The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-25
EVERY DAY TOPICS.
Recent News Items Caught in
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A Condensed Record Of Accidents, Crimes
Politics and Information of a GEN.
eral and Miscellaneous Kind.

ubSudy lhnubu 5,O0J lmm grants, most
ly Germans.
Even Topeka, Kansas, elected Demo-
cratic Mayor by $50 majority. Will
wonders never cease2
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terian church of the United States will
meet In Syracuse, n. Y, May II.
The South Carolina election case will
have to go over to the November term of
the United States Circuit Court, though
the accused are very anxious to be tried
now.
It's rumOred in Washington that there
Is an understanding between Dorsey
and Arthur, that in no case will the lat
ter permit the former to have his head
shaved by Penitentiary artist
Virginia's monument to Robert 4,
Lee will be unveiled at Lexington June
D. Jefferson Davis will preside, General
Joseph f.. johnson will be chief marshal,
and Major John W. Daniel, orator.
box of blasting fuse caused some
little excitement in the Chicago and
Milwaukee offices of the American Ex-
press. Shipped as explosive, il was sup
posed to contain dynamite until opened.
There arrived in New York on Sunday
4,469 emigrant5; and the prospects of as
heavy an Immigration as last year are
country to get away from during the
coming season.
The Urbana, o, Gas Company reduced
the price of gas from $3.50 per one
Thousand feet to 50 to private consumers,
provided payment is made before the
9TH of each month, the reduction to 90
into effect June 1st.
John Bartley, wealthy farmer, aged
forty years, hanged himselfa at Lafayette,
Ind. He was dead when found He was
subject to fits, and leaving his team in
the field, he went to the barn, and plac-
ing rope around his neck, jumped from
q wagon.
The funeral of Rev. John Pence, at
fremont Clark county, Ohio, was the
largest ever held at that place. Fully
1000 people were present. Mr.. Pence
had during his ministry confirmed 1,004
members, and travelled over 100000
miles.
The Legislature of Tennessee, by a
joint resolution signed by the Governor,
has proposed that the centenary of the
inauguration of Gen. Washington as
first President under the Federal Con
stitutiOn, be celebrated in the city of
New York in 1889.
The Democrats have carried all the
elections that have been held in New
York State this spring. Several cities
that have heretofore been controlled by
the Republicans have gone Democratic,
and the Democrats are consequently as
iubilant as they are in Ohio.
Bills are pending in the Legislatures
Of New York and Pennsylvania to abOl-
ish contract prison labor. In both states
the bills have passed the respective
Houses, and are sticking in the Senates.
The New York bill gives the state COM
Dlete control of the manufactures car
ried on by the cOnvicts.
Gov. Pattison of Pa, scores another
victory. On Saturday, on the motion of
Attorney General Cassidy, Recorder
Lane was Ousted from the office of Re-
cOrder of Philadelphia, which he was
assuming to fill to the great pecuniary
benefit of the ringsters, who were busy
getting in their last innings.
This seems to be good year for in
vestigating almshOuses. The latest case
is one in Buffalo, N. Y, where Frederick
Busch, uperlntendent, by reckless mis-
management, wasted $4,000 of the pub
lie funds. 1t is not stated whether the
institution is covered by a copper roof
bnt if so, a guard should at once be ap-
pointed.
NASHVILLE, TENN, April 22.-NeWs
has been received here of the death of
Mrs. Slower, sister of ex- President John
son, at Union Depot, Carter county,
Tennessee. She was buried at Green
Vile Friday. This leaves Mrs. Patterson,
who formerly presided at the White
House, the last survivor of the late Pre-
sident's family.
The action of Gov. Foster in turning
Gen. Joe Geiger out of the state library
on the political commons to root, hog or
die, does not meet with approval. Gel
ger was the only appOintee of the Gov
ernOr who was not given second term.
1t is claimed that GeigeT's scalp was ta-
ken at the dictatiOn of the assistant Ii
brariaD, a woman, who has held the
place for 10 or 20 years.
Lowell. the jingling Yankee poet, is
American Minister to the Government
of Great Britain, and seems to be in en-
tire sympathy with English royalty. His
subOrdinates in office, it is said, have
been so long there that they are COM
pletely English in their ideas and social
relations. OF course they turn up their
delicate noses at American institutions.
To please them we should have royalty,
Lords, Dukes, &c.
Says the Cadiz Sentinel: "The at
tempt of the circus man to ride two hOr-
ses isn't a circumstance TO the Scott tax
bill. 1t is four horse act, and all the
horses are going In ulu6rent directions.
They attempt in its provisions to please
the ultra temperance fanatics, and at
the same time to take into the embrace
the Germans over the Rhine,' and to be
hugged by them as the especial cham
piOns of no Sunday"
The price of pig iron in New York
dropped 81 per ton last Saturday. Hon.
Abram Hewitt says the cause of the de-
cline is OverprOductiOn; that they are all
losing money, and are all selling out
because they can't afford to hold it. The
way to relief, Mr.. Hewitt says, is to
"cheapen the cost of raw materials.
That means good wages for the employees
also. I'm no free trader. pure and sim
pie, either. l advocate tax for the pres
ent on products, but no tax on raw ma
terial. All trade is tending to free trade
but we must take time to work up to it.
My motto is do nothing to destroy in
dustry.' Industry in this country has
been stimulated, and it has the delirium
tremens. A physician does not deprive
| of alcohol a patient suffering from that
disease. He lessons the quantity little
| by little, and so would treat the coun-