The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
NEWS

women OF Star City,
Ind, are being prosecuted for enter
ing the only saloon in town, empty
ing the liquor casks, breaking the
glassware, and cutting up the pool
table with an ak.
Among other things the Ohio
Legislature will do before adjourn
ment, will be to provide for the pay
ment Or refunding of that portion of
the public debt due June 3Oth, 1881,
amounting to $4,072, 640.30.
Cadet Whitaker is to have a
court-martial. He is to be defended
by Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of
South Carolina, Emory Storrs, of
Chicago, and B..H. Brewster, of
Philadelphia.
Glass makers are to have a con
vention in Pittsburg. They com
plain that the business is not good.
Garfield was elected but still the
business failed to boom as was
promised.
General Garfield has sent to the
Governor to say that circumstances
beyond his control have made it i'm
possible for him to serve the State
as United States Senator. The Leg
islature will choose somebody else
Tuesday, January 18th.
Three hundred and ninety-six
thousand oranges where shipped in
one day during October, by one rail-
road, to the West from New Orleans.
In less than four weeks six million
oranges were. shipped by the same
road TO Western cities.
A thousand persons, mostly wo-
men, are employed in engraving and
printing Government money and
bank notes at Washington. They
are so closely watched during work
hours that they look upon themselves
then as prisoners.
The Maine Republicans are dis
cussing whether they will allow Gov
ernor Plaisted to be inaugurated or
not. The general opinion seems to
be that they are not big enough to
prevent it. They had better not
try it.
The Kansas newspapers declare
that a physician at La Cyone, in that
State, narrowly escaped lynching, be-
cause he invented a compound that
would instantly sober a drunken
man. Public sentiment was against
anything that tended to cause a
waste of liquor.
A hollow tree in Southern Cali
fornia has been converted into. u
dwelling. Doors and windows have
been put in, and floors laid for eight
stories. the entrance to them being
made by means of a ladder. Outside
the topmost room is q small balcony,
shaded by the foliage of the tree.
There will be twenty five seats va
cant in the United States Senate on
the 4th of March next, twenty-one
of which have to be filed by cleo
tions in the various States. The
four Senators who have been chosen
are from Maryland, Virginia, Mis-
sissippi and Vermont.
Scott and Carver have signed ar
ticles to shoot at 100 pigeons each
for $1,000 q side. Should Carter be
beaten, there is still the champion
Bogardus to uphold Americas fame,
not to speak of the Missouriau,
Young Erb, who has done remark.
able work with the shotgun.
Unpleasantness has broken out in
New York between the Conkling and
anti Coukling Republicans. There
is a Senator to be elected. The Stall
warts are notified by the organs of
the opposite faction that they were
beaten at Chicago and not to expect
any recognition from Garfield. At
this Conkling and his faction calmly
point their opponents to the treaty
Of Mentor and bid them wait and
see.
The bill appropriating the pro
ceeds of the public lands to the
States for educational purposes has
passed both houses OF Congress. The
greater part goes to the Southern
States to educate the negroes. 1t is
supposed that the fraudulent Presi-
dent will of course sign it, as it is
the first step towards the whole
charge of popular education being
assumed by the Federal government,
instead of each state conducting the
matter for itself.
Relies are still found upon the
Gettysburg battle field. A few days
ago, in an opening at the foot of a
boulder near the DEVILS Den, Mr..
VIM. D. Holsworth discovered an
English detached lever silver watch,
in such a state of preservation as to
require a very little amount of clean
ing aid brushing up to enable it to
make correct time again. The de
cayed condition of the steel chain
indicates the long period of the
watch's loss-probably since the
battle, in 1861.
The officials in the State House
whose terms of Office will expire in
1881 are: H. j. Walls, Commissioner
Of Labor Statistics, january 9Th;
milton Barnes, Secretary of State,
january 10th; j. j. Burns, State
School Commissioner, January 10th;
&. j. Tanning, Clerk of the Supreme
Court, February 9th; Martin Schil-
der, Member of Board of Public
Works, February Sth; II. V. Kerr,
State Librarian, March 5th; William
j. Elliott, Supervisor of Public
Printing, April 18th; Joseph F.
Wright, Superintendent Of Insur-
ance, June Sd.
A Galveston millionaire, applied
to by his friends to allo.F his name
to be put up for the United States