Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-14
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ID, 1871.
Current Items.


A WASHINGTON railway president has
been fined $40 for holding the opinion
that one horse can pull five tons weight
ON an upgrade.
THE record books of Wayne County,
] Michigan, which were taken from De-
| troit by the British army in the war OF
| 1872, have been recently returned from
Canada. They extend over a period OF
36 years, from 1776 to 1872.
IT is said that many years ago Horace
| Greely WI ote to female contributor re-
questing her to abstain from further
poetry. A council of friends inspected
the letter and finally pronounced it an
offer of marriage. Hence Mrs. Greedy
and the junior Greeleys.
WORCESTER, Mass, is to have q SOL
diers' monument designed by Rudolph
Rogers. 1t is to be composed of Concord
granite, embellished with bronze statues
and medallions. It will cost $4,000,
will be SO feet in height, and will be
completed within two years.
A PARTY of English capitalists, guided
by the Hon. J. Ross Browne, are explor-
ing the tule or bottom lands of the
mouth of the Sacramento River, with a
view of purchasing large tract for the
purpose of reclamation. It is proposed
to apply the Holland system of dykes
to the lands.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ENos BATcHEEDER lately
celebrated their golden wedding at
Avon, New York. A singular fact of
the occasion was that Mr.. Batchelder
was the brides third husband, she hav-
ing had two others, with whom she
lived six years apiece, and by whom she
had six children.
east-side street the oddly combined
names of Adam Gander appear upon a
signboard. The gentleman who owns
the names says that he will make per-
sonal issue with anybody who places
undue emphasis upon the second syla-
BILE of the first name.
ESPECIAL premiums were awarded as
follows at the Selma, Alabama, Fair: To
grounds, Miss Maggie Goldsby, of
Marion, handsome set of frrs. To the
ugliest man, Captain B. F. Ellis, of
Selma, suit of clothes. To the pref
tiest man, Andrew Gardner, of Selma, a
set of shirts.
AMONG, the feats of lightning-saw,
on exhibition at the American Institute
FAIR in New York. the following is
inches in diameter, was sawed off by
two men in three-quarter seconds, by
three and half strokes of the saw. It
was then sawed across sixteen times in
two minutes and sixteen seconds, or
faster than a cord in nine minutes,
including lost time. a
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middle lake, which has run dry in Sur
prise Valley, leaves a sediment or bed
of superior salt, clear as crystal, from
four inches to foot in depth, and COW
ering an area of fifteen miles in length
by six miles in width. 1t was never
before supposed that these lakes con-
tanned any salt, and the water was al
ways considered clear, fresh water, with
some alkai in it, as most of the fresh
water in North California possesses"
ELLIOTT, the colored member of Con-
gress from South Carolina, while in an
oyster saloon at Washington the other
evening, was grossly insulted by a
young white man, who was taking
lunch when he came in, and was also
under the influence of liquor. Ascer-
tanning that this young man, who could
not eat in the presence of negro, was
a government clerk, he made represen-
tations of the latter's conduct at the
department where he was employed,
and the clerk was discharged. -
IGNATz RATzkY, convicted of the muir
der, in 1861, of Sigismund Fellner, a
diamond merchant, has been released
from the Albany penitentiary by reason
of the expiration of his term of seven
years. And now the papers compensate
him in full for the trifiing inconven-
fence that he has been subjected to by
the assurance that " the belief that he
is entirely innocent of the murder has,
meantime, been well established, and
he goes forth into the world without
the stigma of crime upon him."
IF long hair be the glory of woman,
then there is a glorious young lady in
Boston She was persuaded the other
day to give private exhibition of her
beautiful head of long and heavy black
hair. Her height is 5 feet inches, and
when she is standing erect her hair
falls to her feet, and trails quarter of
yard on the floor. 1t is IS inches in
length. Here, indeed, is a favored
young person No need has she of
chignons, nor of braids, nor of fronts,
nor of tricopherous compounds; and
Eve herself, the primal and perfect
woman nobly planned, had probably no
greater wealth of tangled charms.