The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
Schlenker buys his plated ware di-

About a dozen of the employees of
the circus were discharged at this
place and others employed. If they
had worn the blue it would not have
been thusly.
There was a monster Murphy meet
ing at Lewisburg on Saturday last
numbering at least 1000 persons
Two or three hundred signed the
pledge and the business goes on.
HENRY HATHAWAY died in Eaton
on Saturday morning last, in the 74th
year of his age. His remains were
taken to Spring Grove Cemetery on
on Tuesday morning for burial.
John Campbell, of Arcanum, o.,
has purchased the Quinn s. Co. grain
warehouse of of J. N. Lake, for $4,000.
The sale was made through the Agen-
cy of Farr & Barnhiser..
If further difficulty is found to
quell the riots in Cleveland and else
where, we would suggest to the Gov
ernor to call into service the "mud
batteries" of the REGISTER, under
command of the gallant Colonel.
Is the paper you now read your
own or your neighbors? If the form
er, all right; if the latter, drop it at
once and resolve to become a sub
scriber and read your own paper
hereafter.
Inasmuch as the Germans are more
destructive to cabbages than geese,
cattle or hogs, we understand the city
dads are about to pass an ordinance
to prevent them from running at
large in Eaton.
Capt. SHAW and lady will celebrate
their silver wedding at the S. s. S. o.
Home, Xenia, on the 18Th of August.
Thank you, Cap, if Butler don't get
into this State and steal all u old
silverware, we'll probably be tharl
Cedar Springs are nov enjoying a
host o fguests; among them we again
notice is u genial old friend T. c.
PHILIPS, Esq, the lively editor of the
Kokomo, Ind, TRIBUNE. This resort
is becoming as celebrated and popu-
lar as any in the country.
A western clergyman is asked to
vacate the pulpit because he has three
wives living and is suspected OF hav-
ing poisoned the fourth. Church peo-
pie are getting SO particular that after
while clergymen will not be permit
ted to have any enjoyment at all.
The circus tent was rendered to the
Murphy boys of this place to hold a
meeting in on last Sunday. About
1000 gathered into it and were adj
dressed by Jas. A. Gilmore and a
gentleman from Dayton. Manyjoin-
ed, among them fifteen or twenty at
taches of the circ IS.
About this season the thin young
man with a lofty brow, a melancholy
eye and the general appearance of a
dyspeptic undertaken, tits back the
sub-editorial chair and murmurs,
"nemme see-lemme secl Green
peaches, strawberries, pine apples
guess it's time to waltz out that Gu
cumber paragraph!"-
The "dog days" commenced on the
9th ult. This season lasts six weeks
and is regarded by many persons as
more unhealthy than that which i'm
mediately precedes or succeeds it, and
as beinga time when mankind are
more liable to attacks from disease
through exposure or imprudence in
their general habits.
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and
a gentle breeze, you a have friends
in plenty but let Fortune frown and
the armament be overcast, and then
your friends will prove like the
strings of lutte, of which you will
tighten before you will find one that
will. bear the stretch aud keep the
pitch.
JOHN W. WEsTERFIELD, of Ander-
son, Ind, who was born e mile east
of Eaton 81 years ago, is revisiting the
place of his birth. He says that there
has been wonderful improvements
made in Eaton and vicinity since he
left the place, 40 years &go. Of the
friends of his boyhood all have gone
to their long home, save three or four.
T. c. Philips, of Kokomo, Ind, is
sad because of the absence of Mr..
Gould, of Eaton. Both are editors,
the former a Republican, the latter a
Democrat. They have fought many
a battle at these Springs and are fast
friends. Philips drinks alone and
signs, "come back, Could"
The whippoorwm sings on the Sycamore tree,
:. And I'm at the Springs a waitin' for thee.
NEW PARIS AMATEUR.
"Hold the fort, for we're coming
Bro. Philips, with the bright and left
to assist you against friends Wark
and Mann.
Can any one tell why it is that the
soul of a young and pretty woman is
} more dear to the average Deacon than
that of squint-eyed woman with a
wart on her nose? When we have
seen a young and pretty woman &c
? up to the altar, we have noticed hall
t a dozen Deacons knock their head:
| together in their eagerness to whis'
per consolation to her bruised spirit
v But when the sq%uint-eyed woman
+ knelt down, only one Deacon wen
t near her, and he merely touched hel
on the shoulder and said, "Pray fer
ice