The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-13

the chief theme of interest ane discus
zion among the politicians of York State.
An investigation is in progress.
THIS is the way the Louisville Courier
Journal imprecates Cincinnati editor
who called him thief: "May Eli Per-
kins attend his funeral, and may cock
reaches swarm on his grave"
Hon. EDWARDS PIERREPoNT, the newly
appointed Attorney-G General, was one of
the leading counsel for the prosecution
In the Surratt trial. He is man of large
wealth, and contributed $40, 900 to the
campaign fund at the last Presidential
election.
TIE press on both sides of the British
channel is filed with enthusiastic notices
of Capt. Paul Boyton's last maritime feat.
They regard even his failure as success
full demonstration of his undertaking to
swim across from Dover to Boulogne,
and as an immense triumph for humanity
and science.
WE have been visited by Princes and
Grand Dukes and Kanaka King, but
we have never had a real Princess among
us except the Princess Salm-Salm. Now,
however, it is announced that the Prin-
cess Louise of England, the very much
the better half of the Marquis of Lorne,
will visit us next fall.
PROF.. RENAUD, of the Heidelburg Uni
versity, an eminent German jurist, has
lately published an exhaustive review of
the Tilton-Beecher case, in which he
states that it is the conviction of the legal
minds of Germany, Austria and France
that the plaintiff, Iilton, has no case
whatever, and expresses surprise that
under the laws of America he should not
have been non-suited after his evidence
was in.
WE have read of nervous patient, In
the hands of dentist, dropping dead
while losing tooth, but the case was
reversed lately in Hampstead, Texas.
The dentist dropped down hfeless while
endeavoring to extract one of lady's
molars. Probably he was SO anxious to
accomplish his task without paining his
customer that he over-excited himself,
and stirred into deadly activity some
morbid condition of his vascular system.
The amendment to the Postal laws,
smuggled through at the close Of the
last Congress for the benefit of the ex-
press companies, pans out immensely
for those corporations. Under the new
rate for third-class mail matter, the ship
ment of bullion from the gold-producing
regions to Chicago and the East will be
taken from the mails and transferred to
the express companies, who will be able
to exact flom shippers three or four
times what it cost them before.
The Brooklyn scandal is having its
effect on the eyes as well as the morals
of the public. In the Hartford Corant
we find the following "Dr. Bacon, of
New Haven, while in Meriden a few
days since, to perform an operation, in
all earnestness assured gentleman that
the number of cases of eye diseases he
treated was unusually large since the
Beecher trial commenced. In almost
every instance the patieAt sat up late
. night, reading the great trial reports"
AT late meeting in New York of the
Directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road, statement was made of the La
bilities and assets of the company. Ac-
cording to this exhibit the assets consist
of $50 miles of finished road, and over
100000 acres of land, while the liza
bilities are mortgaged bonds to the
amount of $3O,OOO,OO0, stock to the
amount of $25, 600, 900, which was dis
tributed as premium to the bonds, and
a floating debt of less than 500, 600, of
which $500, ZOO is due to the Directors
of the road.
The treaty by which the Sioux In
dians hold possession of the Black Hills
was made to secure the Union Pacific
railroad from molestation. The treaty
was negotiated with them by Gems.
Sherman, Harney, Terry, and Augur,
and Messrs. J. B. Henderson, Nathaniel
G. Taylor, John B. Sanborn, and Samuel
F. hppan; Commissioners on the part
of the United States, at Fort Laramie,
Wyoming Territory, on the 29th and fol
lowing days of April, 1868; was ratified
by the Senate of the United States Feb
16, 1869, and was proclaimed by the
President on the Oath of February, 1869
A WASHINGTON dispatch states thai
there are still remaining in the Genera
Land Office undelivered- nearly 300, ,OO(
patents for agricultural lands. OF thi
number about $1,000 are from Illinois
and quite as many from Indiana ant
Missouri. Among them are patents
signed by every President from Monro,
to Lincoln. The reasons assigned fo
the presence of these patents in tn
Land Office is that many landowner
consider their title valid if they have tn
Receivers duplicate receipt. This is no
the case, and the Land Office frequentl,
cancels these duplicate receipts AM
issues the patents to new parties.
The steamship Nova Scotia, which al
rived at Baltimore from Liverpool las
week, reports having passed an immens
ice-feld which was skirted for four hour
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