Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-14
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get time we'll examine u stamps.
The Normal Institute is in session
in Eaton. 1t don't seem to be quite
as largely attended as usual.
BENZ. F. MORGAN, the new Super
intendent of our Schools, has arrived
in Eaton.
The season has now returned for
MI. Beecher to announce that at is
id hot"
Grant is going to Maine next week.
We trust he will find it convenient to
permanently adopt a little Of that
famous Maine law.
Congress meets in December. Mean
while every member of that body is
receiving $40 a day for doing no
thing.
AT an Oregon baby show q disap-
pointed mother snapped q revolver
under the nose of one the judges and
her husband is after the other two.
A Warren county girl, only thir-
teen years of age, walked five miles
the other night to elope with a young
man. There can be no doubt in re-
gard to the sincerity of her motives.
An Indiana family are living in a
cave in the river bank to escape the
cholera, and the wife c~ongratulates
herself on the fact that her husband is
"home" by eight o'clock every night.
We heard a good and substantial
Republican remark that he wished
key was rich enough to go tofarmingl
He thought it would be a good thing
for both key and the REGISTER!
Curiosity induced a young lady in
Eaton, to open a pin-cushion she had
been using for some time, when,
strange as it may appear, she took out
of it $50 needles! We advise a gen
eral investigation of pin-cushions.
A man who wanted to be a minis
ter said he believed he had been call
ed "to labor in the Lords vineyard
His brother who was less noted for
his piety, said that he had mistaken
tile word Hbarnyard" for vineyard.
The only persons who are defend
ing the ''salary grab" are Beast Butler
and Mat. Carpenter. Two Republic
can Q. S. Senators. Butler is the Re-
publican candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts! How high is that?
Sam1 Silver sent us q turnip, which
weighed 3 pounds and measured 81
inches around. If any body has any
thing '~'turned-up" larger than this,
thus early in the season, let them send
it along. Our Office is open for COM
petition.
AS the Changers cannot be cajoled
into exercising a "moral influence
only, the Western machine politicians
are trying the effect of abuse. The
shrewder GRANTEES East, who have
long seen the injury that the farmers
movement might work to the cause.
began in the abuse line some time
ago.
Because the Democratic Central
Committee, in a busy season of the
year for the farmers, thought best not
to call a County Convention to ap-
point Delegates to the State Conven-
ton, key has discovered a mares
nest, and the egg in it is a "ring."
Never mind, key, the cry of chief
will not save you this fall. Your
RING have already put their foot in it.
Lewis B. Gunckel, althc ugh he has
never served q day as a member of
Congress has pocketed his little swag
of 1925 for servicesI Should he die
before the meeting of the next Con-
gress, the taxpayers are robbed of
just that much cash! This is another
of the beauties of the "salary grab"
law, passed by a Republican Congress
and signed by Republican Presi-
dent!
The colored citizens of Summit
county, have presented a petition to
the State Constitutional Convention
to have the word "negro" prohibited,
by constitutional provision, from be-
ing used in public documents and
school books. Those colored petit
TONERS are over-sensitive. The word
negro, as most schoolboys are aware,
simply means a "black man." and is
much more definite and correct han
the terms "African" or "colored man."
"Do not desert the Republican par
.ty!" is the machine appeal to the
farmers of Preble county by key of
the Eaton Bug. In other words, Stick
to Colfax, Bingham, Garfield, Pome-
roy, Harlan, Allison, and the host of
Congressman who have grabbed 3d.
600 from the public treasury, and are
now receiving 1925 a month for doing
nothing. Those are the lights and
leaders of the Republican party in the
West. Those are the men whom the
honest community is asked not to de-
sert.
Ikey of the Eaton REGISTER squirms
and wriggles very much over the sal
ary steal, and endeavors to fasten the