The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
TOPICS OF THE TIME.


quiet persistence with which he has
minded his own business and insisted
upon other people minding theirs is the
key to the situation.
ANOTHER miraculous cure is reported
from Lourdes by special telegram to the
Paris Uniuers. The crowning of the
Lady of Lonrdes had attracted an array
of Bishops to the town, and unusual ex-
citement was prevailing among the in
habitants in anticipation of the important
ceremony During the mass by the
Nuncio at the grotto," according to the
dispatches, " Madelaine Lancerau, of
Poitiers, aged sixty-one, known to a
large number of pilgrims as being una
BILE to walk without crutches for nine
teen years, was radically cured"
THE monument erected by the Metho-
dist women of New England to the famous
old Methodist preacher, the Rev. Jesse
Lee, was dedicated at Mount Oliver
cemetery, Baltimore, July IL. The
monument stands in what is called the
preachers lot, plot where number
of distinguished Methodist ministers lie
buried. 1t is of Scotch granite, and
bears upon one side the following in
scription: New England Methodists
erect this tribute to the memory of the
Rev. Jesse Lee, on the eighty-sixth an
niyersary Of his first sermon in Boston,
preached under the old elm, on the
Common, July II, $780,"
THE raking up of ong-forgotten facts
which the Centennial fever has provoked,
has resulted in the discovery that the
early rulers of Massachusetts, discour-
aged the use of paint, regarding it as a
luxury. Rev. Thomas Allen, of Charles
ton, was brought up for discipline in
1889 for having paint about his dwell
ing, but was discharged on showing that
it was done before his time, and was dis
approved by him. The first church
erected in Boston was never painted,
within or without, while it stood, and a
list of mechanics made out by the Gen.
eral Court of Massachusetts,, in 1870,
does not contain the name of painter.
THERE seems to be a fatality attend
ant upon the illustration of accidents
which have caused death. In attempting
to show a jury how a man killed him
self with pistol. the late Clement L.
Yallandigham, of Ohio, lost his life, and
not long after another death was caused
by an effort to illustrate the manner in
which Valhndigham came to his end
And now another illustration comes from
Sharon, Pennsylvania, where a man was
killed by fall from bridge over the She
mango. A man who saw the fall and
thought it very foolish one, undertook
to explain how it occurred, and did it SO
accurately that he repeated the expert
ence of the first unfortunate, even to
being killed by the fall.
THE Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill,
as passed by the House of Representa-
tives, contained this clause: To pay to
the executor of the estate of Henry Viii
son, late president of the United
States, the sum of s10,222, to be held
and applied by said executor as if part
of the estate of said Wilson, given and
bequeathed by his will" This would
place the money in the hands of Mr..
Coolidge, the executor, for the benefit of
Mr.. Wilson adopted daughter. The
Senate, however, so amended the clause
that it read "To pay to the heirs of
the late Henry Wilson, late Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States, the sum of
$10,222" This, if enacted, will benefit
Mr. Wilson's brothers aud other heirs-at-
law. One Of his brothers, S. 81. Col
bath, is one of the Senate's doorkeepers.
Troy Press: Last Saturday week a
well-knoWn citizen of Lansingburg,
whose dread of notoriety has kept him
from reporting the occurrence, was row.
ing down the river from Lansingburg.
Happening to look into the water while
rowing near tbs shore in the vicinity OF
Bottoms brewery he saw the body of q
I boy lying face upward on the bottom Of
( the river. His first impulse was to dive
into the water, and he did. Securing
the body he carried it to house, which
singularly enough happened to be the
residence Of the boys mother, who had,
until the appearance of the stranger with
his body, supposed that her son was in
the yard playing. The body was still
warm, and after an hours labor the lad
was resuscitated. He is now as well as
ever, and win doubtless remember as
.SAs - - a.a.. 'l.o 80, ~" neai ne was VI
'As Aa'On v ue41n uo0i.
IN reference to monument to Gen
Custer, in Michigan, which is beginning
to be much discussed. the Raw Citv Tri.