The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-09

ION buIOru, the murQeref OF JuQge
Elliott, in Frankfort, Kentucky, has
escaped from the insane asylum to
which he was committed, at Jeffer-
sonville, Indiana, and it is claimed
that, being merely q fugitive from .
lunatic asylum, he is not amenable to
the extradition laws.
The widow of General "Stonewall"
Jackson and her daughter, a young
lady ofnineteen years, are now living
in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Jackson
left the South because she was there
compelled to mingle with society, and
could moi find the retirement and rest
that her health demanded.
Governor-elect Stephens, of Geor-
gia, positively refuses to enter the
race for the Senatorship made vacant
by the death of Benjamin Fl. Hill.
The probabilities favor the election of
Governor Colquitt, but his selection
will widen the breach, already danger
GUS, in the Democratic party.in the
State.
Drunkards are suffering in the ru-
raj counties of Wisconsin, where the
local option law of the State enables
the total abstinence people to vote
down the public sale of intoxicants.
Heretofore the traffic has been on
tinued out of sight, but now the rail-
road companies have prohibited their
employees from taking liquor as
freight, and the dealers can therefore
obtain very limited supplies.
In the counties composing the
Western Reserve the Democrats made
a gain of 1889, which leads the San
dusky Register (Republican) to re-
mark that "when such counties as
Ashtubula, Lorain and Geauga become
disguised with Republican manage
ment and show a gain of two thou
sand for the Democracy, there is a
strong hint that they regard the Re-
publican management as tinctured
with humbug."
Miller was tried by a Wisconsin
Baptist church, of which he is a pill
lar, On a charge of irreligious conduct
in going to a negro minstrel show.
His defence was that he started for a
temperance lecture, got into the wrong
hall, and did not discover his mistake
until the show began. He admitted
that he was to blame for not instantly
Withdrawing, and that he remained
because the entertainment amused
him. He was reprimanded.
Hazing is likely to be somewhat
unpopular at Bowdoin College here
after, and even in other colleges the
freshmen will have much less reason
10 fear the pump, the blanket or the
sophomore's pipes. A student al
Bowdoin has recovered 50, 700 as dam
ages for injuries inflicted by hazing
To pay this sum will make q deer
hole in the allowance of the seven
guilty collegians. 1t will not be sc
much fun as the haZing was.
Govefnor-Btackburn of Kentucky
says chat he will retire to private life
when his present term of Office is end
ed and never meddle with politics
again. He claims that he has moth
ing to regret in the record made while
he has held the Governorship. Abou'
his numerous pardons: 81 have par
doned a great many convicts, it il
true, but l would rather pardon then
than have them die in a prison ant
thus bring everlasting disgrace upor
their relatives"
Before ice became a universal. lux
ury people were in the habit of hang,
ing butter in their wells to keep i
cool and sweet ; and that is doubles!
the custom still where ice is scarce
and dear. 1t must have happened
thousand times that the cord broke
and the butter disappeared, but Their
can't have been many cases where i
was recovered after thirty years. Sucl
an incident has just given local fam'
to Mr.. Goodman's we'll in Bloomfield
Conn. A workman who was clean
ing ii found at the bottom a ball o
butter and the dish in which it wa!
suspended thirty years ago. 1t il
pure white and has the consistcnc,
and odor of spoiled cheese.