Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-28
Court convened on Monday.

The members of the "Bread and
Butter Brigade" are happy.
Once more tax-paying days have
come, the saddest of the year.
The courts have decided that rail-
road tickets purchased from one sta
ton to another are good either way.
The nightmare is the only equine
that prances up and down fearless of
the epizootic.
The Democratic and Liberal farm
ers have raised a tremendous crop of
cheats" this year.
Joe Acton arrived from Colorado
on Saturday morning last in good
order. He looks mountaineerish.
The sad days have come when in
dulgent wives tease their husbands for
new furs and winter dresses.
It looks as though the whole coun-
try was likely to become a horse
pital.
The season is approaching when
corner statuary at the Church doors,
will feel uncomfortable while on duty.
Buckwheat cakes arc now a morn
ing luxury in every we'll regulated
family. The crop is said to be album
dant throughout the country.
There is not much "change"in gen.
tlemen's pants this season-in ours at
least. .Delinquents could make some
in ours if they were disposed.
The entree of the Epizootic in this
town has so much alarmed one of our
worthy matrons that she refuses to
have a clothes horse in her house.
A western editor in acknowledging
the gift of a peck of onions from a
subscriber ays: eft is such kindness
as these that bring tears to u eyes"
If the horse disease, the election of
Grant and the Boston coniagration
do not alarm this nation, they would
not regard fire and brimstonel
That solemn idiot, Blanton Duncan,
has cast a gloom over the entire coun-
try, by a contradiction of the report
that he had sailed for Europe.
Won't some of the p-u-r-o Demo-
Gratis feel comforted at the idea of the
great and good Isaac saying something
in their favor? Great gawdl
A five hundred barrel Cistern is be-
ing put in on the corne Of Barron
and Somers streets, by Messrs. Nation
& Co. 1t is needed.
The great effort made by Democrats
before the election was to get the vote
"out." but unfortunately the Repub-
leans made an effort to get theirs "in,"
and succeeded.
There are two ways of going thro'
this world One is to make the best
of it, and the other is to make the
worst of it. Those who take the lat
ter course work for poor pay.
Ifthe GRANTEES did beat us we have
the satisfaction of knowing that we
kept the flies off them during the cam
paign, made them spend minis of mo-
ney, and commit frauds enough TO Sc
cure to many of them a warm recep-
ton in the next world.
The "Tumble-Bug" editor must still
have in his possession the little arti-
Gle SEN him some time ago to cure
last issue would never have been sug-
gested. Any person wishing to know
what it is, car be enlightened by call
ing upon the entered" editor of the
"Tumble-Bug" journal.
We advise the good Isaac to go into
the manufacture of "Tumble-Bugs."
He displays more talent in that than
he ever has as IN editor. It just suits
you, Isaac, and you are lucky in find
ing something that you can excel in.
1t is a little out of season, but you can
have a good supply on hand when the
demand comes az ound.
AS the holidays are approaching.
our business men would do well to
avail themselves of our columns to
lnlOIh LllC puDlIC WAeIe the guy tlOil
holiday goods. People are quite APT
to go where their attention is called
and if they find things as represented
they will bestow their patronage in.
stead of spending their time looking
elsewhere.
That pest of the wheat plant, the
fy,is committing serious depreciation
in some of the wheat fields of Prebl,
county again this fall,large patches il
some of the fields presenting as deac
an appearance as though schorchet
by fire. That sown about the frs
ten days in September appears to b,
the worst affected by the insect. An
other failure of the crop would be
calamity for u farmers, from which
we hope they may be spared.
The So "nominal" LocaIizer of tn
"Tumble-Bug" journal says he cal
prove that we don't work 90 quires
If he does, We'll agree to subscribe 70