Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-14
Current Items.

Current Items.
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, editress of
Godey's Lady's Book, is Sand still
she's Hale.
Mrs. O'LEARY's cow, that either did,
or didn't, set Chicago on fire, has been
bought on speculation by two Louisville
(Ky.) boys.
A BosToN firm shipped a hook-and-
ladder carriage last week to Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, by way of the Pacific
railroad to San Francisco.
MRS. STANTON, widow of the late
Edwin NJ. Stanton, resides in a line
mansion at Germantown, Philadelphia.
She has a yearly income from n
"Stanton fund.- of $1,000.
THE United States survey steamer
Hassler, with its distinguished party of
scientific explorers, sailed from Boston
on the 4th upon its voyage along the
Atlantic and Pacific coast of North and
| South America.
JAMES McCUNN, while walking on the
Long Island railroad track near Dutch
Kills, was struck by a locomotive and
wife was killed a year ago by a train on
the Flushing road.
ON Monday of last week, four men,
who were ascending the shaft of the
Pewabic mine, at Lake Superior, were
precipitated from the skip in which
they were riding to the bottom of the
shaft and instantly killed.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY has more than
doubled it's population during the last
ten years, has $l1,500,000 worth of tax
able property, and the annual exports
are valued at 100000. Its saw-mills
get out 130,000,000 feet of lumber an
nually.
The carrier pigeons "Tornado' and
"Typhoon" recently flew from a point
in the Gulf Stream near the Galapagos
Islands to Montclair, N. j., at the aver
an hour, and for "Typhoon" of 2O2
miles an hour; that is, a mile in a little
more than seventeen seconds. ely
phoon" was an old bird, and fell dead
as soon as it reached its destination.
THE Peabody (Mass.) Press says
MANY persons who have had occasion
to visit the Essex depot in this town,
have for some time past noticed a large
dun-colored dog, who anxiously watches
the passengers as they alight, as though
seeking for some particular person.
This dog belonged to Mr.. Ernest S.
Merrill, one of the victims of the Revere
disaster. When young Merrill left
home for the last time his dog left him
at the depot. The faithful dog still
watches for his master, who will never
come back"
GEN. GoRLoFF, the Russian represen-
tative pro tenn at Washington, is a soldier
and a scholar. He is the author of sew
eral works on military tactics. For
some time past he has been superin-
tending the manufacture of arms for
his Government, at Hartford, the Gar
having entered into a large contract for
weapons with a large firm in the latter
city. Like all of his countrymen, Gen.
Gorlof gained the good will of all
Americans with whom he came in con-
tact, and was probably one of the most
popular men in Hartford.
MISS CREAK pronounced Cra-ak), the
lady to whom Gen. D. E. Sickles is mar
ried, is but twenty-five. She was born
in Spain, speaks English imperfectly,
and is represented as beautiful and &C.
complished, but not wealthy. Her
father is Assistant Treasurer of the
Province of Andalusia. The family is
OF Irish descent, has long been settled
in Spain, and occupies an enviable
social position. Miss Creak was an in
innate friend of Gen. Sickles' daughter,
and accompanied her in a recent tour
of Europe.
The Pittsburgh papers speak of an
invention to rid that smoky city of its
greatest nuisance. A man there has
invented a small iron apparatus, which,
it Is said, when attached to stoves.
ranges. and other objects where wood
and coal are used, consumes all the
smoke and gas generated, not a particle
of the vapor escaping through the
chimney. The inventor also claims
that, as no SCOT is made, it will be i'm
possible for chimneys to catch fire, and
a reduction of insurance rates will be
the result.
The celebrated lady doctor, Miss
Fowler, in practice at Orange, N. j., was
recently married, and is now Mrs.
Ormsby. She is a sister of Fowler, the
p~hrenologist, and has met with extraor-
binary success as a medical practitioner
of the homeopathic school. Her income
from her practice has, for years past,
She treats patients of both sexes, has
the names of rel six hundred families
on her practice-books, and has more
business than all the half dozen male
doctors of the place put together. In
carrying on her profession she drives
between forty and fifty miles every day.
She is remarkably successful as a doc
tor. She is a handsome woman of 40,
clear-headed, stout-hearted, strong
wllled, vivacious, and intellectual. Her
husband is a New York merchant.
A New Zinc Paint.
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