Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-04
Editorial Brevities.
The Republicans are united for the
Gift-taker-in a horn!

ton meets at Baltimore on Tuesday
July the 9th.
Sky blue is a pretty color for cell
ings, but not so tasty for country
milk.
Wanted-a bologna sausage factory
in this town. This eternal barking OF
dogs is very annoying.
A Gold Bracelet was found neal
Bruce's Mill. The owner can have il
by calling at the DEMOCRAT office and
paying for this notice.
The California wheat crop this sea
son, it is said, will be enormous
Their surplus for expectation will be
about ten million bushels.
Remember the "Register" will have
nothing to say against saloons until
after the election. 1t is drawing it
mild" already.
Whew but it is hot! Hotter than
an oven-hotter than even ovens-
hotter han h-ayti! Who could
write locals under such a pressure?
The peaches were not killed dead
after all, much to the disappointment
of the croakers. There will be pleu-
ty.
We are as much in favor of the SOL
diers voting as the editor of the "Reg-
%ister," but they have no more right to
exercise that privilege away from
home than We have.
The freshness of vegetation, the
melodies of feathered songsters and
the murmur of purling streams con-
spire to make rural retreats exceed
ingly pleasant.
Romeo was a self made elephant.
He came to this country without a
dollar in his trunk, took Greeley's
advice, went west, and died worth
$4,000!
Some men prosper by activity, in
dustry and attending to their w
affairs, while others get poor by loaf
ing and attending to other peoples
business.
"Loil" Republicans should read
Jim Ashley's speech made at Toledo
last week, at a meeting of "sore-head"
Republicans. The Register should
copy extensively.
The Freedman's Bureau is dead!
This is sad news for the Nations
"wards" and the robbers hat have
been plundering its drawers since its
existence.
From a survey by MI. Shoots, oul
county Surveyor, we learn that John
Vandoren's fence is only II feet in the
public highway! This is liberal con-
sidering that the road leads from our
Village % the Cemetery.
The Eaton "Register" is busy whist
ling the Grave yard March. 1t only
occupied fourteen columns to prove
that Horace Greeley was no better
than jeff Davis! How hard they
diei Poorsfellows!
1t is announced, by "those who
know" that this miserable world will
end and be blown to atoms on the 18th
day of August. Be prepared, there
fore, all we subscribers to the DEMO
Graf, and see to it that your accounts
are squared before that date.
When a boy finds himself unequal
to continue the contest he has pro-
voked with a mate, he often retreats
behind the paternal gate and contents
himself by ":.naking faces" at his an
tagonist. This kind of warfare ap-
pears t~he..favorite one with Radicals
towards Sumner.
Who in the devil is "Private" Dali
zell that the Eaton Register" puts so
much confidence in his figures. Now
if this "Private" individual will come
to Eaton we will introduce him to
enough of Greeley Republicans. that
will knock his figures into a Cooked
hat" and show him what an ass he has
made of himself.
The GRANTEES dote on Gerrit Smith
as though he were a strawberry short
cake whitened with a whole shower
of powdered sugar. None of them
cares to remember that HE signed jeff
Davis bail bond. o no. 1t is only
Mr.. Greeley's signature that was
wicked.
1--WE would rather have Whisky
govern the country than the Demo-
cratic party"
Houses of prostitution are prefera-
BILE to saloons"
These are gems from the brain of
the christian &? editor of the Weakly
"Register." Comment is ~unnecessa-
~. Nathan Horniday should intro
duce this journal into all his Sunday
School audiences.
We have not had our usual allot-
ment of church festivals this year.
The strawberry has not done its duty
in filling church treasures, sending
the bible 10 the poor heather, or in