Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-13
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NEVADA newspapers take crude ore in
payment of subscriptions.
THOSE who possess tender skins can
laugh the mosquito to scorn after they
have bathed in coal oil.
"THE DOLLY VARDEN' is the name of
a newspaper just started at Wilson, N.
C.-Miss Dolly Warden, editress.
HENRY MULLER, convict in the Mich
igan State Prison, has, by the death of
his father, fallen heir to $980,000 and q
valuable farm.
SOME of the oldest cotton planters in
the country state that cotton seed and
both in quality and quantity.
The Inspector of Police for the Bengal
Government reports that of 939 cases of
snake bites in which ammonia was ad-
ministered by the police, 702 are said to
have recovered.
A HUNTER in Northern New York has
killed, during the past winter, sixty
deer and thirty mink, beside two or
three each of bears and panthers. He
has also tapped three thousand FIVE
hundred maple trees, making about
five tons of sugar. He has made by
hunting and trapping alone over 5000 a
montk.
On the 24th of November, 1871, Mr..
T. A. Fogg, of Pulaski, Tenn, put in
the center of a bale of cotton a note
offering $50 to the finder on forwarding
it. On the 9th of May he received the
note from, and forwarded the $50 to,
Albert Chambers, a workman at the
Victoria Mill, Newton Moor, Chester
county, England.
AGAssIz has found fossil oysters foot
in diameter in Patagonia. OF course
there must have been men in those
days with throats capacious enough to
swallow them whole-for oysters are not
to be eaten otherwise. Perhaps the
Professor will now find the long looked
for fossil man, and of the needful size.
That would vindicate the old sailors
stories about giant Patagonians.
The third annual catalogue of the
officers and students in the University
of Deseret (Utah) is curiosity. OF the
whole number of students, $50, cata-
logued in four classes as gentlemen,
ladies, boys, and girls, the larger pro
portion come from Is or 20 families.
There are 81 of the name of Young, 20
of the name of Wells, and from 8 to Is
of the same family name is a common
occurrence.
A CELEBRATED brigand named Ciccone
has just been identified in the person
of Neapolitan lawyer named Rappone.
Ciccone, who disappeared many years
ago, had killed Rappone, taken posses
sion of his papers, and established him.
self at Florence under his victims
name and style. He was shrewd enough
to be able to maintain the decepti N for
several years, and was found out at last
by detective.
The New York Central Railroad Com
pany has taken another expensive les
son in the decent treatment of passen-
gers, and a general hope is expressed
that the course of instruction will be
kept up. Mr.. Henry Peck having a
ticket over the road, and the ordinary
car being full, he took drawing-room
car. Refusing to pay extra compensa-
ton for the privilege of sitting down,
he was put off the train. suit for
damages followed, aud has resulted in
verdict for 5000 against the COM
pany.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bowling
Green (Ky.) Democrat, from Stone river,
says the graves of the Confederate dead
in that historic graveyard are overgrown
with briars and entirely neglected. The
Federal cemetery contains some twenty
or thirty acres, in which are inferred
some 1900 Federal dead. 1t is beau
tifully laid off in squares, with hand
some drives, shaded with evergreens.
Upon hill in the center is Lincoln
square, at the four angles of which is
erected cannon surrounded by q num-
ber of balls, and in the center, from a
lofty Flagstaff floats the Federal flag