The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-27
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EDITORIAL CULL1NGs.

& G. R'y died at Crestline, Monday from
congestion of the lungs. He was sixty
years of age.
Even Republican editors begin to
think that just as like as not, the present
Mt Union gorilla Legislature may cause
the next General Assembly to be Demo
cratic.
A Constitutional amendment is before
Congress to elect U. S. Senators by the
people of the respective states. 1t is a
judiCious proposition, and should receive
approval. At any rate let Congress sub
NIT it to the states.
Michigan people complain of "patent
outside" newspapers, and want the nui-
sance abated. Among the plans sugges
ted is legislative enactment similar to
those of Arkansas and California, provi-
ding that no patent outside" newspaper
can publish legal advertisements.
Snow storms have been in order of
late, two inches at New 0orleans, FIVE
inches of a fall at Mobile, thirty inches
at Deadwood, and in fact east and west
it has been snow and in some places
badly drifted.
Fifty.nine indictments for the viola
tiOn of the liquor laws. have just been
iound by the Cclumbiana County Grand
Jury.
Joseph U. Crawford, Pennsylvania,
with American assistants, has just achiev-
ed a signal triumph in the building of
railroad in Japan,
On Tuesday John Sherman was before
the Senate Committee on Finance and
gave his views on the Wood refunding
bill. He took the position thatit should
be amended 80 as to make the funding
bonds redeemable after five years and |
payable in twenty years from date of is.
sue, and to bear interest at rate not
exceeding 81 per cent, the rate to be fix.
ed in the discretion of the Secretary of |
the Treasury. He expressed the opin.
ion that the treasury funding certificates
proposed by the bill, which he thought |
should be described as treasury notes."
can be tloated at per cent. interest with.
out change in the House provision for
their redemption at any time after
one year from their respective dates of
issue.
Senator Maxey was reelected by the
Texas Legislature on Tuesday.
Five hundred men are reported to be
at work on the railroad which is to run
from Laredo, Texas, to the City of Mex.
leo.
Our Legislature passed bill forbidding
pools to be sold, and now a bill is up to
amend so it will only apply to certain
kinds of poole, Certain gambling pools
it seems are to be allowed.
Mrs. Alio, who died at Tylersburg,
Pa, recently, was 1O6 years old. Her
husband, one of Napoleon's veterans
came to this country many,years ago and
settled on little farm near Tylersburgh.
He was l09 years old at the time of his
death, five years ago. Mrs. Alio's only
illness was that which, by few hours,
preceded her death.
Our Legislature wouldlike to do some
thing to block telegraph consolidation
and monopoly, but find an act they passed
last winter in the way known as the
Holloway act,
The Ohio Editors have been having
fine inc at Baltimore and Washington,
They have been sumptuously received
and entertained by officials and promi.
nent citizens, They have been shown
around to all the public institutions and
OF course have seen interesting sights.
The New Lisbon Buckeye State, pa
per smaller than the DEMOCRAT, con {
Cludes that ST so per annum is too small
q price, and has givan notice of raise to
two dollars.
Gen. Van Wyck, elected U. S. Senator :
from Nebraska, was a member of Con. !
gress from New York for eight years; but
in 1874 migrated to Nebraska, and with
great wealth and remarkably smart {
wife, has just succeeded in making the
Senatorship. l
An impression is gaining ground in
Washington, according to correspond ,
ent, that the hostility against the Nor 6
mons is stimulated by number of gen.
tlemen in Utah, who are aware of the
valuable mineral deposits in districts
owned by the Mormons, and are seeking
to drive them off thus forcing their !
property on the market that it may be
bought at I sacrifice.
The Rep. is dodging on Local Option, !
and the Cincinnati Commercial calls the
petitioners fanatics" Two years ago
these journals abused the Democratic
Legislature for not passing Local Option.
Now you see them, and now you don't, =
Sometimes they will, and sometimes they
wont.
Gen. Ben Lefevre, member of Con.
gress, squared accounts with Trego, of q
the Sidney, o., Journal, last week. Pres,
ident Hayes had nominated Trego as
Postmaster at Sidney. Gen. Lefsvre SO. q
cured the defeat OF lis confirmation. He 4
did this because Trego had made q per- '
soma warfare against him in the late
The stone column erected in Central a
Park, New York, last Saturday, was first : !
erected $500 years ago by order of y
Thotlmes III. at the entrance of the tenn
pie Of the sun, at Helipolis, in Egypt.
The Legislatures of Pennsylvania and v
Tennessee are still balloting away, each 3
for U. S. Senator. ii
The mighty dollar" men are the fsl. -
lows elected to the US. Senate these
days, as general thing. -
"Dimes and dollars, dollars anG dimes n
An empty pockets the worst Of crimes" d
On Tuesday, in the Senate at Wash "
ngton, Logan called up his bill to PEN ic
'lon Grant. Lamar favored it, but it was