The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-22
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tory and Philosophy at the Ohio State
University, died q few days ago at CO.
lumbus. He was the author of ''North
American Antiquity" and member of
some of the leading historical societies in
this country and Europe.
A VERDICT has been rendered in favor of
the defendant il the case of the libel suit
brought by George Paul, member OF the
State Board of Public Works, against State
Representative Alexander, of Akron. The
jury was out an hour.
THERE are ,2S7 inmates in the Columbus
Penitentiary. The receipts for the year
exceed the expenditures by s592 ,922. The
earnings of healthy convicts averaged 131f
cents per day. The cost of maintenance
Tor the year was $140.S9 per capita.
The Governor a few days ago pardoned
from the Penitentiary Patrick Ready, con-
V1cted at the March term of the Court of
Common Pleas of Montgomery County, in
1857, and sent up for six years on a charge
OF rape. The grounds for granting the
pardon were doubt as to guilt, subsequent
developments as to bad character of the
! prosecuting witness and the previous good
character and cond uct of Ready.
THE jury in the case of Frank E. Bron.
son against Rev. James Brand at Oberiin
disagreed and was discharged. Bronson,
an Oberlin druggist, sued Brand, a preach.
er of the same place, for $50, 900 libel on ac-
count of sermon in which Bronson was
scathingly denounced for selling liquor
| The jury stood ten for Bronson and two
| for Brand.
The members of the family Of Richard
Il. Palmer, at Akron, were poisoned few
days ago by eating ''head" cheese. His
| three boys are reported in critical condi-
| tion. Henry Stark, wife and daughter, and
Samuel Boyd, wife and two children, are
dangerously sick from the same cause. The
symptoms at first indicated trichinosis,
| but examination shows that the direct
| cause of the sickness was poisoning from
decomposed meat which was used in the
! cheese.
TELLER KIRKER, of the Second National
| Bank in Ironton, has been held for trial in
the sum of $4,000, on the charge of taking
| $4,000 Of the banks money and two of his
own notes held by the bank. He admits
having burned the notes, but not the taking
| of the money.
In THE case of Mrs. Harriet Morgan, of
Troy, against the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad Company, the jury CAV
verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $40 900.
| The action was brought for 1000 for in
juries sustained in a collision. The first
trial resulted in verdict for $9,400 for
plaintiff, the second for $4,000, and the
third for 1000, which is final.
ADJUTANT GENERAL SMITH is in receipt
of letter from Judge Hoadly, in answer
to an inquiry as to whether he would con-
sent to military display ON the occasion
of his Inauguration as Governor. Judge
Hoadly says he desires no such display.
THE physicians and pharmacists of Gin
| cinnati have come to the following under
standing, viz: that the pharmacists shall
not prescribe for diseases, or too frequent
| ly fill prescriptions that might cause dis
ease or vicious habits. The physicians ac-
| cord the right to the pharmacists to refill
prescriptions subject to the limitation
stated. The use of pharmacists blanks for
| prescriptions is to be discontinued. The
use of patent medicines is recognized as
an evil by both parties, and their use is to
be discountenanced.
THE Village Council of Hilliard, Franklin
County, has passed an ordinance closing
up the saloons. The Mayor, it is said, il
| opposed to the measure and refuses to en-.
| force it.
MISS LIZZIE "OPENS, a teacher in the
Corryville, Hamilton County ,public school,
committed suicide few days ago by
drowning herself in pond near her faith.
er's residence on Mt. Auburn. Ill health
| was the cause.
EIGHTEEN citizens of Springfield were
captured in gambling den few days
ago, and fined two dollars and costs by the
Mayor.
F. SPEIDEL, living in Hardin County,
near Dunkirk, was reused by a neighbor
few nights ago who asked help to catch
burglar in his house. Speidel dressed and
went with his friend, taking a lantern, and
| found in an upper room a burglar named
Hally who fired three shots one of which
killed Speidel. Hally escaped, but was
subsequently caught and Jailed.
THE Auditor of State has completed the
tabulation of sheep killed by dogs in this
| State during the past year, with the ex
ception of the County of Cuyahoga, which
has not reported. Estimating the loss OF
| that county, the whole number of sheep
killed by dogs would foot up 90 pa. The
proportion of killed to injured varies from
onehalf to two-thirds, OF say about thir-
| teen thousand more, for which compensa-
tion is allowed by law. The total dog tax
of the State will aggregate something
| like 5000, 900.
THE stockholders in the Cincinnati Times,
who claimed to have been defrauded by
| the Times Company short time before
| the consolidation with the Star, have
brought suit against the Times Star Com.
| pany to recover the value of the stock,
which, if rated at par, aggregates SIS, 900.
ONE of the societies of Cincinnati whose
| membership includes the best known pro-
| fessonal musicians, has been scandaliZed
! by some of its members, who admitted u
| woman to the clubrooms, made her very
! drunk and danced an orgie around her.
| The woman was sent to the Work-house for
| her part in the matter, and it is urged that
| something ought to be done with the men.
| l. Il. MACK, President of the Ohio Edi-
| torial Association, has issued official notice
that the next annual meeting of the asso-
citation will be held at Columbus, W ednes-
! day, December ), the first session to bo
held at two p. IN. and the second session at
eight p. IN. Election OF officers for 1881
and other business of Importance call for
full meeting. Members will make their
own arrangements for transportation ard
hotel accommodations.
Two Ohio sweethearts were parting
| III lhe uoof- Stru SaLe. IL you KISS me,
I'll shoot YOU" she said. drawing his
pistol from lis pocket. The smack and
the por were simultaneous. He writes
out his opinion--being disabled for
speech by a wound to the jaw-that it
was.his own fault. because he had no
right to ''lire off his mouth at The girl,
and as for the other explosion. he had
told her that the weapon wasn't loaded.
Detroit Post.
-Disraeli asserts that the word
'.fudge'' comes from the name of one
Captain Fudge, commander of mer-
chantman. the Black Eagle, of the
time of Charles H.. who. upon his re-
turn from voyage. how ill-fraught
soever his ship was, always brought
home good crop OF lies, so much that