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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1872-12-12
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1872-12-12

DOR RENT-CoRNER OF TWENTIETH
II and streets northwest several Lots together:
would make large wood and coal yard. For par.
O'Clock. JAMES TOWI,FH
deot I'm Property Agent
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Keep Files of Your Love Letters.

The multiplicity of breach of promise
suits during the last few years is fast
establishing a host of precedents, which
will serve to regulate hereafter the al
ways granted damages. 1t is curious to
note these attempts to reduce emotions
to cash valuation. 1t is the general
practice for maids and widows all forlorn
to file the love letters of the perfdious
man, in order that the jury may gather
from their inanity the depth of his
affection, but it has been reserved for a
delicately-organized, sensitive Indiana
maiden to file her own letters as well,
so that the jury could see the intensity
of her love, and transmute each heart
throb and soul-thrill into the more prac-
tical form of dollars and cents. It is at
best a queer love that seeks to soothe
its wounds by plastering them over
with greenbacks, and it is difficult to
see how any amount of money can
recompense true woman for the in
evitable publicity and scandal that d
plaintiff in such a suit must endure.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Fossil Elephants in Alaska.

1t has been generally supposed by
scientific men that the fossil elephant
of Siberia had no representative in the
same latitude ON this continent. Re-
cent examinations on the Yukon river
in Alaska, however, have established
the fact that the remains are even more
plentiful on the west than on the east
side of the Nerth Pacific. Enormous
quantities of bones are found, and a
supply of ivory sufficient to last the
world for centuries. The valleys of all
the streams and all the low grounds are
filed with bones and tusks, so that
every vessel now arriving from these
remote possessions has part of its cargo
made up of these new-found remains.
The elephant, whose range was former
ly almost universal, is now confined to
a small portion of Africa and Asia, and
it would seem as if the species was in
process of slow extinction. Neither
Europe nor America, which once
swarmed with them, has now either
climate or vegetation fitted to their ex-
istence. Their remains, however, are
likely to give Alaska value not pre-
viously suspected.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Cheap Iron Dwellings.

An English firm is doing quite an ex-
tensive business in supplying Aus tria
with iron dwelling houses, manufac
tured in England and set up at short
notice by English mechanics wherever
the purchaser desires. The houses that
are most in demand are those which
have two, four or six rooms, the pur-
chasers being generally the better class
of Austrian artisans. The great want of
the advanced workingmen of the large
continental cities has long been for
small, comfortable dwellings, and this
want is being rapidly met by the intro
duction of the English houses of iron,
which are not only warm, strong and
reasonably elegant, but cheaper than
can be built in Vienna, at least of any
domestic material. This seems curious
when there are taken into account all
charges incidental upon the cost of ma
terial, construction, carriage and Gus
tom house duties, and it suggests that
the enterprise might be made to pay in
this country, especially in the neigh
borhood of the iron and coal fields.
The iron houses of America are, with
very few exceptions, large and costly,
no attempt having been made to intro.
duce dwellings for workmen.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
David Davis.

A Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune writes as follows con-
corning Associate Justice Davis of the
United States Supreme Court, the Labor
Reform nominee for President:
Many foolish and vague things the
Labor Reformers have done, but not this
time. The friend and executor of
Abraham Lincoln is not character to
be pooh-poohed in this alert and CRATE
full period of the world, and the re-
markable unanimity with which the
journals of the South have hailed it,
shows that the great Illinoian's charac-
ter is not lightly esteemed in the section
which will be largest benefited by his
humanity and decision as a ruler.
David Davis, to look upon, is large,
portly man-the very heaviest and most
solid object which ever approached the
Executive pedestal of the Republic. If
elected. he will be the largest ruler of
the world in avoirdupois. He weighs
nearly 300 pounds, and the colors of his
hair, skin, and eyes indicate a physical
health of like strength and substantial
ity. His hair is thick, short, and IRON
gray, his skin clear and ruddy, and his
eyes bright, keen and bluish-gray. He
wears the dress of simple, unaffected
citizen, lives plainly and simply, enioys
life as it happens, like philosopher,
with good digestion, and has very per.
feet health, tone and steady habits. AS
Justice, he is one of the most attentive
and considerate on the Bench, with a
strong "horse-sense" of citizen rights
and privileges and there is probably no
man in the land more perfectly and
typically an American.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Bribery as a Fine Art.

Some curious evidence has arrived
from New Orleans to show the tactics of
the Yarmouth men when it was desira-
able to make Pinchback President of
the Senate. The following was one of
the arrangements made with Senator
Lewis
New ORLEANS, Jan. 19, 1872.
The agreement shows that a box has
been deposited in the Louisiana Savings
Bank by two persons known to the
President thereof; that the said box
contains, in cash and other values,
$4,000, and that the same is to be de-
livered only on the joint order of the
parties depositing it, except as herein
after provided, the one being State
Senator agrees to regularly attend the
sessions of the State Senate at the Me-
chanics' Institute, to vote to sustain
Pinchback as President of the Senate,
and on all political questions with the
party sustaining the State Administra-
ton as now existing, and on the 4th of
March next, or when the Legislature ad-
joIrns, the said box shall be withdrawn
from the bank and the $4,000 therein
contained be taken out and be the prop
erty of the said Senator, he having full
filled his part of the agreement other
wise the said box and all its contents to
be withdrawn by the other party.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Current Items.

A DANBURY, Conn, dog has learned
| to bring in eggs from the barn, and his
delighted owner names him Leigh
Hunt.
A BLOCK of buildings on Eighth ave.
nue., between Forty fifth and Forty-sixth
streets, New York, was burned on Fri
day morning. Loss $4,000.
A FARM has just been sold in Con-
necticut, at Pennington, for which no
| deed was ever given. It was originally
bought from the Indians, and has re-
manned in the same family for 232
| years.
Mr.. JONES, of Earlville, ILL.,, while
using crowbar to adjust some ma
| chlnery of a corn-sheller while in full
motion, on the 1st inst, had the bar
driven through his body. The injury
was fatal.
AN intelligent store cat in Boston i'm
proves every favorable opportunity to
abstract five cent nickel from the
money drawer, and carrying it in his
mouth to butchers shop near by, pur-
chases "square meal"
A BosToN jury being instructed that
husband could recover damages for the
loss of his wife proportioned to her use
And it is good thing for that same
jury that the woman is dead.
NEVADA pays its schoolmasters $11S.75,
gold, a month, and its schoolmistresses
$72.16. These are the highest average
salaries in the Union. North Carolina
contents itself with teachers valued at
S2O.5O and $3.50 respectively.
In the suit of James P. Denny against
the New York Central railroad, claim
ing $5,0 900 damages for ejectment from
train because of stopping over at
way station while travelling on through
ticket, verdict of $3.50 was given the
plaintiff.
IT is reported that a Boston landlord
refrained from collecting rent from one
OF his tenants for several years that he
might avoid payment of the income tax
thereon, and that by the recent failure
of the tenant he has lost the entire
sum, amounting to many thousand dol
lars.
In view of the fact that the Prince of
Wales has always been an eminent pa
tron of the London theaters, the prin-
cipal London actors have drawn up and
had beautifully embossed on vellum an
address to the Prince congratulating
him upon his recovery from his recent
illness.
The Wilmington IN. C.) Star has the
particulars of a curious marriage near
Laurel Hill. A certain individual got
tired of his wife, after living with her
about fifteen years, and hired another
man to take her over to South Carolina
and marry her, giving him mule and
$55 in money to take her off his hands.
AT Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri,
is preserved a copy of the Ulster County
Record, of New York, published in 1899.
1t is plper 12x1S. Among the con-
tents are report of Washington's fu-
neral, and the advertisement of saw
mill for sale at Rochester, in the stock
OF which is included /" a stout, healthy,
active negro wench"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
A Prudent Husband.

For presence OF mind and prudence
of conduct, Mr.. Byrne, of Brooklyn,
has probably few equals. On Tuesday
last, on entering his house, he found
Mrs. Byrne hanging by the neck-do-
mestic difficulties, combined with gin,
having induced her to seek solace in
suicide. The impulsive man who should
find his wife in such peculiar circum-
stances would naturally hasten to cut
her down. Not SO the cool and pru-
dent Byrne. He calmly felt her pulse
and otherwise assured himself that she
was quite dead, and then leisurely
called in his neighbors to witness the
spectacle. When asked why he did
not cut her down at once, he replied
that he did not care to incur the sus
picion of having choked her, but felt
that no possible suspicion could attach
to him were his neighbors to find her
still hanging. Evidently Mr.. Byrne
sets high value upon his character,
and we need not expect to find him en-
tangled in any difficulties which pru.
dence and forethought can avert.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Consequential Damages.

If England has to pay our modest
consequential claims, she can reap
rich reward therefore by filing little
bill against France. When Franklin
met Silas Deane in Paris, in 1776, the
two rebels built and equipped feet of
privateers against England, while France
was at peace with her. The losses they
caused were enormous. Silas Deane
wrote to Robert Morris: "We have
alarmed England, stopped the great fair
at Chester, raised the rates of insurance,
and deferred the English merchants
from employing the national flag, so
that there has been seen, during the
last few weeks, the singular spectacle
of forty French vessels loading in the
Thames with English merchandise"
Conyngham and Paul Jones won their
victories in vessels built and armed at
Havre and Brest. If it had not been
for the aid of France in ships, clothing,
arms, men, and, above all, money, dur.
ing the two years before she acknowl-
edged our independence, there would
have been no independence to acknowl.
edge at that time. The war would have
been ended by our defeat. if conse-
quential damages are valid claim, how
much ought England to demand from
France?
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Varieties.

"BUGLE PAINT is the concentrated
slang for frontier whisky.
QUERY for Spiritualists-Are low spir-
its less than medium sighs?
SHERMAN's march to tho See-his visit
to the Pope.-LoaoeU Courier.
WHY is a muff like a fool i? Because
it holds lady's hand without squeezing
it.
How is it known that Adam and Eve
were disorderly after they left Eden ?
Because they raised Cain.
IFyou would be pungent be brief; for
it is with words as with sunbeams-the
more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.
PRIDE, like the magnet, constantly
points to one object, self; but unlike
the magnet, it. has no attractive pole,
but at all points repels.
AN Irishman, just landed, was asked
what party he belonged to. "Party is
it 7'' said he; Il suppose you've got a
government2 Thin I'm agin it,
WITH many readers, brilliancy of style
passes for affiuence of thought they
mistake buttercups in the grass for i'm
measurable gold mines under ground.
A GREENHoRN was offered at a public
dinner plate of maccaroni soup, but
declined it, declaring that they " could
not play any boiled pipe-stems on him."
HALF the sorrows of women would be
averted, if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless-nay, the
speech they had resolved not to utter.
"MAY it pleas your honor" exclaimed
a juryman, 81 am deaf in one ear"
Then you may be excused, as it is
necessary for juror to hear both sides,"
said the judge.
COMPETENCY means, to all reasonable
beings, cleanliness of person, decency of
dress, courtesy of manners, opportuni-
ties of education, the delights of leisure,
and the bliss of giving.
TIE st. Louis girls were SO badly
frightened by the experience of one of
their number who dislocated her neck
while resisting a kiss, that they. now
hold their lips in the softest and most
comfortable position whenever they see
man anywhere near.
A YOUTH who applied for mar
riage license in Cambridge, Mass,
the other day, was reminded by the
clerk of two previous applications, and
said: Yes; but the other two girls
didn't know l wanted to get married
till 1 showed them the document-this
one does" He got the paper.
THERE is nothing so affecting in a
child as a certain sweet Unborn spirit of
selfabnegation. Sammy was a little boy,
at school in village far from his home.
One day his father came to see him, and
they took walk together. Meeting
the principal of the school, Sammy per-
formed the ceremony of introduction.
&c Mr.. ST." said he, "this is father of
mineD
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28

and though him and the chair has been
| hard at it all dinner, neither of 'em has
understood a word,'' said the steward,
confidentially. "The chair, sir, and the
company generally, added Mr. Feastful,
with poetic exaggeration, would 'ail
with pleasure the spectacle of your in
PRODUCTION to the baron"
"The baron be- I know not
what was about to say. My voice fall
tered. L had caught a glimpse of the
fair occupants of the gallery, leaning
over the balustrade in their eagerness
to examine the favored individual for
whom the chair of state had been so
ostentatiously prepared, and vision of
my abominable burlesque Chinese trou-
sers, the mark of every eye, almost
made me reel in my chair.
l shuddered, strove to speak, con-
ceived a wild thought of diving under
the table, when, whish with a lurid,
tittul swirl, out went the enormous lus-
tire, with all tho miner lights following
suit. We were in total darkness.
will not describe the confusion that
succeeded, the screams of laughter from
the gallery, the scramble and the crash
below. Torches cleaned in the door
ways almost before we knew what had
happened, and the accident that had
occasioned the sudden extinction of
our light was remedied within few
minutes.
But, when ordered was restored, one
chair stood vacant at that hospitable
board Whether its occupant had been
trampled under foot in the disorder, or
had vanished with the light was never
known. My private opinion is that
while anxious inquiries were being made
in the Lumpeters' Hall, the missing
gentleman was warming his legs at his
domestic hearth, slipping his grog, and
smiling at the peril he had so narrowly
escaped.=AW The Year Ron,ad
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 257.
Hidden.

o bushes. rise not to my cheek;
0 tell-tale eyes be clear and gay:
o lips no warmer language speak
To him than simply yea and my;
o heart in thy most deep recess,
Be safely. surely hid away
This secret, that he may not guess.
They call me beautiful; alas 1850
BY him uncared for. what care L?
Once knelt down and kissed the grass
His foot had pressed in passing by;
A little common buttercup
That he had crushed and left to die,
Still for his sake treasured up.
0 tender Fatheri is is sin
To love Thy noblest creatures thus.
Although no answering love we win
Art Theu not ever leading usi
And hast Thou sent this love to me,
To calm my heart tumultuous.
And guide me, through my grief, to Thee?
o let me love him to the end
NJ ost purely; and percbance some day
He'll take my hand and call me friend.
When time for love is passed away
When eyes that shine when he is near
Are dim when golden locks are gray;
And Death. the angel. draweth near.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
VOL. VINO. 26.
The New Church Organ.
BY WILL N. CARLETON.

bH WILL NJ CARLETON.
They've got bran new organ, Sue,
For all their fuss and search;
1hey We done Jus' as they said they'd do.
And fetched 1t into church.
They,re bound the critter shall be seen.
And on the prea cher's right
They've hoisted up their new machine,
In everybody's sight.
They've got a chorister and choir,
Ag n MY voice and vote;
For it was never MY desire
To praise the Lord by note.
I've been a sister good an true
For five an thirty year;
I've done what seemed my part to do.
An prayed my duty clear;
I've sung the hymns both slow and quick,
lust as the preacher read,
And twice. when Deacon Tubbs was sick,
I took the fork an led
And now, their bold, new-fangled ways
Is comm all about
And L. right in my latter days.
Am fairly crowded out. ys----.-
To-day the preacher, good old dear,
With tears all in his eyes,
Head" can read my title clear
To mansions In the skies, -
1 a'lays liked that blessed hymn
L s'pose a'lays will;
It somehow gratifes MY whim,
In good old Oftonville;
But when that choir got up to sing.
couldn't catch a word;
They sung the most dog-gondest thing
a body ever heardl
Some worldly chaps was standin' near.
An when I seed them grin,
bid farewell to every fear,
And boldly waded in.
I thought I'd chase their tune along,
An tried with all my might;
But though my voice is good an strong.
III couldn't steer it right;
Hhen they was high, then was low,
An also contrawise;
And I too fast. or they too slow.
To mansions in the skies.''
An after every verse, you know,
They played a little tune;
I didn't understand, an SO
started in too soon.
I pitched it pr'tty middiin high,
fetched a lusty tone.
But OH alas found that I
Was singin' there alonel
They laughed a little. I am told
But had done my best;
And not a wave of trouble rolled
Across my peaceful breast.
And Sister Brown-I could but look
She sits right front of me;
She never was no singin' book,
AM never meant to be;
But then she a1'ays tried to do
The best she could. she said
She understood the time right through,
An KEEP it, with her head;
But when she tried this mornin', oh,
had to laugh or cough
1t KEEP her head n bobbin' so,
1t cen Almost came offl
An Deacon Tubbs--he all broke down,
As one might well suppose;
He took one look at Sister Brown,
An' meekly scratched his nose.
He looked his hymn right thro' and thro'
And laid it on the seat,
And then a pensive sigh he drew,
An looked completely beat.
An, when they took another bout.
He didn't even rise,
But drawed his red bandanner out,
An wiped his weepin' eyes.
I've been a sister, good an true,
For five and thirty year;
I've done what seemed my pa1t to do,
An prayed my duty clear;
But death will stop my voice, know,
For he Is my track ------
An some day to church will CO.
An never more come back;
An. when the folks get up to sing
Whene'er that time shall be-
do not want no patent thing
A squealin' over mel
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Hints for the Housewife.

Washing WooLens-If you do not wish
to have white flannel shrink when
washed, make good suds of hard soap,
and wash the flannel in it, withou rub
bing any soap on them; rub them out
in another suds, then wiring them out of
it, and put them in clean tub, and turn
on sufficient boiling water to cover
them. A little indigo in the boiling wa
ter makes the fannels look nicer. If
you wish to have your fannels shrink,
SO as to have them thick, wash them in
soft soap suds, and rinse them in cold
water. Colored woolens that incline to
fade should be washed in beef's gall and
warm water before they are put into
soap-suds, Colored pantaloons look
very well washed with beefs gall and
fair warm water, and pressed on the
wrong side while damp.
Rice Pudding-Take one teacup of
rice, one teaspoonful salt, add water and
boil until tender; remove from the fire;
add one quart sweet milk, two or more
eggs, small half cup butter, small tea
cup sugar, half nutmeg, and bake.
To be eaten warm or cold.
RaSpberrieS.-Do not uncover too soon.
Plant as soon as the weather will permit.
setting the plants four feet each apart.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
InjudiciOus Brutality.

The execution by blowing from the
mouth of cannon sixty-fve out of eighty
nine prisoners, captured by the English
at Kolta Mair, Hindostan, is condemned
by the colonial papers as a needless
piece of cruelty. The act was perpetra-
ted in a native state and not on colonial
soil, and was foolish as well as barbarous.
The Times (of India) predicts that it
will give a population of not less than
100000 men-already hostile and fana
tical-an excuse for attacks upon the
British Government and colonists which
may cause serious consequences in the
future.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Books,

Goo be thanked for books! They
are the voices of the distant and dead,
and make us heirs of the spiritual life
OF the past ages. Books are the true
travellers. They give to all who will
faithfully use them the society, the
spiritual presence of the best and great
est of our race. No matter how poor
am. No matter though the PROSPEROUS
of my own time will not enter my OBJ
scure dwelling. If the sacred writer's
will enter and take up their abode un-
der my roof, if Milton will cross nv
threshold and sing to me of Paradise,
or Shakespeare open to me worlds of
imagination and the workings of the
human heart, and Franklin enrich me
with his practical wisdom, L shall not
pine for want of intellectual compan-
ship and may kecome a cultivated
man, though excluded from what is
called the best society in the place
where l live.-Chami,ag.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28

A COMPANY. has been formed at Vic.
toria for killing fur seals i'll Alaska, out
side of the territory controlled by the
Alaska Fur Company. The raw skins
are worth in London Sl8, but under the
present combination only sell for forty
cents in Alaska.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28

The shipping of oysters to Eng glandIis
proving very profitable.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Farm and Garden.

The Value of Corr, Co5s.-Considera-
BILE discussion has recently arisen in ag-
ricultural journals and at farmers
meetings upon the nutritive value of
corn cobs when ground and fed to ami
mails. 1t is a very common practice
among farmers to grind the whole ears
of corn, and feed the product to mich
COWS, working oxen, and often to
horses. This plan we have adopted to
considerable extent at our farm, but
we have had some misgivings as to the
utility or advisability of the practice.
With the view of ascertaining as nearly
as practicable the exact nutritive value
of the cobs, we selected q nice ear of
Lakeside corn from bundle hanging in
our counting room, and removing the
kernels, subjected the cob to analysis.
1t gave of
Water .................... - 748
hue AZ 3995
Lit
Carbohydrates, fat. and albuminoids......... GOAL