The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-23
NEWS IN ERHeEEE.

Lake navigation has opened at Chi
cage, the earliest on record. a..
A Philadelphia magistrate has been
fined $50 for making an excessive
charge of 35 cents in q fee.
Boston paid $4,000 for the wine,
food, and carriages used by her Com
mon Council in junketings last year.
The Ohio House has passed a bill
prohibiting the killing of quail in the
State until 1885: also to make the
weight of a bushel of tomatoes fifty
six pounds.
A whole city is being Boycottcd in
Illinois. Cairo's officials oppose the
entry of q new railroad, and the resi-
dents along the line, have signed an
agreement not to spend q cen in Cairo
stores.
Near Summit, Miss, = peddler,
warned by the mistress of a farmers
house not to enter the yard, did so
and was jumped on by two vicious
dogs, which killed him OH the spot,
%mangling his body in a horrible man
ner. r
The man who expects to adjust tlie
rope around Guitean's neck is named
Robert Strong. He has had enough
practice to make him proficient. He
says that, although Guiteau seems
brave now, he expects 10 see him die
like q cur.
Henry Hill, who was put off a Geor-
gia railroad train last summer because
he insisted on riding with his coat off.
though the conductor instructed him
that it was impolite to the women in
the car, has obtained verdict for 3d.
900 against the company.
A large dry goods firm Of Boston
proposes 10 its employees that each
shall contribute $40, in weekly assess
ments Of so cents, toward treating ore
out of every twenty-five Of their num-
Der to a trip to Europe next summer,
luck to decide who shall go.
A story is ont that Neal and Graft,
alleged Ashland, (Ky,) murder fiends,
are innocent Of the crime for which
they have been sentenced to death,
and that Ellis, who turned States evil
dence against them, was induced to
do so by other parties in order to
shield themselves.
The total annual consumption of
quinine throughout the world is Civ
en- at 100000 pounds, of which one
quarter is used in the United States
alone. In 1880 we imported 5 O,OOO
ounces of quinine and $4,000 bales OF
cinchona bark. In 1881 the importa-
tons were one-quarter larger.
The Head colony, in the wheat re-
gion of Dakota, is composed entirely
Of eight brothers named Head and
their families, numbering nearly a
hundred persons. They have bought
10000 acres ofland in adjoining farms,
but these are owned separately, and
there is to be no communism in the
enterprise.
The Rev. E. D. Towle, in his fare
well sermon 10 a Methodist congrega-
lion in New Bedford, made an assault
on orthodoxy. One of his points was
that. according TO sound Methodist
belief, Garfield had gone to he'll be-
cause he did not believe in the Trini-
~, while Guiteau would 60 to heaven
1.-The repented OF his crime.
Two factory girls had been sentcnc,
ed to four months Imprisonment foG
drunkenness in Lowell, Mass. They
were young, and their case excited
sympathy in court. As they were be-
ing taken III the officers saw their
mother slip a bottle of whiskey into
the pocket of each. There was nc
lomgerany establishment that they had
become drunkagds SO young.
The Rev. DR.. Eaton of Louisville, i'll
a plain sermon OH social inequalities.
said that during his residence of g
wear in that city he had "seen.a poor
man, with no influential friends, given
five years in the penitentiary for steal
ing provisions, while a murderer.
with powerful connections, was given
two years, and leading citizens have
signed a petition for his pardon"
Prof. Haynes has read an essay be-
fore the Natural History Society o.
Boston, in which he holds, principally
f, ON observation of Pude stones dc,
: noting a shaping by human hands
t that a race of men must have lived in
, New England long before the Indians