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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
The Chicago Fire.

Careful measurements and calcula-
tions of the area of the burnt district of
the city place its length, from its start
ing point to its place of ending, at four
miles, and its average width a little
more than one mile. Along the South
Side lake shore, however, and west
ward five blocks, Harrison street is the
southern limit of the confagration, and
the distance from that street to Fuller
ton avenue, its northern limits, is only
three and half miles. The point of
the fires beginning on the West Side
was about one mile south of Harrison
street, southwesterly. The number of
acres laid waste is not far from 2, 300.
A pretty careful computation places
the number of buildings of all kinds
destroyed at $4,000, of which at least
1,5OO were substantial business struc-
lures. The actual pecuniary loss is es-
timated at three hundred million dol
Chicago Journal.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
GARVEY'S TRAVELS.
Interesting Letter from One who Crossed
the Ocean with the Great Finnncior.''

| Interesting Letter from One who Crossed
the Ocean with the Great " "Finnncior."
The New York Times of the 4th inst,
| publishes letter from Edmund Jussen,
| formerly Collector of Internal Revenue
at Chicago, dated Bremen, Oct. 10, from
which we make the following extracts
The pilot had left the steamer, and
we were fairly out at sea before was
aware that Garvey and wife were on
board. While friends were bidding
| farewell to each other at the steamers
dock, while the boat glided slowly into
the river, amid the cheers and greetings
and tears of honest men, the criminal
and his better half were locked in their
state-room. Off Sandy Hook he came
on deck and introduced himself as a
Mr.. Mcdonnell, of New York. [ had
not conversed with him five minutes,
and had looked but once upon the dia-
mof1ds ornamenting his wife's hands,
when 1 put him down as the worst
type of New York shoddy.
If had never exchanged q word with
the runaway swindler, [ should have
known from the childish, abject fear
which he displayed during the voyage
that I was in company of a conscience
look upon his ghastly countenance
during heavy weather; he would ask q
hundred questions in q minute about
the safety of the ship, and like fright
ened boy whistling in the woods, while
he fairly trembled with terror, he would
descant upon the excellent sailing ca
pacities of the Hermann, praise her Of
ficers to the skies, and while he was
white in the face like q raw recruit with
a battery in front and bayonet behind,
he would say with a sickly smile,
"Who's afraid?" His terrible fear fairly
unnerved him; he evidently was not
yet ready to go to his fathers the heavy
bags of public money weighed down his
spirits.
At Southampton neither himself nor
his wife were seen upon deck. AS 1 af-
terward learned, he was in mortal fear
of an arrest by telegraph. When we
weighed anchor and steamed again into
the Channel, there was no end to the
questions he asked about the name and
business of every passenger who came
on board at Southampton. The badge
of the German pilot who joined US at that
port, almost scared him out of his wits.
But at Bremerhaven he laid bare his
guilty conscience in the most absurd
and ridiculous manner. While the
steward was assisting him to land, the
pay-master of another steamer stepped
on board. The brass buttons and blue
cloth were terrible sightfor the pseudo
Mcdonnell. He thought his hour had
come, and, like true son of Tammany,
as a last resort attempted to save him.
self by bribing the officers of justice.
Quick as thought he handed the pay
master a handful of sovereigns. The
latter, surprised and indignant, threw
the money at his feet, and left him to
gather the shining pieces out of the
mud, amid the wonder and derisive
laughter of the bystanders. In Bremen
he stopped at an obscure third-rate
hotel, and started the same evening for
Basel, after cautioning the steward not
to inform me of his destination.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
The Loss by Fire Of One County in
Michigan.
From the Port Austin News. Oct. 26

From the Port Austin News. Oct. 26.
The total number of persons and
! families burned out and losses in Huron
county, are as follows, in the townships
named: 14
| Verona-Twenty-s families, one
hundred and fourteen persons, loss
$42, $50.
Bingham township-Thirty- fami-
lies, comprising one hundred and sixty
eight persons, burned oat.
Sigel ownship-Twenty-on fami-
lies, one hundred and five persons, loss
| $1,000. no.
Grant township-Four families, TWEEN.
! ty-one persons, loss $L700.
Colfax township-Four families, tEc
| ty-two persons, loss $4,000.
Sheridan township-Four families,
| nineteen persons, loss 81 100.
Sherman township-Twenty-f five fami-
lies, one hundred and sixteen persons,
loss S16,150.
Huron township-Twenty-t three fami-
lies, ninety seven persons, loss $3.50.
Dwight-One family, seven persons,
loss $4,000.
Mead-One family, six persons, loss
$4OO.
Hume-Three families, nineteen per-
sons, loss s., 800.
4hf. W. H. O6dlIOio 1OSG pOoJOOO ny GuG
fire. -
In Port Hope, Rubicon and Gore
townships there are three hundred and
thirty-eight persons burned out, with a
loss of $176,S25.
The total number in the families that
are losers in this county alone is not less
than three thousand.
There have been eleven school houses
burned in this county, as follows: All
in Baris township, four in number, one
at Verona mills, Gibson school house in
Sherman, one at White Rock, one at
Center Harbor, one at Sand Beach, one
at Forest Bay, and the Hellem's school
house in Dwight.
The loss by the burning of bridges
across streams and crossways through
swamps, results in the almost total
destruction of thousands of dollars.
There is hardly farm in the county but
has had portion of its fences burned,
and this is true even in those sections
where but few or no buildings have
been destroyed.
The loss to this county by the burn
ing of pine and other valuable timbers
is very great. It is too soon to make
anything like an accurate calculation of
the total loss from this source, but from
converse during the week with the
Supervisors and others from different
parts of the county, we know we are
safe in saying that it will exceed
$1,000,000.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
A Conyict's Fight for Liberty.

A prisoner in the penitentiary of
Bruchsal, town in the Grand Duchy of
Baden, has lately succeeded in burning
down the greater portion of the prison.
Carl Schwable, notorious desperate,
was incarcerated for robbery. He
wrenched off portion of his iron bed
stead and broke open his cell door.
Shouldering the instrument of escape,
he deliberately marched through the
corridors unmolested, and made for the
jailor's room. He forced the door and
entered. He arrayed himself in the
.jailor's overcoat and hat, and exchanged
his fragment of bedstead for the official s
sword. AS he was stalking through the
building on his way to the outer gate,
he was discovered. An alarm was given.
He made for the chapel, scaled the wall
inside, crawled through a window and
He esconced himself behind the para
pet, forced out a number of stones and
hurled them down upon his pursuers.
Several shots were fired at him without
effect. He called out to the officials
below, declaring that unless they would
give him chance to escape, he would
fire the Jail. On their continuing to
discharge their revolvers, he deliberately
lighted match, gathered together some
dry splinters of wood, and set fire to
the roof of the chapel. The flames
spread rapidly, and the entire building
was soon ablaze. The fire brigade was
called out, but before the fire was got
under, large tower, the chapel, and
the offices fell prey to the flames.
Schwable fed to an adjoining building,
and the guards for long time sought
in vain for the desperate. At length
ha 1icooryapoI 70
floor of a lookout at the summit of a
lofty tower. Sword in hand, he fought
like demon. Riddled with shots and
slashed with saber cuts, he still kept
his assailants at bay. At last they
rushed upon him in body, and pitched
him from the tower, height of six sto-
ries, into the prison yard. Marvellous
to relate, he was not killed. He fell
into cart-load of rubbish, but in a day
or two afterward he died of his wounds.
ALL attempts to remove the bar in
the Mississippi below New Orleans by
dredging seem to be Intellectual. 1t
still remains serious obstacle to navi-
CATION. A recent report of the United
States engineer in charge of operations
there states that by several months
labor a channel had been cut with a
minimum depth of eighteen and a half
feet. A storm came on and in few
hours entirely filed up this channel F.;
but a subsequent survey showed that
during the same storm an unusual rush
of water had torn out new channel in
another locality quite as deep and as
navigable as the one constructed by
dredging has ever been.
Do NOT Work BEFORE BREAKFAsT.-
Hand or headWork ought to be post
poned until the stomach is satisfied.
The digestive organs ought to be sup
piled as soon as may be after sleep is
shaken off. The lawyer should not go
to his Office, nor the preacher to his
desk, until he has ministered to the
carnal appetite. We give no praise to
one who boasts that he has done half a
days work before his morning meal,
whether in the milking of COWS or in
the preparation of briefs.-Heraa Of
Health.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
An Instance of HerOism.

From the Lansing Republican.
An instance of remarkable presence
of mind, in saving property in the late
fires in Michigan, has come under our
notice, well worth relating. A large
portion of Gratiot county was overrun
by the fires the last two or three weeks,
destroying dwellings, fences, timber,
saw mills, and other property. The
only mill saved in that section was that
belonging to D. L. Case ard James M.
Turner, of this city. An old English
man in their employ, named Jacob
Laird, saw that the mill was in the
range of the fire, and that it was
speedily coming upon him, and he
made preparations to meet and fight it
like an old soldier, for he had served
the Union cause gallantly during the
late Rebellion. Taking all the movable
property from the mill, blacksmith
shop, and clearinghouse, he buried it
where it would be safe from the de-
vouring element. Then he dug a series
of wells, inclosing the mill and hun
dreds of thousands of feet of lumber,
placing by the side of each we'll bar
rel filled with water, pail in each well
and another in the barrel. These wells
were dug thick as needed for the
speedy protection of the property. One
well he dug deeper than the others,
that in case his efforts to save the prop
erty should be in vain and his own life
in danger, he could jump in as a last
resort.
The fire came down upon him like a
tornado. With his force of hands he
met it, and where it crossed the line
here and there, setting fire to piles of
lumber, the water ready at hand
quenched the flames. At last he came
off victorious, for he saved the mill,
lumber and all the property, with the
loss of his own hair, eyebrows, whis-
kers, and even the wooden shirt from off
his back. When rallied by his en-
ployers as to whether he "did not find
it hot work." his reply was, at was not
much of soldier who couldn't face the
fire, after facing as many cannon as he
had.'
AS a fitting reward, Laird's wages
have been nearly doubled, and he was
furnished with a fine suit of clothes,
and told that he could remain there as
long as he chose.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
New Movement of the Anti-Suffrage
Women,

A rather remarkable movement has
been put on foot in Washington by Mrs.
Admiral Dahlgren, Mrs. General Sher-
man and the other ladies who are tax
ing an active part in opposing woman's
suffrage, the scheme being nothing less
than to completely outfank the suf-
fragists of the Tilton- Woodruff school.
These ladies do not believe that the
Constitution, as it now stands, gives the
women the right to vote, and they al e
determined to deprive the others of
their so-called Sixteenth Amendment
by occupying the ground themselves
with an amendment providing for a
uniform system of divorce. Their prin-
cipal argument in favor of this new
measure is that if the courts in OF her
States are obliged to recognize Indiana
divorces as valid, though they are gen.
orally obtained by fraud, the tribunals
of that State virtually absorb the whole
divorce business of the country and i'm
peril the property and marital rights of
every woman from Maine to California.
This, they think, makes the question
one of such national importance as to
require the interference of Congress,
under the constitutional safeguards
and they desire the constitutional pro-
vision they are seeking to be called the
"Sixteenth Amendment" They are
going to work like real high-b born ladies
to encompass their ends, and design
having the measure first introduced into
the Senate rather than the House, since
the former is a body of much more de-
corum and dignity than the latter.
What is more, Mr.. Trumbull is to be
asked to take charge of the amendment,
both as Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee and as the purest and best
of the Senators of the United States.
1t is believed that this measure will Sc
cure for American women all the rights
they care to exercise in public affairs,
and save them from the wrongs of such
pernicious legislation as is the disgrace
of Indiana. The flank movement of
the suffragists by appropriating their
favorite amendment, is regarded as a
good stroke, and one that will put at
rest the agitation of question which a
few ambitious women, by driving its
best friends into obscurity, have made
disreputable. 1t is not intended to make
the amendment too radical, and it is
only feared that it may be defeated by
the promoters of so-called reform over
loading it and killing it. A lively
scrimmage among the female politicians
is expected, and the movement cannot
fail to add new features to that remark
able lobby in which women play such
such varied and important parts.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
Tbe Golden Year.
BY ALFRED TENNYsoN.


WesIeen and wake and Sleep but all things m owe:
The sun flies forward to his brother sun;
The dark earth follows wheeled in her ellipse;
And human things returning on themselves
Move onward, leading up the golden year.
All. though the times when some new thought
can bud
Are but as poets seasons when they flower,
Het seas that daily gain upon the shore
Have ebb and flow conditioning their march,
And slow and sure comes up the golden year.
Then wealth no more shall rest in mounded heaps,
But smit with freer light shall slowly melt
In many streams to fatten lower lands,
And light shall spread, and man be iker man
Through all the seasons of the golden year.
Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens?
II all the world were falcons, what of that?
The wonder of the eagle were the less,
But he not less the eagle. Happy days,
hou onward, leading up the golden year.
Ely, happy, happy sails. and bear the Press,
Ely. happy with the mission of the Gross;
Knit land to land, and blowing heavenward,
With silks, and fruits, and Spices clear of toll,
Enrich the markets of the golden year.
But we grow old. Ahi when shall all mems good
Be each mans rule. and universal peace
Lie like shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Through all the circle of the golden year.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
A Rare Conscientiousness.

The following on dit has cropped up
relative to the now famous Erckmann.
Chatrain tales. It is rarely that Joint
authorship has succeeded SO well as it
has in this case. Erckmann, the phi
losopher, given to much dreaming and
reverie over his pipe and bottle of beer,
and Chatrain, the soldierly man of &C.
ton, make together a perfect man.
"Their power of working together is
equalled by their wonderful conscien-
tiousness. They will never publish e
work which they think morally or ar
tistically incorrect. Two years ago they
had written tale for the Journal des
Debats, and for which they were to re-
ceive large payment. Its subject
was, "The Workingmen from 1910 to
1870" Before sending the story to its
destination they read it through to-
gether. The perusal was unsatisfac-
tory. They considered it poor, and,
though they might touch it up, they
felt that it would never be what they
wished. Suddenly Chatrain said,
This is failure. We have worked
hard, but we have deceived ourselves.
This book represents large sum OF
money, but when we have received ii
we shall not be much richer, and we
Snall nave puDllSneu poor DOOK. AS
we are both in a bad humor to-day you
shall go to Alsace tomorrow and dream
and take the air there. shall remain
here. But before you go we will burn
our manuscript lestwe should be tempt.
ed to use it." "Quite right" said
Erckmann; "we will burn it," Accord.
ingly, on the morrow they met and ST
lently tore up the manuscript leaf by
leaf, threw it into the fire and saw the
hard work of six months disappear in
smoke and flames. To how many mo-
dern authors might it not be appropri-
ately said, $50 and do likewise
nay, even before re-reading your manu-
script"
A com brick worth e. eOO ,,o. ooet
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
Short Sugar CrOD.

From the New Orleans Picayune. Oct. Is.
The sugar crop, it was generally ex-
pected, would give fair average yield,
but according to the statements of a
number of planters who called upon us
yesterday, this has been one of the
most disastrous seasons for cane known
for years, to say nothing of our unrelia-
BILE and expensive labor. To begin
with: The stubble cane suffered ex-
tensively from the frost last winter, and
seed cane was much injured. Add to
this that, contrary to the general i'm
preston the breadth of ground put in
cane this season is much less than that
of last year-our informant's estimate
is little more than one-half. The sea-
son, too, has been a most unfortunate
one for the planter.
The long continued rains of early
summer laid an embargo upon field
operations. 1t is within our knowledge
that one planter did but day and a
half's work in his field during the
whole month of June, and we may add
that the story of one is the history of
many. A more unpropitious season for
working the crop has not been encoun-
tered, it is alleged, for many years. The
prospective yield may therefore readily
be estimated. According to our in
formation, the crop in West Baton
Rouge, Lafourche, st. John, St. James
and st. Charles is distressingly poor, as
general thing, with, as is understood,
here and there an enviable exception.
In some fields the grass is as high as the
cane. A number of planters will not
grind at all. Some fields do not give
half a hogshead to the acre.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16

A NEGRO member of the Texas Legis-
lature was met upon the street with a
large roll of greenbacks in his hand,
looking at his file, and cackling so loud
that he attracted the attention of by
stander, who said to him, What are
you laughing at, Jim ?" Jim eolied ::
" You see that money 2" eyes"
81" We'll, boss, just got that for nv vote.
I've been bought four or fiva times in
my life, but dis is de fust time I ever
got de cash myself"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
Current Items.

NASHVILLE has over two hundred
opium eaters.
THE Oregon State Fair has bullfght
| among its attractions.
CONCLUDING of two evils to select the
least, George Pastre, of Louisville,
blew out his brains the other day to
| escape the lingering death of consump-
ton.
GARIBALDI having invested his money
in italian bonds, their decline has rem
dered him unable to pay mortgage on
his Caprera home, and it will have to
be sold. .....
TIE banner dairy county of the
TAXED States is Herkimer, N. Y,
which ships annually 100000
pounds of cheese and 100000 pounds
of butter.
A FLORIDA pumpkin was found to
contain young vine inside which had
sent out roots from its seed in one di-
rection, and well-difused stalk bear
ing leaves in the other.
THE GAINESVILLE (Wis.) Gazette says
that, in the town of Harmony, residing
within mile of each other, there are
three couples who will celebrate their
golden wedding in 1872.
GA MANUFAcToRY of murderers" is
what the New York Tribune calls the
Philadelphia Eclectic Medical College,
from which institution Rosensweig
and other similar villains have gradu-
ated. E
A Boston hair-dresser begins his ad-
vertisement with the startling an
nouncement that " Bismarck is said to
have but two solitary hairs on the
fo,1 of bic y,oocciua hood opd tboco 4yuO
are gray"
THE drainage system for New Or
leans, when carried out, will increase
the limits of that city to the size of
Philadelphia. The space will be large
enough to accommodate a population of
two millions.
THE Emperor William has conferred
the cross of merit on Baroness Charles
de Rothschild, as distinction for meri
torious service in tending the sick and
wounded during the war. The insignia
of this newly-founded order are accom-
panied by an autograph letter from EN-
press Augusta.
The Secretary of War and the Secre-
tary of the Navy respectively, have dis
missed certain cadets of the Military
Academy at West Point and the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, for inhuman
and disgraceful conduct toward mem
bers of the freshman classes. The
shameful practice of "hazing" so affect
ed by the upper classes of schools and
colleges, is one which ought to be broken
up everywhere; and the action of
Messrs. Robeson and Belknap will prove
an incentive to reform in all our civil
institutions. 1t cannot come too quick
ly, and is not likely to be too radical.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16

COTTON CROP OF 197O-1.-The total
deliveries of cotton for the season of
1901 slightly exceeds four millions of
bales. This is within two hundred
thousand (20O,OOO) bales of the amount
of the crop of 1S59-6O, which was the
largest on record. The average price of
midding upland cotton which the crop
of last year brought at the sea-board
was fourteen cents, against nine cents
for the crop of 5000. Notwithstand-
ing the large yield of last year, and the
high price comparatively, planters, as a
general thing, made only sufficient to
clear expenses, and on poor lands not
even so much. The prospects for the
present crop are that three million bales
will be secured.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16

Mr.. CARDozA, the colored Secretary of
State of South Carolina, has resigned to
accept Professorship in Howard Uni
Yersity at Washington.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16

A PRISONER escaped from the Stell
vile (Mo.) jail, by building a fire
against the limestone wall, and, when
it was sufficiently heated, throwing on
water, causing the wall to crack open.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
Something New in Railroads.

A plan has been proposed for trans
ferring steamers and ships by railway
over land from one body of water to an
other, which has been indorsed as
practicable by w. L. Hanscom, United
States Naval Constructor, and others.
The plan is to employ an ordinary float
ing dock to raise the vessel and place it
on cradle bed which stands on tracks.
When the water is pumped out of the
dock, and the whole is lifted to the
proper grade, locomotive is attached
and the vessel is hauled away, like any
other load. The road over which this
transportation is to take place is to be
from 40 to 60 feet wide, with eight or
more rails, the road-bed to be capable of
sustaining any weight. Mr.. Hanscom
thinks such a railway, with docks, ETC.,
SO miles across the Isthmus of Panama,
could be built for $22, 100000, while a
canal, with the necessary locks and
basins, would cost eight times that sum,
or more. At first sight such project
seems visionary, but more improbable
achievements have been accomplished.
THE vindictiveness which the French
feel toward the Prussians is still un-
abated. 1t has now become fashiona-
BILE in France to call their dogs by the
names of William Bismarck, and
Moltke.