The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
NEWS Nm BRIEF.

Vanderbilt's celebrated trotting
mare, Maud s, is to be sent to Gin
in December.
An Illinois cow swallowed 5000 in
greenbacks. She was killed and the
recovered.
Seventeen thousand five hundred
and forty-fye stray dogs were taken
into custody in London during 1881.
Twelve hundred head of sheep sold
in England lately for $l6,85O, the
highest price on record at q large sale.
There is trouble at the Emma
Mines, in Jackson county, caused by
the interference of striking miners.
The first American express was run
between New York and Boston in
1921.
Senator Wade Hampton says he
will never be q candidate for any Of
flee again.
A clergyman and his wife and
daughter have been sent to a Wiscon-
sin insane asylum, all crazed by the
excitement of a religious revival.
A Boston deacon is to be put under
discipline fer inserting in his dry
goods advertisement the line "High,
low, jack, and the game"
The motto of Tennessee, according
to the Chicago Tribune, has been
amended so as to read "Be sure you
have a shotgun ; then go ahead"
Texas reports place the number of
sheep in the State at 100000, and es-
Inmates the wool crop of the present
txsartp be worth $6,5o0,000.
Stamped envelopes will be sold to
the public, after January LIST, 1883, at
o reduction of ten per cent. on the
present prices.
Hog cholera of new and ~virulent
type has broken out near Iowa City,
where Jacob Seller has lost over 40G
head. The afflicted animals seem al
most rotten from cancerous sores.
In the Universalist Convention at
Philadelphia, a resolution was adopt
ed condemning the death penalty, aud
recommending a more humane pun
ishment.
Revivalist Poem prayed fervently
for the death of two rufians who dis
turbed his camp-meeting. All ofthem
died next day, which convinced
Penn's followers of his extraordinary
power.
1t is a fact not generally known thai
!. mutilated government stamped en-
velopes may be exchanged for stamps
at any postofice, for stamps of the de
Nomination of that upon the enVei
ope.
:. In the fifty years from 1880 to 1881
the amount of money invested in cot
ton manufactures in the United States
) increase from $40,000,000 to $225,OOO,'
: 600, and the bales consumed from
!. 1914, 800 to 100000.
: The commonly accepted belief tina
vaccination is a sur prevention o
small pox has been considerably dis
!, turbed in Patterson, N. j., where tina
dread scourge prevails, and v%accinat
E ed persons find no safe guard agains
it.
t A Joint stock company has been or
+ ganized at Columbia, Mo-, for a 80,
600 acre cattle ranch in Texas, tn
lands being located near railroads ant
: about 100 miles west Of Dallas. Thu
= : company have $4,000, and will fenc'
l the entire tract.
In Michigan horse trade the a6sse
o ment was that the beasts should no
be seen, but should be taken as found
When one trader went to get hi
& property he ascertained that it hat
: been dead for several days. A cour
is to decide whether he was sWindled
{ Leaving local traffic out of the cal
{ culation, it is said that more travel
lers use the railroad station in Kansa
e CITY than any other in America,
number of important lines comm!
together at that point. The keeper o
: the restaurant has to pay a rental o
s $4,000 q year.
Successful experiments are report
. ed at Champaign, Illinois, in maxim!
sugar from sorghum cane by a new
process discovered by the Professo
of Chemistry in the Illinois Stat
University. AT the first run of tn
machinery it yielded 1000 pounds o
. excellent sugar.
The wheat product of the year end
ing October l, in California, is NOR
than double in value of that of tn
output of bullion, that of the forme
u being $4O,OO0,OO0, while the bullion
q amounts to between $1S,0O0,000 AM
" $19, 10000. And the Upper Peninsul
of the. State of Michigan can give Cal
~ifornia large odds in the worth of it
metals and minerals produced thi
year the value of iron ores and cop
per for 1882 promising to exceed $25,
100000.
: One of the questions in a suit be
q fore the District Court in Philadel
a phia is whether or not "dann" is
- profane word. Blatant sinners will
care little for the result, but the deci
{ sion will be awaited with deep inter
e est by a host of worthy men, and pos
sibly by "devout ONE not a few,
who in moments of great physical o
: mental torture have found O grateful