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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
A Long Swim.

On Saturday afternoon Capt. Webb,
master of the Emerald, of Liverpool,
accomplished the feat of swimming 20
miles down the Thames. A small party
embarked on the Falcon steamer at West
minister pier and proceeded to Blackwell,
where at 2.25 p. m. Capt. Webb took to
the water. It was about high water, so
that little assistance was obtained from
the current fol- the first lew miles. The
Captains style of swimming is slow,
steady stroke of the arms, a vigorous
action of the legs, and the head is kept
down, SO that the water flows over the
mouth at every stroke. He was accom-,
panied by Prof. Beckwith, who from o
small boat directed him in course along
the middle of the channel, and small
fotilla of boats at various points brought
curious visitors to watch the swimmer.
Vessels leaving the port of London gave
him free course. so that ne was little
disturbed by passing craft. The wind
was steady and the weather fair unit
shortly after passing w 1wich, when g
heavy shower followed several peals OF
thunder. Occasionally Capt. Webb took
some brandy and water, but no other re
freshments. The distance from Black.
wall to Grayesend is seventeen and three
quarter nautical miles-over twenty
English miles-and the first half was ae
complished in an hour and half. When
asked how he was getting on, Capt
Webb replied that he was all right but
very hungry. He continued the same
slow, steady stroke to the end, not once
resting by floating or changing his posi-
ton, except that now and then he took {
few strokes on his right side. The entire
journey was accomplished in hours ant
Sc minutes, and at us p. m. the Captain
was lifted out of the water into the boa
opposite the Town pier, Gravesend
amid the hearty cheers of the assembled
crowd.-London telegraph.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
WHOLE NUMBER 432,

size of an egg, add little salt, and sweet
milk enough to form a soft dough. Roll
half an inch thick and bake in q shallow
pan Is or 20 minutes; have ready two
quarts of fine, fresh strawberries; split
the cake, place half the strawberries be-
tween, and cover thickly with white
sugar and cream; put the other half on
the top and cover in the same way; serve
as soon as done.
CARvNG.-Fifty years ago the art of
carying was regarded by the most pol
ished society in England and in this
country as the indispensable accomplish,
ment of every lady who had to preside
at the head of her table. 1t was refec-
ton upon her fitness for that post to soy
that she managed the carving-knife with
little skill, or was ignorant of the choice
parts of each dish. Fashion has changed
all that, and the office of carving is now
assigned chiefly to gentlemen; but there
is no reason why ladies should not know
all the niceties of the art, and be able,
when circumstances require, to preside
with ease and skill at the head of the
table. A good carving knife, fork, and
steel renders this office pleasure to the
accomplished carver.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
DISASTROUS FLOODS.

Havoc Caused in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
aud Other states-Imperfect Estimates
of the Damage to Crops and Other Prop
erty.
The daily papers are filled with re-
ports of damage by the REGENTS floods in
the West and South, which for violence
and widespread destructiyeness are with
out parallel. The following summary
will give fair idea of the magnitude Of
the disaster
The Chicago Tribune estimates the
damage from the recent rains in Cook
county at 100000. Throughout Cen
trail and Southern Illinois all the streams
were swollen as they never were before,
and the damage to the crops is incalcu-
liable. In many sections the grain has
sprouted in the shock, and even that
which had been stacked is so badly
damaged that it will hardly pay to thrash
it. In Morgan county alone the dam
age to crops is estimated at quarter of
million dollars.
INDIANA.
The Hoosier State has suffered from
the floods to as great an extent, proba-
bly,, as any of her sisters. In the Wa
bash valley the disaster reaches the di-
mensions of a calamity. The bottoms,
! for an average of mile and a half wide,
were submerged, and crops, both
harvested and growing, were swept
away, and great suffering must result to
tenants, whose all is swept away. The
Wabash and Erie canal, between La
fayette and Fort Wayne, was almost
completely destroyed, being broken in
more than hundred places.
MISSOURI.
A dispatch from Washington, Mo-,
says "The Missouri river is higher
than has been known since 1874 Thou
sands upon thousands of acres of corn
between here and st. Louis are under
water. 1t is impossible to estimate the
damage, but it will reach hundreds of
thousands of dollars"
IOWA.
A dispatch from Wapello, says: "The
wheat is all cut, but is light, and of in
ferior quality, and is now sprouting in
the shock. Not one acre in ten of the
oats call be harvested in proper man,
ner the crop will be almost total loss
The hay-crop is almost ruined by the
continued wet weather.
OHIO.
The Cincinnati Gazette says d" NJ
! such widespread devastation has beer
known in the Ohio Valley before. Fol
weeks and weeks the rain has faller
steadily, and all the tributary streams
! of the Ohio have been gradually rising
day after day. The storms eliminated
in the rains of Saturday night ant
Sunday. The earth, drenched and soak
ing, could take nomore, and the streams
swollen already to alarming Dimensions
received an additional volume of water
Their banks have been overhowed, ant
fields that have been ready for tn,
harvester for days are now under water
From all parts of Indiana and Southern
Ohio the same gloomy tidings come
Houses have shared the calamity will
lands. People living in the lowland
D have been driven to the second stories
} Barns and outbuildings have been swep
; away, bridges have yielded to TO tn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
About the HOuse.

PLAIN CUP CAKE.-Take l cup of but
ter, cup of milk, eggs, cups sugar,
and soda and nutmeg according to judg-
ment.
MUFFINs.-One pint of milk, ! cup
yeast, a very little salt. Stir in flour
sufficient to make q batter. Cook in
rings over the fire.
A New HAMPSHIRE family keep their
vinegar in white lead keg, and were
surprised the other day to find them
selves badly poisoned.
Do NOT permit case knife blades or
forks to stand in hot water. 1t expands
the steel and cracks the handles. Ivory
handles should never be placed in water.
FLUID glue may be prepared by dis
solving one pound of good glue in one
pint of hot water, to which are added
three ounces of nitric acid after the
evolution of nitrous vapors has ceased
the liquid is cooled, when it is fit for
use.
LOAF CAKE.-1a pounds of flour, Il
pounds of sugar, l pound of butter, 5
eggs, ] pint of milk, II pounds of fruit
(raisins and currants), 1 teaspoonful OF
soda, spices, lemon, etc. Beat the whites
and yolks of the eggs separately. Dis
solve the soda in the milk. Stone the
raisins and rub them and the currants il
a little of the flour to prevent then
settling in the cake. Rub the sugar an6
butter to cream. Add the eggs, mill
with soda, spices, lemon, flour, ant
lastly the fruit.
STRAWBERRY SHoRTcAKE.-With
quart of sifted flour mix thoroughly
tcaspoonfuls of cream tarhr and O
soda, or the equivalent Of these in bak
ing powder, rub in bit Of the butte
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
Wit and Humor.

ABRAHAM was the first sick man. He
had Hagar in the wilderness.
WHY are Jokes like nuts2 Because
the dryer they are the better they crack.
How DID Adam and Eve get out of
the Garden of Eden? They were snaked
out.
WHAT poet was always in debt2 Cow
per. Why? Because he "oh'd for q
lodge"
Why are real cashmere shawls like
deaf and dumb people2 Because you
cannot make them here.
WHAT is that of which some will be
left even when we have taken the whole2
The word wholesome.
AN Irish doctor lately sent IN his bill
to q lady; it commenced as follows
"To curing your husband till he died.'
QUERY for Naturalists- bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush, Is mole
on the lace worth two in the ground?
A VEHICLE for Joke-Ireland is
usually described as the green isle of
the sea; pink isle would be nearer the
mark, seeing that it's car-nation.
elf Smith undertakes to pull my
ears" said Jones, "he will just have his
hands full, now." The crowd looked at
the mans ears, and thought so too.
SINCE tight dresses are worn the street
car conductor can tell just how many he
can get on a seat, and how many he
can't. He don't say "shove up any
more.
A COLUMBIA Professor, reproving a
youth for the use of his fists, said "We
fight with our heads here" The youth
considered, and replied that butting
wasn't fair at his school!
"DoCTon," asked a convalescent,
/" can eat bit Of pork-chop or bacon
this morning." ssHardly," replied
Medicus sto eat the chop would be
rash, and the bacon rasher."
DUBUQUE doctors give the boys nickels
and then follow them from the apple
stand home, and by hanging around the
house few hours realize several hum
dred per cent. on their investment.
AwDow whohad justlost her husband,
WI IS weeping bitterly for the dear de-
parted. A friend tried to console her
"No, no." said the fair mourner, let
me have my cry out. After that shan't
think anything about it.
elbows business now2" inquired one
Nashville merchant of another, "Dull,
fearfully dull,' was the reply. "Tho
fact is, nobody buys anything just now
but provisions and whisky-the bare
necessaries of life, as it were.
DURING a clerical conference, the fol-
lowing conversation was heard between
two newsboys: 81 say, Jim, what's the
meaning of so many ministers being
here aitogether9" "Why," answered
Jim, scornfully, they always meet once
year to swap sermons.
THE other day when Cass street
youth heard of boy who educated him
self to become a great orator, he went
home, got his school reader down and
began: "The next gale that sweeps
from the north will bring to our ears the
clash--l" His mother arrived Just
then, and taking him by ths ear she said:
"Boy if you don't go out and split me
some wood I will make you think earth
and sky have bumped each other !" And
as the boy hacked away at an old chunk
he solemnly vowed that he would go to
Missouri and join the james robbers
Detroit Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
First American Locomotive.

In 1928 Mr.. Cooper was in business in
New York, his native place. His mother
and grandmother were both born on the
present site of st. Paul's church, Vesey
street and Broadway, and his mother re-
membered seeing the stockade still
standing which had been erected to keep
the Indians out of infant New Amster-
dam. Mr.. Cooper had bought as a
speculation the entire magnificent tract
in Baltimore now owned by the Canton
Company. Baltimore was then city of
T5, 900 people, rich and prosperous, and
had entered upon the railroad era.
On July 4, 1928, the cornerstone of
the Baltimore and Ohio road was laid
with imposing ceremonies by Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton. 1t was pushed
energetically-a little too much so, for
when thirteen miles had been finished,
it was found that in turning the rocks to
save cutting, such short curves had been
introduced that the then experts de-
ciared the line utterly useless. 1t could
not be used by steam. Five per cent.
had been paid in, and shares had been
sold at II, such was the zeal and conf
dence of the people. But the chill was
immense, and everything stopped. Mr..
Cooper, then 3S years of age, saw new
disasters to himself in the depreciation
of his tract should the road fail. He
proposed to the directors to construct
an engine that should be available on
their line. They were willing, but in
credulous. He brought down from his
glue factory in New York an engine with
81 inches cylinder and IA inches stroke,
procured wheels and other appliances
from the railway company, and presently
rolled out upon the track the first Ameri-
can railway engine. The trial trip was
to take place the next day. That night
a thief stole all the copper and brass
from the infant machine, and caused
some further delay. The trial trip was
run, Mr.. Cooper himself acting as en-
gineer; and when his whcezing little
baby locomotive threatened to lose too
much steam, he held down the safety
valve with his own hands. The run was
made with thirty passengers, thirteen
miles, in one hour, and Baltimore was
happy. Compare the little engine of
forty-seven years ago with the ponderous
machines of to-day, and yet they follow
the pathway the little engine opened.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

University at first, on the ground that
the Regents were supreme in such mat
ters, in regard to which the Supreme
Court of the State was evenly divided ;
second, on the ground of the lack of
funds. But, tho funds having been sup
piled, the Professors have now been
appointed-Drs. J. c. Morgan, of Phila
delphia, and S. A. Jones, of Englewood,
N. J.. Moreover, the State Medical So
ciety have voted not to show fight.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
Sequels to the Beecher Trial.

A bill amounting to 1,502.75, for
meals furnished for the jury in the case
of Tilton against Beecher, is now be-
fore Kings County Auditor Fitzgerald,
in Brooklyn. The meals supplied when
the Jurors went to the restaurant In per-
son, are charged at an average price Of
SO 6-1O' cents each. Those served in the
iury-room while the jurors were locked
up were charged at the rate of $127 for
each juror per day. The total number
of meals furnished was 1,915. The Au-
ditor will report the bill favorably to the
Boars of Supervisors under an act of the
Legislature of May IA, 1875, providing
for Jurors meals and extra compensation
during protracted trials.
Loader and Price, the alleged perjur-
ers, are still in the Raymond Street Jail /,
awaiting trial. Loader says he could
obtain bail if the newspapers would not
publish the names of his bondsmen. His
wife visited the District Attorneys of
, flee yesterday to meet her husbands s
counsel and confer with the District
Attorney, but as the lawyer failed to ap-
pear no formal conference was held
NetU York Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
Follow Up the Plow.

Follow Up the PlOw.
Hard times are upon us,
And the people are in debt:
Tho country's full Of trouble,
And the worst is coming yet.
'Tis not without its causes,
And we'll plainly tell you now,
The only way to stop it,
Is to "follow up the plow."
Chorus
Then follow up the plow, boys,
Follow up the plow;
If YOU would build the country up,
Just follow up the plow.
Then follow up the plow, boys,
Follow up the plow;
If you would build the country up
Just follow up the plow.
Fill up your fields and prairies
With crop that's good as gold"
And mine your hills and valleys wide,,
For iron, salt and coal.
The earth is the producer,
And wo can tell you how
To make princely fortune
Tis to "follow up the plow."
Chorus
There are too many people,
Who from their duty shfrk,
Who'd rather make a fortune
By some other means than work.
The man who plants tobacco,
Corn, wheat or cotton now,
Is king among the "moneyed men,"
He "follows up the plow."
VII S. Hays.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

AHENof Jonathan Bodwell, of Middle
town, Conn, ceased to lay, a few weeks
ago, and rapidly fattened up till she
could scarcely walk, when she was killed,
and mass of ten fullsized eggs and
number of smaller ones taken from
her.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
THE DIFFICULTY IN RHYMING.

We parted by the gate in June,
That soft and balmy month,
Beneath the sweetly beaming moon,
And with a-wunth- nth-hunth-sunth-
Can't find a rhyme for month.
Years were to pass ere we should meet,
A wide and yawning gulf
Divides me from my love go sweet,
And sadly with han-ulf-suk-dulf-
plunge these in the gulf.
All! how dreaded in my soul
To leave my lovely nymph,
While years should their long seasonsr oil
Before my-hymph- h-dymph-symph-
Alas! my lovely nymph!
Oh! had loved her many years
loved her for herself,
I loved her for her tender tears,
And alss for rher-shelf-delf-spelf
Must let it go at pelf.
1 sorrowfully wrung her hand,
While tears did fast escape;
Ny anguish could not command,
And feeling like a-tape-
Ali must make ii apei
gave her a last fond adicu-
Sweet pupil of loves school,
told her l would e'er be true,
And ever be bea-rule-mule-fool-
Best wind up on the fool .ssf''1sas
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

THE richest woman in America is the
wife Of Prof. Gammel, formerly of
Brown University, Rhode Island. She
has an income of at least million q
year, her fathers estate, which she has
just inherited, being estimated at fully
$2O,OOO,OO
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

Or the 255, 900 headstones Just finished
to mark the resting places of Union SOL
diers in the national cemeteries, 1876, 600
are for graves of the unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
FRESH Topics.

A National Hard Money Conven-
ton" is to be held at Cincinnati on the
25th of October.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

BROOM corn used to be almost wholly
raised for this country's consumption in
the Connecticut Valley. Of late years
Illinois has been able to raise larger and
cheaper crops. Therefore, although
broom-making is extensively practiced
in New England, the raw material Is
grown at the West. The product of an
acre can be delivered in Northampton
for five dollars. Many brooms are ex
ported from Boston, and those made fol
the foreign trade have handles stained
| with bright colors,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

The area of the Southern States is
nearly 507, 900, 900 of acres. There are
55,000,00O of acres under cultivation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
The South.

The funeral obsequies of ex-President john
son, at Greenville, Tenn, on the Sd inst, were
witnessed by an immense concourse of people.
terrific explosion occurred Friday last on
farm in Maury county, Tenn. The boiler of a
steam thresher exploded instantly killing three
men, and seriously wounding seven others, two
of whom will die, The head of one man was
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
KENTUCKY,

A dispatch from Louisville says
"The Ohio river at this point, and be-
low here to Cairo, is higher than for 10
years. Reports from Southern Ken
lucky say that 100000 acres of land,
planted in corn and tobacco, between
Owensboro and Cairo, are under water.
The loss of property is immense. Re-
ports continue to come in of the destruc-
ton by the late rains of the wheat and
oat crops in the shock all through Ken
lucky and Southern Indiana"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
Washing gton.

Secretary Bristow is on visit. to his I" old
Kentucky home"
Attorney-General Pierepont is after the
Marshals in the Southern States with sharp
stick. He wants them to explain some of the
extraordinary charges in their accounts.
The following executive order was issued by
the President upon the reception of the news
of the death of Andrew Johnson:
1t becomes the painful duty of the President to
announce to the people of the United States the
death of Andrew johnson, the last survivor of his
honored predecessors, which occurred in Carter
county, East Tennessee, at early hour this morn
ing: The solemnity of the occasion which called him
to the Presidency with the varied nature and length
of his public services, will him to be long re-
membercd and occasion mourning for the death of a
distinguished public servant As a mark of respect
for the memory of the deceased it is ordered that
The Executive mansion and the several departments
If the Government at Washington be draped in
mourning until the close OF the day designated for
his funeral and that all public business be sus-
pended on that day. 1t is further ordered that the
War and Navy Departments cause suitable honors
to be paid on the occasion to the memory of the
illustrious dead. U. S. GRANT.
The public debt was reduced 1924, sS7 du-
ring July. Appended ic the official statement
for August +:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

In Pennsylvania the destruction is
widespread. The valuation of the prop
erty destroyed is estimated at upward of
O million dollars.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
Moving a Printing Office,

Not long since in q country village a
fire broke out, and among other places
threatened with destruction was print
ing-office. AS usual there was rush of
excited persons, some of whom proffered
their services to remove any articles OF
value to place of security. Among the
rest of the volunteers was tall, lank,
tallow- haired fellow, evidently recent
importation from some verdant and Sc
cluded valley. The proprietor entrusted
him with full case of type, and told
him to take it down stairs carefully, leave
it in a place of safety, and return for
another. He seized the case, and, rush
ing down, reached convenient spot,
where he dumped the contents. Then,
fastening back with the empty case, he
encountered the astonished owner, with
the hurried exclamation: "Mister just
fill this ere box up agen, will your The
fire is burnin' like thunderl" The re,
quest was declined in no complimentary
terms. Cleveland Printing Gazette.
The celebration of the two hundredtf
anniversary of the attack upon Swanzey
Mass, by King Philip at the opening Of
his war on the New England colonies
took place on the Odd of June, in War
ren, r. I. The ceremonies consisted O
procession, 3 dinner, an oration, anc
| speeches,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12
OHIO NEWS.

WILLIAM MoCUE, a laboring man, was
drowned in Sciota river at Columbus,
while watering horses.
THE Clark County Prohibitionists have
put full ticket for county officers into
the field.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

tides, railroad tracks are submerged, and
highways are under water.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

FRANK NORTON resigned position as
Clerk in the Interior Department to be-.
come professional ball-player. He
married young Brooklyn girl with a
maiden aunt worth half a million, and
the considerate old creature gracefully
withdrew from this world, leaving the
property to her niece.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

"A SUFFERER" who wrote to Chi
cago editor asking what course to adopt
in order to relieve himself and his family
from the nuisance of being kept awake
night after night by the barking dogs of
a near neighbor, was recommended to
try strychnine in a piece of raw beef.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

Business cards of five lines or less, s. per annum.
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements of marriages and deaths,
md church and benevolent society notices inserted
Free Any additions to obituary notices will be
charged cents per line.
Fsvors MUST be handed in as early as Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week. q
Communications upon subjects Of general or 10
cal interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

The London papers are giving de-
served attention to the case of little
girl who was sentenced by the magis-
trates at Spalding to imprisonment a
fortnight and reformatory for four
years, for plucking geranium flower.
"British justice" as thus illustrated,
would appear to be in the hands of grim
and dyspeptic giants such as are the
bugbears in nursery tales.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12

MmwAUKEE is entitled to be classed as
the beer capital of America. That city,
with its 100000 inhabitants, consumed
during the month of June %, 327 barrels
of lager, making IA, $50, 1872 glasses, at a
cost of $7O2, ,509.60 to the consumers.
As half OF the population may be as
sumed to be minors below the beer
drinking age, the remainder must have
taken ten glasses each per day.