Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-07
Current Items.

They are building new Opera House
at Chattanooga, Tenn, at cost OF
$125,O
WIN. S. FIRST shot and killed himself
in Wilmington, Del. Cause-love, OPT
ates, and liquor.
The Jarves collection of Italian paint
ings has been bought by Yale College
for $4,000.
"INDIAN JOE" Piute medicine man,
well known among the whites, was
stoned to death by his tribe, having
failed to restore to health two sick In
dians. The practice of medicine among
Indians evidently has its unpleasant
features.
THE London Morning Post will soon
celebrate its one hundredth anniversary
having been established in 1772.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was at one
time its editor, and Southey and Lamb
contributors.
AT Birmingham, near Pittsburgh, they
were burning the bedding upon which
a man had died of smallpox, when the
old mother of the deceased rushed into
the flames and snatched roll of bills
worth $500 from the mattrass. She had
forgotten that the money was concealed
in the bedding when she sent it away.
Rev. Alexander Ellis (colored), of
Boston, has recovered $400 damages
from the Narragsnsett Steamship Com
pany for refusing him a seat at the ia
BILE of the steamer Providence.
The remains of the wife and child of
Buckskin, alias Pyburn the desperate,
who was shot near San Rafeal, Lower
California, by the Sheriff of Los Ange-
los some months since, have been found
near Guadalupe Rancho. 1t is supposed
that the woman became insane and
wandered away and died.
JOHN BROWN, Joe Brown, and John
Hank, the Sonoma (Cal. J, stage robbers
and murderers, have been held for trial.
Hank turned States evidence. He says
there were nine engaged in the gang,
but one was killed in a recent attack on
stage. Officers are now in pursuit OF
the remainder of the gang.
AS the mail stage from Rock1and to
Belfast (Me.) was passing through Rock
port, recently, large hog that was in
the road rushed at the team, caught the
leaders hind leg in his mouth and bit it
severely, tearing the flesh and tendons
in such a manner as to spoil the horse.
The stage people intend to make claim
upon the owner of the hog for the value
of the horse.
A PUBLIC man in this country was
once accused of drunkenness, and one
of his friends was very indignant. Some
one suggested that public persons were
always lied about. "Oh, l don't care
for lies," he said, "but the trouble with
this story is, they prOUe !"
NJ r IL
to be successful in Georgia and other
writing from Kentucky to the Ironton
(Ohio) Journal says that for three years
he has grown his own tea. The plant
produces yearly four or five crops of
leaves, and on a space only thirty feet
square he can raise enough to last a
small family for year. Several mer-
chants and tea-drinkers, he says, have
tasted his tea and pronounced it equal
to the best imported.
ALARM bells of new style have re-
Gently been attached to thirty four loco
motives of railroad company in Michi-
gan. The bell is placed Immediately in
front, and is SO attached that at each
revolution of the driving-wheels it is
struck once by a hammer. 1t is claimed
that the position of the bell causes the
sound to be thrown forward, and is con-
Quoted by the earth and railroad track
SO that it can be heard a considerable
distance ahead of the train.
A PARTY of mischievous boys near
Kankakee, ILL.,, last week, stuffed an
suit of clothes with straw, with sticks of
wood for legs, and buried it in the
ground. They then killed couple of
chickens, and sprinkled the blood
plenteously over and in the vicinity of
the grave. AS they expected, the grave
and the blood were discovered, suspi-
cions of murder were raised, the Coro-
ner was summoned, jury empanelled,
and an inquest prepared for. Coroner,
jury, and bystanders all acknowledged
themselves "sold" when the straw
dummy was exhumed.