The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
The American potato bug has emf

grated to china, and the Acknowledged
natives are in doubt whether to wor-
ship it as a strange god or boil it up
for soup.
There is one thing we have noticed
this winter, and that is the fact that a
good man is just as apt to fall down
on a slippery place, and crawl around
and humble to himself as a bad man.
When you see a man smiling all the
way round to the back of his neck
you may know he is a postmaster or
a federal official of some kind, or
wants an office under His Fraudulen-
cy.
Isaac Monosmith, 81. NJ. Markley,
Dr.. A. A. Churchill, Horace Dono-
hoe and Marks Nation, left for Eng
fish Lake last Monday night on a
duck hunt. Well bet the boys will
bring some.
Our cremation" box is still used
for public exhibitions, &c. How much
would it cost this Corporation should
an accident occur from the use of the
building, by which several lives would
be lost and as many limbs broken ?
Let our public guardians cipher this
matter up and consider it.
The gentlemen who run the old
Bruce mill arc charitable and clever
men, and if persons who + out of
flour and too poor to purchase a small
quantity, will call upon them and
make it known, they will be happy
to relieve their condition. They OBJ
ject to night callers in their absence.
ga word to the wise is sufficient"
The associations, here and in Lon
don, for providing the sick poor with
flowers seem to be productive o fgreat
pleasure. al shall never forget" says
Florence Nightingale, "the rapture of
fever patients over a bunch of bright
colored flowers. l remember in my
own case a nosegay of wild flowers
being sent to me, and from that mo-
ment my recovery became rapid"
A wheelbarrow bet was paid in
Eaton on Saturday last. The parade
was headed by the martial music, and
a couple of hundred persons of all
sizes and compilations followed after
it. Fer the foolishness of the affair,
it created more excitement than the
arrival of Van Amburgh's menagerie
of monkeys. We don't know which
looked the silliest-the man on the
wheelbarrow, the one that wheeled it
or the crowd that followed.
The failure of the fax crop in India,
is great source of supply, must make
a great additional demand in this
country for flax seed, at a largely in
creased price. We would therefore
advise our farmers to SOW a larger
breadth of land to flax. And the pro-
duct too, comes. in at a time when
money is usually scarce, and helps all
classes of our community to tide over
a tight time in the finances of all. We
have a splendid country for fax, and
if we fail to take the advantage of
good prospective markets, it is the
fault of ourselves and not of our far
mers.
We are glad to have it to say, that
the attempt of a few cheeky Republic
cans in eaton to get up a jollification,
Illumination and jamboree, on last
Saturday night, over the counting in
of a fraudulent President, was a COM
plete failure. The decent portion of
the party are mortified over the scoun-
drelism of their leaders, and do not
feel like exulting aboutit, consequent
" there was no illumination and nary
torchlight procession-the members
of the party in the country all remain
ed at home-thc Democrats that voted
for TILpEN and fare glad hat HAYES
was cleGd," didn't come to the front
and tElWhole thing fell flat.
We regret to nou the death,
on Friday last, of Mrs. CATHARINE
CRUMBSsER, wife of Mr.. John Crum-
baker, about 40 years. Mrs. c.
was a gtsspdh, kind and loving mother
and wife, and her death has caused
sorrow and regret among her neigh
bors and friends everywhere. She
leaves behind her, her husband and
four children, one IN infant but six
weeks old, to mourn her early death
and cherish her memory.
Kiss we the trembling grass that grows
Above her consecrated bed,
And sweeter than the sweetest rose,
Be summer flowers above her head.
At morn the dew shall deck her grave,
And shadows mantle it at noon,
Where lies the ever good and true,
Whose hour ofparting come to soon.
MORRIS STURM knows the necessary
articles of male attire better than any
we ever before seen. Justas our
old "hitching up straps" were about
to yield their last thread over the
"let down" of having Tilden
''counted out" and we were pulling
our head how to make a raise of an
other pair, in popped this Boss Cloth
ing Merchant of Preble county, and
presented us with the most beautiful
ly worked and deliberately and bril-
decorated pair of %suspendcrs,
that ever crossed the shoulders Or
held up the breeches of a Crowned
head. If you don't believe this, just
drop in and look at them, and you
will also see IL of the largest, cheap
est and best stocks of gents furnish
ing goods, hats, caps, trunks, valises,
clothing of every grade and style,