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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

Two men of Newport, Vermont, en-
couraged by the high price of grain, re-
solved to go into the wheat business.
They accordingly, with commendable en-
terprise, procured a span of horses and
a wagon and drove ten miles at the dead
of night to a farmers barn, choosing
this hour SO as not to disturb the farmer.
By a little perseverance and with the
assistance of a crowbar they entered the
barn and procured a nice wagon load of
wheat, and, to make the matter easier,
the wheat wa all snugly stored away in
bags, which was very considerable on the
part of the owner, that is if he really
had the convenience of the wheat spec
ulators in his mind. But unfortunately
there was a hole in one of the bags, and
unnoticed on account of the darkness of
the night a trail of wheat followed the
wagon. The constable followed the
trail at daylight, and the arrest of the
wheat s~tealers followed shortly after
wards.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
THE MARKETS.

CINCINNATL-Flour-Patent, SO 5o@1o; fancy,
6 5Og7 50; family, s6gs Is; spring; 81 25@s; extra,
q as 6e So H Rie sqaR snf, b ss sga 7 81 81 loG Gf sfneeSi Is y
prime to choice red, 81 2O@1 Is; prime to choice hill
and amber, 81 25@1 80; prime to choice white, 81 IS.
Corn Corn 4 alIs,S i G rEEel NJ, 2 S7S sSSi5' oats ss: sS@ go4s
s1s 75@l4. Lard, s11z@lOc. Cotton, 1O@1sAc.
Observation-Disclosures 81 75@5; extra
family, S. 25@6; No l, Sc 5o@6 70; fancy, SIG
old so. Lard, 10A@11c.
Observation-Disclosures process, IS 75@
9 25i fancy, &c 75g7 81 family, Sc 25gS Is; extra,
44a45c. Clear rib sides, 6A@7c.; shoulders, sc.
sugar-eured Hams, 10e; Lard, prime steam 90
NEW YORK.!Fiour-No. 2, sS5O@4 Is;
s~uperine State and Western State, 81 7595 40;
common to good Western and State, IS 6O@6 10;
good to choice Western State, Sc l596 %; common to
mon to choice extra Ohio, S. 65@7 so; common
to choice st. Louis, IS s0@9 so; Minnesota patent
process, ext-a good to prime, and choice to double
extra, 81 7599 so. Rye Flour, 81 5O@5. Grain
Wheat, s12s@@1 so; rye, 65@7O12e. corn, 57@6lc.;
and old prime steam, Seas O71S.--
S.; Western extras, Sc; Minnesota eStrs Family,
IS 5099 so; Pennsylvania extra family, 81 50@SI
high grades, S9910. Grain-Wheat, Pennsylvania
red, 81 42@1 43; Pennsylvania amber, 81 45@1 46;
white Western, 81 47@1 50. Rye, Pennsylvania,
6S@7Oc. Corn, yellow Western, 621ad63c. mixed,
6OE@61c. Oats, white Western, 4O94lc.; mixed
Western, 37@3Sc. Mess pork, new, S15@15 IS.
Petroleum, refined, &c.; crude, in barrels, SEC.
STOCK
CINCINNATI.-Cattle - Common to medium,
81 1904; good to choice butchers grades, 81 25@475;
fair to good shippers, S. @55 so. Sheep and Lambs
Common to choice sheep, 81 50d4 so; fair to extra
lambs, Says 25. Ho~gs-COmmon, 81 5O94 rs; fair TO
good light, S5a5 20; fair to good packing grades,
81 S5@5; selected butchers, IS 1905 90.
BUFFALO.-Beef Cattle-Butchers and medium
grades of shippers, 81 25@5 so; cows and heifers,
s. 6O@4 so; common Texans, 81 5O@3. Sheep
Stockers, S3@3 IS. Hogs-Yorkfirs, IS 15@5 80;
heavy fair, IS 25@5 40.
NEW YORK.-BeefC a~ttle-Bestin market, 12h
@121c. per pound; fair to prime steers at 11@12c.,
and inferior TO medium ditto at s@104c.; common
Texas and Cherokee cattle not in demand. Sheep
and Lambs-SheepYrange from 4Ac. to SIC. per h.,
with a few selected wethers at 6@619c. Lambs range
from SC. to 712c.; one carload Of choice Delaware
brought 65s@634c. Hogs-Market easier, and quoted
at s. 75@5 81 per 100.
WOOL.-In Cincinnati, manufacturers seem to be
buying sparingly, only taking sufficient to meet
their contracts. Dealers pay the following prices
for choice, while bury and bad conditioned are
taken at S@7c. per 1b. less: Unwashed-Fine
merino, 21@22c. coarse clothing, 24@26c. medium
do, 27@29c. long combing, 32935. Fleeced-washed
Fine merino, 35@4Oc.; coarse clothing, 30G35c.;
medium clothing, 35@SSc.; long cOmbing, 40@42c.
Tub-washed-COmmon, S3G35c good to choice, $50
SOC. Pulled-Superine, 25d27c.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
Uergymen's Fish Stories.

The editorial correspondent of the
Richmond (Va.) Christian AdUocate con.
tains these stories: The Pamunky re-
minded me of a fish story. So l told it
to Brother Peterson. 1t ran this way:
A shark came up that river. A citizen
saw it, took a sturgeon harpoon, went
out in a canoe, sent the steel barb into
the shark. The shark darted. The cord
to the harpoon hung in the bow of the
boat, and that end of the started
under the water. The man jumped to
the stern, and leaned back over the
rudder to keep the front from dipping.
The shark was doing his best, making
(say, roughly fifty miles an hour. The
fisherman could not go forward to un-
hitch the cord, for the boat would go
right under, like a mole in a plowed
field, but quicker. So the man had to
"rare" back, like he was driving a
fast horse in a sulky before his sweet
hearts house. His neighbors hailed him
from the banks, but he hadn't time to
talk. They went home and told their
wives, and wondered. The boatmen on
the river shouted at him as he skeeted
Dy. Ilt Was SUluS uOO ldoI W dISNtI.
The shark turned out of the Pamunky
into the York. Capsized in a river three
miles wide, and a mad shark close by,
was an ugly thought. The man wished
that he had been from home the day the
shark came by his house, and was ere
gretful" generally. The shark made a
wide circle in the York, and returned mp
the Pamunky, and, nearly opposite the
starting point, suddenly stopped, rose to
the top-dead. The man was glad. Now,
this is not a small story. 1t is of the
Centennial Krupp Gun calibre. /
watched Brother Peterson. He didn't
seem to give way under it as l liked. He
took a fresh bit of tobacco, and said, 81
know a bigger one." "Tell it." 81
will. In Charleston harbor a fish
swallowed the anchor of a schooner, put
out, and dragged the vessel under
"O," said 1, " that's a%pocryphal. Mine
was a true story. DIR. Leroy NJ. Lee
vouches for it." Brother Peterson
chewed briskly asecond or so, and said
al heard Bishop Wightman say that he
knew mine was true" A schooner
against a canoe, a bishop against a pre-
siding elder, the odds were too great
worse than " eight to seven;" it was NJ
use to attempt Gibraltar with a pocket
pistol" AS at Appomattox, "yieldins
to superior numbers and o~verwhelmin!
resources" l quit.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
GLEANINGS FROM THE MUSE.
A STORY OF THE WAR.

Miss Maggie O'Keefe was a beautiful girl,
From the sole of her foot to the little black curl
That she used topin on with a queer little twirl,
Right over her aquiline nose
Her lovers she surely could count by the score,
Aud for aught that l know there were myriads more,
Who ceased not in silence Miss K. to adore;
And soshe had plenty of beaux.
Welt one Of these lovers she'd known all her life,
Twas an understood thing, she would soon be his
wife;
When the war sounding notes of the drum and the
Went ringing through city and town.
When the President called for the first volunteers
Her lover enlisted, l think for three years.
He went as high private, and then it appears
That his stock soon began to go down.
For shortly after he went away,
A Major De Boot appeared one day,
On special service-that is to say,
He there was detailed to recruit.
Quite gorgeous, the major, in figure and face,
Mustaches as long as a clergyman's grace;
And every younglady and GIRL in the place
Was wild over Major De Boot.
Maggie frequently thought of her absent beau,
But p~rivates were then at a discount, you know,
Whine colonies and majors were all CONNIE il fault,
As the story would seem to prove.
A private was only an awkward galoOt,
So Maggie 0Keefe married Major De Boot,
(She found him a sort of a second-class brute),
But a " major" of course she could love.
EOA q .Nd VI WV NNlg NhihS WNh1f W.
They lived on in style at the best hotel,
And the major continued most /" awfully swel"
While holding his proud situation.
But when the war ended and peace was made,
They mustered out the entire brigade,
At which the major was quite dismayed,
For gone was his occupation.
Then the major looked round for something to do;
He must be good for something, he knew,
So he started off home for Kalamazoo,
Though Maggie felt bad about going.
His pride very soon was run into the ground,
And driving a horse car the major soon found
Acalling which gave him a chance to be round,
While Maggie, his wife, took insewing.
The private whose suit for her love had been spurned,
With glory and honor soon after returned,
And a big pile o. money twas said he had earned,
By a fortunate speculation.
As he rides about in his coach and four,
And passes sometimes by Maggie's own door,
She regretfully thinks OF the days of yore,
And her own bad calculation.
Boston Advertiser.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

On the 9Th of August, last year, the
three-masted iron steamship Great
Queensland left London for Melbourne
with a large cargo and sixty-nine pas
sengers and crew on board. At Grave
send she stopped to take on some thirty
tons of black gunpowder and two tons
of patent gunpowder. After this was
laden she proceeded on her voyage, and
has never been heard from since August
II, 1876. A name-board belonging to
her, however, and some l~ife-buoys, have
been washed ashore on the south coast
of England. The English Wreck Com
missioner has just decided that the
steamer must have been destroyed by
the explosion of the patent gunpowder,
which was proved to have been in bad
condition and improperly packed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

AT a wedding of a French couple at
Dover, England, the other day, the bride
groom discovered that he had no ring.
No one in the company could lend one,
and the sexton went for the church key,
the eye of which had been used for the
same purpose before. But the eye was
too small to admit the brides finger.
Finally the groom thought of his key
ring, and with it the pair were joined.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

Will testify to the virtues Of DR.. TUTT's Pills.
Wherever Chill and Fever, Bilious Diseases or Liver
Affections prevail, they have proven a great blessing.
Readers, a single trial will convince you that this is
no catch-penpy medicine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
CHEW
The Celebrated
"MATCHLEss
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO,
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY.
New York, Boston, and Chicago.

THERE is now no State in the Union grow
ing so rapidly or that offers such induce
ments for farming, stock-raising and specu-
lation as Texas. The very best of farming
lands are selling for $3.50 per section (640
acres). Mr.. S. H. Drew, Cincinnati, o., will
take pleasure in giving further information
on this subject,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

WHENEVER Jim Blaine reads any
more of people getting sun-struck he
smiles a smile of ineffabIe contempt or
pity, and gives the cabbage leaves in his
own hat a fresh shaking up.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

VANITY, like laudanum and other
poisonous medicine, is beneficial insmall
though injurious in large quantities. r
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
Light. wen.RaIsed Bread, Biscuits.

Cakes and Postry, digest easily and conduce
to goodhealth. Good health makes labor of
all kinds easier, and ~prolongs life. Doo-
LEY's YEAST POWDER will always make all
these productions light and wholesome. 1t
is warranted to make better, lighter, sweeter,
more toothsome, and nutritious biscuits;
cake, bread, etc., than any other baking
noMder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
1877. NEW YORK. 1877.

THE Sun continues to he the strenuous advocate of
reform and retrenchment, and of the substitution
of statesmanship, wisdom. and integrity for hollow
%pretence, imbecility, and fraud in the adRinistra-
ton of public affairs. 1t contends for the govern
ment of the people ty the people aud for the people,
as opposed to government by frauds in the ballot
box and in the counting of votes, enforced by mill
tary violence. 1t endeavors to supply its readers
a body now not far from million o f~souls-with the
most careful, complete. and accounts
of current events, and employs for this purpose q
numerous and carefully selected staff ofTeporters and
correspondents. Its reports from Washington, es.
pecially, are full, accurate, and fearless; and II
doubtless continues to deserve and enjoy the hatred
of those who thrive by pluudering the Treasury or
by ~usurping what the law does not give them: while
it endeavors to merit the confidence of the public by
defending the rights of the people against the en-
croachments of uniustifed power.
The price of the daily SUN is SIS cents q month, or
$3.50 a year. post. paid /; cr, with the Sunday edi-
ton, 87.7O a year.
The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, sI.20 q
year, postpaid.
THE WEEKLY Sun, eight pages of broad columns,
is furnished at 81 q year, postpaid.
SPECIAL NorIcE.-In order to introduce THE Sun
more widely to the public, we will send II
WEEKLY edition for the remainder of the year, to
January 1, 1878. postpaid, for Halfa Dollar. Try 1t.
Address. THE SUN, New York City.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

PONDS EXTRACT, for yaricose Veins,
Hemorrhages or any Pain. Physicians
allopathic, homeopathic and eclectic-rec-
Ommend it. Ask of them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
Keeping Winter Squashes and Saving

keeping WINTER squashes anu saving
Seed.-Keeplng squashes IN winter
seems to be attended with considerable
difficulty. They CANNOT be Kept where
1t is damp, as IN most cellars, or where
frost can reach them, nor Will they keep
so we'll where 1t IS very warm. Inc pest
condition Tor keeping them seems 10 be
whe 'e the air Is cool anu dry, ye' SAFE
from frost. AN attlc unell
winter; Ihen a closer near tne CHIMNEY
where the FROST cahliot reach vi e!e
temperature does 0 rlse se[y =
the pest Iamllles can conf f4an H. rN Len,
slVe nlaahe b1 gItu sar fbo nnrn Meep where
IN oan ma;nto;u ON oyan temporatnre
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
100000

THE best Normal School in the u. S. is at
Valparaiso, Ind. See advertisement.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16

If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite, and
righteousness. - and nothing will cure you so speedily
and permanently as to cake SIMMONS Liver REGU-
7 ron r MFnTcTSE-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
TOPICS FOB FARMERS.

A Cure for "ScOurs."-"Scours,"
says a correspondent, is a disease hat is
caused by various circumstances, such as
sudden changes of the weather, or from
dry or green food, which is such al to
cause irritation of the bowels, and if not
attended to in time will become chronic
and be difficult to cure. The following
has always proved an infallible cure for
any case of that kind that 1 have had
under my care: For a COW or OK l
make Cruel of starch or wheat -four
boiled to the consistency of a thick
starch, such as is made to starch linen,
and give it to the COW two OF three
times each day as much as l think
needed, judging by the severity of the
disease. While administering the cruel
l do not give anything to eat that has a
tendency to cause l~ooseness ofthe bowels
until l see that I have put a check to
the disease; but if / see that am likely
to stop the scours too suddenly, | give
linseed or SOME other substitute that is
lubricating for the bowels, until they
become natural. For a calf that has the
scours, caused by giving the milk too
hot, or early new mown hay or rowen, l
give a Tablespoonful of starch dissolved
in its milk, until cured.
The New York herald., 1877-11-20
LAWFUL" GARDNER.
HIS RELATIVES CHARGE HIM WITH rALsIrIcA-

HIS RELATIVES CHARGE HIM WITH TALsITIcA-
TON.
The statement that Orvillc Gardner, better known
as "Awiu Gardner, the once famous boxer and prize
ring trainer, had declared his intention leave tho
Church and return to selling. having been denied
by him In an interview, inquiry has been made in
Newark on the subject II rs ascctaned boy doubt
that matter what Gardner may say now he declared
publicly last Friday in presence OF hall per-
the street IN Newark that was his nrm de-
termination 10 engage IN the sale OF malt and
spirituous liquors. lie asl0 stated that he had
already procured place on Mulberry street, near
Clinton, aud had arrang d Tor his stock several
gentlemen expressed regret ut MS declaration tired
dissuade MIN, warning him that he would surely
fall into his old Vicious way OF living He admitted
that no was doing wrong, but insisted that nc was
forced to the step by The necessities oi his family
GARDNER RELATIVE SAYS.
There is good reason TO believe that the whole busi
ness Is trick tho part OF Gardncr TO get before the
pubic play upon the feelings Of the charitable ana
soft hearted gentleman related TO him is authority
for the statement that instead OF he and his family
being IN danger OF starvation he draws interest regu-
larry upon $500O held IN trust Tor him BY gentleman
In Nav York His relative Also states that II thero
was aoy tor Gardner TO make poor face all no
has do ca his relatives. 1t Is stun further
stated he has not been secured poy-
ment pol force Is the tear that his temper
not well controlled.
The New York herald., 1877-11-20
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ALLEGED MALPRACTICE.

DOCTOR pRACTIcING WITHOUT DIPLOMA
ARRESTED AND LODGED IN JAIL.
John W. Metcalf, nm alleged physician, has been
arrested at New Brunswick, NJ j., on charge OF NAL
practice lodged in the M,ddlesex County Jail in
default OF 81, 900 bonds await the action OF the
Grand Jury. The complainant, Barbara Sleger,
young German woman twenty-five years old and
married, was employed as domestic in New Bruins
wick until tho Sd inst, when young mau introduced
her to Thomas Bunting's boarding house, No s
New street. whero she was taken sick The
young called Metcalf, who described
himself as physician, called TO her
and he prescribed. After taking the medicine
she became seriously Ill and appeared TO become
worse each day. On she Id she sent for Dr. Thomas
l.. Jancway and admitted to him that = miscarriage
had been produced by tho use OF instruments by DR..
Mc,calL DIR. Janeway advised the pateut to make
her ante-mortem statement In her affidavit she
states that she had two operations performed the
first proving unsuccessful lie cautioned her not to
mention his nume as both might be sent to State
Prison. He told she would soon De all right and,
matter what happened, she was not TO send ior
another physician.
James W. Metcalf this morning, when visited in the
jail SAID he called attend the for the first
time on November g. The victim said SAID he oper-
ated her first at his oiice OCTOBER rs. He said he
gave her lever drops and seidltz powder; but
the second time no saw what was the matter and
proceeded in regular way. Ho Is fifty years old,
and says he practiced medicine IN Chicago Tor twenty
says he has frequently been called in obstct
RIGS but uniformly refused He Is well known here as
Il vendor OF salves ana nniments. Inc victim is in u
very critical condition.
The New York herald., 1877-11-20
RAPID TRANSIT.

Tho New York Elevated Railroad is about to turn
the tables tho tgants Spader Gallagher and Others
who have interierod with It's construcLon and there
IS good deal OF alarm among them. Already some of
them have paid the amount OF the surctcs on their
Undertakings ana the officers OF tho road confident
all will be compelled do and pay damages we'll
Tho Ninth Avenue Railroad Company on Friday last
pal tnc amount OF It's undertaking on tho
injunction obtained six months ago, when
was only $1,000. while Spador's suretios are held
for $4,000, Galagher's Tor $4,000 and Patten
ana story for liko amounts. This amount
was accepted by the Elevated Company, Dut without
any stipulation looking to the immunity o. the Ninth
Avenue ROAD Tor the damages caused by its course
toward the Elevated Railroad. THESE damages, Mr..
Dudley Field states, very heavy, iEcluding the
jury wrought by the doiy IN completing the double
track aud the expense 10 which the company put
III defending lis rights. Mt Field laughing.y suggests
that the Elevated Railroad may be compelled IN thu
end to take tho Ninth avenue road part payment OF
the damages ibiilctod upon u by that company. A
suit will be brought to-day against the Ninth
Railroad anu It's directors tor conspiracy to nurc tho
Elevated Railroad and for dam ges resulting from
hugattons only intended 10 destroy rival cor
p0ratIon-
The New York herald., 1877-11-20
DIR. HAWkER IN TROUBLE.

HE Is INDICTED FOR MALPRACTICE BY THE
KINGS COUNTY GRAND JURY AND ARRESTED.
Dr. Benjamin w. Hawker, alias DR.. Benjamin Perry,
alias DR.. West, who has been arrested upon various
occasions upon tho charge of malpractice was taken
into custody yesterday afternoon AZ his oce No. 45
Beecker street. this city, by Detective Charles Frost
OF the Brooklyn Central Police ONCE. The arrest
made upon the authority of District Attorney Wn-
chester Brittou, OF Kings county, who issued bench
warrant for accused whohas been indicted by tho
Grand Jury Tor having, as alleged felonousy treated
residence, No 134 Third street. Williamsburg. Tho
allegations SET forth that the offence committed
ut the latter place. ho having previously attended
her in New York. The operation Is SAID TO have
performed about the lst OF September last since
which time the patient, who came near dying, has
suffered exceedingly. The evidence III the Case being
before the Grand Jury, will not be attninable until tho
trial oil the case, which Will probably be during tho
December term OF the Court OF Sessions. The pris-
oner, was taken to the Brooklyn Central Ulhcc,
had briet interview with Super ntendent Campbell.
He dlscIaimed all knowledge oil Miss Amelia Hyde or
her troubles and asked tnat he might be shown PIC.
ture OF her he III loss to fix her identity As
there no photograph OF the lady present his
all his recent annoyances to the enmity Of
bis former partner This case, no believed,
was but another ''put up jo0' of that gentleman
against him, and he tet satisfied that he would
contained in tho present Indictment fhe prisoner,
who appeared cool and collected under the circum-
stances, Is man about ory four years OF age OF
dunn height and weighs about two hundred pounds.
He is a native Of England. He was iaken the FIRST
precinct station house, Washington street, where he
was locked up Tor the night An effort will bc made
to secure his release bail to-day. There IL
dctmen pending said against the accused IN this