The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-29
NEWS IN RBHEE.


NEWS IN RBHEF.
A national bank is to be establish
ed at Meridian, which will be the Sec
ond thus far opened in Mississippi.
An examination of the peaches in
Polk county, Tennessee, shows that
IS per cen are alive.
A Copiah county, Mississippi. veg
etable grower has six acres Of land
planted in strawberries.
Alabama is 10 have department of
Agriculture. Georgia has of the
best in the world.
Burglars entered the Catholic school
building at Celina and stole $50 in
money.
February earnings on sixty rail-
roads show M increase of half a mill
ion dollars as compared with the same
month last year.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided that the publication of a
Sherifs notice in 4 Sunday paper is
void.
A revival in the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware, has added
two hundred of the students to the
NJ. E. church.
Ex-Governor S~prague's new wife
is the daughter of a poor shoemaker,
and, like her husband, was separated
by divorce from her first conjugal
partner.
Connecticut Republicans mourn be-
cause they can't find a man in their
party iii all that state who is able to
lead the party as it was led by the late
Marshall Jewell.
A dread disease, cerebro-spinal
meningitis, has of late brought much
suffering into Washington city socie-
ty, and eminent physicians arc giving
their opinions of the disease.
The Rev. Mr.. Bowman of Harrison,
Ind, scandalized by the offensive con-
duct of a young man who was calling
OH his daughter, captured and hand
cuffed him and led him off to Jail.
Virgins is thirty-seven years ofage
and very sociable in manner. He fills
an important position in the civil SER
vice of Ottawa, and, strange % say,
is highly esteemed at the capital.
A will printed on q type writer has
been admitted to probate at New nav-
en-, though a Connecticut statute re-
quires that such documents be writ
ten, the Judge deciding that such
printing is writing within the mean
ing of the law.
A clerk in a st. Louis national bank
came out one hundred and ninety
thousand dollars ahead of the institu-
ton. By a little practice the fellow
might successfully complete with
Congress in getting away with mon
ey.
Imitation diamonds are often set
with tin foil behind them to increase
their %brillancy. A Chicago man had
a genuine stone mounted up that way,
and cleared $4,000 in a week by bet
ting on its value, the losers being led
astray by the backing of tin.
Italian murderers are very rarely
hanged, but their fate is, if convicted,
far from pleasant. Passenante, who
tried to kill King Humbert in 1878, is
fastened to the wall of a nearly dark
cell by a five-foot chain riveted to his
ankle. He has become imbecile.
Bismarck thinks that farmers are
right in taking advantage of a sunny
Sunday to harvest hay or grain, or to
do anything in which delay may cause
injury. He says: 81 could never
bring myself to bind tenants of my
farming land not TO do such labor"
an Illinois court has given a de-
positor in a broken bank a verdict
against the directors personally, the
Judge holding that they were respon-
sible for money received after they
knew of the bank'sinsolvency, as they
did in this instance.
A tramp looked at the Jail at NAL
yern, Ia, on q cold day. Smoke was
coming from the chimney, and as he
shivered in his ragged clothes he long
ed for the C ,m~tortable warmth inside
the building. AS a means of getting
in. he threw a brick through a church
window. Bitter was his disappoint-
ment. The magistrate gave him four
teen DAYS labor on the ST. eets.
A woman lay three days in trance
at Big Rapids, Mich. On recovering
she believed that she died and came
to life as another person. This delu-
sion cannot be dispelled, though in
other respects she is One of
the most curious and annoying feat
ures of her hallucination is that she
will not acknowledge herself the
wife of her husband, and he will pro-
baby have t. go TO all the trouble
and expense of counting her over
again.
The growth of the use of canned
vegetables is illustrated by the fact
that last autumn the packers filled
20 ooo oS0 cous with Tomatoes. Vet