The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-02-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Canton ice dealers will store enough
frigidity to last two seasons.
Ohio will have 46 delegates in the
next national republican convention.
Cincinnati has eleven faro banks
and a large per cent of their patrons
are boys.
The grand jury at Washington re-
fused to indict VIM. Dickson, foreman
of the first star route jury, for solicit
ing a bride.
Among the passengers who lost
their lives in tho Cimbria was Miss
Dora Henninges, of Cleveland, who
made her debut in opera in Chicago.
J. w. Wilson, st. Louis crank,
who had been fasting for seventeen
days, was arrested by the police, fore
ed to resume his meals and sent to
city hospital.
Ashtabula business men organized
a board of trade to protect themselves
against bad debts. 1t has aroused the
workingmen, and they carry their
trade to non-members.
Alliance held a public meeting and
sent q delegationto Cincinnati to fetch
up the Hall safe works, but it doesn't
appear that their vest pockets were
capacious enough.
Two saloonists of Newcomerstown
were indicted and heavily fined for
having three of their young patrons
to go to Columbus during the session
of the grand jury SO as to avoid CIV
ing testimony against them.
In the lower house of the Illinois
legislature bills were introduced 10
prohibit gambling in stocks, grain.
provisions, ETC., and afixing a penal
ty /; and for regulating saloons, max
ing the minimum license $500.
Rhode Island saving banks, espe
cially in the country, make it q rule
TO help every person who has money
enough to buy the land to build a
house. This practice has encouraged
hundreds of families in moderate cir
cumstances to acquire homes of their
own.
Church and State are in conflict at
Fort Smith, Ark. The Mayor forbade
all public assemblages, OH account of
the prevalence of scarlet fever. The
Protestant Episcopaland Roman Cath
Ollie pastors disobediently opened their
churches for the usual services, end
were promptly arrested.
Thomas Delaney, who was night
clerk of the ill-starred Newhall house,
testified hat he could have awakened
the guests on the north side of the
hotel, but was engaged i'll business he
considered of more importance. 1t
ia believed that Johu i. Aniisdel will
be arrested for criminal negligence in
management.
The business Of canning fruits and
vegetables has grown to en- rinous
proportions. Over SO, 900 ,OCO cans OF
tomatoes were packed last year, max.
ing one for every man. woman. and
child in the country. Nearly half OF
this work was done in Maryland aud
Virginia. The wholesale price fol-
three-pound cans ranged from four tC
five cents each.
The Rev. Mr.. Northcott, pastor O
the Third Congregational Church o.
Toledo, got his pay weekly, and the
treasurer of the church always hand
ell over Il lot of mutilated coin thai
had come from the contribution box
AS barrooms were the only places
where that sort of money was taker
at par, Mr.. Northcott objected sc
stremuously that he finally brough'
upon himself the hostility Of The
church, and now he must go.
In 1871 Isaac Knapp of Fremont
Ohio, was sentenced to prison for litt
for numbering his brother. Last June
he became 80 sick and emacia:ed tina
he received a pardon and was sen
home to die. In a short while he wa;
as well as ever. He had produced i'll
fiamation of the bowels by chewing
the convicts' hard soap. His quarrel
some disposition soon made him the
terror of the neighborhood, and The
Governor revoked his pardon. lie i:
again in the 0. 2.
A boy in his 18th year, with q girl
ish face and lisp, was found strayins
about the streets of Providence at
o'clock in the morning, and taken tt
a police station, where a search re
vealed on his person q big pistol, +,
eiInlet, a pair of scissors, a tallow can
die, a Police Gazette, and some novels
with such titles as "The Wharf Rat
Revenge" and "Cannoneer Ben; Or
the Pirates Last Shot," His inten
ton vas to commit n few ordinar,
~robberies at home, and then start GU
for greater achievements i'll the ia
West.
John G. Whittier says that he j
still one of those who hope that the
dreadful evil of intemperance may b.
checked, and finally abolished, by leg
islative action. He believes in tn
right and duty of the community t,
protect itself by legal enactments
whenever there is a public sentiment
strong enough to enforce the prohibi
ton of the liquor traffic. 81 despai
of any direct assistance from politi
cians," he writes, "but the great ma
jority of the individuals composing
these parties have a moral sense tina
may be awakened into action by pre-
cept and example," Looking at tn
drinking habits of New Englandcr
: sixty years ago, and at the genera
temperance among them at the pre-
sent day, he sees reason for the great
!, est encouragement.
Let Us Present u United Front
, Columbus Times.
The Republicans of Ohio will en-
, ter the coming campaign with an en-
I ergy born of despair. Their call 70
an early convention indicates as tn,
Journal correctly states, that the,
intend wasting no time in skirmish
, ing around for position. but that the,
will inaugurate an early and vigor
GUS warfare. The Democracy of tn
t State has need to close up the gap
, and meet the onslaught with elbow
touching. This is no time for quar-
reling or pickering over minor points