The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-30
PoLITIoAL AND GENERAL.

George NJ. Robson is spoken OF as
Minister to Spain. Arthur may sehu
him there, for Spain seems to De
hospital for sick Republican pOlltlclahs'
Immigration is falling off. The ar
rivals for the five months of 1882 ending
November 3Oth. were 244,6ll as com
pared with 29l ,230 for the same mOnths
| in 1881.
The Supreme Court has advanced the
| Virginia bond cases, involving the con-
stitutiOnality of the Malone ReadJuster
| legislation, and they will be argued in a
couple of weeks.
The voters in November last com,
manded COngre to reduce taxation ana
| expenditure by at least a hundred mil.
| lions of dollars. Go on, gentlemen OF
| the Republican majority III Congress!
Cut down the estimates!
Senator Voorhees, made good hit al
Republican anxiety for Civil Service re,
| form. 1t was not because they repented
of their old sins, he said, but for the
reason they feared they would not have
| a chance to commit them again.
Governor Stephens, of Georgia, has
pardOned Captain COX,who killed sCOl. H.
| A. Aston in Atlanta about three years
| ago. What is probably the real reason
why Cox was pardOned has not got into
| Courier journal says it was relationship.
It is stated that paper made from
/ strong fibTes-as linen-can now be
compressed into substance so hard that
| il cannot be scratched with anything
| but diamond In view of this the
Papier Zeitung thinks that before long
a great variety of house furniture will
be made of paper instead of wood.
Garfield wrote to Dorsey in 1880 thus:
| "FrOm twenty-five thousand to thirty
thousand voters of Indiana are MEM
beTs of the denomination OF Disciples,
and at least half of them are Demo-
Gratis. A quiet but very earnest move
ment wholly outside the State Commit
tee has been organized, and is being
vigorously and judiciOusly pushed, with
the strongest probability that at least
| twenty-five hundred changes OF votes In
our favor will result"
1t is said General Butler has discover
ed, in collecting statistics for his mes
sage, that sixty-ive per cent. of the
money appropriated to the Massachusetts
charitable institutions goes to pay sal
aries of officers. There will be a rat
tling of dry bones in his Forthcoming
message, as this is an abuse General
Butler has been trying to uncover for
years. The three Democratic Governors
Cleveland, PattisOn and Butler, promise
to make things lively in State legisla'
tiOn this winter.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut
has turned out all theDemOcratic officials
in New Haven and installed the Repub-
licans, because the former were voted
for on cOlOred paper. The fact that they
had majority is not disputed. When
this principle of law was applied in GER
tain Southern elections, that marked
tickets could not be counted, the Repub
licans raised tremendous caterwaul
ing about honest elections and a fail
count. 1t all depends on whose OK i:
gOTed.
Gen. Granger of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, in
recent letter, dispTOVes all the mater.
ial statements in Gen. POpe'S official re-
port cOndemning FitZ John Porter, by
aTraying against Pope the reports of su-
bOTdinate generals, on which his report
should have been based. The Cincin-
natl Gazette, a cautious journal, after a
thorough investigation, concludes that
Gen. Porter has been greatly wTOnged
and makes strong appeal to Congress
to Tectify the injustice perpetrated by
the cOuTt-martial which tried him.