Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-27
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
PoPE PIUs smokes and plays billiards
HYAo1NTHE will come to America mex
year.
IND1ANA's name came from that of tn,
Indians.
COMMANDER JAMES w. SHIRK, of tn,
navy, is dead.
A NEGRO named Philip Hill has JUS
died in North Carolina at the advanced
age of 108.
DORSEY, the new Senator from Arkan
sas, will be the youngest member of the
next Senate.
| Mrs. CRrTTENDEN, widow of the late
John j. Crittenden, of Kentucky, has
just died at st. Louis.
SURVEYS have fixed the final route OF
the Southern Pacific railroad from Los
Angeles to Fernando.
Col. INGALLS,, who steps into Pome.
roy's Senatorial slippers, avows himself
in favor of woman suffrage.
A BILL is pending in the Nebraska
Legislature to exempt from taxation fo1
term of years all manufacturing estab-
lishments.
THERE is 1884, 600 invested in saw
mills, 50, O26, 900 in salt works, and
$404, 900 in shingle mills in the Saginaw
Valley, Michigan.
THE death of Mr.. Dixon, who first
ascertained that oysters were eatable, is
announced as having occurred at Chris
field, Md, last week
Mrs. EDWIN FORREST Will undoubtedly
obtain her legal dover, since her hus-
band failed to obtain divorce from her
in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
DIR. VALENTINE Mort said wisely to a
graduating class Z" Young gentlemen,
have two pockets made-a large one to
hold the insults, and small one to hold
the fees"
A WRITER in a long-ago copy of the
Brooklyn Monthly says: The judi
cious mixture of printers ink with the
arterial system tends to longevity aud
content"
THERE is a Lady in Henry county,
Mo-, five feet four inches high, and
when she assumes perpendicular posi-
shion her hair drags down on the floor
four inches.
The whole cost of eur SO, 900 miles of
railroad is about So, ,437 ,638, 749, which
is sum not very much greater than
England has spent on her 10, 900 miles
of railroad.
IT is charged against Brooklyn that
some of her citizens employ professional
mourners at funerals, and that nine
tenths of the grief has the smell of
greenbacks.
THE Philadelphia editors are the
richest in the United States. This is an
awful comment on the public taste, for
the Philadelphia papers are the worst
in the world.
SIX thousand men are now grading the
Texas Pacific railroad, and track-laying
will begin as soon as the rise in the
Red river enables the necessary supplies
to be brought up.
IT is proposed to introduce in Con-
gress at an early date a bill to compel
railroads to equip their passenger trains
with power brake, which will place
them completely in control of the en-
gineer.
THEY have just had an earthquake in
Oregon which shook up the people a
good deal. One loving husband who
had "just stepped out to see man on
business" rushed home with billiard
cue, that he had forgotten to replace, in
his hand.
THE silver product of Colorado for
the last year was as follows Clear
Greek county, 81, ,503, ,391 Gilpin, ST.
359, ,2S9; Boulder, $346, 740; Park,
$238, 600; Lake, $133, 900; Summit,
$125, 900 other counties, $50, 900. Total,
So, 784, 931.
THE San Francisco Bulletin thinks
that in a very few years the Pacific
coast will raise more than 100, ,000, 900
bushels of surplus wheat per annum,
and says that, besides this, the gold and
silver product of the coast, estimated at
$65, 900, 600 annually, will sink into in
significance.