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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Every day we are asked half dozen
times what the Democratic State
Convention will do, and we now be-
lieve we can come very near answer
ing the question. 1t will nominate
Gen. EWING for Governor and SAM
HUNT for Lieutenant Governors
dept a greenback platform-adjourn
the best pleased set ofmen ever gath
cred at Columbus and carry the State
by from 10000 to 10, 900 for the nom.
inees. We will bet q new at on the
prediction,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The unadulterated, simon-pure
temperance party of this county, met
in the Court House on Tuesday last
nominated a ticket and passed some
resolutions. Although all of them
wore the blue and are consistent and
honest in their moral reform, not one
of our good pious clergy was present
to assist and aid them in their eff
forts. These gentlemen will al
stick a Republican ticket in next
October, let it be drunk or sober
We will give proceedings, &C., mex
week.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Vice President WHEELER is not
pleased with Hayes Civil service or
der, restraining officials from taking
part in politics. He rather thinks il
a poor tinker of a clerk in Washing.
ton is getting 81, 900 ayear, he ought
to be willing to stand a shave of five
per cent, to keep the Republican
party in power. Wheeler don't be
lieve in any new departures.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Suicides have been terribly fire.
quent in New York. From June LIST
to the end of the first week in July
no less than sixty-three people have
attempted to make way with them.
selves, and of this number thirty,
eight were successful. Drowning
was the most popular method of sui,
eide.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

N. Y. Sun: The maxim, "No
rogue e'er felt the halter draw with
good opinion OF the law" is ~illustra.
ted in the troubled condition OF
Hayes mind OYER the criminal pros.
ecution of Wells, Anderson and theil
two companions in the great crime a
gaipst the people ofthe United States
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

In New Jersey the entire Republi-
can party is in revolt, and all the
leading Republicans of the State, in
Guiding even those delegates to Gin
cinnati who voted for Hayes have is
sued a call for a convention to be held
at Trenton, July 21st, to take council
to secure the public safety and main
tain the dignity of the Republican
organization.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The postmasters, who had such a
good time under the last administra-
ton, seem to be in great trouble.
They begin to see that the President
is in earnest and does not mean to
have Conventions any longer manir-
Mated by these petty federal officers,
who are hereafter to attend to their
duties.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19


New York San: We admit the
right of the President to require
those holding Office by, executive
appointment to attend, at proper
times, to their official business. 1t
is not only his right, but it is his i'm
perative duty to do this. But the
President has no legal or censtitn-
tional control over their leisure hours.
In these they have as much right as
they have to eat their meals or 20 to
church. Require officers to do theil
duty. Yes, that is all right and
commerdable. But in regard to any
interference with the rights of Amer
lean citizens when not on officia
duty, hands off! No men in this
country has any occasion to consid
er the President in making up hi
mind whether he will go to a politi
cal caucus or not. That is his owl
business.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

In only one State has HAYES receiy-
ed any thing like a hearty greeting
That State, Rhode Island, is not on
ly the most corrupt politically, but it
is also the State to whose action, po-
litical ard other, the least attention
is given throughout the country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
There are hundreds of honest, la.

There are hundreds of honest, la
boring men in Ohio, whose wives and
children are depending upon their
strong arms for bread, who will be
compelled to lose two days this fall,
for the privilege of voting to make
the laws by which they end their
families are to be goyerned--one
day to register and one day TO- vote.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

If the unconstitutional and swind-
ling Registry Law, passed by a Re
publican Legislature at a cost of
100000 to the taxpayers of Ohio,
will stop frauds at the ballot-box the
Republican party will stand a poor
chance this fall.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The sisters of the Murphy move.
ment in Dayton we're too sweet upon
the imported stock and the peneroy.
ais chased them out of that pasture.
This gave mortal offense to thesis.
tiers, and they recalled their devons.
and r now holding rival Murphy
meetings, to the great disgust of the
p%eneroyals. The end no man know.
eth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The Ohio penitentiary is so full of
convicts that Gov. Tom Young de-
sires the establishment of a Board of
Pardon, in order to let them out as
fast as they are sent up, and thus keep
the machine in good running order.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

When Gov. Ton YOU'VE returned
from mis- recent trip to Washington he
stated to a friend in Columbus that
his throat had been cut by the ad-
ministration; that he would not at
tempt to secure the nomination for
Governor, because he was satisfied
that neither him or any other Repub-
lican can be elected.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The Registry Law is not only un-
constitutional, but will entail an an
nual expence of over two hundred
thousand dollars on the taxpayers of
Ohio, and for this sweet boon we can
thank the Republican Legislature.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Road Improvement Notice.

AUDITORS OFFICE, July 16, 1877.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
IN Committee appointed by the Coun-
ty Commissioner to apportiOn the esti-
mated expense of the improvement of
the Georgetown and Verona Free Pike
No 3, haze filed their report, and that
the County Commissioners have set
Tuesday, Aug. 9TH, 1927,
to hear any exceptions that may be filed
in writing against said apportionment
on or before that time.
The following is a schedule of the
names of persons whose lands have
been assessed for said improvement, to-
gether with the amount assessed to
each respectively:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Hon. BENJAMIN RUSH of Philadel-
phia, grandson Of the great Benjamin
Rush who signed the Declaration of
Independenee,d died suddenly, ofheart
disease, in London, on Thursday,
July 9th, aged &C.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Mr.. HAYES pretends to be indiffer-
emit about the indictment of the Lou
isiapa Returning Board, but from
some outside observations he is no
doubt considerably annoyed and wor-
ried over it. There is fun ahead in
this matter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Pittsburgh Dispatch (Rep.) 1t

Pittsburgh Dispatch Rep tits
a common battle, North and South,
for common prosperity, and a reunion
under the auspices of fair, impartial
and economical government. The
reception given Hampton in New
York is a fair instance of this feeling,
and should President Hayes, as has
been intimated, go South this year,
such a further demonstration of it
will take place as must show that
the period of sectional hate and
bloody antagonism is passed-let us
for ever.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

We received a copy of the "Ama-
tem,' published at New Paris by
our young friend C. W. BLOOM. 1t is
a neatly printed sheet-published
monthly at 30 cents per year and is
well worth the subscription.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Every renter and laboring man
should vote against the Republican
party this fall as a rebuke for the
passage of the swindling Registry
Law,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY Meeting.

The Democracy and friends Of Re-
form of Preble County are request
ed to meet at the Court House, in
Eaton, on
Saturday, July 2Ist, 1877,
at y o'clock, p. M, for the purpose
of appointing six Delegates and six
Alteraates, to represent them in the
Democratic State Convention to be
held at Columbus. Ohio, July 25th,
1877. A full attendance is desired.
By order OF the Dem. County Cen
trail Com.
J.. v. CAMPBELL, Chairman.
L. G.. GOULD, Sec'y.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The Raleigh IN. c. News regards
it as hardly within the range of prob
ability that any Southern Democrat
ic Congressman would commit trea
son against the Democratic party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

When country organs begin to
plead for Conventions to indorse
their President, it does look as if
something was 'rotten in Denmark"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

To put it in strong terms, the Re-
publican Registry Law is unjust, ex-
pensive, discriminates against the
poor, and is doubtless unconstitution-
al
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Exceptions to the above apportion-
ment IF any are filed) will be number
ed in the order in which they are re-
ceived, and heard in the order in which
they are numbered.
By order of the County Commission
ers.
SAM'L OLDFATHER,
Auditor, p. {. %.
iuly 1913
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

POSTMASTER General CREswELL,
of Maryland, has come out in a
lengthy card against the Hayes ad-
ministration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The civil service order is plague
ingthe administration more than the
office holders. Next thing you'll
hear, it will be revoked.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
FOR THE CONVENTION,

Gen. W. L. O'BRIEN, Gen'l Pass.
& Ticket Agent of the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and st. Louis Railway,
and by the way one Of the most ac-
comodating and efficient railroad
men in the country, informs us that
his company will sell excursion tick
cts to the State Convention at Co.
lumbus on the oath inst, from Rich
mond, Ind, and all points in Ohio at
reduced rates. Here is an excellent
opportunity for our friends in this
fcounty to attend the largest Conven-
ton probably ever held in Ohio and
ride on n of the best roads in the
country. Three trains leave daily
for Columbus via Piqua Ills a. m,
1890 p. m. and $40 p. m. Persons
going from this point can leave Eat
on Tuesday evening on the 6.10 p.
m. accommodation and arrive at Rich
mond for the $40 p. m. and reach
Columbus at 12.45. Come in friends
and go to Columbus, and let us show
that Preble county is wide awake TO
the interests of the laboring classes.
-
The last Legislature passed a small
pox bill, which provides that all pu-
pills of schools, and all inmates of
charitable, reformatory or penal in
stitutions, shall be vaccinated once
every five years during their pupil
age. Teachers or other school au
thorities may not admit pupils with
out a certificate from q physician
that the applicant has been vaccinat.
ed, or is in a physical condition that
will not permit vaccination. Every
physician is, by the law, obliged &c
vacoinate all applying pupils, except
where the pupils state of health pre-.
vents, and to furnish the certificate
also to keep a record o such vaccina.
lions, with name, date and result
origin of virus used, and whether the
vaccination be primary or secondary
Boards of Health, Town Council, Oh
Township Trustees must provide a
public expense the means of vacci
nation to such pupils as are not pro
yided Herewith by their respectiy,
fguardians. The fines imposed fol
violation ofthe act, or failure teseem
ply with its provisions, go to the 10
cal school funds. The act takes eff
feet from and after July LIST. 1877.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

1t is singularly astonishing how
Grants old ofice-holders love the
Democratic policy stolen by the
fraudulent President.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

BLAINE has had his whack at the
administration, and as soon as Con.
gress convenes CoNKL1Ne will open q
battery.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

If the Democracy of this county
want to know how to run the cam
paign, take the advice of your enc
mics.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Notice,

ALL persons are hereby forbid trust
ing my wife on my account, as l viii
pay no debts contracted by her from
and after this late.
VIM. SHIELDS.
Eaton, July Is, 1S77.-3t
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The Rev. ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER
has gone to Europe. Jubal Early
has been trying to cure his rhu-
matism at Hot Springs, Ark. Elk
Gov. Chamberlain will spend the re-
mainder of the summer at West
Brookfeld, Mass. Col. E. v. White,
known as Lie, a guerrilla command
er, has become a Baptist preacher.
Orpheus C. Kerr is still failing in
health. Gen. Butler has gone on q
sea voyagefor pleasure. Gen. Hook.
er is at Martha's Vineyard. Stewart
L. Woodford was lionized on the
Fourth at Senator Lamar's home in
Mississippi. JOHN E. Owens is very
i'll at his residence, at Towsontown
Maryland. jeff Davis has been on.
gagged to lecture in Atlanta next fall
Ex-senator Boutwell, is at Hampton
Beach, N. H. Lester Wallack is a
broad in his yacht. Gen. Abnel
Doubleday is in his native place
Ballston Spa, for the first time since
infancy. Father Tom Burke has
entirely recovered his health.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Our County Auditor had better
"see" the editor of the Camden Her
aid and go an TX" better.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

The Radical Ring of Eaton won't
consent to HAwLEY a second term.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

FOR SALE.-.A note for 500, due
in is months, secured by first mortgage
on real estate worth $1,000. Inquire
at DEMOCRAT office. [jull2-2
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
Gard to the Deaf.

A Gard to the Deaf.
/ suffered with deafness for
NINE YEARS. All medical treatment iallc.
ed to give me relief, On the l4th OF
last month I called or DR.. Boyd IN MS
office in Camden. He examined my
case and told me he could cure me. L
now realize that my hearing is PERFEcT--
LY RESTORED, and feel this public state
ment due DIR. Boyd, both for his beneht
or those suffering from deafness, or any
disease of the ears.
FRANK A. WYS0NG,.
Camden, Preble Co., U.
Jan. IL, 1877.
DR.. Boyd has for the past fifteen
years successfully treated all diseases
of the Ears, Eyes, and all forms Of Ca,
tarrh, &c, &C., is a regularly educated
physician, but confines himself strictly
to an office practice.
N. B.-Dr. Boyd will be absent from
! Camden on each Monday.
Feb. Is, 1877-ly
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

Take the DEMocRAT..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19

L. G. GoULD, Sec'y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
Return of Jews TO Palestine.

The Cincinnati COnanicrci0l SAYS !:
The year 1877 is likely to do more than
the astrologers find promised i'll its two
lucky figure sevens; it will probably
witness the birth of several new ma
tions. They may be born amid the
pangs of war, though to-day the signs
are more auspicious; but they will he
born. Not only will one, more probably
two, constitutionally and materially pro
tected nations be born within the limits
of Ottoman suzcrainty, but Egypt will
be remade by England. The new
scheme of widening the Suez canal really
means the coloniaing of Egypt with
many of the ahlest Englishmen and the
renovation OF the khedive's government.
The keen instinct of the Jews has fore
felt what is coming. wrote you some
time ago that remarkable Immigration
to Palestine WAS going on among that
people, and that the signs of it were
observable in many closed Jewish
homes III London. A traveller who has
just returned here writes that he found
the whole region from Dan to Befrshe-
ba crowded with Immigrant Jews from
all parts of the world. Whatever may
have caused the gathering of Jews to
Palestine, the fact is certuin. And the
traveller who has remarked it no doubt
represents the hope he found among
them in his intimation that England
might well assist in the restoration of
Jerusalem and the foundation there of II
Jewish republic, or other liberal govern
ment. The proposition is one likely to
spread like wihlfire. The average on
thodoX Christian world will at once rec
ognize the Divine hand stretched forth
to fulfill prophecy, and any amount of
money could be raised here for such
purpose. When Egypt and Syria are
taken III hand it will become at once
necessary to reduce Arabia TO order. The
world has been so absorbed in nearer
Turkish affairs AS hardly to have noticed
that Arabia is at present the arena of
civil war
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
Wanted--Examples Of Plain Living.

\ letter to the editor of the New York
.Sun says: This is what we need: That
our wealthy people, whether enriched by
inheritance, good fortune, or honorable
industry and frugality, should make the
not very difficult or self-denying sacrifice
of living in the conmunity in such way
as will commend itself to all for its sim
pllcity, its economy, and, at the same
time, for its elegance and refinement
thus presenting the highest social station
as a thing easily within the reach of all
honorable and honest people. This would
produce n healthy, hopeful striving for
the station which is ever allied with gen
uine moral development and progress.
But, instead of this, our rich people,
for the most part, set ap example, by
their style of living, which reacts upon
the great body of the people, exciting a
restless, despairing envy that finds con-
ISOLATION only in the hope of vying with it
by means of some lucky hit, or in gloat-
ing with unhealthy relish over the daily
recurring instances of the financial and
moral wreck and downfall of some hither-
to envied neighbor These instances
show that the so-called upper class is so
impregnated with the qualities of rascal
ity and infamy that it is only a question
of time, and that short, how soon the whole
vicious thing will come down with such a
crash and ruin, accompanied by such a
blow on the great moral nerve of the land,
as will render forever hateful the very
name of social station as now misapplietl
and abused,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
Miss L;nnev of Sacramento wss

Miss Linney, OF Sacramento, was in.
clined to marry Mr.. Roberts, but she
said that she could not become the wife
of a poor man. She would wait rea-
sonable time for him to make a fortune,
and whenever he was in condition to
support her in elegance he might claim
her. He went to San Francisco, en-
barked i'll mining speculations, and made
money rapidly. A few months ago he
told her that he possessed hundred
thousand dollars. She said that the sum
was satisfactory, and mentioned # date
that would suit her for the wedding.
Then he coolly told her that he had
changed his mind, and had no idea of
marrying her. She has sued him for
breach of promise.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
R1DGwAY, ELK COUNTY PA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1877.

beaten yet at this sort of game, and |
amt beat yet. Take your shooter, fol-
low me up and show me the way"
They got up to the top of the stairs.
1t was still as death, and Calcott lights II
bullseye. Frost was getting pretty
shaky. So Charley says "Show me
the room," and with his lamp in one
hand aud pistol in the other he pushes
in, leaving Frost there in the hall watch
ing the square hole in the door, between
the shutters, and expecting every minute
that it would close up. 1t must have
been ten minutes before Calcott came
back. He had the lamp in hand yet. and
Frost saw that he was rs white as sheet
All he said was "Come down-it's no
CO."
When they got to the bottom, the shut
ters separated and disappeared, and the
men walked out. Where's the plum
der p asks Frost. ,."I hay'n't got it, -"
says Charley "I tell you it's no use
the man is burglNr-proof. If you don't
believe it, go back and try it yourself.
I'm off !"
With this cock and bull story they got
back to their rendezvous. And it was
never known, 1 don't believe, till inter-
viewed Calico Charley up there at the
prison, that he had met his own father
that night. According to Charley's story
to me-the old man said he was await
ing for him. And SO struck was the son
with remorse that he lost all his pluck
and coolness. Whether he ever went
back to the old man after he got rid of
his pal [ have never heard.
1t was all fixed by the old mans in
genuity. The house WAS all wires and
levers from one end t'other. He could
turn a crank up in his bedroom and shut
the whole house up as tight as drum.
Then he'd slip down into his cellar, turn
Il half ton of charcoal into his furnace
and kill everybody in the place, unless
everybody crawled ont of the one exit,
and then the old fellow had them at his
mercy, one by one.
The last time / heard from Charley
the warden said he had invented new
catch lock for the cells that could not be
opened by any one but the keeper with
ont its ringing the alarm bell World.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
The COmmOdOre'S Advice.

The following characteristic anecdote
is related Of the late Commodore Van
derbilt: Al the beginning of the panic
OF 1873 a reporter of city journal waited
upon the commodore to get his views Of
the situation. The experienced journal
list plunged into the subject as soon as
he was shown into the commodore's
presence.
"Good-morning, commodore" said
lie. "What do you think of the panic ?"
II don't think about it at all. :"
"What do you intend to do about it,
then 2"
Il don't intend to do anything"
"Well, haven't you got anything to
say about it ?"
"No, sir, not q word"
The poor reporter was just leaving the
room in despair, when the commodore
turned full upon him and said "Look
a-here, sonny, let me give you little
advice. Pay ready money for every
thing you buy, and never sell anything
which you do not own. Good-morning,
sonny"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
NO. so.
The Old Story.

have loved thee fond1y, truly.
With all my trusting heart,
And like dove in search of rest
Have wandered where thou art /;
I've fingered round thee day by day,
Till by thy hands carcssoi
I've laid my weary, aching head
Upon thy loving breast.
Dnt now my dream OF love is DER,
Its memories bright arc past
lnd recolloctions but recall
The scenes that could not last.
Like snowfiaisrs which descend OF esr'f
They melted one by one.
And disappeared like drcts of dew
Before the morning sun.
would not cast reproacli upon
That faitlless heart of thine
For conscience must give pan6s more keoi
Than burning words Of mine;
And as the hand of time ongravc+
Its furrows on our brows.
May memory bring before thy view
Thy false and perjured yows.
No. no. wonld not have thee think
That ] thought would cast
Upon the happy scenes of yorc
Now buried in the past;
For though loved thee once, yet now
tear thee from my heart,
And to their fountain backward send
The burning tears that start.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01
Don't be a Loafer.

Young man pay attention. Don't be
loafer; don't keep loafers' company;
don't hang about loafng places. Better
work than sit around day after day, or
stand about corners with your hands in
your pockets-better for your own
health and prospects. Bustle about. if
You mean TO have anything to hustle
about for. Many poor physician has
obtained real patient by riding after an
imaginary one. A qHire OF blank paper,
tied with red tape, ca9ied under a law
yer's arm, may procure him his first
case, and make his fortune. Such is the
world: To him that hath shall be
given" Quit dreaming and complain.
ing; keep busy and mind your chances,