The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-03
POLITICAL AND GENERAL.

NJ. T. Polk, the defaulting treasurer
is sick in bed in the Nashville Jail.
Senator Browns health is so Door
that he has gone home to Georgia to
rest.
The Boston Advertiser thinks that "Of
all the professions the clerical furnishes
the poorest specimens of the states
man."
Sir Edward Archibald, to whom a
complimentary dinner is to be given in
New York, has been in the British Con-
sular service just fifty years.
Last year was a great year for build
ing in the city of New York, the great
est on record. The estimated cost of
improvement thus made is S44, ,77S 686
The Toledo Democrat urges the prOpO-
9itiOn that the Republicans get them
selves into trouble on the temperance
question, and should be left to get out
OF 1t the best way they can.
Maryland has a law for the whipping
of wife beaters which has Just been de-
clared constitutional, and the penalty
inflicted on brute who made his test
case. He got off with seven Iashes.
Mr.. Tabor, who was elected to the q.
s. Senate from Colorado for the short
term, will have to be lively, else he will
not get to Washington in time to be
sworn in. 1t Is hardly in order to con-
gratulate Mr.. Tabor.
The COrcOran Gallery at Washington,
ts to be opened to the public, without
charge, on all holidays, except the Fourth
of July, from 10 a. IN. to 2 D. m. Sund-
days should be added to the list. The
number of visitors to the gallery in 1882
was 1908.
The Trinity Baptist church at New
York has among its members 12 China
men. When j. Sing, the twelfth, was
baptised. Some Of them cut off their
cues. A convert named Kun Sing goes
out from the church as a missionary to
Canton in short time.
The people of Montreal have been hay
ing gala time during the past week
playing curling cOnsplel on the harbOr
rfnks, snow shoe steeple chase, being
among the sports enjoyed. A grand
sleigh parade took place on the 24th, in
which some drove fOur-in-hand and
others sixteen-in-hand.
Joshua Hutchinson, of the widely
known musical family Of that name
died on January 21, at the age of 21
yeOrs. He was an elder brother and
the teacher of the famous QUARTET
Hudson, John, Asa, and Abby,-whOse
simple songs were the delight of the
common people twenty-five years and
more ago.
The local option method seems to be
the plan most favored in the South of
dealing with the liquor question. Three
States have adopted it-kentucky, Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina. In the
former State number of counties have
passed prohibitOry acts. The right to
sell liquor has also been refused In the
neighbOrhOOd of some colleges and
churches.
A hospital for the children of gentle
men of limited means-a class believed
to be increasing both in number and
been established in Eng
land. 1t Is q recognition of the fact,
now becoming better known, that some-
times those who are the last to apply
for help need 1t most, and that those who
by hard struggle cOntrive to maintain
independence do so sometimes at the
price OF absolute want.
Professor Langley, in one of his lee
lures, out Yernes Jules Verne himself.
Among the many amazing things told
by Mr.. Langley about the sun is that If
a bed of coal Of the size of the State Of
aud ten feet thick were
suddenly shoveled into the sun 1t would
be used mp In keeping up the present
snerRy Of the sun for just One-hundredth
part Of second. Another Of his illus