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FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

Mr. Editor--You viii please announce me as
candidate for the Commissioners Court. am
an unqualified Democrat, and as such hope to
receive the support of the Democracy ofSt Ma
RVS county. anr,,
Oct. 10th, 1879 THoAAS ADELb'
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HOME INDUSTRY.

VXTE beg to call the attention Of the people
w ofSt. Mary's 20 the -four we are manu-
featuring, and annexed schedule Of prices, and
respectfully solicit their patronage.
Family Flour. $l0 80
Extra do 10 90
Custom do SO 90 90
Suuer do &c so
A deduction Of fifty cents FeT Dbl. made on
the above prices when parties order FIVE bbs.
or more Al enc time, and all aour delivered
free at Milestone Landing for parties receiving
freight from the Patuxcnt, and at JOne's wharf
for those receiving freight from the Potomac.
Address Enclosing rs cents extra on each Dbl,
ordered to pay treight) Milestone Landing, care
Clerk OF Steamer, jones Wharf, care FL
licott ESQ, or through the P. o. TO Fairfield.
BEAN / BRO.
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timorc or elsewhere to do so.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
School for Housekeepers.

In Miss Collins proposed school for
housekeepers, in Boston, each pupil will
make some certain kind of work spe-
cialty, which is good hint for schools
not industrial. She will learn other
things also, but in this specially she
must be perfect as possible. Various
wealthy ladies of Boston have agreed that
whenever dinner or other entertain
ment is given at their houses, some of
the pupils will be admitted to witness
the preparations, culinary and orna-
mental, in order properly to understand
their future business. They viii be
taught to execute thoroughly the cook
ing of dinner, and also to market under
an experienced supervisor. The pre-
pared food is to be sold at cost to the
working women in shops, replacing their
present cold dinners with cheap, warm
and excellent meals. The girls in the
institution will be taught to wash in the
best manner, and the poor workers in
shops will be permitted to supply the
material, thus getting their clothing
washed at cost-one-haf or one-third
the present price, which it is hard fol
them to pay.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Western Justice.

The telegraph mentioned some time
ago an attempt to burn the little town of
Arrow Rock, Missouri. The fires were
a mercantile venture. Being liquor
dealers, the incendiaries wished to de-
stroy all competition so the town was
set on fire at such places as would be
most likely to insure the destruction OF
obnoxious saloons. The men engaged
were the landlords of tavern outside
of the limits of the town, named Coiner,
Swimey and Elder. Coiner was first
arrested He was bound, but struggled
desperately, and at one time tore the
rope from his hands and the bandage off
his eyes, but was brought to terms by a
grip on his throat that brought him to
his knees. The effect was to extort a
full confession. Swimey was then cap
tured and marched to the ice-bound
river. An open place was cut through
the ice. He was thrown in three times
and three times drawn out, still refusing
to confess. By way of variety, Elder, q
negro, was strung up and lowered three
times. He, too, was, as paper ex-
presses it, cas- stubborn as a mule. ="
Then these two worthless were confronted
with Coiner, who had acknowledged all,
and the three glared at each other
like wild animals" Coiner and Elder
were then sent to Jail. Swimey still re-
manned. Silently the spectators drew
lots, and five men separated from the
crowd, took Swimey in their midst, and
departed. At dawn he was found hang
ing in the woods-dead.-Nea York
Times.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Remarkable Case.

On Friday last DIR. Small was called
to attend young man named Clarence
Abbott, who was i'll at his residence.
DIR. Small discovered unmistakable
symptoms of lead poisoning. It ap-
pears that Abbott was wounded in the
thigh by a minnie bullet at the battle of
the Wilderness in 1864, and that the bull
let could not be found at the time. He
has suffered somewhat ever since. Drs.
Small and Gordon on Saturday morning
etherized the patient, and proceeded to
make surgical examination, which re-
suited in the discovery of the ball in the
thigh The bullet was incased in a bony
substance of about the size of goose's
egg, the shell of which was one-fourth
of an inch thick. The bullet had been
tumbling about in this cavity for eight
years, and became worn and polished as
smoothly as though it had been done on
an emery wheel Sufficient amount of
lead, however, had permeated the en-
casing and entered the system to pro-
duce ead-poisoning, which would have
proved fatal in a short time but for the
timely relief afforded. Mr.. Abbott was
doing nicely yesterday. = PortIa'ad( Me. }
ArOaLS
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
What is Intemperance 2

At last we are to have a recognized
authority as to what constitutes the
Z" intemperate use of Intoxicating liquors
or drugs. It has been mooted ques-
ton in society, among physicians, and
in the courts for many generations.
But now Congress proposes that the
final standard shall be affixed by the
Secretary of War. The House has
passed bill declaring that no officer of
the army addicted to the intemperate
use of Intoxicating drinks shall be en-
titled to promotion, and consequently
the Secretary of War will..have to decide
the question. We may then have an
army standard of just how much liquor
may be consumed without reaching the
Incorporate degree. Whether fortu.
nately or unfortunately, it is probable
that the standard Will be an extremely
liberal one. Mr.. Roberts, of New York
made suggestion that the bill should
include members of Congress, but il
was not received-whether because the
army standard would still be too ilib
eral for Congressional guidance, or fol
| some other reason, was not stated
Exchange.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Valley of Death.

For a time the Upas tree of the
Island of Java was the wonder of the
age. Its fearfully poisonous character
was represented to be positive death to
animal and vegetable life within the
sphere of its influence. Science has cor
rected the idea of the existence of that
death-dealing tree, by asserting that
poisonous emanation from the ground
caused death. That one tree was enabled
by it's peculiar organic properties to re-
sist the destructive agency of gases that
killed everything else.
Another valley of death is described
by travellers in Java quite equal to the
Upas territory. Death is the certain
penalty of entering beyond the line OF
demarcation between vegetation and the
sterile plain where desolation reigns In
triumph. Mr.. London, an English
savant, experimental with dogs and
fowls forced over the line, and thus con-
firms the representation of the natives,
who say that skeletons are bleaching
there, giving the idea of Golgotha un-
paralle1ed for horror. Animals, acci-
dentally entering it in their fight from
enemies, and men, ignorant of the me-
phitic vapors that perpetually come to
the surface, fall almost instantly by In
haling them. A dog fastened to a pole
was forced over the line and died very
quickly. In ten seconds the poor crea-
tuIe tumbled over. Fowls carried there,
on being thrown over into the barren
basin, were completely dead in minute
and half. It is probable the region is
volcanic, and that sulphur is the poison.
GUS agent.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Curious Facts About Water:

The extent to which water mingles
with bodies apparently the most solid,
is very wonderful. The glittering opal,
which beauty wears as an ornament, is
only flint and water.
Of every twelve hundred tons of earth
which a 1andholder has in his estate,
four hundred are water. The snow-cap-
ped SUBMITS of Snowden and Ben Nevis
have many million tons of water in a
solidifed form. In every plaster-of-
Paris statue which an italian carries
through our streets for sale, there Is one
pound of water to every four pounds of
chalk.
The air we breathe contains five grains
of water to each cubic foot of its bulk.
The potatoes and the turnips which are
boiled for our dinner have, in their raw
state, the one seventy-fve per cent, the
other ninety per cent. of water. IF a
man weighing ten stone were squeezed
fiat in hydraulic press, seven and q
half stone of water would run out, and
only two and half of dry residue re-
main. A man is, chemically speaking,
forty-five pounds of carbon and nitro
gen, diffused through five and half
pailfuls of water.
In plants we find water thus minglng
no less wonderfully. A sunfower evap-
CRATES one and quarter pints of water
day, and a cabbage about the same
quantity. A wheat-plant -exhales, in q
hundred and seventy-two days, about
one hundred thousand grains of water.
An acre of growing wheat, ON this calcu-
lation, draws and passes out about ten
tons of water per day. The sap of
plants is the medium through which
this mass of fluid is conveyed. It forms
delicate pump, up which the watery
particles run with the rapidity of swift
stream. By the action of the sap, vari-
GUS properties may be communicated to
the growing plant. Timber in France
is, for instance, dyed by various colors
being mixed with water, and poured over
the roots of the tree. Dahlias are also
colored by similar process.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Another Yesurius Horror.

The accident last September, by which
an Englishman and American lost their
lives while being lowered by ropes into
the crater of Vesuvius, had counter
part on July Is, when Belgian named
LIE Miux and a Swiss named Schmidt
met similar horrible fate. These fool
hardy tourists insisted on being lowered,
and in spite of remonstrances of the
guides, took hold of the loops and swung
over the gloomy void. The guides last
warming to them was not to venture in
ward. Whether they were smothered
with the fumes of sulphur, or, missing
step, were hurled into the abyss, mo-
body will ever know. Contrary to the
advice of the guides, they let go the
looped ropes and ventured into the era
terfs recesses. The tourists above cried
out, but no response came. The guides
were lowered repeatedly, and several OF
the excursionists went as far as the ropes
would allow, in search of their comrades,
but in vain. This is the third disaster
of this nature within the past ten years.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
A False Friend.

"You may say what you darn please, )"
said Bill Muggins, speaking of a de-
ceased comrade, Jake was a good boy,
he was, and a great hunter" continued
Bill etbut he was the meanest man that
ever breathed in the State; and he
played one of the sharpest tricks you
ever heard of, and I'll tell you how it
was. I was out shootin' with him one
morning. I tell you the duck was
plenty and other game we despised so
long as we could see duck. Jake he was
too mean to blaze away unless he could
shoot two or three at shot. Jake was
blowin' me up wastin' shot and powder
so but I didn't care-I blazed away.
Well, somehow or other, while fussin
around the boat, my powder-fask fell
overheard in about sixteen feet of water,
which was as clear as gin, and I could
see the flask lay at the bottom. Jake
being good swimmer, also a diver, he
said he'd fetch her up, and in mint he
was in. Well, I waited quite consid.
erable time for him to come up then
looked over the side for Jake. Good
Jerusalem there sot Jake ON pile o1
oyster-shells pourin' the powder out OF
my flask into his'n. Wasn't that mean p
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06

Mr.. LORENZO Snow, the Mormon mis-
sionary, has discovered that the Partisan
school-boy does not whittle his desk.
He visited a school where hundred or
more of these remarkable youths
were assembled, and was so astonished
at the unnotched desks that he satisfied
his curiosity by asking whether the boys
had knives He was informed that two
thirds of them were possessed of that
Of course, it is beautiful example to
American boys; but we would like to
know where those French urchins i'm
prison captive flies, or where they save
their pencil sharpenings to blow into
each others eyes, if they don't make
prison-pens orpowder magazines of theil
desks ?
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Humorous.

BooK-KEEpERs and chickens have to
scratch for living. M
OUT in Nevada, where lynch law is su-
preme and its execution q frequent in
diligence, they call it performances by
the string band. a
STD rather not take horn with you"
said the loafer to the mad bull but the
bull insisted on treating him to two, and
the loafer got quite high.
In discussion as to the number of
dog days in a year, among a company of
children, one little child exclaimed:
s'It's no use trying to find out how many
days there are, because every dog has
his day."
A PINE BLUFF (Ark. sexton adver-
tises in the village paper that he is to be
found at his Office at all times of the day,
and :" all persons making application for
burial must first register their names or
be subject to a fine"
IT is declared by an Indiana editor,
who can't stand it any longer" that
the only difference between the entrance
to barn and a lounger around news
paper offices is, that the first is barn
door and the latter darn bore.
A New HAMPSHIRE clergyman, who
was asked his price by a young man
whom he had Just married, replied that
the law gave him 81. The youth prompt
| ly handed out fifty cents, remarking
&c Well, that will make up $2.50 for
you."
Mrs JENKs," said little red-headed
girl, with a pug nose and bare feet,
"mother says you will obleege her by
lendin' her stick of wood, fill this cruet
with vinegar, putin little soft-soap in
this pan, and please not let your turkey
gobblers roost on our fence"
A SEWING circle was quickly broken
up at Gardiner, Me-, the other day, by
| the innocent remark of lady present !:
I" I always had a great desire to know
how a case of smallpox looked, so I
called on sick lady this afternoon, just
before coming tolthe circle.
KATE STANTON, in her lecture on "The
Loves of Great Men, asserts that planets
revolve around the sun by the influence
of love, like a child revolves about its
parent. When the writer was a boy he
used to revolve around his parents a
| good deal, and may have been incited
thereto by love, but to an unprejudiced
observer itlooked dpowerfuIyli like trunk
strap.-D0,s6usy Nes0s.
| A FARMER In Kentucky recently made
a bet that he could husk eighty bushels
of corn in q day, but before he finished
the job he ascertainod that the man with
whom he had made the bet was making
arrangements to elope with his wife.
He abandoned the job, lost the bet, but
frustrated the designs of the guilty couple
to their a-maize-ment.
"WHAT do you call that?" Indignantly
asked customer at cheap restaurant,
pointing at an object that had been dis
covered in his plate of hash. Wrist,
band with sleeve button attached, sir, y
said the waiter briskly. Well, do you
consider that proper thing for a man
to find in his hash?" asked the customer,
in wrath. s.Good heavens, sir r cried
the waiter, would you expect to find q
ten dollar silk umbrella in a fifteen cent
plate of hash ?"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
Drains,

AS rule, bitches or drains no more
than twenty inches in depth are INSULT
cient except to carry off surface water.
No drain will be quite effectual unless
at least three feet deep. As rule, also,
no straw should be put into drains or
covered bitches, in any way, either as
covering or filing. 1t attracts rats,
mice and other vermin, and their bur
Nrowings are often injurious. With these
exceptions, the ditch described might
work pretty well for a few years, but on
figuring up the cost of all the work,
gathering materials included, it will
most likely be found to be equal to a
good tile draiu, which would last twenty
years, and might last fifty. If this is so,
tile is evidently cheaper.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06

HARAKIRI IN JAPAN.-Sulc1de appears
to be going out of fashion in Japan, not
withstanding the Parliament three years
ago refused to prohibit the practice, only
three members out of two hundred and
nine voting in favor of the proposition.
When a member of the two sworded
class, or Samural, commits a crime, a
message is sent that he is permitted to
kill himself by disemboweling, which
custom is called the hGrdki1'i or seppuhtt.
It seems that the practicewas considered
SO honorable that many men committed
it without waiting the imperial permis-
sion, and this was considered highly i'm
proper. One member, in defending the
practice, said:
"The commission of the seppuku il
owing to q natural sense of shame being
deeply rooted in the heart. 1t is ma
tional custom founded on what is due
to the national sense of justice and tc
Japan as nation.
Another declared "By death the
criminal barely restores himself to hi
position as a human being. If he lives
he is a scoundrel but if he dies, he fol
the first time manifests sense of shame
To prohibit the seppuku would be t.
close the public path of honor, ant
throw open the private path OF scoun
drelism."
A third asserted that SO far from be
! ing prohibited the seppuku should b
encouraged, by this means sense Q
shame fostered, and the custom be mad
famous throughout the world as an ez
ample of devotion to principle.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
PRISTINE PROVERBS PREPARED
FOR PRECOCIOUs PUPILS.

DEDICATED TO THE EDUCATIONAL BOARD.
Observe yon plumed biped fine!
To effect his cap6vaton,
Deposit particles saline
Upon his termination.
Cryptogamous concretion never grows
On mineral fragments that decline repose.
While self-inspection it negiects,
Nor its own foul condition sees,
The kettle to the pot objects
Its sordid superfcies.
Decortications of the golden grain
Are set to allure the aged fowl, In vain.
Teach not parents mother to extract
The embryo juices Of an egg by suction;
That good old lady can the feat enact
Quite irrespective Of your kind instruction.
Pecuniary agencies have forced
To stimulate to speed the female horse.
The earliest winged songster soonest sees,
And first appropriates, the annelides.
with soap, and brush, and flannel, you tickle,
In vain, the Ethiopic cuticle.
Bear not to yon famed city upon the Tyne
The carbonaceous product Of the mine.
The mendicant once from his indigence freed,
And mounted aloft ON the generous steed,
Down the precipice soon will infaIlibly go,
And conclude his career in the regions below.
1t is permitted to the feline race
To contemplate even regal face.
Punch.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
A SPIRITUAL SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN OF NovALIs-BY GEORGE MAG

DONALD.
Earth's consolation, why 30 slow7
Thy inn is ready long ago;
Each lifts to thee his hungering eyes,
And open to thy blessing lies.
o Father, pour it forth with might;
Out Of thine arms, oh yield him quite;
Innocence only, love, sweet shame,
Have kept him that he never came.
Oh hurry him into our arm,
That he Of thine may yet breathe warm;
Thick vapors around the infant wrap,
And lower him into our lap.
In rivers cool send him to us;
In flames let him grow trenulous;
In air and oil, in sound and dew,
Resistless pass earth's framework through.
So shall the holy fight be fought,
So came the rage Of hell to naught;
And, ever blooming, round her feet
The ancient Paradise we greet.
Earth rouses breaks in bud and song;
Fun OF the Spirit, all things long
To clasp with love the Savior guest,
And offer him the mothers breast.
The winter fails. year newborn
Clasps now the hangers altar-horn;
sTis the first year of . new earth
Which this child claims in right of birth.
Our eyes they see the Savior well,
Yet in them doth the Savior dwell;
with hownrs his head is wresthed about,
From which himself looks gracious out.
He is the star he is the sun;
Life's well that eyermore will run;
From herb and stone, light, seas expanse,
Glimmers his childish countenanoe.
In every act his childish zest,
His ardent love Will never rest;
He nestles, with unconscious art,
Dfvinely fast to every heart.
To us q God, to himself . child,
He loves us all, self-undefiled
Becomes our drink, becomes our food
his dearest thanks. to love the good.
Our misery grows yet more and more;
gloomy grief afilicts us sore;
Keep him no longer, Father, thus
He win come home again with MS.
Scyi6neT's for March.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06

in this way we will utilize farm products
and fertilizing material, and be able to
return to the soil a large proportion of
the nutrient materials abstracted by the
crops. If we will make specialties of
fine horses and cattle on our high lands,
and of hogs and mules on our low lands,
we will find that corn and grass are very
profitable crops, but do not feed your
corn and hay to scrub stock.-North-
aUeSte771 Farmer.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06

KEEP sober and then you can talk
straight. One of our druggists was quite
surprised the other day to hear fellow
inquire if he had any of Mrs. Sooth-
lows Winsling Strip"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06
The Republican FeeIing In Europe.

Foreign letters announce that the first
symptoms of republic have appeared
in the north of Europe. Sweden has
lust refused to vote the King the cash
necessary for magnificent coronation
fete, and one of the Deputies, Hecleu by
name, indulged in an address pertinent
to the occasion, which might have ema-
mated from an English agitator. He OBJ
iected to the proposed pageant on the
ground that it was not worth while for
Sweden to make itself ridiculous. A re-
publican feeling is also said to be grow
ing gradually in Norway and Denmark.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06

DARWIN, the naturalist, is now sixty
four years of age.