The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-17
cULL1NGs AND scR1BBL1NGs.

THE Land Court in Ireland has $4,000
applications.
SEVERAL StaffOrdshire pOtters in Eng
land are on strike.
EVEN Senator Sherman comedies that
the next Congress will revise the tariff.
NJ. GAMBETTA reached his fOrty-fOurth
birthday on October goth. Bismark is
sixty-six.
AN increase in freight rates went
into effect Monday on the pennsylvania
Railroad.
ELEVEN cOlOred men have been elect
ed to the Virginia legislature by the
cOalitiOniSts.
THERE are fifteen cases of smallpox
in Fort Wayne, Ind, and the citizens
are becoming alarmed.
MRS. GENERAL CANDY, whose husband
was murdered by the ModOcs, has taken
up her residence in BellefOntaine.
CHARLES LAIs, young man of Nor
walk, has been sued for breech of prom
ise and seduction by Annie COnnell.
PECK & Trump's Touring mills at
| Gettysburg, o., were burned Saturday
night. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
THE Boston Post has celebrated its
| fftieth year and Colonel Greene, who
assisted at its beginning, is still living.
The Cincinnati distillers have re-
solved to reduce the production of
whisky to One-haf the registered capac-
ity.
AT Washington it is generally believed
the star route prosecutions are virtually
ended. What farce is Republican
justice.
The talk is, President Arthur. while
at New York the other day, fixed up his
Cabinet, and they are all Grant ring
men.
The Thanksgiving proclamation of
Governor Long of Massachusetts, is
made up of four texts of Scripture and
hymn.
HARVARD University has 1882 students
in its several departments, which is 94
less than the number at the University
of Michigan.
JAMES G. BLAINE will occupy his $780,
600 residence in Washington about
January 1st. Blaine has been thrifty
statesman.
PRESIDENT HINsDALE, Of Hiram Col
lege, has taken the manuscript of his
life of Garfield to his publishers, the Os-
goods, of Boston.
OWING to the illness of Attorney GEN
eTal Ward, the alleged Legislative
bribery case at Albany, N. Y, did not
come up Monday.
FREIGHTs eastward from Chicago are
being heavily cut by all the trunk lines,
and large shippers are allowed to fix
about their own rates.
AT Wheeling, Saturday, Fred Miner,
age eleven years, in jumping from an
engine was thrown under and killed by
his coat catching on valve.
JOHN BRIGHT completes his 10th
birthday on the 18th inst. 1t will in
terest and surprise Americans to learn
that he has Jewish relations.
ISAAC TRICK, near Belle Center, has
had his house burned, hay destroyed by
fire, horses mutilated and one hundred
head of sheep poisoned.
ANOTHER Apache massacre occurred
at Sonora, on the Mexican border. Sew
eral men, women and children were
butchered by the red devils.
ISAAC HARMON, on trial for manslaugh-
ter at Fremont, has been found guilty.
He was charged with killing a tramp
cooper named O'Brien, last June.
THE President has been elected an
honorary member of the Union League
Club of New York, a distinction that has
been conferred on but half dozen men.
SATURDAY night young man named
William Read shot himself at Milling
ton, Mich, because he had consumption
and was afraid he would die during the
night.
THE Scottish American Land Com
pany, located at Emmettsburg, Iowa,
has sold actual settlers in little over
one year %, ,929 acres of wild land worth
$137, 1873.
A SAILOR named McAvOy got drunk at
Toledo and fell asleep on the Lake Shore
track. When found his left arm was
cut off and the fingers of his right hand
mangled.
The late Baron James Rothschild of
Paris, was educated in the law and was
a connOisseur of medi9val literature
and art. He was but thirty-seven at the
time of his death.
SYLvANUS HOWE, a mattress-maker at
Detroit, slashed his wife's throat with
razor until he thought she was certain
to die, and then poisoned himself with
prussic acid. Mr.. Howe is not greatly
injured.
AN unknown woman left naked baby
on the platform of the depot at Bellefon-
taine Tuesday morning, and got on the
train to go away. She was arrested, but
the child will probably die from ex-
pOsure and cold.
GOSHEN STOCK ASSOCIATION held its
first annual sale Thursday last week, at
Center, four miles from Salem. These
sales will be held at stated periods.
Horses, sheep and other stock sold to the
. highest bidder. tl..r, I'd .---.-