The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-31

The ladies of the Universalist
Church will give an ice cream and
strawberry supper in city Hall, on
next Saturday evening. Admittance,
10 cents. Let all come and have a
good social evening.
The Commissioners won't grant the
privilege of Post-ofice on the pub
lie square, but a stand will be erected
for the use of our Band and public
speakers. The fish market will also
be continued at the same old place.
Murphy knows that wind is a very
slim diet to live upon. In a speech
in Philadelphia a few Sundays ago,
he said: 81 tell you, my friends, we
have got to have something more than
prayers" "These ten hundred or
more men who are ragged must be
clothed"
Many women scold at a mark, and
so accurate is their aim that they will
knock all the good resolutions out of
a man in three minutes, and leave him
doubled up over the aching void
where his manhood ought to be, like
a small boy who has become the Sc
pulchre of a green apple.
A fire of considerable extent took
place in Euphemia, OIL Tuesday morn
ing last, destroying a tobacco shed
and several other buildings. 1t was
the result of a boy building a fire in a
wood house. The loss will probably
amount to $1,000. We did not learn
how much insurance was on the bull
dings, or whether there was any.
"Don't stop to swap horses when
crossing a stream" vas applied by
President Lincoln to our. army during
the late war, when asked to make a
change in its commander. If tits
good doctrine for army government,
it is equally as good for school gov
eminent.
Some gravel diggers at work a half
mile east of Eaton, and q short dis
lance from old Fort st. Clair, unearth-
ed a skeleton on last Thursday, which.
upon scientific examination proved to
be that of a female. A gold ring was
also found embedded with it. The
history of it is probably more than a
century in the past.
A correspondent of an agricultural
paper says that after long experience
he finds that the best way to SOW
grain is on horseback. The science
of agricultural progress. A young
farmer will soon be able to take his
girl out buggy riding and SOW sever
al acres of grain or pick five acres of
potatoes at the same time-thus COM
bining business with pleasure.
The conduct ofsome young persons
in the city Hall, during the exercises
on Thursday evening last, deserves
the severest condemnation, and it is
to be hoped OF the next occasion of
this kind that these young solutions
and offenders of all propriety and de-
cency, will be taken by the nape of the
neck and boosted from the Hall. They
are old enough to know how to be-
have themselves and should be made
do it in public places.
We are indebted to our County
Auditor foTfhe following report of
the number of hogs which have died
with cholera in Preble county during
the past year, and the number of sheep
killed and injured by dogs, as report
ed by the Assessors of each township.
Israel, 1880; Dixon, 500; Jackson,
966 Jefferson, 1926; Somers, 800; Ora
tbs, 1869; Twin, 25S; Harrison, 126.
Total-5,297. Two townships made
no returns, Washington and Lanier.
The number of sheep injured and kill
ed in the county by dogs foot up 273,
and their value 1910, more money
than we would give for all the dogs
in the State of Ohio. Fact, but there
are several that would differ with us,
for instance, Little Huff, Ike Mono
| smith OF Markley.