Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.

Fred. Huber committed suicide on
Tuesday last, in Louisville, by taking
arsenic. Family discord the cause.
Governor Bullock has given five thou
sand dollars to endow scholarship at
Harriet Pindell tried fire-kindling
with petroleum at Moscow, Tenn, on
Monday night. 1t was of course fatal
Miss Tissie Curry, of Darlington,
Beaver county, Pa, was burned to death
on Tuesday evening, another victim to
confidence in oil.
About 100000 pounds of cloves are an
nually imported into the United States,
and about 100000 pounds imported into
England.
Cornelius v. S. Roosevelt, one of the
old merchants of New York, died at his
summer residence, on Long Island, on
the 18th inst, after two days. illness.
There are eight pin factories in the
United states, whose annual production
is 100000 packs, each pack contain
ing $3.50 pins, total of 6,72O,OOO,OOO
pins. ..-4
President White, of Cornell Univer-
sity, has given $50, 900 to that institution,
$20, 700 OF which goes to the library, and
the rest to be used in the construction of
the Presidents house.
About $50, 900 tons of coal are used an
nually in London to make some 5000
million cubic feet of gas, and the s'little
bill" for the same amounts to more than
$s,OO0,OOO. '.' al
Several hundred colored people from
Atlanta, Georgia, are spending few
days visiting at Nashville, the citizens of
which city are entertaining them with
cordial exhibitions of hospitality.
The albumen wasted in the manufac-
ture of the albumenized paper used by
photographers is converted into the
beautiful marbled paper used for decorat-
ing walls. a.. ..... u...-.
Twenty-eight thousand claims for pen
sions by surviving soldiers and sailors
of the war of 1912 have already been au-
dited, and it is thought many more will
be received. ..r
It is announced that all Americans Wis
iting Europe mast have passports, espe-
cially naturalized citizens, as they can
not procure them of our foreign agents
without showing their proper papers.
The locusts, which have appeared in
the Northwest, are dying in such num-
bers that in some localities the ground is
thickly covered by them. They did
much damage to the young forest trees.
A fire in Augusta, Illinois, on the 18th
inst, destroyed five buildings, including
the Warrington House. The fire is sup
posed to be the work of an fncendiary.
The amount of damage is not known.
Henry Kelly, sentenced to the peniten-
tial.u for two wears for attamnta0 ra ne
swallowed a spoonful of powdered glass
i'll the Louisville Jail, on the 18th isn't.
His recovery is very doubtful:
The contract for completing the Cairo
and Fulton railroad from from the Mis-
souri, line to the Texas line has been con-
cluded, and the work is to be completed
by the 1st of July, 1872.
Wilmer Mclean, a real estate dealer at
Manassas, Virginia, owned the farm OH
which the first battle of the rebellion
was fought, at Bulls Run, and that upon
which the last was contested at Appo-
| mattox.
Charles Dyke, engineer on Robert Full
toms first steamer to Albany, died Mon
day in Washington, aged eighty-tive
years. Mr.. Dyke was also engineer Of
the first steamer down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.
There are at least one hundred million
acres of fertile land in Texas, owned by
men who for various reasons are COM
PEELED to sell it; and half the land in
Texas is in market at prices ranging from
fifty cents to two dollars per acre.
! The cause of the famine in Perisa i:
due not only to failure of the crops
but also to the fact that increased taxa
1or- Ohn,.c Of
from the country into the cities, and thu:
the agricultural products were still more
decreased,
In the pigeon shooting match at Chi
cago, ON Saturday, for the cham pionshil
of the United States and five hundred
dollars a side, A. II. Bogardus, of Hin
ois, killed ninety-one out of hundred
birds, and Ira Paine, of New Jersey
eighty-nine.
A man named Dolan, on Saturday
shot and killed Thomas Wallace, abou
sixty-five years old, his paruner in busi
ness, at the falls of Blaine, on Tug forl
of Big Sandy. The cause of the murde
was q dispute about some machinery.
4 In the Hunter murder case at Akron
on Saturday, arguments were finished
and the jury charged. After an absenc
of two hours and half, the jury return
ed with verdict of guilty of murder il
the first degree. A motion for IL ney
trial was made.
Captain D. Kenny, jr., who, during tn
early part of the war commanded a.
Ohio battery, and was afterward Com
, missary at Camp Dennison, died las
Monday, at Chicago. His remains viii
be inferred at Geneva, Ashtabula county
Ohio,
The boiler of Staten Island Ney
York ferry boat exploded Sunday, kill
ing and scalding large number, and i
addition many were blown oYerboar
and drowned, The number lost is sup
posed to have been one hundred an
fifty.
The Tammany Democrats claim ths
large amounts of the fraudulent dlsburse
ments of the funds of the city of Ne,
York have gone to pay Republican mem
bers of the Legislature for their suppol
+ of Tammany schemes. They say tina
= the names of these meh will be pull
lished.
: Joseph Ford, of Astoria, ILL.,, wa
= knave enough to buy what he suppose
: to be a package of "queer'' for $25t
5 His visions of spurious greenbacks turn
= ing out to be only saw-dust, he is nov
2 fool enough to spend time and money i
| tryinp to nunish the New Yorkar WI