The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-21

Wool trade lively.
Things are plenty wet now.
Longest day of the year-21st.
Subscription due still taken at this
office.
This is the month that bees make
their honey.
There1l be a dance in the city Hal
next Friday evening.
Prospects are good for an immense
blackberry crop this season.
About seyenty-five bushels of straw
berries sold in Eaton last week.
There are only about a dozen girls
in Eaton that can ride horseback.
When the Murphy converts go
fishing they shouldn't carry their bait
in a pint flask.
We didn't know that the speakers
stand in the public square was to be
made portable.
Blind Ton pleasethed the people of
Eaton muchly. The colored cultivat-
ed generally do.
An utter contempt of public opin-
ion, and a sensitive regard for it, are
equally the ear-mark of a fool.
Ifyou will examine the Assessors
returns you will find pianos and per
sonal property are not.worth much.
Gen. WoLyERToN, and old and well
known citizen of Jackson township,
this county, died on last Thursday.
Now let the Commissioners reno
del the Court room. In its present
condition it is almost unfit for public
use.
To get the right frizzle on your hair,
Miss, sprinkle it full of meal, and let
q brood of chickens scratch it
out.
Ifany of our school'teachers are sat
titudenizing" they oughtn't any more !
1t is hard on the intellects of their pu-
pills.
The best way to beautify the hand
is to put a quarter in it and then
shake hands with some suffering fell
low creature.
Mosquitoes are looking over their
collection of hymns and psalms and
spiritual songs preparatory to camp
meetings and SIGH.
Cucumbers have been unjustly a.
bused. If they are picked when small
and tender, and-thrown TO the hogs,
they will hurt no one.
VIZ are not pPoud-wc will Y with
the two temperance "organs" in this
county if the parties will send their
journals TO us.
There is a nice hog wallow in front
of Minors block that should be inves-
tigated by the Marshal or Board of
Health, after a rain.
The annual advertisement of a de-
linquent list of persons who fail to
pay personal taxes, is now provided
for by the law.
We have a fearfullo lot of able bodied
young men in Eaton that labor hard
to live in this world doing nothing.
Some of them are TO be pitied.
Is Eaton to be a hog pond or a city,
is a question that our city dads are
being "torn up" over. They should
have sand enough to declare it a city.
All the Aang men who attend
church on hesidewalk in front ofthe
edifce, practice time in common
meet her. They meet her as she rolls
out.
The sewing machine agent, since
the patent III out, has to talk as much
and just as fast and tell just as many
big stories for $50 as he used to tell
Tor twice the money.
Show us a town, truthfully remarks
an exchange, where the merchants all
patronize their local papers, and we
will show you one that q peddler
would stand a poor chance in.
We like to hear ladies say, "Good
Lord 81 wish to the Lord" "She
Devil" etc., it is evidence of high at
tainment in christian graces, refined
minds and polite education.
Cold water put on a rheumatic joint
brings comfort if not cure. We give
this for the benefit of any Murphyite
who may have an idea that whisky is
the only salve for the afliction.
The Prohibitionists will have two
organs in this county this fall to adj
voeate their ticket-one in West Elk
ton and the other at New Paris. This
ought to insure them fifty votes!
The Murphy movement didn't hit
us as hard a lick as many other towns
of our size. Only about 700 have
signed, men, women and children,
when there should have been double
that number.
@Newsmania" is a new species OF
insanity. The persons afflicted beat
newspaper men, bore editors to death,
never pay their subscriptions, sponge
all the advertising they can, and gen,
orally die a miserable death.
Col. F. f. BROWN, of the Soldiers
Home, Dayton, has our thanks fol
complimentaries and invitation 10 be
present at the balloon ascension which
took place yesterday, "Wednesday,
Sorry we could not be present.