Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-29
WHOLE NUMBER 2l8.
ALL SORTS.


friend in Kansas that he will not decline
the nomination for president if it is ten
dered him. He is therefore, generally
considered as candidate for the repub-
lican nomination.
A citizen of Ottowa, Canada, has taken
out patent for a new style of boat-oars,
by which man, when rowing in the
usual manner, faces the direction in
which the boat is going.
The Comanche Indians don't appear to
like the colored troops at all, not only
because they fight SO boldly, but because
they are so fearfully and wonderfully diff
fcult to scalp.
Samuel Allen, John Wagstaff, William
Alney, Johu Warcroft and William
Berntord, all young men, were drowned
on Monday, at North Andover (Massa-
Depot village, while fishing.
The salaries of Postmasters throughout
the country are to be readjusted on the
basis of their receipts during July and
August of this year, and the new
schedule of salaries will go into effect
July 1, 1872.
Louis Aver shot and killed his wife at
Manchester, New Hampshire, Monday
night, and then shot himself. He may
recover. jealousy was the cause.
Mrs. Fairs lawyers are making per-
slstent efforts to impeach MIR. Beach, one
OF the jury that tried and convicted her.
A dispatch says they have some prospect
OF success, in which event she will get
new trial.
The accounts which come from Silver
Island, on the north shore of Lake Su-
perlor, show the exceeding richness of
the silver deposits there. Seven miners
took out recently an average of from
$4,000 to $12, 900 per day. The bottom
of the mines now worked are actually
piled with solid silver.
Mrs. Laura Fair, the free-love Cali
fornia murderess, was yesterday sem
fenced to be hanged on the 28th of July
next. 1t is generally believed that Gov
ernor Haightwill permit the law to take
its course, despite the marvellous beauty
OF the frail condemned.
The manufacture of liquor in England
requires more capital than any other
branch of industry. The capital in
vested in four principal articles of man
ufacture are as follows: Liquor, $685.,
100000; cotton, $427, 800, 900; wooden,
Sill ,00O, 900; iron $126, 100000.
From recent English special report,
it appears that Mary is the most popular
name, William ranking next. OF 100,-
600 children half boys and half girls,
6,S19 bore the name of Mary, $3.50 Will
liam, 1880 John, 4,617 Elizabeth, 1876
Thomas, &C., &c. There were 1,237 Ar
thurs, ], 1,233 Alfreds and 1,170 Edwards.
If it were necessary to cite a case to
show how advertising pays, we might
mention how last week this paper alluded
to the income of A. L. Stewart, amount
ing to 81 92 per minute. In less than
twenty-four hours half a dozen men
called at his establishment to borrow his
income for a few minutes. He was down
town at the time, or he might have
granted their request.-Nelo York Demo-
crdt.
A clergyman of Cairo, Illinois, ex-
pressed lately his contempt of nicl1les in
his Sunday collection, and positively for
babe any of his congregation from con-
tributing anything under the denomina-
ton OF five cents. "Save your cents,''
said the good man, euntil you have five
before you put your hands in this box.
The widows mite business is played out
here"
The Bloomington Progress has this
curious item: "One day last week, Cap
tain Ravenscrot eXhumed the body of
William McDermot, killed at Chickamau-
ga, and buried seven years ago at the
old burying-groundn northwest of town.
4hC OOuy was III dS pOI1CCL COlulGlOQ, al
most, as when buried, having been en-
balmed and placed in an air-tight metal
lie case. Although the face was shaven
close after death, the moustache had
grown near an inch in length.
On the streets of Norfolk, Virginia,
last Sunday week, little girl six or
seven years old was seen leading her
drunken father homeward. Resisting
the efforts of all other persons to take
him home, he was perfectly passive in
the hands of his child. After getting her
father to the steps she threw her arms
around his neck and kissed him. All
who witnessed the scene and the action
were affected-some to tears.
The Attica (Indiana) Ledger says that
General George K. Steele, wealthy and
prominent citizen of Parke County, has
become insane on the railroad question,
and his friends, as the only means of
pacifying him, permit him to indite tele-
grams continually to prominent railroad
men throughout the country, which dis
patches they carry away with a pretense
of sending them, and then return with
answers they have prepared.
THE SOUTHERN MoCKING BIRD.-We
copy as follows from the South Carolina
correspondence of the N. Y. World:
AS the strawberry forced in the hot
house is to the sweet fruit matured in its
season by the sun and air, Sc is the mock
ing-bird that sings behind his wires to
his glorious brother in the South's wild.
A man out of his appointed sphere in
this great universe does little worthy of
the name of action, and the song-bird of
the New World has only a weak, impris-
oned trill. 1t is when free, when he will
perch on some spray near your dwelling,
for it is mistake to suppose he shuns
man, that there comes a note so ravish-
ing that you look to see where this soft
silver clarion can be. 1t is yon sober,
gray fellow, with 4 stripe of white Oh his
darkish wing, almost as friendly with you
as robin red-breast, and possessed with
voice you can back with a heavy bet
against any love-lorn, Old World night
ingale of them all. That feathered Ro-
meo may pipe to his Juliet, but the wild
mocking-bi bird is the Caius Marius of fsong.
''CdnO, cdnO," 1 sing, L sing, he seems to
say, and in the note is something so yir-
lie and steady that it would hardly sur
prise if he gave us the whole OF it in a
resonant epic-dTn1G oirumque cano. And
yet he can sit by the chimney too. re-
member one fellow who had his annual
housebuilding on one gable, and there,
while the madame arranges the mansion,
my lord sits down close uDon his feet at