Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-22
THE NEWS.

telegraph station.
| Auburn, Maine, manufactures 1000, 900
pals of shoes per annum.
We pay England $15,OOO,OOO in gold
annually for spool cotton.
The gold crop of Montana, for the year
1870, has yielded 81, 100000.
Maliciously killing a hen is what a
New Hampshire man stands charged
with. -rEa..- e
Brigham Young drove the first spike
in the Utah Southern Railroad on Tues
day
A quaint old Scotch proverb runs thus:
can ounce of mother is worth pound
of clergy"
The Chesapeake bay oyster beds are
said to yield 25,OO0,O 900 bushels of oysters
annually.
| The man arrested for forging Erie
| tickets has been sent to Jail in default OF
1000 bail.
! Eight hundred and eight emigrants
passed through Columbus, westward
bound, last week.
Planters say that the Bonnet Carre
erevasse will entail loss of 10000 hogs
heads of sugar.
T The Episcopal Convention of Ohio met
in session at Toledo, last week, Bishop
| McIlvaine presiding.
- The international Typographical I'm
lion has chosen Richmond, Va, as its
next place of meeting. -.-
! A Chinese doctor in San Francisco pro-
poses to test his right to testify i'll the
courts under the Ku-KluN bill.
The Crew. I. S. Kalloch is about to
start ssbroad-horn, double-end, back
track, religious newspaper in Kansas"
The subject of Sunday recreations en-
crossed the attention of the Sweden
/ borgian Conference at Chicago last
week.
j The marriage of Liza Weber to Mr..
Mullaly, the musical director of her
troupe, is announced from st. Paul,
MINI. ....,
J.-P.. Williams has struck a vein of
| alum water, at depth of nineteen feet
4 from the surface, about six miles from
1 Emporia, Kansas.
"A train ON the Short-Line road made
4 the distance between Louisville and
Covington (1O6 miles) in two hours and
tifty-eight minutes.
A gentleman at Norfolk, Virginia,
has one hundred acres of strawberry
: vines growing this spring, and he eX-
poets to pocket $4,000 clear profit.
Reports recently received from the
; silver mines near Silver City, New Mex
J leo, are even more favorable than any
received previously.
Crown Point (California) Mine stock
six months ago sold for three dollars a
share. Last week one man bought f.
600 shares at three hundred dollars a
share.
Lieutenant Howard Cushing, lately
killed by the Indians in Arizona, was q
) native of Fredonia, and brother OF Com
mander Cushing, the hero of the Albe-
{ marie.
The Chicago Tribune plaintively says
ssIn comparatively few years the quail
; and the prairie chicken will be matter
l of history 1t is to be hoped they will
die game.
| The late heavy rains in Tennessee had
: the effect to increase the crop of cater
pillars alarmingly. They are multi.
plying like their plaguey prototypes ir
S Egypt.
e Peoria, Illinois, has 272 manufactur.
!, ing establishments with capital of S.,
= 600 ,O00, giving employment to 2,57'
I hands, and producing $14, ,1o4, 900 o
. products. --e---r .---.
O A tornado at Baton Rouge, La, Ma.
: 4, blew. down buildings, tore of roofs
# killed some persons, and seriously injuret
: many others. The loss will be abou
}, 100000.
inst before his death, and while ap
I kparently unconscious, Conductor Pol
: lard, who died at Nashua, N. H, few
:, days ago, whispered, "I'm waiting 70
: the train.'
n ! About 5000 tons of sswhite clay" o
Kaolin, is annually shipped from Georgi
to New York, of which the greater por
ton is fused in adulterating confection
r cry and drugs. ....
= An inpustrious scientist of Spring
~ ~ field, has collected by means of numer
~ Gus purchases, l 200 eggs of the 700 var
" cites of North American birds known
"a "a ornithologists. t..- -
Eel Mr.. A. H. Baldwin, of the Wisconsi
70 financiers. This gentleman has mad
To rapid strides on the road to fortune dul
NJ fling the past few years. r..f
Id Messrs. T. w. Wilson, of Loga
at County, and A. B. Dicky, of Ather
n County, Ohio, are importing some fiji
ne stock and poultry from Scotland, whic
re will be exhibited at the next Sta
IL Fair.
n. The Postoff1ce Department sends d
e, C. F. Mcdonald to Europe for the pu
u pose of preparing the details of the e:
vn change of international money orde
IT. and other postal provisions between til
Ii country and England and Germany.
VI VI An old neighborhood feud in Gree
iie County, Illinois, eliminated last Thur
III day in the death of a farmer seven
ne years old, at the hands of two men nam
10 Freer. They murdered the old gent
,.Is lis man with a hoe.
Tvs The new mansion for the Governor
Missouri, at jefferson City, is expected
Is cost $4,000. Four granite columns
ng ornament the front have been present
eat by Governor Brown, who owns t
he quarry from which they were taken.
81 - The spring clip of wool in Califorr
+ei oi is estimated at $3,OOO,00O, and the f
oeo 20, clip at $4,000, 1000. The average ppri
.n aI 2sth ult., was 3311 per cent. over l;
81, year. Tue Eastern demand is so sha
. ai that Pacific. manufacturers propose
W. import from Australia.
mn 1t is reported that Samuel Willistt
The the rich manufacturer of Easthamptt