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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
TOO MUCH MONEY,

Every day during the past week
the telegraph has been busy report
ing failures of Corporations, Firms,
Banks DC. The Window Glass
Company, of Wheeling, West Va.
went down with a crash, leaving on
ly fifty cents on a dollar to console
the creditors of the broken Glass Co.
Rob't. q. johnson, Cotton Broker,
got so much cotton about his ears
that he could not hear the elamorous
calls of his creditors for payment.
He is in a state of suspension and
his creditors in suspense. Money is
so plenty and everything SC prosper
GUS that the Directors of the Boston
and Albany Railroad met last week
and reduced all wages and salaries
of employees ten per cent, to take
effect Sept. LIST next. Money is so
plenty that the poor laborers do not
need it. There is California, sit
ting on her gold basis. We don't
know how many times the organs of
contraction, the hired advocates of a
specie basis, have called our atten-
ton to the unexampled prosperity of
California, even thus early in the
campaign. They don't call our at
tention to California so much now.
The great Bank of California became
so full of gold it "busted." We
don't know how badly, but poor Rails
ton went and jumped into the Bay.
The other banks there have closed
their doors, not out of respect to the
poor fellows memory, but because
money is so plenty. Money was SO
plenty at a Savings Bank in Win
throp, Maine, that it nailed a poster
upon its front door last week-it
was q no admittance poster.
The great sugar firm of Stirling
Ahrens & Co., of Baltimore, overcome
by the money pressure were sqeeze6
into an assignment last week. Theil
liabilities, so far as heard from, only
amount to about three and one hal
millions of dollars. Gone to NEE
Jay Cook, Duncan, Sherman & Co.
the great National Bankers. Th'
old cross roads grocery keeper, whc
was broken up by his assets, had al
easy time compared with these mer
who are crushed out by too mucf
money. On every hand we hear com
plants of too much money. TIL,
telegraph says: "On account of tn
pressure of the money market stock:
are panicky." How can there be
pressure if the money market is no
too full of money? Working men ar
complaining, faamers are groaninl
beneath the dead loads of none,
they have to carry. We call upol
the party in power to contract ant
relieve the business community of
money pressure that sinks banks
stops manufactures, sends men b.
thousands to tramping over the coun
try to avoid the trouble of too niue.
money at home. We admire you
craftsmanship, We are proud of you
philanthropy, but we adjure by a,
your past professions and all you
future hopes, to relieve us of thi
f pressure. Your policy is workin.
well. Contract, CONTRACT, CON
TRACT
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

The party which forces resumption
by contraction for the advantage of
the monied class, at the expense of
the masses, may flourish for a brief
time, but will surely be ground to
powder between the upper and neither
mill-stones of the peoples righteous
indignation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Hayes drew nine months salary
as a member of Congress, during va
cation, and then resigned. He spent
three times as much of the contin-
gent fund, while Governor of Ohio,
as Allen. He is in favor of building
a G~ubernatorial Mansion, which
would cost 100000. Not much re-
trenchment or reform in him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

NJ Office is hereby given that a petit
~ ton will be presented to the Board
of County Commissioners, of Preble
county, at their next regular session,
commencing on the first Monday OF
September, 1873, asking for the APP
pointment of Commissioners tc lay out
and construct u free turnpike road OH
the following route, to-wit: Commence
ing on the Br%ennersville & Pyrmont
Free Turnpike, at the corner of Sec
lions No. II, u, - & II, Twin Town
ship, and to run thence south on the
Section line two miles, to the north ter.
minus of the Reel free turnpike.
MANY PETITIONERS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

The Radical papers say that the
issuing of a volume o fcurrency equal
to the wants of trade "must materi-
ally shake the confidence of the peo-
pie in the Governments ability to
pay" We would just ask ifthe crea,
ton of an immense bonded debt, the
plan of the Radical party, will not
have a ten times worse effect and be
more likely to produce result ten
times as disastrous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
CATHOLIC EATERS.

We understand there is soon to be
a barbecue here. 1t is expected a
Catholic Priest will be served up to
the faithful, well roasted. Wanted
a Jolly Friar. Call on the leaders OF
the party of equal rights before the
law" for tickets.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
The Republican stumpers and ed,

IHe rePuOrrcaH scur1PorS anU CT
itors are unable to defend their par
ty and fall back on the Pope and
Catholic Church for stock in trade.
They invested in the Pope twenty
years ago, under the name of Know
Nothings, and realized handsomely
on the investment; but the people
will not be fooled this year with any
such humbug.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

The Ohio Democratic Legislature
reduced fees, salaries and taxes.
No Republican Legislature did that.
On the contrary they multiplied of
fees and increased official salaries.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

The Republican leaders have much
to say about the initiation of the cur,
rency, but not one word against the
imitation of the interest bearing debt,
which they are 10Y doing to prepare
for the resumption of specie pay.
ments.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
COURT REPORT.

Court opened on Monday morn
ing, August 23d, Judge HUME on
the bench, and disposed of the fol
towing business:
R. j. Morgan VS.. E. j. Foster, ct
al.-Demurrer to defendant answer
overruled and exceptions taken by
plaintiff. Plaintiff obtaining leave
to file amended answer by Oct. 1st,
1875.
Cyrus Pottenger VS.. Jane Potten-
ger, ct al.-New trial granted to the
defendants. Previous costs to be
paid by defendant. Exceptions tax
en- by plaintiff.
j. B. Welsh VS.. NJ Huffman,
Adm's.-Demurrer to defendants
answer sustained. Exceptions TAX
en- and allowed until Oct. LIST to
file amended answer.
w. H. l.. Ramsey VS.. S. J. Danser.
-Plaintitf's motion to compel de-
PENDANT to make his answer and
cross petition more definite overru-
led. Exceptions taken and saved
by plaintiff:
Robert Murphy VS.. Incorporated
Village of Winchester.-Petition in
error dismissed at cost of plaintiff in
error.
Morgan Huffman VS.. Jno. Vando'
ren.-Ordered that the amount ISL
O49. 59) rendered by defendant in his
answer to the plaintiff be paid into
Court, as to the residue of said claim
the cause continuing.
Tuesday, Aug. oath, Judge D. L
MEEKER presiding:
Solomon Christman vs.. I. W. Har
+. ris, ct al.-Demurrer of plaintiff TX
the answer of the defendants, L. w
Harris, but sustained as to the ans
wer of D. w. Harris. Exception
: saved and leave to answer by Oct
o LIST.
Elizabeth Caldwell Thy her mex
t friend) VS.. Jno. W. Paxton.-Actio,
: for SANDER, by reason of certain
: words spoken by defendant. TIL
e case occupied two days in hearing
and resulted in a verdict in favor c
= plaintiff. Damages assessed at 81
075. Defendant filed a motion for
new trial.
J.. THURSDAY, Aug. 26.
W. E. Huffman VS.. M. j. Murphy
Judgment in favor of plaintiff fc
II $34,34 and costs, and in default
: payment in 90 days certain real C:
tate of defendant to be sold by tn
o the Sheriff to satisfy the judgement
= Marsh & Zoos, Adm'rs, VS.. JOSEF
IS Caryer.-Judgment in favor ofplail
a till for $27.S3, and in default of pay
n ment in 10 days, premises mortg;
n ged to be advertised and sold b
: Sheriff.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Judge McKEMY, formerly of the
Common Pleas bench of this District,
has been nominated for Superior
Judge in Montgomery county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

If any one says we didn't vote
for Breckenridge for President 0-
teen gears ago, call himal liar and a
horse-thief. That ought to settle it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Specie payments, brought around
by the force of legislation, means
bankruptcy to tens of thousands of
struggling debtors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

We were at Germantown last
week and happened to meet FRED.
HARKRIDER, the genial editor Of the
Independent Press. FRED. says the
toys of Montgomery county "are up
and coming for Judge HAINEs for
the Senate, and that there will be no
discount on Montgomery county in
the present campaign. Bro. Hank
rider is always among the people
and knows, edits a live paper and is
beginning to be appreciated thor
oughly. All right, Bro. Harkrider.
Preble will be with Montgomery in
this contest and will help elect Judge
Haines with the same enthusiasm
the convention which nominated him
displayed. Judge Haines is the PEG.
pies friend in this contest, and viii
deal heavy blows to National Banks
and pet Monopolies in this campaign
Keep the ball rolling.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

If. as the Radicals say, our banks
are full of money, lying idle, why is
it they will pay six per cent. on de-
posits,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

The n. Y. Tribune, which, is work
ing as hard to defeat the Democrat
ic ticket in this state, as any paper
in Ohio, says:
sit is useless to deceive ourselves
in regard to the prospect. There is
serious danger of Aliens election"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

The Ohio Legislature reduced fees
salaries, expenses, and taxes of all
kinds $2,550,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Hons. GEO. E. PUGH and ALEX
LONG were in town on Tuesday.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
Relative to an amendment of Article
Four of the Constitution relating to
tho .Judiriorv

RESOLVED, BY THE GENERAL ASSEM-
the members elected to each House agreeing
thereto,) that ii be and IS hereby proposed to the
electors of this state to vote. Ut The next annual
October election, upon the approval or rel ctIon Of
the following amendment, as additional section Of
Article four of the Constitution ofthe State of
Ohio, to-wit:
Section %. A commission. which shall consist
of five members. shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor, with the advice and unSent of the Senate,
the members of which shall hold ohire for the
term of three years from and after the first day Of
| February, 1876, to dispose of such part OF The bust
ness then on the buckets of the Supreme Court as
shall, by arrangement between said commission
and said court. he transferred to such commissions;
and said commission shall have like Jurisdiction
and power in respect to such business as are or
said commission shall received like compensation
for the time being, with the judges OF said cou t
shall be necessary to form II quorum or pronounce
a decision, ami it, decision shall be certified. en-
tered and enforced MS the Judgments of the Su-
preme Court. land nj the expiration OF the term OF
said commission, all business undisposed Of, shall
by it be certified 10 the Supreme Court and tisIos-
ed of as If Said commission had never existed. The
clerk and reporter ofsald court shall be the clerk
and reporter of said commission, and the commits
sion shall have such other ATTENDANTS, not exreed-
ing in number those provided by Inv for said
court, which attendants said commission may APP
point and remove at Its pleasure. Any vacancy
occurring in said commission shall be filed by APP
consent of the Senate. if the Senate be in session,
and If the Senate he not in session, by the Gov
ernor, but in such last case, such appointment
shall expire at the end of the next session of the
General Assembly. The General Assembly may,
on application OF the supreme Court, duly entered
on the Journal of the court and certified, provide
by law, whenever two-thirds of such leachl House
shall concur therein, from time to time, for the ap-
%pointnIent in like manner ola like commission
with like powers. Jurisdiction and duties; provi-
dcd, that the term of any such commission shall
not exceed two years, nor shall ii be created often
err than once in ten years. If this amendment
shall be adopted by a majority of the electors o
the State of Ohio. voting at the next election holt
en- for the election of senators and Representa-,
tives, 1t shall become section twenty-five of tn
fourth Article of the Constitution of the State o
Ohio.
At such election the voters desiring to vote II
favor ofthe adoption of this amendment, shal
place upon their ballots the words.
"FOR THE COMMISSIONS"
The voters who do not favor the adoption of sue
amendment, shall place upon their ballots tn
words,
MILTON eco q
Speaker pro TEN. of the House of Representative
HART,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Sturm keeps the largest stock of
CLOTHING in the county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

NJ. Sturm has the largest Stock of
TRUNKS and VALISEs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Call and see STURM'S Hats if you
don't want to buy he will show them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Money is what 1 want. l will give
YOU the full value. M.STURM.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

will sell my SUMMER GOODS att al
ritice to all. Remember.
NJ. STURM.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Good Lustre Coats at STURM's, for
Two Dollars.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
PUBLIC MEETING
A GREENBACK DOLLAR

on Saturday was worth 81 $40 or
122 10 less than a gold dollar Tin
cinRdti Commercial.
A GREENBACK DOLLAR
on Saturday would buy bread and
meat. A California Gold Bank dol
lar wasn't worth ad-n, and wouldn't
buy peanut shells.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Take the DEMOCRAT,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

of the great masses of our people.
From the day when Christ scourged
the money changers from the temple
to the present, they have not chang
ed their character. They will look
on complacently while you suffer,
they will applaud the articles of their
leading organs when through them,
auction blocks and exile to Alaska is
held up as the penalty of poverty.
Led the red hot bolts of your hon
est indignation, in this campaign,
SILVER to atoms doctrines so damna-
BILE. 1t cost the nation billions Of
treasure and valuable lives without
number, to overthrow the dominion
of power over man in one section o.
the land. 1t was no branch of the
Anglo Saxon stock upon which pow
er laid it's mailed hand. Now we Sc,
the greed Of capital in the hands o
the few, expressing the laborins
white man. Unless checked, W,
shall soon find ourselves confronted
by a new and broader tyranny, en-
trenched with capital, dealing in tn
flesh and blood of our own race with
out scruple or remorse, over tn
whole Union. What is being don
in New Hampshire will be done i
Ohio, and the cries Of the auction
eer selling white men in the Old Ora
mite State will be echoed back fror
, the broad valley of the Mississippi
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Eaton July s, 1S75-1m
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
Free Notice.

Adopted March 20. 1875.
ApriI s, 1875 TN
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10
Dominion Railways,
Partial Opening of the IntercolOnial
RaiIway-An Important Railway Ea-
trrprise.

Yankees, we imagine, have rather vague
ideas respecting that portion Of the Dominion
lying adjacent to the northern border of Maine
south of the st Lawrence river and along
the bay b.aring that name. We have heard of
the Intercolonal Railway, but we imagine that
but few of such people as are well informed,
have well defined idea of its extent and the
magnitude of the work.
The proposed Intercolonial Railway extends
from Moncton in New Brunswick, a point on
the railway from St. John to Halifax between
so and 90 miles from the former city. From
Moncton the Intercolonal line extends north
ward through the counties of Westmoreand,
Kent, Northumberland, Gloucester and Resti-
goucbe of New Brunswick, which lie along the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, and thence through the
counties Of Boneventure, Bimouski and Tenn
iscouata in the Province of Quebec. where it
connects with the Grand Trunk Railway at its
terminus at Riviere du Loup on the st. Law
renee river. The general course of the line is
north until the New Brunswick line is reach
ed, when it turns and runs nearly on westerly
course to the Grand Trunk. The length of
this line from Moncton to Riveire du Loup is
374 miles. On Monday last the northern div-
sion of the line, which extends from Moncton
north to Campbellton on the New Brunswick
border-a distance of 1S5 miles, was opened
for business
Our enterprising st. John contemporary, the
Daily Telegraph, devotes four columns and a
half of its regular edition and a supplement
half the size Of the regular edition, to history
of the inception of the enterprise, descrip-
tion of the work and a great variety of inform
alton respecting the resources and business of
the country through which the road passes.
We are unable to learn from the Telegraph
when the work on the part of the line just
opened was begun, but think it was in 1871 or
year later. The road is built by government
subsidies entirely. The part of the line built
has been extremely difficult as its general
course is at right angles with the river which
drains the country, and consequently across
the ranges of mountains and hills which are
parallel to the streams. The road has cost
$43, 900 per mile, which is considered a very
moderate cost for line over rugged count ry
with broad rivers, numerous ranges O. hills and
presenting the greatest engineering difficulties.
There are two bridges-those across the
branches of the Miramchi-which cost mil
| lion dollars.
The balance of the line from Canpbellton to
| Riveire du Loup, 1S9 miles, is nearly completed
and will be opened early in the spring. when
| the upper and lower provinces of the Domin-
| ion will have railway communication without
| being compelled to 90 through the United
States By this Intercolonial limo Quebec is
$50 miles from st. John and 6S7 from Halifax.
The Telegraph estimates that the province of
New Brunswick, with population of 2S5,OO0,
will have 800 miles of railroad in short time
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10
Leading a Calf.
Easton (lnd.) Press.

He was a small but muscular boy and the
calf was probably 2 months old, with devel-
opment Of unadulterated cussedness that would
o credit to Georgia Ku-Klux Klan Captain.
There was rope between them, and, as they
went down South Third street, bets were about
even as to whether the boy was leading the
calf, or the calf leading the boy. The calf
made dash tor the Central Express office.
The boy pulled him back. and the calf made a
dash for the boy, who ran around a wagon and
fell over watermelon pile, the proprietor
whereof swore copiously
"COme back here, you Internal clOdbuster,
and pay for this melon
"Say, NH lister; whoa--give me my-thun'
deration on you-hat, wont YER?
And the calf kicked up his heels and b. b-a-ad,
and tried to run into store, but the boy sat
back on the line with all bus strength and sud
denly sat down in the mud, as the calf altered
his mind and turned around to look at him.
They went quietly ten steps, till dog barked
when it took four circles around the boy in a S
MANY seconds. tying his legs up in the line,
bringing him down in the mud again, and Drag
ging him around until he looked like an old lat
that had been run over by the ice-cart for two
seasons
A philanthropic fat man went to the boy
assistance. but the calf kicked him on the shin
and butted him in the condenser, so that he
sat down on the curbstoDe and tried to die easy
Then the boy and calf entanged themselves
and started down the street like mail tram
behind time, until the calf, soaring at some
thing, stopped suddenly, and the boy fell over
it and lost the rope. The calf at once took to
his heels, every boy in the street running after
and grabbing at the rope, until it got tangled
in the br'dgs when his conductor caught him
bv the ear and tail, and lively fight took place
all across the bridge and out of sight, while
everybody along the street proceeded to tell
how easy it is to lead calf if you only go their
Way about it.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10
The Newspaper the Dominant Form Of
Literature Now.

At every period wherein literature appears at
all as factor in the sum of national life it
takes one prevailing form-such as the drama
in Shakespeare's time, the sermon in the
period following the satire and essay in the
days of Addison and Pope, the novel in Scotts
and Byron's century, extending to our own
time, and now the newspaper Other forms
of literature co-exist with this prevailing one;
but they are commonly modified by it, even
poesy assuming the shape that this controlling
fashion dictates. Thus in the Puritan era Mil
ton wrote poetry as if from pulpit; and in the
long domination of the modern novel, Byron
and Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, and even her
husband, with his strong dramatic inclination,
have been writing novels in verse. And now
that the newspaper is at the head of literature,
the poetry of the period begins TO be Journal
istic like Lowelps. Stedman's aud Bret
Harte's. Oratory shows still more plainly the
influence of the newspaper epoch, everything
now being written by public speakers for the
audience which reads rather than which listens,
Letter-writing, except for the newspapers, is
almost a lost art; for who now sits down to
write his single friend the delightful passages
that we find in Gray, in Walpole,. in the
must not now be wasted on a friend, lover
family or circle. They must be given TO
the public in the daily newspaper. Thus We
find, for example, that Moncure Conway's
letters from England will compare favorably.
both for wit and exactness, with Pope's aud
Walpole's. Gray's letters are unique; but
doubtless they could be matched in the files of
modern newspaper; and there are women of
our times, not few, whose published letters
will not suffer by the side of Madame de
Sevignes or Madame de Deffand's.-F. Il.
Sdnb0rp, in Independent.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

A NOVEL RAcE.-Plainsmen will he sur
prised 10 hear that there is something in the
world that can run faster than jack-rabbit.
As a passenger train on the Union Pacific
heading east, was rafting along over Laramie
Plains the other night, the engineer Al john
son, looking from the cab down along the
cleaning rails, espied huge jack-rabbit bound
ing over the ties about thirty feet ahead of the
COW catcher. The engineer put on more steam
and the ponderous locomotive shot ahead like
an arrow, but the rabbit pricked up his ears
and struck out at the rate of twenty feet q
jump Johnson's pride was touched. His loco
motive is one of the biggest and swiftest on
the line, and he was afraid that if he let that
jack hare outrun him the boys would Fl nd it
out, and he would be forever disgraced. So he
turned ou more steam, and the engine made a
bound under the cloud of smoke which belched
from the smoke stack, and the telegraph poles
danced past wildly, but jack let ont another
section of bis legs, and kept right along down
the level grade, just out of reach of the cow
catcher For five miles and quarter the loco
motive and rabbit kept up this speed, when the
latter began to weaken. johnson refining in
his iron horse, went out on the pilot, and lean
ing forward, reached out and picked up the
rabbit as the engine jolted along slowly.-Den-
1or Np3TS