The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-03
cuL11Nes AND scR1nnL1Nes.

TATE'S majority for treasurer of Ken
lucky, in the August election, was 114,-
795. The full returns have Just been
made.
ROBERT G. WINTHROP, the orator at
Yorktown, is now ~ years of age. He
delivered the grafton at the corner stone
laying of the Washington monument in
1913.
At GnOssO, in Crete, Professor Still
man has eXcaYated the remains of what
he believes to be the historical labyrinth
famous from the story of Theseus and
the MinOtauT.
MRS. MARY BRADFORD, sister of Jeffer-
son Davis, died at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. E, L. Miles,at New Hope,
Kentucky, on the 22d inst, of general
debility, aged eighty-One years.
The inscription on the stone placed
over the late Professor CliffOrd's grave
(hls widow writes to London paper)
reads as follows: 81 was not and was
conceived, loved and did little work.
am not and grieve not"
Snow, ice, and a thermometer regis
ter1ng in some places 10 degrees below
the freezing point, have been the Yery
unusual features of October weather on
the Pacific coast. In Washington Terri
tory fruit has frozen on the trees.
REV. u. SHERMAN, an aged minister of
the United Brethren church, died in
Musk1ngum county, few days ago. He
was a resident of Strasburgh, Tuscara-
was county, and had been minister of
the U. B. Church for fifty years.
ARTHUR BAssETT, of Newcomerstown,
who was bound over recently on the
charge of stealing $500 from the Adams
express office, has been arrested near
wheeling with large amount of alleged
stolen Jewelry and money on his per
son.
SENATOR MALONE will not secure the
confirmation of his candidate for the
LynehbuTg POstmastership unless Sena-
tor David Davis helps him to Outvote the
Democrats. The present incumbent is an
old Union soldier with an unimpeach-
able business record.
IN Peru the foreign residents at Lima
and CallaO are complaining of the exac-
lions of the Chillians, who have seized
the custOm-hOuses and other public Off
ces. Senior Garcia CalderOn protests
against the suspension of his Govern
ment, and attributes the hostility of the
Chlll1an authorities toward him to his
opposition to the cessiOn of territory by
Peru.
The precariOus tenure of the mush-
room towns that spring up in the min
ing regions during times of excitement
Is exemplltied in the history of Hamil-
ton, Nevada. During the White Pine
excitement of 1868 it had population
of thousands, two large daily newspa-
perS, and an appearance of substantial
prosperity. To-day it barely has pOpu-
latiOn of sixty.
Baron James ROthschild, who died in
Paris Monday, was a grandson of Baron
James ROthschild, the founder of the
Paris branch of bankers, who died in
1868. The Baron James Just dead was
born in Paris in 1874. He was lawyer
and distinguished bibliOphile, and,
with Nj. AnatOle de MOntaiglOn, publish
ed the tenth volume of the collection of
French poetry Of the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries.
SOME OF the Irish priests are allowing
Land League meetings i'll their chapels,
where the police decline to interfere,
and it is said this way of evading the
coercion law Will be generally adopted.
However this may be, the arrests still
continue. The charges Of a purpose to
assassinate Gladstone or Forster are bit
terly denounced by the Irish leaders and
press, and are regarded as merely in
tended to inflame the British people.