The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11
NEWS HN EsEaQEF.

as much attention to their moral as to
their medical training"
A jury at Wheaton, ILL.,, gave farm
err Harms a.verdict for $76,5OO against
Cook county for work done on the
new court house.
A block of land in New York which
was bought at auction ten years ago
for 100000 has lately been mortgaged
for 1891 5000.
The homicides in Chicago during
the year 1882 are counted up at fifty
four, and only one of all the slayers
was found deserving of the gallows.
The Nebraska man who drove his
wife out on q cold night, causing her
to freeze her feet so badly that they
had to be ampntated, was tarred and
feathered by his neighbors.
A Missouri quack not only prom
ises to cure nasal catarrh at IL sit
ting, but makes the astounding state
ment that he will "remove the catayrh
and place it on a saucer"
During the year 1882 s3O,OOO,O00
gallons of beer were consumed in
Germany, making the average num-
Der OF gallons drunk by each individ-
ual about twenty.
A st. Louis clergyman was brought
into a scandal, which has led to alaw
suit, chiefly because'h he bought a set
of false teeth for a girl whom he was
believed 10 admire.
Mushroom towns are not wholly
restricted to new States. Four months
ago dense Virginia forest covered
The site of Pocahontas, which now has
a population of 1000. Acoal mine
was the cause.
The whisky bill before congress
cannot be passed until nearly 100000
become dine, and other amounts are
payable in February. The spirits in
bond are 1925 3l gallons, represent
ing taxes of $4,000.
Jefferson Davis contributes 800 to
the fund for a monument to the mem
ory of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston,
and declares that his ability does not
keep pace with his desire to aid in the
work.
A somnambulistic girl got out of
bed at Prescott, Min, and walked
across half a mile of ice and now TO
the railroad station, clad i'll her night
clothes only, and was waiting for q
train when awakened.
Over 5000 criminals were brought
into the Cincinnati Police Court in
1882. Only 229 were bound over to
court, 1929 were sent 10 the Work
House, IT'S were dismissed without
trial, and 1924 were acquitted.
Texas ought to be the best educated
State in the Union by anil by If it
makes good use Of its public school
fund, which now consists of e 81
100000 in Understanding bonds and
money, 100000 acres OF land, worth
$3.50 all acre.
An Ohio pastor had to announce 10
his congregation that the marriage
ceremony announced for that morn
ing was postponed, rs the prospective
bridegroom was in Jail for larceny.
Then he preached a sermon from the
text. "Thou shalt not steal"
\ comparison between the Ohio
and Indiana asylums for the insane
shows that in the former the per cap.
ita expense for the past year was 1881
and in the latter $194-a difference O.
$l3 in favor Of the Ohio institutions
The per cent. of recoveries in Indiana
is IS; in Ohio 40.
A horse and buggy were a prize of.
fered, in Providence, for whoever
made the best guess as to their weight
The figures ranged from 800 pounds
to LIS, the actual weight being 9001a
AS there were 81 guesses Of 900 OF
sol, some new method for awarding
prizes is to be agreed upon.
A party of young loafers entered 6
Methodist church at Waseca, Wis.
and began a nights carouse with
whisky and cards. AS there was nc
police force that could be called in
the pastor wrapped himself in a sheet
emerged from behind the pulpit, anG
spoke in such a ghostly fashion tina
the intruders fed in dismay.
Frank Lombard, who was for {
quarter of a century a singer on the
political stump in every campaign il
Illinois, and was immensely popular
3 IL IN lilllCIlIllI, tiCt IL" "Cch!
ago, and his family are left in sncf
destitute circumst mes that pc lit
clans, led by John Wentworth, are
raising a fund for them.
The Rev. r. W. Hill, who has beer
in Alaska, draws a gloomy picture Of
the incompetence among the natives
"The Indians will give away wife and
children" he says, go obtain liquor
and their carousals are SO fierce and
reckless that murders and suicides are
frequent results" He believes that il
the progress of ruin is not stayed the
end Of the Alaska Indian is not fal
off
Those Chicago women who under.
took to reform Theresa Sturia, who
killed her lover, have become dis.
Outraged. The girl accepted theil
bouquets and kisses graciousIy, and
took kindly to their project ofputting
iIer on the stage when she had finish.
ed her year of imprisonment, but she
shows no inclination to give up hel
old associates on regaining her liber,
ty.
A husband in Massachusetts whip
ped his wife, who employed a lawyer
to prosecute him. Then he took pro-
ceedings against her on the charge OF
common drunkenness, and she engag-
ed the same counsel 10 defend her.
This LAWYER sued the husband for the
value of his services, relying upon the
rule oflaw that a husband is liable
for "n~ecessaries" supplied to his wife.
The Supreme Court accepted this view
so far as pay tor her deleEce was con-
cerned, but ruled hat the charge for
prosecuting the husband could not be
allowed.
In May, 1881, five children of T. Fl.
Nehrbas, of San Lorenzo, Alameda
county, were returning home from a
May day picnic in Il light wagon, and
when they reached the crossing of the
Central Pacific Railroad the vehicle
was struck by a locomotive and all