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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-01
THE col LoREp MEN.
Proceedings of the Interstate Conference
ut Pltthburgh,

Proceedings of the Interstate Conference
ut Plttbburgh.
PlrrsuunGlI, Pa, April 2o,--Tho Inter
State Conference OF Colorod MOn assembled
ot Municipal Hail. md delegates were
present from Connecticut Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, New Jersey. Pennsylvania
Ohio, Virginia, tho District OF Colum.
ba Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and
LouIslnnn, 10 the number of scyonly.nyc
AnouR thcn were Fred Douglass and Blah.
up Grtru Of Ohlo The convention Is com.
luged OF u iino body Of mon, and the do.
termination Is expressed 10 prevent
Us being used for political purposes.
AZ ten o'cloei, Rev. Q, $, Smith, OF Bloom
indon, H., In n stirring address gtltng
tho objects OF tho conference, called tho
convention to order, aud Robert Jack.
son, OF Pittsburgh, was elected temporary
Chairman An address OF welcome wOS
made by William Barks, OF Pittsburgh, and
tho response by Robert Pelham, Jr,, Of Do-
trOL Fred D0uIlaSa wNs nominated ior
temporary Chairman, but tho convention
approved tho nomination OF Jackson.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-01
There WIN lie No high License In sIil.
Wuuliep.

MINIATURES, Wis, April 80, The prop
osllun 10 ralso Tie price Of saloon liccnses
In this city from sTb tho present figure, 10
5000, wna defeated In the CITY Council, the
Council refusing 10 order the Increase 10 n
third reading.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-01
Ilnnlh md l.rl,L unnnrnl.

MADISON, via, April 20. "A cable dls
patch itom lnadou announces The dnnth Of
plpt q. NJ. Conoyer, reporter OF The Su
PRONE Court OF this Stale.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-01
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ALBANY, N, Y, April so.-ln the Az
senbly, the bill adding IN article TO III,
state Constitution prohibiting tho manu'
faclure and sao OF Intoxicating liquors wal
lost 90 against 0J.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-01
ONO coNTrarlln arAr cAar,

The sub cbmmIIioo In charge OF tho Wal.
lace. Mckinley cOsu, from the Eighteenth
Ohio District, has, byN mjnrlty voto OF
one voted 10 sustain Mcklhley's claim 10 u
seat 1t " reported, however that the full
committee will reverse their decision, but
this is not confirmed The vote OF the sub.
committee stood Turner and Adams (Dem.
ocrnts) lor Wallace. aud Robertson dem
ocraD, Hepburn aid Ranney lltepublloins)
for Mckinley,
A JEANNtTrn, SURVIVOR nlns tNi'ANn,
Jack Cole, one Of the sailors on The Jean.
ncile, died NJ tho insane asylum here Mon.
day. lie became insane ~ Tho result ot
thi h0rdsills Of the fetrrut TO the Slberlan
60 sl after Ihu ,lpnnnollo wna Lost,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-01
A GREAT IMPOSITION.
MODERN sPlRlTUALlsM A BASE FRAUD.
realms which Science Has Been Unable 10
ESplore--Dolusions aud supersti-
lions Entertained by frail
Humanity
a SERMON BY REV. TALMAGE,

a SERMON BY REV. TALMAGE.
BROOKLYN, April ~ DE- Talmage
preached 10 day Ia the Brooklyn Ta6er
nacle on the gnhject; "Splritualism al
lmposture." Before the sermon he read
from the Scriptures some Of the st0fics
Of witchcratt, The opening hymn was;
Tho mlmng Hight Is breaking
TIE darkness dlhappeari
Ihr SONS Ui men nrt WAhing
To pNult-htla tears"
The bee., 1884-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle states.

A PITTsBURG PENN dispatch saws that
diSgraceful disclosures have been made con-
corning the affairs of the suspended Penn
bank, and that depositors viii be fortunate if
they get five per cent of their deposits. MANY
fictitious deposits with capitalists have been
unearthed, and il is charged that much money
was lost in oil speculation. A deficiency OF
over 81 30 600 was discovered
The Glendower iron company, of DanviIle,
Penn, has failed for about 100000.
BROOKLYN real estate is valued at 500, 900.
600, an increase of SIC, 600, 900 over last year.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR reviewed the large
parade IN New York on Decoration day, and
listened TO General B. F. Buffers oration be-
fore the Grand Army posts in the Academy
of Music at night All the cemeteries around
New York were visited by throngs, and the
graves were covered with flowers
PRESIDENT RIDDLE and Cashier Reiber,
of the suspended Penn bank, were arrested at
Pittsburg, Penn, on the charge of conspring
TO defraud the institution.
RIGHT REV BENJAMIN b. SMITH, ID. D., L
L. d., the Oldest prelate in the American
Protestant Episcopal church, and the Oldest
bishop, both in years and office, of any church
in the world, died a few DAYS since in New
York Bishop Smith was born in Bristol, r.
l., in 1794, and was consecrated bishop in
1882
A MAN named Westbrook has started in
New York the experiment of. living for sixty
days on milk alone. Any infant could dc
that
FISK & HATCH, the well-known New York
brokers who failed during the recent panic
have resumed business
The bee., 1884-06-07
The Seventeen Year Locust.

This is the Seventeen year locust"
season in Virginia. According to the
P5'airie Fh1mer, considerable alarm is
felt in some quarters at the announce
ment. 1t is blessing to the country
nature prevented from making a raid all
over the country the same year. The
history of this insect is curious and in
teresting. The eggs are deposited in
small Sits made by tho female in the
branches of trees In a short time the
eggs hatch, and the young Larvae follow
down the branches down to the trunk,
down this to tae roots along the roots to
their tips, where they fasten themselves
by the beak, through which they draw
substance They also attach themselves
to other succulent roots. Here they re-
main for nearly their entire existence of
almost seventeen years without other
change than gradual increase in size.
They come nearer the surface as the
period of transformation approaches.
They make cylindrical holes some half
an inch in diameter, which they careful
ly cement and varniSh, so as to be i'm
pcrvious to water In this they remain
for several days. They finally issue from
the ground, crawl up tree or stump,
take a rest, end cast their skin. They
come out in the evening, and by the
morning the perfect insect is ready for
flight. They seem to prefer the oak to
other trees, but will take up with many
others, having rather liking for the
apple tree. They usually appear in the
latter part of May, and they disappear in
about six or seven weeks.-Scien1f I'll
| american.
The bee., 1884-06-07
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THERE are 10000 prisoners in Mexica1
jails.
The number of lives lost through disasters
in the first quarter of the present year was
2,154
NOTWITHSTANDING its immense size, the
average Of fires in Lonlon is not quite three
night.
THERE are eighty Indian children with
farmers in different parts OF Bucks County,
Penn.
SENATOR INGALLS, says that there are as
many Indians on this continent as there were
in 1892
TEN Atlantic cables have been laid, and the
two now being laid by the Bennett Mackay
company make the full dozen.
IT is said that if no frost occurs at least s.
G00000 baskets of peaches may be expected,
exceeding the memorable yield of 1875.
THE secretary of state estimates that the
United States viii be drawn upon by Europe
this year for Ii, ,000, 600 bushels of wheat
" A "RoYAL" sturgeon was caught in the
Ouse, near York, England, recently. 1t was
over seven feet in length and weighed nearly
thirteen stone.
on speculation has gained such magnitude
that the sales in the different exchanges aggre-
gate sc, ,000, 900 daily, and there are So 600 600
pipeline certificates outstanding.
FREMONT d. PALMER. of Norwich, Conn.
has a collection of forty live snakes, and re-
Gently added three of the copperhead order to
il. He catches them with his hands, seizing
them back of the head
The bee., 1884-06-07
SOutHl and West.

An experiment in blowing by steam was
witnessed at Fargo, Dakota, by prominent
wheat growers, and voted a success A trac-
tion engine drew eight plows, turning a sod
four inches thick as seventy and well as could
be done by horse power, and at the rate of
over twenty-five acres a day This will enable
the farmers to plow at a cost of not more
than 81 per acre
LARGE five-story warehouse in Baltimore,
overloaded with heavy goods, suddenly col
lapsed with a terrific crash and Law in a pile of
ruins. Six men were killed and four more in
jured
WESLEY JOHNSON was hanged at Napo-
leon, Ohio, for the murder of George Viii
liams,a farmer and his wife, the motive being
robbery. On the following day James Tucker
(colored) was hanged at Paris, Ark, for the
murder and robbery of Aaron Barker.
GOVERNOR JAMES M. SMITH, of Georgia,
was walking along a street in Atlanta, Ga,
few nights ago, when a man named Evans
Wright fired three shots in the governors
direction. Wright was arrested.
A CAMP of COWBOYS in Colorado was over.
whelmed by a sudden cloud-burst, the water
coming with such force that it swept away
everything in its path and drowned eleven
men, A cloud-buI'st swept away a house neal
Visalia, Cal, and drowned all the inmates
consisting of Peter Stewart, his wife, mother
two children and a sheep herder.
Two boilers exploded in a sawmill neal
McBrides, Mich, killing three men and Sc
verely injuring four others
THE cargo of the steamer Wave running
between Wilmington and Fayetteville, N. c.,
shifted and the vessel sank. Ned Beebe, col
cred cook; Lucy Graham, (colored), and En-
pie Hill (whitel, passengers, were drowned
The Fourth Ohio Infantry regiment ha
been disbanded on account of inefiiciency dur
ing the Cincinnati riots.
The bee., 1884-06-07
VERY OLD PEOPLE.

Asa AYERS, veteran of the war of 1912,
died recently in Michigan City. He built the
first brick house in Cleveland.
WILLIAM H. FOSTER, of Salem, Mass, is
the Oldest bank cashier in the United States.
He has been fifty-eight years in the service.
Mrs. GORDON, of Bluffton, S. c., is ITO
years of age, and still continues her habit of
walking four miles to church at least once a
month.
A GREAT lover of tobacco was Mrs Sarah
Smith, of Mattoon, ILL.,, who has just died at
the age of 100. She continued its use to the
very last.
MRS. Polly SHOULDERS, of Jasper, Ind i,
is eighty-seven years of age yet she recently
walked a distance of fourteen miles one day,
and home again the next day.
HENRY WHEELER, of Hickory Flat, Ga,
has never seen a city and is ninety-four years
old He has 122 grandchildren and great
grandchildren. He never used rum or to-
bacco.
Two sisters and brother named Plonk
living near Lincoln, n. c., cling to life re-
markably. The brother is still called ''the
baby" although ninety-eight years old. One
of the sisters, Mrs. Sallie Weaver is ninety
nine years old, and the other, Mrs. Jane
Toutheron, is ninety-eight.
A CURIOUS wedding has Just taken place in
Ekatevinoslav, Russia. Both bride and bride
groom have great-grandchldren by former
marriages. The groom's father, 103 years old,
and the brides mother, who is in her ninety
sixth year, were both present at the wedding.
The bride is siNty-seveD Years old, and the
groom sixty
JAMES SMITH, of Kosciusko Miss, has been
married forty-seyen years, and death has
never yet visited his household He and his
wife had twelve children. all of whom live
and are married. They have eighty grand
children. The entire family live within a
radius of twenty-eight miles in thirteen resi-
denceS
The bee., 1884-06-07
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

FANNY DAVENPORT has cleared nearly $780,
600 on her first Fedora" season.
DION BoUccIcAULT calculates that there
are in the United States 2,552 theatres, worth
Sis, 100000.
PHILIPPE D'ENNERY, author of the 1.-TWO
Orphans" is said to have amasSed fortune
of S2000,000.
MICHAEL B. CURTIS has saved out of the
earnings of ''Saml of Posen' the neat little
sum of $3.50
''MAY BLOSSOM" will be kept OH at the
Madison Square theatre, New York, until
September next, when it will be sent on the
road.
Two imprinted cantatas by Beethoven have
been found among tho collection of a Leipzig
antiquarian. They were written when he was
twenty-one years old.
EMMA ABBOTT has sung thirty-cight con-
secutive weeks, giving seventeen different
operas and 80 performances without missing
single engagement.
Mr. HowELLS has not yet completed the
comic opera for which Mr.. George Henschel is
preparing the music. 1t is uncertain when the
work will be brought out.
THE entire audience of the Baldwin theatre
San Francisco was recently photographed by
the electric light, and every person present
was given copy as souvenir.
MANAGER JOHN p. MCCAULEy of Louisville,
KY, has given the use of his theatre for q
benefit for building home for disabled Con-
federate soldiers in Richmond, Va.
ROSE CoGHLAN's salary has advanced mate
rally during the past two or three seasons.
She is now receiving $3.50 per week at Wal
lacks, New York, and S475 week when she
| travels
Mr.. ROBERT SToEPEL, the musician and
| director, has brought a suit against Henry
Irving for the use of music employed by him
| in several of the plays he appeared in. Papers
| were served upon Mr.. Irving Before his de
| parture for Europe.
| VERDIS study is a sanctum sanctorum which
no one dares to enter or approach without the
masters special permission, and that is seldom
granted. He shuts himself up in it for hours
every day, and sometimes for whole days,
emerging only to eat and sleep.
The bee., 1884-06-07
Foreign,

I'm Catholic bishop of the Soudan reports
tii-t sgrcn Italian priests and four sisters of
mercy have been massacred at Ell Obeid.
Three priests were exposed naked to the sun
for four days and died from the effects Of their
exposure.
THE race for the Derby, Englands annual
great racing event, resulted this year in a
dead heat between the horses Harvester and
st. Gatien, the favoTite, Queen Adelaide,
coming in third. Fifteen horses participated.
The stakes were divided.
GREAT damage has been caused by floods
In Southwestern Spain. In one province alone
5O9 buildings have been destroyed and 5l4
damaged.
A SERIES of dynamite explosions in London
have carried CONSERVATION and alarm through
out England. The first explosion resulted
from bomb being thrown into the basement
of the Junior Carlton club house: this was fol-
lowed by another explosion near the army and
navy club house. The basement of the Carl
ton club house was shattered and four female
servants were severely injured Shortly
afterwar another severe explosion oc-
CURED outside the noted detective Office in
Scotland Yard. The corner of the building
WAS blown off to a height of thirty feet, and a
policeman, coachman. and several other per-
sons were severely injured. The streets and
club houses at this time were crowded with
people, and the utmost excitement prevailed.
Another explosion was averted by the failure
of the fuse to burn Several cakes of dyna-
mite were found by the police One man dis
covered with lighted fuse was pursued, but
escaped by jumping into waiting cab.
JOHN c. Enc, ex-president of the Second
National bank, of New York, and defaulter
in large sum, was arrested at Quebec as he
was about to sail for Liverpool
By the fall of balloon-car containing
twenty persons, at Lille, France, three of the
occupants were killed and the rest badly
hurt.
NEWS has been received that a violent
shock Of earthquake occurred on the island of
Kishm, near the mouth of the Persian gulf.
Twelve villages were destroyed, 300 persons
killed and many others injured.
Sixty persons were injured during an elec.
torl riot in Clausenburg, Austria
FIVE Mexican states have declared war
against the government on account Of the
revenue stamp tax
The bee., 1884-06-07
Facts About SDOOls-

Spools are made in immense numbers
One factory turns out over 100, 900 gross
a day, and consumes $500 cords of
birch wood annually. The wood is first
sawed into sticks four or FIVE feet long
and from seven-eighths of an inch to
three inches square, according to the
size of the spool to be produced. These
sticks, after being thoroughly seasoned,
are sawed into short blocks, and the
blocks are dried in a hot-air kiln. At
the time they are sawed hole is bored
through them. The spool machine is
managed by boy, who throws out the
hHUtty VI SfCrUSUIr~-I-:---.- rr1<o -opOOis
polish themselves by their motion and
contact in revolving drums. Some of
the spools are dyed yellow. red or black
others are ready for use when they leave
the drums. The number of yards of cot
ton on a spool is determined by the size
of the spool. The cotton is never meas
ured, but the spool is gauged to contain
100, 200 or 500 yards, as the case may
be. Spool and linen firms always send
to their spool-makers patterns giving the
size and shape of the barrel and of the
head and bevel, which determine the
amount Of silk or thread which the spoo
will hold. .-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The bee., 1884-06-07
Castle Garden.

Castle garden is one of the most benef-
icent institutions in the world, and owes
its present uses largely to DR.. Friedrich
man reichsrath, but formerly resident
of New York 1t is under the control of
nine commissioners of emigration, ap-
pointed for the term of six years by the
governor, and confirmed by the senate of
the State of New York Thither let us
follow portion of the 6,730 emigrants
who arrived by seven different steamers
on May Is, 1882. The name of each, the
date of his arrival, place of departure,
number of his family Gf any, whittier
bound, his business, and other particu-
lars, are all registered. This record, to-
gether with that of the cabin passengers,
is compared with the manifest of each
captain, which manifest ought to exhibit
the names of all the persons he had on
board. 1t thus becomes check on the
greed of some who have brought more
passengers than the law permits, or than
were named In the manifests.
Not only do the commissioners of emi-
grafton protect their often helpless
charges against the extortions, robber-
les, and unspeakable villainies of the
human harpies who formerly infested
the docks, and preyed upon the luckless
incomers-not only do they supply inter
prefers, maintain an employment bu-
reau, assist in the exchange of
funds, purchase of tickets, forward
ing of emigrants and baggage-but
they also license the boarding house run
ners, and subject them to rigid super
vision. They further provide for the
sick and disabled, the lunatics, and the
pregnant women whose husbands, if
sick, are sent to the hospital on Wards
Island, furnish medicine to the ailing and
trusses to the ruptured, and preserve re-
corded particulars of all thus coming
under their special care by which they
may be found and identified in the
future.
Near the Information bureau from
1000 to $500 people, waiting inquiringIy
for their friends, have sometimes been
congregated at one time.
The grandly benefeent work of the
Emigration commissioners deserves bet
ter medical facilities than the miserably
inadequate hospital accommodations at
their immediate command in Castle Gar
den. New York does the work and
bears the expense connected with foreign
immigration, but the whole country
shares in its benefits. The railroads es-
pecially profit by it. The cash value of
tickets purchased by inward-bound en-
lgrants in 1881 was more than five mil
lion dollars. Moneys to the value of
eleven millions were exchanged in Castle
Garden, and the estimated amount of the
drafts, bonds, and other representatives
of specie value brought in during the
same year was no less than one hundred
million dollars. Castle Garden ought to
be anational institution. .-RarPe1' s AagG-
sine.
The bee., 1884-06-07
A Remarkable Nest.

The cow-bunting of New England
never builds nest. She lays her eggs
in the nests of those birds whose Young
feed like her own on insects and worms,
taking care to deposit but one egg in a
nest. A cow-bunting deposited an egg
in the nest of sparrow, in which was
one egg of the latter. On the sparrow's
return what was to be done. She could
not get out the egg which belonged
to her, neither did she wish to desert her
nest, so nicely prepared for her owp
young. What did she do2
After consulting with her husband,
they fixed upon their mode of procedure.
They built o bridge of straw and hair
directly over the two eggs, making a
second story in the home, thus leaving
the two eggs below out of the reach of
the warmth of her body. In the upper
apartment she laid four eggs, and reared
her four children. In the museum at
Salem, Mass. may be seen the nest, with
two eggs imprisoned below.
The bee., 1884-06-07
The Insane Lover,

The marriage of captain in the artil.
lery was temporarily stopped at st. Sui
pice, in Paris, by commissionaire, who,
brandishing large knife, dared the bri.
dal party to enter the church Taken
into custody, he told the commissary of
police that he was rich and wanted to
marry the lady himself, and was going to
have golden palace built for her and
give splendid entertainments, at which
he would invite ali officers in grand uni
form. A search was made at the luna
tics dwelling, when the police discov-
cred about SO, 900 in gold coin hidden
all over the place, in every possible nook
and corner, the result of his savings for
over thirty years. The money was taken
charge of by the prefecture of police, to
be kept for the lunatic should ne recover,
or his heirs in the event of his death.
The bee., 1884-06-07
car.Hheels OF RYe Straw.

The paper wheel may be larger than
the ordinary iron wheel or it may be the
same size. Its perpendicular surface,
however, is always studded with bolt
heads. Its surface is never corrugated
nor irregular like that of the iron wheel.
The paper of a paper car-wheel is nothing
more nor less than ordinary brown straw
board. That made wholly of rye straw
is preferable. The boards are cut into
discs, and holes in the center are punched
large enough to fit the iron axle shoulder
that constitutes the hub of the wheel.
Thus shaped, the straw boards are placed
one upon another with ordinary flour
paste, till pile of them about five inches
high is attained. They are then put un-
der an hydraulic press and squeezed to-
gether as tightly as it is practicable to
compress matter of the consistency of
straw w-board. The pressure is so great as
to generate many degrees of heat in the
compressed board. After being thor
oughly dried, the paper wheel is turned
on lathe to fit the heavy steel tire and
shell into which it is inserted to form the
core of the wheel. 1t is held firmly in
its position by an iron plate the size of
the inner surface of the wheel, and like
wise by bolts. And in short, the paper
of paper car-wheel is simply core or
| filling in shell of steel, the outer rim or
tire that runs on the track being nearly
two inches thick The virtue of the pa
per consists in the fact that it gives elias
ticity to the wheel. The durability of
the paper wheel, on account of this elas-
ITCHY. is computed to be many thousands
of miles greater than that of the ordinary
iron wheel,