Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-23
Current Items.

agitating corn exchange.
AT Newhallville, Ct, 300 girls are en-
ployed in making rifle cartridges.
wHAr is called "S severe old-fash-
ioned winter prevails in England.
The police force Of Tallahassee, .Flori-
da, is composed entirely of negroes.
CALLAo and the other Peruvian sea
ports are TO be connected by subma-
rine cable.
A MAN has been sent TO prison for nine
months in Vermont for sending threat
ening letters. 4.tl
IT is rumored that a marble quarry
has been discovered in Wilson county,
Tennessee.
CAL1FoRNIA's wool production last
year was 2l ,072, $50 pounds "a large in
crease over 1869.
ONLY two citizens of New Orleans pay
tax ON over quarter Of million dob
lars, worth Of real estate.
The owners of the different churches
| in Calais, Maine, refuse TO allow their
bells to be rung in case Of FIRE.
a BILL has been introduced into the
New York Legislature 10 incorporate
the "Montauk Tribe of Indians" 'cH
| In llllnOlbg LltI 6AptA DONn
from the public schools for wearing their
pantaloons inside their boots. r..ff
MEssRs. DEMAREsT a. Co., harness
manufacturers at Newark, have received
$4,000 contract from the French
government
WOLVES enter the churches in Duluth.
One weighing 100 lbs. was recently shot
in the Second Presbyterian Church.
The University of Tubingen, in Wurt-
emberg, has a faculty of ninety-two
professors, and is ATTENDED by seven
hundred and seven students.
A MAN in LumpI1in, Ga, dreamed that
the devil was in town last week, and il
is thought that he dreamed with his
eyes open.
PISEAPPLEs grown in Cuba are canned
in Cedar Keys, They are then shipped 2
North and re-shipped to Florida, where
they are sold. .f.rf..f.
A BALTIMORE physicians family Of
eight persons was poisoned on Saturday,
it is thought maliciously, by servant.
No deaths resulted. go %
THE Boston Transcript thinks suicide
has long been a national vice among the
French, but never before now has IL as
sumed national proportions r
IT was lately announced that blue
birds had returned to some parts Of
Pennsylvania, but they have now proba-
bly, taken their leave for warmer climes
without delay.
The annual consumption of sugar in
the United States now exceeds 10000
tons, or 1,OO0,OO0O00 pounds, with a
constant and steady increase, Ia
THE Hartford physicians contemplate
a good thing. They propose TO open an
Office for the treatment of poor people
who are unable TO pay doctors bill
A SEALED can of oysters carelessly left
on the embers in stove, in Owego, ex-
ploded with tremendous force bursting
the crate 10 atoms, shaking the house
and severely injuring bystander.
I.IfA GENTLEMAN purchased a quantity of
supposed milk at a restaurant, a few
days ago, and few hours afterward
found his purchase had "settled," the
top being clear water and the bottom a
poor quality of -four. .I s.
FIVE winters ago the Boston and Al
bany Railroad paid $4,000 to laborers
for shoveling snow in one months-De-
cember. This winter their total outlay
for that purpose has not reached $50. 4
They will now have a chance TO dig 70
their hearts content.
THE South London Press of recent
date stated that in Bermondsey the sup
ply of water was so scarce that IL was
Bought at three halfpence for four gal
Ions, and strange TO relate, it was sup
piled by the milkmen. .r~
The poor exiles of Erin seem TO be
much worse off in an American hotel
than in an English Jail. A furious mob
besieges their refuge day and night, and
it is rurnored that flank movement-on
the Sandwich Islands. via the Under
ground Railroad is in contemplation.
HERE is an instance of disinterested-
ness. A Boston merchant who. gave
S.. 600 to an educational institution and
was instrumental in securing $4,000, @
has never seen the inside of the socie- r
ty's building, which the money built,
and has never been invited to visit it.
Two NEWSPAPERS in Halifax, the
Chronicle and the Recorder, favor the
American side of the fishery question,
and fail to see the Justice of the protec-
ton given to the Canadian fishermen
by the Imperial and Dominion Govern
ments.
REPRoDUcTIoHs of simple and artistic
cabinet work, called "Old English Fur
niture," are having great rup IN Eng
land. The favorite styles are copied
from country mansions of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
IT would be an economy on the part
of the government TO present most of
the land-grabbing and subsidy y-claiming
practitioners with a city house and lot,
and liberal pensions each, with the one
saving clause that they retire from busi-
ness. Perhaps il might accomplish the
same end as well.
MAINE has for some years had gem
erous way Of fostering new manufac-
lures by excepting their mills from
taxation for term of years. The Port
land Press urges that If this policy Is 70
be continued the exemption should be
granted only to workingmenis oo-opera-
tive associations.
A BosToN grocer, who excited the ire
of one of his customers by presenting at
a house his bill for goods rendered, was
waited upon by daughter Of the debt
or, who said "I wish you wouldn't
come with that bill when fathers home
1t makes him nervous to be dunned."
The grocer apologized.
COOP STUFF IN BoY.-The San Fran
cisco Alta California tells this incident;
at is related of a young son Of Uriah
Brown, that failing TO receive the assist
ance of the Democratic Governor Of Ore
| Pon in an application for n naval cadet