Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-27

THE average Iowan is worth S6O1 .03.
The ruins of Fort Sumter will soon be
removed, and new fort constructed on
the site.
CONGRESS passed, during the session
just closed, 460 bills.
A HOTEL is about to be established at
Vincennes, Ind, to be run exclusively
by women. 1t will probably be called
the " Dolly Warden Hotel"
IDLEwILD, the home of the poet Will
lis, has been sold for $50, 1000.
MASSACHUSETTS, savings banks hold
$26, 100000 deposited by women.
A CONVENTION to consider the practi-
cability of narrow guage railroads met
at ST. Louis on June 19.
THE army worm is doing havoc in
Iowa, and, in many counties, broad
acres look as if burned over by fire.
The Hartford Charter Oak Fire In
surance Company, ruined by the Chi
cago fire, will soon reappear as the
Atlas.
IT is estimated that 120,000,O00 feet
of logs will be manufactured in MINI
neapolis, Mimi, during the present
season.
A LONDON banking firm has just pur-
chased, for $4,000, a tract of 81, 500
acres in Todd and Otter Tail counties,
MINI.
A NEW railroad is to be built between
Providence, R. l., and Worcester, Mass,
on the three-foot gauge.
voracious. Straw spread lightly over
the young vines fools the insects, who
do not think of overhauling it to find
the potatoes underneath.
For real business ingenuity commend
US to California. The proprietor of
San Jose pleasure garden draws crowds
by offering a prize to the person with
the longest nose.
In Wyoming a woman was summoned
upon jury, when she brought her baby
in her arms. The youngster entered a
protest more vigorous than musical, and
she was excused from serving.
A HEN in Raynham, Mass, has i'm
mortalized herself by laying an egg 81
inches long, q inches round, and con-
tanning two yolks, beside a fully devel-
oped egg. The hen is doing as we'll as
could be expected.
The favorable report on the culture of
opium, in last years agricultural re-
port, has encouraged the planting of
large fields of poppies in various parts
of the country.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
Company has placed on the London
market bonds for e800, 900 Tor $4,000,-
000), mortgagipg the st. Paul and Wi
mona Division at the rate of $50, 600 a
mile.
THERE is woman in Boston who has
stolen, in the course of a long and
eventful life, one thousand and one UNI
brellas. The one thousand and oneth
one was taken on the eve of her eigh-
teenth birthday, but unfortunately
her uncomfortable practice was de-
teoted, and she is in one of Boston's
moral prisons.
The Morristown Herald says: Ole
Bull, when young, attempted suicide,
and now he is the best violinist in the
world. There is a young man in our
neighborhood who plays the accordion,
and he is not a success. Probably if he
were to attempt suicide he would learn
much faster. Should he succeed in his
attempt at suicide, we would be just as
well satisfied.
The Red River Gazette is the name of
a paper just started at Glyndon, Mimi,
away out on the confines of civiliza-
ton, by E. B. Chambers, late of Chi
cago.
The Globe, a new frst-class morning
daily paper, will be issued in st. Louis
shortly, by Messrs. Mckee & Houser,
for many years connected with the
Missouri Democrat.
THE county Jail of Calhoun county,
Fla, has not had an inmate in over four
years, and the County Com missioners
have decided to let it be used for bet
ter purpose corn crib. 1t has ac-
cordIngly been converted into that use
full adjunct to a farm.
PATRICK S. GILMORE is described as a
very pleasant-lookipg gentleman, and
when he walks off to inspect the Coli
scum, he does so with an irrepressible
airiness of demeanor which seems to
say: "Oh, this little affair of the Jubi-
lee is nothing to what could dol"
WHEN sick Cinnamon apply for ad-
mission to city and county hospitals of
San Francisco, they are hustled off i'm
mediately to the smallpox pest-house,
where most of them take the disease
and die of it. This practice is not only
hard on the Cinnamon, but is apt to
spread the seeds of the disease through
out the city. 1t is on this latter plea
tn It San Francisco journal urges the
discontiDuance of the practice, and not
on the score of humanity.