Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-04
Editorial Brevities.

LIT. hEMP was sworn III as oPIldtOF
from the Third District.
The Vallandigham homestead in
Daytoni is for sale.
The great unknown-people who
never advertise.
Who was Richard the Third before
he was "himself again ?"
The eaton Cornet Band" treated
our citizens to some excellent music
on New Years morning.
The "girls" are talking of giving a
Leap Year.dance, early in this year.
That's right.
Ministers and Justices will confer a
favor by handing in a notice of their
matrimonial transactions.
Men who do not take the papers are
%unlearned, unpopular, ~unsociable, IN
happy, and unfit for heaven.
Our clergymen, like railroad brake
men, are expected to do a great deal
of coupling" this year. l5Esl
"Look not upon the wine when it is
red" Drink out of a jug, or suck it
through straw. 5Zz
Garrison says that the woman ques-
ton was an "all-embracing" one
| Who saidi it wasn't. =
Teeth extracted with great palms,"
is the advertisement ola Washington
dentist. z~s=ssaa
A Temperance Lecture was deliver
ed in the Court House on last Sabbath.
If anything new was said, we would
be happy to report it.
Early rising used to be an indication
of thrift-but about this town it gen.
orally happens that the early risers
are dry. @
Grants brother Orville, in Chicago,
offers to bet twenty-five thousand dol
lars that Ulysses will be. the next Pre-
sident. Well hold the stake.
A telegram announces "rottenness
in Washington" just as though there
had been anything else there o the
last ten years.
The Eaton CO., Democrat has again
changed hands. 1t is to be hoped
there will be some Improvement in it
now.-[Goshen Qnd.) Democrat.
Do you see any, Bro. Bean?
AYoung Amcrica" of Eaton well
coined the New Year with drums and
pc WIDER, to the knowledge of every
resident of the place. We are willing
to be sworn to that.
Ariot occurredin Rochester, N. Y,
on Tuesday last. Two men were killed
by the military. 1t grew out of an at
tempt to lynch a negro for committing
anloutrage on a child ten year old.
The "fine haired" gents gave a Ball
in the Town Hall on New Years
night-the H|coarse haired" in Minors
Hall. Both were well patronised
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
can't remember anything longe: than
about sever days.
A man who loves his family will al
ways take his home paper, and a man
who respects his family will be sure
to pay for it.
Our town was alive on New Year
day from early morn until after dark,
and the juveniles seemed to have Ii
cense to amuse themselves as they
deemed best. Everybody seemed glad,
and we hope every was really SO.
The thunder and lightning shower
on Sunday morning last, would have
done more credit to April than to the
cold and dreary month of December.
1t is said that there are a hundred
females who lecture in public in this
country but the number of private
lecturers of the same sex remains I'M
told.
Mr.. THEo. HARBAUGH has accepted
the Agency of the Watertown, N. ",
Fire Insurance Company. Office at
eagle Hotel"
Reader, are you reading a borrowed
paper? If so, send us two dollars and
we will send you it for one year. 1t
will be cheaper than wearing out ten
dollars worth of sole leather running
over to your neighbours to borrow his
paper. Try it.
Nearly all the ice houses in this place
have been filled with a first rate quail
ity of ice, varying from three to six
inches in thickness. The stock laid in
is large, and an "ice famine" next sum-
mer is not among the probabilities.
The Eaton CO., Register notices
again this week the death of several
"highly esteemed and noble persons
who have died in various parts of the
county. 1t seems that no real mean
people die in that vicinity.-[Goshen
Ind.) Democrat.
Well, neighbor, we hav'nt many
mean people around here, but what
we have when they conclude to shut
file off" generally emigrs.te to Indiana
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