Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-27
Editorial Brevities.
In demand-Ice water.


"Patients and long suffering"
Fee simple-money given to a quacl
doctor.
Lunch at 1OI o'clock, every morn
at Jefferson's and Jennings saloons.
Harkl we hear a mosquito sing
mosquitoes now + on the wing.
Young man! When you go from
home "courting," be sure you left nc
"gaI" behind you!
Here is an item for the "smelling
committee" Rocking in a cradle, ii
is said, intoxicates a baby's brain.
The Peaches were not killed dead
after all, much to the disappointment
of the croakers. There will be plenty,
Early rising is very healthy, espec-
ially for a man who has been drinking
the night before, and gets thirsty.
Lost-on the Camden pike, between
Thos. Pottenger's and Eaton, a Bass
Violin Bow. The finder will please
leave II at JnlS ONCE.
/, Locals are scarce. Couldn't some
body commit suicide, break a neck or
elope and get married. Our pen Ian
cuisines.
Be We clean-Dr. Weiss will reno
vate your system for II "dime" at
his splendid bath house. Go and try
the luxury.
What makes the editor of the Piqua
JOURNAL so interested in our Con-
gressional affairs? Don't he know
that he amt in this District?
Beautify the fronts of our churches.
Set out a few posts for Young men to
lean against while waiting for their
sisters!
1t is very amusing to see how in
dustrious some people are, about this
time, as the almanac says, in shaking
hands with everybody they meet
They arc getting plenty around here.
Long skirts are TO be introduced
this summer to keep the pavements
and crossings clean in anticipation of
cholera. The general adoption of this
dress in Eaton would be a capital
idea.
Perhaps young bachelors who con-
template matrimony a find o
agement in the fact, that it My re-
quires twenty-four yards Of q costly
fabric for an ordinary dress pattern
nowadays.
Our newly elected Treasurer, F. M.
Whitesides, ESD, is being initiated in
the duties of his office. He viii make
very obliging and pleasant officer,
and we hope he will not vacate his
post until the expiration of his term.
The Office holders Convention at
Philadelphia was a regular pepper and
salt affair. Negroes and whites were
sandwiched together in real artistic
style, which catised the whole affair to
look as speckled as a mackerel sky.
"Jeems" Sayior declines offering
himself as a candidate for Congress.
That's right, James. You have a lit
tie sense of honor left you. Never
ask for another Office, you disgraced
yourself by accepting the one you
have now.
"Mad dogs" is the cry in some of
our neighboring towns. We always
thought there was cry than mad,
in these alarms, for certain sure are
we hat we never saw a canine indul-
ging in the pleasures of hydrophobia
in our life.
The election of the great Gift-taker
would strengthen every incompetent,
reckless, dishonest adventurer and
scallawag who has been lifted into
place and power by the social and po-
litital upheaval incident to reconstruc-
ton in the South.
Horace Greeley and Gerrit Smith
both signed jeff Davis bail bond
For this Greeley is denounced as a
bloloOl, DuG oCill SIIllIil 10 IOIldly
embraced by the Radicals as a marvel-
ously piope: person and "truly loil.'
What damphools!
The worst rebels, that is, the cut
throat portion who raided the country.
robbing hen-roosts and stealing pri.
vate property during the war, won't
vote for Greeley. Neither will that
class of negroes who allow themselves
to be drove i'll herds to the polls by
carpet=bag scallawags:
Beloved Readerl We are in need
of funds, and if you owe US anything
on subscription, job work OF anything
else, let the spirit behoove you to pay
up. Personally, ourselves, we dom
want any, but there are some nsatiatt
paper dealers, type founders, ant
printers who do, and will have it, an(
hence we want what you owe us.
Although poets in all ages hav1
sung the praises of May, June is, il
reality, the most pleasant month il
the year. The day reaches its full