Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-21

THERE are sixteen very rich Hindoo
| firms doing business in London.
AMERICAN copper cents circulate in
Japan at three times their home value.
THE Waukesha (Wis.) Democrat
offers to lend poem to the village doc
to. 8, that they may cut emetics off of it.
Mrs. JAMES States, living near New
market, O., committed suicide on
Tuesday, by cutting her throat with a
razor. Mental arrangement.
SPENCER BALL recovered one cent
damages from the st. Louis EUe,,ing Dis
patch, for the publication of police
item which he thought was ibelous.
M. DE VILLEMEssANT, who is giving his
recolleetions of Paris journalism, says
that Alexander Dumas, who gained
millions of francs by his pen, died poor.
Two years ago Oregon had not mile
of railroad. Now she has more miles of
finished railroad in proportion to popu-
lation than any State in the Union.
DURING a recent cold snap at Calves
ton, Tex, Judge Dodge had to adjourn
the Criminal Court until the county
could borrow S. from the Deputy Sher-
iff, to buy fuel to heat the courtroom.
The storm at Fortress Monroe on
Saturday last was the most sever known
in fifteen years. The wind attained
velocity of 7S miles per hour. At Nor
folk the storm caused q suspension of
business. -ga
YATES City, Ill, purchased and fitted
up a new cemetery regardless of ex-
pense, last summer: but it was not until
last week that citizen was found pub
lic-spirited enough to furnish a corpse
to start it with.
THE favorite mode of hazing'' prac-
ticed by the feminine sophomores of
Michigan University is to seize some
good-looking freshman, bind him hand
and foot, and then kiss him in the most
terrible manner.
On Saturday last party engaged in
blasting at the New Empire Iron
Works, at Rock Castle, Grigg Co., Ky.,-
went up to fuse which had failed to go
off, supposing it extinguished, when it
exploded, killing three men.
On the 10th of February the solemnity
of a negro funeral at Nashville was i'm
paired by the corpse sitting up and de-
manding, "What all dis mean, eh p
The mourners are still on the keen run
for the Atlantic coast, San Francisco,
Manitoba, and New Orleans.
A YOUNG girl of Lewiez, a village in
Poland, was recently attacked by three
wolves, but defended herself SO he
roically that she killed two of them
and put the last one to flight. She then
tainted, and was found unconscious by
some laborers, who, attracted by her
cries, fastened to her rescue.
IT is said that white man is swim
ding the negroes of Mississippi with the
statement that the emancipation pro-
clamation by Lincoln had been burned
at Chicago, and that it would require a
large amount of money to get up an
other and that unless the thing was
done soon, slavery would be restored
and they would all go back into servi-
tude. s .s-.-
THE Cincinnati Enquirer has found a
negro coal-heaver in Covington whose
tongue is covered with sandy red hair
an inch in length. He was born in
Xenia, his father being black and his
mother white. His wool is natural,
though he has no beard, and his eyes
are gray. He was wounded at Peters
burgh while serving in colcred regi-
ment.
LAST week two interesting surgical
operations were performed upon pa
tients at the Charity Hospital in CleVe-
land, both being in cases of cancer. One
was the removal of part of the nose and
large portion of the upper lip, new
lip being formed by a strip of flesh cut
from the cheek, and the other the
amputation of the front part of the
lower jaw.
A CINCINNATI woman lately bailed her
husband out of the estation-house-wh
too much indulgence in the flowing
bowl had sent him-with the proceeds
of her hair, which was unusually long
and beautiful He, on his part, grieved
so much at his faithful wife's surrender
ing her chief beauty for his sake, that
he procured divorce, and is expected
to marry another woman at an early
day.
AT Boston, on Friday evening, in the
middle of the selection from Martha"
Mile. Nilsson received a floral offering
in the shape of ship, nearly four feet
long, resting on bed of pinks, on one
side of which, in white pinks, was the
word "Adieu," and on the other,
"Cuba.' The elaborate affair proved
almost too much for M. Capoul to han
die, but he placed it safely on the stage,
where it remained until the curtain
fell, when it was removed by Mile. Nils
son and Miss Cary together. ISIS