Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-16
Personalities.

Gov. ALOoRN's message was sixty feet
long. .-....r a.' .-t .r.. ..-
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN has taken a resi-
dence at Newport, r. /.
GEN. McCLELLAN's salaries aggregate
$4,000.
THE Stockholders family free list has
killed Brigham Young's theatre.
The Cincinnati Commercial published
the Grafton of Ralph Waldo Emerson
under the head of" Emerson's Pilgrims
Progress"
Mr.. THos. A. CAREw has a bas-reEef of
! Horace Mann on exhibition at Childs'
art rtore in Boston.
-CARJoTTA PATTI has lost greatly by
spurious tickets at Rio Janeiro. Seven
hundred dollars worth were taken in
one evening. r... ....
Mr.. w. T. SIMMs, of Sumter county,
Alabama, recently lost three children
in one night, by cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts.
b. K. SEAMAN, of Iowa Falls, offers IS
to any young person who will spell $50
words correctly, according to the rules
of phonetics. -..r
Ex-Gov. A. r. ALLEN, of Quincy, Flor
ida, has been arrested and carried to
Jacksonville, charged with violating the
enforcement law.
-THE camp table of the King of Prus-
sia is graced with the curious, thin, well
worn, old historical plates which the
Great Frederick took to the wars with
him. r, ts...r- -t5-ei5 oitf vlFr
FATHER HYAcINTHE contemplates an
other visit to the United States next au-
tumn, convinced that he did not see
half enough of the country when he was
here before.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT's application
for delay in the hearing of the dividend
tax case of the New York Central Rail-
road before the Commissioners of Inter-
nal Revenue has been granted
A LETTER to Victor Emanuel congratu-
lating him on the thorough establish
ment of italian unity, signed by men
prominent in mercantile, social and
scholarly position, headed by Governor
claHin, is soon to be sent from Boston.
On Wednesday last, Hon. A. B. Bacon,
of the editorial staff of the New Orleans
Pic yll,ae, died, after distinguished and
honorable career as Journalist and law
yer in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG testified her
good opinion of the Woman's Christian
Association in Cincinnati by sending
the young ladies belonging to that so.
clety free tickets to the performance of
the oratorio of the Messiah.
3 JACOB TREES and Sarah Trees. of
Shelby county, Ind, for fifty-nine wears
husband and wife, died within four
hours of each other about two weeks
ago. Both were attacked at the same
time and with the same disease.
JAMES A. RUSSELL, father of Adiutant
General Russell of Pennsylvania. died
at Bedford, in that State, on the 10th
ult., at the age Of eighty.five years. Mr..
Russell was reputable lawyer, and had
a successful practice for nearly sixty
years.
DR.. HOLMES says " Walking is per-
petuaI falling, with perpetual self
recovery. 1t is a most complex. violent
and perilous operation, which we divest
of its extreme d niger only by continual
practice from very early period of
life'''
The Atlanta Constitution says DIR. Nc
Cowsn, of Jonesboro', Ga., has brought
a monstrosity to that city to have it
preserved in alcohol. 1t was an infant
whose face bore a striking resemblance
to the common screeching-ovl, the
brains being massed in the back part of
the head.
To THE Missouri Historical Society has
been presented a letter written by Dan
iel Boone, which reads as follows: al
certify that gave permission to Benja-
min Gardner to satel on a pies of vacant
land coal Little Purray, on the Afissury,
some time in December, 1902. Given
under my hand this 23d day of Febury,
1906. DANIEL BooSE.'''
a CORRESPONDENT inquiries whether the
poem of Mr.. Bryant entitled "Thana-
topsis" has ever been translated into
either German or Italian. 1t has been
translated into German half a dozen
times, but we are not aware that there
is any printed version of it in Italian.
SERGEANT ROBINSON, who saved Secre-
tary Stewards life at the time of the as
sassination of President Lincoln, has
received favorable report upon the
petition for an appropriation of 5000.
He is unable to do heavy labor on ac-
count of his wound then received.
GEORGE FISH, of South Dover, Me-,
aged seventy-eight years, both of whose
hips are out of joint, so that he can only
get about on crutches, has collected at
farm houses in the surrounding country,
and brought into Bangor, with one
horse, the past season, Is, 800 dozen eggs,
which he sold for $3,927.