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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-05-22
SHERIFF. sHElRllFF's SALE
William D. Lowry /.
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DY virtue Of certain order Of sale issued
ID from the court Of common pleas within
and for the county Of Monroe, and stats Of
Ohio, in case pending in said court bstween
the above named parties; and to me directed,
| will ofer for sale at public auction At the
east door Of the court house In Wscdsaeld.en
Saturday. the 10th dayof june, 1877,
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock .. n. and 4
O'Clock p. M. Of said day, the following de-
scribed real estate situate in Monroe county;
Ohio to wit: tslossi9 slsiA ~ gffaat
Lot number forty -eigh, IN the town Of
Calais, :. = ~
Said property SO ordered to be. sold h sp-
praised at S and may sell for two
thirds Of SAID appraisement. Terms Of sale.
Cash.
7. o. LITTLK,
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N. HoLLlsrEB, Atty for Plaintiff z
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BLACKSMITH.
Wagon Making and BlackSmithing

Nls u Ce LEGZEklHERs
W DSFIE e D, OHIO.
WE have opened Wagon Making and
w Blacksmith Shop in the Foundry
Building on the east side Of town, where we
are prepared 10 manufacture
Farm and Spring Wagons
OF the latest and bes. styles. Also, will re
pair wagons and carriages on short notice.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED. J
Wheels and woodwork tor wagons froned
and iron for wagons and carriages furnished
at market rates. rrfG7N p e
We are Agents for the Oliver Chilled Iron
Plows, Kvery one warranted,
Special attention will be given to shoeing
horses. Give us call.
may23,'76Y. M& c. LETzELTER.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-05-22
Wool Carding and Spinning.
AtMaury's Mills on SunfisIi Creek.

'THH undersigned, Fred Maury and John
L Graham, having added additional ma
chinery to their Cardins establishment, on
Sunfsh Creek, miles from Clarington, are
prepared to do
CardiDg and Spinning In the Best
Manner.
Wool will be received and delivered at the
following places. without additional charge:
Woodsfeld, st ]. Reiuhsrr's.
Miltonsburg, at the store Of Samuel Groux.
Jerusalem, at the store of Gatchell Moore.
Beallsville, at the store Of W. II. Hutch
inson 4 Co.
Cameron, at the stores Of George Supper
and c. Pontius.
The Superintendent, John Graham, has had
a number of years experience in the busi.
ness, and all work at this establishment will
be warranted done in first class manner. n
q Zach person can receive their own wool.
MAUHY K GRAHAM, -
ESs4e Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio.
mayS,'77mS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
Recent Railroad Casualties.

Thomas Melville, an old citizen of Kent,
Ohio, was run over and instantly killed, in
attempting to cross the railway track in
front of an approaching switch engine. He
was sixty years of age, and leaves a wife and
one unmarried daughter.
Morley Baman, a laborer aged about
thirty, was killed and horribly mutilated by
the Panhandle passenger train, going
south, near Kokomo (Ind. Junction. He is
believed to have been intoxicated, and fallen
asleep on the track.
A few nights ago, at Steubenville, Ohio, a
young man named Henry Sutcliffe laid down
on the track of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and st. Louis Railway, and was run over by
a freight train, being literally torn to pieces,
He is supposed to have been intoxicated.
The Philadelphia and Erie mail train
north, due at Muncy, Penn, at AS, Septem'
Der 10, came into collision with a freight train
near that place. The baggage and express
cars, with their contents, were destroyed by
fire. The express messenger, Jacob Steiman
and the engineer, William Attick, wert
burned to death in the wreck. Two cars O.
wheat and several coal oil tanks were alst
burned.
Fred Graham, a brakeman on a DUNN.
engine No. 8, of the Cleveland Rolling Mil
Company, while working in the yards wa
caught between two cars, one of which wa
loaded with track rails projecting over tn
end of the car, and very badly crushed. HI
was carried into a house, and a physician
summoned, who dressed his wounds but ex
pressed doubt as to his recovery.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
The Nez Perces.

General Sheridan is in receipt of the
official report of the battle of Big Hole,
Montana, August 9, and of the operations in
that district preceding the battle.
Colonel Gibbon reflects severely on the
inhabitants of Montana, who sustained the
murderous Nez Perces by trading off
provisions to them for stock stolen by them
from whites, and thus prolonging their
fight and adding to the danger of pursuit.
The best estimate of their strength give
them two hundred and sixty warriors well
armed and equipped. By forced marches
Gibbon came up with the hostiles with a
command of seventeen officers, one hundred
and sixty-two men, and thirty-four citizens.
The attack was made late at night, the
Indians being completely surprised, but
they Immediately sought the bushes for
shelter, and poured their volleys into the
troops. AS the latter came into open
ground they did considerable execution,
however. In twenty minutes the whole
camp was in possession of the troops. The
Indians being driven out still shot with
deadly effect at long range. By a change Of
base, shelter was obtained, and retaliatory
ton of Indian life.
The Indians meantime had captured tn,
howitzer which was coming on under escor
and on muleback, the two p~rivates wht
were with it fleeing incontirently and leav
ing the officers to an unequal fight. During
the day various s~trategies were employed
but it was IL o'clock at night before tn,
Indians finally withdrew.
On the 18th the lead were buried. Gen
eral Howard came up that day, but too lat
to render any assistance.
The report speaks in terms of highes
praise of the conduct of the officers ant
men, and mentions only few Of the kille'
and wounded as chiefly noteworthy TO
bravery. A complete list is appended
showing twenty-nine killed and fort
wounded. The burial party reported eighty
three dead Indians found on the field an
six more found dead in a ravine some dis
lance from the battlefield.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
TWeed's Examination

At New York, on September IS, Tweed
testified that 100000 was paid the Board of
Aldermen for confirmation of Peter B.
Sweeney as City Chamberlain. He paid
Thomas Cowan, President of the Board of
Aldermen, $4,000 or 100000 to pass a
resolution directing Controller to issue
bonds for q million and a half for the
Brooklyn Bridge, of which he was a Trustee
and stakeholder. In reply to the question
whether he ever suggested to any persons
to falsify the results of ballots, he
answered that he gave instructions to that
end to different men who controlled
the wards, but it would be impossible
to name them. Nearly all the men con
nected with Tammany Hall from 1868 until
the ring broke up had more or less to dc
with that business. In regard to the re
ported meeting of the Board Of Audit, al
which claims amounting to millions of dol
lars were passed, Tweed said the meeting was
never held, but claims were passed notwith
standing.
Tweed received q paper relating to the
career of John Morrisey, stating that he had
been indicted for assault with intent to xii
in 1S4S in Troy, and in the following yeal
for burglary, and sentenced to Jail; also
that he served in the p~enitentiary fol
several breaches of peace, and that he ha'
been professional prize fighter and gam
bier. The paper was read in reply to crit
cisms of Morrissey on Tweed.
The investigation was adjourned to Fri
day,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
A Coat Lined with Money.

A war correspondent writes: Comedy
goes side by side with tragedy here as
everywhere, and even at a time like this
men can laugh. A Jew, who has come
down from Eski-Saghra, is in a con-
dition of much perplexity about the
means to be adopted for the recovery of
a stolen coat. Anticipating evil times
in Eski-Saghra, the Jew had sewn up
his money in the lining of his heaviest
fur overcoat, and with this held himself
ready to leave town at any moment.
Somehow when the dreaded time ar
| rived he missed the coat, and had to
come down here without it. Walking
about the streets of Adrianople, he de-
serted this very coat upon the Shout
ders of a big Circassian, with whom he
entered into humble parley for its re-
covery, protesting to have taken a great
fancy to it, and offering a most un-Jew-
like price for it. While he pretended
to examine and admire the fur, he
ascertained by touch that his money re-
manned undisturbed. The C~ircassian
declined to sell, and the Jew then put in
a claim as owner of the coat, and
succeeded in bringing the Circassian
before the Governor of the town. The
Governor declined to consider the Jews
claim proved. and that hapless Hebrew
is now following the Circassian like q
second shadow, beseeching him with
perpetual iteration to strike a bargain
1t rests on Rochefoucauld's authority
that a man can always enjoy the misfor
tunes of his friends, and the friends o.
this especial Hebrew seem to fine
some consolation for their own sor
rows in watching and laughing at tn,
countless ruses and maneuvers will
which Jewish ingenuity inspires tn
hunter of the coat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
Tweed.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-At the examina.
ton of Wm. NJ. Tweed before the Investi-
eating Committee of Aldermen, he stated
that the Directors of the Erie Railway of
1869, Gould and Fisk, called on him about an
injunction they wanted against Vanderbilt.
He called on Judge Barnard, who granted
the injunction as a matter of friendship to
him. For this they made the
witness a stakeholder in 1869. After this
he lobbied for bills for the Erie Company,
at Albany, as their agent, but can not recOl-
lect for what bills. The witness attended
to the Senate and Barbour to the Assembly.
He received money from Fisk and Gould to
influence the Legislature.
Some hundred thousand dollars were
spent on the Legislature to carry the 1870
tax levy. He paid the following members
of the Senate to vote for it: VIM. II. Ora.
ham, Happening, Morris, Winslow, Wood
and Bowen. Money was also paid for rail
road bills that year to the Transcript, of New
York, an association composed of Cornelius
Carson, Peter B. Sweeney, and himself.
They were in the New York Printing Com.
pany, and some % per cent. was added to
their bills. Their capital was $4,000 each,
and their dividends ranged from $4,000 to
100000 each. His testimony before the
Legislative Committee was false. He refused
to testify before the Senate Committee last
spring. He now testified because he thought
the Committee could compel him to do SO.
The Aldermen then notified the witness to
be ready to testify about the Tammany Hall
General Committee.
Adjourned till next Friday.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
Mashlngtoni

The Secretary of the Treasury lately re-
eeived from New York, from an unknown
person, 1851 for an error in the income re-
turns for 1866 and 1866, and an omission in
1870. The Secretary placed the same to the
credit of the conscience fund.
The Indian Commissionership has been
offered to E. R. Hoyt, of New York, and he
has accepted. Mr.. Hoyt, for six years, has
been the proprietor of the Christian Lnteui
gencer newspaper, of New York City,
journal devoted to the interests of the Dutch
Reform Church, and for some time past has
been President of the U. S. Dairy Company
which is engaged in the manufacture and
expectation of the product known a
oleomargarine, or butter from tallow. HI
has had considerable knowledge of Indian
matters as a member of the Board of Indian
Commissioners.
The accounts of the four-and-half-per
cent. loan have been closed. The who'll
amount is s2OO,OOO,OOO $1s5,OOO,OOO for re
funding purposes, and $15,00O,0OO 70
resumption purposes, and will appear il
the next debt statement.
The Treasury Department had upon tn
Union Pacific Railroad train, recent,
robbed in Wyoming, 100000 ounces o
silver bullion. This was in large bars, an,
so heavy that the robbers were unable t
carry it with them, and not an ounce wa
lost
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
War on John Chinaman.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1S.-Last night the
entire Chinese quarters of Grass Valley, ex-
cept one house, was burned. Over forty
buildings were destroyed, supposed by an
incendary. An attempt was made to
accomplish the same purpose a few days
ago.
This morning a body of armed men left
Roseyille, Placer County, and proceeded up
the Mount Auburn road, warning all the
Cinnamon, numbering some sixty, in seven
camps visited, to leave before midnight
under penalty of death. Some left at once.
Twelve at Burdock's Camp refused to leave,
though threatened. The proceedings were
conducted quietly, and no violence offered.
1t is believed by Wednesday not a China
man will remain in Township No L.
The refugees are mostly gathering at Fol-
som.
The following dispatch was telegraphed
to-day, after consultation with a number of
leading citizens, to his EXcellency, Cover
nor Irwin, Sacramento: al exceedingly re-
greet the necessity of calling your attention
to the lawlessness and mob violence now,
as for several days past taking place in the
immediate vicinity of the State Capital in
the adjoining county of Placer. l fail to
notice that the authorities of that county
have as yet made any attempt to suppress
armed bodies of men engaged in driving
out and burning property of Chinese resi-
dents. l desire to remind your Excellency
that in a letter addressed to the Committee
of Safety, you took occasion to intimate to
that body that prompt action taken by
them prevented lawless acts from becoming
wide spread. l simply call your attention
now to the lawlessness taking place in
Placer County, that you may, by your
promptness as Chief Executive of this State,
prevent these outrages from becoming wide
spread. have no desire to point out your
plain duty; you have abundant precedent
by recent occurrences, whereby the State
and national authority have put down mob
violence. Justice and humanity demand
at your hands that protection accorded
under our government to high and low, even
Cinnamon, who have come here under
solemn treaty obligations, have a right to
demand that their lives and property shall
be protected the same as that of citizens of
the most favored nation.
Respectfully,
[Signed.l Of. A. Bee"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27

AN English gentleman pointed out in
a recent lecture hat health and long life
are not always joined together, neither
are health and great muscular strength.
He said: The most muscular men,
great prize-fighters, men who could fell
an OK with their fists, have been known
to be always ailing and complaining
training, regarded by those who know
little of it as a condition of most perfect
health, is rather one of morbid immi-
fence. Longevity, like height, is a rare
attribute, but it does not signify health.
The three Oldest people 1 yer knew,
women who reached respectively eighty.
nine, ninety-eight and a hundred, were
valetudinarians, and had been so nearly
all their lives.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
Ceneraii

President Hayes was received by i'm
rsense crowds of people at Cincinnati, on
the night of September Is, and made a
speech from the Gibson House. On Monday
morning, he started with his suite for
Louisville, to attend the Exhibition there.
The dispatch says his arrival in the Falls
Citycaused an entire suspension ofbusiness,
and an assemblage about the depot where
the party arrived, and along the streets
followed on the route to the hotel, such as
was perhaps never previously seen in
Louisville. The great bridge leading into
Louisville over the Ohio was appropriately
and elegantly decorated with national and
patriotic notices, of rich and beautiful de-
sign. Houses Of allkinds along the route of
procession were also handsomely decorated
with evergreens and colors combined into
popular sentiments, etc. At the Gait House,
speeches were made by President Hayes,
Secretary Hayes, Wade Hampton, Governor
Van Zandt, of Rhode Island, General Key,
and Secretaries McCrary, Evarts and
Schurz.
The National Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Firemen, in the recent session at In
d~ianapolis, elected the following officers:
Grand Master, NJ. B. Allen, Louisville, KY;
Vice Grand Master, w. 7. Goundie, Philadel-
phia Grand Secretary and Treasurer, W. N.
Sayre, Indianapolis; Grand Warden, John
Savage, Lynn, Mass; Grand Conductor,
Charles Pope, Toronto, Canada; Grand
Inner Guard, c. G. Swan, Buffalo, N. Y;
Grand Outer Guard, W. Cowles, Camden, N.
j.; Grand Chaplain, NJ. Barphi, In
dianapolis; Grand Marshal, E. V. Debs,
Terre Haute.
Yellow fever is prevailing at Fernandina,
Florida. Jacksonville is enforcing the
s~trictest quarantine. The city is guarded
by volunteers night and day, to prevent re-
fugees from Fernandina entering the city
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
Adjourned till next Friday.

Col. JAMES B. EADs prints a card to
correct the report that he is planning a
bridge over the Bosphorus. He says:
"When in Constantinople, three years
ago, I was requested by the Grand Vizier
to furnish the Ottoman Government
with plans and estimate of the cost of
such a bridge. These were prepared
and forwarded about two and a half
years ago, but as a change of ministers
occurred soon after in that government,
and the grant to improve the mouth Of
the Mississippi was passed by Congress,
the subject has received no further at
tention from me-"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
The South.

Horace F. Smith, General Freight Agent
Of the L., N. & G. A. R. R., at Memphis, who
was supposed to have been drowned in the
Mississippi, while out rowing in a skif,, last
june, and for whose body a large reward
was offered, has written a letter from Texas,
stating that he is alive and well, and
penitent. The news creates considerable
excitement at Memphis, as no possible
cause for his action can be imagined.
Entire abundant crops of cotton corn and
fodder in the Valley Of the Black Warrior,
Alabama, was swept away by the rivers sud.
den rise of sixty-three feet, which is within
two feet of the terrible freshet of June,
1872. Planters had just commenced pick.
ing cotton, and had not yet hauled in theil
cotton and fodder from the fields. The cot
ton crop destroyed is estimated at thirty
thousand bales. Most of the planters are
ruined. / 1t is doubtful if the actual
neeessaries of life can be secured now. The
Tuscaloosa region is about devastated. Mer
chants had advanced heavily on these grow
ing crops,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
Fires.

A recent fire at Chicago destroyed the
Union Planning Mill, corner of Twenty
second and Fisk Streets, infieting a loss of
$4,000, with insurance of $4,000, dis
tributed among twelve companies. About
5000 worth of lumber was also burned.
The same fire destroyed six dry kilns be-
longing to 7. W. Harvey's planning mill.
Loss about $4,000; no insurance. The fire
burned about two hours.
Anew mornings since, a fire broke out in
Lawler, Chickasaw County, Iowa, which
destroyed twenty-six business houses and
i've grain warehouses. Loss, $4,000. In.
surance unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
The West.

The Sitting Bull Commission, consisting
of General Terry, General Lawrence, of
Rhode Island, and General Corbin, of Ohio,
Secretary of the Commission, went West a
few days ago. They go to Ogden, from
thence to Fort Shaw, and from Fort Shaw
some one hundred and fifty or two hundred
miles to Sitting Bulls rendezvous. Probably
nothing will be heard from them for twenty
Eve days after their departure from Fort
Shaw.
kilograms received at military headquar-
tiers September IS, give details of the pre-
liminary movements in the recent engage
ment between Col. Sturgis and the Nez
Perees. The Indians were, according to
these dispatches, well surrounded, having
Howard and Merritt on either side, and
Sturgis on the flank, S~turgis's, however,
being the only command which struck the
hostiles. The Indians attempted to secure
a junction with a band of hostile Sioux,
but were intercepted. Gen. Howard tele-
graphs that they buried, on the 18th inst,
four unknown citizens, probably scouts,
killed Just in advance of the regulars. The
stories of the Crows infdelity are de-
nounced as sensational. The Crows are
loyal, and have done good, active service
with Sturgis. The reports of the battle are
not yet complete, and no list of casualties
is given.
An Omaha dispatch says that the Union
Pacific express car was robbed at Big
Springs, a few days ago. The express car
$1,000 L. Lo1f . I1,a, ,,aaIaJ n a
with drawn revolvers, who threatened to
shoot the messenger, Miller, compelled him
to unlock the safe, containing sixty thou
sand dollars in gold coin, and succeeded in
escaping with the whole amount. The tele-
graph operator was compelled to break his
instruments to prevent his reporting the
occurrence. About a dozen men were in
the party. They went northward, but this
is believed to be a feint and it is suspected
that their ultimate destination is southwark.
E. Morsman, Superintendent of the q. P.
Express, offers ten thousand dollars reward
for the capture of the parties, and for the
return Of the money. A pro rata of said re.
ward will be paid for the return ola portion
of the money, or the capture of any of the
men.
General Sturgis writes under date of Mus.
sells Hill, September 18th, thatin the fight on
the 18th, twenty dead warriors were found.
He believes more were killed, and estimates
the loss in wounded at sixty. His own loss
was: French, Nicholson and Graham
wounded slightly four soldiers killed and
twelve wounded. There were several scouts
killed and wounded. Nine hundred horses
were dropr I'd by the hostiles up to the 10th
he had dropped many of his own horses
The command had been living for four days
on mule meat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
Foreign.

The Turkish Legation, in New York
furnishes the following batch of Cossack
horrors: At Kazanlik, as soon as the Rus
slams occupied the town, the Cossack and
Bulgarian inhabitants entirely dispersed the
Mussulmans. They were subjected to a
thousand t~ortures in the presence of their
wives. Those who declared having no
money were put to death. The Caunakam
Governor of the town had his eyes torn out
and his teeth pulled out, and for three days
was taken through the streets in that con-
dition. After the defeat of the Russians at
Eski Saghra and Kazanlik the Bulgarians left
the city, but returned next day, and murder
and rape were prominent. Independently
of those killed in the houses every day, from
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27

az WANT five cents worth of starch"
said a little girl to agrocer's clerk. The
clerk, wishing to tease the child, asked,
What do you want five cents worth OF
starch for?' "Why, for five cents, of
course" she answered, and the clerk
concluded to attend to his own business.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27

Our attention has recently been called to
the Raritan Matelasse Coakinqs, something
entirely new in the way of heavy, thick,
warm, wooden goods, especially adapted fer
ladies' wear during the cold weather now ap-
preaching. These goods are the handsomest,
and most stylish ever seen, and SO far as
price is concerned, are a miracle of cheap
ness. They are intended for cloaks, sacques,
dolmans, circulars and jackets, for both
ladies and children, and are to be found at
all the leading dry good stores in the coun.
try. Be particular to ask for the Raritan
| Ctoakings, and take no others.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27

COURSE the whole lot. That scale agent
cheated me out of $50 clean, for l could have
bought a better Five Ton Wagon Scale fol
$50, on trial, freight paid to my W door
of Jones, of Binghamton, Binghamton:
New York"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
The Latest Fa.hien for Ladies.

THE economical baby puts its toes
in its mouth in order 10 make both ends
meet