Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-24
Miscellaneous,
THE ex-rebel raider Gen. Forrest
keeps ivery-stable.

THE ex-rebel raider Gen. Forrest
keeps lvery-stable.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, is fifty years
older than any city in the United States.
The members of the Iowa Press As
sociation are going to "excurt to
Niagara Falls in June to the extent of
$50 a head, if they can get $50 ahead of
their business.
A BOSTON girl who was married four
years ago in dress worth $5, 900 may
now be seen splitting her own kndlngs
and doing her own washing.
A RETIRED soldier, who marched up
ward of 1000 miles during our civil
war, says that the hardest March he
ever experienced is the one just gone.
CoNNEoT1cUT manufactures about half
of all the carriage trimmings, cutlery
and edge tools, hardware, plated ware,
spectacles and eyeglasses made In the
United States.
A ST.. LOUIS constable recently levied
upon the dinner being prepared in one
of the hotels of the city, and, as the
claim was not satisfied, the inmates were
obliged to go hungry.
EIGHT years ago Gen. John B. Gordon
led column of Virginia troops against
Fort Steadman, one of Gen. Grants
fortifcations at Petersburg. Now he
sits in the United States Senate. In the
House, Alexander H Stephens, e1-Vice-
President of the Confederacy, has seven
ex-rebel Generals to greet.
The man who sells the lease of the
corner of Broadway and Fulton streets
to the New York EUe'ai'ag Post for
$3.50, 600 was an oyster catcher In New
York bay, seventeen years ago. Getting
little money he worked his way up,
and finally invested all he had in a long
lease of that land at $19, 900, which he
has just sold for $3.50, 900.
THE work of removing the Red river
raft is progressing under Lieut.. Wood
ruff, being effected by saving out the
logs and floating them off down the
river About six miles of the raft has
already been cleared up. 1t would be
interesting to see the total amount that
has been expended by the Government
in former years for the removal of this
same raft, and also how many times the
) raft has been removed and reformed
again.
THE will of the late Samuel J. Browne
Clergyman of Cincinnati, has been an
nulled, on the ground that the testatol
was insane. This will left 100000 tx
found university to be named after Mr.
Browne. The heirs of the testato
agree to give 800, 900 to endow the Gin
: cinnati University. This Mr.. Browne
, it will be remembered, shot a boy ant
killed him, for robbing his orchard,
, few months before his death.
EVERY one who has been shocked b.
the visible suffering of cattle, as the
stand with lowered heads and weary
q jaded faces in the crowded cars whic
, are transporting them to the Easter
markets, will learn with pleasure that
radical change is to be made in the shiI
ping department. The Palace Stoc
Car Company is making arrangement
: by which cattle can be shipped to th
. East from Texas without change of carr
. and can be fed and watered by the wa.
I and will have plenty of room in whic
to sleep comfortably.
g DURING the war large number
r slaves were enlisted in the army frol
: Maryland and Kentucky, from Virgini
= and other States penetrated by th
v armies of the Government. Heretofol
e under the bounty and pension laws I
r provision had been made for such pc
!. sons, but one of the very last acts passe
!. by Congress before its recent adjourn
9 ment placed them on the same footir
|. as to bounties and pensions as all 9TH
:. enlisted men
If A VERY important provision of Il
Il new consolidated pension laws has ju
IS been brought to notice, and is one whic
if literally construed, will take sever
Is millions out of the Treasury. It
l. clares that the pension of widows shs
is be increased at the rate of So per mon
n for each child under the age of 16 yea
If of the husband on account of who
IL death the claim has been or shall
re- granted, the increase to date from Ju
20 5, 1866. This provision attracted
f, attention at the time of the passage
r. the bill.