The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensed Items of Interesting
News.

Patti does not deny her age. She is
thirty-nine.
NASHVILLE, February 21.-The river
is rising slowly, 80 clio feet on the
gauge.
OTTAWA, February 21-A blizzard
struck the city. Snow is a foot deep;
roads impossible.
HAvERHILL, Feb. 2O.-The latest esti-
mated losses by the fire is $2,250,OoO; in
surance, 100000
PITTSBURGH, February 2l.-The river
is twenty-five feet two inches; rising.
Cloudy, growing cold.
DR.. Tanner, the faster, is in Buffalo
attending patients, and intends to set
tie there and practice medicine.
POUGHKEEPsIE. February 22.-Sleet
and rain all day have broken wires and
torn down telegraph poles. 1t is snow
ing tonight.
WASHINGTON, February 20-The col
ored jubilee singers, now here, sang at
the White House last night until the
President wept.
VICKsBURG, Miss. February 2I.-The
river has risen two inches. No news
from the levees above, but an overflow
is looked for.
Tom Thumb gave his wife 5000
worth of diamonds on the occasion of
the seventeenth anniversary of their
wedding last week.
HARRISBURG, February 21.-The Sus-
quehanna is eight feet above low water
mark. Paxton creek OveTtlOwed the
banks and threatened great damage.
subterranean stream has been dis
covered in Idaho connecting Indian
Greek and Snake river whose rushing
4 l., ,f ls,T,rr ig,t1
Another death is reported in London
of a lady who had taken an excess of
'anti-fat" medicine. The nOstTum is
supposed to act as slow blood poison.
There is a young woman shoemaker
in Atlanta. She has a small shop of
her own, in which she hammers and
stitches as deftly as any man in the
trade.
President Arthur's first state dinner
was in one respect in marked contrast
with those of President Hayes, in that
wines were served, a round half-dOZen
glasses lanking each plate.
The snow storms in Nova Scotia and
Cape Breton during the past three
weeks have not been equaled in lnten-
sity for many years. Snow banks
twenty-five feet high are met with in
many places.
A swarm of bees in Sweetwater Val
ley, Cal, settled on a rattlesnake six
feet long, twelve inches in girth, with
twenty-five TattleS, and stung IL so that
it was blinded and afterward easily
killed with spade.
PITTsBURG, February ia Swede
named Abraham Nelson, living in
hOyel near Webster avenue, beat his
wife so badly at o'clock tonight that
she died in half an hour. Nelson has
been arrested and lodged in jail.
Indeed, there is no accounting for
tastes. A negro man in Christianburg
Va, is habitual coal oil drinker. He
says in cold weather he often drinks a
pint or more at one time, and that the
sensation produced is similar to that of
whisky.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 2O.-The New
comb buchanan Company, the largest
whisky distilling firm in the South,
made an assignment to j. n. AthertOn.
Liabilities, $1,200OO0; assets, $4,000
The suspension is thought to be only
temporary.
LONDON, February 20.--The steamer
Texas, from Baltimore for Liverpool,
was seen alongside the disabled steamer
Sandman the 18th inst, $50 miles from
Fastnet. Wheu the steamer Nederland
left the Sandman, the latter had sew
VI al lccG VI water III ucI DuN
the water seemed to be kept down by
the pumps.
The fourth annual meeting Of the
Ohio Cider Makers Association will be
held in Gallon, o., March Sth and 9Th.
The questions to be discussed are: The
best and most profitable mode of max
ing and keeping cider; best mode of
making cider vinegar; best mode of
making jelly and apple butter. Pumice--
To learn its greatest value; what yari-
ETY. to plant for profit; handling of crop
for profit. H. P. McMaster, President;
D; o. Jones, Secretary, Leonardsburgh,
Ohio.
The last trip of the Cunard steam
ship Servia to Liverpool is said to have
been the fastest across the Atlantic vet
accomplished. The apparent time of
the passage is seven days, twelve hours,
thirty-nine minutes, and the actual
time Of the passage from Sandy Hook,
seven days, seven hours, forty.one min
utes. This is by several minutes the
shortest passage OH record, notwith-
standing the Cunard route is by ninety
miles longer than that taken by most Of
the other lines. On several days the
SerVia had easterly winds.