The Eaton Democrat, 1875-07-29

Thekb comes from Raleigh, . C.t the story of a most revolting butchery. A fiend named Portin murdered his wife, cut her head off, unjoin ted her at every joint, then cut the flesh off her bones, and attempted to burn up her body, but did not succeed. Then he murdered his little boy, a child 8 months old, in the same manner, and buried the two bodies in the marsh where they were found last week by the infuriated neighbors. A recapitulation of the work done by Moody and Sankey in the city of Lou Loudon - don Loudon foots .np an enormous aggregate. During the past four months the Chicago evangelist and his tuneful coadjutor have spoken Gospel truths and sung moving hymns at 285 meeting?, which have been attended by 2,5S0,000 people. And not less remarkable is Uie tict that Moody and Sankoy refused any compen compensation - sation compensation at the hands of the committee having the charge 61 the London meet meetings - ings meetings The reports of customs and internal revenue receipts for the year ending June 30, showing the condition of those branches of the service, have just been published. There has been a very per perceptible - ceptible perceptible diminution in the customs re receipts, - ceipts, receipts, part of .which is ascribed to the dullness of trade, and part of it to the heavy smuggling operations carried on during the year. There is a total deficit in the Treasury of nearly $20,000,000. It is proposed, as a means of aiding the customs revenues, to re-enact the tax upon tea and coffee. Thb recent flood in France is said to have been the most remarkable visitation of the kind recorded this century. A district as large as the State of Maine and as populous, as New York was del deluged - uged deluged . by unprecedentedly violent and long continued rain storms, occasioning a loss of life and destruction of property at which the :" agination is paralyzed. To 'meet a calamity thus vast in its ex extent - tent extent and unprecedented in its violence, all the resources of French charity and French administrative skill must indeed be taxed to their utmost. Joubnausho Cocbtestes. This is the kind of pleasantry in which one Louis Louisville - ville Louisville editor indulges toward another: " What has bo come of Tracie, our dis- ungmshed duck-legged and pot-gutted friend of the Commercial t" Of course the Commercial couldn't be be behind - hind behind hand in courteous remarks, and in the next number the other editor was referred to as- " a hump-backed, cross crosseyed - eyed crosseyed compromise between a diseased ape and a foul smelL" It is such choice flashes of humor as the foregoing which gives the Louisville and Cincinnati pa papers - pers papers their principal charm. This is from the Chicago limes, of course : The salary of the Viceroy of India is little bigger than Beecher's 50,000 per annum, or $250,000. H. B. Claflin pays his " creditsman," Mr. Donaldson, formerly President of the Bank of North America, $100,000 a year, and many salesmen in New York wholesale houses get $30,000. And yet the Milwaukee editor, as he arises from the contemplation of such figures as these, goes down stairs and draws his weekly pittance cheerily, smiling softly as he murmurs : " Better is $12.50 a week, and contentment therewith, than to dwell with a stalled ox on the house tops." , In connection with the Attorney-General's construction of that provision of the act of July 14, 1870, relating to the time allowed for ascertaining damages to imports, he has also been called upon to decide whether the increase of duties under the act of March 3, 1875, is to ap apply - ply apply to merchandise which reached the port of arrival prior to the passage of the law, but did not reach the interior port of destination until the law went into effect. The decision is that the in increased - creased increased tariff rate is not to be enforced in such cases, and thus valuable relief is anoraea to tne importers of various "large cargoes which arrived at the ocean ports in time to escape the extra duties, but on which it was sought to collect the new rates simply because the goods had had not reached their final destination in the interior. Thk Postoffico Department has re ceived a proof of the new design for a postal card, in place of the one now in use, and will be ready to supply them about the middle of August next. They will . be manufactured by the present contractors, the Morgan Envelope Com pany, of Springfield, Mass. On the up upper - per upper left hand corner, is the monogram "TJ. S." in ornamental letters, across which is a scroll with the words, " Pos tal Card" in boldface letter. Below this, in a straight line, in hair letter, is "Write the address on this side the message on the other." In the upper right-hand corner is the stamp, the de design - sign design of which is a profile bust of the Goddess of Liberty, surrounded by a frame work border, the sides of which represent faoes, connected at the top by a scroll, bearing the words "United States postage," and at the bottom, by curved band, inclosing the words " one cent." The monogram, letter, and stamp, in black, will bo finished on pa per of the color known s feu dc nite, and the card will have no border. The new card is of the same size as tho present one, and is far su perior to it in point of utility and neat ness of design. Ljok out for more earthquakes, An

: a A vein of gas has been struck at Scioto Scioto-ville, - ville, Scioto-ville, at a depth of 1,035 feet, and it is thought 'enough can be obtained from the well to supply the city of Ports Portsmouth. - mouth. Portsmouth. . At Marietta, a few days ago, during a severe storm, the tannery of Jacob Op Op-penheimcr - penheimcr Op-penheimcr was struck by lightning, set setting - ting setting it on fire and totally consuming the tannery. Insured. Loss, $8,000. TfiE frequent and copious rains of the past few weeks have swollen all the streams in the vicinity of Cincinnati. The Licking river commenced rising rapidly the other day, and was reported ten feet higher than the Ohio river at the confluence of those streams. . J. C. MeliiEB, of SteubenvHle, a rail railroad - road railroad contractor, was robbed of $8,000 while on a recent visit to Cincinnati. He was stopping at a hotel at the time, and it is sup-iosed he was watched by some pickpocket when he drew his money from the bank. Dumng a quarrel over family troubles at Ravenna last week, between a man named Wagoner and a saloon-keeper named Martin, Wagoner shot at Martin, but failed to hit him. Ho was arrested and placed in jail, but had not been in jail long when some one, -entering the room, found he had hung himself, using the bed-clothes for that purpose. Reuben Rogers, an old man over eighty years, was choked to death at the Broadway Hotel, Cincinnati, a few days since. The proprietor observed some something - thing something wrong with him, and helped him into the reading-room, where he fell to the floor. A doctor extracted a fish bone and a piece of fish from his throat, bat he died immediately. He had just ar arrived - rived arrived from Pittsburgh, and was drunk when he began to eat. Tee floating -coal-elevator of Gordon McClure, moored" at the Cincinnati land landing, - ing, landing, was struck by a large "tree, and im im-mudiately - mudiately im-mudiately sunk, together with four barges and 30,000 bushels of coal. Quite a number of other barges were torn from their moorings and carried downstream. Ohe fleet carried with it four men, who were rescued with great risk of life. The loss by this freshet, as far as has been ascertained, is estimated at over $20,000. Mb. Sheboldt, who lives now in Lucas county, but who is a native of Bohemia, has what might be called a baked Bible. It was formerly the property of his grandmother, a very devout Protestant, who was the victim of a good deal of re religious - ligious religious persecution. An order was passed by the government ordering the seizure of every Bible for burning. When the old lady saw the officers of the law ap proaching her house to search it, she wrapped the book in a batch of dougl' and deposited it m a hot oven. It was thoroughly baked before she dare take it out again, but she saved it from destruc tion. Patents have recently been issued to citizens of this State on improvements and inventions, as follows : Mail-bag catchers, Herman M. Dick, Shelby ; polishin g-wheels, H. Hard, Wadsworth ; blank books, Ira Reynolds, Dayton ; sausage-machines, David J. Howenstine, Canal Fulton ; machines for cutting fats for rendering, Philip Lee McDowell, Kenton ; excavating apparatus, Cyrus G. Force, Jr., Cleveland ; bottle-stoppers or corks for bottles, John Schriuk, To ledo ; machines for tenoning spokes, Joshua R. Coleman and Samuel Myers, Galion ; apparatus for purifying par- affine, etc., Francis X. Byerley, Cleve Cleveland - land Cleveland ; automatic heat-regulators and alarms, Selden Allen Day, Bowling Green ; manufacture of artificial stone, Luke W. Osborne, Morgan, and E. D. Merriam, and Peter B. Doty, Conneaut compounds for sizing paper, James Hog Hog-ben, - ben, Hog-ben, Cleveland ; construction of canal boats, William Hnll, New Vienna ; soap- holders, John P. Bryan, Canton ; seed seed-drills, - drills, seed-drills, John R. Symmens, Hamilton automatic gates, H. Hammond, Smith Smith-field - field Smith-field ; fruit-jars, David E- Stevens and Richard F. Lumley, Newark ; boot and shoe crimpers, Chos. Holler, Cleveland pring-chairs, A. W. Coates, Alliance.

The last luigeriDg hope to which the friends of Donaldson and Giimwood have clung so earnestly, despiie the stern facts which almost lorbade tope, has died away, and the two must now be given up for lost For four days we have been listening intently to every click of the telegraph, anxiously inquir inquiring - ing inquiring of every incoming vessel, assid assiduously - uously assiduously hunting down every rumor, no matter how idle, pud teoaciouilv cherish ing every theory of safety and deliver deliver-auce - auce deliver-auce to them, only to be confronted at test with the sorrowtul reality which must now, we fear, be acknowledged as such, that they met then- death m the terrific hurricane of Thursday night, and are buried beneath the waters of the' lake. Exactly how they met their doom it ia- impoaoiblo that we should ever know. Undoubtedly in the storm, which a frail airship like the one which carried them could, by no possibility withstand. Cat how kreg and desper desperately - ately desperately they smuggled for l?e, bow fliey cheered each other so long as they re remained - mained remained together: in the baste; in which they were borne - on their journey, how they recalled their friends on the laud, and regretted the venturesome spirit that induced them to take their lives in their hands and go out on ' such a perilous journey, are all matters of the merest conjpoiure. Th balloon, caught ia the gale, diiven hither and thither like a tiesperaie creature gone mad, could not have made a long resist resistance. - ance. resistance. When that became useless to them, either by being torn in pieces or being cut loo3e by themselves, it reft the two men engaged in a fearfully unequal struggle for life ; a hard and valiant struggle no doubt it was against wind and wave. They could hear only the thuudei ii.gs of the storm and the screaming and hissing of the waters ; they saw only the vivid flashes of the lightning aud the foaming heads of the waves. The wilune3S of such a scene can ODly be imagined. The struggle could not have continued long the odds were too great There it good cause to believe that for some reason or other, Sonaldton intend intended, - ed, intended, before star'ingoa Ciis last fainl trip, to attempt a vojage across the lake. Whether it was because he had been up upbraided - braided upbraided for not making a more sensa sensational - tional sensational tlip on the previous day, as is cir circumstantially - cumstantially circumstantially asserted, ii unknown. But if he only contemplated an ascent simi similar - lar similar to that of Wednesday, why was it that ho insisted that only one of the newspaper men should accompany him f Two were intending to go ; they were actually in the car, but at the last mo moment - ment moment one was compelled to get out and remain behind. Tney had 900 pounds of sand, 150 pounds of which might have been left and another passen passenger - ger passenger taken, had the aeronaut not been intent on making . an unusual performance. But of that intent his com- t , i i r , l . .i tuuon, TTunwuou, tuiu ilia irieuui uau no knowledge. Ho and they only knew that the day before four newspaper men went up, remained an hour or two and descended in safety. There was apparently no reason why this should not be repeated with the same results. And it was with this expectation, aud in no spirit of recklessness, and with no thought that any unusual feat was to be attempted, that Grim wood was induced to go on this journey of disaster and death. However unjust this was to Grim Grim-wood, - wood, Grim-wood, poor Donaldson, so far as he was responsible, is as far beyond the reach of censure, as the victim is beyond re recalling - calling recalling the resolution made in ignorance of faots which should have been divulged to him.

A usefutj thing iu the long run Breath. As thb young lady remarked about the infant, " How sweet ; but how bald for one so young 1" " Youn feet are very stylish," said a man to his friend, whose feet were cov covered - ered covered with bunions. ' No, not stylish, but exceedingly nobby," was the good good-natured - natured good-natured reply. "Ybstebpay afternoon," says a Ten Tennessee - nessee Tennessee paper, ' 'the handsome Miss J ennie Taylor was borne to the cemetery before a large concourse of grieving men, wo men and venicles. Thb wife of "Max Adeler" weighs 200 pounds, and the Brooklyn Argus says when Max asks her, "Shall I help you over tne fencer sne replies ue ue-murely, - murely, ue-murely, "No ; help the fence.'r An Indian corn planter has discovered that a crow knows twice as much as an eagle, and he wants the crow adopted as the National emblem. This isn't suffi sufficient - cient sufficient caws for .banishing the eagle. Qotn, the actor, being asked by a lady why there are more women in the world than men, replied : " It is in conformity with the other arrangements of nature we always see more of heaven than earth." . , In the streets of Leicester one day Dean Swift was accosted by a drunken weaver, who, staggering against him, ; said : " I have been spinning it out." " Yes," a-id the Dean, " and now you are reeling it home." A Chinese young lady is an applicant for a teacher's place in one of the. public schools of San Francisco, thinking, properly, no doubt, that she can "snatchee small boy bal-headed allee same Melican girl." Now, see what a man out in Nevada has been doing. He went and buried his wife in a silver coffin. Every woman hereafter will think that her husband never did love her if he doesn't promise to lay her away in the silent tomb in a silver coffin. That Nevada man deserves the execrations of every husband in the land. Babnum's balloon tamer, Donaldson, recently took a Western reporter on a voyage with him, and after they had got above the clouds the reporter fell out. Donaldson was horror-stricken, and demanded immediately to find the scribe inditing an account of " How it Feels to t all from Heaven. me una strucK on his cheek. A Boston drummer, walking along one of Uie streets oi Houston, lexas, reached under his coat-tails for his handkerchief, and was enabled to keep his hand in that position until he got to his hotel, as every other man he met drew a bead on him with a navy revol revolver, - ver, revolver, and threatened to send him hell hell-ward" - ward" hell-ward" if he ventured to "pull that 'ere pop." Sheeidan once told a story of Uie ex quisite good breeding of a bankers clerk, of whom the wit had borrowed some money, and to wnom ne actually repaid it "Didn't he "look aston astonished?" - ished?" astonished?" asked a discourteous friend. " No." said Sheridan : he was lust going to look astonished, when he remembered his manners, and swept away Uie money as unconcernedly as if he had not given up any idea of seeing it again." Aiexantjek Dtmas, the younger, when ntndent in the Latin Quarter, desired to make a good repast with a companion, but found on consulting his purse that it contained only five francs. "Wait," said he to his companion, " while I run up-stairs and borrow live more from la fatner, and with the ten we shall dine like Princes. ""Weil," said the waiting man on his return, " have you got the ten ?" " I haven't even the first five," answered ho, ruefully ; father is better ... i : t lUi UU1UWUI (mm. a.

Prof. Donaldson, accompan-'ed by an Evening Journal reporter, left Chicago in a balloon for an aerial voyage on Thuradaj evening, July 15, going in a northeasterly direction. Nothing has been seen or heard of them nn to Saturday, the 17th, and the impression prevailed in Chi cago that the unfortunate aeronauts had been wrecked by the storm that swept over Lake Michigan on Thursday night. Sprague, who murdered a saloon-keeper, named DwycT, in Holden, Mo., last year, and who afterwards escaped, has been convicted of murder. The murderer will have to serve two years in the Missouri Penitentiary before being punished Tor the murder. The statement of John D. Lee, of Mountain Meadow massacre netoriety, exonerates Brig- ham Young and the leaders of the Mormon Church from the charge of being connected with the massacre. Crop reports from Dakota are very encourag ing. The wheat yield will be tins year about 7,009,000 bushels. Ionia, Neb., has a volcano, from which great clouds of smoke and steam ascend. The heat is rapidly increasing, and it is expected the mountain will soon be red hot. A dispatch from Beaver, Utah, states that the substance of John D. Lee's confession is that thirty Mormons, with the assistance of a large number of Indians, decoyed the emigrants from their intrenchmeuts by a flag of truce ; that all were murdered except seventeen child ren ; that tee deed was done under the orders of the leaders of the Mormon church ; that he took the news of the massacre to Brigham Young, who deplored the transaction, and said it would bring disaster on the Mormon people. The statement of Lee, so far as known, only confirms the previous reports in regard to the massacre.... Dnring the progress of a fire at Cincinnati, a few days ago, the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, Enoch G. Megrue, and ten firemen were buried beneath the ruins of a falling building. - Fortunately only one of them, Richard Holcomb, was killed, though nearly all were sadly bruised. Chief Megrue's injuries were the most serious, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. A Laporte (Ind.) clairvoyant claims that Donaldson and Grim wood, the missing balloon- ists who recently ascended from Chicago, are not lost. He says the air ship came down on the east side of LaLe Michigan, at some point where two lakes are connected by a stream, on some part of au island, in the midst of sand bills aud pine trees. That in coming down one of the men was cut under the eye and on one arm, the other being unharmed. He says they are alive, aud will shortly be heard from. Tho Chicago Journal thinks there is i chance that the lost balloon is still driftinj about in the high upper atmosphere, its pas sengers lifeless, and the vessel at the mercy of the currents. If bo, it will, of course, ulti ultimately - mately ultimately descend to the earth and be heard from Edmous and Cochrane, accused of participa tion in the Vandalia railroad murder at Long Point, III., have been fully identified and com mitted to trial without bail. The trial of John D. Lee, for the Mountain Meadow massacre, is in progress at Beaver, Utah. The jury consists of eight Mormons and four Gentiles. A terrific explosion occurred the other day the paper mill of Close & Son, at Iowa City, Iowa, resulting in the death of five workmen, the bodies of three of whom were blown a dis tance of 500 feet across the tops of houses, The mill was valued at $250,000, and was badly injured.

In the Rhine district, grape vines are kept low and as near the soil as possible. so that the heat of the sun may be re newed tacE upon them from the ground; and the ripenine; is thus carried on through the night by the heat radiated from the earth. A non-drying cement of great tenacity, useful to fastening plates of glass so as to exclude air, but which may be easily separated, is formed by adding freshly slaked lime to double its weight of india rubber, and heating to about 400 deg. Fah., when the rubber will be converted into a glutinous mass. To stop new boots equeaking, drive a peg in vue middle of the sole. To extract the silver from old watch cases and similar articles composed of alloys, dissolve in nitric acid and pre precipitate - cipitate precipitate the chloride of silver with a so solution - lution solution of common salt The silver is reduced to e pure state by mixing the chloride vtli'a an equal weight of bicar bicarbonate - bonate bicarbonate o" soda and smelting in a com common - mon common sand crucible. To bleach glue, bop in moderately strong acetic acid for two days, drain, place on a sieve, and wshwell with cold water. Dry on a warm plate. Diamond cedent lor glass or china, is nothing more than innglass boiled in water to the consistence of cream, with a small portion of rectified spirit added. It must be warmed wheu used. It is said that dry roi, in cellar timbers can be prevented by coating the wood with whitewash to which has been added enough copperas to give the mixture a pale yellow hue. Mercurial steam (ranges can be kept clean by putting a little glycerine on the surface of the mercury. This serves as a lubricator of both glass and metal, and P--event theiv contict Toguard belting azainst being gnawed by rats, nnoiut it with castor Oil. Old engravings, woodcuts, or printed matter that have turned yellow may be rendered white by first washing carefully in water containing a little hyposulphite of soda and then dipping for a minute in Javelle water. To prepare the latter, put four pounds bicarbonate of soda in a kettle over a fire: add one gallon of boiling t ater, and let it boil for fifteen minutes. Then btir in one pound of pul pulverized - verized pulverized chloride of lime. When cold, the liquid can be kept in a jug ready for use. An excellent liquid glue is made by dissolving hard glue in nitric ether. Tho ether will take np only a certain amount of the glue; so that the solution cannot be made too thick. If a few bits of pure india rubber, cut into scraps the size of buckshot, be added, the mixture will, when dry, resist dampness to a consid considerable - erable considerable degree. borne brands of albumen paper are subject to blisters when taken from the hypo solution. To prevent this, remove the prints, when fixed, fioja the hypo into a dish of salt water (a handful of salt in a gallon of water) before the regu regular - lar regular washing, and allow them to remain

in of is the of of The Public Powem bill has passed the French Assembly by a vote of 530 yeas to 30 nays. A biooay religious not rccenUy occurred in the city of San MigouL in Salvador. A mob attacked tho Cabilao, and liberated some 20 persons. They then proceeded to assault the small garrison, killed Gens. Espinosa and Cas tro, cut the former to pieces, and threw the pieces at each other; spUt the skull ef Gen. Castro and throw him over a wall, where he was picked up by his mother, and died in three days. The garrison were nearly all assassin ated, aud many prominent citizens killed. After this the fanatic mob set tire to gome six sixteen - teen sixteen houses with kerosene. It fortunately happened that H. B. M. ship Fan tome was at La Union. She landed her marines, which al lowed a garrison there, united with some troops from Amapala, in Honduras, to march to the relief of San Migeul, and put down the mob. Lady Franklin, the venerable widow of Sir John Franklin, is dead. The American riflemen now in England have succeeded in carrying off the St Leger stakes at Wimbledon, beating picked marksmen from the entire kingdom of Great Britain. The ac accuracy - curacy accuracy of their aim at both the long and short range was a matter of astonwlunent to the English. A London firm that recently failed for sev several - eral several millions has got Into trouble. Its mem members - bers members have been arrested and sent to Newgate for trial on tho charge of obtaining about million by false pretenses. English courts do not appear to treat big thieves with as much consideration as do American jurists. Iteports of the floods in England represent the damage done as immense. In many sec sections - tions sections not only the growing crops, but those crops already harvested havo been destroyed. The returns of the agriculturists there will exceedingly small, and the English people will have to depend to a groat extent upon tho American markets for a supply of brcadstun's. Happily w o are in a condition to supply their wants, and there need be no suffering account of a scarcity. Aloxander and William Collie, of a London firm which recently suspended, have been ar arraigned, - raigned, arraigned, charged with putting afloat ?8,000,000 of bogus paper on the market The London and Westminster Bank loses $1,500,000 by these fraudulent bills. There was a lively scene iu the British House of Commons the other day, during the discus discussion - sion discussion of the Shipping bill. Mr. Flimsol, the philanthropist charged that some of the vessel vessel-owners - owners vessel-owners purposely sent out uuscaworthy vessels in the expectation of gaining the insurance and intimated that members of the House

It is not improbable that many drowned persons might be resuscitated, who are left to perish for want of intelligent and timely treatment. The rules proper in such cases, which have been tested by long experience, nave been so often pub published - lished published that they ought to be generally known. By way of giving a practical uiusuauon 01 tnem, we oopy, substan- uuiy, a case mentioned Dy tne writer of that interesting little work recently pub published - lished published under the title of "The French at Home." In his walk one morning he says he saw a man pulled out of the water, apparently drowned. He was laid on the right side, the face turned toward the ground, and the jaws gently opened to facilitate the escape of water. Several times the head was placed a lit little - tle little lower than the rest of Uie body for the same purpose, but only for a few seconds at a time. In the meanwhile there was a regular manipulating process to induce breathing, which consisted in pressing the abdomen, stomach and sides of the chest, but softly. The ef efforts - forts efforts were without effect; the man looked as if he had seen the last of earth. Then the prostrate figure was carried to the nearest station for the rescue of the drowned. Here the man was stripped and wiped dry, and he was laid, turned on the right side, between two blankets on a straw mattress. The manipulating process was resumed, with intervals of about a quarter of a minute between each pressure of the body, the pressure Demg repeated fifteen or twenty nines, followed by a suspension of ten minutes. Twenty minutes were passed in this way, when a physician employed on this kind of service appeared and took charge of the case. A warming-pan filled with hot water was passed over the bodv outside of the blanket, particularly over the pit of the stomach- and the sides of the chest. This was alternated with a gen gentle - tle gentle friction of hot woolen mittens, and the naked hands and the soles of the feet and palms of the hands were vigor vigorously - ously vigorously rubbed. An operator breathed into Uie mouth of the man by means of a tube. These efforts also proving in vain, the physician had recourse to the introduction of tobacco smoke into the intestines. In about ten minutes the man gave a feeble sign of life, where upon all manipulation was discontinued lest it should interfere with the natural movement. Soon he showed a desire to vomit, which was assisted by a feather introduced into the throat How long the whole process lasted is not skated. but the reader will see that it was lengthy. A few days after the writer at attended - tended attended a ball, and among the most lively