The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-31
PERSONAL VARIETY.

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A man named williamson was arrested at Jor.
dan, MINI, for swindlIng farmers with the pat
ent hay-fork trick. Large band OF these swim.
dlerS operating In Iowa.
A Republican paper, explaining the lack Of ex.
perience on their side Of the House, says the Re.
publlCans could well afford to elect Randall to
keep him off the floor.
There are some indcP tions from Russia the
new Gar proposes to carry out certain reforms,
but they by no means reach the extent demanded
by the dscontented element.
The locomotive which Is to make ninety miles
in ninety minutes between New York and Phila.
delphia has been finished at Altoona, and made
trial trip, in which mile was made in so many
seconds less than minute, that the engineer said
he could make the ninety miles in less than nine
ty minutes and leave the furnace doors open.
Twas not murder after all-only a false
alarml William Trotter who was charged with
killing his son at West Austintown, or Mineral
Ridge or Ohlton or somewhere, has been released -.
from jail Thus ends the Austintown murder
Eensatlon.
Several of the large iobbing houses in New
drumming entirely and say they have found that
halfth money drummers cost expended in ad.
vertlsing pays better
Carlyle in one Of his essays says, in speaking
Of cabbage heads: 1.-THE richer a nature the hard
er and slower its development. Two boys were
once Ofa class in the Edinburgh Grammar School;
John ever trim, precise and du1; Walter, ever
sloVenly, confused and dolt In due time John
became Bailie John Of Hunter Square, and Wal.
ter became Sir Walter Scott of the universe. The
quickest and completest Of all vegetables is the
cabbage"
Captain George s. Davidson, the man who fred
the first gun at the first battle OF Manassas during
the late war; has Just died at stellvile, Scott Co.,
Va. The deceased was lieutenant in Lathsm's
Battery during that memorable:engagement
George Herdre, q prominent business man Of
Detroit and lessee Of the principal city railways,
was assaulted bya woman In his ONCE. One shot
was fred from a revolver, when she wasanested.
She claims 1t is a case Of seduction.
Captain Edward R. Ames, son Of the late Bshou
Ames, OF the M. E. Church OF Baltimore tried
or attempting to kill M. W. Hodgdon on the
night OF February 4th, was declared not guilty in
the Criminal Court on the ground of insanity,
and remanded to custody for confinement In an
asylum.
The total value Of ocean. going vessels lost dur.
ing the year 1880 is said to have been S34 635 00
of which S237, 900 worth were English vessels.
| The total number Of vessels lost was $780, and
the number OF lives lost was 1000. Unregistered
tonnage Of vessels lost was 900 900 TONS exclusive
Of steam vessels, mostly owned in Great Britain
The losses by fire In the Uaited States during
the year 1880, aggregate $40 $3.50 0OO For the last
five years they foot up to S4O6 2697OO or an aver
age Of SSt 253 $40 year. This is at the rate Of
nearly 1925 600 for every day in the year.
The Frenchman who owns the herd of camela
ranging on the eastward In the valleys bordering
the Carson River will utilize his Ships OF the
desert this summer in carrying goods from the
terminus Of the Carson and Colorado railroad into
| camps far out In the wilderness. The camels now
number about forty, all but two or three Of which
are natives Of Nevada. In our deserts these ami.
mails ind grasses and bitter and prCkly shrubs
and plants suited to their taste, and probably the
same or varieties Of the same plants that grow in
other desert regions Of the earth. It is less trouble
and costs much less to grow camels In Nevada
than to rear cattle in the Atlantic States.
A pension Of f4,4OO was granted in 1779 by the
British Parliament to the heirs and descendants
ofWillism Penn, in consideration Of his meritor-
ious services and Of the losses which his family
sustained in consequence Of the American war.
1t Is now paid to Col William Stewart, descend.
ant.
Lord Airlie has recently made a large purchase
of land in Colorado on behalf of relative who
intends to settle there as a farmer. He is the
author Of an interesting article in the Nineteenth
Century, on the United States as field for agricul
tural settlers
Itnow developes that the Russians really con.
trolled the Ameer of Afghanistan in the mis-
treatment of the English representative which led
to the war. Now that the question OF abandoning
Candahar is up, Lord Lytton reveals the secrets Of
Indian policy, There was Just cause for war, and
1t is now proposed to retain Candahar as security
for future peace
The Philadelphia citizens committee has
undertaken to put through some forty prosecu-
tions for illegal and fraudulent acts by election
officers at the late city election. That's the right
way. The ballot box rogues as rule think II
they can tide over the election they are safe.
Bring them to Justice for every illegal act even if
1t takes onths after election to do 1t, and they
will learn that honesty pays better than rascalty
There should be no pardon for offences against
the ballot by election officers.
Mr. Carlyle's severest critic. and critic OF his
own school, was the old parish ros Imam at Eccle-
iechan Been a long time in this neighborhoodr
asked an American traveller on the outlook for q
sight of the sage. Been here a. ma days. sir.
Then you'll know the Carlyles2 'Weel thatl A
ken the whole o them. There was, let me see,
he said, leaning on his shovel and pondering,
there was ] Ock, he was a kind o. throughither
sort O. chap, doctor, but no bad fellow, Jock
he's deid, mon' And there was Thomas said
the inquirer, eagerly. oh, ay, Of coorse, there's
Tam-a useless munestruck chap that writes
4 books and talks havers. Tam stays mastly up in
London. There's naething In Tam; but, mon
8 there's Jamie, owre In the Newlands-there g 9
e chap for ye; he's the mon o. that family. jamie
i tak's msir swine into Eccleiechan market than
8 ony Ither fsmer In the parish
vegetarian society has been founded in Paris
and has Just issued It's first Bulletin, in which we
are told that the object OF the society is to dscov
l. er the elementary regime most advantageou to
o the human Species Vegetarianism ought to
d commend itself to many French people, with
whom 'rosblr and bifeck' arelnOt the institutions
that they are In England. The great bulk Of the
n French lower and lower middle classes, like the
peasantry and the bulk Of the working classes in
Scotland, are vegetsrlsns without being conscious
Of it, and probably from necessity.
A discovery Of much srcha illogical interest har
recently been made In the Algerian Sahara M
| ,ho bo hno uiToy In
= tion with the proposed Trsns.sahara Railway
l. having noticed mound Of sand In the neighbor
: hood Of Warga, had the sand dugup, and discov
cred the top Of spherical dome. This natursll!
!, aroused his interest," and getting his Arabs to di
a still deeper he found underneath the dome
. square tower, then platform of masonry ant