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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
YOHNG MIIRDERER.

Crime seems to be so much on the in
crease everywhere that it is even ex-
tending to children. Many instances
have been given within the last year of
boy murderers, some of whom have
been committed to prison and pun
ished, though not to the full extent of
the law, for their fearful murders. The
latest mentioned is the case of negro
boy aged twelve years, living about
seven miles from Aiken, South Carolina.
His victim was negro girl of eight.
She had been sent by her parents to the
house of the boys parents, living lit
tie distance away, with some message,
and, after considerable length of time,
not returning, her parents started in
search of her. When they arrived at
the neighbours house they found only the
boy at home, the grown persons having
been absent the whole day, but not re-
ceiving any satisfactory answer from
him they commenced to trace their little
daughters footsteps, and soon came
upon her body lying on the ground in
the woods, hastily covered over, the
head being terribly crushed and man.
gled. Suspicion pointed at once to the
boy, and the Sheriff, living near by, was
advised of it, and Immediately arrested
the boy murderer, who made full CON
fession when he found concealment una
vailing. He said that the motive fol
the crime was to revenge himself upor
the girl for telling lies on him at differ
ent times. When she came to the hous,
and found no one there, she had started
back, and he had followed her unit
they reached quiet spot, when h
seized ightwood knot and struck he
upon the head until she was dead. H
then ran back home and got hoe, an,
digging a shallow hole, he pulled u
dirt, trash and sticks upon the body t
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Stolen Kisses.
Virginia, Nevada, Chronicle.l


There isa class of men in this commu-
nifty who never let anybody else have any
fun. Instead of making everybody happy
around them, they make everybody
miserable. One of these characters
was on board the train on Saturday,
coming up from the pioneers picnic
with his young and pretty wife. They
were on one Of the long benches of the
platform car. Alongside the wife sat
Young man of festive tendencies, a
peculiarity in men, young and old, not
unfrequent upon the Comstock. Well,
the train reached the tunnel, and in
moment everybody was in the dark.
When daylight was reached again the
husband saw a fragment of his wife's
lace veil upon that young mans hat.
Instead of reasoning, as philosopher
would have done, that it might be all a
mistake, the suspicious husband got up
and wanted to punch the other mans
head and made scene generally. The
trouble finally cooled down, and every
body began to laugh at the old fellow.
When presently another tunnel was
reached, mischievous young lady who
sat next to the husband quietly detached
a piece of her veil and put it on his hat.
As soon as the car got into daylight the
other passengers began to laugh at him,
and to hint that he had been browsing
on forbidden pastures. Worse than all /,
his wife pretended to get angry, and
when such audible remarks as Who'd
thought it? "Pity man of his age
can't behave himself" Bald-headed
men are all that way" etc, went around
the car, his face looked like boiled lob
ster all over. When the depot was
reached he was the first man off the
train.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Trajan's Wall What it is, What it
was, and When it was Built.

The events now transpiring in the
neighborhood of the Danube bring into
curious prominence the name of the En-
peror Trajan, the buttresses of whose
bridge, we believe, still stand on opposite
banks of the Danube, and whose famous
wall seems to be the line along which the
tide of war is rapidly rolling. The
bridge thrown over the Danube by this
great monarch was, in some respects at
least, the most remarkable of all the
structures that successive belligerents
have erected for the passage of their
troops. 1t was not mere floating
bridge, but permanent structure car
ried on piers one hundred and fifty feet
high and sixty feet wide, and it comprised
twenty arches, extending altogether over
span of four thousand seven hundred
and seventy Roman feet. This giant
structure, than which ancient history
records nothing of the kind equal to it,
seems to have been intended as fortress
as well as a bridge. Standing eighty
feet above the water, it is supposed to
have afforded the command of the
Danube navigation, garrison posted on
it being, of course, able to, damage or de-
stroy vessels passing under, while they
would be above the reach Of retaliation.
1t was destroyed by Hadrian, and its
precise locality has been the subject of
some dispute. Ruins, which evidently
might have formed the buttresses of a
bridge, occurring on the line of an old
Roman road, however, seems to leave
little room for doubt. Trajan's Wall is
another relic of this terrible energetic old
Roman. tits, strictly speaking, a ram
part of earth about thirty-fve or forty
miles long, and extends from Rassova,
just at the bend in the Danube, to the
shores of the Black Sea. Though only an
earthwork, it is formidable line of de-
fense. 1t is eight or ten feet high, with
fossc in front of it, while the western
portion is still further fortified by deep
lakes and the swampy valley of Kara-Su.
In addition to all this, another rampant
of similar character lies just in the rear
of it. This is known as the South Wall, the
space between the two ramparts being
from one thousand to two thousand feet.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

THE Russians have gained an important
victory near Rustchuk, capturing eight
thousand prisoners from Ahmed Eyoub's
army and turning the Turks to flight.
A DISPATCH from sukum Kaleh, dated
August 2, says the Turkish frigate Manman-
dich bombarded the Russian batteries at
Tchamtchira, on the S0th ult., silencing
every Russian gun. The Manmandich was
Considerably damaged, and several of the
crew were killed and wounded,
THE Porte has made public the following
intelligence: "The Russians have been
completely defeated at Yeni Saghra, with
considerable loss, including two guns, large
quantity of baggage and equipments. They
fled in disorder to Kainboghaz Pass, which
is occupiedby suleiman.P n.Pasha, who pursued
them thither."
THE London Ne,cs in its detailed narrative
of the battle of Plevna, gives the Russian
forces as thirty-two thousand infantry, sixty
field guns, and three brigades of cavalry. 1t
says that this defeat makes the Russians
hold in Bulgaria extremely precarious and
must compel the withdrawal of troops from
oOhC OtuOl pOlub, alC hCdlly 40
badly needed, to beat the Turks at Plevna
Beaten they must be, and that speedily, if
the Russian army is not forthwith to retire
ingloriously into the principalities.
A GREAT battle took place between the
Russians and Turks at Plevna, on Monday,
July 30-31. The Turkish force was esti-
mated at fifty thousand; the Russian forces
composed the Ninth Army Corps, under
Gen. Krudener, Thirtieth Division, and
thirty brigades of the Twentieth Division,
under Prince Schackasky, with three
brigades of Cavalry and one hundred and
sixty guns. The Russians, after hard
fight lasting two days, were repulsed with
great slaughter. The Bashi-Bazouks went
over the battlefield, and put all the
wounded to death.
CABLE dispatches to August 4 give
further particulars of the losses of the Rus
sian army in its attack on Plevna. These
are given with much detail and such moder-
alton of language as to prove that the ac-
count is by one who is informed. The
Russians were not routed" nor did they
retreat across the Danube, as one dispatch
had it, but they made determined and pro-
longed attack on force of Turks which it
was essential that the Russians should de-
feat, and in place which it was necessary
for the Russians to possess. ALI this was in
order to make secure the line of their ad-
vance. The Turks were in strong positions,
and the Russian attack was so determined
that the repulse was after a heavy loss.
And it was so decided that the Turks occu-
pied all the fighting ground. The Russian
army is too much hurt to renew the attack
with chance of success. Sufficient force
to do it does not appear to be available.
The present appearance is that the advance
over the Balkans is seriously threatened.
And to this is added the repulse south of
the Balkans, at Eski Saghra.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
How a Louisiana Murderer Died.

Jules Guidry, condemned for the
murder of John Beale, was executed on
July 25, at Lake Charles, Louisiana, on
the square adjoining the Jail. He was
handcuffed, and mounted the scaffold at
twenty minutes to two o'clock p. M,
assisted by the Sheriff and friend of
Guidry, accompanied by young priest,
Father Charles. Guidry, during his
prison life, gave himself up, apparently,
to religious instruction. Guidry was
sent to the New Orleans Parish Prison
for safe keeping, because a rescue was
dreaded. He arrived at Lake Charles on
the 18th of July, where he has borne
himself bravely. He was very firm, cool
and determined, but constantly declared
that he ought not to die for the killing
of Beale, because he had seduced his
wife and ruined his home and his chill
dren's future. Guidry behaved on the
gallows in desperate and daring man
ner. He addressed the crowd, and said
that he killed John Beale and he would
do it again to-day; that he ought not to
die for it; that he would die like man;
that he did not care to die. Father
Charles said few words of prayer, he
nodded his head as if asserting, turned
to his friend on the scafold, and said:
"I am firm. / am not afraid to die"
He said that what G. G. Duson testified
to in court was not so. He continued
talking aloud to the crowd, declaring his
indifference to death, and that he would
commit the same crime again, and again
that he was justified. Before he was
pinioned, he took up the rope in his
hands. 1t was dangling from the beam
above him to his feet. He handled the
rope and examined the moose, and said:
That fall is not enough. want neck
break fall of ten feet" The Sheriff
heightened the rope to fall of about
eight feet, but this did not satisfy him.
He tried the slip knot to see if it worked
easily. Ween the black cap was put
over his head he cried out: "Why, 1 can
see everything" The rope was adjusted,
and slipknot frightened. He said: "Not
so tight, but put the knot more on the
side of my neck" AS the, Sheriff took
up the ak to cut the rope, he cried out,
jeeringly: az can see you. Your are
going to cut the rope" In few seconds
more, while the condemned man was
saying that he did not care, the ak fell,
the rope parted, and Guidry died almost
instantaneously. The fall was fully
eight feet if not more.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
Mrs. Stubbs, the Suffers Wife.

Ellis Inheritance" a new novel by
Miss Adeline Trafton, author of "The
American Girl Abroad and "Kath-
crime Earle" is begun in the "Midsum-
mer Holiday Number" of Scribner
The scene is laid in the southwestern
frontier before the war. Of the char
acters introduced in the first INSTALL
ment, the most prominent are Stubs,
the sutler, his little girl Blossom levi
IDENTIFY to be the heroine of the story
and his wife. The following description
of the last named shows that she is to
play no insignificant part in the story:
She was tall, she was gaunt as gray
wolf in winter. She was strong of arm
and stout of nerve, with talent for de-
vising and a will for executing almost
any work. She could serve dinner to
tolerably straitened garrison that
would tempt king, or she could steady
a rifle and drop redskin, if need be, at
three hunded yards. There was even
rough kind of femininity about the
woman, who was by no means disagree
able to look at, with her bright black
eyes and her brown cheeks showing a
subdued flame. She had been known
more than once to nurse a wounded
man back to life when the surgeons had
given him up-with Just scolding
enough, it must be owned, to spur him
on to convalescence. Add to these the
aggressive qualities of thrift and neat
ness, and we shall have perfect charac-
ter, you will say. Oh, no; do you fancy
that all the natural graces as well as
the Christian virtues are to be found in
one individual? She was envious (but
that is not so rare a fault that it need
be dwelt upon). She was crafty and
unscrupulous. But the first she con-
cealed by the second; and the third, in
tending upon the other two, kept in the
background. And then she was comely
to look at-and that is better cloak
than charity, even-with her sleek
black hair and the fresh color Just dead
ened by the tan on her cheeks Comely
to look at, if one could forget the en-
bers in her eyes, which gust of passion
might blow into blaze. After all, il
was a kind of beauty which maj
might like to look upon, but would
hardly covet for his own.
As for her thrift and neatness, the
suffers quarters showed the effect O
good qualities, which were kind o
stockade about the real woman. He
home was tidy and inviting, or woulC
have been, but that the tidiness became
tyrannical at times. Gradually kin(
of cabaret of most respectable pat
tern was established here, where tn
officers drOpped in of an evening tn or
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

NoRRIsTowN Herald: A few weeks
ago, boy in Lancaster, Pa, fell between
the bumpers of moving train, but his
pantaloons catching on some portion of
the car he was held suspended over the
rail without injury until the train stop
ped, when he was released. Had the
cloth in his trousers been poor stuff, the
lad would have been killed. This in
cident shows the advantage of wearing
strong clothing. In Lancaster County,
few days ago, man who was driving
a threshing machine, had one of the legs
of his pantaloons caught in the couplings,
and torn completely off. Had the cloth
been of sterner stuff the man probably
would have been killed. The moral of
this incident is-well, it is so plainly and
Numerically opposed to the first, that it
is hardly worth while indicating.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

EDWARD KING writes from the seat
of war to the Boston journal that the
Turks take no prisoners, and that such
of the advance guard as were cut off
from the main body on the night of the
18th were horribly maltreated before
being put to death. Four men of the
advance found themselves separated
from their companions. They were
subjected to tortures of which the North
American Indians would be ashamed.
Some of them had their ears and noses
cut of, and all the glands and organs of
their throats cut out. One man was
found still breathing, with his throat cut
in this horrible fashion, and managed to
tell the tale of his tortures. 1t hardly
seems possible that the mild-eyed Turk
can be guilty of such wretched atroci-
ties as this.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

The loss to business for five days on
five trunk lines, occasioned by the
strike, is figured up by the New York
Journal of Commerce at s26, $50, 900.
This estimate includes the destruction
of property of the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroads. The
cost to each of the five railroads per day
for the suspension of traffic averaged,
say, $4,000, to which add $4,000 for
losses by interruption of other roads,
and the total is $250,OOO per day, or
s., ,25O,OOO for the five days; 100000
is the estimated loss sustained by the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburg and
at other points on the line. $4,000, 600
is the estimated loss to the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, and to this sum of $15,-
100000, $40, ,0OO, 900 more may be added
for losses to other railroad property,
making the grand total of figures given
above.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

ROCHESTER Union: The alarming
prevalence of suicide throughout the
world is something shocking to contem-
plate. "My mammals hanging on the
cupboard door; she can't walkp' sobbed
little child, as he entered neighbor's
room, few days since, in New York.
His pitiful story was found to be only
too true; his mother had hanged herself,
and was quite dead. Her husband had
committed suicide three months before,
leaving her to the tender mercies of the
world, with three little children ito care
for.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

THE following statistics show a re-
markable increase in the supply of GER
tain favorite remedies since 1855. In
that year the central pharmaceutical
establishment of the Partisan Hospital
furnished 2S2 pounds of chloroform; in
1875 the quantity had risen to GIG
pounds. The increase of chloral from
1869 to 1875 was from ten pounds to
72o pounds. Bromide of potassium six
pounds in 1856, was 1900 pounds in
1875; morphine, one pound six ounces
in 1855, was twenty pounds in 1875.
The progress of alcohol, considered as a
therapeautical agent, is especially
worthy of notice. Between 1865 and
1875 the consumption of alchohol in the
hospitals increased from 1, ,270 to 1000
quarts. Brandy does not appear on the
list until 1862, when four quarts were
supplied. In 1875 the quantity had
risen to 4, 10S quarts.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

The losses in property and in the
stopping of business by the strike have
been immense, reaching probably to
$2O,O0O,OOO or O,OO0,O 900, if not more
the amount can on only be imagined,
it can not be called an estimate. Prob
ably 100000 laboring men have, since
the mob became general, stopped
voluntarily and been compelled
to stop labor, during which their
wages have also ceased. Probably the
daily average that all these men were
earning was s1.75 each, and the volun-
tary or enforced idleness will be at least
ten days, making a loss of$17.5O to each
man, or 81, ,500,0 in all, which the
laboring man in the sections affected by
the strike would have received in wages,
but which they have lost, and which re-
mains in the pockets of their employers,
the capitalists and in the bank vaults.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
More Fire Horrors Terrible Disaster
in Cincinnati.

| Pelstring's cigar box factory, on Broadway,
near Eighth Street, was burned to the
ground, on the morning of August 8. The
fire commenced at seven in the morning,
and the flames were not fully extinguished
| till late in the afternoon. We learn from
the Enquirer that the following persons were
working in the building when it took fire ::
Kate Wehre, corner Thirteenth and Jackson
Streets; Lizzie Huester, Thirteenth Street !;
Hattie Creager, No. $50 Cutter Street; Teresa
Seile and Louisa Seile, sisters, No. 656 Vine
Street, all saved; Kate Poetker, Main Street,
between Twelfth and Canal, badly burned; !;
Mary Nurre, dead; Minnie Kuebe, Race
Street between Green and Liberty, dead );
Annie Pund, Clay Street, burned; Josephine
Bey, No. IS Woodward Street, scorched; /;
Joseph Kumper, Samuel Veitch, George
Broomer, and George Albers, all saved !;
Henry Bromeier, safe Louis Untrel, burned
and taken to the Hospital, but was able to
go back to the scene of the fire; John
Plankenberg, saved, terribly burned, and
taken to the Hospital; George Stolle, fore
man, Dick Schultz, Barney Rose, Henry
Nenneman, all saved; Frank Studare, lost;
Tony Steltenpohl, Joseph Grossheim, Barney
Thole, saved; Frank Studare dead, and
Henry Mag missing, supposed to be in the
ruins. The father and mother of Minnie
Kuebe, employees in the factory, were not
at work.
Fully eight persons, five of them vounp
girls, as is now known, were in the fourth
story of the fatal building when it took fire.
Henry Haag. who rushed nm and gave warn
ing to the girls, who had lust removed their
street clothing and begun their work INV
the piece(. now lies in the ruins John
Spanrenberp. the only mature life lost
jumped from a window after beino fr;ebt'
fully burnt, and was fatally injured, dying
of whose heroism in efforts to save the c;ris'
there are confirm ed reports. was taken
out limbless, sickening trunk of black and
roasted flesh and bones. Mary Nurre. lose
phine Bey and Minnie Kuebe's remains were
rescued in similar horrible Condition and
Katie Poetker and Annie Pund escaned
with severe burns. one of them temnorariIv
bereft of reason To nicture tbe f1;gbt Of al
but one of these down the smoke-Sarkanad
stairs: their frantic appeals for helm ;. the
first touch of the hungry fame.tongue upon
their tender bodies; their shrieks of agony
perhaps their farewell embraces their calls
upon father and mother, and upon the
Father of All, must, we say, be work of
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09
EDITORLAL OLIO.

A RECENT history of American uni
forms brings to light the fact that the
gray OF the Southern Confederacy was
the regulation dress of the American
armies which fought at Chippewa and
niagara in 1872, and was adopted at
west Point in commemoration of those
victories. 1t is still quite extensively
worn by Northern regiments, and is the
prevailing color in all military schools;
ana Tor economy and quietness it is
DOUBTLESS preferable to the blue.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

The number of persons engaged in
mechanical industries in Massachusetts,
nm 1875 was returned as 9OS, 1863, besides
;32,7O2women who took in work athome.
Including these, the enumber of women and
girls employed was 127, 81; of men and
boys, 2l4SOS. This total of 341, ,665 is
"a little more than fourth part of all
persons whose occupations are returned
(about l,SOO,OOO), but is more than
third part of all those engaged in pro-
ductiVe industry, which in 1875 was
about 1000, 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

THE elasticity and cohesion of our in
stitutions have been well illustrated by
the late strike. As cable dispatches
showed, the depredations at Pittsburg
and elsewhere created more alarm in
London and the German cities than on
this side of the Atlantic. Capitalists
began to regret their investments in our
railroad securities, and, doubtless, fan
cied their United States Government
bonds might not be so safe after ALL
Before they had made up their minds
what to do in this case, they were told
that the strike had passed its culmina
tion, and that, in weeks time, it was
virtually over. Had such demonstra-
tion occurred in the less flexible Euro
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-09

TIE Emperor Williams habits are
described in the Colonge Gazette as fol-
lows: He drinks at or $3.50, appears
on the promenade about s, drinks the
water at the prescribed intervals till 80,
then breakfasts, and every other day
also takes bath between 10 80 and II 80
During themorning he receives military
and civil reports, dimes at 4, generally
inviting company, and then receives
report on foreign affairs, a Cabinet
courier arriving every morning, and the
telegraph Office being open night and
day. If an interval remains before the
theater, the Emperor takes an airing,
and about 80 appears on the prom
enade, then attends the play, next takes
tea, and about 1O:45 retires to his
narrow iron bedstead, unless business de-
tains him till II or 11:30."