The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-22
NEWS EN RBIEF.

Dakota will sell the location of her
capital city to the highest bidder.
Senator Edmunds has an income of
from $4,000 to 100000 a year.
The wool growers are msd as lor-
nets about the tariff bill.
Pittsburgh iron makers say wages
will have to come down.
Sixty thousand men belong to a
secret society in the north of England.
A bin restoring capital punishment
has passed the Maine senate.
Washington Posi- accuses Speaker
Keifer Of being concerned in a "stu-
pendous and shameless printing job"
Two hundred factory girls have
started from Limerick, Ireland, to
take situation in New Hampshire.
Judge David Davis was the recipi-
ent of q solid silver service from the
employees of the United States senate.
Mormons who do not practice poly
gamy want the restriction Oh Mormon
immigration modified 50 as not to ap-
ply to them.
The Mormons who do not practice
polygamy want the restriction placed
upon Mormon emigration modified
so as not to apply to them.
Dame rumor is telling in Oshkosh
that ex-senator Tabor made his re-
Gently acquired father-in-law n pre-
sent of $10O,0 900 and gave his mother
in-law $4,000 OH his wedding day.
Some of the railroad managers with
Southern connections say That there
are 10000 Northern people in Florida
at preaent, about half of them for the
winter, and the other half of them
looking after business openings.
A resolution instructing the gov
ernor 10 open correspondence with
Robert n. Lincoln, relative to the pur-
chase of the Lincoln homestead by
the state was adopted by the Iliinoi:
house of representatives.
The opinion prevails at the treasury
department in Washington that the
law removing the tax from bark de.
posts, etc., is retroactive, relieving
banks from taxes that have accrued
since the LIST of January.
Belmont county puts forward Mr.
John Cochran as the champion Dem.
ocrat. He is c~ighly-one years old
never voted anything but the Demo.
cratic ticket, and never missed all e'rc'
ton, national, state, county or town
ship.
No decision has yet been made by
the treasury department as to the date
at which the taxation OF banks ceased
under the operation Of the act o
March 3, 1883, and none will he rem
dered until some pertinent case shall
have come before the secretary tol
hearning.
The funeral of the late Alexander
ii. Stephens was the occasion of
most impressive demonstration at At
lanta, Georgia. Robert Tombs, al
&. early political rival of the dead states
man, and Senator Joseph E. Brown
, were among the speakers. In all th'
cities of Georgia, and in many otheI
> places i'm the south, memorial service
were held simultaneously with tn
> burial at the state capital.
) The Postmaster-General has ruled
r that thereafter no matter a be for
= warded in the mails after it reache
its original address without q new
prepayment of postage, except letter
: which have one full rate paid Thereon
namely, three cents, and ne wspape:
or other periodicals which are to b
}. forwarded to subscribers from on,
: post office to another W here the pape
v to be forwarded is published and il
8 whole or part printed.
. The Judiciary Committee of til
4 Connecticut Legislature has advised
: the repeal of an old law that impose
c a fine of $50 upon "every proprieto
@ or driver of any vehicle not employee
o in carrying the United States mai
! who shall all w any person to trave
, therein on Sunday between sunris
! and sunset, except from necessity o
mercy" 1t may be urged That thi
S law, if left standing, but not executed
Y would be an instructive monument o
y the Sabbatarian s%trictness OF a forme
c generation, and a milestone to shov
progress. But q wiser view of tn
matter is that the retention of laws il
- nominal force which are never obey
y ed, and are in fact q laughing stock
y tends to produce a public disrespec
/ for the statutes in general. Besides
what is there to prevent the unexpect
ed revival of such an enactment t,
i modest or %persecute some citizenf