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

More troops been sent to Ireland.
The Guiteau trial cost about $780,
900.
A general European war is not i'm
probable.
Porter and Davidge will get $4,000
each.
Two hundred suits for divorce were
q at Cincinnati last year.
Bill to extend national bank char
tiers will probably pass congress.
Scoville is not very confident of a
new trial.
Oberlin is still trying to pray out
the liquor selling druggist.
Woman suffrage women maintain
a lobby at Washington.
Senator Sherman admits that his
Funding bill is doomed to defeat.
Democrats in Congress will oppose
the admission of Dakota as a state.
Indiana Democrats talk of running
Hendricks for Governor in 1884.
Insurance Committee of the House
have framed q bill to put an end to
graveyard insurance in Ohio.
The Chicago Tribune is stirring up
the anti-Mormon cranks, to hold mass
meetings and set up a howl.
Knowing ones say that Conkling
will surely be Secretary of the Treas
ury.
The exposition building at Atlanta
was sold for 100000, and will be met
amorphosed into q cotton factory.
Nobody will be allowed to have
communication with Guiteau but
Scoville.
The Iowa Legislature adopted q
resolution prohibiting railroads from
giving free passes to anybody but
paupers and mendicants.
Mason, who shot at Guiteau, is still
in Jail. General Hancock does not
want to Court martial him, but Cen
eral Sherman says he must be court
martialed.
Four Guiteau jurors, whose names
were found written on the margin of
a newspaper alleged to have been read
while the trial was in progress, say
that the names are forgeries.
kilograms from Marseilles state
that the balloon which carried Wal
ter Powell to sea from England on the
10th of December last, has been found,
togethcrMiththe dead body of Pow
oil in tho Siarra
Francis Murphy is progressing with
his temperance work in Forfar, Scot
land, where he is carrying on a cru
SADIE against the liquor shops. In two
days about 1900 persons signed the
pledge.
Thomas II. Sringham, who was to-
tally disabled by the fall of an eleva-
tor in the storehouse of Mrs. A. 4.
Stewart, at Garden City, was award
ed $4,000 damages, and the court
gave him $500 extra.
About a thousand million dollars
of our national debt have been paid
since the war ended. France has now
nearly treble our debt, and Great Brit
ain more than double. Even Spain
has a bigger debt than that which re-
mains of ours.
Pittsburgh shows up a death rate
of 81 in 1000 for the last year, the av-
erage being higher than any previous
year. There were l,57S cases of small
poX. whereof AS died. There were
Lotto deaths from infectious diseases
mainly typhoid and scarlet fevers and
d~iphtheria.
A net underneath a trapeze does
not seem to be a perfect safeguard fol
the performer. A girl with Barnum'.
circus was killed last summer by 6
fall into q net, her chin striking or
her knee so violently that her neck
was broken /; and now Zerello has los
his life in the same way in San Fran
/ cisco.
. Detective Williams, of the Pinker
ton agency, after spending a montl
, working at the case Of who fired the
| Ohio Idiotic Asylum at Columbus, or
the 18th Of November, finally secured
the confession of two boys, David
Goodrich. and Elmer E. Quinn, in,
mates of the institution, who confess.
ed that they set the building on fire
An indianapolis child became
smoker under two years of age, be-
ginning with very mild cigarettes
which his mother taught him to use
in order to keep him quiet, and soor
taking to strong cigars with great en-.
ljoyment. But at four he is in a hos.
pital, undergoing treatmentfor spina.
troubles brought on by the effect OF
the tobacco on his nerves.
Judge E. r. Potter of Rhode Island
in declining to hear the Sprague di.
vorce case, wrote: 81 wish to say now
that if either party chooses to ask for q
divorce on any ground affecting the
moral character of the other, some
other Judge must hear it, and the par
ties must be at the trouble to secur
his attendance, as l have long been a
neighbor and acquaintance of both.
Tho conductor who was on the
Hudson river train last week when
the fatal accident occurred that burned
to death eight persons, testified before
the Coroner, that among the passen,
gers was a party of Senators, Assem-
blymen and Aldermen who were
drinking and conducting themselve:
in a very disgraceful manner; that, IL
his opinion, the cause of the acciden'
4 was rum.
Notice of Appointment.