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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
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night of July 10, at twenty-six minutes
after ten o'clock, passing unconsciously
from the lethargic condition consequent
upon hyperdermic injections into the
last sleep. His death had been expected
for some time past, and it was matter
Of surprise that he survived 50 long.
Tie climax of his troubles was paralysis.
There were no. remarkable events con-
nected with his passing away. He died
without struggle. DR.. Dawson had
stated, early in the evening, that he
could not survive until midnight. The
Doctor reached the death-bed, in the
second-story front of the residence,
northeast corner of Third and Lawrence
streets, Cincinnati, a few minutes before
Mr.. Pugh's last breath was drawn, and
was there when he breathed his last.
Among those present were Mr.. Pugh's
children, Mena, Robert and Thomas
Key; his brother, VIM. Pugh his sister,
Mrs. Judge Hart, and the faithful
friends from Fire Company No. 10,
close by, .Chas. Hoon, Dan. Gallagher
and Captain sSkiltmeyer, who have been
his constant attendants and nurses dur
ing his sickness. He had had but few
rational moments in several days. His
disease was paralysis.
A few mornings since, at Cincinnati,
the body of boy was found lying on
the railroad track under Mill street
Bridge. The head was completely severed
from the trunk, and the body otherwise
horribly mutilated. He, with two other
boys, all Cleveland boot-blacks, were
trying to steal their way on the Cleve-
land train, having come to the city to
attend the races. The one who was
killed was named Thomas Kiday. He
resided on Pearl street, near William, in
Cleveland, and had formerly lived near
the draw-bridge in Toledo. he had
been in the habit of attending county
fairs and races for years, He was struck
by the Mill street bridge, which decapi-
tated him and his feet were afterward
cut. off by the train. One of his ears was
torn of and he was otherwise fearfully
mangled.
jackson W. Onderly, boy that killed
his father last September, during a
fight, at Defiance, has been sentenced to
seven years in the Penitentiary, for
manslaughter.
George and Gustayus Wachter, two
young men of Lancaster, were arrested
the other morning, charged with at
tacking Flagg Carlisle one night about a
month since, with intention Of robbing
him. Desperate attemps were made by
one of the robbers to knife Carlisle, but
he escaped serious injury.
While charging barrel Of seltzer-
water at Sachs and Pruden's drugstore
in Dayton, Augustus Sachs, brother of
the senior proprietor, was instantly
killed by the explosion of the vessel in
which the Seltzer was confined. A
coupling from the connecting tube struck
him under the chin and passed up into
the brain.
Elias Cope, of Van Vert, committed
suicide, by jumping into a well and
drowning himself. He with his father
were stopping over night with D. E;
Harnley. His father awoke about three
o'clock in the morning and missed him,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

THERE were one thousand more deaths
st Boston in 1875 than in 1874, and DIR.
A.sP. Richardson says it is in the main
owing to the opening of sewers to admit
drains, as the Council in 1874 prohibited
water from roofs to be turned into the
streets. He estimates that there are
96, ,552 of these openings; and says that
while formerly Beacon Hill was pro-
verbally healthy in the summer months,
every inch of air is now impregnated
with sewer gases.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
How Custer was Killed.

fAlbany Argus.l
Total number of troops in the regular army 26 97e
Number Of troops dragooning the South....... 1852
Number of troops at recruiting stations...-.. 42i6
Number of troops in Northern forts and posts s6s
Number of troops with Custsr-............... "26.
"An massacred.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
on the HfId Rose Tree.

On the WfId Rose Tree.
On the wild rose tree
Many buds there be;
Yet each sunny hour
Hath but one perfect hour.
Thou who wouldst be wisei
Open well thine eyes;
In each sunny hour
Pluck the one perfect flower.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
THREE sUnMER SONGS.
BY R. W. GLIDER.
4 SONG Of the Early seaso,

A Song of the EARLY Season.
Not yet the orchard lifted
It's cloudy bloom to the sky,
Nor through the dim twilight drifted
The villow-whistle's cry;
The gray rock had not made
OF the vine its glistening kirtle,
Nor shook meath the locust's shade
The purple bells Of the myrtle;
Ere, awake in the darkling night,
You hear in the chimney hollow
The booming whir of the swallow,
And the twitter that follows the flight;
Before the foamy whitening
OF the water below the mill;
Ere yet the summer lightning
Shone red at the edge of the hill
know without something human
A song like this is vain;
For earth without man or woman
Is Hamlet without the Dane;
But in fact have no story;
You must wait till another time;
But summer Is in its glory,
And can not keep from rhyme.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

FALsEHooD could do little mischief, if
it did not gain the credit of truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
Travelling CIOakS.

The Centennial year will bring travel
ing cloaks into demand, and furnishing
houses have provided number Of styles
and various qualities First are large cir
culars of striped cloths, very soft and of
pure wool. The stripes are three inches
broad, and the garment is cut to make the
stripes bias. These are shown in navy
blue and black stripes, gray with black,
and black with white. The price is twenty
three or twenty four dollars. Ladies who
object to circulars because the hands are
not free in them, choose Ulster cloaks, or
else long double breasted redingotes.
Stylish listers are of gray mixed tweed,
with the fullness necessary for the back
given by pleats in the middle of the back
that look like reversed Vatican pleats.
The trimming is black binding, and the
buttons are of substantial ivory. Price
from fifteen to twenty-five dollars. Again
there are long cloaks with Ulster backs, belt
ed in, and the double breasted fronts of the
redingote. These are admirable garments,
provided with a hood, pockets, belts,
straps for looping, if necessary, made of
substantial stuff, with strong buttons, and
are altogether as simple and as convenient
as the overcoats worn by gentlemen. Some
have breast pockets for the hands, others
have side pockets with flaps that button
over and make their contents safe. There
are also handsome travelling cloaks in the
1verness shape, giving an ample circular
with a deep cape in front, and having
armholes. The fronts may be buttoned
back toward the sides, or they may be
doubled on the breast, as the season re
quires. They also have simply shaped
square hoods that are capable of being
changed into several shapes by merely
pulling the cords and tassel that trim
them. -Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
The Signers Of the Declaration OF
Independence.

THE following facts respecting the per-
sonality of the illustrious men who imper-
lied their property, their liberty and their
lives by attaching their signatures to that
instrument which established our National
independence will be read with interest
as the Centennial anniversary of the day
which witnessed the act draws near:
The thirteen States then comprising
the American colonies were represented
in the assemblage that passed the measure
by fifty-one members. Thirtv-seven en-
joyed the benefits Of collegiate training
twenty were lawyers; four were physi-
clans; five were clergymen; three were
farmers, and the remainder were engaged
in various mercantile pursuits, except
Roger Sherman, the shoemaker, and Ben
jamin Franklin, who boosted of being a
printer, yet was statesman and a philos-
opher. Benjamin Franklin was the old
est among the members and Edward Rut-
ledge the youngest. Robert Morris was
the most opulent and was the financier of
the Administration, negotiating extensive
loans for the use of the Government upon
his personal credit. He died in prison,
having been incarcerated for debt; beau
titul commentary on those laws that made
no discrimination between the honest but
unfortunate debtor and the convicted
felon. Daniel Adams was the most
needy, his impoverished condition being
well known. The management of his
pecuniary affairs made it necessary for
him to seek burial at the public expense.
Josiah Bartlett was the first to vote for the
measure, and first after President Hancock
to sign the document. Two of the num-
Der, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson,
were subsequently Presidents. Ii is re-
markable fact that these two men, having
been Presidents, associated on the COM
msttee that framed the Declaration of In
dependence, and the first recognized lead.
ers Of two great political factions of our
country, died on the same day, the fourth
of July, 1926, the fiftieth anniversary of
the day upon which they had contributed
so much to the welfare of their country
men. Charles Carroll was the only men,
Der that added his place of residence, and
the reason Of its being done in that in
stance is somewhat peculiar. The patriots
that formed that convention knew full
we'll that by their action on that day they
hazarded their lives. When Carroll was
signing some one near him remarked, che
will get off, there are so many CAROLS
they will not know which to take" " Not
So" replied he, and Immediately added
"of Carrollton." He lived to see all the
memorable men with whom he acted on
that eventful day pass away, and enjoyed
the prosperity of his country until 1882,
when he died in his ninety fifth year
Boston Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13

which the supposed volcano is thought to
be located.
am informed that Judge Bell, of this
place, and others are now making a fresh
attempt to penetrate to this mysterious
phenomenon, and discover its true char
acter. Judge White, of Quincy, man of
large literary culture, has led several ex-
petitions to that region, but in every in
stance failed to effect an entrance through
the closely interviewer and impenetrable
underground of the center of the swamp,
where the volcano is situated While
some of these attempts have been feeble
and inefficient, others have been well or
gained and equipped, and led by men of
experience and fXedness of purpose.
Judge White had an observatory which
he could place in the tree tops to guide
him in the right course. And yet this
undiscovered bourne" remains untrOd-
den by the foot Of modern traveller; at
least none have ever returned to report its
mystery. One thing is certain, now that
the Okefenokee Swamp has been " done
up'' for the reading public, that another
twelve months will not pass without wit
Messing the successful unfolding Of this
mystery .-NOnt5ceIlo (FEa.) Cor. Sa0a1anah
NeloS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
Dairy Schools i'm Denmark.
IN connection with agricultural schools

IN connection with agricultural schools
there have been instituted in Denmark
schools for the education of girls in all
that pertains to dairy. There are six
such schools in Denmark, all very pros
porous. One of the principal of these is
the Thune Landbrugs Skole," or agri-
cultural school of Thune.
Attached to the school are about hun
dred acres Of land with a dairy of twenty
cows, but adjoining is farm of 100 to
140 COWS, of the Angelo kind, which was
brought into notice at the French Univer-
sal Exposition in 1856. This institution
is open for boys from Nov 10Th to Aug
LIST, and for girls from Sept. 1st to Nov.
list. The girls for two months board
and tuition pay the low charge of thirty
five Danish crowns, or about eighteen
dollars.
A French writer who visited this insti-
tuition found in attendance sixty-two beau
tiful and vigorous young girls. During
the morning they were engaged in the
dairy Twelve, in four sets of three
each, received hundred quarts of milk
wherewith to make cheese. Others were
engaged at the churn. Each girl goes
through all the processes connected with
milking and the use of milk, and these
are fully and clearly explained by the
teachers.
n the afternoon, the girls are taught to
reckon and keep accounts. They are also
especially instructed IN natural history,
the physiology of the COW, the best kinds
of nutrlment, the function of the man.
mary glands, etc. They also spend a
good deal of the time in singing.
These schools are of great advantage to
the health and practical knowledge and
skill of the future wives and mothers of
Denmark In their general features they
seem well worthy of imitation. In one
particular their example is especially val
liable One of their chief aims is to in
culcate in the girls feeling of patriotism
or love of country. They teach them
that the permanent welfare of a land de-
pends in great measure on its agriculture,
and lead them to cherish a preference for
a rural life rather than the greater luxury,
but weaker health and more frequent vi
cissitudes, of a crowded city. 1t would
indeed be well if by some means a similar
lesson could be impressed on the minds
of the ma;dens of our own land, who are
far too ready to seek a home in the cities,
and thus to draw the young men thither
also.-Y0u.h's Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
DIR. Schenck,s Standard Remedies.

THE standard remedies for all diseases of the
lungs are SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, ScHENCK' IS
SEA WEED Tonic and SCHENCK's MANDRAKE
PILLS. and if taken before the lungs destroyed
a speedy cure is effected
To these three medicines DR.. j. 81. Schenck of
Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled success in the
treatment of pulmonary diseases.
The Pulmonic Syrup rpens the morbid matter
in the lungs; nature throws it Off by an easy ex-
pectoration, for when the phlegm or matter is ripe
slight cough will throw it off, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin to heal.
To enable the Pulmonic Syrup to do this,
Schenck's Mandrake Pills and Schencks Sea
Weed Tonic must be freely used to cleanse the
stomach and liver. Schenck's Mandrake Pills act
on the liver, removing all Instructions, relax the
gallbladder the bile starts freely and the liver is
soon relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weeu Tonic is gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alka Of which it is composed,
mixes with the food and prevents souring. 1t as
sists the digestion by toning up the stomach to a
healthy condition. that the food and the Pull
monte Syrup will make good blood; then the lungs
heal, and the patient will surely get well if care is
taken to prevent fresh cold.
All who wish to consult DR.. Screnck, either per-
s0nally or by letter do at his principal of
flee, corner of SIXTH and ARCH Sis, Philadelphia
every Monday.
Schenck's medicines are sold by all druggists
throughout the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
Calves and Babies.

AN acquaintance once complained to
ne that when she took her children into the
country in pursuit of fresh air and whole
some food for them, she couldn't get the
the latter from the farmers folks where
she boarded, because the calves had to
have the best of everything. There was
plenty of milk brought in and strained
every night, but only the most meager
supply was grudgingly allowed to her and
her children. They could have all the
butter they wanted, but the milk was all
needed for the calves, and the cream
skinned from it before it went back to
the calves was all needed for butter Fine
flour bread and butter, with plenty of
cake and pie, were set before them freely,
but she wanted something better for her
growing children. 1t was vain to ask for
oatmeal or graham fare, which would
furnish something to strengthen the little
ones as well as to fatten them. But when
she discovered quantity of canaille, or
middlings, she thought perhaps the chill
dren could have some made into porridge
to exc out their poor little suppers But
no! The calves did not have enough
milk, though they took it all, and the
canaille had been brought home for their
use. Stock-raising was profitable in that
part of the country, but no one seemed to
think of applying to the rearing of chill
dren the same commOn-sense rules that
were understood and accepted in respect
to raising calves. No one would have
thought it so good for the four-footed
babies to feed them on fine flour bread,
and cream, as to give them porridge made
of shorts and skinned milk, even though
sour. Four-footed babies are treated on
scientific principles, while precious hui
man babies take their chances from ig-
norant and hap-hazard treatment.-Fa5th
Rochester, IN american Agricu!turist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

PLAIN FAMILY PAsTE.-Two pounds of
flour, half pound of butter, half pound
of lard; mix as directed for puff paste
This makes very good paste for ordinary
use.
SAGo PUDDING.-Two large spoonfuls
of sage boiled in one quart Of milk, the
peel of lemon, little nutmeg; when cool
add four eggs and little salt. Bake
about one hour and a half. Eat with sugar
and cream.
SHORT CAKE.-One cup porridge, one
cup water, and one and a-half cups barley
meal or wheat meal (Graham -four. Make
into cake not more than half an inch
thick and bake fifteen or twenty minutes
in hot oven.
GINGER SNAPs.-One pint of molasses,
one cup Of sugar, one cup Of butter or lard,
one tablespoonful of ginger and cloves
each, one tablespoonful of cayenne pep
per; flour enough to roll out very thin.
Bake on flat tins.
BREAD BALL.-Break the bread in small
pieces, and mOisten with milk or little
warm water, season with salt, pepper and
nutmeg, adding little fine sage or parsley
and small piece of butter, mix and form
into small cakes or balls; roast with
beef or chickens, or fry after meat in a
skillet
POTATO PUFFs.-One pint of milk
boiled, one-fourth pound of butter or
lard, one tablespoonful Of sugar, six good
potatoes mashed hot, flour to make a
thick batter. Let rise very light, then
knead into soft dough, roll thin, put two
together; let rise two hours and bake in
hot oven.
REMEDY FOR EARACHE.-There is
scarcely any ache to which children are
subject, SO bad to bear and difficult to
cure, as the earache. But there is a rem
edy, never known to fail Take a bit of
cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of
black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip
in sweet oil, and insert into the ear. Put
flannel bandage over the head to keep it
warm. 1t will give immediate relief =
Rural Neao Yorker
CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA "A correspond
ent of the Boston Journal writes that he
has used the following remedy for diph-
iberia in great many hard cases, and in
not one has it failed to effect cure. 1t
is as follows: Procure some pitch tar
not gas tar-put little on hot iron, in
vert tunnel over the smoke, and let the
patient inhale as much as he can without
strangling, for few minutes, five or six
times day. During the intervals let the
patient have small pieces of ice to keep as
near the root of the tongue as possible.
a WRITER in the Maine Farmer Civ es
this recipe for coloring brown: Steep
hot, but not boil, one-half bushel butter
nut bark, until the strength is out. Then
steep the goods one hour and air; then
put in and steep one-half hour and let
them cool. Add one ounce copperas to
the liquor and bring it to boil If not
dark enough, use more copperas. Various
shades may be produced in this dye by
varying the bark and copperas One part
butternut and one part walnut bark an
swers well for brown. The above is for
four pounds Of goods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13

Broom corn requires rich soil; bottom
land is the best, and it should be as free
from grass as possible. The reason for
choosing clean land will appear plain to a
man who has raised a crop. The ground
should be well plOwed and made per-
fectly fine with the harrow, then marked
out with shallow marks, if to be planted
by hand, so as to not to get the seed too
deep in the ground; but the best plan is
to plant with drill The stalks must be
as close as five or six inches, to prevent
the straw from becoming too heavy. Of
course it cannot be drilled with much
regularity, but must be cut out with the
hoe to the right distance when small. 1t
is like sorghum, grows slow while small,
and on most land it is positively necessary
to hoe the grass out, which gives a good
opportunity for cutting out to the right
distance. After this is done the cultiva-
ton is similar to that Of corn. When the
seed begins to fill the straw will bend
over from the weight, and to prevent this
the full force of hands must pe put in to
UICcth J41C oIuIho OfCIJ say lCu VI GhSIhC
inches from where the straw grows out,
or more properly the head. The weight
Of the seed will then, by hanging down,
keep the straw straight.
Now comes the busy season, and the
time when labor and care will add much
to the value Of the crop. The green straw
being altogether the most valuable, it is
important that it be cut before it begins
to turn red, and dried in the shade. To
do this a shed is necessary, with shelves
on which to lay it, say six inches deep;
and enough hands be employed to cut the
crop before any or much of it turns red.
The seed is stripped by means of ma
chine made for the purpose, with two
cylinders between which the corn is held
in handsful. The process is very rapid,
only an instant being necessary to knock
the seed off, The corn is baled before
being sent to market. The price is very
1uctuating, running from $50 to $3.50 per
ton. We have seen new sod broken and
drilled in every second furrow, which
made half ton to the acre, without cult
Northumberland Of agriculture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13

Two Important Discoveries! The dis
covery of America by Columbus, and DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery; the one
opening up to mankind new continent, the
other fountain Of health, which is indis-
pensable to the full enjoyment Of life and
its blessings. In response to the above SEN
timent come the unsolicited attestations of
tens of thousands of grateful patients, who
have been relieved of chronic ailments
through its fundamentally. Those voices
are limited to no one locality, but from
every city, village, and hamlet, in our broad
domain, as well as from other chimes, and in
the strange utterances of foreign tongues,
like the confused murmur of many waters.
come unfeigned and hearty Communications,
It is, in combination with the Pleasant Bur
gative Pellets, the great depurator of the
age. Under its benign action eruptions dis
appear, excessive waste is checked the
nerves are strengthened, and health, long
banished from the system, resumes her
reign and re-establishes her roseate throne
upon the check. All who have thoroughly
tested its virtues in the diseases for which it
is recommer ded unite in pronouncing it the
great Medical Discovery of the age.