Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-02
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance,
WHOLE NUMBER 262.
Current Items.

1
GEORGE w. PECK, of the La Crosse
| wis Democrat, has been appointed and
confirmed Chief of Police of that city
for the ensuing year.
A COUPLE of artesian wells are being
sunk at Niagara Falls, one in the rear
of the International Hotel, and the
other on Goat Island.
EDWIN FORREST has passed the crisis
of his disease, which for several days
threatened fatal termination, and is
now rapidly improving. -t
AT Big Rapids, Mich, on the 9th, a
railroad train dashed at night into a
drove of hogs which had strayed upon
the track, and killed 81 out of SO.
ACCOUNTS received from the Thunder
Bay silver mining religion, north of
Lake Superior, show that it costs
$4,000 to get out silver bullion to the
value of 100000.
"A READING, Pa, carpenter has made a
bid, for fame by carving a complete
tea set"-plates, cups, and saucers,
knives and forks, cream-mug, sugar
bowl, teapot, etc.,-out of peach stones.
A BRIDGE is being constructed at
Mobile, to cross the Mobile and Tensas
rivers. 1t will be supported on iron
cylinders driven into the morass, and
its extreme length will be about fifteen
miles. 't -
AT Salem, Mass, they baptize con.
verts on the stage of the music hall, ar
ranging the scenery 80 as to give. the
stage the appearance of lake sur
rounded by trees. Baptisms of this sort
are surer to take than the ordinary
kind. +
The grandmother of an Indianapolis
man attacked him in the most cowardly
and outrageous manner. It is satis-
faction to know that he did not let
family considerations stand in the way
of justice, and promptly caused her
arrest.
THE rainfall has been very heavy on
the Pacific slope, which gives promise
of unusually large crops, and q conse-
quent impetus to general business. 1t
is expected to act equally beneicially
in the development of the mining in
terests.
A TooTH-PIcK factory at Canton, Me-,
employs more hands than all the other
manufacturing establishments in the
town. 1t has already consumed 100
cords of poplar wood this season. The
machine turns out 5000 tooth-picks
minute.
DR.. BALcoM, who had lain sick for
some time at the residence of Mr.. j.. E.
Platt, Manitowoc, Wis, mysteriously
disappeared from his bed room, during
one of his delirious attacks, andawas
found dead beside fallen tree on the
farm of Mr.. Avery Smith, several days
afterward.
THE wife of a German mechanic,
named Aur, residing at Newark, N. J.,
the mother of sixteen childIe en-, besides
+" great expectations" has eloped with
a pious fraud of boarder who became
a member of the household few
months ago. Of course she took what
loose cash there was in the house. ols
AN Oshkosh, Wis, man has in ibis
orchard several apple trees, the trunks
of which, five inches in diameter, are
split from the ground to the branches
by the extreme cold weather, of last
winter. On cold days the seams would
through the trees ); Jet they appear
thrifty.
: "A CINCINNATI paper records that
among the promenaders in Fourth
street, that city, Wednesday afternoon,
pensively perfumed, who was holding
one end of chain having attached to
it small dog wearing a hght-colored
blanket, on which was elaborately en-
broidered the words, "Twin brothers"
A TRIAL of strength was had at Port
Rowan, on Wednesday, to decide a bet,
that twenty men, or even ten, could
hold the steam tug Watchman-twenty-
e, r1nxuar-and fWantu-fIUa
men could stop her when she had full
head, the men to have 100 feet of coil
to get under way. The trial of strength
took place, and the men won.
A NEGRO family that recently moved
from North Carolina to Louisville bids
fair to become extinct. First, the
syoun gest child, a boy of eight years,
drank the contents of a bottle Of Louis
vile whisky, which, of course, immedi-
ately proved fatal Then three other
brothers died, one after the other, of
smallpox, and now the parents are at
the point of death with a fever.
h HENRY DEXTER, an old and wealthy
business man of Boston, disappeared
few days since, leaving note to his
partner, which reads as follows: "Avel-
ing-I have left Boston, never to return.
Do with the business as you please"
Strange to say, no corresponding disap-
pearance of woman has yet been dis
covered. Perhaps Mr.. Dexter is a rela-
live of the great Timothy, and has gone
into the warming pan business some
where in the torrid zone.
JONES and his wife were always quar-
reling about their comparative talent
for Keeping fire. She insisted that
Just so surely as he attempted to re-
arrange the sticks with the tongs, he
put the fire out. One night the church
bell sounded an alarm, and Jones
sprang for his fre-bucket eager TO rush
to the conhagration." Mr.. Jones'"
cried his wife, as he reached the door,
"Mr. Jones, take the tongsr eTIUpeT
Grand International Regatta.
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