The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-03
NEWS PARAGRAPus.

field Inauguration ball has beenre-
duced to So, but the visitors will
have to pay for refreshments.
General Schofeld is said to be dis
satisfied with his assignment to New
Orleans. and it is expected that a
change will be made after the 4th of
March.
North Carolina has fifty-seven cot
ton factories in operation on full
time and still unable to fill their Or
ders, and many more in process of
construction.
There are said TO be great frauds
in the matter of pensions. There is
little or no Discrimination used in
granting pensions, and Congressman
sell pensions for votes and influence.
Senator Blaine is going to make
the great effort of his life, one of
these daysin favor of cheap postage,
and Senator Dawes is going to say
a great piece about Indians.
A bill has been introduced into
the Delaware Legislature e%xempting
from taxation for ten years all per-
sons coming into the State to settle.
That ought to invite immigration.
The will of the late Joseph F.
Armour, of Chicago, contains a be-
quest of 100000 for the establish
ment of a mission church in the
most thickly inhabited part of that
city.
1t is said that the new trunk line,
known as the Baltimore, Cincinnati
and Western Railway, will touch 20S
towns between Baltimore and Gin
cinnati, of which only twenty have
now any railroad connection.
Mr.. John H. Inman of Cambridge,
Tenn, came out of the Confederate
army at 90 with less than 500, and
got a place in a New York cotton
firm. He is now reputed worth
81, 100000.
Gen jackson left the Presidential
chair with exactly 800 in his pocket.
Before enriching Grant further, per-
haps it would be just as well to vote
Jackson's heirs (if there are any, a
hundred thousand or so.
A man named, Sterling was hang
ed in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1877, for
the.murder. of a young girl. He was
convicted on the evidence of a buck
ster, who a few days ago, On his
deathbed, confessed that he was the
murderer.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe writes
from her winter home at Mandarin,
Florida, that the hard frost of the
night and morning of the 30th OF
December caused a loss of all her
oranges-about 100000 of them.
Tie fruit lies in heaps on the
ground.
The patriots who carried the cleo
toral votes from the capitals of the
: several states to the capital of the
country cost the government $4,000
for their mileage and per diem
; John Jacob Astor of New York, and
+ the Michigan messenger are the only
ones who did not call for their pay.
Mr.. Jesse D. Bright, who was ex.
PEELED from the United States Sen.
ate in 1861 for disloyalty, died last
, week at his home in indianapolis
Indiana. Sixteen years ago Mr.
, Bright was stricken with paralysis
in New York and has been an almost
; helpless invalid ever since. Among
his surviving children is r.
Bright, Sergeant alarms of thu
United States Senate.
The people in the neigbborhood o
!. Norwalk gathered in numbers ant
expressed their Indignation at the
actions of Cumming, the man who
I nailed his sons tongue to a stick O.
wood. A crowd avowed their inten
ton of'doing him violence. He was
taken away in disguise and will re
main secreted until the fuss is over
The affair has created a sensation
!. all over the country.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt owns SOL, 900,
: 900 in four per cent. bonds, upor
/, which a check for the interest *
!, amount Of $4,000 is sent to Mr.
3 Vanderbilt every ninety days. Other
. than Mr.. Vanderbilt there is no per
+ son who owns over $4,000, 900 Of
: these registered bonds. Those who
: own 81, zoo 900 are not numerous
, while several hundred persons have
J over $100, 900 in these four per
I cents.
, The only States that pay theil
I Governors a salary of$10,000 ayeai
are New York and Pennsylvania
Louisiana pays $4,000, and Califor
MIA, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana and
t Nevada pay $4,000 each. Ohio pays
: hut $4,000, and does not provide q
: Governors house either. The small
3 est salaries are those of the Govern
: ors of Michigan, New Hampshire
Rhode Island and Vermont, $1,000
a year.
: The village of Scyene Texas, is il
, a state of excitement over a scanda,
: in the Christian, church. Rev. r. G,
, Atkins, a preacher of that denomi.
nation, was put on trial for intimacy
with a married woman, a member oil
his flock. At a church meeting held
there to investigate the parsons do
ings asperities were INDUCED in by
the friends of the parson and the
woman and the meeting was one OF
great disorder. 1t finally broke VI
in a row among the members, who
left the church building.
{ The Commissioner of Pensions
D has written q letter to the Chairman
i of the Senate Appropriations Com
D mittee, in which he places the
amount necessary to pay the. claims
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