The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

again. Let's have them.
Eaton has 6 churches, IA saloons
and $500 inhabitants.
Pic-nics, excursions and Murphy
meetings, are all the rage now.
Guess we'll have a baby show at
our Agricultural Fair. Get ready.
Cucumbers, cabbage, c%aullifower
and cholera-morbus in the market.
June taxes are due now. So is
June subscription to the DEMOCRAT.
The "CAMDEN JOURNAL" has been
launched into newspaperdom. We
havn't been honored with an x.
The "Murphy wave" is on the in
crease in Eaton this week. Meetings
every night and signers swelling.
Sun-shades of pea-cock's feathers
are the latest. They are very beauti-
full, and cost like-everything.
Parents who make their first boy
an idol som generally have an idle
son when he reaches mans estate.
We have the incest public square of
any other town in Ohio. Every thing
in and around it looks neat, clean and
cheerful.
Our Cemetery continues to be a
place of "pleasurable" resort on the
Sabbath for those who work six days
of the week.
CHARLES HAINEs, an old Eaton boy,
was elected a Justice of the Peace in
the city of Hamilton, on the LIST of
June. Good for Charley.
It's approaching the time when the
average small boy will not feel happy
unless his hair is cut so as to look like
the rough side of 9. matchbox.
The "oldest inhabitant" will soon
feel called upon to tell of the warm
est day lie ever knew of. You can
rest assured it will be a hot one.
Owing to the war between Russ
and Turk, strawberries have been
very high this season. 1t hasn't eff
fected the pie plant market any yet.
If the Commissioners had left the
Dayton Stone around the Court House
their natural color, it would have
added 25 per cent. to the job. Fact.
AS there is a prospect of Grant be-
ing the Republican candidate for Pre-
sident in 1880, couldn't u p. M. re-
sign and take his chances under him
again?
A moral menagerie, with circus ad-
denda for the profane and ungodly,
would cause many men and boysnow
out of employment to scratch around
lively for half dollar apiece.
"Short settlements make long
friends" We quote this old truism
for the benefit of some of our delin-
quent subscribers, and ask them to
drop in and see us.
Elder G. W. Garroutte, of Marion,
Ind, will preach in the Christian
Church next Sabbath, 10th inst, morn
ing and evening. All are cordially
invited to attend.
Communion service next Sunday
at Uniyersalist Church, at 101a o'clock
a. M; also, preaching in the evening
by the Pastor. 1t is hoped there will
be a full attendance.
Josh Billings says that the best
remedy for ambition is a "walk
through a grave yard" Our good
ministers think it should not be on
Sunday. The people think different.
Wooster, Burns, whisky and Bill
Christman, got into a muss on Satur-
day night last. Burns had both his
Jaws broken and was taken to the
County Infirmary. Warrants were
issued for all the parties.
a subscriber to a western paper
died recently, leaving four years sub
scription unpaid. The editor appear
ed at the grave and deposited in the
coffin a palm leaf fan, a linen coat, and
a thermometer.
Any of our friends visiting Column
bus will find the q. S. Hotel a first
rate place to stop at. The rooms are
comfortable, the beds clean, the fare
No. l, and the Proprietor and Clerks
clever and genial gentlemen. Try it
The barn of widow Mitchell,
Brinley's Station, this county, was
burned ON Tuesday night o flast week,
together with considerable corn and
oats. Loss about $1,0OO-insured in
Ohio Farmer for 5000. The work of
an incendiary.
An English woman, who was born
without arms, has just had twins. She
wears her wedding ring on her toe,
and does all the housework with her
feet with a dexterity that is surpris-
ing. How she will manage to nurse
her twin babies is a problem yet to be
solved.
flour lady readers wish to keep a
boquet fresh, let them drop a table
spoonful of powdered charcoal into
the water intended for the flower
stalks, and they will keep their fresh
ness and perfume for several days,
and look and smell the same as those
just gathered. The charcoal settles
at the bottom of the vessel the water