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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The entire public debt of Ohio,
State, city, county and town, is but
$50, 00 600. Its State tax is 81, $780,
900, or a little over half a million
more than was collected ten years
ago. However, city taxes have in
creased from twenty to twenty-seyen
millions annually in the same period.
The State tax is two and nine-tenths
mills, and, to our credit be it said,
the highest expenditures are for
asylums. AS provision has been
made for a sinking fund, the whole
tax will be paid in a short time. Even
at present the total debt, includ-
ing the large amount owed by the
cities-Cincinnati and Toledo being
the principal offenders in this re-
spect-is less than three per cent OF
the total real value of property. The
Indebtedness of all kinds, public and
private, exclusive of railroad mort.
cages, is estimated at 200 millions,
or about nine per cent on valuations
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Mt. Vernon Banner presents
the matter correctly in reference to
new party organizations and the De
mocracy when it says:
mo new party can ever be found
that will supercede the Democratic
party, and it is foolish waste of time
for any set of men to undertake such
a thing. The Democratic party may
occasionally make mistakes or indi
Vidual members of the party may be-
come corrupt or dishonest, (for, to
err is human but the great princi-
piles of the party, as promulgated by
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and 9th
er fathers will guide the party in
the future as in the past"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Springfield Republican: Return
ing Board Anderson as deputy col
lector of the port of New Orleans and
acting collector in the failure to con-
firm any one as his superior, though
never an inspiring exhibition of civ
il service reform, was perhaps toler-
able, but the spectacle of convicted
and sentenced felon filing the chief
federal office in Louisiana is one
which the country has witnessed
long enough. Mr.. Hayes tolerance
of the returning-board crowd a year
ago was one of his most serious.
though natural errors, but he has
since seemed to repent of it, and it
is hardly conceivable that he will
much longer allow the present scan
dol F.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
George Francis Train is a court

George Francis Train is a court
jester of the Shakesperean type; wit
ness these questions put to an au-
dience at Fremont, Ohio: S
How can General Anderson be q
two years. convict in a southern
Sing Sing, while his stolen vote made
your fellow-townsman President?
T%Sensation and applause. How can
Nichols be governor there and
Hampton in South Carolina, when
the same vote that put Hayes in the
White House elected Chamberlain
and Packard? [Cheers. How can
a penitent thief be sent to Jail while
the government burglar visits his
home in a Tom Scott Deadhead Tex
an-Pacific palace car, to carry out
civil service in Reads case against
an old soldier in the Toledo post-of-
flee. Loud laughter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Banking firm of WALKER,
WELSH & Co., of Kokomo, Ind,
made an assignment on Thursday of
last week. A great many persons in
this county had theirloose money de
posted with this firm, from the fact
that oar fellow-citizens, Dr. j. B.
Welsh and son, were connected with
it. A statement of the assets and
liabilities of the firm made public,
shows the following condition of the
concern; Assets of firm-$129,5S7,
60; add value of assets of individual
members, 10000 90, which makes a
total of$1S9, $500 Liabilities due
all depositors, 500, 563,41; deduct
deposits of DR.. Welsh and family,
which they claim will not be paid
until all others shall have been sat-
isfied, $36,429,5 "a; due all other de-
positors, 1854, 1887; surplus after
paying all except firm family depos-
its; $125,453,7 rs. The firm issued a
card to the public giving the reasons
for their assignment, disappointed
assistance from q bank in another
city" and advising persons holding
certificates to make no sacrifice on
them, as all will be paid in full. The
Kokomo Tribune in closing an arti-
Gle on the failure says;
1t is a sad thing for o large num-
Der of depositors to have their funds
locked up-it will be far more sad
should il ever appear that this firm
has acted badly. We cannot believe
it. We have known Mr.. Walker so
long and so well that we would be
ungrateful and mean to believe that
he would knowingly do a dishonest
act. We do not know the other
members SO well but all we do know
of them leads us to believe that they
are gentlemen. The future will tell
the story. If the firm of Walker,
Welsh & Co., shall not pay out We
will be very greately disappointed
Mr.. Walker, and, for that matter
each member of the firm, is still
young, with time enough to accumu
late a competence; If they were al
'lvillains they would have closed bust
mess when their vaults were full o
money. 1t is idle to believe tina
these persons can afford to put
stain upon their integrity in thi'
matter and we believe every dollar
worth OF property owned by any ant
all of the members of the firm will
be freely turned out untilFthe las
farthing of indebtedness shall hav
been paid.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

PETER COOPER, the venerable New
Yorker, in recent published letters
favors several means of relief-the
completion of the Northern and
Southern Pacific Railroads, the free
coinage of silver, the substitution of
greenbacks for national bank bills,
the establishment of industrial pub
lie schools, a Civil Service as we'll or
ganized and specific as the military
or naval service, the placing of a
tariff on "all impcrtations of which
we have the raw material in album
dance" for eve cannot, as a nation,
buy anything cheap that leaves our
OWE good raw material unused, and
own labor unemployed"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
The death of Ben Wade makes an

The death of Ben Wade makes an
other vacancy in the ranks of the
men who met in Pittsburg on the 22d
day of February, 1856, and formally
organized the Republican party. 1t
was at this meeting that the party
first assumed a distinctive name and
organization. No nomination for
President was made, but it issued a
call for a National Convention to be
held in Philadelphia, which subse-
quently met and nominated John C.
Fremont.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Returning Board Wells is report
ed as saying: ~ think I will not
have a lawyer, but when my case is
called 1 will appear and tell the
Judge and Ogden that they are a
pair of contemplate villains, and
tell the jury that they are a set OF
perjuYed scoundrels and defy them to
do their worst"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

HAYES is catching it now from all
sides. "By this action" says the
loyal Inter Ocean, 'the President
has widened the breach between him
self and the people, and struck a
most disorganizing blow at the par
tyr The Chicago Tribune, another
Republican paper, thanks the repre-
s~entatiyes of the people, and says
that 'sthe promptness with which
they pronounced on the overzealous
officiousness of the Executive in be-
half of a dishonest, rapacious, and
fraudulent conspiracy to rob and
plumber the country, carries with il
a significance which recalls the fate
ofother Executives who have sought
to coerce a free people to the exercise
of arbitrary power" And even the
gold bug organs are dissatisfied
The New York Tribune says: ST
is the first time, SO far as we can nov
recollect, in the whole history of TIT
country, that a veto message by thu
President of the United States ha'
not only been absolutely impotent
but has actually increased tn
strength of the measure it forbade.
The New York Herald is also pro
foundly Disguised and says: "Il
the whole history of our government
there was never before a veto of an,
bill by any President which was over
ruled with such promptitude, or over
ruled by majorities in both house
so superiuously large"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Seven hundred thousand dollars in
silver, weighing nearly eighteen tons,
will be received at the treasury
vaults, in Washington, from the mint
in Philadelphia during the present
month. The removal from the mint
is to make room for the bullion from
which the new dollar will be coined.
1t is believed that a new "silver
vault" will be needed in the treasu-
ry building for the storage o the new
coin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The EYLAR Bill, taking the cleo
ton of the county officers out of the
hands of the people and transferring
tito Columbus, is simply a downright
fraud, and it ought to politically
damn every member that votes for
its passage, and if made a law will
injure the party throughout the en-
tire State. 1t is a rascally proceed
ing and should be ehoked out of ex-
istence. {
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer
says that it's first and last choice for
Governor is "Gen. Robert Toombs,
the biggest Drained man Georgia has
produced, and the peer of any in the
land"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Cincinnati ENQUIRER: The last re-

Cincinnati Enquirer: The last re-
port OF the State Auditor of Ohio
states that the value of property In
Ohio for taxation in 1877 was ST.
574, 645, 765, or about $500 to each
man, woman and child. This would
be an average of $4,000 to a house
hold, as on the tax duplicate, which
is probably about half the cost and
reasonable value of the property.
This would give an average OF near
" $4,000 to a household. Cincinna-
ii, with about one-fourteenth the
population of the State, has nearly
one.eighth the entire property in the
State. Her tax duplicate was near
ly as great as that of all the other
cities, towns and villages in the State
put together. Some of the aggregates
of art cles for taxation are quite in
teresting. For instance, 3SS,996 car
riages we're returned, valued at about
forty dollars each. This is about
one carriage for every eight persons.
Many of these, however, are for sale.
AS to watches, 109,6S1 were return
ed worth about $25 each, or one to
about every thirty-five persons. But
the pianos out bang every thing else.
There are 37,135 of them, or about
one to every ninety men, women and
children, and worth about 500 each.
The whole of Ohio produced $780,,
$40 hogs, only a small fraction above
half as many as Chicago packed last
season. But the stock is so fine that
pigs may be born, fattened to great
heavy hogs, killed and packed all in
nine months. This may happen be-
tween the visits of the Assessor, and
our full capacity for hog producing
may never be exhibited in the re-
ports of the State Auditor. We re-
port nearly half a hog for every man,
woman and child, however.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

1t is said leading members of Con
gress, including Speaker Randall,
are united in an effort to secure an
adjournment by the Goth Of June.
But it is very doubtful if the House
can get its business in such shape as
to adjourn at that time. 1t is ex-
pected the consideration of the Tariff
Bill alone will consume at least a
months time in the House, and it
will not be ready to report, in all
probability, for several weeks yet.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Mississippi a opened for
navigation from st. Louis to St. Paul
on the eighth Of this mouth. The
earliest previous opening on record
was the 26th of March, 1860. Lake
Pepin is where the ice hangs latest.
A boat passed through the lake on
Friday the Sth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Washington Post remarks
that it would be a terrible thing if
gold should fall below the despised
greenback in value, and adds that
there is great danger that this will
occur. The Posts sarcastic prophe-
cy will be verified just as soon as the
bill making greenbacks receivable
for customs becomes the law.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

How does it come that all the Off
GERS in the r%eformatory and benevo-
lent institutions of the State are Re,
publicans, if the Republican party
don't carry out the doctrine, "to the
victors belong the spoils?" Perhaps
Bro. Williams can answer this con-
umdrum.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Ohio General Assembly is
wasting much precious time over a
law to prevent"pool' selling at horse
races. If the author of the bill would
erase thep and put an f in its place
and have it passed, it would prevent
a large number of the present mem
bers of this body from ever getting
back to the Capital as Democratic
law makers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Supreme Court of Louisiana
has ordered the release of Returning
Board ANDERSON, upon the ground
that the alteration of Figures in cleo
tion returns is not forgery. But this
don't change the title of Mr.. HAYES.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Reports from the fruit-growers in
the south and southwestern part of
Indiana, say that an examination
gives evidence that there will be an
abundant crop of peaches and all
kinds of fruit in those regions, if the
buds receive NO injury hereafter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Persons who are posted positively
assert that school books can be made
and sold at forty per cent below
those o current! If such is the
case, our Legislature should move in
the matter, and break up these
schooLbook monopolies and rings.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The first number of the Troy Sen
tinel, a new Democratic paper just
started at Troy, Ohio, has been re-
ceived. 1t is edited by j. A. Nc
Conahy, late of the Van Vert Press,
and presents a handsome appear
ance. Here is our co. for your
success, Bro. McConahy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Secretary SHERMAN, when n Sena-
tor, styled the members Of the Lou
isiana returning board "the peers of
any Senator on the loorr' How do
honest Senators of both parties APP
preciate the complement in view of
the recent Developments?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The so-called silver bill, which re-
Gently passed Congress, provides for
the coinage of $ 1000, 900 per month
"a sum much less than the average
liabilities of the bankrupts of New
York City, for a like period. These
liabilities aggregate two and three
quarter millions for the month Of
February.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Should General Curtis Lee, the
son of General Robert E. Lee, win
the Arlington estate, he says that he
is willing to sell back the Govern
ment cemetery at a price to be de-
termined by a board of arbitration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Gold II premium! 1t wouldn't
surprise us to see "corn stalks" 'scab-
bage-leaves'' and other "rag+money''
on par with ssthe money ofthe world"
in less than ninety days, if the Re-
sumption act was repealed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The christian statesmen of this
General Assembly should pass a law
compelling every man to have family
worship three times a day. That
would stop pool selling.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Ohio, at present, employees twenty
five thousand teachers, one-half of
whom, according to the late School
Commissioner, q r utterly incompe-
tnnt r..n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The New York Sun says Ander,
son, the Returning Board convict, is
already permanently ruined, and a
pardon would only serve to drag
Governor Nichols down along with
him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

And now the christian town of
Xenia comes to the front with her
batch of scandal, involving the Prin-
cipal of one of the Public Schools
of Cincinnati, Next!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

{. New Hampshire rs usual was car
ried by the Republicans, but by a re
duced majority.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The hest stroke of economy the
Ohio General Assembly could now
perform for the. benefit of the peo-
pie, would be an adjournment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The dog question is worrying our
Legislature. Dog gon it, why don't
it adjourn?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
The Methodist CONVEYS this ind

rect warning to the fraudulent presi-
dent and his fellow criminals:
The Tweed Ring agony goes on
Unfortunately. Harry Genet, gray
and wrinkled, came back on Monday
last aad surrendered. One lesson
continually recurs-there is not a
man in this circle of scoundrels who
can be envied by a day laborer OF
New York. Their sin has found and
whipped them until our danger is
that they may become objects of pi-
tv
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Let the voice of every Democratic
paper in the State go forth for the
Ohio General Assembly to adjourn.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Some of the Radical journals are
wonderfully elated because New
Hampshire didn't 90 Democratic!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

There is no crime in changing the
figures of election returns.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

We are asked every day: "Do we
have to Rcgister?' We answer en-
phatically, no-sir-es! That's played
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The New Hampshire republican
majority has dwindled to 1,017.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

"HEwrrr'' as you may, tits a fraud
all the same.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

Sherman's policy gets EN-. We
mean the banks.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Boston banks have it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17

New York Sun.1

New York SUM-
Where, and OH, where does John Sherman
stand?
Sherman stand?
You may think that you hold him fast in your
hand
Empty handi
When, presto, he's off and out of your sight.
What, and oh, what does John Sherman wish
Sherman wish?
That thus he keeps darting about like fish
Scaly fish,
This minute he flashes along in the pool,
The next, at the bank he lies back in the cool.
What, and oh, what does John Sherman want .
sherman want?
Does he aim to become q successor to Grant?
Greedy Grant!
And Is II for this that he deity gives way.
And changes to silver from gold in a day?
How; and oh, how does John sherman feel?
Sherman feel?
Does he find it pleasant to act like an eel?
Slippery eel
Does 1t please him to tumble and twist and
glide,
To turn his coat and change his side?
Where, and oh, where viii John Sherman end I?
Sherman end?
The people such conduct can never commend,
Never commend!
He wires in and out, up and down, very fast,
But Will wire his way to the bottom at last.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17

+" fsut a week is so loDgir he said,
With toss of his curly head.
''Onc. two, three, four. i've, six, seven :
Seven whole days. Why, in six. you know
you said II yOurSelf-you told me sol,
The great God up in heaven
Made all he earth and the seas and skies.
The trees and the birds and the butterflies.
How can l wait for my seeds To grOw?'
But a month is so lOng." he said,
With drOOp OF his bOyish head.
Hear me cOunt-one, two, three, four
-Four whole weeks and three days more;
Thirty-one days, and each VIII creep
As the shadows crawl over yonder steep;
Thirty one nights, and shall lie
Watching the stars climb up the Skyi
How can wait till a month is oer?
ssBut q wear is so longi" he said.
Uplifting his bright young head.
- All the seasons must come and go
over the hills with footsteps slow
Autumn and winter, summer and spring.
Oh, for a bridge o. gold 10 fling
over the chaSm deep and wide,
That might c oss 10 the 9th side.
Where she is waiting-my love, my BRIDE"
.sTen years may be long" he said,
slowly raising his stately head.
''But there's much to win, there Is much L
lose;
A man must labor, man must choose,
And he must be stcong to wait.
The years q sy be long, but who would wear
The crown of honor must do and dare.
No time has he to toy with fate
Who would climb to manhOOd's high estate,
'Ah, lie is not longr' he said,
BOwing his grand white head.
zone, two, tGIee, four, five, six, seven =
Seven times ten are seventy.
Seventy years. AS swift their flight
As swallows cleaving the morning light,
Or golden CLEANS at even.
Life is short n summer night
How long, o GOdi IS eternity?
-Harper's Bazar.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17
Radicals on Finance.

Washington Correspondence of the New York
Tribune.l
In talking over the coming congressional
elections-laying plans for the management
of the fall campaign, and selecting questions
on which a square issue with the democrats
can profitably be made before the people-it
was remarked and acquiesced in by major
ity of those present that it will not be wise
for the party as such to take any distinctive
position on the questions of finance which
have agitated the country for the last year.
1t was said that it will not do
for the republican party to COM
NIT itself either to the defense of the
resumption act, or TO demand for its re-
peal; either position would be repudisted
BY large class of republican voters, and
would drive these men away from the sup
port of the republican candidates. 1t
seemed, therefore, to be the prevailing opin-
ion that any central organization of the
party, like the congressional committee,
should avoid the money question; and it
was even limited that the greenback move
ment is assuming such proportions in
some districts of New York and New
England that even where the
republican party has heretofore been I'M
com promisingly in favor of hard money, it
may now be best to act with great caution.
In fact, majority of the republican leaders
present at that conference seemed to think
that it is best to dodge" the money ques-
ton for the present. while some of them
were anxious that the party should make
open war upon the president, particularly
for his action in the Louisiana and South
Carolina cases.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17
Is7s's CATTLE DRIVE.
About 2S3 600 Head Of Texas Cattle.
Worth 81, $50 900, Coming to Market.
lSan Antonio Express.l

lSan Antonio Express.
Mr.. A. Conkle, the stock agent of the Kan
sas Pacific railway, who has been in the state
for some time, for the purpose of ascertain
ing who would drive cattle this year. and
the number has had personal interviews
with nearly all the gentlemen operating this
year, and furnishes to the general Office for
their private information, the annexed
statement, which we think is as near correct
as can be obtained without actual count.
Mr.. Conkle states that in the following esti-
mate he has not placed the names of gentle
men who have not decided positively to
drive this year. but who will, if they
do not sell here, which would justify
their cattle being placed in the gener-
al estimate. Captain King has 5000 which
he will drive in if he does not sell, and sew
eral other gentlemen have lesser number
held under the same conditions. Therefore
Mr.. Conkle concludes, while there may be
slight falling off in the number given by
some. the class just mentioned, who will
drive if they do not sell toothers, and whose
cattle are not included in the general esti-
mate, will make the total given full If it
does not Overrun it, According to Mr.. Con-
kle's figures, the drive this year will be $780,
900 head, against 200, 900 head last year. The
greater per cent. of this years drive will be
young cattle, principally two year Odds, as
the demand for that class of stock promises
to be greatest, drivers not regarding the pros
poets for good demand for beevers to be
very encouraging.