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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
An English Brute.

In an English court, recently, " it was
shown that Mr.. Walrond's management
of his several children was painful in the
extreme. He insisted not only on their
complying with his caprices, but with
his bitter animosities. 10 one of the girls
he gave the name of Devil, he always
addressed her as such, and branded the
name with lunar caustic on her skin. All
his natural and amiable feeling he be-
slowed upon dogs. He never saw dog
without stopping as others would at meet
ing an acquaintance, and he invested
them with souls, not only for eternity,
which is speculative affair, but for this
present time, which is more practical.
He slept with dogs, talked to them, en-
braced them, and kept up in every way
the fond belief that he was holding con-
versation with them. All his dogs had
solemn funerals and duly inscribed mon
uments. His gardeners and laborers had
to walk to the grave in procession, closely
watched, and they were instantly dis
charged if smile could be detected on
their countenances.n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
Who Was Casabianca 2
Youths Companion. ]


Owen Casabianca was a native of
Corsica, on which island he was born in
the year 1913. His father was Louis
Casabianca, distinguished French pol
itician and naval commander and the
friend of Napoleon. He was captain
at this time of the Orient, one of the
largest vessels in the French navy,
magnificent ship-of-war, carrying one
hundred and twenty guns and five hun
dred seamen. Of Casabianca's mother
we know but little, save that she was
young and beautiful Corsican lady, and
devotedly attached to her son. Owen
was her only child, a handsome, manly
little fellow, with her beauty in his
flashing eyes and dusky hair. She died
while he was yet quite young, and when
the green sod was placed above her
grave, the boy left the pleasant valley
under the smiling hills of Corsica to go
with his father and tread the hard deck
of war vessel. Mere child as he was,
Casabianca soon grew to love his fathers
dangerous calling, and became favor
ite with all on board. He was made
midshipman, and at the early age of ten
years participa with his father in the
battle of the Nile The ship caught
fire during the action. Soon after, Cap
tain Casabianca, the father. was wounded
by musket ball. Not yet disabled, ne
was struck in the head some minutes
later by splinter which laid him upon
the deck insensible. His gallant son,
unconscious of the chieftain's doom,
still held his post at the battery, where
he worked like the hero he was. He
saw the flames raging around him; he
saw the ships crew deserting him one
by one, and the boy was urged to flee.
With courage and GOODNESS beyond his
years, he refused to desert his post.
Worthy son of Louis Casabianca, he
fought on and never abandoned the
Orient till the whole of the immense
vessel was in flames. Then seeking
refuge on a floating mast, he left the
burning ship behind him. But he was
too late. The final catastrophe came
like the judgment doom. With an ex-
plosion so tremendous that every ship
felt it to the bottom, the Orient blew up,
and from among the wreck the next
morning was picked up the dead, man.
gled body of the young hero, whose
story, romance and poetry can not make
more heroic than it was.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

LEON FURNIss, with an annual income of
twenty-five thousand dollars, suicided in
New York.
FREDERICK NoTHNAGLE, merchant OF
Detroit, committed suicide by drowning in
the Detroit River.
NINETEEN rioters were killed in Chicago
Friday, July 27. The number wounded is
not given, but will probably reach fifty:
GEORGE II. PECK, editor of the Auburn
IN. W Daily Advertiser, fatally shot himself
few evenings since. Cause, melancholy.
NORMAN LINDSAY, colored, was hanged at
Helena, Arkansas, Saturday, July 2S, for the
murder of Rev. Charles Hightower, also
colored, in 1875.
JOSEPH WOODRUFF, Secretary of the
Senate of South Carolina, was arrested at
Philadelphia, lately, on the requisition of
Governor Hampton. The charges against
him are forgery and larceny.
THE Indians of Dakota Territory are be-
coming troublesome again, and have COM
mitted about twenty murders. This move
ment comes at specially unfortunate time
for the settlers, as troops designed for
frontier service have been recalled to aid in
quelling the riots in various cities.
RICHARD H. SHUCK was hung near Owen
ton, KY, on July 81, for the murder of his
father-in-.aw, Ne:son Parish. The murder was
unprovoked, so far as the testimony shows,
un ess by desire to rob. 1t occurred
Wednesday, July 26, just a year and day
before the murder suffered the extreme
pena'ty of the law. Shuck protested his
innocence to the last on the gal ows, and said
there were men in the sound of his voice
who could prevent his execution if they
would.
A DISPATCH to the Cincinnati Commercial
dated July %, a. m, says that car con-
tanning United States troops ordered to
Pittsburg, having with them ten ordinary
cannon and two Calling guns, was thrown
from the track by a misplaced switch, near
Johnstown, seventy-fve miles east of Pitts
burg. A mob which had gathered there
fired into the cars, and wounded several of
the soldiers. Five of the mob were arrested
and held for hearing. The engine hauling
the train was turned upside down and al
most totally wrecked
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
Burying a Fort.

Quite an original method of taking
fort is described in BLack,UooFs Mdgd-
zine. In 1896, large Russian army be-
sieged the Turkish fort of Azof, which
was situated on plain strongly fortified,
and had a small, but well disciplined
garrison. No common approaches could
be made to it, as the Turkish cannon
swept the level with iron hail. In this
case the engineering skill of the Russians
was bafled, but General Patrick Gordon,
the right-hand man of Peter the Great,
and the only one for whose death it is
said he ever shed tear, being deter
mined to take the place at any cost,
proposed to bury it with earth by
gradual approaches. He had large
army; the soil of the plain was light and
deep, and he set twelve thousand men
to work with spades, throwing up high
decentralization of earth wall before
them in advance. The men were kept
in gangs, working day and night, the
earth being thrown from one to another
like the steps to stair, the top gang
taking the lowest place every half hour
in succession. In five weeks the huge
earth wall was carried forward nearly
one mile, until it rose to and above the
highest ramparts, and the earth began
to roll over them. This caused the
Turkish Governor to hang out the white
flag and give in. Had he not done so
General Gordon would have buried the
fortress
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
The Credit Business.

After having inspected pile of calico
in one of the Woodward Avenue stores
yesterday, somewhat rusty looking man
blandly remarked to the clerk before
him:
"Credit must be given me-"
"No, sir-we don't trust" was the
reply.
&c 1 was going to remark that credit
must be given me for"
"We couldn't do it, sir. The rule ap-
plies to every one."
Couldn't give you credit"
"You are very uncivil, sir, very but yet
1 will say before l go out of here that
credit must be given me for being honest
and impartial, when say that I never
saw three hitching-posts look nicer than
them out there. That's all, sir, and l
wish l hadn't said that much"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

SPECIMENS of silver ore recently taken
from the Cerro de Pasco silver mines in
Peru show that the submerged portion
of the mountain is very rich, and
rough estimate shows that body of ore
will be exposed, by the new tunnel which
Henry Meiggs is to build, worth from
100000, 900 toS5OO, 900, 900. These mines
have lain under water for fifty years,
and are scarcely known to the present
generation, though they have been
worked for over two hundred and fifty
years. Peru has now discovered that
tunnel can be built which will drain the
mountain completely, by draining off the
lake from which the water in the mines
comes, and she is so much in earnest
about it that the first loads of the now
submerged ore are expected to reach
Lima in four months. 1t is predicted
that within ten years more silver will be
taken out than from the silver mines in
Nevada.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
Sad End of a Young Mans Brief
Career.

Granville Ely, lately arrested in
Middletown, Conn.,, for stealing coat
belonging to the proprietor of the Gels
ton House, and committed to Jail to
await his trial at the next term of the
Superior Court, has peculiar history.
He is the son of the late Elias Ely, at
one time a prominent lawyer in
New York, who amassed large fortune
in his practice. Being his only son,
Granville was humored in every con-
ceivable manner by his father, who
allowed him for spending money the
handsome sum of twenty thousand dol
lars a year. He spent the summer
months at East Haddam, Conn.,, and
was highly esteemed by all, being con-
sidered immensely wealthy, frequently
giving magnificent banquets at the
hotel, to which he not only invited
every young man in the section, but
many persons from Brooklyn and New
York. At that time he was considered
one of the finest young men in the coun-
try, which opinion was evidently formed
because of his distinguished personal
appearance and the prompt manner in
which he paid his bills. He kept for his
own use a four in hand, with which he
would make a sensational dash through
the leading streets of East Haddam every
pleasant afternoon. In conversation few
were more fluent than young Ely, who
would affably entertain room full of
guests without the slightest effort, being
most charming story-teller, into which
he would infuse unmistakable witticism
of the highest order. He was indeed a
brilliant young man, and his condition
now will be greatly mourned by his for
mer friends who have been so magnifi-
Gently entertained at his hands. 1t is
thought that he spent over five hundred
thousand dollars for his father, who died
few years since in reduced circum-
stances. A short time after the death
of his father Ely was arrested in New
York for forgery, of which crime he was
convicted and sent to Sing Sing. 1t is
asserted that he has several times been
arrested for petty larceny, and evidently
in his present low condition, he cannot
refrain from stealing anything coming
within his reach. He has changed so
much in personal appearance that he is
scarcely recognizable by those who were
his most intimate friendseight years ago.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

New YORK Letter: Ned Stokes, the
murderer of Jim Fisk, did rather bru-
tai thing the other night at the Grand
Opera House. He actually occupied
Jim Fisk's private box, sitting in the
same spot from which the vulgar, but
good-natured face of his victim, with its
waxed mustache, had looked hundreds
of times on the spectacles on which he
lavished so much time and money.
Some of the people in the gallery caught
sight of Stokes behind the blue satin
curtains of the box, and, true to their
allegiance to the memory of the big
hearted Colonel of the Ninth, Missed
him roundly. He glared defiance, as he
well can do, for he is as handsome as
ever the frost on his hair and mus
tache and goatee giving his appearance
the distinction it needed; he is well
dressed, too, and looks as though he
found many things in life worth living
for. "This is free country" said one
of Fisk's old friends, "but it won't do
for Ned Stokes to show his face too
often in that box at the Grand Opera
HouseW
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02


Mr.. AMERIcUs SYMMEs, citizen of
Jefferson County, Kentucky, who has
been much talked of by the press of
America, has been corresponding with
Captain Howgate. Mr.. Symmes's no
tions as to another world are known to
all. He believes that this earth is hol-
low and habitable within, and that, af-
ter sailing to certain degree of north
latitude, a ship then goes into the earth,
where the other world exists. Mr..
Symmes contributed five thousand dol
lars toward the expenses of the Howgate
expedition to the North Pole. and thinks
that perseverance will prove the Symmes
theory true.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

Mr.. ALcooK, who for twenty-five
years has been making experiments with
trees planted in the vicinity of his cotton
mill, near Manchester, England, finds
that the plane which does better than
any other tree in London smoke will not
grow at all in that of Lancashire; but,
on the other hand, he has been very sue
cessful with the beech, sycamore, birch,
wych elm, and Turkey oak, but the lime
does best of all. Here is hint for Pitts
burg and Cincinnati There is society
in Manchester called the Field Natural
lists and Arch@ologists' Society, which
is urging the planting of trees in and
about Cottonopolis.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
IATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1877

A meeting of prominent citizens was held
to-day at the call of the Mayor, and will
meet twice daily till further notice. Citizens
are organizing for protection.
July 29.-Itis reported that all the en-
gineers on the Vandalia road struck at
o'clock last night.
All trains on the Illinois Central and the
other roads of this company are. running
regularly.
AL trains on the Ohio and Mississippi
road will have the protection of Federal
officers and soldiers till the troubles are
ended.
The scare is over at st. Louis, and the
panic has subsidized. Many of the citizen
militia companies were disbanded last night
Engineers of the Iennsylvania road
threaten further delay. At meeting last
night every engineer but one favored con-
t.nu:ng on strike.
The number of troops at Pittsburg is four
thousand, of which five hundred and thirty
are regulars, with forty-seven officers, i'll
command of Colvnel John Hamilton.
Governor Hartranft, with a strong militia
force, arrived in PIttsburg yesterday. He
expressed determination to raise the
blockade on all the Pennsylvania roads at
once.
The Chicago and Alton and tie Vandalia
roads attempted to send out freight trains
yesterday, but were prevented by the
strikers. The United States troops did not
interfere In the matter.
Two or three trains were stopped tenn
porarily at Columbus, Ohio, and for time
trouble was imminent. A few shots were ex-
changed between the mob and militia, but
nobody hurt
Governor Collum, of Illinois, arrived in
East st. Louis yesterday morning, and has
been looking over the situation. He says the
blockade must be raised, if it takes ten thou
sand soldiers to accomplish it.
The strikers on the st. Louis and South
eastern road at Nashville still hold out.
They meet tomorrow, and will draft a
petition to Judge Trigg, of the United
States District Court, presenting their
grievance, and asking for their wages to be
restored to what they were before the June
reduction.
The striking men on the Canada Southern
Railroad have resumed work on the Canada
Division, and all trains are moving as usual.
Passenger trains from Buffalo and from De-
troit left on their usual time Saturday even
ing. General Manager Muir telegraphs to
General Passenger Agent Snow that the
strikers abandoned all their claims, and
have gone to work Internationally.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

RECENTLY a gang of men working in
the gravel pit on the Grand River Val
ley Railroad, two miles east of Nashville,
exhumed the skeleton of man. There
is suspicion that the remains are those
of George Snyder, of Ohio, who mysteri-
ously disappeared when the road was be-
ing built nine years ago. Snyder was a
laborer in the employ of one Mitchell,
who had the contract of grading the road
from Hastings to Vermontville. One
night while at work at or near the place
where the skeleton was found, he re-
marked to chum that he was going to
draw his pay and quit work. He drew
his pay and was never seen afterward.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
LrrcHF1ELD(vA Enquirer: A geniu

L1TcHF1ELD (yA.) Enquirer: A genius
in this vicinity has contrived method
of Kidding the farmers of one of their
worst pests, the woodchuck. The modus
operandi is this: A medium-size turtle
is selected, few indentations are made
in his shell, into which little kerosene
is poured, and string is tied to his tail.
The turtle is then placed at the mouth
of a hole where wood-chuck is known
to live, and the kerosene is fired. 1t
does the farmers heart good to see how
soon the "ground hog" makes his ap-
pearance, to be dispatched by a few
blows of the stalwart Matt's bludgeon.
1 am credibly informed that he bagged
six woodchucks the other day in two
hours, and the beauty of the invention is
that the turtle seems to like it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
FUNERALS as DISEASE FEEDERS

FUNERALS as DISEASE FEEDERS.
The Board of Health of New York
City declares public or church funeral
of any person who has died of scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles or whooping
cough dangerous to the lives of such as
may attend who have not had the disease,
and requires the family to limit the at
tendance to as few as possible, and to
prevent the presence, so far as they are
able, of those who have not had the dis
ease of which deceased person died, and
to disinfect the room in which deceased
person was and the body of deceased
person and the clothing and bedding used
during the sickness. The Board also
advises the use of sealed wooden or me-
tallic coffins when the family can afford
the expense.
There is good reason to believe that
disease is occasionally disseminated
through the medium of funerals. We
have at least one fairly authenticated in
stance in this countryof diphtheria being
diffused broadcast through the crowding
incident, occasionally, to the last cere-
mony. Fortunately this question is be-
ginning to receive much attention, and
several cases have been reported of late,
where. the transmission of the disease
from the corpse seemed highly probable.
The Suffolk District Medical Society sent
out four hundred circulars to medical
practitioners, with a view to ascertain the
opinion of the profession on the alleged
danger of permitting public funerals of
persons who had died from diphtheria.
Two hundred and thirty-nine answers
were received; of these one hundred and
forty-three writers express belief in the
possible danger of contagion at funerals !;
seventeen believe that there is danger
from funerals in the houses of the dead,
but none in churches; twenty-nine fancy
that in the present state of knowledge
there is no justification in prohibiting
public funerals, and eight record cir
cumstances which occurred in their own
experience confrmatory of the propo-
sition that peril may ensue; but the testi-
mony these latter advance is not quite
satisfactory. The society, after due con-
sideration, recommend that funerals at
the houses of those who have died of
diphtheria should be private, owing to
possible exposure to the poison of the
disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
EFFECT ABROAD OF OUR RAILRoAD
STRIKES

<LtLhLkC.
A cable telegram to the New York
Herald says that extraordinary anxiety
was felt in all circles concerning the dis
turbances in the United States. The sud
denness, rapidity and general extent of
the strikes we're regarded as surprising
and unexampled. The strikes have made
deeper and more painful impression on
England than any event since the out
break of the War of Secession in 1861.
Neither the English people nor the news
papers have been able to form any clear
theory as to the causes of the outbreak.
The public find in London newspapers
only cold statements, such as the loca-
ton of the riot, the number of the people
killed, and the value of the property de-
stroyed. Thenewspapers have generally
expressed the hope that the United
States Government would succeed in
suppressing the insurrection. The Daily
Telegraph, however, thinks the corrup-
ton and mismanagement of the railroad
managers have given to the employees
the temptation and the opportunity.
Whatever is the result of the Govern
ments interference, the effect of the
strike must be calamitous to American
credit abroad
The HeralFs correspondent at Berlin
telegraphs that intense interest also
prevailed in the German Capital regard
ing the great American railroad strike.
Most of thepapers contained daily leaders
on the subject. The Socialist leaders
were loud in their eulogies of the
martyred Mollie Maguires, and to show
their sympathy for the strikers opened
subscriptions in their favor. Not much
money was raised, however.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

THOMAS PLACIDE, the well-known
actor who recently killed himself, at
New Orleans, on account of cancer in
the mouth, from which he was suffering,
is reported to have brought on the dis
ease by over indulgence in smoking. He
was sixty-nine years old. In farewell
letter to a friend, he said: al have'been
driven to the deed by the most agoniz-
ing tortures that man ever suffered-be-
yond human endurance" His father,
mother, brother and two sisters Mrs.
Mann and Mrs. w. R. Blake were promi-
nent members of the same profession.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

worked by horse traction in Northern
Italy. In the streets of the principal
towns, and sometimes on the roads, tracks
of granite are laid in the highways. The
surface of these tracks being fat and
perfectly smooth, the wheels of the
vehicles glide over them with the least
possible friction. The conductor of each
vehicle takes care to so guide ii that the
wheels always remain on the granite.
The author of the project maintains that
there is nothing to prevent the granite
lines from being used bycarriages driven
by steam-power in like manner as though
drawn by horses.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

EUROPE is now importing surprising
quantity of American fruit-s2, SOC, GOO
worth within year past, estimates
the New York Tribune, to 100000
worth the year before. Dried apples
figure largely in this movement. This
country has exported over 100000
pounds of them since last June, as COM
pared with 1000 pounds the previous
year. This new addition to the trade of
the United States is due to invention,
which has occupied itself of late with
improved methods for drying and pre-
serving and Transporting fruit.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

INDIANAPOLIS Journal: A New York
paper says that of twenty-five hundred
dogs caught and impounded in that city
only thirty-one have been redeemed by
their owners. 1t is argued from this
that an immense majority of the canine
population are comparatively worthless.
But looking at the matter from dog
standpoint, suppose the same number of
of two-legged loafers and scalawags
should be arrested in the streets of New
York and impounded, is it probable that
a larger proportion of them would be
redeemed? The way to judge dog
Justly is to put yourself in his place.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02

IT is proposed next year to celebrate,
at Penzance or Truro, in Cornwall, the
centenary of the death of the Cornish
language. According to general belief,
the last person who could speak Cornu-
British fuently died in 177S. 1t is re-
corded that she used the language chiefly
for swearing purposes. The celebration
will probably take the form of congress
of Celtic scholars, and it is expected
that this reunion will be followed by the
publication of number of Cornish
manuscripts.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-02
EDITORIAL OLIO.

GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS has issued a
report denying that the Russian soldiers
committed any cruelties, and says that
foreign correspondents and attaches can
bear witness to the same effect. He ad-
mits the possibility of isolated and un-
preyentable acts of vengeance by Bull
garians. He charges the Turks with
great barbarities, and particularly men,
tions the heap of Russian heads found
in the Schipka Pass after the Turks had
evacuated it.