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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
TWeed's Trial.

The details of the trial of Tweed, in
New York, are frightful. No other word
can express the disgust and loathing
produced by the sickening revelations
of Garvey, the plasterer. His testimony
shows that sixty-fve per cent. of all his
bills was fraudulent, and went directly
into the hands of Tweed, Watson, and
Woodward. Here is an abstract of a
portion of his evidence:
"These bills were partially just; there
was not thirty-five per cent. of any bill
due from the county; each bill was pre-
sumed to bear the same proportion of
my claims; of these claims only $241, 900
was due from the county. No part of
any bill was entirely true. Witness
didn't definitely know how much was
true nobody saw the bills until witness
rendered them kept them entirely to
himself; vouchers accompanied war
rants for these bills got directions from
Watson how to make out the bills
Tweed's name was on some of the bills
the prices charged for work were regu-
lar, but the amounts were increased ;
put in $1,000 in one bill on his own
hook to pay election expenses"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance.
Necessity of Ventilation:

L hold that the breathing of impure
air is a fruitful source of disease of the
right heart occurring after middle age.
How many people ignorantly favor its
occurrence by confining themselves to
closely shut, non-ventilated, hot, sitting
rooms, in which the carboic acid has
accumulated to two or three per cent. of
the air they respire How many are
thus destroyed by being compelled,
through the exi igencies of life, to pass
the greater part of their time in pits
and manufactures where ventilation is
defective, or in which the air respired is
poisoned by noxious fumes and offensive
emanations from the materials undergo
ing the process of manufacture How
many are falling victims to the poison
ous influence upon tho heart of the at
mosphere of an underground railway !!
What do these facts suggest? How are
these evil results to be prevented? The
simple answer is: Let the rooms in
which you live be effectually ventilated
by an incoming current of air filtered
from all adventitious impurities, and SO
divided that no draught shall be felt
and by an outgoing current which shall
remove from the apartments the carbon
ic acid, carbonic oxide, sulphurous-acid
gas, sulphuretted hydrogen, and other
noxious compounds, as rapidly as they
are generated. Apply the same princi-
pie to public buildings, ,theaters, schools,
manufactures, pits, and to all places in
which people are accustomed to congre-
gate.-POl1atlnr Science Monthly.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Josie Mansfield.

The report that the notorious Josie
Mansfield had lost her fortune by the
failure of the Bowles Brothers has been
contradicted. This dangerous Circe is
now in Paris, where she lives in her
usual gay and sumptuous style, partly
on her own means and partly on those
supplied by wealthy Englishman whom
her mature charms have ensnared. Some
time ago the Mansfield attended the per-
formance of Fra Diavolo" at the Opera
Comique. Being dressed very cloud, -
the profusion of diamonds she wore, as
well as her free and easy manners, nat
urally attracted the attention of the
whole audience to the box in which she
sat. A few days afterward the Vert
Vert, Partisan evening journal, gave a
very spicy description of Josie's be-
havior, together with brief biography,
in which it was stated that she had tried
in vain to be admitted to good society in
Paris, and that even the Grand Hotel du
Louvre had refused to receive her as a
guest. The result of this article was
the challenge of M. Dupont, the editor
of the Vert Vert, by Josie's English
gallant. They fought with sabers, and
NJ. Dupont received dangerous cut in
his arm,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

THE Fourth Revenue District of New
Jersey, consisting of four counties, has
converted its apple crop into 159, ,OOC
gallons of "jack."
IT is asserted that some Texans are
killing their cattle, for the reason that
the hide brings more money than the
whole animal on foot
THREE premiums were recently award
ed by the Easton (Pa.) Experimental
Farm Club for corn crops of 121, Ill
and 100 bushels per acre.
AN individual in Orange county, N.
Y, declares himself able to husk 100
bushels of corn in ten consecutive hours.
We have observed that the winter season
is usually the chosen time for boasts of
this character.
ACCORDING to figures furnished by the
London Board of Trade, So, los, 1O5 was
paid for eggs imported into the United
Kingdom from January to November,
1872.
THE earliest prophet in the field this
year is the editor of the Bulletin, Port
land, Oregon, who, having taken ga run
up the Willamette Valley" declares that
the prospects for great crops of all grains
are unusually bright.
JAMES F. SERANK, Chief Clerk of the
Agricultural Department, Washington,
has resigned, and Frederick Watts, Jr.,
has been appointed in his place.
The Vermont Dairymen's Association
open three days session at ST. Albans,
Jan. %. Addresses will be made by
Messrs. x. A. Willard, T. s. Gold, J. s.
Gould, F. d. Douglas, and II. Lewis.
THERE are more than thousand named
and described varieties of the pear raised
in this country, in the gardens of pomol-
ogists and others, and about 2, 500 varie-
ties of the apple. But few practical cul-
tivators will want more than dozen of
each.
SAN FRANCISCO markets are now sup
piled by the neighboring farmers with
string beans, peas, asparagus, green
corn, and other productions seasonable
at New Years. Lettuce are 25 cents a
dozen and cucumbers Is cents.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Humorous.

SWEET home-A beehive.
A sToCK-N trade-Hosiery.
A MARINE swell-The porpoise.
FANCY bread-A roll of the eye.
A YOUNG shaver-A barber's baby.
BEER, like flea, is subject to hops.
BOARD of education-The blackboard.
GENTLE and simple-The bait and the
fish.
A WISE man changes his mind fool
| never.
A CRIMINAL ooURT-Sparking another
mans wife.
New book" The Stray Wig" by the
| author of "The Wandering Heir.
BE temperate in diet-our first parents
ate themselves out of house and home.
THEY say crocodiles do not really weep;
sailor, though, has seen whales blub-
ber.
A SOCIETY man is said to have laughed
SO much in his sleeve that it is quite worn
out.
To KEEP out of debt-Acquire the rep
utation of a rascal, and none will trust
you.
To GET rid of red hair-Hold your
head for few minutes in a strong blaze
of gas.
A CLEVELAND husband refused to buy
his wife new carpet, and she committed
suicide.
How TO get all the music out of pi-
ano-Let a steam fire-engine play on it
few minutes.
AN Irish writer says: ''I know of no
earthly reason why women should not be-
come medical men,"
The gentle turkey gobbler now roosts
on the barnyard fence, with none to mo-
lest him or make him afraid.
"WE'RE in a pickle now," said man
in crowd. GA regular jam" said an
other. Heaven preserve us y moaned
an old lady.
"WHAT's the use of trying to be hon
est P'' asked young man the other day
of friend "Oh you ought to try it
once to see" was the reply.
"wHEN I put my foot down, I'll have
you to understand" says Mrs. Noker,
"that there's something there" On in
vestigation it was found to be a No. IL
shoe.
1t was a North Carolnian who, in
speaking of the extreme leanness OF his
hogs, said that he had to put overcoats
on them to enable them to make shad-
ow in the sun.
"I THINK my hairs turning gray, said
customer to the hair-cutter. Well,
said the hair-cutter, I" reely, sir, can't
say, but it do seem to be meditating
change of color"
PEOPLE who believe the current sto-
ries about intelligent dogs will read with
pleasure that lost dog in Norfolk hav-
ing seen his masters advertisement in a
local print, promptly went home.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, recently had some
awful excitement over some bloody
clothes found on the ice, and several
would-be detectives paved them over,
smelt of them, and cried for vengeance,
until doctor came along who pro-
nounced them the cast-off clothing of
smallpox patient.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Origin of a Phrase.

"To scrape acquaintance" comes to
us from the Roman Emperor Adrian ::
He was at the public baths one day,
when he saw one of his veteran soldiers
scraping his body with tile. That was
such poor luxury that Adrian ordered
that his old comrade should be supplied
with more suitable cleansing materials,
and also with money. On subsequent
occasion, when the Emperor again went
to the bath, the spectacle before him was
highly amusing. A score of old soldiers
who had fought under Adrian were stand
ing in the water, and each was currying
himself with a tile and wincing at the
self-inficted rubbing. The Emperor
perfectly understood what he saw and
what was the purpose of the sight.
"Ha ha p he exclaimed "you had
better scrape one another, my good fell
ows." He added "You certainly shall
not scrape acquaintance with me"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Foreign.

TURIN, Italy, has produced 38-ton
cannon.
THE public charities of London amount
to 1886, 900, 900 year.
BAYARD TAYLOR is lecturing in Ger
many and in German.
THE Lord Mayor of London sat down
to his Christmas dinner with 1876 rela-
tions-and none of them were poor.
ZINC is used very extensively as roof
covering in France, Belgium and Ger
many. The area of roofs annually cov-
cred with this material is from 40, 900, 900
to $4,000, 900 square feet.
In Germany, when the vote of the
Jury stands six against six the prisoner
is acquitted. A vote of seven against
five leaves the decision to the Court, and
in vote of eight against four the pris-
oner is convicted.
THERE is slight moving of the dead
bones of progress in Spain, as evidenced
in the proposition to have an inter
national exhibition at Madrid in 1875,
for display of the arts and industries
of Spain of the present day.
THE confidential valet of the Grand
Duke Alexis is said to have sold to q
publisher in Brussels enough of Ameri-
can bellies letters to make a good-sized
book; but, fortunately, he has been
caught and bound in Russia, and the
correspondence recovered before the
printer had put it in covers.
AN Arab surgeon has been created q
Pacha and rewarded with fee of $5, OOO
for curing the mother of the Egyptian
Khedive. And still, the practice OF
medicine and surgery there has some
drawbacks, for if the old woman had
died, instead of being made Pacha ,
he would have been packed in a sacI
and thrown into the Khedive's goose.
pond.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
An American Daily Abroad.

It is rumored that one of the objects
of James Gordon Bennett in going
abroad was to make the necessary prep
arations for issuing new daily in Lon
don, that should have all the enterprise,
facilities, and variety of leading New
York or Chicago journal. This is said
to have been favorite project OF the
elder Bennett, who held that daily
conducted in London on American prin-
ciples must eventually reach an enor-
nous success. The son seems to share
this opinion; and the story is, that he is
willing to invest $500, 600, or even ST.
OO0, 900, in such an enterprise.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
VOL. VINO. II.
UNTO DEATH.

Oh 1t is thou, the angel of my life,
The one faint voice from Heaven,
That filed my ear amid my hours of strife,
When hope, and Joy, and light were all but riven
Ny love through all the years love has made dear
WHIT with me til the endi
Thou'st walked me from sweet dreams and yet u
For thou than sweetest dream
Are better far. And would ever dwell
Within the glory of the tender gleam
OF those bright eyes, which lend
Heavens light to earth and yet it cannot be-;
Wait with me till the end!
And thou, my love, has come to me from far;
From that deep, sheltered vale
Where first met thee, my own guiding star,
And where in twilight hour loves early tale
Was spoken first. Oh, bend EzDs5
Thy fair young face above me yet again
Wait with me till the end.
For would have the lips of loves first dream
Breathe kindly on me now,
And give their blessing, falling like gleam
A blessing that shall lend
glory that shall light me through the gloom!
Wait with me till the end!
Thy presence lent a beauty to the flower,
A sweetness to the dove,
A charm to all the sounds of twilight's hour;
And had all thy hearts impassioned love!
But now my soul must rend
Itself from thee, and go its lonely way!
Wait with me till the end!
left thee on that day now long gone by,
And while 1 searched for fame,
Ny soul fed on the love in thy dark eye,
And burned that might gain q noble name,
And that we yet might blend
Our lives in one renown; but all Is o'er!
Wait with me till the end
Thou knowest not how oft throughout the night
Thy presence lowered near,
And lent luster to my lonely light,
As through the silent hours I seemed to hear
Thy voice a prayer send
To Heaven for me Now, more than guardian one
Wait with me till the end
Dear love feel thy kiss upon my brow.
Weep not, my love and life!
I'll bless thee till meet be near me now,
While am passing through this mortal strife!
No other hand can tend
Me like thine own amid this hour of need
Wait with me till the end!
-Cndnlbers' Journal
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
WHOLE NUMBER 302.

is not a poisonous drug, and is, we be-
ieve, in no way hurtful, still no more
should be used than necessary. Every
druggist has it for sale. Care must be
taken to have the cistern thoroughly
cleaned at least twice year, as well as
the troughs upon the buildings supply
ing the water.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
FEMININE NAMES AND THEIR
MEANING.

Frances is truly fail,
Bertha is purely bright,
Clara is clear to see,
Lucy is a star Of light
Felicia Is happy as happy can be;
Catharine is pure,
Barbara from afar,
Mabel is very fair,
Henrietta is O star.
Margaret q pearl thrown up from the sea.
Muriel is sweetest myrrh,
Amelia is sincere,
Agatha is very good,
Bridget is shining here.
Matilda is a lady of honor trues
Susan is lily,
Celia dim of sight,
Jane graceful willow,l
Beatrice gives delight,
Elizabeth an oath, pure as morning dew.
Sophia is wisdom,
Letitia is joy,
Eveline princess,
Rebecca Is faIs6f tt sii as TIE Light OF day
Constance is resolute,
Grace is favor meet,
Charlotte is nobility,
Harriet an odor sweet,
Abigail is joyful as the robins lay.
Sarah is a lady,
Isabel is fair
Lucinda is constant,
Jemima sounds in air,
Caroline is noble-spirited and brave
Lydia is well,
Judith a song of praise
Cornelia is harmony,
Priscilla ancient of days,
Selma nightingale where branches wave.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

THE foreign trade of the United States
during the past year shows slight de-
crease in exports, about $13, ,00O, 900, and
large increase in imports, about $780,
600, 900, the balance against us for the
year being, in round numbers, $11S,-
600, 900. This shows that we have been
very extravagant. Let's have economy
this year.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

THAT terrible visitation commonly
known as the "spotted fever but known
to the medical profession as cerebro
spinal meningitis, is fearfully prevalent
in some portions of the Mississippi Val
ley and other localities in the West. We
hear of its sudden attacks and speedy
fatal results in the regions of the Wabash
and the Illinois rivers. It is a matter
worthy of remark thatnervous and spinal
diseases appear to be on the increase
throughout the country of late. Over
work, business anxiety, and too little
sleep are suggested as the possible
causes.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
FARM AND GARDEN.
Dry Times ON the Prairfes.

| The ancient mariner, when suffering
from thirst on the stagnant ocean, was
in plight scarcely worse than that of
the dwellers on the prairies in times of
drought. 1t is not too much to say that
this trouble is very generally self-in-
ficted. The old story of Simon Easy,
who would not mend his roof in dry
weather because it was unnecessary, nor
in wet weather because it was impossible,
fits this case exactly. Was the history
of Joseph in Egypt written for nothing :?
Why could we not learn from that and
in season of plenty store up supply
against times of drought. Throughout
the year there falls on the roof of born
forty feet square so, 900 gallons of water.
This would give nearly no gallons a
day throughout the yea. A cistern II
feet square and 20 feet deep would con-
tain nearly half this large supply, and
would cost not far from 800. 1t is
reasonable to say that the cost would be
repaid in one dry season. Again well
of large capacity, say 10 feet diameter
or more, dug at place where four fields
come together, so as to be available for
either of them, would hold over a con-
siderable supply of water which would
be available for dry time and in adj
dition there are many hollows which the
bottom might be puddled with clay, or
little valleys across which earth dams
might be built in which large store
of water might be preserved. Few farms
are without some such possible means
of securing water supply which would
make a dry fall thing no more to be
dreaded, and which would obviate the
necessity, so I'M furious to cattle and SO
inconvenient to the owner, of driving
them long distances to drink.
Dried Dung in Fumigating Bees.
Rev. L. L. Langstroth writes to the
Bee Journal:
Nearly two thousand years ago Colu-
mella recommended the dried dung of
cattle as the best thing for fumigating
bees. Learning soon after importing
the Egyptian bees that the Egyptians
stance in all their operations upon their
irascible bees, we began to use it largely
in our apiary. The smoke from burning
cow dung, while very penetrating, is not
offensive. 1t can be blown SO as to
diffuse itself very quickly through the
hive, and yet it does not seem to irritate
the bees, and our own experience con-
firms the very strong concentrations of
Columella. Wherever rotten wood is
not easily procured, it will be found of
very great value. When thoroughly
dried it will burn slowly but steadily,
and by slightly dampening the outside
after lighting it, piece not larger than
the hand may often be made to last for
several hours. It does not always ignite
as readily as one could wish. DR.. E.
Parmely has obviated this difficulty by
dipping one corner in coal oil. The
odor is so little offensive that it may be
used instead of pastils in the sick room,
little sugar being sprinkled upon it
while burning. Those who know how
universally the dung of bufaloes, called
buffalo chips, is used for cooking pr1r-
poses on our great plains, will feel no
prejudices against this seemingly un-
cleanly substance. We shall call it
buffalo chips.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

The Government of British India,
with a view of preventing famines, have
inaugurated magnificent system of
drainage in Bengal, to cost nearly
S15, 900, 900.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

Practical jokers in London find
amusement in sending wooden turkeys
in hampers to clergymen.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

LOUIS NAPOLEON had nearly million
dollars worth of property in. New York
city.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Manure for Orchards.


for orchards, but instead of being put
round the trees they should be spread
over the whole land. But where are the
ashes to come from in this region? We
have little or no wood, and of course
little or no ashes. In our limited ex-
perience we have learned one thing in
regard to orchards as well as fruit trees
of every kind that we have cultivated,
and we believe the principle can be ap-
piled pretty much to everything that
grows upon the earth, which is, that the
application of manure benefits them all.
Ground occupied with fruit trees should
be manured as are other portions of the
land used for the raising of wheat and
corn. It is the neglect to do SO, in con-
nection with the general negligence with
which orchards are treated in many sec
tions, that makes them improbable and
worn out prematurely. And as to the
kind of manure with which orchards
ought to be treated, while any kind, al
most without exception, will prove of
advantage, there is none in the world to
be compared to stable or barn-yard ma
nure. A liberal application of this only
every third year, with careful pruning
and scraping of the trees and ferreting
out the borers, will make prodigious
change in an orchard. Autumn, and
LII
frozen, is perhaps the best time to apply
it. Germantown Telegraph.
Neat Room.
A. neat, clean, fresh-aired, cheerful,
well arranged house exerts a moral in
f1uence over its inmates, and makes the
members of family peaceable and con-
siderate of each other feelings and hap
piness. The connection is obvious be-
tween the state of mind thus produced
and respect for others, and for those
higher duties and obligations which no
laws can enforce. On the contrary, a
filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in
which none of the decencies of life are
observed, contributes to make it's in
habitants selfish, sensual and regardless
of the feeling of others, and the con-
slant indulgence of such passions rem
ders them reckless and brutal.
Care of Cisterns.
Water may be preserved pure and
whole in rainwater cistern, by letting the
supply pipe connect at the bottom of the
cistern. The fresh water being heavier
than that alrerdy i'll the cistern, will
force the stale water to the top SO that it
can be used before it becomes offensive.
It is well known, however, that cistern
water becomes impure from the organic
matter it contains, and if this can be got
rid of by destroying its vitality and pre-
cipitating it to the bottom, it will leave
the water pure. 1t is claimed that there
is nothing better to effect this than per-
manganate of potassa, used in the pro-
portion of about an ounce to fifty sec
tions of water This causes the in
organic matter to sink to the bottom an
innoxious sediment. But the perman-
ganate must must be continued as long
as the water has purplish appearance,
indicating that the offensive matter has
not all been precipitated. Though this
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06

There Was Mas fRFmsDy GRd 14"ns old aae pn
interested in breeding mules. One of
the animals was SO uncommonly per-
verse and obstinate that he determined
to ride the animal until he killed him.
He rode him nearly ninety miles in one
day-rode him, in fact, as long as he
could sit up. The exhausted pair at
length pulled up at wayside tavern, the
doctor utterly worn out, while the mule
was led away, as the owner fondly hoped,
to die. At dawn the doctor was aroused
by a frightful commotion in the stable
yard Crawling on his hands and knees
to the window as well as his stiffened
limbs would permit, he said that the
first thing that greeted his eyes was
''that cussed mule kicking up at the
hostler's head"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
Disraeli.

Mr. Disraei is not, after all, to re-
ceive that sympathy which attaches to
impoverished greatness. AN Oxford
Graduate, writing to the New York Post,
remorselessly punctures the interesting
story told by a late correspondent of that
paper. Mr.. Disraeli owns Huguenden
in his own right, had a property of e40,
600 bequeathed him few years since,
has a pension of 92, 900, and moreover
er without money.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-07-19

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