The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-07
NEWS EN BRIEF.

A Kentucky farmer lost four daugh-
ters in one day-by marriage.
Twelve years ago Joseph Morgan
was a poor ranchman in Ford county,
Kansas. The other day he sold a herd
of 1000 head for 100000 in cash.
Six thousand petitions, bearing
$4,000 signatures, in favor of q Sun
day Closing bill for England, have al
ready been presented to Parliament.
A Philadelphia preacher told the
women of his congregation that Di-
vine truth could not find its way into
hearts that were cramped by corsets.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
apostle, is doing a grand work in Scot
land, and the blue ribbon army is be-
coming a vast one.
Two officers in ~thafservice of the
United States, who fled from their
posts at the approach of yellow fever,
have been discharged for their cow
ardice.
Ten year hence the country can Gel
citrate the 4O0th anniversary OF its
discovery by Columbus. New York
is already talking of q fair in that
year.
An eccentric Boston man, astonish-
ed by getting a pair of boots made
lust as he had ordered them, gave the
maker a commission for 263 pairs-all
he expected to need for the rest of his
life.
On the day that a divorce was grant
ed to Mrs. Perkins, a Kansas woman,
she was lying dead in the house and
the body of her husband was hanging
to the limb of a tree-one dying of
heart disease and the other commit
ting suicide
Mrs. Wilson got a divorce from her
husband, in Oregon, on the ground of
cruelty. He reformed, and wanted
to marry her again, to which she con-
sented; but he afterward changed his
mind, and now she is suing him for
breach of promise.
The Supreme Court ofIowa decides
that a promissory note, properly fill
that the amount was not written out,
though put in figures in the margin:
is worthless. The marginal figures
are a memorandum only, and no par
of the note.
The Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic
draws a gloomy picture of the I'M
wholesome condition of that city
which, it thinks, "has not in the memo
ry of man been worse" Certain loca
~nuisances, it adds, occupied with tn,
vile sanitary condition in which WI
, live, present a broad invitation to thu
cholera germ to come and hold higl
E carnival in Cincinnati.
A long and active agitation of tn,
question of the Bible in the publ
, schools, i'll Canada, has eliminated il
a formal demand upon the Dominion
Government by those who favo
: Christian exercises for the pupils
They state their ultimatum as follows
> "That the Bible be used, not as a read
ing book, but devotionally, in connec
. ton with the prescribed prayer, a
6 the opening of the school each morn
: ing, and that both teachers and pupil
e foreach particular school day through
out the year. We do not ask that tn
Bible be used as a text book in tn
public schools. We do not ask tina
the teachers be required to give expo
%sitions or explanations of the mean
ing of passages of Scripture"
Two or three interesting cases Q
prayer cures have been published i
the newspapers lately, and if they ar
not ha%llucinations on the part of tn
q patients, as often happens in like re
ported cures, the age of miracles
not passed. But ne more practice
use of prayer has been reported tina
that of Daniel Van Wagner, an inmai
of the Ionia prison in Michigan. Tw
weeks ago he made very eloqueI
prayer i'll the prison prayer meeting
e and within an hour made his escape
That subsequent investigation show
ed that the escape was carefully plaI
ned should not detract in the lea!
from the effect of the prayer-upo
+ the prison keepers. Van Wagner e,
identity believed that works shout
It accompany faith. The prison officia
should be admonished to "watch an
n pray"
Anna Dickinson has withdraw
from the stage, and is living with he
sister and aged mother at Uonesdal
r. Pa. "She and her family" says
friendly writer in the Philadelphi
r PRESS, sare poor, but proud as eve
Anna has been importuned by he
n friends to return to the rostrum, bl
she will not listen to anything of I'll
Re kind. The temperance people are e.
pecially anxious to enlist her service
Her disastrous theatrical venture too
her last dollar. She looks carewor
and somewhat sad. Her large, e1
: pressive eyes are as eloquent as eve
: but it is impossible not to feel, after
glance at her face, that disappoin
ment has embittered her Lille. ST
IS had counted much on the success
her HAMLET, and studied hard
maHa ~ cnrh hut finally rotira6 fro,