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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-22

The Silver question In the vital iaane OF
the day, NJ d the administration OF Mr..
Cleveland will doubtless be judged
by the stand II will take In the matter.
The "N'w York Herald" Ia most out
snOken In ita Opp alti0n 70 the coinage
Of silver and insists that the most ur-
gent duty OF Congress upon its reassem'
bling " to annulthe Bland Act " Oui 1.-THE
other hand the advocates OF silver are
many aud enthusiastic, and the light 10
repeal the act will b. bitter one Rich
ard Parks Bland, who In the father OF
the Bland Il and after whom the silver
dollar has been nick named resides at
Lebanon, Mo-, and was horn In Hartford
Kentucky, Aug, l0,h, 1895. He receiy'
pd an academic pducat on, In 1900 no
removed 20 Missouri and subsequently
10 California, IN turn leaving the latter
place for that part OF U ah now Nevada.
lie located at Virginia City, pracllced
law, was interested In mining, opera
tions In California and Nevada, was
cOuuty Treasurer OF Carson county Utah
ry, from 1860 until the organization OF
no S'a,e government OF Nevada. In lS
10 he retu ned TO Missouri and
Ocated at Rlll0, where he entered
,he law business with hia brother Q. Q.
Rand continuing In the Arm until lS'
60 when no moved to Lebanon, begin
uing uraclice there, He WAS chosen 10
the i3'd, 4ith, 45th, 40 h, 47th and ash
Congress an q Democrat, For the 4Sih
Congress he received II 2b8 votes
against 10. $50 for Wallace hia chief op'
ponont, and 1877 for Quinn Greenback-
or. Ne was 70 elected TO the Forty ninth
| ConQresg,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-22

Tr IL now claimed that Foraker Ia
fornenst prohibition, though before
election no would not define his posi-
ton, There is, however, nothing from
MIR. Foraker himself yet, He can study
au.y
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-22

THE WIFE, MOTHER AND MAID who suf-
fers from Female weakness and Debility,
will and Gilmore's Aromatic positive
cure,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-22

BLAINE carried Ohio last November by
over 32 600; and Foraker will hardly get
half that. Surely, not much TO boast
of lnder the circumstances.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-22

IlotLyERH engraving Of ~ oNaPNLLOw IN Hie Ill
nRARyn II m accurate representation 0f tho room
which IAngfplnW used from lNT1 until tho tmo " his
DEATH aud II will undoubtedly bo accepted ~ the favor
Ito picture " tho "Amcroan Popular poot tho liko
nes IA good tho attitude ana oxplceslon happily 10
aud everyone who nd lfoa ana appreciates tho writings
OF tho great poet will be pleased 10 SEQ tho appoint
mcplS o. tho room IN which hc WORKED together with
Thc central figure ia that Of tho GRRAr poBr lilo IL
seated on tho right OF circular wbo, which IN Btrew
with hla booka aud writing materials, The surround
inaa arc harmonious aud symmetrical Tho artisan ~
In he workshop no tho extreme lott stands tho carved
book case continuing all the Poets own works. y their
or glnal manuscript ankod by those OF Irving Milton
Hhakcapoaro Scott Byron ana innumofnblc others.
Hanging ON the wall IN portrait OF Nathaniel How
lhorne bis claegmAtc ~ Dowd9ln Tho sagc Oh Vono ~
was presented 10 him by tho school children of Gam
bridge ana IN mado from tho Spreading Chognut which
ii ia abont four years alncc Mr. Samuel Iioyer tho
Artist FnprAyer conceived tho dea ~ hla now famous
picture In honor OF "Amorlcap Great poo aud y mas
benn labor VI love with HIN TO produce pleasant ana
lasting memorial representing tho features ana homo
surroundings Of tho one whom tho nation and tho whole
world m0urn that he has auooccdod IN tho desire of
hlq object IN well Bualaded by tho engraving produced
Not only wi II 10 hvhly priced ~ work OF art Dut
meet want OF all refined aud intellectual homes
Last but rot least y tho room scI whSn nas mnon
Of our immortal poet u was tho room IN which ukN
OB0R0B WARRINGTON made hls hohdquartcis, dlryouy
after tho battle OF Bunker l aud IN which no received
hls military visitors and star Olcors aud from which
he Issued hlA orders,
tyy- REMEMBER this " no chrome, or trlng work o
fancy. but q SUPERB STEEL PLATE ENGRAVING
and wo sincerely say 10 ono and all do not oso TINS
available opportunity but haslon nj once while you
hayo tho opportunity OF our liberal ocr to possess
COPY OF ha beautiful ~ well 90 true historic cngray.
ing and laqilng household ornament together with a
copy 0f rlln WEEKLY DEMOCRAT Tor ono year, NJ
the ynty inndotalo and reduced ptloo nnnol .,, ~,
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
ArsCRAP OF WAR HISTORY.

One of the most interesting sights in
Washington is the collection of Confederate
battle flags captured by the Union forces in
the late war. There are $40 of these tattered
and blood-stained relics of the ''lost cause"
and though more than a score of years have
passed since they were placed in their
present position their torn and tattered folds
tell the story of the war in silent and un
speakable eloquence. Some are torn to
shreds, others are begrimed with smoke,
and not few bear the deep red stain of
blood. Each flag is numbered, and attached
to it is card giving the date and history of
its capture. No. 80 is a smoky and dis
figured banner of stars and bars and the
little card attached says: ''Captured by
Company A, Second Minnesota volunteers,
in Gen. ZoLLIC oFFER's intrenchments, Jan.
10, 1852" Perhaps some eye will rest on this
paragraph and while reading it the mind will
travel back to twenty-three years ago when
on memorable winters day ZoLLIooFFER's
ntrenchments were stormed and under a
storm of leaden hail some brave Minnesota
boy snatched the standard from the enemy's
works. Who was hes
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06

THE Wheat OUTLOOK.

Reviewing the wheat prospects in Kansas
and Missouri, the st. Louis Republican says:
'The ravages of the Hessian fly were shown
TO be of an alarming character. And now
come seemingly well-authenticated reports of
considerable damage by winter killing. These
reports possibly are exaggerated. Probably
they are. The granger is proverbialy de-
spondeut touching his crop prospects, and it
is safe to conclude that the present accounts
are exaggerated. More than the usual loss
from winter killing was not anticipated. In
severe freezing was rather favorable to the
wheat plant, as there had been an abundance
of snow, and this warm covering had re-
mained on the ground almost continuously.
Still it would not be safe to infer that the
loss from winter killing will not prove excep-
tonally disastrous. The reports are too con-
current and from too widely spread localities
not to establish the inference that the damage
will be very considerable. In addition to the
loss from the Hessian fy and from winter
killing, the latter largely resulting
most probably from the attack of the
former that have caused the plant to become
weak and deceased even where it was not
killed outright, is to be taken into account
the fact that to very considerable per cent.
there has been diminutiou of the surface
planted to wheat. Unless there is a marked
increase in the sowing of spring wheat the
product of the wheat harvest this season
viii be very materially diminished. This
cannot be expected in Kansas, as the farm
ers of that state long since gave up spring
wheat growing owing to the swift destruc-
ton by the chinch-bug that follows The
spring wheat field is great breeder of this
pesdferous and malodorous little insect,
and the adjacent corn field is sure to suffer
from the burrow he has made in the wheat
field. Upon the whole we must conclude
that the yields of wheat from our Western
vhest aelds at best viii be considerably
less than the product of either 1883 or 1854.
But as to the real loss that NAV be expected
Il is we'll at present to suspend Judgment
as warm rains during the next ten dsys
throughout Kansas aud Missouri will very
materially improve the appearance of our
Western wheat fields"
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
GOOD REGIHNIEG.

Gen. BLACK, the new commissioner of
pensions, is starting reform in the right di-
reetion in the pension bureau. He has issued
a circular in which he declares that the prac-
tice of advancing claims out of their regular
order must be stopped. He thus gives evil
dence of his intention to head OF the most
unjust and unseemly practice that has here
tofore prevailed in that department. Ad-
vaucing claims out of their regular order was
one of the political levers devised by Com
missioner DUDLEY to work Republican poll
ties He pulled it with considerable effect
in both Ohio and Indiana in the last cam
paigu. Anyway it was an unjust system,
aud 70 such an extent vas it carried that the
consideration of these special cases became
to be almos. the entire business Of the pen
sion Office. Every claimant who had some
influential friend in Washington could have
bis claim taken up out of its order and get
his money long before those who were ilssiy
entitled to precedence could hear anything
of their case. As a rule those who can secure
the most influence are in the least financial
distress, aud hence are the very ones whose
claims should be held back Gen. BLACK
deserves eommendstion for taking prosnp u
steps 70 abzte this injustice
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
UNWILLING sUFFR4GIsTs.

The difficulty that our Minneapolis friends
have in persuading the ladies of that city to
avail themselves of their "God given right"
to vote at the school election would indicate
that women do not set SO. much store on
suffrage as some of them would have us be-
lieve. Or 1t may be that the real pleasure of
female suffrage is in the pursuit rather than
the possession, and that having accom-
plished their purposes in securing it and
establishing a principle they lose all inter
est in subsequent proceedings. The Mime
apolis experience in this direction is not
solitary, for Secretary PIERCE of Massachu-
sets recently made report to the legislature
of that state showing that similar state of
affairs exists in that locality. His report con-
Germs the number of women who have regis
tered and voted in Massachusetts during the
past four years, and his figures are instruct
i've. In 1881, 3,032 women registered and
1,437 only voted. In 1882, 2,570 registered
and ISL voted. The next year 2,77S regis
tered and 1888 voted, and last year 3,471
registered and 1,7S9 voted. 1t will thus be
seen that about 90 per cent. only of those
who registered voted-a much larger per
cent of loss than has been noticed among
voters of the other sex.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06

with Philadelphia, ]. L. Quest with Detroit;
H. yesterday, j. P Sullivan, P. Fl. Kelley,
E. Srissmith, j. Hofford, W. Corrigan and
F. Nash with Augusta, P. l.. Murphy and
John Ahern with Birmingham.
Harry Wright's Philadelphia team is now
complete. He has signed seventeen players,
which is more than are connected with
any other club. Five are pitchers, four
catchers, five infelders and three outfeiders.
The outfelders are Purcell, Fogarty and Man
ming.
Anson, Kelly, Flint, Gore Dalrymple, sut-
cliff, Burns, Corcoran and Clarkson of the
Chicago club have gone to Louisville, to be
joined there by Pfsfer, Williamson, Mari,
Beard, Brown and Sunday. All the players
are in the best of condition and perfectly
confident of regaining Chicago's lost pres
tige. The club was to have played game at
Louisville on the I'd and another on the
Sd inst, after which it was to go to Cincin-
natl, Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta,
remaining in the latter city for practice UNI
til the time comes to report at st. Louis for
the opening of the regular league champion7
ship season.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
KiIIed hx a Ealing Sion.

PITTsBURe, April 5.-About 3 O'Clock this
afternoon, during the momentary preva-
lence of wind storm, large sign on the
roof of Murphy's book store was wrenched
from its fastenings and thrown, together
with several hundred bricks, to the pavement
below, the mass catching in its fall two
young ladies who we're passing, named Bella
Cousley and Anna Johnson, and an old man
named Dennis NcCarty. Miss Cousley was
killed almost instantly, the sign striking her
on the head and crushing her skull.
Miss johnson, when picked up, was in
4 condition of inseusibility aud was
soon revived. Her head was badly cut and
both legs broken and her body terribly
bru sed. Her injuries, however, are not re-
garded as fatal MeCarty escaped with a
few slight cut and bruises. No blame is at
tached to Murphy for the accident, as the
sign vas new and the fastenings strong and
in good condition.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
TWELVE WISE MAxIMs.

When the Hon. JOHN w. STEWART of Yer
mont was in congress in 1868 he received a
letter of satirical good advice from distin-
guished Vermont Democrat, who had been a
personal and professional friend. The letter
was passed around among the members of
congress and very much enjoyed. The let
ter is of interest now from the fact that the
Vermont Democrat who wrote it is the Hon.
EDWARD ]. PHELPS, who has just been ap-
pointed minister to England The letter
contained the following maxims:
/. Always vote in favor of motion to ad-
journ; and if the period of adjournment is in
question vote for the longest time and the
earliest day.
2. Vote steadily against all other propositions
whatsoever.
(a) There is already legislation enough for
the next five hundred years. (b) No honest
man wants any more. ,c) Even unconsttu-
tional bills for the further enlargement of the
negro should form no exception to this rule.
3. Make no speeches. Nobody attends to
congressional oratory when delivered. When
printed nobody reads it, and it is nuisance to
the mails 1 have had more than 4,000,0 900 such
speeches sent me, and never read one in my
ife.
4. Do not allow yourself to be drawn into
aspersions upon the memory of Guy FAwKEs He
has been much censured by shallow men. His
tory will in the end do him justice. Before you
have been long in congress you will perceive
that one such man nowadays, with better luck,
might do the country more service than hun
dred presidential candidates or Christian states
men,
5. Do not be seen much in public in the com
pany of Republicans. Outside of New England
they are not, as rule, savory. Some associa-
tIons will be tolerated, though known to exist,
when decently yelled But there is no excuse
for paradng them in public.
q. Practice rigid economy. The experience
possible by judicious frugality to save about
100000 each session out of his salary. Thus
the true patriot in standing by his country makes
the country stand by him.
{. Cultivate assiduously all newspaper cor
respondents. All there is of public life is what
the papers say, and they will say anything that
is made worth their while.
8. Do not become candidate for the presi-
dency. The idea that the country is anxious to
elect you to that office is chimerical. Nor has
the country anything to do with it, except to
vote as it is told.
8. In case of doubt take the trick.
10. Keep your nostrils open. your mouth
shut, your head cool and your feet warm. Avoid
congressional whisky, Bob Ingersoll, the game
of poker, and the courts of the District of
Columbia.
IL. Beware of statesmen with great moral
ideas. You will find immoral ideas more honest
as well as more interesting.
12. Whatever happens do not relinquish hope.
AS CICERO observes nil deSperaadulD, do not de-
spair. You have once been respected member
of the Addison county bar. Resolve to regain
that position. Live for the future and live down
the present.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06

THERE is nothing new or startling this
morning from the theater of action in the
Northwest territories. Late adviees from
Prince Albert would seem to indicate that
the position of the police there is quite pre-
carious and that reinforcements and provis-
ions must be forwarded quickly to be of any
account to the beleaguered. As the wires
are cut between Battleford and Winnipeg,
the fate Of the women and children at that
point is a mere matter Of speculation, aud of
the gravest apprehension. The Canadian
troops, who might now have been at the front
had the government sent them through the
states, have just arrived at Winnipeg, and
valuable time has been sacrificed to the gov
ernmental policy Of patroniziDg the all
Canadian line at whatever cost to the people
of Manitoba and the Northwest territories.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
FRELINGHUYSEN DYING.

The ex-Secretary Of State in Feeble State
and Cannot Survive Long.
Special to the Globe,
New YORK, April 5.-The New York ply
sician who is attending ex-Secretary Fre-
linghuyseu said that Mr.. Freling ghuysen's
disease is fatal. He may live few days, but
has reached a state of weakness, which makes
it possible that be may drop off at any mo-
ment His trouble is congestion of the
liver, combined with some disorder of the
heart and kidneys. He lay to-day
in state of partial stupor and
spoke very little,. showing rather by looks
than by words that he recognized his family.
All day telegraph boys took house messages
of inquiry about the patient. Some of these
were from Chester A. Arthur, Senator Ed
munds and other distinguished men. 1t
was said at the house this evening that Mr.
Frelnghuysen was suffering less pain than
during the day, but he was very weak.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
The News at the Capital.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The report that
ex-Secretary Frelnghuysen is seriously i'll at
his home in New Jersey caused no surprise
here. Mr. Frelinghuysen was quite i'll four
years ago, at which time he was incorrectly
reported to have had.a stroke of apoplexy,
but he regained his usual vigor, and did not
show signs of weakness until early last win
ter. Then those who were intimate with
him discovered that he was set upon the
ratification of the reciprocity treaties
and when his whole foreign policy was re-
jected by the senate Frelinghuysen became
despondent. Since the middle of February
he notably failed. After leaving the state
department his friends became alarmed
about him. He invited ex-President Arthur
to his house to remain for some weeks, but
was himself so ill that he was obliged to
leave suddenly for New jersey. His home
physician, who came here at that
time, thought that change and
rest and gentle exercise would improve
him. These did for a time, but it is now
discovered that he has wel-defned disease
of the liver, and it is not expected here that
he will long survive. One of the daughters
of Mr. Frelinghuvsen has just returned from
New York, where she went 10 see Mrs. Fre-
linghuysen, who has recently had an apo
pleetic stroke. Mr.. Frelinghuysen is about
60 years of age.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
THE United States district attorney .

THE United States district attorney at Chi
cago is the best friend that MACKIN and
GALLAGHER found in that city. Instead of
allowing these ballot-box suffers to be ar
raigned, indicted and tried by the local
courts, he rushed forward and had them tried
on an information made by himself. The
United States supreme court at Washington
few days ago rendered decision setting at
liberty man who had been sentenced to
fifteen years. Imprisonment by the federal
court in Arkansas, upon the ground that the
constitution provides that ''no person shall
be held to answer for capital or otherwise
Infamous crime, unless on presentment or
indictment of grand jury" This decision
will set MAoKIN and GALLAGHER free, for this
is the principal point relied upon by them to
upset the sentence of the federal court at
Chicago. If the MACKIN and GALLAGHER case
had been left to the state courts, their pun
ishment would have been sure.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06

osN1S DIGSA, he who prayed feTvently
from afar to ALLAH for the troops, exposed
20 the fire from the British rife, Is represented
to be deserted hv all of his followers but afate-
full few and the members Of his family: aud vet
Gen. GRAaxm has been directed by his gov
erument to treat with the rebel for peace.
The climatic conditions are such that the
British art. constrained 10 make the best
terms possible. just what the result will be
is lef, for diplomatic speculation and to the
fortunes of var, which, like other DEGREES Of
the tickle goddess, are hard to ascertain.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
BURNS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

BY the efforts of the Earl of Rosebery
bust of ROBERT BURNS has been placed in
the Poets corner of Westminster abbey.
This is a tardy tribute to the memory of Scot
lands greatest poet, for it has been ninety
years since he died. But it is not the first
time slow homage has been paid to the
poetical genius of Britain. For century
marked and unhonored by any monument.
Nearly as long period went by before any
record of SHAKESPEARE found place on the
walls of Westminster. Even MILToN's name
was for two generations unnoticed, except
for passing reference in the inscription to
a forgotten poet BURNS was the most uni
versal and also the most national of all
poets, and gained hold upon the minds
and hearts of his countrymen which has no
parallel in literature. There is no part Of
the habitable globe to which the restless foot
and active brain of Scotchmen have pene-
trated that has not echoed with his poetry.
His songs are sung to-day all over
the world. The three generations
that have passed since the death of the Ayr
shire peasant have only increased the inter
est of mankind in the man, have only raised
the deliberate estimate of his marvellous ge-
MUS. In his own well-known words:
''Time the impression deeper makes
As stYams their channels deeper wear"
The bust, which is by Sir JOHN STEELE,
r. S. A., is erected on corbel and orna-
mented in harmony with the style of the sur
rounding portions of the building. 1t stands
about fifteen feet from the abbey floor, and
about three feet to the right of the bust of
SHAKESPEARE. On the left of the great
dramatist is the memorial of another emf
nent Scottish poet, JAMES THOMPSON, the
author of The Seasons. The sculptor has
largely adhered to the leading features of the
NAIsMAITH portrait of BURNS, modified by
information from other sources.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06
snieide from Desnondency.

NEH YORK. April 5.-Despondency con-
troIled Sperry Kane, the broker, who COM
mitted suicide at his residence iu Leiifert'!
place. Brooklyn, last evening. II had beer
known to his family for months, and be hac
been watched for weeks, 1t be-
ing apprehended that he might attemp
to kill himself. and in fact he had ever
threatened to do so. Severe dyspepsia II
given as the cause for his moroseness- Mrs
Kane endeavored to snatch the knife from
her husbands hand last evening and cut hel
own hand in the act
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-06

IT is estimated that 1,165, 900, 900 cubic
feet of water fall every hour over the preci-
pice at Niagara. Exclusive of the velocity
with which the water reaches the brink the
power Of the falls is calculated to be about
5000, 600 horsepower, or nearly one-fourth
of the whole steam power of the earth. The
Kentuekians say that four such falls as those
of Niagara, working day and night, wouldn't
move President CLEVELAND from his position
when he has once taken a stand.