The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-02-14
THE LAPLANDERs HE'LL.


The orthodox believers among the Lapland-
ers insist that hell is place Of perpetual frost.
Their ideal of exquisite physical suffering is TO
forever freeze. To attempt to hold up the
prospect of eternal fire to them as deterrent
from farther transgression is to make them go
and sin some more. We offer this as mere
preface.to the thought that this particular semi
Southern latitude has been learning something
of late about hellish weather from a Lapland-
lander's point of view.
STRANGE RUMORS.
Toledo Blade
Strange political rumors are ahoat these days
First II is that Major Dick is to withdraw from
the authorship and become a candidate for
lieutenant-governor. Then Poe is TO be
renominated for auditor; Bushnell
is to be made governor, and be-
come the next secretary of war and Barger,
lieutenant governor, is to become governor;
Mckinley is to be renominated for third
term, and all the rest of the state ticket is to
be renominated; Foraker is to present McKin-
ley's name to the next national convention,
and so on. Do not believe all these rumors.
GEN. ISAAC R, SHERWOOD,
Wooster Jacksonian.l
| Gen. Sherwood, editor of the Stark County
NEws-DEMoCRAT, has sold his interest in that
newspaper and expects to retire from his edi-
torial work in the near future. Gen. Sherwood
has devoted forty years of his life to newspaper
work and now decides to retire from active
pursuits The STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT is
one of the absolutely fearless, independent and
newsy papers of Ohio, and Gen. Sherwoods
retirement leaves a vacancy in the ranks ofthe
best press writers of the state. His life of
activity and work has earned for him a sur
cease from labor, and yet we can not but re-
gret that his trenchant facile pen will not be
as busy as of yore in the interest of democray
and clean politics.
Geu. Sherwood was the first man in north
western Ohio to take up arms in defense of the
''stars and stripes" at the firing of Fort Sum
ter. His name was the first to be signed to
the muster roll OF the 14th Ohio regiment. At
this time he was probate Judge of Will
liams county, and editor proprietor and fore
man of the Williams County Gazette and
owning, too, a half interest in the Fulton
County Standard. He abandoned all these
offices and plunged fearlessly into active SER
vice in the war of the rebellion. His war
record is brilliant and remarkable.
On his return from the military service in
1865, he took control Of the Toledo CONNER
cial and remained at work on that paper until
1869, when he assumed his duties as secretary
of state, to which position he was reelected in
1870. Upon his retirement in 1872, he was
elected to congress from the Toledo district
serving one term. In 1875 he purchased the
Toledo Sunday Journal, which he sold in 1885,
! going to Washington where he did press work
for prominent newspapers for two years. In
1878 he was elected probate Judge of Lucas
county and reelected in 1881. In 1888,
Gen. Sherwood located in Canton, organized
a stock company, purchased the STARK CoUN-
TY DEMOCRAT, and since that time he has
been busily engaged in editorial work on that
paper The business manager, Mr. John G..
! Harmony, also retires at this time and the
paper passes into other hands.
Gen. Sherwood on retiring, hears many
plaudits richly deserved for his brilliant
management of the STARK COUNTY DEMO.
Graf. His pen is as skillful and versatile as
when he came from the war;" and for the
sake of the Democratic party, we hope he may
continue to be engaged on the Democratic
press OF Ohio.
Soldier, statesman, editor publicist, poet
and friend, journalistically, Good Bye
Here's my hand
With my heart int. And now
farewell
Till half an hour hence.P