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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-09-03
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4 short notice.
Always on hand all kinds of Pump Fix
lures, OF the very best quality.
Common Wooden Pumps made on the prem
Uses where they are to be placed, when desir-
ed, a so cents foot.
AllPumps constructed by the subscriber
are warranted for one year. After the first
year, they will be kept in order by him, for
ten years, for the moderate sum of s pr year,
All Pumps put in and moi proving satsfac-
tory, will be taken out and the money re-
funded.
Orders by mail, or in person, attended to
with promptness, and at moderate prices.
Gs- For any further information, applyto
Mr.. J. BYERs, Montgomery House, Rockville,
Maryland.
WIN. OLDFTELD,
PUMP MAKER,
apl9-ly Fountain Green, Hartford Co.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-09-03

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part being an exact duplicate Of a correspond
ing part IN any other machine, thereby in
surfing ACCURACY and PERFECTION in
movement and convenience Of replacing in
case Of accident.
A peculiar and important feature in the
WEED is its construction with such an adj
juslment of balances that scarcely any effort
is required to keep it constantly moving, and
with the exception Of the ankle joint no other
motion OF the limbs or muscles is required 10
operate IT,
1t makes the LOCK STITCH, alike upon
both sides of the fabric. 1t is built upon what
is called the engine principle or movement,
and in many particulars differs from all other
machines.
It is the MOST DURABLE, steel and caee-
hardening process being employed whes.
there is any danger of wear.
II executes every possible variety of work
with ease and the utmost precision and beau
ty of stitch, stitching with any number OF
Cotton, Silk or Linen Thread, with equal
facility.
THE WEED MACHINE took The first and
highest premiums at the Paris Exposition an6
at Vienna, as the
BEST FAMILY MACHINE,
and ut numerous State and County Fairs at
home.
Every Machine Warranted
and sold or leased on the most reasonable
terms.
ZGS~ Attachments and Needles for all Sew
ing Machines. Goodrich fuckers, only 81 so
each Needles so cents per dozen.
Always state for what machine in ordering
Attachment, and Needles.
Na-BRANCH OFFICE, 400 Ninth Street,
Washington d. G.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-09-03

HORSE AND BUGGY $50 GO PER DAY.
Having fitted up stables at the Depot in this
place. he is now prepared to accommodate
the travelling public over the Metropolitan
Branch rail road, and where Horses and Bug
gies can also be obtained. Persons arriving
with Horses will have them properly attended
to at reasonable rates.
STAGES furnished for picnics and other
parties, and persons sent to any part of the
country at moderate rates.
VA By keeping gentle horses and careful
drivers, be hopes to merit continuance of
public patronage,
jun 1T WIN. H. RABBIT.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
To Remove Foreign Bodies from the Eye.

A medical correspondent of the Ian
Get makes a suggestion which may
prove useful ON emergency to some of
our readers. He says In conse-
quence of the difficulty I experienced In
removing from patient q portion OF
steel bedded in the cornea, which did
not yield to the spud or needle, some
other means of removal became neces-
sary. Dry, soft, white silk waste sug-
gested itself to me, and was wound
round a thin piece of wood, so as to
completely envelop its end. This soft
application was brushed once backward
and forward horizontally over the part
of the cornea where the foreign substance
seemed fixed. To my astonishment it
was at once entangled by the delicate
but strong meshes of the silk, and was
Withdrawn with the greatest case, caught
by the same A gentleman, in turning
steel at q lathe, suddenly felt that por-
ton had entered his eye. He went at
once to a surgeon, who, with the most
skillful manipulation, failed to extract
the same, saying it would soon work out
of itself. The next morning the pa
tient saw me, having suffered severely
since the accident, and on the first ap-
plication the portion OF steel was ex-
tracted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

cured an iron rail from a switch, rope,
and with cold-chisels, sledge-hammers,
ETC., proceeded to the jail, battered down
the door and made their way to the cell
occupied by the culprit, who was taken
out and placed upon box under tree,
with the rope around his neck. He was
given ten minutes in which to pray and
confess his other crimes, as he was
charged with number but he pro-
tested his innocence, and claimed that his
wife killed Miss Laughlin through jeal-
ousy. The box was then pushed away,
and he was left hanging, with his feet a
short distance from the ground. After
he was pronounced dead, the lynchers
dispersed and started for their homes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
4 Lost Method Of Expression.

1t has been too much the fashion OF
late to decry this department of the work
of housekeeping as useless and menial,
and to insist that money ought to buy its
result, leaving to the wife and daughter
time for self-improvement and higher
duties. There can be no doubt that
the average American housekeeper often
becomes slave to her store-closet, one
third of the year being spent in prepar-
ing food for the remainder; canned vege-
tables, salted meat, pickles and preserves
are often the milestone which drags her
soul and body down to very low level.
But there is another side to the subject,
and we may strike the just middle
ground ON it as ON any other. Nobody
wants George Eliot, or Florence Nigh
tingale, or Jessie Fremont, to give her
time to compounding piccalillis or pre-
serves. But, while one woman is a
leader in society, literature, or philan-
thropy, ninety-nine adopt some smaller
way to make themselves useful and help
full in bettering and Frightening the
little world about them, and these small
er ways in city life are frequently
incessant devotion to visiting, to music,
to making horrible and exhausting efforts
at house decoration. We confess that
when we have sat down to feasts where
the vegetables smacked too strongly OF
the professional Gamers art, where the
meats were iIl-cooked, the offense of the
pickles was rank with vitrol, and the des-
serts bore that inextinguishable flavor oi
the confectioner's shop, and when, after
dinner, we have been called on to listen
to feeble strumming of the piano, OF
weak criticisms on the last exhibition, OIL
/ to admire works of art in the shape OF
spatterdash or Persian embroideries on
/ Turkish toweling, We have remembered
the busy Pennsylvania kitchen and the
bountiful tables of old Virginia matrons
/ the delicious flavor, idiosyncrasy, if we
may call it so, of every dish the care
with which the fathers taste in soups,
and the boys fancy for certain jams, were
remembered from year to year; the thou
sand ways in which skill and good taste
and affection We're shown in this base arr
of cookery; the genuine, homemade
flavor ofthe dishes, the talk, the very fun
we are not at all sure that women in ig
noring this ancient craft so utterly
have not sighted one of their stronges
modes of expression.-" Home and So
ciety; :" Scribner for October.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
Not q Fool.

Yesterday morning straight-haired
young man entered saloon on the river
road and asked the man who WIS trying
to start fire if he had seen anything of
lost calf.
"Look anything like you?" snapped
the man in reply.
The young man looked at the ques-
toner long time, and went out without
replying. He returned in the course OF
three hours, however, and taking off his
coat he said:
"See here, mister, I'm no fool! I've
been thinking of what you said this
morning, and l just believe you meant
sunthin! If you did, just come out here
while I make your head ache
The barkeeper convinced him that
nothing was meant, and the young mar
put on his coat and again sought the trai
of the lost calf.-Detroit Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
AN INDIAN FLOOD.

A Party of Pilgrims Overwhelmed by a
Mountain Torrent-Over Two Hundred
of them Drowned.
A letter from Madura, India, says:
Intelligence has been received at this
station of frightful catastrophe which
befell party of pilgrims to the Maha-
lingam shrine, ON the Tinnevelly from
tier, on the evening of Sunday last. II
We are to believe the reports of returned
pilgrims more than 200 persons were
drowned under circumstances of the
most heartrending character. Thirty
three of the Madura pilgrims have been
either carried away by the mountain tor
rents or are missing; and it is frightful
to think how many more, from Time
velly or other parts, may have shared the
same fate. The shrine in question stands
on the summit of one of the Saduragiri
hills Qiterally four hills) which form q
portion of the Saptoor estate, though in
cluded in the Tinnevelly district. The
direction from Madura is south-south-
west, and the distance nearly 80 miles.
What particular manifestation of silva
this shrine was built to commemorate /
cannot at present tell, nor is it known
where the first deSotee from whom the
present one traces an unbroken success
sion established himself; but, however
that might have been, thousands of peo-
pie hom all parts of the country flock
thither in this part of the year to get
cured of fancied or real evils, and, if
possible, to lay by store of blessings
for themselves and their children. From
the base of the hill long circuitous
path leads up to the shrine, for dis
tance of ten miles or so, along fearful
chasms, and deep, meandering mountain
torrents, and through meshes of cane
brake or other underwood. The pill
grims arrived at the shrine used to pass
night Or so in the jungle without any
thing like roof over their heads. The
dry bed of the mountain torrent that
skirts the shrine used to be their quar-
ters /; and there they cooked and ate their
meals, sung and danced, and otherwise
made themselves comfortable. On the
evening of Sunday last there was the
same spectacle as used to be in former
years-thousands of men, women and
children were talking, or eating, or
dancing in the sandy bed; hundreds of
sheep and fowls, brought up to be sacri-
feed, stood in n-ournful groups, each
waiting its turn some pilgrims, more
religious than the rest. were rolling in
front of the shrine or performing other
equally curious evolutions-in fact,
everything went on without hitch. At
p. m. there was tremendous shower
of rain then minutes later, the hitherto
dry bed was full, and the water rushed
down headlong, carrying those who could
not force their way through the crowd,
and the general confusion was rendered
still more dreadful by the darkness.
Many dead bodies, intercepted by roots
and bushes, were picked up in the bed;
a good many were seen floating on to-
ward the Waptrap tank /; some were
found jammed between stones, and only
a very few of the ill-starred lot saved
themselves by catching hold of some
friendly bough.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
Hou Sargent $. Prentiss tlot Drunk.

Once, when in joint discussion Gov.
McNutt deplored his habits, which were
rendering his learning and eloquence
useless, he retorted on the Governor
with RANT effect. He first described in
classic style the utilities and inspirations
of wine and whisky. Before making the
ad hominem upon the Governor, he pic
tured the glug-glug-glug of the Jug, as
the politician tits it and pours from its
reluctant mouth the corn juice SO loved
of his soul. There is no music dearer to
his ear, unless it be the same glug-glug-
glug as it disappears down his capacious
throat. Then turning to his opponent,
his face all shining with fun, he said !:
Snow, fellow citizens, during this ardent
campaign, which has been SO fatguing,
have only been drunk once. Over IN
Simpson county 1 was compelled to sleep
in the same bed with this distinguished
nominee, this delight of his party, this
wonderful exponent of the principles
practices of the unwashed Democracy,
and in the morning found myself drunk
ON corn whisky. 1 had laid too close to
this soaked mass of Democracy, and l
was drunk from absorption P'-&. q.
Coz, in Harper's for October.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

ing against Don Carlos. The war has been al
most suspended for some time, but as soon as
the men are raised 10000 of them) the bloody
business will be resumed. The Spanish war
vessel Tornado has chased the Uruguay, which
was formerly the Octavia, into Port Royal, Ja-
maica, where her cargo was embargoed. The
Tornado Is the steamer which ran down and
captured the Virginius about year and half
ago.
Advices from Liverpool report frmer feel
ing and marked rise in the price of breadstuffs
and provisions. A London dispatch also states
that the English hop crop is short, and an ad-
vance in price is quoted.
A cable dispatch states that war has com
menced at Cape Palmas between Liberia and
the aborigines. The Liberian government had
dispatched troops from Monrovia to the scene
of action, and great battle was daily ex-
pected.
Owing to the popular outcry, the British ad-
niralty have suspended the circular of July 81,
ordering the surrender of fugitive slaves found
on board British vessels.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER H. 1875.

in South Carolina. Several colored men now
come forward with affidavits duplicating Gov.
Chamberlain and State Treasurer Cardozo in
the murder. The friends of the latter repel the
charge, and denounce the atlantis as perjurers
and conspirators
DR.. Sears the general agent of the Peabody
educational fund, reports that the public
schools of the South are constantly improving
in character and in number.
Washington.
The commissioners of the bursted Freedman's
Savings Bank have announced that they will
pay dividend OF twenty per cent. on the LIST
of November.
The Comptroller of the Currency reports
that eighty-three national banks have been Or
ganized since the passage of the act Of Jan.
IA, 1875, with capital of 1924, ,00O, to which
circulation has been issued, amounting to S.
O2s, $50.
The monthly public debt statement, printed
below, shows a decrease of the national in
debtedness for September of S3,342, 562:
Six per cent bonds ...... 81 ,O7O, ,649,1O0
Five per cent bonds ...... $50, 7S2,75O
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
Incident Of the Texas Flood.

Mr.. and Mrs. West formerly Mrs.
Grafton) occupied new house at Bay
town. Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. Clara
Grafton, Mrs. Vests child, were with
them. When the water rose over Hog
Island Mr.. Mckee, Charles Post, the
light-keeper, and Mrs. Pierce, with four
children, abandoned that place and came
in q skiff to Vests, Thursday morning
before daylight. During Thursday the
water rose gradually in the house, and
by afternoon reached the ceiling. They
hung on by the windows until about p.
M, when, finding that the water was
gaining, they got into skiff, with the
hope of reaching the high land. In half
an hour the skiff was swamped, and, in
getting hold of the windows again, two
children were lost, the Oldest and young
est girl. Mr.. West then made hole in
the roof, and all were got on oft. Small
hand holes were made to cling to. In
short time the roof was swept away from
the building, the tide carrying them up
the bay several miles. They drifted
about Thursday night and Friday at the
mercy of the waves, during which time
Mr.. Mckee and Mr.. Post got in tree,
when the norther came out on Friday
and drove them back down the bay. Of
the occupants of the roof none remained
but Mr.. and Mrs. West, Mrs Pierce and
one child, and Mr.. Post. The wind
drove them across the bay and the cur
rent into the mouth of the canal. Just
as the roof entered the canal it turned
over and Mrs. Pierce and child were lost.
Mr.. West rose, clinging to his wife, and
seized the roof again, the current swept
| the roof over on the east side, and when
it struck the bank the two were thrown
up on the side of the dump. Post was
able to reach the bank, West was sense
less, and Mrs. West stunned, but moan
ing. The tug Coates had been driven by
the gale OH the point, and lay on the
other side of the dump. Mr.. Nelson,
who had brought her up from Red Fish
through the gale, and Mr.. Rhett,
master-mechanic, were on board. Hear
ing the means, they went over the dump
and carried the rescued pair on board
the tug. About p. m, within half an
hour after Mrs. West was carried on the
tug, she was taken Ill and gave birth to
a boy. These rugged men, fathers them
selves, yet unused to such ministrations,
aided by Mr.. West, faithfully performed
the duties belonging to gentler hands.
The brave little woman, who had under
gone all these perils, seeing mother,
child, sister, and her four nieces swept
away before her eyes, gave the directions
which doubtless saved her life and that
of the hahe, --HO"sioa t7tr) Tsle
9ral1h.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

SOME Scotch exhibitors have been de-
tected artifcially turning up the horns
of their Ayrshire cattle, blowing In alF
beneath their shoulders to increase the
girth around the heart, and sewing on
false bushy tails. Others exhibihng
milch COWS haye been found feeding
them their own milk soon after u wae,
lraYn from them
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

HERE IS a favorite camp-meeting
chorus of the Georgia negroes at their
revival meetings:
Forty-seben bull-frogs all in de row,
Down in de lagoon, latin at de crow;
Bress de good Lord, how 6e cullud angels yell;
Hand out de dimes. or you all gwine to hell,
Bress de good Lord.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
FRESH TOPICS.

NEVER have the State, county and dis
trict fairs in the West been as successful
as those of the present year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

The afflicted editors of Fort Wayne,
Ind, have induced Judge to declare
insane and commit to the lunatic asylum
a man with an ungoyernable penchant
For writing poetry.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
Space. lv. av. m. m. 8 m J m. u m.
TIE MEASURE OF sooRN.
"0h Scorn, tell me thy name,
What rneasnre filla

"0h scorn, tell me thy name,
What measure fills
II .neasure up? The words men speak,
stalking for a lordly scorn
small contempt, sound puny. tame;
The feeble speech but chills,
When it should seek
To slay, the soul, if it were truly scorn
No paitry yengeances sufficient wreak
The will Of grand completed scorn. :"
Eternal silence brands
Ny name on those
touch. My measure love doth keep,
Love only. Love alone can scorn
With utter scorn the thing IL chose
To love, and whose base hands
Compelled its faith to reap
The bitter harvest of lie. This scorn
Is bitterer than death, and will not sleep
In death itself, but live eternal scorn.
-Christidn Union.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

AT Quebec, last week, a deaf and dumb
sailor, charged with deserting his ship,
cross examined the witness, who was also
deaf mute, by signs, and made an elo-
quent speesh to the magistrate in the
same language, He was acquitted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

The recent lynching of Jas. W. Schell,
at Bellefontaine, Ohio, for the murder
of Miss Allie Laughlin, was one of the
most orderly and business-like execu-
tions ever conducted under the auspices
of Judge Lynch. When the people of
the vicinity became acquainted with the
fac.s of the case their indignation knew
no bounds, and the incoming trains
brought hundreds of men to the scene
Of the tragedy. The most active partici-
pants went to q brick-kiln in the out
skirts of the town, and organized them,
selves into four companies, each com,
pany and each man being numbered
After Disgusting themselves they pro
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

liza test case it has been recently de-
cidedily the Old Catholics in Germany
thata priest may lawfully marry.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

A MEDICAL journal published in Cleve-
land has made the discovery that bald
headed people are exempt from con-
sumption.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

RosEwATER is the name of gentle
man who writes rosy editorials for the
Omaha Bee. He is evidently not the
fighting editor, as he was badly thrashed,
the other day, by wrathy individual
who refused to take rose-colored view
of one of his playful paragraphs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

CHICAGO has improved on the inven-
tion of a card inscribed "hire hall, u
or "this man was talked to death" in
tended for the discouragement of pro-
fessional bores. The present device is
small cork fastened by thread to the
button-hole. When the speaker has
out-talked his welcome, the victim calm
ly places the cork in his near ear.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

LADIES, beware of those striped hose
that are just coming into fashion. They
produce eruptions on the limbs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

That copper colored statesman, ora
tor and warrior, Hon. Spotted Tail, in a
speech to the Black Hills Commission
ers, the other day, gave vent to this
burst of eloquence Yesterday, when
we called on you Commissioners, you
were all drunk, and you tried to throw a
bL rket over Iay head. To-day breathe
the free air of heaven among my own
people, and can now talk to you what I
did not wish to say yesterday. If you
7Sant our land we want the boundary
line of Nebraska changed, the reserva-
ton enlarged, and we want to know what
you say" Ugh
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

Now THAT there are so many ambi-
tious candidates before the country it is
time they should know where they got
their names. Ca1adidus means white,
and in old Rome men who offered them
selves for office were &c ndidati," be-
cause they wore very white robes, which,
by the way, they sometimes chalked,
or, as we should say, "whitened," and
when they proceeded to go round
anabire-and solicit votes, they were
ambitious. Candidates, please take no
tice, and keep clean.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14

FIFTY years ago, on the 9th ult., the
fist train Of vehicles was drawn by q
locomotive open to the public. This
was at Darlington, in England, and
George Stephenson was the engineer,
both of the road and of the locomotive.
it was the beginning of railroading, and
the semi of the event has Just
been celebrated at Darlington by grand
procession and banquet, participated in
By many distinguished Englishmen.
The little line then opened has since
been absorbed into the Northeastern
railroad of England, an immense cor
poration, whose capital is e50,0O0, 900,
or equal to that of our whole Pacific rail
road, and even that is surpassed by three
other British railroads. The railroads
of the world have all been created within
this fifty years. The United States have
laid the most length in that time, ant
about as much as all the rest of the worli
put together. The cost and manner o
building has been the most magnifcen
in England, where the percentage of ne
rrturn and gross earnings to cost is les
than with us.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
FREE DRESSINGS.

A GREAT deal has been said about Van
derbilt's hard-heartedness, but no man
can write of him that he ever gave the
slightest encouragement to human be-
ing who parted his hair in the middle.
A PITTSBURGH woman trained all sum-
mer long for tub race, and died the
other day just twelve hours before the
match was to come off In the midst OF
tub races and all other kind of races we
are in death.
IF the deluged Texans should require
any help from the public have your dol
lar bill where you can get hold of it, and
remember that in case of this kind one
dollar in cash is better than six hundred
dollars worth of the heartiest kind OF
sympathy.