The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-25
EDITORIAL MENTION,


Peaches in Georgia will be ripe in less
than a month.
At Cincinnati carpenters, plasteTers
and cOrnicP makers are on strike. lhe
plastprers want $3.50 day.
At Macdonald, Pa, one hundred and
two cOlOred miners arrived on Friday,
to take the place of the strikers.
The Greenback State Convention at
Harrisburgh, Pa, last week, was not
largely attended. The leading idea in
their platform is opposition to monop-
oily.
John Y. Glessner, of the Rirhland
Shield aud Banner, begun his fOrty-thlrd
year with that staunch Democratic pa
per last week. Long may our noble
friend continue.
TO the Republican party belongs
the honor of having the only drunken
President and also the honor OF having
the only fraudulent President. And yet
they claim it is the high-toned moral
party.
Large shipments of gold to Europe
continue. Four million seven hundred
thousand dollars was a single shipment
on Wednesday of last week, nearly two
millions on Thursday, and two millions
on Saturday.
Every prominent Republican journal
i'm New York, and all the independent
ones, demand the defeat of the Cameron
State ticket in Pennsylvania: They
don't vote in that State, but their circu-
latiOn goes where II will do the most
good.
A new fast train to Denver via the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway,
from the Missouri river goes through in
,fgrI,f hNr pnl mi
and to LeadvilIe in thirty hours and tif-
teen minutes, This may well be called
rapid transit.
The break in the ranks of the Virginia
RpadiusteTs Is thought by some to be the
beginning of the end of MahOneism. 1t
would appear from MahOne's lack of Al
tentiOn to the business of a United
States Senator that he was getting ready
to shut up shop.
1t is not thought that President Ar
thur will pardrn Guiteau on the ground
of insanity 1t is thought by some that
treating Guiteau as responsible Is not
the best course for the Republican party.
1t indicates the rebellion that existed
among the Stalwarts against Garfield.
The competitive examination for the
| West Point cadetship was held at the
Vincent House, Alliance, last week, and
H. u
| the hOnors. Seventeen applicants were
in attendance from various points in
the district, two young men from Can
| ton:
In the P. o. Department at Washing
ton, all Virginia pOstOffice matters are
referred to General Malone" Con-
| gresham Wise, a Democrat, has been
| wantinga Postmaster appointed but can
not get it done and the people are clam
Oring. The Department has been wait
ing months for General Malone. Wise
threatenes to bring the matter before
Congress
One of "Chet" Arthur's last achieve
ments is turning out of office the grand
daughter of General JacksOn's adopted
son, Mr.. DOnnelSOn. He did 1T at the in
stance of the Tennessee StalwaTts. The
lady has family of children dependent
on her eXertiOns, and was enabled to
provide for them by clerical work i'll one
of the departments.
Russian Jews to the number of 5000
arrived at Castle Garden since the first
| of September, and, with the exception
| of some 300, they have all been provided
with employment. Eight hundred of
them in New Orleans and other parts
of Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky and
| Ohio. To Chicago 300 have been sent,
and to the Pacific coast 400. A majority
are cigarmakers, tailOrs, lOcksmlths,
carpenters, builders and farmers.
The Senate of Tennessee has passed a
| bill to compromise the State debt, pay
| ing sixty per cent. at three, four, five
| and six per cent. interest. 1t goes to
the House, where it is certain of imme-
diate passage. The principal of the debt
| is $50, 1906, 800; the accrued interest April
1st, 1882, was $S,183, ,551.5O, making a
total of $2S, ,3S9, ,851.50. The sixty pei
cent. proposition comes from the bond
holders, and is certainly very liberal
one as the debt is Just debt.