Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-29
NEWS ITEMS.


property in Columbus, O., is $5,717,617.
A noble man is he who can die pa
tiently, but still nobler is he who can live |
patiently.
Muscles and mollusks have been found |
in Chill, fifteen hundred feet above the
level of the sea.
One small Massachusetts town has one
hundred and fOrty-siX shoe manufac-
tories.
Henry Ward Beecher has been invited
to make the address at the opening of the |
Louisville Agricultural Exposition.
A firm at Cedar Falls, Iowa, has taken
a contract for gathering 100000 pounds
of ginseng root for shipment to China.
Commissioner Delano will probably go
from the South to his home in Ohio, and
will not return to Washington in several
weeks.
Chicago is so infested with pick-pock-
cts that a genius of that city expects to
make q fortune with his pocket-safety
lock.
Mr.. Sothern, the actor, is making ar
rangements to visit America during the
course of the present or following year.
A young wife in New York gave birth
the other day to twins, a boy and girl,
both of whom were endowed with full
sets of beautiful teeth.
The body of John NJ Woodbridge, a
was found in the Muskingum
River at Marietta, last week. Mr.. Wood
bridge disappeared from his home last
February.
DR.. Iannahan has been dismissed from
IL n L
Germ, at New York. 1t is believed that
the financial matters of that institution
will be again investigated: this time
thoroughly.
Since our war was ended the United
States has paid as much of the National
debt as was paid on the debt of England,
in fifty-five years
The steam power employed in the
United States does the labor of 130, ,000,-
600 men, whilst that of Great Britain is
equivalent to 4O0,000,O00.
Mahogany is so abundant in Nevada
as to be used for fuel. A contract has
been entered into to supply several thou
sand cords at $3 so per cord.
A rival of a certain great lawyer
songht to humiliate him publicly by say
ing :-'EYou blacked my fathers boots
once.'' eyes," replied the lawyer, un-
abashed, ''and did it WELL"
Christopher Trautfelter, a detective
officer, was fatally shot, lately, op-
posite Barnum's EOte1, in Baltimore, by
Thomas Goodrich, who had drawn a pis-
tol intending to shoot his brother Wash
ington.
Avoid those who take pleasure in ex-
posing others to contempt by jeering,
mocking, or mimicking. Keep off from
such as from the heels of horse that
kicks all near him.
When Daniel Webster was advised not
to enter the legal profession because it
was already crowded, he replied ''there
is room at the top"
A mob at Oconta, Wis, hung a Ger
man the other day who had shot young
man without provocation the night be-
fore. The father of the murdered man
headed the mob.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, has
nominated EX Senator Hiram r. Revels
as President of the Alcorn University at
Jackson in that state, and he has been
elected to that position.
Theodore Lehman, prisoner in the
Canton (Ill.) jail, recently hung himself
by accident, while personating the ghost
of one Hoffman, who was impri soned
and hung in the same Jail two years be-
fore.
The internal Revenue Department has
decided to reduce the number of assist
ant assessors to 1,400, being 1000 less at
the end of the fiscal year on July 1st than
on its commencement last year.
Hon. Mcpherson, Clerk of the House
Of Representatives, has in the press a
work entitled sEThe Political History of
the United States during the period of
Reconstruction" ......... 49,. ...-..
A. @. Jones who was recently arrested
at st. Joseph, Missouri, for forging the
signature OF Thomas A. Scott, President
of the Union Pacific Railroad, to free
passes, was sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary.
Two murderers, John Roseborough
and VIM. Harrison, both negroes, were
hung at Marion, Crittendon County, Az
kansas, last Friday. Both struggled
violently, and had to be carried to the
scaffold.
Gold ore found on the Arkansas line,
has been assayed by Balbeck s. Diffen-
bach, furnace builders and assayers, of
New York, which yielded $15,0 900 per ton
of ore.
The White Pine Nea1S of the 18th says
by saturdays stage there arrived a
girl, about 13 years of age, forwarded by
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express, C. o. D.,
and consigned to parties in that place.
Fargo, the expressman. is building
house at Buffalo, overlooking the lake,
which, when finished, will have cost
$750,00O.
A terrific tornado of fire and wind
swept through portion of Mason county,
in Central Illinois, on Friday, leaving a
track of ruin and desolation three miles
long and from seventy to eighty feet wide
Cole 6 Murphy had ten thousand dol
lars in the Central Bank of Brooklyn
when that institution failed. They lost
their money. Now, Judge McCunn de-
cides that the directors of the bank are
liable for losses sustained by the deposi-
tors.
Mr.. Fl. Risley, of Washington, lately
received letters from his daughter, stat
ing that Mr.. Stewards party were at
Suez on the 5th of May, and were going
thence through Egypt. They had al
ready travelled over 10000 miles.
The total number of messages for
warded from postal telegraph stations in
the United Kingdom during the week
ending the sth of April, 1871, was 1885,
AS. The total number of messages tor
the week ending ADril 9 1870 was 16Q