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

On Thursday, March Z, about midnight q
storm of snow and wind set in, covering the
entire country from Green River, Wyoming,
to North Platte, Nebraska, a distance of five
hundred and fifty miles, and proved to
be far the seyerest storm known since the
construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The storm continued without abatement
until Sunday morning, making it impossible
for persons to go out without almost certain
death. Since the storm subsidized, the bodies
of a number of persons have been found
who died from exposure. Two soldiers
persisted between Fort Russell and Chey-
elne, a distance of three miles. Four men
with an OK team were caught fifteen miles
northwest Of Cheyenne. Three of them
reached the railroad Sunday, terribly frozen,
and will probably lose their feet. The fourth
mar and cattle persisted. Three ranchmen
were found dead a short distance north of
Cooper Lake. 1t is probable this is only a
small part of those that have died from the
effects of the storm.
Topeka dispatch states that immigra-
ton to Kansas continues undated, and
the various land offices are overlooking with
homestead and presumption entries. Twelve
thousand acres were taken at the Larned
land-ofice in one day last week, and We'd
nesday the sales of the A., T. & s.. F. R. r.
Co. reached S16,0OO--all to actual settlers.
Four full passenger trains, consisting of
thirty coaches and containing fifteen hun
dred people, passed over the road to South
west Kansas on Wednesday.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Some Facts About Japan,

The Japanese useneither butter, milk,
bread, nor cheese, but their rice is most
nutritious. The children love their
parents; when the missionaries talk
about the commandment, "Honor thy
father and mother" the japanese only
think of the low condition of a country
where such a precept could be needed.
Kindness to animals is a great charac-
teristic; no bird is ever shot at, no ami
NAL ever beaten, and on all the high
ways you will find stones, erected GEN.
turtles ago, directing men to water
their horses here. There are excellent
schools; and of the six hundred college
students in Toxic, every one is familiar
with English. In the Capital there are
seven daily papers and fifteen weeklies;
while such books as Mills PHILOSOPHY"
and Buckles History of Civilization"
with others more radical, have been
translated into japanese, and are largely
read by the middle class, who are almost
all ratioualists. One of them, when
asked why they did not send mission
aries to this country, said: I'VE are
too polite to send missionaries to under
mine other peoples beliefs" These
people do not even swear; and their
strongest expletive, translated into
English, means only "vexatious" They
are a good-natured, happy, contented
people, to whom much wrong has been
done by the Christian nations, thinking
it no harm to defame the heather.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
The Value of q Squaw.

The Sioux Indian is generally a mild
polygamist. The young squaw is valued
by her father according to her youth
and comeliness, an available one being
worth all the way from six to fifteen
ponies. The squaw is the most abject
slave of her connubial partner. She is
compelled to draw and prepare the wood
for fuel, besides cooking the rations and
taking care of the offspring. The last
named duty is, however, not a very on
erous one. The Indian is as fond of a
joke or a game as his brother-in-law (the
squaw man) or his white superior. Ha-
ka-ka, or Indian billiards, is one of his
amusements. The game consists in
pitching an anchor-shaped ha-ka-ka
through a small ring while the latter
is swiftly rolling, the various players
taking their regular turn at pitching,
while the whole group swiftly follow the
rolling ring OIL hoop, and dart their ha-
ka-kas at a time when they think it will
do the most good. Gambling is an old
vice with Indians, and the young braves
will stake their all on a game Of ha-ka-
ka. The squaws are also inveterate
gamblers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

18th inst, about eleven o'clock, leveling the
Episcopal Church and i%niuring eighteen
members of the congregation. When the
building was struck, the officiating minister,
knowing that it was merely a question Of
moments to secure the safety of the people,
cried to them to throw themselves under
the seats. This advice the congregation
followed, and not a moment too soon. With
a few fearful cracks and jars of its roof and
walls, the whole building crumbled into a
shapeless ruin, burying the congregation
ander the debris. Several oth.r churches
in Atlanta have been seriously injured,
their walls shaken, anil roofs partly strip
ped. The City Hall has been entirely I'M
rooted, and the car sheds of the railroad
depot unsettled. Great damage was done to
private residences and stores.
A special from Corfu reports that the
Turks have devastated eight Christian
villages in the district of Delvino, and
massacred the male inhabitants. They
also killed one hundred fugitive women
and children on the sea shore. The
English Consul has gone to investi-
gate the outrages. The Thessalian insur-
gents claim that they have defeated the
Turks near Pharsata, killing and wounding
four hundred, but accounts are conflicting.
The Austrian Lloyd's steamship Sphinx
which took fire with two thousand five
hundred Circrssians on board causing the
loss of seven hundred of them, was fired
by Circassians during a revolt. They had
previously plundered the vessel.
The store-rooms erecting at the Woolwich
Dock-yard fell a few days ago, burying
hundreds of workmen in the ruins. Many
were seriously injured, some it is thought,
fatally.
Thirty-six persons, attending the fair at
Brest, on the 18th, were drowned by the
capsizing of a barge.
The King CT Greece visited and took
luncheon with General Grant at the Amer
lean Legation in Athens, on the 18th. The
General sailed the same evening for Naples.
The NeD Free Press, of Vienna, states that
the Crown Prince of Austria will shortly
visit the United States and Brazil.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

A LIVERPOOL reporter recently made
an amusing blunder, though it had very
little fun in it for him, for it lost him
his place. He reported two lectures, one
on " The Conversion of the Jews" the
other on The Conversion of Sewage"
and after heading his article on the
Jews properly, he went on to say that
their conversion greatly interested
sanitary authorities; that filtration was
probably the best method for accom-
plishing this end; that thousands of
tons of them ran to waste annually,
which might be used in manufacturing
plaster and cement; that the speaker,
though soliciting subscriptions, was not
pecuniarly interested in the scheme;
that subscribers would be more than re-
paid by the sale of phosphate of lime
and valuable cement for building pur.
poses, together with much more anus
ing nonsense in the same vein.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

When DIR. R v. Pierce was a candidate for
State Senator, his political opponents pub
lished o pretended analysis of his popular
medicines, hoping thereby to prejudice the
people against him. His election by an
overwhelming majority severely rebuked
his traducers, who sought to impeach his
business integrity. No notice would have
been taken of these campaign lies were it
not that some of his enemies land every
successful business man has his full quota
of envious rivals) are republishing these
bogus analyses. Numerous and most abb
surd formulas have been published, pur.
porting to come from high authority; and
it is a significant fact that no two have been
at all Extraordinarily proving the dis.
honesty of their authors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Fire Record,

A fire which started a few evenings ago
in No. 8 Provost street, Jersey City, burned
five houses and made about one hundred
people homeless. The breaking of a ladder
probably caused James Killeen and John
McGinnes, fremen, to be fatally injured.
Two children, named Wood, were fatally,
and two others seriously burned, at Harris
burg, Pa, by the explosion of coal oil, with
which the oldest, aged eleven, was lighting
a fire,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
the cELEBaArEp SWISS wARBLER's BIRD CALL.
Only Original Bird Call and Prairie Whistle!
E1 THE ONLY GENUINE n sCIENTIFI CDsTRUMEHT.

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lment. turned to fear, until o boy, who had been sitting
quietly reading all this time, found that his pranks were be-
Coming SERIOUS, and owned up to having one Of Samuel
by mail, with full directions. which will enable any person
sale, a PEI, dozen; % per gross. Be sure and get the N
line Whistle, which Is sent prepaid to any address on receipt
LA. ASHMUN 4 "a. Boston, Mass.
In order to satisfy any doubt as to our reliability, we would
state that our goods have received the hearty Endorsement of
the publishers Of the Weekly Gtobe. Iragedkr, Statssmas and
SHOW your friends. ash will not appear again.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

THERE are probably a hundred or more
persons in this and n~eighboring towns, who
daily suffer from the distressing effects of
kidney troubles, who do not know that
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is almost a
certain cure. In severe cases, great relief
may be obtained, if not a perfect cure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
DOWN in Texas financial magnates are

Down in Texas financial magnates are
unaffected in habits and ap-
p~earance. Call at the country bank in
business hours to have a check cashed,
and ten chances to one you'll find the
President in next door at the bar room
playing dominos, and the Cashier, with a
red shirt on and his pants in his boots,
acting as umpire at a dog fight out in
the back yard.-New York Commercial
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

THIS is the kind of weather in which
to take cold. Do not be deceived by the
flight of birds northward, by the sud-
den raising of windows, or by the sound
ing of accordions at midnight. Summer
is not here. Keep on your thick shoes,
and if you wear a red flannel p~en-wiper
on your chest, do not take it off until
turkeys eggs are in bloom.-P. L Man:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

N. H., March Is, for the murder of Josie A.
Langmaid, aged seventeen, at Pembroke. on
the 4th of October, 1875, LaPaige confessed
the murder of Miss Langmaid and Miss Ball,
a school teacher, at st. Adams, in 1874.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
FOR THE Z FOLKS.
Enigma.

In varied scenes 1 may be met,
In gold and jewels sometimes set;
Though often wrought in costly mold,
I'm sometimes for a trife sold.
Adjoining many a fair one seen,
The simple maiden and the queen,
Pm issued, too, by her command,
And some receive me from her hand.
While thus so costly l am seen,
have the source OF torture been,
And have my place in Church and State,
As we'll as at a ball or .Jefe.
/ many different figures make,
And many varied aspects take;
Yet still my form appears the same.
To some a spell lives in my name;
And yet 1 would not like to see
One that l love becoming me.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

WE notice that agricultural newspapers
all over the country are now exposing the
worthlessness Of the large packages of horse
and cattle powders. We put the ball in
motion and calm the credit of it. Sheri-
dams Powders are absolutely pure, and are
the only kind worth having.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

MOTHERS! Mothersi Mothersl Don't fail
to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for all diseases incidentto the period of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
aud, by giving relief and health to the child,
gives rest to the mother. 1t is an old and
Hell-tried remedy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Tbare,. mn mac Talking

ImereB mo- nse HaHKlHE
About the adulterated, cheap baking pow
ders in comparison with DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER. The latter is strictly pure, whole
some, andis put up full weight. Satisfactory
results in using are guaranteed every time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Foreign.

An Atlanta, Georgia, dispatch says a tor.
nado struck that city on the morning of the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
EMz3WISlIlS

Ten years have proven their efficacy in all hillary
disorders. They restore the liver, stomach and
kidneys to healthful action; give appetite, good d.
gestion and vigor to body and mind.
Rev. r. L. Simpson, Louisville, KY, says:
"Tutt's Pits are north their tcct1ht IN
Sayre & Co., Druggists say: " We sell fifty
bopes TUFTS Pills to fire of all others
Price, rs cents. Office IS Murray St, New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The PEANUT.-Boys and girls are
interested in peanuts, Judging from
what may be seer often in the steam
cars. No COW thinks more of her cud
than does the average Young American
of these handy sweetmeats. A gentle
man of South Boston sends to the Press
of that city some accout of the popular
nut:
The question has often been asked
how and when did peanuts first appear
in this country? About forty years
ago, the writer was in Wilmington,
North Carolina, and became acquainted
with a gentleman who, in speaking of
peanuts, said that he believed he was the
first person who introduced them into
North Carolina; that when quite a
young man, he went on board a vessel
that had put into Wilmington in dis
tress, and he saw for the first time some
nuts in bags, and they told him they
came from Africa, and were known as
pea or ground nuts, They gave him q
few handfuls, which he planted, and as
they increased, they were scattered
around, and became a staple article OF
culture. Certain it is, that at the time
referred to, the cultivation of peanuts
was almost wholly confined to the
southern part of North Carolina. The
production has rapidly increased, and
they are nav raised in large quantities
in most of the Southern and many Of
the Western States, and are now con
sidered as one of our prominent and
staple articles of agricultural products
The largest and finest nuts come from
Virginia.
During the civil war, the Southern
people made a very nice kind of OF
from peanuts; and we have been tolc
that in the warm countries east of us
when the olive-oil crop fails, this oil i
made to take its place.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

The Greatest Discovery OF the Age is Dr..
Tobias celebrated Venetian Liniment! 30 years be-
fore the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea,
Dysentery, Collie, and spasms, taken internally; and
Croup, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore Threats, Cuts,
Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back,
and Chest, externally. 1t has never failed. No family
will ever be without it after once giving it fair trial.
Price. 40 cents. DIR. TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE
EMINENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar, is war
ranted superior to any other, or NO PAY, for the
cure of Collie, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, etc. Sold by
all Druggists. Depot-IO Park Place. New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
EUiiNM3i

Very few escape this affection. The symptoms
are dizziness; sick headache; costiveness; belch-
ing mp Of food; loss of appetite; aversion to exertlon
of body or mind; highly colored urine; heartburn,
cold extremties and low spirits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

But Alph was one of those, who when
scared, have hardly the power to help
themselves. He barely managed to keep
his footing. Nat, with a few strokes of
his pike, turned the log out of the direct
draught into the fume.
A moment more and the end struck
the pier, eight Or ten feet to the right of
the hume.
"Jump nowI' the boss heard Nat say
as it struck.
1t was not more than four or five feet
to the crown timber, but instead of max
ing the jump, Alph lost his balance and
staggered back upon Nat, who was close
behind, ready to jump after him, and
both fell off into the water.
In an instant the upper end of the
log swung back across the fume, and
struck against the other pier.
There it hung-but the two boys were
on the upper side. Murch reached down
to help Alph up. Nat had his arm over
the log, and seemed to be waiting for
Murch's hand-when suddenly he went
from our sight! An eddy had formed
under the log beside him, and sucked
him down.
A cry arose that was heard above the
thunder of the food. The men rushed
frantically on to the dam. Some even
swan ashore from the raft.
We thought at first that Nat had gone
| through the fume; but on looking down
under the log, we saw him 1attened
against the left pier, where the eddy had
drawn him, and where he was held by
the swift current as in a vice. 1t was
almost sickening to see his arms waving
down there in that yellow-tinted tor
rent.
Murch got down on the log, and a
lever with a cant-hook attachment was
thrust down and caught into the poor
boys jacket, and we tried to haul
him up.
But the moment we wreEched him
from where he lay jammed against the
pier, the current tore him off the hook
and swept him through the fume. We
had a glimpse of his body whirled
amidst the foam, down over the apron
and into the great, seething pool below,
At the foot of the pool, fifty or sixty
rods below the dam, there was then
gravel bar, on which the water was moi
over two or three feet deep. The mer
ran down there, and wading out or the
bar, caught Mats body as it was rolled
along.
But he was gone-past any help o.
ours. We had only recovered hi,
bruised and lifeless form.
The rough, hard fellows hung ovel
him and cried like childreu thouuI
they were not men who often wept.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
The
GOOD OLD
STANDBY.
MEXICAN MUSTANG EMINENT.
For MAN and BEAST.

ESTABLISHED IS YEARS. Always cures. Away
ready. Always handy. Has never yet failed. 1a'rb
sauions hare tesred il. The whole world approves th
glorious old Mustalg-the Best md Cheapest Lini'
ment in existence rs cents 8 bottle. The Mustang
Imminent cures when nothing elsa will.
SOLD RY ALI, MEDICINE
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
w ATCH ESl

My new Price List of American Watches sent to any
address on receipt of 3 cent stamp. Itfully Describes
and gives prices on over 100 Different Maltham
Watches of ali grades, from the plainest to the finest
in Solid Gold or fine Silver Cases. Undoubted Refer;
ence given. II tells how watches are now sent 70 an
Express Agents care before paying any money. A
few energetic Agents wanted send two 3 cent stamps
for Agents private terms. \, II White, Ne1cdrk, NJ.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

DSfSAoh "a WVIV obACWA pOIIlOuS VI GHO
dead mems bodies.
A fearful earthquake prevailed at Colum.
bus, KY, at four o'clock on the morning of
the 18th. 1t was so violent as to rock
houses, to roll beds across the floor, turn
over sofas and presses, smashing them, and
to ring locomotive bells. A portion Of the
Mississippi bank caved in, leaving the
houses on the ragged edge. All the people
were suddenly awakened and badly fright
ened. Two distinct shocks were felt at
Milford, N. H., on the 18th.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Leggett, a rich widow, who
lived in her handsome country house in
T~uckahoe, near New York City, was shot
and instantly killed, in the presence of one
of her own daughters, in her own hall, by
Thomas Merritt, a neighbor, at about three
o'clock on Thursday afternoon. After
shooting Mrs. Leggett, Merritt hurried to
his own house, and shot himself through
the heart. Both moved in the best circles
of society. Merritt had been drinking on
the day of the murder, and was refused ad-
mission to Mrs. Leggett's house. To insanity
from dissipation, and offended pride, are at
tributed the tragic act OF Merritt.
A bill has been introduced in the Penn.
sylyania House Of Representatives, which
makes the cremation of the human body a
misdemeanor, and provides for a fine OF
not less than $500 nor more than 81, 900,
with imprisonment, and makes it the duty
of c~onstables, sherifs and other officers to
enforce the act, under penalty of prosecu.
ton.
The house of Henry Grazer, living four
miles west of Fort Madison, Iowa, was
burned a few nights ago, about midnight
Neighbors seeing the fire, rushed to the
rescue, but too late to save Mr.. and Mrs.
Grazer, whose bodies were almost burned
to a crisp. From all the evidence, they had
both been murdered, which was the verdict
of the Coroner's jury.
Joseph LaPaige, alas Joseph Parish, was
executed in the State Prison at Concord,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-20

which they are intended We hope the lib
eral and generous contributions made up TO
this time will not cease. The appeal 10 the
charitable has no equal in the sad history Of
this disease.
VIM. Smith and Butler p. Ander, on. Of
the Memphis Howard association, endorse
the appeal Of their associate members now
on duty at Grenada.
Messrs. Smith and Anderson, who have
labored among the sick there for nine days
past, are fully posted as to the exact condi-
tion, and are gentlemen in every way worthy
Of public confidence.
A. ID. LANGsTAFF, President.
j. H. SMITH, Secretary.
IN NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Aug. 2O.-Ncw cases of
yellow fever, 1876; deaths, A.
AT MEMPHIS.
Memphis, Aug. co. The board OF health re.
port II cases of fever from p. m. Yesterday
to noon to-day The fatality last night and
this morning was comparatively light, &C
cording to reports from the undertakers
and Howard's association, the latter re-
porting three deaths of new case.