Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-04
Time still hurries along.

. Coal and wood fires are comfort
= BILE.
Buckwheat cackes are now or II
re bill of fare for breakfast.
. Poultry is very plenty in marke
Particularly chickens.
I'll Cold weather is upon US, and W
have nothing to warm it.
Suits under the Adair liquor Law
: are beginning to flourish again.
3 Christmas will fall this year Of
t Thursday.
The Court of Common Pleas is nov
in session.
A fashionable virtue for winter il
economy.
The way to make times easier is tc
keep the money moving.
Money paid on Sunday contracts
may be recovered.
Our farmers complain that they arc
much annoyed by hunters trespassing
on their grounds.
"A young man we know of made a
narrow escape from buying white
corn meal for buckwheat flour.
This is the last issue for those in
arrears for two years. We propose
to make no exceptions to our rule.
The time of the year when printers,
and the poor generally, should be re-
membered is here.
The ladies-God bless 'em-never
were sweeter than now, but the latest
fashion in collars is enough to make
one think they are all "ruffs."
The most staid, sober and sedate of
our housewives do not object to put
ting on mincing about this
time.
A mans possessions + just as
large as his own soul. If his title
deeds cover more, the surplus acres
own him not he the acres.
Money is still reported scarce
Printers have not yet felt the new
pressure. They are at all times the
victims of suspended payments.
A young man at Evansville cough
ed up a twenty-five cent currency
note the other day, and he has gone
right back to the boarding house
whose hash he formerly complained
of.
death lurked in every corner of
tina: darkened room-Satan howled
at every c~rcviee," is the way they re-
port the death of a saloon-keeper in
Omaha.
If you desire to keep your "green-
backs" perfectly safe, deposit them in
the First National Bank, thus you can
sleep calmly and sweetly without the
fear OF being robbed or murdered.
Anold negro woman was heard to
exclaim "Thomas Jefferson, you and
James Madison come into the house
and bring Abe Lincoln along with
you, or I'll reach for you, shuah!"
Don't lend this paper. Make peo-
pie buy it for themselves. Never
mind the panic. Everybody has five
cents to spare for so good a return,
and it will just increase their happi-
ness to make the investment.
About this season of the year, ac-
cording to Josh Billings, turkeys,
geese, ducks and chickens, get the
"throat disease" very bad. Though
it does not render them unfit for
food.
"Help me another" is a good max
ium at all times, and especially now.
Give your neighbor all the patronage
you can. Protection to home indus
try and enterprise is a principle we
can all practice with benefit.
There is a young lady-love in town
who is SO indolent that she does moth
ing but sit and hold her hands, and
when she gets tired of this she has a
very accommodating beau who holds
them for her.
Passing one of our hotels lately we
heard one of the "kitchen mechanics"
singing a plaintive melody which run
something like this "The moth-eaten
hustle, the old iron hustle, the cloth
covered hustle that hung on SO WELL"
A couple who registered themselves
the other day at a Chicago hotel as
George Lord and lady, Stewartville,
New York." left a baby behind them
when they paid their bill. The land
lord being childless concluded to &C
cept the offering of the Lord and
adopted the founding.
An ameteur sermonizer at Rome,
Ca, made these remarks upon the
soul saving question: "My Brethren,
a man cannot afford to lose his soul.
He's got but one, and he can't get an
other. If a man loses his horse he
can get another; if he loses his wife
he can get another; if he loses his
child he can get another ; but if he