Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-03
CLIPPINGS.

The grand total of internal revenue re-
ceipts for the fiscal year to date is $144,-
27S,O63.
John Claiborne, well-known South
ern journalist, late of the New Orleans
Picayune, died at Nashville recently.
In Frankfort, Ohio, on Tuesday even
ing, one Hirfritz smote one Latta with a
cane so that he died next morning. Rum
did it.
The hogs in Fulton county, Illinois,
are dying in large numbers, of new dis
ease which resembles the congestive chill
in human beings.
Jos. and Isaac M. Pennock, father and
son, of Pittsburg, are charged with the
embezzlement OF $4,000. They were at
one time extensively engaged in bust
ness.
On the 4th, James X. Allen, young
eronaut, travelled from Troy, N. Y, to-
Putnam ,one hundred miles, in two hours,
by balloon.
A young son of Prof. Lieb, of Quincy,
Ill, has been missing for several days,
and no clue of his whereabouts has been
ascertained.
The planting of rice in Louisiana has
fallen off so that crop of $4,000 barrels,
or 100000 pounds, is considered an
OUTSIDE estimate.
The health of Thomas A. Scott, of the
Pennsylvania Central Railway is, it is
said, very much broken down by his ex-
cessive labors.. His ply sicians have sent
him abroad to recuperate.
EARLY Everson, who killed Edward
Lyles last week, and Mike Maloney, who
killed a negro two years ago, surren-
dered themselves at Memphis yesterday.
a shopkeeper having advertised his
stock to be sold under prime cost,
neighbor observed that it was impossible
for him to do so, as he had never paid
anything for it himself.
One of the reporters of the New Or
leans Republican, who has just fallen
heir to $40, 900, has taken months va
cation, and at its expiration will return
to his duties, not at all puffed up.
The storm of Tuesday did immense
damage at Hickman, Kentucky. Sew
eral houses were unroofed and wharf
boat destroyed. The telegraph wires
were blown down for miles. 5
Ex-Mayor Chahoon, of Richmond, has
again, and for the third time, been
found guilty of forgery. This time he
has been sentenced for two years to the
penitentiary.
A portion of Clinton mountain, in Ar
kansas, including about one hundred
acres, has sunk, carrying tall trees en-
tirely out of sight, and the space is con-
tinually enlarging.
A severe earthquake shock was felt at
Calistuga, California, last week. In
knights Valley hotel chimney was
thrown down, causing a fire that des-
troyed the building.
Georgetown College, KY, has had 145
students in attendance during the Last
scholastic year. The college, exclusive
of its real estate, owns in stocks, en-
dowment and other notes, $124, ,597. DR..
Curry, of Richmond, Va, has declined
| the Presidency of this college, recently
rendered him.
Davy, the missing telegraph operator
| from Pittsburg, has written another let
ter to his late landlord, threatening sui
| eide because of debt, disappointed love
and general disgust.
John FL. Morton, of Louisville, son of a
well-known banker, and who, it will be
| remembered, killed Dan. Powers, gam
| bier, in a bagnio, a year ago last May.
| was yesterday found gully of manslaugh-
| ter, with sentence of two years. He is
nineteen years old, and it may happen
that his two years in prison will make
man of him in character as it will in
age.
Edward Titcomb, of Maysville, Mo-,
quarreled with his father about some hay
a few days ago, and getting very angry
put the contents of three barrels of his
| revolver into the old gentleman's abdo-
man. Not satisfied with this, Edward
attacked his sister with an axe and dan
gerously wounded her. The sheriff finds
considerable difficulty in persuading the
people in the locality that they are not
authorized in such a case to administer
punishment after the code of Lynch.
A freight train on the Memphis and
| Charleston road was ditched near Lafay-
cite, Tenn, Thursday, and two brakemen
were killed. Near the same place a
| newsboy fell from passenger train and
was instantly killed.
In excavating the ground for the new
| City Hall in San Francisco, the body of a
man with four aces and Hkings full'' up
his sleeve was dug up. Supposed to be
an ancestor of Bill Nye.
| President White of Cornell University
has given $50, 900 to that institution, $50,
600 of which goes to the library, and the
rest to be used in the construction of the
presidents house.
Hospitality showa itself after a queer
style in Trinidad. A leading German
merchant there murdered friend the
other dav because he refused an invita-
ton to breakfast.
| Calvin Logston, who murdered two
women and several children in Fentress
county, Tennessee, and was sentenced to
be hung on the 20th, but made his escape
short time since, was captured in Casey
county, Kentucky, last Saturday, and
returned to Tennessee to meet his SEN
| tence.
| A worthless culss at Black Earth, Wis,
on the 29th ult., fatally wounded his
wife, and then shot at his mother-ln-laW,
who narrowly escaped. The neighbors
had Just concluded to send him on his
| long journey without form OF law or
benefit of gospel, when he put his pistol
to his head and saved them all trouble.
To CLEAN KID GLovEs.-Haye ready
a little new milk in one saucer, piece
of white soap in another, and clean
cloth folded two or three times. On the
cloth spread out the glove smooth and
neat. Take piece of flannel dip it in
the milk, then rub off a small quantity
of soap on the wetted flannel, and COM
| oenco TO rub the glove toward the fin