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

NEWS
There are 1880 periodicals pub
lished in France. Paris has 463, of
which 10 are daily political Journals.
1t is estimated by the Treasury
officials that the reduction of the
public debt for February will be
about $10,000,000.
A lady in San Francisco, whose
eye was put out by a rocket on the
evening of the Fourth of July, has
recovered $1,000 damages from the
city.
Four million dollars have been
spent in improving the Tiber at
Rome, and the Government has or
dered 100000 more to be laid out
for this year.
Temperance crusaders are to have
a reunion at Youngstown, but not
stated whether or not they intend to
lay siege to the Statesmen at Colum
bus.
BY the. laws of Guatemaula, Jesu-
its found within the territory are
to execution, and the Presi-
d~entlately shot a priest named Gil
lett, who had returned on account CT
his health. =
Five hundred and ten million dol
lars in pensions were voted by Con
gress last year, and still the applica-
tions,roll in. "A foreigner would i'm.
agine. US a nation of surviving sol
diers.
Three hundred and thirty six per.
sons over 80 years of age died in
Boston-1ast year. Two were centen.
a%rians, and, singula.ly enough, both
were men. One is said to have beer
107 and the other 101.
The bonded debt of three hundred
the aggregate population o
which is I'll, $50. 600, is 1864, 900, 900
and the entire local indebtedness.
81, 300, 600, 900. This showing O
municipal Indebtedness is unprece
dented.
To the illustrious fraud who will
vacate MI. Tilden's scat in a few
days more, how applicable is the ole
darkey's toast on the retirement O
another unpopular executive: Sd,
lGub'ner OBJ de State-he come il
wild a great deal oh opposition; h
goes out widout any,"
Twenty years ago Stephen A
douglass stood on the eastern porti
leo of the Capitol at Washington
holding Abraham Lincoln's ha
while he delivered his inaugural mes
sage. Those papers which think i
strange that General Hancock shoulC
attend the Inauguration of CARTEL,
may reflect on the same course o
Senator Douglass.
Neither Republicans, .Conserva
tives nor Readjusters in Virgins
seem anxious to be first in The felt
18th a ticket. The Conservative,
have decided not to hold their Stat,
Convention until August 4th-witl
the idea, apparently, of letting tn
deposition force the fighting. B,
that time Virginia politics will be a
hot as the weather.
At the last regular meeting Of the
United States International Exhibi
ton Commissioners Grant said i
would be impossible for him to Civ,
much personal attention to the en-.
terprise for some months, as he was
about to leave the city. He said hi
was surprised to see so little interes
taken in the movement, and thoughr
some action should be taken t.
arouse the ardor of public citizens.
Under a p%rohibitory liquor law
during five years, the arrests TO
drunkenness in Detroit were 1878
under five years of tax law, succeed
ing the prohibitory period the ar
rests for that cause have been 10,
Isl. Within two years after the tai
law passed, there was a decrease o
LOO saloons in the State of Mich
gan. These facts certainly show thu
greater efficiency of a high-rate Ii
cense ove p%rohibitory enactments
An incident remarkable in militia
ry annals occurred some time sine,
in South Africa. A troop of hors
soldiers were moving during a thun
der storm, when a bolt OF lightnin!
struck the troop, bringing seventeen
horses with their riders to tn
ground, and killing ten men an,
their horses on the spot. The other
were all seriously injured. Bits an,
stirrup irons were blackened, an,
clothing was rent. A general STAN
pede of the horses was with Difficult
ty prevented.
The procuring cause Of the over
throw of the Republican machine i
Philadelphia was the disgusting ROT
tenness p~ervading every department
of the public business. The Ga
Trust Managers were proven to b
a gang of oorruptionists; stealing
and irregularities were discovered i
the Delinquent Tax Collectors o.
flee; the School Board was run by
set Of bummers, and corruption wa
potential everywhere. The tax pay
ers resolved to have a new deal, an
they have affected their purpose.
! III the summer of 1917 a farme