The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
NEWS P~ARAGRAPHs.

General Grant still registers him |
self as u. S.. Grant, Galena, Ill.
It has been determined to adopt
some measures to weed out the
fraudulent pension claims.
A sober mans party has been or
ganized at Pottstown, Pa. It is
needless to say that no Republicans
joined.
A member of the Maine Legisla-
ture has turned out to be a swindler
and has been arrested. Republican
of course. g..
In the six months just ended 49,
0e0 more immigrants landed at New
York than for the same time in any
previous year.
On Pierce's Hill, Dorchester, near
Boston, stands a house built in 1910,
and which is still occupied by de-
scendants of its builder.
Worlds Fair commission had a
meeting Saturday 9Th inst, and
Grant was at it. Announced that it
would take a million dollars to give
the show a start, and only $325,000
had been subscribed. Grant didn't
say he would give the balance out of
his pauper fund.
At q conference of leading Illinois
Democrats at. Springfield, Illinois,
two or three days ago Lyman Trum-
bull urged that revenue reform and
the repression of monopolies be
adopted as the features of future
Democratic platforms. He predicted
that the Congress to be elected in
1882 would be Democratic.
The New York San, noticing the
tendency of the Stubs Sunday Bill
in the Legislature, remarks that
"what the Ohio man needs, however,
is not a law to make him sitter on
Suday, but one to make him more
straightforward on week days"
Each individual is left to Judge for
himself of the truth of the Suns OBJ
servation.
The Baltimore Sun Almanac,
which is considered reliable, gives
the official vote for President, at the
late election, as follows: Garfield,
Republican, 4,43O,327; Hancock,
Democrat, 4,435,97S; Weaver,
Greenback, 3O4, O8s; Dow, Prohi.
bition, 9,641; scattering, chiefly
Anti-M asonic, 1,793. Hancock's
majority over Garfield, 5,631.
A stock company was formed by
seven boys of Belleville, Ind, for the
purpose of saving up railroad iron
into chunks and selling it to junk
men. They raised a capital of Sc
with which they bought some tools
and began operations. One rail had
not been prepared for market, how.
ever, before the shareholders were
all arrested. The concern is insol
vent.
] Zoos is in jail. Rodney Zoos. II
Jail at Denver. Stole books from
Methodist library and pawned them
Eminent Republican. Was at ON
time Clerk of the Ohio Supreme
Court and private Secretary to Haye.
when he vas Governor. Shining
light. God and morality party. Mos
natural thing in the world for a Re
publican to steal. They all do it
But passing strange that one should
!, get sent to Jail for it.
Il The glass manufacturing interes.
j of Ohio forms in itself no inconsid
j cradle element in the prosperity o
/ the State. The following countie.
/ are officially recognized as the glass
sections: Belmont, Franklin, Jeffer
son, Licking, .Muskingum and Port
age. In this section there are thir
ty-two furnaces, Belmont county hav
J ling fifteen and Portage six. TIL,
value of glass manufactured yearly
aggregates over $4,000 00.
The Republicans are in a goot
Ideal of a quandary about the Speak
ership of. the next House, which il
likely to fall to them. The recen
promotions Hawley and Conger t.
the Senate and the certainty tina
siFrye will succeed Blaine, take from
1.-The House their strongest men
), Gonkling and the New York in
fuence is pushing Hiscock and he i
likely TO be chosen Speaker. Th,
Democrats will be very strong in tn
way of parliamentary leaders in tn
new House and the Republican
t weak, with only a majority of one t
commence on.
The Republicans of the House vii
Fl oppose the pending apportienmen
oilbills--the bill of Mr. Cox which pr
vides for sol members, and that Q
1.-THE majority of the Census commit
tee, which proposes 81 members
The Republican brethren charg
8 that both these measures are unjus
to the West as compared with tn,
= South, but they do not condescen'
e to show where the alleged injustic
lies. The real ground of opposition
e is, of course, a desire to postpone &C
y tion in the premises until their PAL
ty has control of the House.
I'll A reporter of the Cleveland LEAD
e Err was travelling by rail in Dakoti
during the recent cold snap. This
e he says, is what the engineer wore
= One red wooden wrapper, heavy quail
Q ity; one white wooden wrapper
. heavy quality; one skin shirt, clos
. and warm; one red wooden wrappe,
b heavy quality; one red wooden wrap
IL per, heavy quality; one red woole
e undershirt, heavy quality; one blu
n Mackinaw blouse, very heavy; fv
o pairs of heavy flannel drawers; on
pair of Mackinaw breeches; tw
: pairs of heavy wooden stockings; on
e pair of German socks; one pair c
arctics; one heavy fur cap; two pair
q of warm lined gloves: one pair c