Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-08
Miscellaneous.

MINNEAPOLIS claims that she will have
the finest church in the Northwest, to
be built by the Universalists.
THE records still show more than 800
Presbyterian and IT'S Congregational
clergymen without pastorates.
BILLS have been introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature to unite
Charlestown, West Roxbury, and Brook
line to Boston.
AN accepted California suitor lately
sold his interest and good will in his
affianced to rival, for the price of a
new waistcoat.
A BOY in Williamsport, Pa, got bill
lard ball into his mouth recently, and
the help of a physician was needed to
get it out again.
Boston has taxable area of 10, 600
acres, less than one-quarter of that of
Philadelphia, and smaller than one-half
of the towns of Illinois.
Mr.. ROBERT MAMMoN, of Pennsylva-
mia, last week performed the pedestrian
feat of walking ten miles in five hours
and half, at the age of 90.
A WOMAN in Gardiner, Me-, weighs
sixty-fve pounds less than she did be-
fore the surgeons removed her from a
tumor on which she had grown.
THE Indianapolis Journal complains
that, in making post mortem examina-
tions, the doctors of that place use
wood saw, a butter-knife, and an ak.
MASSACHUSETTS proposes to commem-
crate the one hundredth anniversary of
the battle of Bunker Hill in 1875 by
erecting statue of Gen. Joseph Warren.
THE Rev Mr.. Ancient is not much
SO, after all, being only So. He is a
missionary of the Colonial Church So
ciety at Torrance Day, is six feet high,
and is idohzed by his people.
GEN. CANBY was nephew of Mrs.
/. N. Sanders, of Iowa City. Peace
Commissioner Meacham's father, an old
man, nearly blind, is now living in New
port township, johnson county, Iowa.
THE oldsst postmaster lives at Hen
mixer, N. H. His name is Isaac Rice,
and he was appointed postmaster at that
place in 1909, by President Madison,
and held the Office 81 years. He is now
SO years old.
CONCERNING the refusal of the Supreme
Court to allow Myra Bradwen to talk in
the law courts of Illinois, the Louisville
| Courier-Jour7,GI says "An order of
the Supreme Court can tie up some
things, but woman's tongue isn't one
| of them.
BEN. B., he of the slant eye, has, by
strict attention to his interests, and an
unparalleled economy of principle in
his practices, saved enough to purchase
a little garden patch and cottage, in the
country, by making a cash payment of
only $780, 900.
GEN. HOWARD says that the President s
peace policy, if it does not succeed with
the Indians of this generation, will GER
tainly succeed with those of the next.
But the Western settlers think that the
only successful Indian policy will be the
one which leaves the next generation in
thei1 neighborhood exclusively white.
THE first brick houses erected in Phil
adelphia by Penn and his followers
were built of imported bricks, and nov
that city is getting back to the old sys-
imported from Liverpool, is growing in
favor rapidly in the Quaker City, anC
can be laid down there cheaper than fine
pressed Philadelphia brick.
A GIGANTIC railway fraud, involving
$13, ,0OO, 900, has just been unearthed IL
Costa Rica. Fraudulent bonds wer,
placed on the London market-ver,
much after the manner of the Memphi
, and Ell Paso swindle in Paris-whicl
were sold to the amount of $15, 900, 900
$13, 900, 900 of which found their wa,
into the pockets of little ring of ad
venturers.
AN instance of the steady accumula
! ton of interest is afforded by an &C
,, count in the New Hampshire Saving
: : Bank. March %, 1888, Mr.. Jonathan
Wheelock, Revolutionary soldier, de
; posted the sum of 800 in that bank
the same being pension money which b
received from the Government. Apr
{ Is, 1884, he deposited $15, and April
1885, $15 more-making total deposi
,, of $130. Neither the principal nor tn
interest has ever been drawn, and tn
present amount of the two is 81 ,228. "a
with a share in an extra dividend to b
g made.