The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-18
NEWS HN BRIEF.

creed in Maine during five years,
making a ratio of n separation in
ten marriages.
Louisville is about to appoint ne
gro policemen and firemen. In this
move she is behind many cities furth-
CT South.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts has
the inside track for reelection, eX-
Gov. Long being second in the race.
The democrats are likely to support
Judge Abbott.
About a month hence, Simon Cam
eron and Charles A. Dana will leave
New York in n palace car for San
Francisco, to spend two months in
search of something new.
The surgeon generals report indi-
Gates that out gilmore than 1000 cases
of yellow fever at Brownsville, only
la proved fatal. This is a remarka-
bly, low mortality for so sweeping an
epidemic.
Texas has 100000 lying idle in
her treasury, but is unable to apply it
to the reduction of her debt $5.000,-
900, because her creditors ask $l.4O
for the bonds, and she is unwilling TO
pay that premium.
1t struck a Colorado Springs cor
respondent of the Springfield Repub-
lican as a little singular that the man
who described tie place as 20 plra-
disc for inva!ids' was making q liv-
ing by burying the invalids who died
there.
A Wisconsin farmer and deacon
was caught dumping o heavy stone
from his load of hogs, between the
public scales and the stock yard. He
declared before a church committee
that some enemy had put the extra
weight in his wagon, but there was
plenty Of evidence that the same thing
had happened every day for a week.
Mrs. Mcdonald broke her legs so
badly while alone in her house at
Mineral Point, Wis, that she could
not make her way out. She lay help
less for o whole day, and had a pros
pect of starving when a neighbours
dog strayed in. She caught him, tied
a note to his tail, and SEN him home.
He brought assistance.
Chicago is convinced that most of
the crime in that city is caused by in
temperance, and will therefore raise
the price of liquor license sufficiently
to support an increase of her police
force. A novel provision i'll the pro-
posed scheme varies the cost OF IL
censcs according TO the distances OF
the bars from the City Hall, the fee
increasing as that point is neared.
The local option law OF Maryland
has a provision requiring a physician
to write in ink all his prescriptions
for liquor, aid to record them fully
for the inspection ofthe Stlte Attor.
ney. The total abstinence people have
begun to enforce this, and n doctor is
under six indictments in a test CASE
He had given prescriptions to all Of
his friends who asked for them.
An old Mormon Temple near Kirt.
land, Ohio, has been opened after {
number of years of disuse. 1t origi
nally cost $4,000. There are forty
Mormon families in the new congre.
CATION. They do not practice poly
gamy, their creed declaring that tht
law of God forbids more than ON
companion in wedlock. They hold
that the doctrine of the plurality OF
wives was a heresy introduced by Joe
Smith.
William Walton, the infatuated low
er who killed Miss Milburn, at Belle
vile, ILL.,, because she refused to mar
~ him, left that which contained thu
following reference to his rejection
at was that lovely evening. 1 fully
hoped that we should become HUSBAND
and wife, and had no thought that ont
so dear would give me the bounce. Blu
bounces do come i'll many ways anC
forms, SO 1 pray for those l leave be
hind, who have not got The bounce
[ pray, give them not the bounce
Good-by forever" His next act wa
to blow out his brains with O pistol
The total number of deaths which
were reported ill the United State
!, during the census year was 756,803
or q death rate of Isl per thousand
The actual number of deaths was pro
badly 100000 more. The male dealt
' rate is placed ut 1885 per thousanc
and 14.9l for the female. Of 390,64
deaths of males, in which the age
= were given, 96,S94 were under l yea
} of age, and 163,8S0 under5 years. o
= 363,S74 deaths of females, of whicI
> the ages were. given, 1892 were les
than l year old, and l38,920 less thai
five years. 3S,39S persons are said +
!, have died from diptheria. 22,905 fror
/ typhoid, 2O,361 from malarial feve,
u l0nH al hlH of m milton
The Warden of the Illinois peniten
= tiary has collected figures as to tn
i death rate in penal institutions, an
/ astonishing variations + shown
While at Sing Sing the yearly death
J. from 1000 inmates number less tba
seven, at Auburn they are twelve, an
at Clinton over twenty. The loves
o rate is three in Wisconsin, and tn
highest is seventy-seven in MississiE
! pi. He says that the practice OF lie
" ting convicts work in mines and upo
railroads, without proper food {
lodgings, cause frightful destructio
of life in several Sothern States, bl
= he cannot understand why the figur
is so high as forty-eight i'll New HamI
shire.
Bishop Ireland of Minnesota is a
ardent temperance reformer, but nc
Ie of a kind TO find favor with most tt
tai abstinence advocates. He is NAL
l. ing earnest efforts or the platform
but condemns all laws which aim
regulate mems habits as to drink. II
, enjoins temperance because OF its ow
: great benefits, not only to individual
: but also to communities and the Stat
% Temperance is Il religious obligation
C due by all persons; also, a social an
moral obligation, from which no ma
if can escape without injury 10 himsc
) and others. AS for total abstinenc
= which he personally practiscs, he II
7 commends it as a safeguard for thos
who adhere to il and as a good C!
!, ample to those who do not. The Blsi
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