The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A female jury fixer is the latest Ge-
yelOpment in Philadelphia.
Queen Victoria's cows at an English
cattle show took only third prize.
Mr.. George iTicknOr Curti5's life of
James Buchanan will soon be published.
Business failures in different parts of
the country, during the last week, have
increased in a somewhat alarming man
ner.
Arrests have been made in Philadel-
phia, under the Primary Election Law,
for frauds at some of the Republican
primaries on Wednesday last.
Mr.. Kimball, the church 'debt raiser"
has assisted in freeing 175 churches
from membranes. The largest amount
he wrestled with successfully was on
the MemOIi Presbyterian Church, New
York City [Rev. RObinsOn'sl, $4,000.
Mrs. Sprague's friends in Washington
are indignant at the continued postpone
ment of her suit for divorce. They say
that the evidence will completely eX-
Onerate her, although it may make some
unpleasant disclosures concerning
others.
Senator Brown is reported to have
made the following declaration of his
political policy: 81 shall not be the Ma
hone of Georgia. One reason is that |
shall vote the straight Democratic ticket
from now until 1884. 1 am a liberal
Democrat, not an Independent"
The Emperor Williams idea of cOnsti-
tutiOnal prerOgatives would have met
the approval of Napoleon III. His
ministers are creatures of the imperial
will, and all his subjects are morally
and legally bound to support the I'M
nprial policy. AbsOlutiSm can go no
further in its pretensiOns.
A young lady in New York City, who
was accOsted by we'll dressed man in
an insulting manner, accepted the offer
of an old woman, who was grabbing in
an ash barrel close by, to cover him
with ashes for ten cents" The man
was pelted with handfuls of ashes, cover
ing him from head to foot before he
could escape. The old dame was re-
warded with a quarter.
The city officials and leading citizens
| of Chicago have petitiOned Congress to
authorize survey by Government engi-
neers of ship canal from Toledo to the
| lower point of Lake Michigan. If found
to be feasible, as they think it will be
| they ask incorporation (withOut subsidy
and propose to dig the canal. They will
save by it 500 miles of lake travel be-
tween Chicago and Buffalo.
Hugh S. Peoples sued the Detroit
Evening News for large fortune be-
cause the News exposed his relations
with Martha Whitla, girl who was
murdered and the body thrown into the
river three years ago. A jury rendered
verdict for the News, and the prose
cutOr has caused PeOples's arrest on q
charge of numbering Martha Whitla.
The motion proposed in the German
Reichstag, by WindhOrst, the leader OF
the Catholic party, abrOgating the law
fOrbidding the exercise of ecclesiastica
| functions without Government authOri'
zatiOn, was passed to a second reading
Friday by a vote of 233 to lis. This
mOdifes the law Objectionable to the
Catholics, which was pressed through by
Bismarck some years ago. Under thu
spread of Socialism he seems to have
changed his mind.
A San Francisco jury acquitted {
prisoner, notwithstanding his guilt wai
made conclusive by his confession
Gentlemen" said the Judge, the men
tai process by which you have arrived
at this conclusion | am totally unable
to comprehend; and, gentlemen of thu
| Jury, it is not amiss for me to say to you
now that the pardOning power is by the
| Constitution of the United States vested
| III Vic IlOO1uOlbJ anu IL 10 hOV O<AoNbAJ
proper that a petit jury should usurI
that power"
Burbridge, it appears, has developed
the recent sensational correspondence
with Blackburn to cover his claim fO
an office. He wants Office as a Ken
tuckian, although a resident of Penn
sylvania, and the Congressional repre-
sentative of the Kentucky Republican
repudiates him. Some of the wOrs
things said of Burbridge's atrocities
corruption and crime during the civi
war, and especially his traffic in tn
lives of suspects, have been said by Ken
tucky Republicans. t
Mr.. Gladstone, on December Goth, com
pleted the seventy-seeond year of hi
age, having been born at LivepOOl o.
the both of December, 1909. Hayin
been elected to Parliament for Newar
on the 18th of December, 1882, he ha
entered upon the fiftieth year of hi
public life. OF the members of tn
Cabinet of Earl Grey, then in office, nc
3 one survives. OF the 658 members of tn
! reformed Parliament of February, 1S3
the Prime Minister is the only one wh'
with a seat in that assembly now, the
e began his political career.
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