The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-29
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

this country in the autumn.
JUNE Is the Pope had outlived the
Days Of Peter by five years. 1t was the
thirtieth year of his Pontiicate.
CUTTING the veins of the arm, as said
to have been adopted by the late la
mented Abdul Aziz, promises to become
a fashionable mode of suicide at London.
A retired Navy officer at Davenport wa
the first who followed the SuItan's ex-
ample.
Mrs. N. P. WILLIS, widow of the poet,
isnow living in New York with her sec
ondson and two young daughters. Her
eldest son and daughter are married and
settled down, the former in the interior
of Pennsylvania and the latter in Exeter,
New Hampshire.
AN eccentric citizen of Cape May car
ried a rope in his pocket for forty years,
his explanation being that he was liable
at any time to wish to kill himself, and
meant to always have the means handy.
A few days ago he hanged himself with
the old rope.
MANKATo (Minn.) Revieip: 1t is the
general remark that the number of i'm
migrants passing through this city this
spring to the frontier is greater than for
years. Almost invariably their destina-
ton is the Redwood country. They are
all well supplied with horses and cattle.
AS a boyin Aroostook County, Me-,
was leading a heifer home the other even
ing, a bear made a dive for her as they
were entering the yard. The heifer ran,
the boy held on to the rope, the bear
chased both, until the neighbors, hearing
the believing Of the heifer and the
screams of the boy, cameand shot bruin.
A NATIONAL Law Congress, under the
auspices of the United States Law
Association, assembled in Philadelphia
recently, in the hall of the Stock Elk
change, and continued in session three
days. One of the objects of the Congress
is to institute measures looking to the
~unifcation of the laws of the several
States, with a view to greater uniformity
in the practice of the profession.
AT a wake "in st. Louis two women,
mourners, got drunk and fought for the
possession of a bottle of whisky. One of
them was killed and the Coroner's
jury, convinced that she was in the last
stage of consumption, and would have
died o under any circumstances, re-
turned this verdict: MRS. Brundeg
came to her death by emaciation, aided
by blows received from Mrs. Fitz-
patrick"
@. G. ERNEST, of Stockton, California,
after several experiments, has succeeded
in raising roses as black as ink. His plan
was to engraft a slip of a dark red rose
into an oak tree, where they grew,
lourished and blossomed, the dark sap
of the oak efectually coloring the roses
black. He did not succeed, however, in
transferring the slips SO treated to the
ground, for they invariably died in the
attempt. Slips of roses engrafted into
locust trees lived for two years, bearing
brown blossoms.
In the case of the Pennsylvania
Transportation Company against the Oil
Greek Railroad Company, which was
tried in May last, in the Common Pleas
Court of Crawford County, Pennsylvania,
and a verdicto of one hundred and ninety
seven thousand, two hundred and eighty
i've dollars rendered in favor of the
plaintiff, the question was raised as to
whether the contract sued upon was
within the powers of the contracting
parties, which point was reserved by the
Court for future adjudication. The Hon.
W. H. Lowrie, presiding Judge, has
affirmed the validity and legality of the
contract, and directed final judgment to
be entered for the plaintiff for the full
amount of the verdict.