The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-14
"that an honest journalist should de-
nounce wrong wherever found"

shat an honest journalist should de-
nounce wrong wherever found"
tits estimated that the United States
Senate is the wealthiest deliberate
body in the world, the seventy-six
members of that body representing
$1so, 100000.
James Crutcher willed to the Tus-
carora, Nevada, Lodge of Odd Fell
lows one hundred horses, on condi-
ton that the lodge should bury him
and pay his sick bill, which they did.
The appropriation bill introduced
in the legislature cuts down the appro-
lpriations owe 100000 less than the
estimates of Auditor of State Ogles-
wee.
Thirty-three thousand deaths from
diphtheria occurred In the province
of Kharkof, the southern part of Eu-.
ropean Russia, between the years of
1871 and 1882.
The Prohibitions will hold a State
convention at Columbus on March 6,
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to the National Convention to be held
at Pittsburg, May 81. The conven-
ton will also nominate q State ticket.
The 1906" who stood by Grant, at
the last Chicago Convention, are pro-
posed to go again. This time they
| will have a second choice, it is said,
although neither their first or second
has yet been indicated.
Lager beer, which thirty years ago
was practically unknown in this
country, is now made by $500 I'M
mense establishments. The value of
this production each year is over $780,
100000.
Frederick Douglass still lives in the
old manor house of Van Hook, who
so hated negroes that whenever he
sold land he stipulated that no colored
person aver should become the owner
of it.
A Washington newspaper intimates
that there is a South American di-
plomat in that city who makes q
regular business of whipping his wife
1t neglects to give the name of the
bold chevalier, however.
The late Wendell Phillips was not
a rich man, but he was in Independent
circumstances. He inherited con.
siderable money from relatives, and
he added to the sum quite materially
in his lecturing days.
NJ. G. Nolan, a prominent young
lawyer of Dayton; who ran on the
Republican ticket for Prosecuting At
torney two years ago, was foune
hanging dead to q gas fixture in his
room.
In the Michigan Senate q bill pro
viding for the formal trial of habitua
drunkards and, at the judges discre
ton, for the appointment ofguardian'
for the same class, or their confne
ment in the lunatic asylum, passed.
OF the seven Mississippi represen
tatives, six are democrats and n
republican /; five r lawyers and TIVE
editors (; four were in the confederat,
army and one in the union army ; fou
served in the last house and two in tn
confederate congress.
. The Common Council of Brooklyl
has appointed a committee to arrang
for the proper reception ofthe remain
of the victims of the Jeanette Arti
expedition. The Grand Army of tn
Republic will also take becomin;
action.
The Supreme Court of Iowa decide
that a wife deserted by her husband
without her fault, and left with n
means of providing for her family o
young children, has authority to Sc
| the personal property of her HUSBAND
to obtain money.
A Connecticut lawyer has sued on
of his clients for q bill of $44G fu
services rendered. 1t appeared tina
J THE clients suit had involved a sum
: about $50, and had continued throug
twenty-one terms, on each of whic
, the lawyer charged a $40 term fee.
, A call has been issued for a Repul
!, lican conference 10 be held in Coluu
!, bus on Wednesday evening, Februar
9th. On the following day the Stat
Central Committee will meet at I'll
! same place for the purpose of namin
the time and place of holding IL
State Convention.
An attempt was recently made /
a householder in an Town town I
8 get an in injunction restraining IL
:, reading of the Bible in the publ
schools of that state, and also 10 pr
hibit the singing of hymns Dr. repea
ing the Lords Prayer. In a decisio
q rendered the Court held that sue
selections were intended to inculca'
!. morality, purity, and honesty, an
. were therefore, a part of the scho'
system. He refused to grant the d
3, sired order.