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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The East.

The East.
The news of the collapse Of the Bank of Cali
fornia caused considerable excitement in East
ern financial circles, but Its ELECTS we're only
slightly felt.
firm Of LoDgstrcet & Durinsoh, heavy leather
dealers at Syracuse, N Y, has followed The
example of Ralston, and committed suicide.
The wrll-known Boston publishing iisTa ef
Lee Shepard has failed.
Union Adams / Co., heavy wholesale dealers
in matchmaking goods, New York, has sus-
pended.
A laborer named Davis was recently muir
dcred and robbed by tramps in the woods near
Danville, W.. ~ g..- ~ -, 7-..4-...si
Patrick RearJlon, of saxonyille, Mass, last
week shot and killed his wife and then shot
himeelf dead. ~ isse HaT 9f.s ss.Ii
singulafly tragic suicide was enacted at
New York the Other day signor Pietto Vianni,
"a prominent Italian artist, while, repitihg 4
poem at a picnic Of his fello@- -eountfyn,eh,
suddenly drew revolver from his pocket and
shot hintselt through Tho temple. 'iad ri
The Congress Hotel, at Sharon Springs, N.
Y, popular summer resort, has been de-
stroyed by FIRE. Loss, S10o,eoo. H..
There was ligh-toned wedding at Newport,
r, l., last week. Charles Joseph Bonaparte,
grandson of jerome Bonaparte, was married to
Miss Day, of Boston.
L. r-. The West ef1-
The Canadian steamer Manitoba coliided
with the propeller Comet on the evening OF
the 27th Of August, near WbitsEsh Point, hake
Superior, and sank her instantly. Ten OF the
twenty persons on board the Comet perished
No one on the Manitoba was injured, and she
continued her journey. The Comet was bound
down, heavily laden with ore while the Mani
toba was bound up, light -, .s
T An express car Oh the Union Pacific railroad
was robbed Of several packages of money, near
| Table Rock Station. Utah, few days ago.
The robbers got on top Of the cars and climbed
through window while tho train was, in mo
ton. ,...,s, ~
A San francisco dispatch ahhouhces the
| temporary suspension Of the National Gold
Bank and the Merchants Exchange Bank. =
A female forger WIS captured at st. Iouis,
the other day, In an attempt 10 deffaud the
Broadway Bank out of 5000. She presented
Z: letter of introduction, and what purported TO
| be certified check on a Chicago house, but
he bank officials haspected swindle, and the
woman and aponfederate were taken into GUS
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
Military Strength of the Disafrected
Provinces.


Apropos of the present revolt of Bos
mia and Herzegovina against Turkey, and
the by no means impossible event that
the other Sclavonic provinces may yet
take the field against the Sultan, the
New York World has compiled some
valuable information touching the mill
tary strength of Sclavonic Turkey, which
embraces those provinces north of the
Balkan Mountains. The principal of
these are Montenegro on the Adriatic,
Servia on the Save, and Roumania, which
controls the outlets of the Danube.
Montenegro, although very diminutive
province in area, can put into the field,
beside the regular paid guards of the
Prince, two regular-bodies of troops 800
strong, registered militia of eight bat
talions numbering 4,S00 men and the
lardstt1na of Is, 900 men, for whom the
government has arms. Servia has very
complete military organization, and can
put in the field 80, 800 men belonging to
the first ban, with 1872 guns and of the
second ban 40,020 more men, in eight
brigades of infantry and thirteen squad
rons of horse, armed with the Gruner
muzzle-loa Roumania has remod-
eled its army upon the German fashion.
The permanent army consists of As, 130
men, armed with the Prussian gun and
Krupp steel cannon. The reserve con-
sists of $3.50 men, giving an effective
military force of 135, 900 men, while the
principality has military stores and arms
sufficient to equip double this number
of men. The total shows that these
Sclavonic provinces can put into the
field against Turkey 291, 100 men, in ad-
dition to the forces of Herzegovina and
Bosnia already in revolt.
"DEAR and Honest Sir" is how one
of his constituents, with unconscious
sarcasm, began q letter to Chicago
J Alderman,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
SOME DAY.
- Some day" we say, and turn our eyes
Toward the fair hills Of Paradise.

"Some day" we say, and turn our eyes
Toward the fair hills Of Paradise.
Some day, some time, a sweet new rest
Shall blossom, fower-hke, in each breast.
Some time, sonre day, our eyes shall see
The faces kept in memory.
Some day their hands shall clasp our hands
Just over m the Morning Lands.
Some day our ears shall hear the song
OF triumph over sin and wrong.
Some day, some time, but oh not yet,
But we will wait and not forget
That some day all these things shall be,
And rest be given to you and me.
So wait, my friend, though years move slow
The happy time viii como we know.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

THE White Sulphur Springs Hotel,
Va, will be pulled down next year. 1t
cost $l,Q9o,00O, and has paid no diyi-
dends.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA desired to go to
one of the ports of Spain to take the sea-
baths ordered by her medical adviser,
but was forbidden by the Madrid gov
ernment to land anywhere on Spanish
territory.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

The Assistant Treasurer in New York has
been directed by the Secretary of the Treasury
to sell $4,000, 900 in gold during tho month OF
September, as follows 81 O0o, ,O6O on the first,
third and fifth fhHtadass each, and s5OGoOO
each on the second and fourth Thursdays.
There will be another trial of the safe-burg-
larry case of Harrington and others, new and
important evidence having been discovered.
The Treasury Department. has declined to
transfer any more gold to California. as 1t has
sent oil Il can spare.
J. NJ. Thatcher, Commissioner of Patents,
has resigned.
The government has paid the Elgee cotton
claim, amounting to S266, 900.
The following is the statement of the public
debt for lhe month Just closed:
SIS s., pei sehs bonds ss,l .:..a ss5 sssSS
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
six Hsurs Of Horrihle TertHrs.

Mention was made the other day OF
the accident at Big Bend Tunnel, no the
ghesateake and Ohio railroad, by which
the engineef, Mt, John Quincy Adams
Wilkins, formerly Of this city, was in
jured. The "Big Bend" is what is
known in railroad patlance as "dirt
tunnel" being very liable to cave In,
and therefore the engineers are more
eifefal to look out for "danger ahead"
in passing through them. It was the
exercise of this csife that probably saved
an immense loss of life, rs tlie train had
been brought down to very slow rate
OF speed on approaching the tunnel. 1t
seems that m END Of one of the large
timbers supporting the focf had become
detached and fallen to the track few
feet within the tunnel, and the pilot OF
this engine striking it, the jar loosened
tile 6tiiet tifnbers and a-large quantity OF
earth and stones, and the whole mass
came tl1mbling down upon the locomo-
tive, breaking it to pieces. The fireman,
who was standing close TO Mr.. Wilkins,
was smashed to a jelly and could not
have lived moment, while MIR. Wilkins
was thrown forward in a standing posi-
ton, with his throat across the reverse
bar, and large timber fell across the
back of his neck, rendering it impossible
to move. He had quid of tobaceoi N
his niottth at the time, and 30 tightly was
he caught that he could not expectorate,
and could only swallow with difficulty
indeed, he could scarcely raise his voice
above whisper. There he remained for
six hours in the pitchy darkness, while
every second or two small pieces of dirt
and gravel from the roof would fall down,
by his side, conveying the impression
momefitariIy that another mass was about
TO fall and crush him completely.
ALI the time the shouts OF those out
side could be heard, as with shovel and
ax they forced their way to. his rescue,
which, however, seemed to him beyond
all hope. When they finally reached
hun he was more dead than alive, and,
being completely exhausted, lost con-
seriousness In swoon, Which lasted soy
eral hours. His broken arm was set,
and he was brought TO his home at
Orange Court House, where he now Is,
and improving very fast. MIR. Wilkins
describes his slfferings during the six
hours he was In the tunnel as horrible
beyond measure, and says that to survive
through another such ordeal were i'm
possible. As the train was going 80
slowly when the accident occurred, the
cars were not damaged at all, and the
passengers only experienced a slight
shock. .--Alcran Pn.) Sentinel.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

ANOTHER blasphemer has been brought
to grief by his wickedness. Louis Burke,
of Burkessille, swore fearfulIy because
the storm destroyed his crops. His
tongue Glove TO tire roof of his mouth,
and he died the next day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
The fallacy of the statement that ami

The fallacy of the statement that ami
mails prefer green food was abundantly
shown at Chicago when hungry horse
bit large section out of the Panama hat
of succulent young man who was sit
ting ON the tafrail of street car and did
not harm hair of the wearers' head.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

The BEST TEETH.-The London Med
ical Record says: "It has long been
noted in this country that in those dis
tricts where the use of oatmeal Gn place
of wheaton four prevails, we find chill
dren and adults with the best developed
teeth and jaws ; and so well recognized
is the influence of oatmeal upon the teeth
that many practitioners order its use as
an article of daily diet for children, in
cases where dentition is likely to be
retarded or Imperfect"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

In ONE week Of last month firm near
New York received orders for AS miles
of pencils. To make these only SO, 900
feet of cedar lumber are required, and
after they are made they will load six
freight cars. This immense consump-
ton of lead pencils is doubtless caused
by the attempts of women to sharpen
them with q pair of scissors or dull
case knife.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
Political.

The New York Liberal Republican State CO
vention will be held at Albany Sept. %.
The campaign in Ohio wakes warm.
A dispatch from San Francisco, dated, Sept.
8, SAYS: 1.-THE election returns come in very
slowly, but it is sure that the Democrats have
carried the State by plurality of nearly 90, 600,
anda majority OF about 10000. The city gov
ernment is mainly Democratic.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
FRESH TOPICS.

THB Detroit Free Press says Helm.
bold's insanity isa fearful warning to the
6ankrupts in whose liabilities the unpaid
bills of the printers make a dispropor-
innate show.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

A GENTLEMAN in India invited a num-
her of friends to dinner, and they ac-
cepted the invitation, but none of them
appeared, and the dinner was spoiled.
Accordingly he sued them for: the value
of the viands wasted. through their lack
of courtesy. The lower court gave him
judgment for the amount claimed, but
ahe superior tribunal reversed the dcci-
sion, remarking that if the principle first
affirmed were correct the risk of accept
ing inxitations would be very serious
Indeed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09


THE age of reason-Marriage.
ODE to My Landlady-Three weeks
rent. =
A SUCCESSFUL frm-Messrs. Gwin &
Wyune. fz1a1{
The dark ages-Those of single ladies'
over twenty. -
Why are Swedish gloves like naked
babies? Because they are undressed
kids. - Z
JONES horse is troubled with the
heaves. He heaves every one that at
tempts TO bride him.
APRoPos of Winbledon-Scene at the
cottage on Sunday. Lady A.-Who
were the two men who came to church
this morning without crayats2" Lord
B.-@ Only two fellows who. had been
shooting off their ties.
WHEN a Massachusetts, man walked
seventeen miles to see man hung, and
the prisoner was respited, the Disguised
traveller sat down In fence corner and
hoarsely inquired if this country WAS
drifting back to barbarism.
A TAILOR of melaneholic tempera-
ment was observed recently sitting cross
legged on the Canada shore, gazing in
tently at the Horse Shoe Fall with its
thick cloud of spray. A reporter stole
up unobserved and heard him mutter,
/" What place to sponge a coat. y
jay GoULp is, it appears, the father of
q two months old girl baby. "H that
baby was only the other sex, writes a
correspondent, "you'd hear of it making
q corner in nurse bottles. 1 don't know
what it's name is, but would suggest
they hang it up as q stock indicator and
call it Erie short" COLI
OFFICER of Militia" Well, sir, who
arc youl and what's the matter?" Ex-
cited citizen-"Mc? I'm the bailie-
the held bailie, mon ] catched this wee
laddie feshin' on the Sawbath day Says
he's a Cath liza Rooman Caath'lic.
Eth, it's Just dreadful to think o'-fesh-
in IN q Protestant lock And % the
Sawbath! Lord save usl -ss,
Or course she did. A middle7aged
woman fell as she was descending a pair
of stairs, and the first man TO help her
reach her feet was a banker who hap
pened to be passing. Did you fall,
madam p he inquired, as he seized her
arm. /" FalIl1 OF course 1 fell, you
fool you2 You don't suppose I'd sit
down here to rest, do you 2" she; snap
ped. He didn't say. -
Two coLoRED citizens Saturday had
little trouble ON the postofice corner.
'sSir, / stigmutize you as afalsehoodfier!"
exclaimed the first. 'sAnd you, sir, are
cantering hpclcriteF' replied the sec
ond. "Ahi talk away 7, crowded the
first ssbut nay character is above dis
proach. Sand your Influences don't
detach from my reputation one Iowa !"
growled the other. And thus they part
ed.-DetroH Free Press. ss,fn.
The other day a Detroit policeman was
approached by a lad who carried in his
band an old wallet tied up with a string,
but appearing to be full of money. The
boy stated that he had picked it up on
the street and wished the officer to take
charge of it. "You are an honest boy,
my son." said the admiring blue-coat,
and he slipped a shinplaster to the lad.
Ten minutes afterwards it was dis
covered that the. wallet was stuffed with
waste paper.-Detrot Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

Tins IS the nineteenth century. and
this the land where education is free as
air. and where the groundless super
sfitions of the old world are considered
proper subjects for merriment or de-
srision, bat still the people in the neigh
borhood of Wells Beach, VT, harbor the
9fotion that any ono who win take q dip
in their river, on June 26, viii be exempt
from sickness for one year, and on that
date hundreds of the credulous lave
themselves in the magic waters.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

"DEAR and Honest Sir," is how one
of his constituents, with unconscious
sarcasm, began letter to a Chicago
Alderman,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
THE fURkfsH REBELLiON.

The Causes that Have Produced the Out
break which Threatens the Peace of
Europe
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
Wit and Humor.

COLD ea-Charity.
THE age of reason-Marriage.
ODE to My Landlsdy-Three weeks
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09

President Grant has appointed Edwin B.
Smith, of Massachusetts, First Assistant After
pey-General,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28
Pirates in Boston Harbor.

GLOUCESTER, Mass Oct. p The coast
ing schooner Samuel Knights of Passport,
Me, which arrived at this port Thursday
afternoon, reports that on yesterday morn
ing at halt-past one O'Clock, while lying
of South Boston flats, she was boarded by
three men, disguised with canvass masks
and armed with revolNcrs. They entered
the cabin where Capt. Geo Il. Clark and
his two men, George III Murray and Geo
Beal, were sleeping. Capt, Clark was
awakened by hearing some one proving
about the cabin, and seeing three men,
two of whom were engaged in lifting a
barrel of flour, asked them what they
were about One of them at once came
alongside his berth, and drawing Colts
revolver, said he would BLOW out the
brains of any one who made an alarm
The three scamps then went to work and
took most all the available property in
the cabin, consisting Of provisions, all the
best clothing they could find, and money
as follows: From Capt. Clark, $105 IS,
and from the men sd. The provisions
were worth about 500. 1t was very
bold affair, and as they left the cabin they
told the men If they came on deck while
they We're within shooting distance, they
would blow their brains out. Under these
circumstances they deemed it best to re-
main quiet until they we've entirely out OF
sight, when the alarm was given
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28
Mysterious Fires.

The Franklin House, Bangor, has been
four times on fire in the upper rooms from
causes that battle all investigation. A jury
consisting of Albert w. Paine, n. ii. Dill
nlgham and ID. NJ. Howard, have recently
made inquiry into the matter, without any
satisfactory result. The Commercial says:
The Saturday evening fire occurred in
the new wing Of the hotel, in the upper
story The rooms on that floor are IN
occupied except by one of the women of
the house. 1t was set, like the three fires
preceding it, in the mattress. at the foot
of the bed, and had burned apparently not
more than twenty OF thirty seconds when
discovered The woman mentioned as be-
ing the sole occupant Of u room on that
floor had completed duties for the day
and, being somewhat timid, on account of
circumstances which will be mentioned
below, got one of the other girls and one
Of the men to light her up to her room
They had barely reached the head of the
flight Of stairs when they noticed light
in one of the rooms on the walk, and,
rushing along, found the corner of an ex-
celsior mattress in flames. A pitcher of
water was handy and they dashed its con-
tents on, and followed it up till the fire
was out; in fact, they had it entirely sub
dued before the people down stairs, who
heard the cry Of fire, could reach the
floor.
Then a most thorough search of the
house was made by the police and others
The doors were locked and every room
and closet in the building was searched.
Their efforts availed nothing. Nothing to
indicate that any one was secreted in the
house could be found.
About two hours before the fire above
mentioned one of the servant girls was
sitting in her room in the upper story Of
the wooden extension when of sudden
she heard some one come up stairs and
walk along the hall, She Immediately
spoke and looked into the hall, where she
saw man who quietly and quickly van
lshed without answering her. Terribly
frightened she ran down stairs and report
cd what she had seen. All endeavors to
convince her that it was only her imagi-
nation proved futile, and she still believes
she saw man in front of her room.
The report naturally caused the remain
der of the help feel timid, and it is no
wonder that the woman who occupies the
room on the floor where Saturday nights
fire was discovered should want company
to bed.
The girls whispered among themselves
that queer things had happened since the
sudden death. while asleep with her para
mour, of the Orono woman, and the feel
ing grew stronger that other than human
agency was at work. They could not I'M
derstand how any one could go to the
room which was found afre, Saturday
night, and get down stairs and secreted
before the woman who was going up there
to bed should have walked along the pas
sage leading to the stairs.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28
Attempt to Assassinate Collector
Babson.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Oct. 25 An at
tempt was made to assassinatc Fitz } Bah
son. Collector Of the Port Of Gloucester,
last evening, while standing in front of his
residence on Washington street, convers-
ing with two gentlemen. Therburn Nor
rey, formerly employed as .janitor at the
Custom House, passed by and remarked,
''Oh you have got your body guard with
you. III fix you yet" When about twen-
ty feet from Mr. Babson he took 4 rcvol
yer out and fired, but missed his mark.
Morrey, it is said, has threatened Mr.. Bah
sons lite and that he will yet finish him.
He was before Judge Davis this fore
noon, and was held in $4,000 bonds for his
appearance next Wednesday.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28

A terrible coal mine accident occurred at La
Sale, ILL.,, Friday. James Prince and his
nephew, John Dalton, inst stepped into one of
the cages in the Taylor shaft to descend to
work, when the axle of the pully broke. The
bottom of the shaft, distance Of $50 feet. Both
men We're instantly killed. Nine men descend
ed by the same cage fifteen minutes before.
A man in Greenville, Tenn, has captured
twenty-seyen hawks by setting steel trap
upon the dead limb of a tree upon which they
have been in the habit Of alghting
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28

books, old prints and historic china thereafter
sought him. And so in measure it is; and to
show you how far advanced am on the road
to reputation as an admirer of old things, |
copy this rote which accompanied bit Of
cedar recently sent ne:
Humphrey Turner came over in the May
flower, bringing with him cedar clothes chest
He built the first house i'll Scituate, and the
chest has remained in that locality in the
hands of Turner's descendants, till 1872 when
one of them, Samuel ii. Turner, brought it to
Charlcstown, and distributed it in pieces to his
relatives and friends" GOSSIP.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28
Arrest of M. v. b. Stimsou.

Boston, Oct. 80 Martin V. Stimson for
merly publisher of the Portland State, was
arrested at Kittery, Maine, and brought
here yesterday on q charge of fraudulent
ly obtaining notes from about fifty men,
as part compensation for an interest that
each individual was to have in colony at
Mansfield, Vermont The party was ready
to embark when the scheme was explod-
ed. Stimson secured about 1926, 900 worth
of notes. He used the names of several
prominent persons to aid him in his trans
actions