The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-19
OHIO NEWS.

out again at Catawba, Clark county.
JAMES LINTON has been appointed
Gauger for the First Ohio district.
DANIEL P. R1oDEs. prominent and
wealthy citizen of Cleveland, is dead.
A BOY of 10 years, named Fleig, was
drowned last week, at Ripley, by falling
of raft of logs.
OBERLN College turned out thirty-si1
graduates at its annual commencement
yesterday, and it wasa great day there.
TIE undutiful son of Soloman Pareira,
Cincinnati pawnbroker, has robbed his
father of $4,000 worth of iewelry, and
fed to parts unknown.
A YOUNG man named VIM. McAfee,
living near Wooster, was recently struck
by lightning and instantly killed. The
deadly fluid completely stripped his
body of clothes, shoes and stockings.
PRoF. MoFARIAND, of Oxford, last
week shipped the skeleton of masto-
don to the managers of Yale College.
The bones indicate the monster to have
been about eighteen feet high when
living. 1t was found near Urbana.
A PRIZE fight was lately fought fnear
Lancaster, between Scotchman named
Erskine and Welshman named Roberts.
The stake was $500, and the Scotchman
won in thirty-three rounds. Both of the
brutes were badly punished.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Marietta &
Cincinnati railroad ran off the track last
week near Stewards Station, thirteen
miles east of Athens. The engine turned
over into the Hooking river. Two men
were instantly killed, and nine others,
including the conductor, were injured.
TIE Cincinnati papers state that there
is strong suspicion that the four young
Cincinnatians whose bodies were recov-
cred from the river, and who were sup
posed to have been run over in skiff by
the tow-boat My Choice, were really the
victims of foul play.
THE total damage to bridges and cul-
verts in Muskingum county by the floods
is estimated at $4,000. News from
Morgan county show the floods quite as
destructive there. Vast amounts of
wheat and grass have been destroyed.
The loss in the Ohio valley is estimated
at over $500, 900.
THE contract for building the Colum-
bus and Toledo railroad has been award
ed to Benjamin E. Smith and KAISER
dates, from Columbus and Cincinnati, at
about 81, 900 per mile, they taking about
two-thirds in bonds, and the company
furnishing the right of way, stations,
and equipments.
A BOY named Bowhart was drowned
in Rock Creek in Tifin, last SatTlr-
day. He was in company with three
other boys about 10 years of age,
attempting to cross the creek with a
wheelbarrow, which upset, throwing
him into the river. The others tried to
save him, and would all have been
drowned had not Sheriff Arnold come tc
their rescue.
THE O'Connen centennial (Aug. g. was
celebrated with much eclat at Cleveland
and Columbus. The various military and
civic societies paraded the principal
streets in large numbers, and no accidents
occurred, the best of order prevailing.
Eloquent tributes to the memory of the
"Liberator" were delivered by Bishop
Rosecrans at Columbus, and at Cleye-
land by Judge O'Neill, of New York.
THE six national banks of Cleveland
report their loans and discounts June &c
at $7,926, 900; specie, $4,000; legal
tenders, 100000, besides the 5 pei
cent. redemption fund of $4,000; cir,
culation, 50, 243, 900; Individual deposits,
$8,S ,S92, 600. The five Cincinnati banks
show loans and discounts of $11, 1856
600; specie, 100000; legal-tenders,
81, ,574, 600; 5 per cent. redemption fund
$15s, 900 circulation, $3,O19, 600 indi
vidual deposits, $7,09s, 900.
A LETTER from Columbus says
'sThere is generally a good deal of ex
aggeration as to the damage done by
failure or excess of rain. But to many
it hardly seems possible to exaggeratt
now, and all through Central Ohio there
is but one opinion, namely, that millions
of dollars worth of property has beer
destroyed. The wheat had to be cut
when cut at all, in the few transient in
tervals between the rains, and much O.
it was SO wet when put into shock tina
even if dry weather had Immediately
succeeded the shocking, it would hav'
been injured or spoiled. But no DIR,
weather came, and rot, blight and mil
dew have been the consequence. TIL
hogs have been turned into hundreds o
fields to make the best they could of tn
sprouting and rotting grain. This is Oh
the high grounds. Of course it has beel
worse in the valleys, for these hav
everywhere been submerged, and no
only the wheat, but all other crops hav
been drowned out or washed up an,
fioated away. Along the Hooking, tn
Scioto, the Licking, the Coshocton, tn
Tuscarawas, and scores of smalle
streams, the same lugubrious story
repeated, until one wearies with the uni
form details of destruction and loss"
THOMAS ALLEN, the fighting man, ha
sold his fighting shoes, and now if h