Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-04
Current items.

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EIGHT pounds of sausages for one dol
lars are advertised in New York. Dog
cheapl
Two Boston girls have recently be-
come paralyzed from the use of cos
metics.
A WOMAN named Sarah Pinckney is
Captain of one of the steamboats, on the
Mississippi. f4.
LIBERAL and varied premiums on cats
will be an attractive feature of the next
Vigo county lind fair. sel 81
LACROSSE, Wis, has an OK with q horn
ten inches in length growing from his
breast, between the fore legs.
THEY tell of railway in Kentucky
| whereon the locomotives are assisted up
steep grades by aSYoke of oxen.
Mr.. PoLsGRovE, of Fort Scott, Kansas,
has raised from seed, in one year, a
grove of soft naples four feet high.
A TENNEssEE editor was SO rejoiced at
| the death of rival that he announced
it under the head of "Amusements."
A GIRL at Blue Earth, Minn., calls on
her leap-year victim regularly every
Satm day night, and goes home alone
a1Ler Il o CLOCK.
WILLIAMSON, who recently murdered
his daughter in Muncie, Ind, has died
of the wounds which he afterward in
| fiicted upon himself
ONE Scott, who runs aekunk-szin tan
merry in Indianapolis, appeals to higher
court from the prosecutions of a nuis-
ance-abating Mayor. sH
Mrs. FORD, of Lafayette, Ind, had a
$1,000 house, and paid forty cents a
gallon for her kerosene until last week.
The new building will be lighted with
gas.
In Maple Grove, Barry county, Mich,
is white oak tree twenty-seven feet in
circumference, claimed to be the lar
gest tree in the world of that particular
species. -8'tf1 Fl gHY. ~ p sfs0
The referees between the Eastern
railroad and Stephen D.. Thayer, of
Newton, Mass, who was seriously Grip
pied in the Revere disaster; have award
ed him $25,800 damages, s,,,r,4 ,..s
THE wool product of California last
year aggregated 24.276 ,253 pounds, an
crease of nearly s, 100000 ON the pre-
vious year. The clip this season is ex-
pected to be larger and of superior
quality.
THERE is an infant phenomenon in
Lynn, Conn.,, in the shape of little
girl, who demands her daily dose of
opium with storm of inextinguishabl
screams if it is not promptly forth
coming.
A PHILADELPHIA woman who had
broken her leg was 30 modest that she
would not permit the surgeon to set il,
hoiva for0oIn AnNfnf.
around, modification ensued, which re-
suited in death. 10 sH
{ Two four-story brick buildings on the
levee, at Galena, ILL.,, fell on Wednesday
afternoon. They were used as grain
storehouses, and the three upper sto-
ries were filed with grain. The loss
will be about $4,000. 578H eHf
A GENTLEMAN and his wife departed
from Indianapolis on Wednesday even
ing, taking with them their nineteen
children, five of whom were Gin arms"
The father is thirty eight years old and
the mother thirty-six. 72ep
THERE is man in Fort Wayne, Ind,
who built coffin eleven years ago out
of the twisted branches of a walnut
tree, and who is in the habit of stretch
ing himself out in the box from time to
time and cycling himself in mirror.
A rARMER named Meeson came to In
dianapolis last week and offered forty
acres of land to the policeman who
should find his lost daughter, Lucinda.
Eli Thompson, the Chief of Police,
found her on Sunday, and says he will
make summer retreat for the boys"
on the force out of the old gentleman's
land.
EDWARD Cook, young married man
living in the vicinity of Charlestown
Landing, Ind, was found dead in
skiff floating down the river, on Sunday
afternoon, half mile below the land
ing. He had gone out to hunt ducks
with a double -barreled shot gun. One
barrel of the gun was discharged and
the hammer broken off. The contents
lodged in Cooks side and breast. 1t Is
supposed he shot himself accidentally.
The New York nabobs, the Hons. Ja-
cob Sharp and Augustus 1vins,l were
chatting each other the other day about
their early industrial habits, when the
| Hon. Jacob insisted that he used to cut
three cords of wood per diem without
any extra outlay of muscle. The result
| of Hon. Augustus's skepticism on the
subiectwas bet of 81 900 that the Hon.
Jacob was still capable of quitting up"
his two cords a day. The money was
put up, and chopping against time is to
come off within thirty days.
Mr.. JULIAN HAWTHORNE, the son of
the novelist, has tried literature for
wear, and likes it SO well that he has
renounced his profession of civil en-
gineering and will devote himself for
the present to writing and publishing.
He will soon return to Germany, where
he studied for year or two, and reside
with his family in Dresden while fulfill
ing his literary engagements. With
fine health, competent talents, and
| fair share of culture and experience for
one so young, Mr.. Hawthorne has the
promise of brilliant future before him.
| He has access to several magazines in
this country and perhaps in England,
where they are glad to get good Amerl
can writers.
Treatment of Soft Corns.
A small piece of sal-ammoniac dis
solved in two tablespoonfuls of spirits OF
wine, and the same quantity of water.
| Safurate a small niece of sponge or