Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
Miscellaneous.

New YORK doctors recommend figs for
dyspepsia.
SIX young ladies acted as pall-bearers
at funeral in New York, recently.
Seor is said to be one of the best fer
tilizers, and quite as valuable as guano.
Stokes relatives are discouraged, and
they have plainly told him he must hang.
SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed 81 WI Help Aray Man. !"
A MEMPHIS printer has fallen heir to
third of a $15, 600, 900 estate in En-
gland.
ONE thousand Chinese arrived at San
Francisco, last week, on the steamer AL
toona.
THREE men were crushed to death by
the falling of a. hay loft, in New York,
last week.
A MINNESOTA hen has got into the
newspapers by laying thirty-six eggs in
sixteen days.
THERE are strong movements in differ
ent States in favor of abohshing the
grand jury system.
THE sale of oysters during the sum-
mer months is prohibited in Pennsyl-
yania by Legislative enactment.
THE cotton seed of the South, which
were once thrown away as worthless, are
now worth SO, 600, 900 per year.
A VESSEL was recently loaded with
so, 900 bushels of corn, from Chicago
1 elevator, in less than two hours.
THE first Chinaman ever arrested in
San Francisco for drunkenness turned
/ -, 4k1 he low
BRANDY made of fgs is the latest Cali
fornia novelty. It is said to be very
cheap, and yet to have excellent drunk
making qualities.
THE Scientific american says +" that
in less than twenty years most of the
heating and cooking will be done by
combustible gas"
THE death of Hon. Mr.. Orr is attrib-
uted to the severity of the climate at st.
Petersburg. Hon. Anson Burhngame
died from the same cause.
ENGLAND spends annually nearly tel
millions sterling upon her navy, France
less than five, the United States under
four, and Italy scarcely one and a half.
MORE immigrants have reached
America during the last three months
than during all the year 1872, and not {
third who intend to come this year arr
yet here.
THE Taunton (Mass.) Gazette says
that " if Ben Butler runs for Governo
of Mas sachusetts he will be fattene(
out SO thin that his shadow will disap
pear from the earth"
( Ex-SEcRETARY WEILEs declares tina
neither Mr.. Seward nor any other mem
L IN-1~ "a Il -
, controlled President Lincoln to any sucl
extent as Mr.. Adams implies in his ora
ton.
+ JUSTICE BOWLING wants $40, 900 fror
: the New York Sun for saying that h
+ opened court, the other day, by askin
+ prisoner for chaw," and wound u
, by adiourning to the front room to tax
drink.
: The Omaha Bridge Company, whic
y is lesser Credit Mobilier ring in th
4 Union Pacific railroad, and which levie
y tolls of its own on all railroad freigh
= which crosses the Missouri at Omahs
;. is said to make 81 900 day by its e1
d tortion.
In 1872 there were scaled in the 81
Minnesota lumber districts about 400
000,0 feet of logs, and in the Chil
k'oWd, uIlA N1oSOho1A 1AfOA VI
}, tricts about the same quantity. I'll
production of the season of 1873 will /
). even greater.
~ A NEW era in the history of America
T horse-racing is to be inaugurated
q Long Branch this season. Admissio
- - to the field is to be free to the gener
n public, and an admission fee is to
q charged only to the grand stand al
~ quarter-stret
If UNTIL recently it was supposed tn
water had little motion below fifty fat
J. oms. It is now known, however, tn
ar in certain localities there is motion
d the water at the depth of five hundr,
of fathoms and this motion has proved
l. serious source of injury to submari
J. cables.