The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-25
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fall in freights is expected.

STRAY
"A fall in freights is expected.
Greece isinclined to fight all corners
The Atlanta CONSTITUTION is being
ooycotted because of "rat' printers
Great distress follows the floods in
Massachusetts. 4 @
France will support the Turkish.
Egyptian demands.
The Toledo house of refuge will b.
investigated. 1"5
FRIEDRICH manufacturers will form
a protective association.
,Horatio Seymour's remains were
quietly buried at Utica, N. Y.
Closing the Mccormick reaper
works throws I,40O out of work.
Russia is planning retaliation OH
Prussia because of Polish expulaioas
The Chinese have been driven from
Nicolaas, Cal. sds - 3
Sullivan offers to meet Smith, the
English pugilist.
Apaches killed eight herders on q
Mexico rancho.
Paris wants authority to raise a loar
of z5O,O00,000 francs for public works
The boycott against the Whining.
ton, (Del.) DAILY REPUBLICAN has
been raised.
New York car conductors and driv.
crs are organizing under the Knight.
of Labor.
The English authorities have been
forced TO Investigate the condition OF
the laboring classes. III Ea8e9
The Lexington meeting of the Ken.
lucky Distillers'- association was a
failure. -
English conservatives will oppose
any measures tending to Irish home
rule.
TIE Catholic Bishops of ireland
have formulated their views OH home
rule. l,r 80 .sa5sT
Joe Burns, q negro who assaulted a
white girl, vas lynched at Martins
burg, Va.
The Christians of Crete protest
against foreign interference between
Greece and Turkey.
Trouble is likelyto arise from neg
lect to record marriages in the pro-
bate court at Tiffin, O.
San Antonio, Tex, knights of La
Dor support the boycott against the
Mallory steamship company and Stet-
son, hat manufacturer.
Pennsylvania coke operators offer
that if the strikers will resume work
at once, their wages will be advanced
as asked, on March Is.
Notices have been posted in the cot
ton mills at New Bedford, Concord,
Manchester and Lowell that on March
l wages will be advanced ten per cent.
During the month of January there
were 4l,52S pieces of misdirected mail
handled in the Cincinnati post
office, a daily average of 1854 pieces.
The Knights of Labor of HomerN.
7 =, are building a cooperative factory
the wagon makers who we're re-
Gently discharged because they refused
to leave the Knights.
The Bell telephone company cleared
81 1858, 442 last year. Their newspaper
printing bills will cut down their pro-
its a good deal from that sum this
year, however. = sa.4
King Ludwig, of Bavaria, refuses to
ipeak to anybody. He is so deeply i'm
lebt that he had to begin to econo-
Mise sc mewhere, and he concluded 10
ave in the yea and tear of his. false
eeth.
The Selma (Ala.) TINES says: "One
evidence that the war is not owe is
hat n million young Goldfish are to
re pulled out of Massachusetts, BAY
md turned loose in the Gulf of Mex
co."
The last sale of a slave in Virginia
ook place inthe spring of 1865. The
acts werct the following: The confed-
racy was OH its very last legs, and
he owner of a negro woman i'm Au-
usta, knowing that her slavery would
e ended in a few days, sold her for
that he could get. AS there was no
REGULATING medium of any sort then
d. nobody would take confederate
honey at any value-the woman's
bartered her off for a hundred
abbage plants.
Congressman Golf, the only Repub-
can member from West Virginia,
as fallen heir to five hundred thou
md dollars by the death of his uncle,
ter whom he was named. The old
entieman was OF the richest men
West Virginia, who owned no end /.
T land, upon which were coal mines ]
I'd much valuable timber. He was a !,
ave-holder before the war, Tut be-
IN to pay wages to his slaves from
date of the emancipation procla- =
alton, and not II of them ever left
s employment. In his will he pro-
DIES handsomely for them all, leaves
lie hundred thousand dollars for the
ethodist Church of Clarksburg, of
hieh he was a pillar, and gave the
sidue of his estate to o favorite