The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-02-15
NEWS EN- EsBEEF.


The first ice machine was patented
in this country i'll 1884.
There are forty-two Methodist
churches in the city Of Baltim ore.
Holmes county will lose $4,000 by
the floods.
The court house at Lafayette, Ga,
vas destroyed by fire, with all the rec
ords of Walker county.
Chas. II. Reed will probably ask
congress for 5000 for his services in
defending Guilcau.
Hancock county will have a hun
drcd thousand worth of new bridges
to build.
Butler county has so small al
amount of back taxes that she will
not employ u collector this year.
Prices all fell in 1882, taken from
years end to years end, just as they
all rose in 1879.
Ben. Butler believes that the -Four
teenth Amendment TO the United
States Constitution fully covers the
right of women to vote.
John German, victim of q gasoline
explosion, got a judgment of $1,000
against Newark. Explosion cost
Newark $4,000.
Seven arte>ian wells, varying in
depth from 800 to 1900 feet and pos
sessing considerable medicinal prop
critics, arc now running in Peoria, lii.
Four hundred houses were sub
merged ut Fremont and three fourths
OF the streets were flooded. Street
Commissioner II. B. Hlyes has o long
season ahead of him.
A Minnesota farmer advertised that
if the man who had run off with his
wife, two children, and $500 would
return tho young ones, he might keep
the money and the wife.
A San Francisco grocer had a wo-
man prosecuted for theft. though she
was So years old. and what she stole
was q handful of snuff, worth three
cents.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
has decided that the marriage of q
soldiers widow does not vacate the
claim of the orphans of the deceased
soldier to pensions.
Judge Anderson of Pittsburg has
decided that. when a patented medi-
cine is sold at sherifFs sale the right
of the defendant to the use of the pat
ent passes away also.
During the recent cold snap an ice
bridge formed across the Straits of
Mackinac,. Mich, so firmly as to re-
sist the efforts of the ferry company
to blast q channel with dynamite for
their boats.
George Jones, Greenbackcr, says
there will be a panic within two years,
and then the Greenback party will
come out and save the county. Says
the Republican party is dead and the
Democratic party was made by the
Devil and ought to be dead too.
a wealthy Californian, having only
one relative in the world, a niece,
employed five years in searching for
her, and at length found her at Bur-
lington, VT, where she was employed
in a mill. She was at once transfer
red from poverty to luxury.
A soap mine has been discovered
in California. The substance is a de-
post of white earth, free from grit,
and i~mpregnated with a small per-
centage of potash. 1t is easily sliced
into bars, and, for cleaning purposes,
is u fair substitute for manufactured
soap.
A blizzard story from tie North
west: A man went for a bucket of
water, and spilled a little while re-
turning to the house. He put one
foot on the wet spot, aud before he
could take another step he was frozen
to the ground. He had to leave his
boot behind and hop to the house.
Missouri is about to spend $4,000
in finding out about herself. She
suspects that she contains some of the
richest ores on earth, and a geologist
is to make a thorough investigation.
Her soil is peculiarly rich, and has
commonly been regarded as a decom-
position of limestone and sandstone F.;
but q scientific analysis will nov for
the first time determine the question.
"
Lieutenant Flipper, the first col
ored graduate from the Military
Academy at West Point and who was
cashiered 4 year or two ago for en-
bczzlement, is now a brigadier gen
eral in the Mexican Army. This
ought to afford great encouragement
to our young soldiers and lead them
to act upon the theory that embez-
element is its own reward. Still, if
Mexico wants that kind of soldiers
this country might supply a goodly
number to order.
We usually leave it to doctors to re-
commend medicines, but Parker's Gin