Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


physician and lady minister.
Ohio has oil portraits ofits sixteen
Governors.
routing out the gamblers.
Petroleum has been discovered at
Newton, Ala.
Improbable industry-spinning
yarns at the street corners.
Oysters are regularly imported in
to England from New York.
One Buffalo dealer has sold 10000
valentines this year.
Solitary confinement has crazed
nine convicts in the Detroit prison.
Brazilian troops are served with
rations of dog-meat.
Mr.. Voorhees,, who was murdered
in Brooklyn, last week, has an insur-
ance of $50, 900 on his life.
Prince Bonaparte counts on FIVE
years confinement for killing Noir,
and desponds accordingly.
The number of steamships plying
between this country and Europe
will be greatly increased in the
Spring.
An astronomer predicts for this year
a comet of such brilliancy, and SO
near the earth, that our nights will be
almost as bright as our days.
The author of the "Black Crook, !"
three years ago a penniless Bohe-
Jnian, is building an elegant villa
Iear Port Chester, New York.
Discovery was made and ventila-
ted tlat the wives of some officials
in tAe Stat, Department were out
spoken secessionists.
The Erie, Pa, fire bugs have been
caught at last. Their names are Ed
ward Firsh, Peter Laier and Philip
metz. Firsh has confessed.
The Shaker Society at Alfred, Me-,
contemplate selling their real estate
at that place, and dniting with one
of the societies in Michigan or Ohio.
Ifrecent suspicious are well found
ed, people having sons to educate
will soon be inquiring il all the
West Point cadetships have been
disposed of.
Henry Ward Beecher says the thir-
teenth chapter of 1st Corinthians is
the r1ost perfect description OF a gen.
tleman that ever was written or
thought of.
A formidable movement has been
inaugurated in Chicago to secure the
Enforcement of the Sunday Liquor
law.
Leverrier, one of the scientific
glories of France, has been dismiss
ed from the observatory because
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte did not
fancy the astronomers remarks in
the Senate.
fifth-story windoY in Paris upon
the head of a foot passenger. They
both had to roll In the mud, but
neither was badly injured.
1t is said that a Watchdog Is notso
large in the morning as at night, be-
cause he Is let out at night, and taken
in ia the morning.
Leroy Cotton was lately convicted
of the murder OF Mayor Lochmar,
of Galveston, Texas last April, and
sentenced to be hung on the 9Th of
April.
Father Jesse Grant, though recent
1y appointed to the CovinRton (Ky.)
Postmastershfp, intends to retire to
private life, says the Cincinnati
Commercial.
Most of the members of the royal
family of Bavaria hate each other SO
cordially that they do not speak to
each other except on official occa-
sions.
1t Is remarked as a singular circum-
stance in the South African dig
gings that all the diamonds have been
found by natives and not by Europe
ans. The natives go upon aIl-fours,
scanning the surface and scraping
with their nails, while the European
tries to maintain the dignity OF an
erect attitude.
Abootblack In Newark, N. ]. see
ing pickpocket stealing the watch
of an Intoxicated coutryman, gave
the alarm, get knocked down for his
pains by friend of the thief, and
locked up by tae estute authorities
for creating q row.
Roof gardening has been commen-
ced in Baltimore, gentleman hav-
ing devoted the roof of his stable
aud carriage house to the purpose of
growing ornamental plants. Water
pipes are carried to this portion of
the building for convenience OF
watering flowers in dry seasons.
ALynn, Mass, woman blew her
stove in pieces, smashed her win
dows, half burned up her kitchen
furniture, and injured q little boy,
the other-day, by thawIng out a
tightly corked jug of frozen water
in the stove oven.
The majesty of the law was fearfully
by Lord Eskgrove, who, It
is related, once sentenced tailor for
a soldier, in these words:
"And not only did you murder him,
he was bereaved of his life,
but you did thrust, or push, or pierce,
or propel the deadly weapon through
his regimental breeches, which were
his Majesty's."