The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-17
Miscellaneous Items

Miscellaneous Items.
| DEALERS in lime in Cincinnati have taken
the initiatory steps in forming permanent
organization. They hope by so doing to
regulate prices.
THE thirteen-year-old girl, Mary Long,
who eloped from Mt. Gilead with Quaker
preacher year ago, has returned to her
fathers house and asks for divorce on
account of her tender years. Her father
is wealthy.
JOHN ANDERSON, a Swede, an employe Of
W. Gray, farmer of Bloomfield, Trum,
bull County, was murdered few eve
nings ago. Gray and Anderson engaged
in a dispute relating to wages, and it is
alleged the former shot the latter and after
ward beat him to death with the stock Of
his gun. Gray is in custody.
THE romantic but sad career of Amanda
Hall, who was sentenced to the workhouse
at Dayton few weeks ago, has just been
brought 60 light by the appearance of
Councilman Lincoln, of Pitssburg,
relative. who rescued her from her degrad-
ed pocition and has taken her to his home.
Amanda, who has been known here only
by an assumed name, is the daughter of a
gentleman who was Governor of this
State, member of the United States
House of Representatives and Senate
and distinguished officer in the late
war. Her father is now dead, and
his death is said to have beeni hastened by
the wayward life of his favorite child.
Amanda possessed genial disposition
and her rare beauty, accomplishments and
exalted social standing, caused her to be
courted by leading gentlemen of the Ma
tion. She was the recognized belle of her
native city, the Capital of her native State,
where she dwelu while her father was Gov
ernor, and. was queen of society at WASH
ington while she resided there. Her par
ents desired her to marry a wealthy man
whom she did not love, and to please them
she promised to wed him, but on
the appointed day she eloped with a
man naraed Pfaul, much her So
cial and intellectual inferior, who
afterward cruelty deserted her. She then
wrote her parents, asking forgiveness, and
permission to return home, but they coldly
turned her away. Alone, disheartened and
penni1ess, she fell, and, as last resort,
| entered a house of i'll fame in Western
city. She arrived in Dayton two years
ago from Columbus, but drifted from bad
to worse, and for the last year was in the
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volved in difficulty and was arrested for
assault and battery, for which she was
sentenced to the workhorse. For the past
few years her relatives have been securing
the country for her without success, but
finally learned of her whereabouts from a
letter written by her to former friends ask
ing assistance. One of her sisters is the
wife of millionaire in Pittsburg.
TIE local freight depot of the Ohio ano
Mississippi Railway, Cincinnati, was total
ly destroyed by fire on the morning of the
7th, together with three cars loaded with
miscellaneous freight, which were standing
on the side-track south of the depot.
DURING a fight at birthday party at tn,
residence of Mr.. John FritZtum, Sandusky
Joseph Fritztum shot his brother George
the ball tearing away the greater portion
of his left ear. Joseph fed.
PROF. B. A. NoRvILLE, well known il
musical circles in Northern Ohio, disI a
Norwalk, on the Ssh, of heart disease.
B. AMsRoFF. cattle dealer, was robbed
at the dairy of Mrs. Krusie, in Cincinnati
few days ago, of $3.50.
THE body of D. G. Corliss, manufacture
of and dealer in trusses, Cincinnati, wa
found in the cistern on the premises wher
he lived on the 4th. The circumstances O
the case show that it was undoubtedly
case of suicide. The deceased was sixt
years of age and has been doing bushes
on Fourth street for twenty-five years
Drinking, illness and financial trouble
supposed to have been the cause.
THE citizens of Norwalk are aroused ol
the electricity question, and prominsn
| capitalists ara Investigating with a view q
establishing works for lighting the city.