Athens to bury the dead and construct huts To-
the living. Provisions and medicines are alst
being forwarded from various points, but, up t
last accounts, the supply was not equal to the
pressing demand. Slight shocks Of earthq uakI
still continue, and the aspects gloomy.
The COosa, River near Rome Ca, recently rosC
to an extraordinary height, and equaled in rage
the Guadalquivir, which Is just now creating 9
great panic al Seville. On the subsidence Of the
food Of the Ooosa, Mr.. Frank Perry's farm wa
discovered to have been divestod Of itS soil, which
had gone down the current TO mingle with the
mud Of the stately Alabama. The clay was left
with many deep hollow cut BY the waters and
In one ofthem an aboriginal burying ground ap
peared. Skeletons and parts Of Skeletons bones
Of every part Of the human system, were promis
cuously huddled together. Indian heads and
a large Indian pipe carved Into the likeness OIL
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