The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-19
NEWS IN HsRIEF.

NEWS IN HsHRIEF.
Kansas boasts of producing the big
rest hogs on earth. III
There are 1900 lodges of Odd Eel
ows:in Ohio and lots of odd fellowsl
the1odges.
A general conference of Prohibi-f
5ionists is to be held at Chicago, March
and 2, 1882.
Last year in Philadelphia s39 per-
died at the age of eighty. Broth
love is conducive to longevity. T
The project of a worlds fair in Bos-
has been abandoned. Talk was
and money scarce.
A mad dog in Chicago running
through the streets bit q large num-
Der of persons January 2. =, bs,.
General Grant and q. S. Grant Jr.,
each paid $1,000 for a pew at the auc-
ton sale of pews in DIR. Newman's
new church in New York.
They are talking of a new church
in New York with Grant, Gould, Cy-
rus W. Field and Russell Sage among
the pillars. i1t saH
A London company willsend a col
ony to Mississippi. One million three
hundred thousand acres of land have |
been secured for the purpose.
A resident of Belfast, Ohio, has been
put under bonds of $500 to appear be-
fore the Grand Jury on the charge OF
opening a letter from his wife TO her
father. 1i
The Boston Memorial Association
has resolved to collect subscriptions
for q statue of the late President Gar
field, to cost not less than $4,000
The Army of the Cumberland is also
bent on having a monument to the
late President. = 90
A sentenced murderer in st. Louis
is resisting the efforts of all the clergy,
man who try to prepare him spiritu-.
ally for death. 81 have always taken
care of myself" he. says, sand I guess
my soul will be able to do the same"
No argument moves him. af
A prudent theatrical company tele-
graphed 10 Springfield, Mass. to learn
if they would be safe from smallpox
in that city. The City Physician re-
piled: "Our patients are oil safely
lodged in the hospital, and none of
them care to attend your perform
ance." al.e u7,i-
There is a Charley Ross. case at
Ocouto, WIS.,. the kidnappers secret
ing alittle son of Capt. Dickinson,
and demanding $1,000. A search was
at last accounts being made for the
boy. The father, though wealthy and
not penurious, positively refused TO
The wife of the new Chinese Min
lister, a lady of high rank in her own
country, will not at present enter
Washington society. She speaks on
iy her own language, her little fee,
will! not permit her to go about un.
supported, and she is, to crown all
Exceedingly bashful.
The Methodist Church at Eagle
Bridge, N. ", is divided on the ques
ton of acception as a gift the money
raised by a ball. The pastor has de
clil,ed the donation, but some of the
members argue that, as the church die
not promote or c~ountenance the ball
there would beno improperly in tax
ing the proceeds. al .@haj.
Dan Edison of Warrensburg, Pa.
WAS a terrible blashemer. A horse
kicked him in the back the other day
and his calculations were uncommon
ly prolonged and violent. Then flsmeI
broke out among the, hay, and tn,
building vas destroyed. There is N,
convincing the neighbors that Dam
sulphurous language did not kind
the fire.
A politician lost $500 in a faro roon
at Columbus, Ohio, and then aske,
the gambler to lend him So to get
supper and lodging, This was ,refus
ed. The angry man then brought il
the police, who o~bligingly champion
led his cause by presenting the alter
native of So or a general arrest, Th
money was loaned, and the officer
withdrew. aa ar.. .H
German emigration in the year 1888
promises TO become even more colos
sal than in the past year. Alread
about fourteen thousand tickets hav
been taken by vessels leaving Breme
alone in the early spring for the Uni
ted States, and every day additions
passages are being booked by tina
/, route. This does not include Ham
+ burg, whence an almost equal numbe
of emigrants will come to this side G
, the Atlantic.
The Rev. George O.; Barnes is con
DUCT ng, in Louisville, a religious re
vival which in most respects is nc
uncommon; but he introduces a nov
city by carrying a bottle of oil as h
goes among the penitents and anoint
ing them on their foreheads. III
; claims Scriptural authority for thi
ceremony. Although harshly crit
cised for his oddities, he is said to b
: sincere in his work-so sincere tina
5 he will take no pay except food an
: lodging-and his converts are num(
rous. He is q scceder from the Pres
byterians.
George w, Bristol has q wife |
Meriden, a wife in Worcester, and
wife in Providence, TO all of whom /
has been regularly married within
few years. Ashis business was that
= travelling agent, he was fora time alb
: TO conceal his biganly by visiting eac
of his homes in turn. The wives al
Young, uniformly pretty, and belon
e to respectable families. They are un
v ted in their desire to punish him, no
that they have found him out. and h
has been arrested, just in time to pr,
vent his union with q girl at Middl,
town.
During the year 1881, ninety pei
sons were hanged in the United State
= according to law, and an indefinit
number according to the DEGREES
y vigilance committees. Arkansas take
I the lead with fifteen ; South Carolini
ten Georgia, eight; Missouri, six
New York and Tennessee, five each
Pennsylvania, four Florida, Color'
do, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi an
North Carolina, three each; CalifoI
e mia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jerse