The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-06
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The population of Nevada, as shown
by the recently completed census returns,
is 52,S96, including S,5S2 Chinese. Ne
vada has one United States Senator to
every 26,168 of population; New York
State one Senator to every 2,352, ,604 of
population. The Nevada Senators do
what they can to make the division more
just by absent:ng themselves from Wash
ington large part of the time.
SEvENTY-FlvE life Senators have been
elected by the Versailles Assembly
They are called the Unmoyables."
They will have to be spared very short
earthly careers to keep from being
knocked overheard by Paris revolutions
and fashions, whose law is the true law
of nature-change. The other two hun
dred and twenty-five Senators to the new
S,nate are to be elected popularly.
The Cincinnati Gazette prints an In
teresting article by q well-known ply
sician of Cincinnati, on the horse as op-
posed to civilization. The writer argues
that by abolishing the horse we could do
away with noise and dirt and the incon-
venience of locomotion, make beautiful
grassy promenades of our streets, and by
improved machinery do all the work that
is.now intrusted',to the horse, with greater
economy of time and money. The posi-
tion taken by the writer is a novel and
radical one.
PROFESSOR PALSHERI announces that
the dynamics Of the earthquakes recently
felt at Naples, did not take their rise in
Vesuyius. Evidently shaking up is
going en- in the interior of the earth,
when the rolling occurs almost simultane-
ously in the Old and New Worlds; and
the movement must be strong when some
of the internal insides are dropped out
through the surface into space. We are
losing some of our gravity, it is clear, and
Neapolitans begin to think that there is a
big job ahead for the plumbers.
FELIX GMLET has just presented the,
editor of the Nevada California; Tran
script box of ripe strawberries, of the
princess Dagmar variety, which had
just been picked from the vines in his
gardens. Ripe strawberries, some of
which measure three and a quarter
inches in circumference, picked on the
18th of December, and grown in the open
air at an altitude of 2,250 feet above the
ocean, with huge banks of snow three or
four feet deep in sight, and not thirty
miles distant, show what kind of eli
mate we have in California, and par
ticularly in the foothills of the Sierra
Nevada mountains.
PETER s. HARDsELL, wealthy farmer
residing about one mile west of Mays
vile, Allen County, Ind, committed sui
eide recently by hanging. He had been
Iow-spirited for some time over the failure
of his crops last year. He went out to
his barn with the ostensible purpose of
feeding his stock, and was afterwards
found hanging by chain to one of the
beams. The corpse presented horrible
sight. The flesh on the neck was forced
through the links of the chain, and ter
ribly cut and bruised, showing that he
must have suffered terrible death. The
Coroner's jury returned verdict in ac-
cordance with the above facts.
THE Newburyport (Mass.) Herald
notes the recent death in that city of
Kate Coffin, who had been city pen
sioner for. thirty-seyen years. When
young she was the belle of Newburyport,
and when old, even more than fourscore,
she was remarkably good-looking and very
polite. She was at the city alms-house
for no weakness of mind, no disease of
body, no immortality of life; but when
her father and mother died the town
took her up, simply because she deter
mined that she would do nothing for
selfsupport. Labor, even of the lightest
kind, she was totally unacquainted with;
twas repugnant to all her ideas of what
belonged to lady, and she never forgot
that she was one of the first families Of
the town, and when young knew not
what work was, nor from necessity was
required to know. She was the daughter
of Lemuel Coffin, who lost al his fortune
some time before his death, so that Kate
from afiuence and ease was reduced to
poverty. Her age was eighty-nine years
A SHORT time ago Lodecia Freden
burgh, and Albert Fredenburgh, her son
were condemned to be executed at Her
kiner, N. Y, December 81, for the mur
der of Orlo Davis, an aged cripple, il
the town of Gray, Herkimer County, las
summer. They were convicted on th,
evidence of Mary Davis, a young mar
ried daughter of Albert Fredenburgh
and daughter-in-law of the victim, and
confessed accomplice. For weeks tn
counsel assigned the condemned ha,
made application in vain for a stay O
sentence. And now the Utica Reral
contains confession of the girl, Mar
Davis, that she testified falsely on tn
trial; that she and her grandmother CON
mitted the murder, and her father ha
nothing to do with it. Albert has wri
ten q letter to her declaring his il
nocenee, and intimating that FIankli
Davis, thelhusband of his daughter an
the son of his victim, was concerned
this and other murders. 1t is believe
the old woman, Lodecia Fredenburg,
responsible, and that her sentence wi
ha o0po ,,fad or Tba rooor,,,o,Js4:.