The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-03
cULL1NesANp soR1nn11NGs.

A HUGE highwayman, disguised as a
female, closely yelled and riding dark
horse is doing a thriving business in
the Boston mountains in Arkansas.
LEIGH ROBINSON, of Washington, has
been appointed associate counsel for the
| defense in the Guiteau case. Walter G..
DaV1dge has been appointed to assist the
prosecution.
THE sowing of forest pine seeds has
been begun by the Shakers at Enfield;
Connecticut, and the State authorities
are considering plans for encouraging
this needed industry.
THE British Government is again hay
ing trouble with the natives of New
Zealand. 1t has made offers of amnesty
to the rebels, which it will withdraw at
the end of fortnight.
Fifteen Socialists were tried by the
Supreme Tribunal at Leipzig, Germany
-Four were acquitted and the balance
sentenced to terms of imprisOnmentV va
rylng from three years to three months.
Coal in Cincinnati is $3.50 per ton.
and dealers say that they will be com
PEELED to raise the price in order to pre-
vent a run" upon their scanty sup
plies.
SNOW, ice, and a thermometer regis
tering in some places 10 degrees below
the freezing point, have been the very
unusual features of October weather
on the Pacific coast. In Washington
Territory fruit has frozen on the trees.
OVER bridge at Athens, Ca, was the
following: "Any person driving over
this bridge in a faster space than
walk shall, if white person, e-fined
30, and If a negro, receive twenty-five
lashes, half the penalty to be bestowed
on the infOrmer."
The superintendent of the expert
mental tea farm at Summerville, s. c.,
sent 5000 tea plants to the Atlanta Ex-
position, on October 21. The average
height of these specimens which were
selected as a fair sample of the crop, is
about nineteen inches, and they look
healthy and hardy.
From various parts of the State come
reports of the ravages of the Hessian
t1y and the new wheat crop is said to be
considerably damaged in some lOcali-
ties. Surely, this is not good fly
weather, and there is every reason to
eral.
MR.. HAYES, of Fremont, has the floor
to reply to Assistant Postmaster General
afull exposition OF the Star Route steal
ing to MIR. Hayes, and that good man
did not give it much consideration"
Mr.. Hayes should loom up out of his
obscurity long enough to explain how
this is.
Several citizens of Akron woke I'D
Saturday morning to find that their
houses had been burgIarized. One burg
lar, however, met more than his match.
He entered the premises of Major E.
Steinbacher and attempted to frighten
the Major with threat to shoot him.
But the Major could not or would not
scare. He jumped hurriedIy out of his
bed, and in about two minutes that en-
terprising burglar wished he had gone
into some other mans house.
In the eleventh city district of New
York, where the Republicans are run
ming young AstOr for Congress, o. B.
Potter has declined the Democratic nomi-
nation and Roswell P. Flower has been
put on the ticket. The district is close
one, and on carrying it the Republicans
rely for a majority of the next House.
They will have 146 members without
this district, which is one.less than a
majority,