The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-02-10
NTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888
Personal VARIETY.

~ uAA VI Whum boAuhh W thO OhAuhi nAA ohAOht
They ask Ss, 50, and St1 per thousand for differ.
ent varieties, whereas they have been getting 81,
sS, and S1O this being an advance Of one dollar
per thousand all round.
Henry Lame, who acted Rs body servant 10
Gen. Mercer during the Revolution, died on
Wednesday night at Mount Vernon, Indiana,
aged 12S years.
During the past six days, s3220OO has been col
lected to push the worlds fair along, Three New
Workers gave 5000 each. The railroads are
booked" for clear million.
Gen. Grant presided at the meeting Saturday
night in New York in the interest Of the Worlds
Fair Of 1885, Addresses were made bv several
gentlemen. Three hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars were collected for the enter.
prise the past six days.
A mortgage for a5,OOOOOO, covering all the
property OF the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail.
way, is in course Of preparation by the attorney
Of the road.
A further reduction has been made in emigrant
rates Of fare from New York. Total reduction
since January 1st to competing points, ifty-two
per cent,
Mr.. VIM. H. Vanderbilt has paid the entire cost
of transporting the obelGk, pedl sal and steps
from Alexdria to New York, and erecting them
in Central Park.
Philetus Sawyer, the new Wisconsin Senator,
gave his two daughters 100000 apiece when they
were married.
Louisiana has s5451 white, and sSO24 colored
voters officially registered. OF the whites 1913
cannot write; Of the negroes II, ,4OS can write
Chicago physician says that probably 10000
people in that city are injuriDg their health and
endsnRering their lives by using hair cosmetics
and face powders.
The richest man in the Senate next to Fair "a
David Davis and twenty are worth more than
half million each. Blaine. Cameron, Davis, Of
West Virginia, and Plumb are worth a million
each.
New Orleans had q fall Of snow last week
heavy enough to suspend travel during the
morning, and the business men Joined the boys
in celebrating the rare event by general partic.
ipatiOn in snow'balling
The Pennsylvania road Is about to abandon its
famous Horseshoe Bend, q new route having
been surveyed by way Of the old Portage Rail
road and Pennsy lvania Canal, which shOrtens
the line thirteen miles and avoids the mountain
tunnel
Mrs. Barnwell Rhett. Of South Carolina, and
the widow Of former mayor OF New Orleans,
will both become inmates OF the Louise Home at
Washington, established and kept up by Mr. Cor
coraD, the Washington banker, for the benefit Of
Southern gentewomen who have been unfortu'
nate.
Henry Mclaughlin, the main witness In the
Tennessee Legislature frauds matter, is missing.
The resolution TO invite the Government Of
France and the Lafayette family to join in the
Yorktown Centennial Celebration, has passed the
Senate. Twenty thousand dollars was appropri.
ated.
Senator Conkling asked Delegate Cannon, the
Mormon Representative, how many wives he
had. II have enough to keep me from interfer.
ing with the wives Of other men," was Cannon's
quick rejOinder
Charges have been made that four Democratic
members Of the Tennessee Legislature were paid
$3.50 each TO vote for the Republican candidate
for Secretary Of State and committee has been
appointed to investigate the matter.
In 1880 sixty steamers brought 26S1b emil
grants to Baltimore, Of whom l5,4a came from
Germany. Nearly all went straight on to various
States in the West, and for most Of them the ex.
penses Of the journey had been paid in advance.
Mrs. Susan Wright for many years School
Principal in New York, teacher Of ability and
great experience has addressed q letter to the
Board Of Health calling attention to the cruelty
inflicted on many Of the little children under her
charge in sending them to school during the In
clement weather in abort dresses,
A Cleveland correspondent says: Gen. Gar.
aeld does not like to give ofense to many good
people who have total abstinence at heart or on
the BRAIN But neither does he like to play the
hypocrite. He Is not total abstinence man. He
likes glass OF wine, and in Washington has long
been known, not only as good diner out Low
or of good dinner, but as one who at dinner
could and did, take his share Of the wine and
liked It,"
An1English doctor sRys that in large cities
night air 10 often the best and purest afr to be
had in "a hours ond that fully one.half Of all the
diseases affecting humanity are occasloned by
people sleeping with their windows shut,
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte and his wife are
now living in Washington and entertaining
great deal. Mrs. BonapaTte-a grand daughter Of
Daniel Webster-is q clever and charming wo.
man. She dresses magniacently, and often wears
beautiful jewels q large share Of which descend.
ed to her from the late Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte,
The Illinois Legislature Is considering bill to
reduce the rates Pullman cars, and with every
prospect Of passing 1t. The company's attorneys
have NOTICED the Legislature that the accommo'
datlOnB furnished the public will be regulated to
match the reduction In accommodations