The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-30


Jon P1r11ssz of an descriptions furnished TO
quality.
FRESH TOPICS.
IT is said that nine-tenths of the Per
sons who engaged in what is called bust
ness in this country fail. =
A NIECE of President Van Buren,, 79
years of age, is public character, lille
her uncle. She is an inmate of the
Hudson county, N. J., alms-house.
EMILE DE GIRARDrN. the eminent
French statesman, denies the right of a
community or an individual to punish
crime, and urges that it be treated as a
disease.
DIR. GRAHAM, of Louisville, is 81
years of age, but he goes about on horse
back, hunting up curiosities for the mu-
scum, as spry and blythe as he was sixty
or seventy years ago.
CoaMoDoRE PERBY's flagship, the
Lawrence, sunk in Erie. Pa, harbor 81
years ago, has been raisel, and the bot
tom found to be in good state of pre-
servation. She is to be exhibited at the
Centennial.
Look out for bogus IS bills OF the
National Bank of Paxton, H., and
Traders National Bank of Chicago.
Large amounts of counterfeits on these
banks have been manufactured, and are
now in circulation.
HEzEKIlH LEABD, of Augusta, Me-,
lately deceased, was the latest man in
the State. His coffin was 80 inches
broad, 20 inches deep, and IA inches
ong. These figures are from the under
taker, and may be relied on.
THERE is little rebellion among the
school-boys of New Orleans. ALI of the
senior class of one of the high schools
have dropped their books and states and
refuse to attend because negro has
been appointed professor of mathematics
In the school.
JESSE PoMERoY, the Massachusetts,
criminal monstrosity, owes his life thus
far to dead lock. Gov. CASTOR urges
Communication, but the council refuses to
commute, and the Governor refuses to
sign the death warrant. So Jesse can
neither be hanged nor let off till they get
q new administration.
JOHN MoRRIssEY has been sick nigh un
to death with an ugly attack of cholera
morbus. The doctors gavehim hypoder-
mic injections of morphine, and brought
him safely through. Morrissey found
time, between gripes, to make viii, in
which he devised half million dollars to
his wife and son.
S. L. GoRDoN, prominent politician
of Minnesota, and nicknamed by oppo-
nents as .s laundering Gordon" recent
ly had shooting affray with one of his
tenants at Monticello, Mimi, named
Tom Desmond, whose rent was overdue.
Four shots were fred by each party, and
Desmond was hit twice, probably fatally.
Gordon was unhurt, and surrendered
himself to the authorities.
TINS is bad-very bad. A Decatur
Gala. dispatch, giving an account of the
arrest of gang of counterfeiters in that
part of the country, says: Zone of
the number, named B. B. Bowers, was
foreman of the last grand jury of Green
county, Steward of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and Superintendent of a
Sabbath school. When arrested, Bowers
had on his person $100 in counterfeit
50-cent fractional currency, and $500 in
counterfeit IS and $40 legal-tenders.
Bowers, socially and financially, is promi-
nent, and he gave bond for $40, 200.
A CHICAGO journal recommends rifle
shooting as :" an exercise which tends to
the best development of the muscular.
system" Howa man can get " muscu-
lar development out of any feature of
rifle practice, unless it be in the walk to
and from the range, is something, for
the life Of us, we cannot comprehend.
And if it is the pedestrian exercise that
produces the muscular development, -
we don't see why fellow cannot obtain
that just as well empty handed as by
loading himself down with heavy gun.
Or, if one must needs carry ballast, why
not shoulder a fence-rail or railroad.
tie2 g Muscular development in rifle
practicel Fudge. As well talk of mus
cular development In shooting marbles,
playing chess, or swinging on the CUTE
and talking love to silly girls.
A RIDICULOUS affair of honor recently
came off at st. Louis between two law
yers, ]. H Mincke and G. D. Grismore
the former being the challenger. Der
ringer pistols were selected as tn,
weapons, and twenty PAGES the distance
Arriving at the ground, the principal
were ordered to strip for the fray. Girls
more obeyed with alacrity. Wit
Mincke the case was different. He ha,
mis- coat buttoned up to his chin, and in
sisted on fighting in that trim-that h
was chilly, and if he exposed his body