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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
About the House.

GRAHAM MUFFINs.-Three pints Of
flour, half a tea-cup of sugar, the same
of shortening, teaspoonful of saleratus,
two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, salt to
taste rub all together with the hands
moisten with cold water bake in muffin
rings half an hour in hot oven.
CoRN-CAKEs WITHOUT EGGs.-Three
cups of butter-milk, three of corn-meal,
one of wheat flour, one tablespoonful
salt, two of sugar, one level of soda dis
solve the last three ingredients in water,
stir all together if the meal swells too
much to spread nicely, add more water.
To REMOVE PAINT FROM CLOTHING
Equal parts of turpentine and spirits of
ammonia will take out the paint spots
from any kind of clothing, no matter
low old and dry and hard it may be.
Saturate the spot with the liquid, per-
haps two or three times, till the paint is
soft, then wash ont all with soap-suds.
OLD newspapers make excellent pad
ding between a carpet and the floor it
covers. They should be eight or ten
thicknesses deep, and more rather than
less. We have used them with the best
results for the past ten years. The same
papers can be used year after year all
need to make them good as new is an
occasional airing and dusting. It is said
the ink used in printing will effectively
prevent the rayages of moths.
KEEP your cellar clean-not clean it,
but keep it clean. A large proportion of
apples smell and taste of the filth and
mold of the cellar. A lot of half-rotten
cabbage-leaves, moldy, decaying boal DIS,
sly corners with a lot of scraps of accu-
mulating rottenness, old, unhealthy tubs,
hoops, slaves, and straw, dirt from or in
potato bins, and all similar trash are
poison to the butter, the apples, and the
vegetables, as well as the human beings
above stairs.
A SIMPLE METHOD OF VENTILATION
A piece of wood three inches high and
exactly as long as the breadth of the
window, is to be prepared. Let the sash
be now raised, the slip Of wood placed
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 27. 1875.

mand for the restoration of Catholic unity
in Spain, and the government has replied
that it is resolved to maintain liberty of wor-
ship.
In consequence of tho refusal of the local
authorities to repair an unsafe bridge. at
Clontarf, it will be necessary to hold the in
ternational rifle match at Curragh, Wicklow,
or some other place not in the vicinity of Dub
lin.
Tho government of Spain has issued decree
declaring the electoral period opened, and grant
ing to the press the privilege of discussing all
constitutional questions, saving the question OF
the monarchy, with the utmost freedom.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
Would Talk.

As man and woman were riding ON a
Detroit street car, he whispered some
thing to her, and she began to speak out.
He nudged her and whispered again,
when she shouted:
81 will talk, SO there! I would as
soon the whole world would know that
you struck me with the stove-handle, and
then got down on your knees and asked
my forgivenessl p
The man dropped out of the car like a
shot, and the woman put her head out OF
the window and continued:
eff you aren't home on the minute,
III make you think you've been struck
by tornado"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

that this information was correct created
alarm in Paris, and caused the authori-
ties there to redouble their efforts to
place the French army on a war footing.
The outlook for continued peace through
out Europe, in the opinion of these per-
sons, who are there studying and watch
ing events closely, is very discouraging.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

THE New York Tribune editorial
rooms are on the ninth floor, and when
q man comes round to the author of an
article he is told that the elevator is
broken. By the time he reaches the
sanctum he can be foored with a pen
holder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

A KANSAS paper says that Indians
used to eat dogs, snakes, buzzards, crows
-entrails and all-and thought them
good; but now, when the government is
giving them beef, if it is not up to stall
feed, they want to scalp some one. There
is something in the argument.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

Col. D. r. ANTHONY, the editor of the
Leavenworth Times, and Postmaster of
that city, who was recently shot and
dangerously wounded by the editor of a
rival paper, has been prominent leader
of the Republican party of Kansas ever
since its organization. He was brother
of Miss Susan B. Anthony.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

THE foreman of Mississippi grand
jury recently had his pocket picked OF
$75 by another juror while they were
preparing indictments against thieves.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

pointment Of board of the most experienced
army engineers to proceed to Chicago and ex-
anime the walls and foundations of the Custom
House. The Secretary, it is said has no doubt
that the work must be torn down, but he de-
sires first to obtain the Judgment of the most
eminent experts.
Secretary Bristow is stirring up the revenue
thieves pretty effectually. Having captured
half hundred Western distillers who have
to pay the national debt, he has turned his
attention to the New York importers who he
has reason to believe have not paid all the
duties for which they arc liable. The Secretary
has also decided to push thorough investiga-
ton into the alleged frauds in the building OF
the Chicago Custom-House.
A remarkable discovery is said to have been
made in Washington. 1t is to the effect that
the enforcement of an order issued by SecEe-
tary Stanton in 1862 and continuing until 1865.
levying tax of IS per month upon the wages
of each colored attache of the military service,
designed to create fund for the temporary
maintenance of freedmen, amounting to an en-
QTlnOuS sum, OF WHICH SlO,UUU,UUU were mover
expended in the manner contemplated, but re-
NAMED in the hands of Quartermasters, who,
being under no legal obligation to turn over or
account for the money, have had it ever since.
The Secretary of War refuses to entertain
claim for inc restoration of the money to the
employees, from whose wages it WAS deducted,
having no funds wherewith to pay such claims,
if allowed, and 80 an appeal is to be made to
Congress for an appropriation.
Some of the Indian Chiefs from the Chey-
enne River Agency had u pow-wow with the
President, on Wednesday last. Lone Horse,
the principal Chief, made threatening speech,
which is supposed to presage trouble unless the
demands are complied with. The President
interrupted his oratorical outburst. saying that
he did not care at that time to discuss the SUBJ
ject further.
The investigation into the New York Custom
House frauds promises some startling develop
ments.
The noble savages Red Cloud, Lone Horn,
and others now ON visit to Washington, are
very much dissatisfied with their reception.
They prefer dealing with the President directly,
but as he turned them over to the Secretary of
the Interior, in whom they have no confidence,
they threaten to go on the war-path when they
return.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

Mr.. LOWE. the new Chief Justice CT
Utah, has rendered decision in the
Ann Eliza Brigham Young divorce suit
that will warm the heart of that prime
old criminal, Brigham Young, and make
easy the latter days of this Latter Day
Saint, p" as nothing else could. He has
reversed and annulled the action of his
predecessor, ex-Chief Justice Mexican,
in the case, and declines to compel the
Mormon leader to pay alimony to his
divorced wife.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
FRESH TOPICS.

GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN has just been
pardoned out of the Illinois Penitentiary
by Gov. Beveridge.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

EX-SENATOR CARL SoHURz was TO have
sailed for Europe in the ill-starred steam
ship Schiller, the Captain being an old
friend of his. He was detained in New
York, however, to attend the dinner
given in his honor at Delmomco's, and
he left in the Pomerania, two days after
the sailing of tho Schiller. 1t is stated
that a passeng ave up his cabin in the
Pomerania to him and took another in
the Schiller.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
Forelgp.

According to foreign advices the result of the
Russian Cars visit to the German Emperor at
Berlin is an assurance of the maintenance of
peace in Europe, fer the present, at least. 1t
is very evident that there was danger of war,
and that the danger and its aversion were the
occasion of the Cars visit.
Brazil is suffering from the effects of a finan-
cial panic.
One hundred and thirty bodies had been re-
covered from the wreck of the Schiller up to
My II.
The Count de Chambord declares he still has
hopes that the monarchy will be re-established
in France.
England favors peace and favors arbitration
between France. and Germany, in order to
avert collision.
There is possibility Of the Pope and King
Victor Emmanuel becoming reconciled.
The Papal Nuncio has made q formal de-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
Cost of Viewing the Falls.

Since the fencing in ON the American
side of Niagara Falls, the greedy per-
sons who own the land from which views
can be obtained find that public opinion
may be troublesome to them. 1t is a
fact that view of the Falls cannot be
obtained ON the American side without
paying for admission to "park, or
submission to some other systematic ex-
tortion. Here is a list of charges: "Goat
Island, 80 cents; Cave of the Winds,
$1.5O; Prospect Park and Ferry, so
cents; New Suspension Bridge, % cents;
Old Suspension Bridge, % cents; Whirl-
pool Rapids, so cents; Whirlpool, 80
cents; Devils Hole, so cents; Lundy's
Lane, 80 cents; under Table Rock, $1.5O;
Museum, so cents; Bridge Tower, %
cents; Whirlpool (Canada), so cents;
Brooks Monument, so cents-total, 50. "
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

LIEUTENANT KYLE, of the army, has
delivered at Fort Leayenworth about
seventy of the hostile Indians who have
of late years been engaged in forays and
massacres in the region of the Indian
Territory. These natives are hard set,
and have managed to crown their diabol-
ical deeds by securing the death of the
friendly Indian Chief, Kicking Bird,
who delivered them over to the troops.
He was poisoned by squaw, and died
May 3 at Fort Sill, victim to Indian
cunning and revenge. What will be
done with the captive Indians will be de-
termined by trial.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

KENTUCKY has her centennial this year.
One hundred years ago Richard Hender-
son purchased from the Indians all Ken
lucky south of Kentucky river. One
hundred years ago Daniel Boone survey
ed it for him. One hundred years ago
Boone completed the fort at Boones-
borough, Madison county. One hundred
years ago his wife and daughter (sweet
"boons" to him) came as the first women
to Kentucky, and one hundred years ago
the first sermon was preached at Big
Spring, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

The library of Congress at Washing
ton has copy of the first book ever
printed in the United States. 1t is
Eiot's account of his labors among the
Indians, thin volume of twenty pages,
dated 1860.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
Political.

Col. j. H. Britton, Democrat, has been elect
ed Mayor of st. Louis.
The President states in the most positive
terms that there is no truth in the rumors that
Secretary Fish, of the State Department. or
Secretary Delano, of the Interior Department,
are about to resign their places in the Cabinet.
The Secretary of the Treasury has made the
following appointments of Internal Revenue
Storekeepers: Ludwig Wechulberg, George
Michel, and Henry Fischer, for the First Dis
trict of Wisconsin, and Joseph G. Thompson,
Fourth Illinois. Gaugers-James NJ. Boards
ley, Fourth Illinois F. W. Paine, First Wiscon-
sin, and David Stewart, Fourth Iowa.
COL Asa Matthews, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Ninth District of Illinois, has
been appointed United States Supervisor of
Internal Revenue for the district embracing the
States of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota,
vice D. W. Mum, removed.
Everett R. Pomeroy has been appointed U.
S. Attorney for the Territory of Arizona.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

Business cards of five lines less, s. per annum.
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements of marriages anu deaths,
and church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices will be
charged cents per line.
Favors MUST be handed in as carly as Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week
Communications upon subjects Of general or 10
cal interest arc solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

The discussion as to whether horses
and other animals reason OF not has been
revived in st. Louis, where it has been
decided by committee of experts that
horse owned by a gentleman in that city
is afflicted with "mental alteration"
The next the public Will hear there will
be an outbreak of "emotional insanity"
among dogs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

Do BOSTON women chew tobacco?
That's the question. Rev. Mr.. Lathrop
has declared it fact before the Women's
Temperance Union of that city. He not
only makes this charge, but, generalizing
a little, claims that he can get ten men to
leave off chewing where he can induce
one woman to say that she will never
more use "fne cut" or "sweet navy"
Can such things be?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

The probabilities of war in Europe
grows stronger every day, and the un-
easiness grows painful. Letters received
from Europe by the State Department
and other officers of the government,
who have more than the ordinary facil-
-ities for obtaining accurate information,
are of similar tenor with late cable dis
patches, viz. To the effect that France
and Germany are fast drifting toward
another war, which will involve the other
great nations of Europe. These writer's
say that the statesmen in France who di-
rect the policy of that nation fully rea-
lie the danger which they will soon have
to encounter, and are accordingly prepar-
ing themselves for it by rapidly strength,
ening their military. One writer says il
has become known to the French govern.
ment that Germany is increasing its
armies, and looking threateningly toward
French territory, and that the knowledge
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

Mr.. S. Fl. LONG, Chicago merchant,
has in his possession a rare curiosity, in
the shape of petrifed rattlesnake meas
uring ten feet in length, and showing
distinctly the formation of twenty-five
rattles and button. The formation is
perfect, and represents snake in the
act of creeping. Should this be the
serpent which played the deuce with
out first parents in the garden of Eden
its value would be untold, but it is more
than probable that it ante-dates that
historical snake. 1t was taken from a
coal mine in the vicinity of Alton, ILL.,,
some thirty feet under ground.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
Washington.

Tho Postmaster-General has issued an order
forbidding the payment by the Postmaster at
Cincinnati of postal money-orders drawn to the
order of L. D. Sine. who is engaged in conduct
ing gift-enterprise. All registered letters ad-
dressed to Sine are to be returned to the office
from which they were mailed.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has called in
$4,000, ESQ additional $40 bonds.
Secretary Bristow has decided upon the ap-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
General.

The -rsnipreaity- treaty -betMeen the United
States and Hawaii has been ratified by KaIa-
kaua.
Agents of the government continue to mako
seizures of distilleres and rectifying establish
ments for alleged irregularities.
The Mexican banditti are again raiding on the
Rio Grande border. They are reported to be
committing depredations daily, capturing cattle
and driving them across into Mexico, besides
committing other outraGes.
Advices from Havana report that highway
robberies and murders are SO frequent lately in
the streets of that city that the Acting Captain
| General, who was himself robbed in the street
of his watch and jewelry, worth S4OO, has
ordered all culprits hereafter to be tried by the
military authorities.
At Nashville, Tenn, the other day. the Chey-
enne chief, Wichita, one of the seventy-five
Indians en- route to the Dry Tortugas by rail,
got hold of a knife and stabbed two soldiers,
one of them it is feared, fatally.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, North and South, arc now in session
the former at Cleveland, the latter at st. Louis
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
The South.

Josh Frazer (colored) was hanged at CAM
den, S. c., on.the 14th inst, for the murder of
Benjamin Cooper. On the scafrold to-day he
confessed that he murdered his wife and child
and negro woman, and had burned many
barns and gin-houses.
Arkansas reports bounteous harvest in
prospect.
Jim Cooper and Pomp Haney, two negroes,
were hung at franklin Ga, OH May Is, for the
murder of an aged colored man.
Gen. and President John c. Breck-
inridge died at Lexington, KY, ON the 18th of
May, of abscess of the liver, combined with con-
sumption, aged 81 years.
The colored people of Tennessee have started
an emigration movement and met in conven-
ton at Nashville the other day to discuss the mat
ter and adopt measures necessary for removal
to some other State. Great Inducements are
held out to them by parties desirous of securing
the settlement of tho colored colonies upon un-
occupied lands and the movement appears to
have assumed shape which means exodus.
A fire at Waco, Texas, last week, destroyed
SIPS, 1000 worth of property.
The Centennial of the Mecklenburg Declara-
ton of Independence MAY 2e) was very gener-
ally and ieartily celebrated in the principal
cities of the South.
Jesse D. Bright, formerly United States Sem
ator from Indiana, died at Baltimore few days
ago, aged SO. His disease was an organic affec-
ton of the heart.
The notorious counterfeiter Pete Mccartney,
has again slipped from the custody of the ofli-
GERS of the law in Texas.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27

They Are Again Appearing in Great Num-
bers-Portions of Minnesota, Kansas and
Nebraska Being Again Eaten Up by
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

Does the South Haven Sentinel ex.
hibit sound R Republican proclivities when
it resorts to such Democratic authority
as the Kalamazoo Gazette and Hartford
Day Spring to show that Judge Law
ton is not the regular nominee of the
Republican party, but that May as,
when every fact goes to show that
Judge Lawton was regularly nominated
at the time appointed and advertised.
Mr.. Stuart's Republicanism may be
sound when his preferences have the
lead, but under other circumstances be
shows himself to be very vascilating
In fact, all the Sentinel's political
articles of last week are drawn from
Democratic sources. 1t is easy to see
why the Democrats have such solicita.
tions about Mays regularity. If they
can only impress on any considerable
number OF Republicans the idea that
May is the regular nominee, and thereby
induce goodly number to vote for
him, they know that it will help Halves,
the Democratic nominee. That doctrine
won't work, for, as is shown elsewhere
in this paper, Mr.. Lawton's nomination
was regular, and the tax-burdened people
of this County will not take any chances
that will tend to thrust upon them
another Kalamazoo Judge, just at pres
ent. -Four years past experience and
thousands Of dollars of increased tax.
alton is sufficient for them at this time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

and considered and adopted the follow
ing preamble and resolution, and then
adjourned sine die.
WHEREAS, For some years there has existed
no Republican Committee OF the 9th Judicial
District that the call for District Judicial
Convention by G. Z. Read, who assumes to be
Chairman OF such committee. is without au-
thority; and,
WHEREAS, The Republicans OF Van Buren,
County, through their properly constituted COM
mittee, or otherwise, have not been consulted
In the issuing OF said pretended Call, neverthe-
less, not presuming that any dscourtesy was
intended, the Republicans OF Van Buren, have
treated the Call as an invitation to meet the
Republicans or Kalamazoo IL Convention, and
have to-day, with their delegates, appeared and
asked to be admitted into SAID Convention upon
an equality Of representation with Kalamazoo,
which has been refused: therefore be it
Resolved, That Van Buren, County, by her
present population, by her rapidly developing
industrial resources and business. Is entitled to
an equal representation with Kalamazoo in the
judicial Convention Of to-day. which has been
denied to said County; that but one course re-
mains to us, simply to complete the duty dele
gated to us by the withdrawal from the as
semby OF Kalamazoo delegates and by the NOM
nation Of candidate for Judge OF the 9th
ouuiS'oA bioiiCli WniSu No nave uoAo Mduc
The Kalamazoo gentlemen claiming
to be delegates, adjourned without trans.
acting any business, Immediately after
the departure of the Van Buren, delega.
ton.
Eight days subsequent to this time
March 6th,) there was another meeting
of gentlemen in Kalamazoo, claiming to
be delegates, a part of whom were the
same men at the former meeting, and
part OF whom were new men, and who
went through the ceremony of nomina-
ting Mr.. May. No Convention had
been called for the 9th of March, by
any person or persons authorized or
otherwise, yet Mr.. May has the audacity
to claim that this meeting at time
aud place unadvertised, was the regular
Republican Judicial Convention.
In view of all the facts, the conven-
ton that met on the 18th, in pursuance
of public notice publicly given, was the
regular convention, and the candidate
by that body nominated, the regular
nominee, if there can any regularity
grow out of the prior irregular call by
an unauthorized person.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

If he could not have the judgeship him
self, no other Republican should.
In this connection, we would call the
attention of the voters and taxpayers OF
Van Buren, County to another matter
1t is this: That in the past this
County has been overburdened by the
increased expense thrown on this county
by a former Kalamazoo Judge. We
will also remind them that the enormous
cost of the second trial of Mattison, for
forgery, was entailed on them by the
conduct of Judge who cared nothing
for their burdens. 1t was fact notice.
able and patent to everybody, that
while the Circuit Judge was citizen
of Kalamazoo, the Van Buren, Circuit
appeared to be run in the interest of the
Kalamazoo Bar-that a whole PANEL
of Jurors were kept waiting day after
day for the Kalamazoo lawyers to get
their business disposed of, after which
the Judge seemed to lose all interest
in the session and would adjourn, leav-
ing large number of cases in which
the members of the Van Buren, Bar
were in charge, undisposed of.
Taxpayers, if you do not want this
condition of things to continue, cast
your ballots where they will tell in the
ripht direction.