Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-17
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Portland, and from Decatur to take what
is known as the Eastern route, which in
the Pittsburg, Chicago n Fort
Wayne road about five miles from the lat
ter place.
The trial OF Ambrose B. Coe, for the
brutal murder of Miss Abbie Summers,
school teacher, at Palmyra, Mo-, some
months since, and which was set down
this week, has been continued for trial
until October. The defense will be in-
sanity, although Coe has been sane
enough since he committed the murder.
The residence of Luther P. Gay, in
Henkley township, Medina county, Ohio,
was entered at noon Saturday, the safe
blown open, and five thousand dollars in
United States bonds, and n thousand
dollars i'll money stolen. Mr.. Gay was
at home alone. He was handcuffed,
blindfolded, and tied by the robbers.
A st. Louis dispatch says: ".Patrick
Burns, convicted of h murder of one
Ostermeyer, sever months ago., and SEN
fenced to be hanged July 81, and who
has three times refused-to accept COM
mutation of his sentence to ten yeaas in
the penitentiary, finally accepted it to-
day under protest, and was sentenced by
the court" -~..-..r-F --- 1
George Alfred Townsend is doing New
ccISCy lOI GuC SlICdSO TtOuNC. Il Say .
it is u State of battle-fields and black
berry farms, and that it produces the
freeman and the peach with equal spon-
taneity, and being somewhat below the
average in size, but running numerously
to the ,bushel.
"Now, young people, said a professor
of natural history to his class, enow, then,
as to hens; a hen has the capacity of lay
ing just six hundred eggs, and no more,
onI c1n fSoSc1,nS f1,n fnh in iR1sf nhnrf Two
years. Now, what is to be done with
her after that ?'' "Cut off her head and
sell her for a spring chicken !ne1claimed
an urchin whose father dealt in poultry.
The Department of Agriculture has
returns from nearly three hundred coun-
ties representing the most productive
cotton districts of the South. These
show a reduction in the area planted
compared with last year of nearly fifteen
per cent. The condition, eXceptsin Flo
rida, is from eight to eighteen per cent.
below the average. In Florida it is three
per cent. above. 30 M aei a 2
A thirty-dollar dispatch from Bombay
to the American press. announces that
"The reconciliation between Amer Cabut
and YakOkklan is due to the intercession
of the Viceroy of India" We weep for
Joy and fite a national salute over the re-
Cancellation without caring q continental
through whose - intercession itso was
brought about@CourierJ-oura .-I,s's
The New York EUening Post. speaks
of General Butler as a"politicianswith-
out a policy, a statesman without princi-
ples,r and a partisan without. modera-
tion.' The Post says that sit would be
a gloomy sign of political degeneracy If
thespeople} of Massachusetts should put
such'a man"ihtos the chair which was
| ~ Rlla1 1r r1rnx y - EalE
Jem Mace, professor or pugiIlstlc sci
ence, proposes to wave the referees de-
cision about the appearance at Kansas
City, and give 10 Coburn another chance
for his money. He offers to fight for five
or ten thousand a side within. one hun
dred miles of New Orleans, and says if
Coburn won't accept, he transfers the
challenge to O'Baldwin.
The Mechanics Institute of the city of
Buffalo will hold a second "~International
Industrial Exhibitor in the skating
rink on Pear street, in Buffalo, commence
ing September IS and closing October IA.
Entries may be made from the 18th to the
18th of September, and all manufactu-
rers, artisans, artists and inventors OF the
United States and Canada are invited to
exhibit. -. ssaEzzS< ,sr.E 49, 2
Everything points to the conclusion
that the tinge of "shoddy"n which has
disfigured New Yorkasociety ever since
1861, is getting. ground out. Nobody
wears diamond necklaces to breakfast at
Saratoga, "church gweddings'hhaVe seen
the last days1of their glory, personal so.
ciety Journalism is denounced and dis
couraged in earnest, and the desire. for
comfort has replaced the desire for dis
play.
On Tuesday last a switching engine
employed inzthe yards of h Cleveland,
Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis
Railroad, at Cleveland exploded with
terrific force. Three men were instantly
killed. They were frightfully mangled,
their heads and limbs being torn assun-
der. The cause of the explosion is un-
known. The engine had a broken crank
pin, and was being repaired when the
explosion occurred. ,-s,.-
A California paper, speaking OF the
vintage prospect, says experts differ III
their estimates, the lowest figure named
being 5000, 900 gallons, and the hihgest
II, 900, 900. The number of new vines
coming into bearing is very large, and
: the old ones everywhere are looking
finely, and the grapes have already ''set'
perfectly, and no damage having beer
done anywhere by frosts or floods. Vim
culture is now one of the most prosper.
Gus and reliable industries of California
!. Miss Rachel Lenn1ngton, an intelli-
: gent and highly respectable young lady
oil Aurora, Illinois, committed suicide or
Tuesday afternoon by taking a large dose
of-strychnine. Her mother died just one
year ago. She had recently been visiting
a brother in Chicago, and went to hel
home in Aurora with the declared pur-
pose of sacrificing herself On the first an
niversary OF her mothers death. JusI
: before her death she seemed unusually
happy, and laughed and chatted cheer
fully.
, In Maryland there are a great man
'spoled' or hornless COWS, II it is Gus
tomary to call them buffalo cows. They
compare favorably with the general com
: mon stock of the State; and putting
r other considerations on N side, they
are liked on account of lacking that use.
less appendage, a pair of horns. Forty
or fifty years ago the hornless cattle
{ were quite common in Pennsylvania
: and proved to be as good as others. But
they were not q breed. They are con-
e sidered a sport, and were the products OF
< horned sires and dams. They were
called MISUNDERSTANDING.
John Van Buren, was dining in Down:
3 ing's saloon, having lust cleared a MAJ
! from some charge in the court, when the