Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

May saloon-keeper properly call his
sales bargains?
The Burlington and Missouri Railroad
Company is building two hundred miles
of board fence this year, at a cost of
$175, 700 or 5000, goo.
There are 5000 ,O0O, 900 cotton spindles
now in operation in the United States, of
which over 1900, 100000 are running on
cloths for printing, and produce 450, ,OOO,-
600 yards per annum.
In landing from yacht at Newbury-
port, on Saturday, the Hon. B. F. Butler
lost his foothold and fell overheard. He
escaped with n good bath. "He that is
born to be-" &C., "will never be-" &c.
A $500, 900 breach of promise suit is on
the tapis at Louisville, the parties being
Mr.. H. D. Newcomb, a prominent mer-
chant, and the widow of DR.. Hunt, at
one time celebrated belle of that city.
An exchange says the correct costume
for young gentleman of fashion at the
seaside will be an entire suit of French
flannel trowsers cut sailor fashion; blue
scarf, and white straw hat with wide
black band. An "entire suit of French
flannel trowsers' must be rather strik-
ing costume.
l.
writes to the prison authorities that she
is developing a consumptive disease, and
ought to have ''sunnier'' accommoda-
tions. The indications of little son and
heir would certainly be of advantage to
her at present. -rCf's s1aS
We learn from the Paris hentucEidn
that Mrs. Lavania Stoker Todd, wife of
Robert S. Todd, nephew of Mrs. Lincoln,
ard well-known as an officer in the Con-
federacy, died at Paris, on the 24th inst.
Some months since, on bridal tour to
New Orleans, Mrs. Todd, then in health,
caught severe cold, which undermined
her constitution.
The Washington Star says the Mutual
Admiration Society of New England
"poicks'- Holmes, SAKE &
In view of the long line of stupid or
mediocre poems, delivered at Harvard
forgotten as soon as recited, or remeber-
ed only for their badness-the fuss made
because Bret Harte's effusion was not
of the most striking merit, is absurd.
Vast frauds, extending over series of
years and involving millions of public
money, are charged upon the Mayor and
Comptroller of New York by the Times
of that city. The Mayor says that the
Times has grown virtuouslY indignant
because the city advertising was awarded
to other papers. So we go. Fraud on
one hand and interested exposure of it
ON the other. ..
q Much iiatsrestp is manifested in inn
sprovements Of agricultural implements
and machinery in Hungary. a trial
station tor these articles has been estab-
1ished at Altenburg, and the government
has decided to admit them for that pur-
pose duty free, while the railroads will
carry them at reduced rates. Hungary
is without doubt the most extensive and
Inviting agricultural country In Europe,
its grains, and especially its wines, be-
ing celebrated all over the world. ; It is
here that the imperial tokay is produced.
Mark Twain, having been driven to the
verge ofinsanity by the persistence of a
lightning-rod man, thus reports the re-
suit: tHLet us have peacelH shrieked.
"Put up hundred and fifty! Put some
ON the kitchen! Put dozen on the
barni1 Put couple on the cow!-put
one on the cook scatter them an over
the prosecuted place till it looks like a
zinc-plated, spiral-twisted, silver-mount-
ed cane7brake! MoYeyI >, Use up all the
material you can get your hands on, and
when you run out of lightning rods put
up ram-rods, cam-rods, stair-rods, pis-
ton-rods -aaytbi,ag that will pander to
your dismal appetite for artificial scenery
and bring respite to my raging brain and
healing to. my lacerated soul!