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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
A Romantic Princess.

There recently occurred at Zurich the
death of the Pri' cess Schwarzburg-Son-
derhausen, lady remarkable for her
charitable actions. She leaves an enor-
nous fortune to her only child. whose
history would easily furnish materials
for a romance. Twelve years ago she
was passing through Thonne, and while
visiting the military college of that town
fell violently in love with the riding
master. This young man rejoiced in the
euphonious name of Jud, had originally
been shoemaker, but having martial
tastes he abandoned, the last for the
sword. The princess finally married the
ex-shoemaker, who afterwards became
the Baron de Jud." and could be seen
daily taking his afternoon drive with the
Baroness in gorgeous coach and four,
the envy and admiration of his fellow
townsmep. The Baron did not, however,
live to enjoy his wealth. Consumption n
carried him to an early grave, and all
that now remains of this little romance
is a magnificent mausoleum erected to
his memory by his disconsolate widow,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
An interesting GrecIan Relic.

The sarcophagusis is Of yellow stone, and
probably inclosed the remains of man
of some distinction. Ithas peaked top,
and on the four corners are lions with
open mouths and lolling tongues. The
four sides contain bas reliefs which,
doubtless, tell the story of the mans for
mer life. On one end is represented a
man going to the field followed by his
dog, pole on his shoulder, and wearing
on his head the peaked Cypriote cap. On
the other end is portrayed man driving
in a chariot drawn by two horses. On
the one side is series of domestic scenes,
man in bed with a woman handing him
a saucer of food, another scene where he
is reclining while woman plays on a
harp beside him, and other similar scenes
On the other side of the sarcophagus art
figures which represent agricultural life
Two men armed with shields and spears
also one striking down bullock, and in
another place two men similarly equipped
who are destroying boar. BetweeI
them is a cock growing, which gives
very barn-door aspect to the whole scene
and leads one to wonder if the cattle o
the Cypriotes were so wild that they ha'
to proceed against them as if they wer
forest game. Here in these pictures j
portrayed the familiar scenes in the lif
of this man who has been dead. and fol
gotten two thousand years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
LeprOSy.

The Lancet is reminded by "the gor-
geous displays, the festivities, and other
manifestations of rejoicing in the East
with which the Prince of Wales has been
welcomed" of the sad condition of the
lepers of Bombay. What leprosy is no
one who has not seen it can well imagine,
and it is unnecessary to describe it. But
in the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Dhurrumsala,
refuge for the destitute and sick in
Bombay, the Lancet, on the authority of
the Times of India, says that there are one
hundred and twenty lepers lodged at the
present time, sharing its scanty accommo-
dation with an approximately equal
number of the poor aged and crippled.
The lepers live in what are called chawls
or cells, some six feet long and five feet
wide, and the institution is so full that
often two lepers are crowded into one OF
them. They are without furniture OF
even cooking utensils, but each of them
is allowed two pounds of rice and three
pice with which to pay for fuel to dres;
| their food. They cons st of men, women
and children, the children being the off
spring of the men and women, some Ot
them being born in the Dhurrumsala it
self, for no separation of the sexes is at
tempted or, it seems, even thought of
Unfortunate creatures with their limb:
wasted till only the outline Of the bone.
remain, or else swollen out of all form
of limbs" sit or lie about as they choose
without supervision or medical care, ex
cept from one charitable physicion who's
name is withheld at his own reques
seemingly. They are visited by n,
friends and by no minister of any religion
"They are abandoned" says the Times 0
India, "of God and man, and were it no
that the Dhurrumsala gives them tn
half of six foot cell in which to lie, an
handful of rice with which to sustai
life, they would die in their sores alon
our streets and in our compounds" Or
ly those who are very much afflicted al
admitted into the refuge. Those VIII
| are not in so advanced state of diseas
are sent away to beg in the public higl
ways and byways until they are sic
enough to be taken into the Dhu
, rumsala
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
Stick to 1t,

Learn trade, or get into business,
and 90 at it with determination that
defes failure, and you will succeed.
Don't leave it because hard blows are to
be struck, or disagreeable work to be per-
formed. Those who have worked their
way up to wealth and usefulness do not
belong to the shiftless and unstable class :;
and if you do not work while young
man, as an old man you will be nothing.
Work with a will, and conquer your
prejudices against labor, and manfully
bear the heat and burden of the day.
1t may be hard the first week but after
that, / issure you, it will become a
pleasure, and you will feel enough better
satisfied with yourself to pay for all the
trial of beginning. Let perseverance
and industry be your motto; and with
steady application to business, you
need have no fear lor the future. Don't
be ashamed of your plain clothes, pro
yided you have earned them. They are
far more beautiful in the estimation Of
all honest men and women than the costly
gewgaws sported by some people at the
expense of the confding tailor. The
people who respect you only when well
clad, will be the first to run from you il
the hour ofadversity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
A Queen City Romance.


Miss Penelope Jacobs was arraigned at
the Police Court for an assault and bat
terry committed on the person of Mr.. w.
E. Mcintyre. The complainant is shoe
cutter living at No. Worth street, and
Miss Penelope is black-haired, black
eyed young woman of pleasing appear
ance, TO whom he was engaged to be
married. The ceremony was to have
been performed last Sunday, but Miss
Jacobs, not feeling very well that morn
ing, concluded to put it off a week or
two, at which Mr.. Mcintyre got mad
and said he wouldn't get married at all
now, and wanted to know where that
$200 was he had given the lady TO fix
herself up with, and all that sort of
thing. Thereupon Miss Penelope dropped
one of her deepest courtesies, and with
elevated eyebrows and beautifully sniff
fling nose said: Here's your money,
Mr.. Mcintyre vi want none of it. L ex-
pected to be married in rep silk with
fourteen founces, and lace shawl and a
peck of orange blossoms; but never mind,
calico dress and gingham sun-bonnet
will do. And with sigh | had
thought to have neat little breakfast,
with escalloped oysters and champagne
and bride and groom's cake, and
after that to be taken to the depot in a
hack, and have ever so many gold slip
pers thrown after me. But it all right
we can have beefsteak and onions, and
two saucers of ice cream with eight
spoons in them, and a dimes worth oi
sponge cake from the confectionery, and
if you can get the express wagon of that
peddler who goes about hollering Pm
broke or something of that kind, | dare
say our trip to Loveland will be just az
happy. Here, William, here's your two
hundred" And William, the wretchec
deceiyer, took the two hundred ant
"made up" with his affianced bride
straining the money and the A. B. II
his bosom at one time. He also kissed
the lady, went through the marriage
ceremony with her-as all lovers do be
fore trusting themselves before the min
ister-and even went so far as to call he
Mrs. Mcintyre. But here William seem
to have weakened, and when Miss Penel
ope mentioned the subject Of their mar
riage, said he had headache, and tn
heartburn, and the rheumatism, ant
didn't feel very well himself. So tn
marriage was deferred couple of day
longer. But, bless your soul, William
fell in with another young woman, iron
whom Miss Penelope endeavored b
: sweet alurements to detach him, wit
such small success that he not onl
clung to his evil ways, but called he
bad names. Miss Penelope, being
woman of spirit, avenged this insult b
slapping the recreant lovers face, whert
upon the noble-hearted gentleman ha
her arrested. Miss Penelope told he
' story in a plain, straightforward mai
! ner, and the Judge fined her one dolls
and costs for not hitting the fello
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
Odd Pleas,

Brougham, defending rogue charged
with stealing pair of boots, unable to
gainsay his clients guilt, demurred to his
conviction because the articles appro-
priated were fal-boots, and half-boots
were no more boots than a halfguinea
was guinea. or half loaf whole one.
The objection was overruled by Lord
E-tgrove, who, with beftting so!emnity,
said: 81 am of opinion that boots is a
momen generate comprehending half
boot; the distinction is between a half
boot and half boot; the moon is always
the moon, although sometimes she is a
halfmoon." Had Brougham proved the
boots TO be old ones, his man would
probably have come off as triumphantly
as a tramp tried at Warwick for stealing
four live fowls. The fowls had beer
"lifted" in StaFordshire; still the indict
ment was declared good, it being helt
that man committed felony in every
county through which he carried stoler
property. But VIXEN it came out il
evidence that the fowls we're dead wheI
the thief was taken, he was at once Sc
free, ON the ground that he could not b.
charged with stealing four live fowls il
Warwickshire.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
Law in Italy.

A curious story of unjust justice comes
from Florence. An English resident of
that city was visited by fellow mem.
Der of his club, an Italian, who asked
him to pay him that five thousand
livre." The Englishman owed him moth
ing, and told him SO. He promptly
brought suit for the fictitious debt. The
defendant, thunderstruck, consulted a
friend, who told him to leave the matter
in the hands of certain lawyer. He
did so. When the trial came off, three
witnesses swore that they had seen the
money lent to defendant. The latter
was appalled, to hear his counsel say,
"We admit the debt" and was pleas
antly stunned when six witnesses
promptly swore that they had seen the
money repaid. Verdict for the defend
ant. This peculiar case throws strong
light on the Italian judicial system
though false swearing is unfortunately
by no means conided to transatlantic
courts.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
Cnolness of William Pitt.

William Pitt, the English Minister,
Was noted for great self-control. The
fercest attack in Parliament never dis
turbed his composure, and the most COM
plicated questions in the Cabinet could
not rufie his temper. He'was equal to
any emergency, and the most startling oc-
currence did not throw him from his
balance. Lord Spencer, a political asso-
ciate and adviser, used to tell q story in
proof of Pitts serenity, even in sleep or
dreams. There had been Hrutiny in
enc of the ships of the navy; the mutt.
neers had seized the Admiral, and
were threatening death. Mr.. Windham
and others were greatly alarmed, and
came to Pitts house, late at night, tc
tell him of the disaster. He was sleep
ing soundly, but they shook him roughly
awoke him, and told him the alarming
facts. But Pitt would not be disturbed
and lose his sleep. lie at once sat up il
bed, and having asked for paper and ink
briefly wrote: If Admiral c. is no
released, fire upon the ship from the bat
teries." He then turned over on hi
pillow, and was asleep before they lef
] the room.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
OHIO.

The Cincinnati Commercial says that
honey is produced, not manufactured,
mind you, thousands of pounds of it,
every year, within the corporate limits
of Cincinnati. An enthusiastic bee
keeper has his apiary upon the roof of a
small building, and actually realized
one thousand dollars profit from the bees
upon that roof last year. The honey
they made amounted to nineteen hun
dred pounds. Once single hive of bees
belonging to this gentleman produced
three hundred and eighty-fve pounds of
honey-a very unusual yield for one
hive. And all this was done in local
ity not SO far removed from the heart of
the city.
A woman, whose name is unknown,
smothered a seven-months old babe to
death while on the street of Toledo, by
wrapping it up too closely. When she
discovered the calamity she went crazy.
A policeman took her in charge and at
tempted to convey her home in street
car. She shrieked and cried and made
so great a demonstration that he took
her off the car and left her for safety in
drug store while he went for carriage
She escaped and instinctively wandered
into the house of a relation who took her
in charge. 1t is rumored the woman was
drunk, but it is not known.
In the case of the Metropolitan Ma
tional Bank VS.. the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Railroad, a decree of foreclosure
and sale has been entered by Judge
Lemon. The entire road, from Toledo
to all its western termini, will be sold
with its equipments, franchises, etc.
The sale will be made under the last, or
gold mortgage bonds, subject to all
earlier mortgages. with accrued interest
and debts for labor and material.
William Schumiff, of Amherst, while
walking on the track toward Elyria, met
two tramps, who attempted to rob him.
In the struggle he was thrown under the
fast mail, which was passing at the time.
One arm was cut of, and he received
other severe injuries. The tramps es.
capped.
The total expenses of the Blind Asylum
at Columbus for the year were S37, ,915 .55
According to the report of the Trustees
the expenses for 1874 were S32, ,275 g.
These last figures are changed to $780,.
5S7.95. Then there is either an increase
of about SIS, 600 in expenses for the pres
ent year as compared with the last, or a
decrease of about $4,000, according as
We accept the statement of last years
report, or that same statement amended
without any reason given for the change
by the report for this year. The follow
ing appropriations are asked for tn,
coming year:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

The forty-ninth annual report of the
Trustees and officers of the Institution
for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb
has been made to the Governor. The
cost of the Institution to the State for
the past year has been $50 700, and the
actual cost per pupil $197 ST. The num-
Der of pupils now present is 401. The
whole number for the year has been 4SS,
sixty four of whom have entered since
November, 1874. The whole number OF
pupils received since 1929 is 1872. The
Trustees ask for an appropriation Of
$s1 800 for current expenses and salaries
for the coming year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

THE Presbyterians have ninety-fve
German churches in the United States,
about one hundred preachers, and seven
thousand five hundred members. In
New Yok k they have one church among
a quarter of million of Germans; in
Brooklyn they have two churches among
a population of sixty-fve thousand; in
Cincinnati two; in st. Louis one, and in
New Orleans one,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
SUNSET on THE nEAncAMr
BY JOHN @. WHITTIER.

A gold fringe on the purpling hem
OF hills the river runs,
As down its long, green valleys falls
The last Of summers suns.
Along Its tavny grayel-bed
Broad-foving, swift and still,
As If its meadow levels felt
The hurry of the hill,
Eoiseless between Its banks Of green
From curve to curve il slips;
The drovsy maple-shadows rest
Like fingers on Its lips.
A vaif from Carrolis widest hills,
Unstoried and unknown;
The ursine legend of its name
Provls on its banks alone.
Yet flowers as fair its slopes adorn
As ever Yarrev knew,
Or, under rainy Irish skies,
By Sponsors Mulla grew;
And through the gaps Of leaning trees
Its mountain cradle shows;
The gold against the amethyst
The green against the rose.
Touched by light that hath no name,
A glory never sung,
Aloft on sky aud mountain wall
Are Gods great pictures hung.
How changed the SUBMITS vast and old
No longer granite-browed,
They melt IN rosy mist; the rock
1ssofter than the cloud;
The valley holds Its breath: no leaf
OF all its elms Is twiried:
The silence Of eternity
Seems falling on the world.
The pause before the breaking seals
OF mystery is this;
Yon mfracls-play Of night and day
Makes dumb Its witnesses.
What unseen altar crowns the hills
That reach up stair on stair?
What eyes look through, what white wings
fan
These purple wells of ARR
What Presence from the heavenly heights
To those OF earth stoops DOWN.
Not Eaiply Hellas dreamed Of gods
On Ida's snowy crovni
Slow fades the vision Of the sky,
The golden water pales,
And over all the valley-land
Agray-vinged A vapor sails.
60 the common way Of all:
The sunset fires VIII burn,
The flowers will blow, the rivers how,
When no more return.
Nowhispef from the mountain pine
Nor apsing stream shau tell
The stranger, treading where tread,
OF him who loved them we'll
But beauty seen Is never lost,
God's eolors all are fast;
The glory Of this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed
A sense oi gladness uneonfued
To mortal date or cline;
As the soul nveth, II shall live
Beyond the years OF time.
Beside the mystic asphodels
Shall bloom The home-born flowers.
And new horizons flush and glow
With sunset hues Of ours.
Farewell these smiling hills must wear
Too soon their wintry frown,
And snow-cold winds from of them shake
The naples red leaves down.
But i shall see summer sun
still setting broad and low;
The mountain slopes shall blush and bloom
The golden water how,
A lovers claim Is mine on all
see to have and hold
The rose-Hght Of perpetual hills,
And sunsets never coldl
Atlantic Monthly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

Mn. TMLY, of Augusta, Georgia, chal-
longed Mr.. Ratclife to fight duel, and
the latter accepted. Mr.. Tilly heard Of
runnors rejecting upon his character asa
gentleman, and he traced such reports to
Mr.. Radcliffe, who expressed willingness
to fight it out, and the parties met. II
was reported by telegraph at the tim.
that Mr.. lilly was slightly wounded
but few nights after, after forgivinl
his murderer and repeating the Lord
prayer, he yielded up the ghost. Th.
local papers notice the occurrence, regre
the fatal termination of this honorabl,
affair, and carefully abstain from censur
ing the gentleman who was SO apt Will
his little pistol.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

An old woman, eighty-ene years of
age, was found, q few days ago, in a
swamp near Wallingford, Connecticut,
frozen to the ground and dead. Some
animal had eaten portion Of her neck,
but otherwise the body was intact. The
unfortunate old woman had relatives
they must be heartless people-who re-
fused to care for her, and spent her time
wandering about and begging. 1t issup-
posed that she lost her way, wandering
into the swamp, and died there alone Of
weariness and exposure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

LOVERS should be careful how they
actin the country, for potatoes have eyes,
corn has ears, and beanstalk.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

TIE adoption of the Constitutional
amendment in New Jersey, which inn
poses taxation on church property, is
creating stir among the clergymen of
all denominations. An effort is being
made to bring them into convention to
discuss the situation. The burden presses
heavily on all the churches, and it is
hoped that by united action the legisla-
ture may be induced to grant some relief
by passing measure which will, at all
events, exempt church buildingsthrough-
cut the State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

In regard to the reported sale of Fall
River print clothsin England, the follow
ing, We understand, are the facts: The
Fall River Millshaye not sold any goods
to 90 to Manchester, England. Their
agent who went there reported what he
Thought they could net there for some
goods, should they make the experiment,
and the mills decided to make about
twenty-five thousand pieces and send
them out on their own account. The
goods are to be twenty-six inches wide.
Good judges say there is no prospect Of
any outlet forprint cloths in Manchester,
unless at much lower prices.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

CoBwEBs have been applied to various
uses. The delicate eross-hairs in the
telescopes of surveying instruments are
fne webs taken from spiders Of species
that are specially selected for their pro-
duction of an excellent quality of this
material. The spider, when caught, is
made to spin his thread by tossing him
from hand to hand. In case he is indis-
posed to furnish the article, the end is
attached to piece of wire which is
doubled into two parallel lengths, the
distance apart exceeding little the dia.
meter Of the instrument. As the spide,
hangs and descends from this, the web i.
wound upon it by turning the wirt
around. The coils ars then gummed
to the wire and kept for Use as required
A GOOD story is told of a man who wa
sppointed custodian of he iag" of tn,
House of Representatives at Washington
The duties of the Office are to hoist tn
flag over the hall of Representatives a
the hour of meeting and to lower j
promptly after the adjournment. Th
fst day after his appointment, prompt
on time, he grasped the Stars and Stripe
and started for the roof of the Capitol t
hoist it. Unfortunately, however, o
reaching the garrett he found that
could not squeeze himself through th
small scuttle hole, consequently he had I
throwuphis appointment and little ma
was was appointed in bis place. If IL
first appointee has any influence amor
the members, an appropriation will SOC
be made for enlarging that scuttle hol
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

IT is stated that Bret Harte is a printer
by profession, and ten years ago worked
at the case on the Pacific coast. He was
in his eighteenth year when he took up
the composing stick in small newspaper
Office in Humboldt county, California,
having previously failed as clerk, school
teacher, and gold miner.
That the French are rapidly rising to
prosperity may be seen from the follow
ing figures, representing the income Of
Paris theate.s for the last eight years
In 1868 it amounted to $1,000, 900 francs
'69 to II, ,O00, 600; 10 (war) to 5000, 900;
in II (war) to 1000, 900; '72 to 1s,OoO,-
900; '73 to 10000, 900; in IA to q, ,OOO,-
600; and this year it will amount to 25,-
0O0,0 900 francs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30

One of the good results Of the Educa-
tion Act in London, which is based on
the American system, is that the attend
ance of scholars has increased from one
hundred and eighty thousand to two
hundred and eighty thousand; and this
has been done by hsrshness, for the
number of parents fined does not exceed
six thousand, and no fine has exceeded
five shillings. The frmness of the Lon
don School Board has resulted in saving
ono hundred thousand children from
growing up in Ignorance.
TEE people of Sonora, Mexico, are said
to be in destitute condition from inter
ference of the recent revolutionary trou-
bles with their agricultural pursuits.
Tho people are outspoken in favor of a
revolution. It is said that three hundred
troops would march successfully through
the country despite the State troops. The
Mexican Federal authorities are entirely
neutral in the contest now going On,
though they recognized the elections last
summer as legal.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-06-11

Pemberton, who murdered Mrs. Bing-
ham, in Boston, has been convicted Of
murder in the first degree, and doubtless
will soon be executed. The promptness
with which this case has been tried is
highly creditable A similar vigor in a
few cases of this kind may have salu-
tary influence. Piper, the alleged muir
derer of Mabel Young, is allsurrounded
with evidence of guilt, and has waived
examination. The more promptness in
this case the better.