Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
Editorial Brevities.

The Lost Cause-Woman Suffrage.
The Californians are eating new
potatoes.
Preble county is not q very healthy
place for criminals to be tried in.
Pennsylvania has two counties with
out a single Church in them.
The Goose has e-vanescenced. So
has the late treasurer
Soon the days of spring fever will
be upon us-and they say its ketchin.
"Red-eye" and "White-eye.n You
puts your money down and you takes
your choice!
Send your children to Sunday
School-it a do them no harm, but
much good.
We saw two men IN last Saturday
hunting our county Treasurer! We
directed them to Lewisburgl
Preble County has two Treasurers
elected, and yet the Office is vacant!
We advise Mr.. PilIbags to come back
and serve out his term.
The National debt statement will
show an immense reduction-as n
man has contributed So to the consci-
ence fund, and another 81.
Persons having business with the
late Treasurer, are requested to call at
Lewisburg, nine miles northeast of
EatOni He's retired.
A temperance editor in drawing at
tention to an article against ardent
spirits in one of his papers, says: For
the effects of intemperance sec our
inside!
Patent right swindlers are travell-
ing. Credulous persons having more
loose change than they know what to
do with, can get rid of it by investing
in Patent Rights.
Has a bad appearance-we mean the
growing wheat crop. The plant has
a dead and schriveied appearance, but
vet if the roots are alive and u%ninjur-
ed, we may yet have a good crop
Our agricultural friends are divided
in opinion on this subject.
Out of fashion-articles of silver
offered as wedding presents have been
voted not exactly vulgar, but "uncul-
tivated and unrefncd." Instead of
these, works of art, statues and paint
ing, something about which a senti-
nient can be entwined, are henceforth
to be the things to proffer to the new
ly welded.
The Germantown Chimes" has a
very imaginative 'itemizer" from Win
chester, this county. He says "the
Grand jury of Preble county indicted
SEVERAL HUNDRED liquor dealers for
violation of the Liquor Law" Come
down a few, friend. He then says !:
eCamden has nine billiard saloons I"
Wonder if that fellow was ever out of
Winchester?
Some Radical office-seeker,or Whis-
ky Ring patriot, with generalization
jealous of the aspirations of the "lame
goose" that quartered itself in the
Court House yard, feloniously captur-
ed or spirited it away! 1t disappear
ed the night of the same day that the
BIG meeting was held III the Court
House, to appoint delegates to the
State Convention! Has it started for
Columbus, or was the "late' Treasurer
in town?
Ii requires two W eeks for the sleepy
creature that presides over the "wet
blanket" that drops on the people of
this county out of the Odd Fellows
building, to discover that by the omis-
sion OF q word or two the Democrat
had an awkward sentence in it. We
feel Inundated, Mr.. "stick-in-the mud
and as a press of Job Word, and other
matters prevent US occasionally from
reading proof as carefully as we ought
to, we would like to engage your bril-
liant talent!
Rev CD "Ben. Burt" from near Iron.
ton, O., and fugitive from a wife and
five small children, and conc at the
breast" was ovcrhauled here on Mon.
day evening last, i'll company with 9
"frail sister," who had deserted a hus-
band and seven children. They were
CHARTERED with the Sheriff during the
night. The husband of the woman
arrived and the two started on foo
homeward to the bosom of their fami
Iy, while the Sheppard of Zion wa:
permitted to go on his way rejoicing
and spreading the Gospel to tn
heather of this landi
We receive a great many communi
cations from many of our readers upon
subjects of no interest whichever to tn,
general reader. We are always will
ling to publish anything that tends t
enhance the value of II paper, as
medium of news, an | are always gla'
to receive such information, but TO
persons to send us communication
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