The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-05
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THE South Carolina Supreme Court has
decided that no insolvent person can give
any preference.
LIEUT.. Col. BURNABY, killed in the re-
cent battle in Egypt, was 10Th in descent
from Edward 1.
The owl is a favorite figure in fancy de-
corative articles, lamps, clocks, andirons
and candle sticks.
SENAToR-ELEcT EvART's law practice
estimated at 100000 year: AS Senator
he will get but 5000.
The death of the wife of Justice Mat
thews closes one of the most hospitable
houses in Washington.
IT is said that Mr.. John c. Emo intends to
build large hotel on the island of Orleans,
few miles from Quebec.
AN ex-pitcher of the Mutual Club of
jackson, Mich, away back in the fifties, is
now Judge of the Supreme Court in that
State.
SENATOR j. n. DoLPH, of Oregon, has a
residence in Portland which cost him $780,
600. He is great holder of Northern Pa
cific bonds.
1T is intimated that Governor Pattison,
of Pennsylvania, intends to enter the min
istry of the NJ. E. Church at the conclusion
of his term of office.
IT is a remarkable fact that in the several
terrific dynamite explosions in London,
with hundreds of people in proximity, no
one has been killed.
SENATOR CHAcE, recently elected from
Rhode Island to serve out the late Senator
Anthony's term, is Quaker, and a rich
cotton manufacturer.
MRS. HARRIET SMITH, of Tuckertown,
Fla, has proved that women have a soul
above the fashions. She is making money
by running large sawmill.
COLONEL LAMoNT's salary as private
secretary to Governor Cleveland was & 900
year. AS private secretary to President
Cleveland it will be only $3.50.
A NEW 'lightnins' train is to begin to
run in April between Paris, Berlin and st.
Petersburg. 1t will make the journey from
Paris to st. Petersburg in fifty EIGHT hours.
VoLTAIRE's private correspondence has
just been sold at auction in Paris. The
prices ranged from $40 to $160 per letter.
The manuscript of the tragedy of "Irene"
brought $4s.
NADJEzDA STEPANovNA SoKHANsKY,
ya," is-rest her names and soul-dead.
She was one of the most popular story
writers in Russia.
In anticipation of cholera this summer
the Commissioner of Highways of Pitts
burgh proposes to go energetically at work
to give the streets the most thorough clean
ing in its history.
THE Italian Government will propose to
the Chambers to issue bonds, in twelve SER
les, for twelve years, for $4,000, 900, bear
ing interest at five per cent. for improving
the sanitary plight Of Naples.
DIR. HENRY I. HEMBoLD, of Buchu fame,
who for four Years has been confined in the
Norristown Insane Hospital, has by his
counsel applied to the Philadelphia courts
for release. The matter is under consid-
Grafton.
Two pupils in school in Washington
Territory were recently obliged to stay at
home and take care of the baby while their
mother attended court as juror. The fact
is used as an argument against equal rights
for women.
ANNIE B. RALPH, of Pittsburgh, eighteen
years old, had her ears pierced New Years
day. On January 8 erysipelas of most
u ago
py@mia set in, and the young lady died
from blood poisoning.
Mr.. FIrz, Mr.. Dritz, Mr.. Fritz, Mr.. Britz,
Mr.. Ketz, Mr.. Puetz, Mr.. Wiltz and
Schmidtz happened to meet at a hotel in
jacksonville, Fla, recently-the most as
tonishing conjunction of terminal z's ever
known outside the bailiwick of Bismarck.
LORD SHAFTEsBURY, the we'll known
head of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation movement in England, says the
greatest benefit that could .be conferred
upon Great Britain would be the migration
of from SOC, 900 to 100000 women.
THE Rev. Moses Anderson, of jackson
County, Mo-, sent his hired man to bring
his intended bride to his home for the mar
riage ceremony. She fell in love with the
hired man on the way, and they went to q
hotel, sent for a minister, and were mar
ried.
EARLY marriages are popular at Ten
nant's Harbor, Me. A girl of thirteen was
married there recently: Most of the girls
are married between twelve and fifteen
years of age, and It's said to be nothing
uncommon to find in the same family par
ents and from one to four children drawing
school money.
THE Potters' Association offers prem
5um for machinery that will lessen the lost
of crude material. The Committee on Stat.
istics showed imports of potteryin 1884 te
have been $4,613, ,607, against S., 1886, ,272, il
1883. OF the goods used in this country
about 40 per cent. is of home manufacture
AT the wedding of Hiram D. Murdoch al
GAINESVILLE, Wis, all of the eighteen guests
-, of l.
presents of the bride, which had been stoler
from her dresser. The money was not re-
covered.
} IT is said that 5000 worth of stree
lamps have been broken by Philadelphi,
boys during the last year.
HARRISON HAHN, of Wind Gap, North
ampton County, Pa, has a two-year-ok
daughter whose ears are bent forward ant
grown fast to the face. The girl was de
formed when born. When she became tw
months old two doctors separated the ear
from the face and tied them back to thei
proper place, but they returned to thsi
former position and are there to remain un
disturbed. Both ears are without the ori
flee, but deafness is prevented by the gil
hearing every sound, no matter how light
through her nose and mouth. This is Nj
Hahn's first and only child, he having bee
married fifteen years.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, has re
signed his place on the Washington Monu
ment Committee, as he feels unequal to tn
labors of the dedication ceremonies.
THE Oklahoma business is likely to ca
attention conspicuously to the 'gobbling
of the public lands by foreign capitalists
as well as the huge grabs made by some {
the public men of this country who are COL
cerned in some of the large cattle compa
nies. In Wyoming alone there are uI
wards of one hundred and twenty-five col
porations who have large areas of th
public lands inclosed. One titled ger
fleman the Marquis DeMores-has
large Enclosure in Dakota of the publ