The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

" UTSllib hepuUilCdnS aTe QudiiCi
ng over the distribution Of patron
ge.
The Rev. George W. Dunlap, a
revivalists, has eioped with /,
fair Kentucky convert. 4
jeff Davis, who has long been blind s
one eye. has now nearly lost the
sight of the other.
The bill in the Kentucky House for
furnishing wife beating ut the whip
has been defeated.
The Ohio Way, the paper that pro-
posed to reform the Republican par
has gone the way of all the earth.
The undertaking was too vast.
A Stalwart Republican is quoted as
declaring hat the President will par
don the assassin Guiteau on the ground
of insanity.
Wendell Phillips heads a petition
against compulsory vaccination, of
course ; but so do thirty Boston ply
%sicians, which is more remarkable.
The recent crop of oranges in Flor
ida surpassed both in quantity and
quality any previously raised i'll the
State.
Rev. W. K. Cowl, a prominent
Methodist minister of Pittsburgh, has
caused a sensation by adjuring his
creed and becoming a Unitarian.
Gen. Malone is the richest man in
Virginia, and smokes dollar cigars;
the Governor of the State is a poor
man and smokes "two for five."
A citizen of Springfield, ILL.,, has
started a subscription for remunera-
ting the Guiteau jurors for loss Of
time, and as a recognition of the right
eousness of their verdict.
Samuel Percy, the actor who late
ly died of smallpox in Boston, was
a disbeliever in vaccination, and a
month before taking the disease re-
fused to protect himself against it.
il. Schmit, a "crank" prisoner in
the Jail at Rock Island, H., set fire to
the prison, which was partially de-
stroyed, together with the county
building. Loss, 500.
One of the jurors in the Guiteau
case lost $1,000 on a business transac-
ton because he was not allowed to
communicate with his employees upon
a matter with which he alone was in
formed.
The store of Moses M. Black, one
of the oldest houses in Mansfield,
Ohio, is in the hands of his creditors
through the withdrawal of patronage
caused by two of his clerks being
down with smallpox.
An old man at West Cheshire, Conn,
has made all his property over to his
wife, on condition that she gives him
food, clothes, lodging, and one pint
IF good rum every day as long as be
lives.
A Philadelphia deserted his wife
to 90 of with another M AT
ter being away a month, he~ wrote
back that he was repentant, and would
return if assured of a welcome. The
wife replied "Comc hoIne-you will
be warmly received. "And so he was
by the officer who was on hand tt
aIYesthim.
A professor in the college at Lew.
isburg, Pa, held his place twenty-sev
en- years and was then discharged by
the trustees. He claimed that he wa
an officer of the institution for life
removable only by judicial proceed
inos, and therefore sued for continued
salary. The Supreme Court has de
cided against him.
The Daily News-Democrat of Gun
, nison, Colorado, contains the follow
ing announcement, I'VE the signatur
i, of Mrs Julia Garrahy: "a liberal re
, ward will be paid by Martin Josep
. Garrahy's wife for the address of MAJ
tin Joseph Garrahy if living. If dea(
she would also like to know, as sh
. knows a good Irishman who woul
. like to marry her and father her OIL
: phans."
A resolution has been introduce
into the Legislature for the adoptio
of an amendment TO the Constitutio
providing for the exemption of WOOD
5 land from taxation. The propositiO
: is 10 exempt one-flfth of an owner
land from taxation. providing tn;
that much thereof is devoted to tn
growth of timber. But if more tina
S a fifth of an owners land is in timbt
only a fifth is proposed TO be exemp
The verdict of a Methodist cleric;
= jury in the ecclesiastical trial of til
Rev. II. O. Hoffman,. at Bloomington
Ill.,, by which he was disgraced fc
longcoutinued Wickedness, was reacl
ed at 2 O'Clock in the morning. TIL
S defendant asked leave to lead in pray
\ er, Just before the vote was taken, an
was accorded the privilege, which h
used most %fervently. The jurors weT
deeply affected, and all wept as the
signed the verdict of guilty. Hoffma
had been extremely popular, bot
with congregations and fellow preach
ers.
Owing to the open winter the log
ging interests of Minnesota and Wis
: consih are suffering greatly. AtMoos
Lake camp ono party, which coult
get in 100000 logs if there was snow
: does not expect TO have 100000 feet
another has 100000 feet cut, but j
unable to handle it; while a third, al
: ter abandoning a section where 1t eX
pccted to gather 100000 feet if til
snow held out, will be lucky to secur
100000 feet. In the camps on tn
main Chippewa, Flambeau, and the
tributaries, the open winter has re
duced the cut oflOgs at least one-thir
the estimated amount of 6O0,OO0.OU
feet. AT Menomonee, Wis, thirty
, five camps expect to bank 100000
feet, and the loggers of La Crosse,
the mild weather continues in the en-
will have but 1O0,COO.0O0 feet frol
their seasons work. The estimate
7 cut on Black River was over 100000
q 900 feet, of which probably not mol
than three-fourths will be secure,
n 1t is confidently predicted that a lare
n number of small and new contracto
o will be ruined through the want