The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-02-01
NEWS IN

be passed this session.
Some Massachusetts, Democrats fear
that Governor Butler wants to be q
boss.
The Northern Ohio fair grounds at
are to be sold and no more
held there. /.
The Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church has more than 100000 MEM
An Iowa town of 300 inhabitants
is endeavoring to maintain twelve
church organizations.
An unexpected and delightful offer
ofmarriage TO a Michigan girl brought
on q fatal attack of heart disease.
AL the navy yards, except those at
New York, Washington, Norfolk and
Mare island will be closed March 81.
George Darwin, a son of the ~evolu-
ZIONIST, has been elected professor of
astronomy at Cambridge university.
The treasury department acknowl-
edges the receipt of $500 conscience
money from one Hurst of Nashville.
The new Governor of Pcnnsy!va-
MIA, r. T. Pattison, is 81. The Chair
man of the Democratic State Comit-
tee, W. U. Hansel, is 81.
Religious philanthropists at Som
ers, Conn.,, have opened a large skat-
ing rink in the hope that it will prove
attractive enough to keep the young
| peoDle away from dances,
The once famous William and Mary
College at Williamsburg, Va, the
alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall,
Monroe, and Randolph, had only n
student last year, and is now closed.
Maria Sanders, on marrying John
Beabout, aged 81, at Ashland, Ohio,
received a present of 100000 in real
estate. She says, however, that it is
a love match.
The Springfield Republic calls the
passage of the Civil Service law a Re-
publican victory, and extends the
right hand OF fellowship to Pendle-
ton if he wants to step into that par
ty.
The men who bought the Philadel-
phia exhibition building for $4,000
have sold the iron alone for enough
to much more than repay the invest
ment, and will clear about $3.50, 0CO on
the speculation.
The Inaugural address of Gov.
O'Neal of Alabama contained a sem
teIce Of 29O words. In it was a COM
~prehensiye geographical description
of the Slate, and a prophecy of future
commercial greatness.
Lovers of genuine sugar from thu
cane will be glad to learn that all the
glucose factories in Iowa, established
at an aggregate cost of more than hal
a million dollars, have proved finan
cial failures.
| Under the provisions of an ole
treaty with the Miami tribe the com
, missioner Of the land Office has ISSUED
q patent to the heirs of.an Indian 70
5000 acres of valuable land locate,
twenty miles west of Fort Wayne.
A hores h~abitually walks into sa
looms at Fort Wayne, Tex, stands N
j at the bar like a man, and drinks glas
/ after glass of beer as long as the by
ISLANDERS will pay for them. He close
+ his lips over the top of the tuinblel
l lifts his head, and the beverage CUR
giles down.
Pastor Phillips, on returning HON
from q revival meeting at Bond, III
found that his neighbol 3 dog had kill
: ed his chickens. He broke open tina
mans door in order TO fling in th
D dead fowls, and for that disorder,
conduct was fined 800. He will re
~taliate with a civil action for damages
unless his Christianity leads him t
forgive and forget.
e The paid-up capital of the buildin
societies of Pennsylvania aggregate
s $780, 900, 700. The money has been use
Il in homes, two-thirds of them in Phi
s adeiphia. 1t is proposed to exeml
- the stock from taxation. This capit'
is really loaned to members, who il
vest it in land and houses, and, as til
property pays taxes, it is really a cas-
II of double taxation, from which til
Legislature is asked to afford relief.
e The Boston Post prints a letter wri
D, ten by Andrew Jackson Jan. II, 1873
n in which he said: 81 with pleasur
comply with your request and enclos
6 YOU my autograph, and inform yo
thatI was born in the Warsaw, Sout
Carolina, on the 18th of March, 1867
The letter has been called outnow b
N Gov. Buffers assertion that Jackso
4 was born in ireland. Some of Il
a. books say he was born in North Ca
DINA.
T. The total eclipse of the sun on Il
L 9Th of May next will last six minute
he and 10 longer n will probably O
u cur within the next hundred year
e; It will be PARTIAL visible in man
st places, but few will see it in its e.
v tirety, as its path lies almost entire
~ through the ocean, touching Ian
! nowhere but at a little island in Il
III South Pacific called Caroline Islam
i which is out of the track of any esta
lished commerce or travel. The Fren'
" Government has determined to sci
- an expedition to that island, and it
' probable a grand International gat
II ering of astronomers will meet the
m to take part in this scientific quest.
FL The United States Fish Commi
ed sion at Washington has been distri
al uting carp TO applicants i'll vario
parts of the country, to enable the
p TO stock ponds with this fish, viii
IS. is highly esteemed for the table.
correspondent of the New York Tri
In une vouches for n statement viii
' shows how rapidly these fish gro'
"There is a carp now at the Smit
tie sonian Institution" he says, "whic
as a young fish an inch or two
length, was sent to Georgia and pla
or ed in q pond, where it remained lie
or than a year, when it was sen back