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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
THE PIONEER STEAMSHIP AND
ITS NAYIGATORS.

The noble fleet of steamships that
every Saturday leaves our city wharves
for nearly all the great ports of the world,
naturally directs the mind to the origin
of ocean steam-navigation, and will rem
der interesting an account of the pioneer
steamship and its navigators.
After the great principle of the apph-
cation of steam to the propelling of ves-
sells had been established by Robert
Fulton, a few small steamers were built
for coast-navigation, but the State of
New York excluded them from her
waters, upon the ground that she had
the exclusive right of that kind of navi-
CATION. For the right to build the Walk
whitewater, for the navigation of the
Great Lakes-the first of the kind ever
built-New York claimed and raceived
the sum of five hundred dollars, but the
Supreme Court promptly disposed of
this claim, and steam-nayigation in our
waters became open to the world.
The navigation of the ocean by steam
now became an important question and,
notwithstanding the disheartening proph-
ecies of DR.. Lardner, there were people
In this country who took more hopeful
view of the subject. In1918 there -four
ished in Savannah, Ga, the wealthy and
enterprising commercial house of Scar
borough & Isaacs The head of the
house had great confidence that, at no
distant day, the ocean would be navi-
gated by steam. He went to New York
and purchased ship of about three
hundred and fifty tons, then on the
stocks, and, as deserved compliment to
his State and city, named her the Savan-
nah, and determined, with her, to try
the experiment of crossing the ocean
without sails. In casting about for the
,rirht Kind 0f man f1 assist him bo fiyed
upon Capt Moses Rogers, a person OF
great mechanical skill and ingenuity,
who had been familiar and identified
with the experiments of Fulton, but he
was not q seG-nayigator. A thorough,
experienced, and practical sailor was now
wanted, and just such man was found
in the person of Capt. Stevens Rogers
the brother of Moses. After having
been furnished with an engine by
Stephen Vail, of Morristown, conjointlJ
with Daniel Dodd, of Elizabethtown, the
Savannah was placed under the command
of the two Captains Rogers-the one tx
superintend and direct her machinery
the other to act as sailing master. The,
were two as intrepid and able men as thu
country contained at that time, and
under their direction, the ship sailed TO
Savannah on the 29th of March, 1919
The trial-trip was highly successful
The vessel then proceeded to Charleston
and, after being Honized there for
short time, took James Monroe, th
President of the United States, to Sa
Yannah. On the 26th of May she sale
direct for Liverpool, making the passag
IN twenty-five days, eighteen of wh1c
were under steam, some economy of fue
having been deemed advisable lest tn
supply should be exhausted.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
Foreign.

STREET railroads are being rapidly
constructed at Calcutta.
ONE is obliged to secure rooms at Nice
a month in advance of his arrival.
THE new swinging bell in the Cologne
Cathedral weighs twenty-five tons.
The King of Siam has received a gold
spittoon from England's royal widow.
WHENEVER an American is seen in
Berlin hackmen fight to see who shall
secure him.
The Parliament of Great Britain has
$50 applications for railroad charters
to consider.
IT is rumored that Louis Napoleon
and Eugene will visit the United States
next spring.
STUMP is the very appropriate name
of the principal manufacturer of wooden
legs in London
The fourth-rate cars in Germany have
no seats, and passengers are huddled
together like cattle.
Provisions are so scarce in Corea that
the natives willingly pay two young
women for bushel of grain.
THERE are in Rome 126 monasteries
and ninety-two nunneries, whose united
net revenue is s2, ,97S, ,408 per year.
ninety feet long, and drawing only twelve
inches of water, for one of the rivers of
Brazil
JAPAN is running a straight race for
the leadership in morals. Improper
burlesques on the stage have been pro-
hibited.
ARCHBISHOP DENN1soN, who lately rec
commended the horse-pond as a remedy
for discomfort among English laborers,
has been served by his parishioners with
pelting of stale eggs.
The peat deposits of Italy cover an
area of about 1000 acres. She pays
$8, ZOO, 900 annually to other nations for
fuel, and is now endeavoring to econo-
mise by using compressed peat.
THE Paris Figaro attributes to M.
Theirs the following mot: "The efforts
of the Rights against the Republic re-
semble those of an infant who attempts
to upset a railway train with pin
AN English joint stock company,
which proposes practically to realize
Bessemer's antidote against sea-sickness
by the construction of two steamers for
the channel trade, has been organized
in London.
TIE Khedive of Egypt has ordered
the wedding outfit of his daughter to be
made in Paris. One of the items of the
order is founces point d 'Alencon at $500
a yard, and $50, 600 worth of other laces
are to be added.
AT the Morgue in Paris there is always
detective in plain clothes, whose bust
ness it is to observe the impression which
the sight of the bodies makes upon the
spectators. Many murderers have thus
been discovered.
A PARIS publishing house having an
nounced that it will speedily issue 'tThe
Letters of Eugene de Montijo Prior to
Her Marriage to Louis Napoleon" the
Prefect of Police has prohibited the
publication of the work.
| MILE. BERDoN, French dressmaker,
tired of oppression, plunged into the
Seine, with the words "We have nc
liberties When she was promptly
pulled out she finished the idea "They
| don't even allow us to drown ourselves.
THE British Parliament, which meets
next month at London, is four years old
having been summoned on the 10th o1
December, 1868. Since it assembled al
Westminster, eighty-four peers an6
forty members of the House have died
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
WHOLE NUMBER 300.
AN ECHO SONG.

H' If address the Echo yonder
What will the answer be, I wonder?"
Z" 1 wonder !"
"'Oh, wondrous Echo!. Tell me, bless'ee,
Am I for marriage or celibacy ?o
I" If then to win the maid try
Shall find her property ?n
IA proper tie :"
" If neither being grave nor funny
Will win this maid to matrimony 2"
"Try money !"
" If should try to gain her heart,
Shall go plain, or rather smart?"
" Smart ~
" She rnayn't love dress, and again, then,
May come too smart, and she'll complain then"
" Come plain then"
/" Then if to marry me tease her,
What will she say if that should please her 2"
Please, sir !"
H When Cross nor good words can appease her,
What if such naughty whims should seize her 7"
90 You'd see, sir !"
90 When wed she'll change, for Loves sticker,
And love her husband less than hquori"
=" Then lick her!
To leave me then can't compel her,
Though every woman else excel herW
Ts Sell her J"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23

The number of miles of road actually
under construction Gin addition to that
of bed on which track was lai6 is given
as 6,742. This figure falls materially
below the actual amount. In the table
below is given the results of construction
in thirty-five States and Territories, and
the Canadian Provinces. Progress was
made ON 353 roads; 1925 miles of road
were fully completed, and on 6,742 the
preparation for the track was in advanced
progress in fine, work was done on
IA, 667 miles of road. The aggregates
for each State are herewith given
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
National Debts.

It seems as if spirit of recklessness
had seized upon the governments of the
earth, and that each was striving to out
do the other in the accumulation of pub
lie debts. The New York Bulletin gives
the following tabular statement of the
national debts of 27 Governments, in
1862 and 1872 respectively, showing the
interest during the last decade:
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
Humorous,

CLOTH for abaker-Dough-skin.
A THRILLING tale-The rattlesnake's.
FoRaERs to be encouraged Black
smiths.
SPors on the sun-Freckles on your
boys face.
The best hquid-Liquidation of the
public debt.
CoRN-FE1Ds that require neither plow-
ing nor sowing-The feet.
THE next worst thing to raining pitch
forks-Hailing omnibuses.
Why are religious people fit subjects
for entomologists? Because they are
insects.
AN old bachelor compares life to a
shirt button, because it so often hangs
by thread.
CT WANT to know" said creditor,
fiercely. swhen YOU are geing to pay me
what you owe me ?'' "When I'm going
to pay? Why, you're pretty fellow
Do you take me for prophet ?"
ANOTHER victim, snatched away in the
prime of a useful life, is to be charged to
the abominable vice of tobacco-uslng
He was a Virginian, and after smoking
and chewing for no years, was finally
fine-cut off at the tender age of 11S.
A CHEMIST announces his ability and
readiness to convert the remains of any
dear departed at once into powder,
which may be used to dry up ink In
writing. Dron idea to be able to dredge
away a mother-in-law in daily CORE
spondence.
"GET out of my way What are you
good for?' said cross old man to
bright-eyed urchin who happened to be
standing in the way. The little fellow,
as he stepped one side, replied very
gently They make men of such things
as we are"
GEORGE w. MALEY, famous Metho-
dist preacher, once in addressing himself
especially to the colored people of his
congregation, cried out: "You, my dear
black brethren, God bless your black,
greasy hides, when you get to heaven
you will be japanned all over with
glory p
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
Insanity in Great Men.

The sad end of Horace Greeley should
be a warning to friends in the treatment
of premonitory symptoms of insanity in
great men. When the late Hon. Preston
King was stricken with temporary
mental malady, in 1889, his friends took
him to an asylum at Hartford, Conn,
and when he recovered, short time
after, he was so chagrined at the thought
of having been confined in 1unatic
asylum that he refused to return home
till an old friend went and labored with
him. Mr.. K. always regarded this as a clog
to his political preferment. When over
worked in the New York Custom House
his friends, supposing that they foresaw
the return of the malady, made arrange
ments to take him to private institu-
ton. But the man who had always been
brooding over the confinement preferred
death, and at the hour designated for
his removal he made the fatal plunge
from the North river ferry, having first
taken the precaution to load himself
with shot, SO that he could not return
within reach of a rescuing hand.
When Mr.. Greeley's friends, with the
kndliest motives, determined to take
him to Pleasantville, they committed a
grave error, and when he turned to Mr..
johnson and with tears streaming down
his cheeks imploringly said, t'Don't let
them take me away don't ! don't p he
knew that the door which shut Horace
Greeley into an insane asylum quenched
the light of earthly hopes. He might
have revived with quiet at his own
friends fireside, but the thought that he
was adiudged fit case for an asylum
was unendurable.-Og Ogdersburg Jour
71HZ
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
Railway Building in 1879.

Notwithstanding the financial embar-
rassment of the past twoy years, the increas-
ed ratio of railway progress shown in
in 1870 over the average of the previous
years has been more than maintained.
The number of miles added during 1872,
and each of preceding five years, has
been
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23

CHARLES FENNo HOFFMAN, once very
popular song-writer and litterateur, is
supposed to have been dead for some
years. He would better have been, for
he has long been an inmate of a lunatic
asylum in Pennsylvania, and is unques-
tionably incurable.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23

WATER IN THE DEsERT.-We learn
that water has been discovered on the
" DESERT" as it used to be popularity
called at Bunker Hill station, on the
Kansas Pacific. It was thoughtno water
could be found on the plains, but the
officers of the Kansas Pacific road last
month sunk well at the above point,
and put in a pump. This morning in
telligence was received that an abundant
supply of water had been found, and that
it was of superior quality. Thus, one
by one, the delusions regarding the So
called "Great American Desert" are
melting away It has proven to be one
of the most fruitful regions of the earth
already. This fact is but an additional
incentive to hasten its settlement and the
building up of prosperous communities
on its soil. l.-LedUe7aUorth Times.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
Personal.

Personal.
GEORGE RIPLEY, of the New York
Tribune, is seeing his list winter.
Stokes was sentenced to death just
one year to day from the time he shot
Fisk.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE has five grand
children-three little Spragues and two
little Hoyts.
AN autograph letter from Washington
to his step-son's preceptor sold In Lon
don for $125.
IT is thought in Salt Lake City that
Brigham Young will never pass another
summer above ground.
A BIOGRAPHICAL memoir of the late
Edwin Forrest is in preparation.by the
Rev. W. Alger, of Boston.
SIX of the signers of JEFF Davis bail
bond are dead, but Gerrit Smith, who
headed the list, still lives.
CREswE11 says that he will not be
satisfied until letter can be sent to any
part of the United States for penny.
Two boys have been expelled from the
Normal School at Brockport, N. Y, for
cutting a curl of hair from young lady's
head.
EBENEzER CHmDs, of Pennington,
Me-, was wounded by a bayonet in 1914,
andihas since drawn $13, $50 In pension
money.
A PENNSYLVANIA Dutchmans has in
scribed his name on the roll of fame by
erecting a sausage of over two tons
weight.
MAGGIE MITCHELL crossed the Missis
sippi at Belmont in a skff, in order to be
at Memphis Christmas eve. She was
Just in time.
IT is rumored that Rosa Bonheur is
coming to America to make original
sketches of the buffalo, the mustang,
and the coyote.
.OAKEY HALL, retiring from the Office
of Mayor of New York, closed twenty
one years of official service, and resumes
the practice of the law.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23

A STRANGE FERTILIZER. Scie'a-
tifc american describes strange fer
tilizer. At .Stratford, Conn, where mos
eui oes are as thick as fog, lives an in
genious Yankee, SO they say-believe it
who may-who puts these insects to
profitable uses. He has invented large
revolving scoop-net, covered with lace,
which is put in motion by a windmill,
water-power, or steam. The lower half
of the scoop is placed in water. The
upper half moves through the atmos-
phere, and at each rotation draws an inn
mense number of the "squitoes" down
into the water, where they drown and
sink to the bottom. Every revolution
draws in an ounce of mosquitoes, or
ton for 1000 turns of the machine.
The mosquitoes thus collected make a
splendid manure for the land, worth $40
ton.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23

From this statement it will be seen
that 27 governments have added to their
debts about $4,000, 900, 900 since 1862,
and that their total Indebtedness is now
nearly SIT, 900, 100000.
HIS HOLINESS the Pope has just lost
two hundred thousand dollars" Peters
Pence"-by the failure of the Brussels
banking house of Jacob Freres & Co.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23

" If address the Echo yonder
What will the answer be, I wonder 2"
4 7
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27
The Influence OF Kisses.

The kiss has been u powerful agent
In the annals Of the human raco.
There have been kisses like those Of
Antony aud Cleopatra, Of Henry
VIII and Ammo Evleyn, which have
shaken an empire or destroyed re-
ligion. If We knew the secret histo.
ry Of courts, we should probably
learn that nations have been created
or erased Ey the magic touches of a
woman's lips. A great problem,
therefore, lies before US. Has this
discovcryeproved all atll:c or a
blessing to mank ind Probably tho
latter; for it has certainly iuc rcased
the influence Of women, and the influ.
enco Of women is employed more for
good than for evil. BE owed, tender
hearted woman, companions and con.
sol Of our life With kiss you
welcome tho infant to the world ;
with kiss you bcot,w on soft check
cd youth the rapturcs Of first love
with kiss you alleviate the ayonv
Of death. And what, alas! arc the
kisses which men too often give you
in return Judas kisses, trcackcr-
Gus and fatal, which poison Innocent
hearts, and turn to curses o., painted
and dcspairing lips. Happy are they
who can rcmcmher without lcmursc
tho kisses Of their youth.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27
Nuit Against the C0unty.

James Birnio, Esq, attorney for the
Atlanta and Richmond Airline
hallway, acting under instructions
rom Col. n. S. BuforL, President,
has instituted proceedings against tho
County Of Grocnvillc, for tho Jnly
interest on the bonds of tho County.
,r' mS!o by the company, CT s2oO,oOo.
The amount for which action ;r
brought is $1,000. The interest on
the bonds is payable semi,annually,
ana 1t having boen paid up by Janu-
ary /, 1878, the sum stated fell du.
on the lst ult. Messrs. Wm.J.
Wost, a. II. McDavid and VIC,
Goodwin, County Commissioners,
"cro served with the legal proceed
'rEs q lew days since and the Com
m'Ssioncrs havo brought action
against MIR. Allen and his surctics.
Tor forfeiture of the Trcasurcr's
bond: The taxes having been col
lected for the payment of This interest
from the people, the failure Of the
county Treasurer to appropriate the
FUNDS properly, or to account for
t,hem, is most unfortunate ond bur-
dcnsomc to tho tax. payers Gyccn-
pWc Enterprise.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27

The hot and rainy weather is testing all
exposed wood work, especially the doors in
shrnkaGc, and enable them to warrant all
work sold by them, Mcssrs. l. IL. HALE
& Co , Mt great expense, have erected,
in connection with their Door Factory, n
modern drying room, in which all Doors
arc placed ill fully dried, before glu;! &,
Uelging and pinHing. This process adds
Ole third to the durability of the doors.
Send 70, price list Of Doors, Sash"s. Blinds
White, Pine, Walnut and fancy kumbcrs.
agents for Asbestos Roofing Fcl,s, used
extensively all over the counlry for its
chcapncss and durability.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27
Sauce for tho GO0sc.

q correspondent Of tho Bost on
Post states; that secretary Belknap
mas determined to assign negro or
colored graduates Of West Point to
commands in white regiments. The
Secretary .ploads that, inasmuch rs he
has to assign wbito graduates to
black regiments, thore is no other
option but to reverse tho doal occa.
sionaily. We arc not sorry for this
decision indeed VIC arc rather eIad
OF 1t, applied as it is whcro tho curse
must como homo to roost. But as
there IS precious litt'o chance of q
superiiulty OF colored graduates, if
any at oil, tho United States sol ldicry
need not howl till tho fun actually
begins.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27
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The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27
Tic Free puSs lluMbag.

It is very amusing to journalists
who know the inner workings and
practices of tho profession to read
the high.toned and cxqn;sitely moral
comments Of some papers on the nMi
free pass movement. 70 read these
papers one would suppose thai they
would sooner handle rcd hot burhiug
Goals thon free pass, yet we know
(and there is ono now before us, n
leading New Yo:k Journal, which
IS a good example, that they arc the
III ost invotcrate and importnnato beg.
gars for such passes that can be
imagined. There is a great deal Of
cant and humtus about the free q s
movement. Editors rarely travel for
pleasure. Their journeys arc always
for public information. Their v0ca~
tion forces them to do that which is OF
~ atcrial service to the railo Dads and
to all public corporation. They an
nouncc times, changes Of sched..
ule. alterations in irrights, i'm
provements aud thoueand matters
Of Yaluo for which they can make no
charge. All the pay that they have
| ever received has been the curtcsy of
free transportation when OH business.
The railroads have been and will
always continue to be tho debtors Of
the newspapers, and those editors who
arc SO intensely high.toncd know it.
Tho papers are not indebted to rail
roads, or steamboats,, or theatres, or
shows for any favors, neither arc they
dead beats, as sohc disposed to repro.
sent them. If editors could consult
their own couvi2nce rather than tho
wants Of others. they would use pre-
cicus few passes OIL any railroad OF
to any place Of amu$cment.-G Galvc,
ton Commerciui.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-08-27
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