Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-13
NEWS ITEMS.

50 NEWS ITEMS.
: 1t is thought the opium trade in Indi:
q will net SAC, ,0o0,0O0 next year. =
A hundred New Jersey families are go
ing to found a colony in Tennessee. =
Nearly a thousand persons have al.
ready visited the Yosemite Valley thi,
i season. ssf~-,-ssEsSs
A man named Hofns. shot his sister
at Jefferson City, Mo-, on the 11th, and
then killed himself. 1-'
A child is said to have been killed and
partly eaten by negroes OH a jamaica
4 Iplanfatioe recently.
One section of Memphis dry dock
persisted ins sinking, "Wednesday, and
went down in 100 feet water.
1t is an established axiom of trade.
that good thing well advertised will
sell: -
i The. steamer Anna Smith has been
wrecked near the English coast, and ten
Hives were lost, - sse1ssFa.s -yesiJ,
l. There are ten. regular steamship Hines
running between New York and Euro
pean ports Na .gf
Brattle square church, the site of one
of Boston's ancient landmarks, was sold
at auction for $179.000.s - -
"a A dispatch from Bombay says vessel
beund from Kurrachee to KoIasir recent
/ ly forlndered near Luckptlt,a aud so lives
were lost. -sisa-s So j. q lSassvs %egs = sci
Prof. Morse has presented Vassar GulS
lege, New York, with the first daguer-
reotype Instruments ever used in This
L ICOunffY. - fzsrfs3
The Printing Bureaus of the Treasurv
Department Is now turning out: nearly
lone hundred million dollars worth sof
bonds per day. sTsisssssss "a 4h
The Delaware peninsnl vii lit is9Fey
ported, this year, ship. q, 500, 900 baskets
of Peaches, or soc, 600 ,baskets more than
| in 1859. - = ~ .
w. H. Lever, an extensive cane pole
dealer, resident of Goshen, Ohio, died of
con gestive chills on the steamer Minneoe
la, coming from Memp phis sd
+ "A coal company has heen organized at
Clinton, H., with $40, ,uo9 capital, for. the
purpose of ompleting the Shurtleff coal
shaft, which is now sunk IL feet. ,savs
Z Cashmere of decided. excellence of MAJ
terial and. texture arg manufactured at
Oregon City, Oregon. Chinese labor is
chiefly employed in their Production sifg
80 -..-sr fsreag1ss-ssa 80 =ss-s.f--'s ..
Last Friday womall at Sturgis, Mich,
boiled mass of potato bugs in order TO
destroy them The steams the boiling
pot Killed her in twenty minutes.
Gen. Weitzel, in chArgeNof the Louis
vile canal enlargement, states that the
canal will be closed for three months af--
ter July 20.
The famine inzenel district of Persia
has reached such state that thestarving
people have killed and eaten fifty chill
dren. IlO .Et0S Ss5.4 e y ? - : Z
A women advertises in the London
Times for san accomplished poodle
nurse. Wages FL per week."
The acarr1age. repository of w. G.
Hesse, in Leavenworth, Kansas, was
burned Friday loss, s., ,OO0; zsse gss s
a number OF persons were fatally poi
soned in Mississippi, recently, from eat
ing mulberries in which slocusts hac de-
posted eggs. sB = ~'
Three thousand barrels of petroleum
per month are shipped from Santa Bar
bara county by one company. .ys,s.~s
! .ghe fara famed banking house of the
Rothschilds, having = been founded in
1771, will be one hundred hears old this
. e.
aavFhere were eight hundred cars loaded
with flour, grain, &C., at West Philade1-
phla, last week. week szzz Ias s-a ,sssa2ed sa
The American Tontine Life Insurance
Company, of New York, has retired from
business.
The Emperor ofehina is said to have
an income from gaming houses estima-
tedsat not less than So, ,0OQ, 600, o,a.yeT.
A very learned man in Georgia, Pros
fessor in tile State University, predicts
much rain this year. He says fifteen
inches is ssdue.2' sEs; sass zzsl S5as - f''s
The machinery has been sparehasedf for
the new woo1en mills at Warsaw, Indi-
ana. and the building is already under
roof q - ga hS's- gag . -
aThe Rothschiltis, by controlling the
leading, mines, now ,have'the monopoly
OF the quicksilver market of the world.
John Bull has been sentenced to
eighteen months iHs the Alassaeh isetts
State prison for receiving stolen jewelry.
Mr.. Waugh, of Fort Wayne, Ind, has
been adjudged to pay 5000 for the unwar-
his daltg eE-iislaW. III I c
,.sertifeates ineufporating accompany
at M1amisburg, Ohio, to manufacture
cutlery, with capital of $4,000, was is
sued lastzweek. E @ 4#
"a st. Louis pawn broker has sued the
Missouri Denlocrdt for So, 600 damages
for coupling his name with those OF two
thieves arrested at Keokuk, Iowa, some
time since. .,4
A cotton factory has started at Au-
gusta, Ga, with accom- odations for one
Thousand looms Anew England capt.
talist cakes fifty thousand dollars worth
of stock.
William McAllister of fCincinnati.se clerk. |
of the steamer Leenidas, has disappeared, /
and nothing has been heard from him
since the 10th at Louisville He had
been making collections forstlie steamer.
The meetipgsof thessmembers of the
Press in Alabama, to formal
State reorganization . which it was I
to hold in Montgomery last
week, has been postponed, until October.
The Directors of the New Jersey Rail-
road and Transportation Company have1
approved OF the action of the Joint Board