Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-08
General Items.
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General Items.
Los ANGELES, California, raises oranges
twelve inches in diameter.
The census returns show 8 decrease
of $4,000 in the population of Liver
pool.
A DEED was recently registered in
Massachusetts, that bore the names of
ninety-eight signers, who were legal
heirs to an estate.
THE fashionable mode of deserting a
wife in Rondout is to send the useless
article on a visit to a relative, then dis
patch letter after her, politely inform
ing the unsuspecting one of her fate,
and finally decamp for parts unknown.
Cornelius Woolsey initiated the practice
there few days ago.
A MAN recently died in Indiana from
a wound received at the battle of
Queenstown, Canada, in 1872. An
ounce musket ball which had remained
imbedded in the bones of his face over
fifty years liberated its way into
his mouth and was spit out. From this
cause inflammation arose, which, ex-
tending, terminated fatally.
WOODEN clothes-pins are an article of
export from Massachusetts,. Three hum
dred thousand dozen of them have been
sent from Boston to different parts of
Europe within two months. Wooden
pals and washboards are also exported
largely. The town of Winchendon is
the headquarters of the woodenware
manufacture in this country.
A PosTHUMoUs scrap of Artemus
Wards writings is letter to a menag-
erie agent who sent him some tickets ::
Thanks for the tickets. This act of
kindness, so nobly conceived and deli
cately eonsummated, assures me that
all is not base and sordid in this world,
and that the human heart, when con-
nected with a menagerie, is capable of
lofty impulses"
THE Burmese Ambassadors, now in
England, recently paid visit to the
Manchester Exchange, accompanied by
the President of the Chamber of Com
merce. To the indignation of the
visitors, the party was Missed out of the
place, though it subsequently appeared
that the hostile demonstrations were
intended exclusively for the President
aforesaid. -.t
A SINGULAR hitch occurred in di-
vorce case at Memphis a few days ago.
When the case was called for trial it
was found that the husband was but
sixteen and the wife but fourteen years
of age. AS minors can neither sue nor
be sued, the lawyers were in guam
Diary; but the Court came to their relief
| by appointing guardian for one of the
| infants and a next friend for the other,
after which the trial proceeded in due
| form. .....- ....t ...-..
UNDER the new Michigan liquor law,
if a man who has been drinking does
injury to person or to property, the
saloon keeper is held liable for all the
damage, and the person from whom he
rents his saloon can also be held. If a
saloon keeper is convicted of selling
liquors, his lease of any place where it
was sold is declared forfeited, although
he may have just come into possession.
If the wife of drunkard or a drinking
man can prove that she or the family
has been damaged through such sale,
she can recover.
ENORMOUS numbers of caterpillars
continue to infest the line of the Mem
phis and Tennessee Railroad; indeed,
| they are so numerous as seriously to in
terfere with the traffic of the road, as
locomotives that have usually drawn
trains of twenty-five and thirty cars are
| nOU dDl0 10 draw IuOro GIlth slA VI ClShOJ
in consequence of their presence. They
cover the track and act upon the driv-
ing wheels as effectually as if the rails
had been soaped. All through that
section of the country the trees have
been stripped of their foliage by these
pests, and great damage has been done
to the growing crops. r,.. ssa
A REMARKABLE application of the no
m@opathic principle of siuailia sinailibu,
cerantar is given in a Kansas paper.
The hog cholera having made its ap-
pearance on farm, the owner took a
large SOW that had died of the disease,
heaped pine wood and brush over and
around the dead animal, and set fire to
it. After the SOW was we'll roasted
water was thrown on the flames, and
then all the hogs on the farm were
turned loose to feed on the flesh. The
result was entirely satisfactory. The
sick hogs at once began to recover, nc
more were affected with the disease
and the herd was soon in as good con-
dition as ever.