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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
The South.

Both houses Of the Mississippi Legislature
completed their organization on the 9th.
w. A. Percy, of Washington, was elected
Speaker of the House.. The Governor and
State officers were inaugurated next day.
The Governors message was read in both
houses. Elaborate statistics show q very
hea thy condition Of the States finances,
and a decrease in the taxation of nine mills
since 1874. The bonded debt is $608, 500.
State warrants are at par. The States char
table institutions n public schools are in
a prosperous condition. The Governor
says that with few exceptions, confined to
certain Localities in the southwestern part
of the State, the laws have been fully en-
forced. This refers to trouble in Amite and
other counties near the Louisiana line.
In the Senate, a resolution was introduced
instructing the Judiciary Committee to
bring in a bill submitting to the people a
call for a Constitutional Convention.
Governor Nichols has presented his mes
sage to the Louisiana Legislature. He
makes no allusion to the national finance
measures, but devotes considerable space to
the finances of the State. He says that the
situation of the affairs of the State, and the
condition of her citizens, invokes the most
rigid economy. No unnecessary or useless
expense or office should be allowed to re-
main.
Tuesday night a negro named Rice was
taken out of Jail in st. Francisville, West
Feliciana, La, and was hanged by a party of
white men. Rice was charged with the
killing of Tom West, the Democratic can
didate for Sheriff, a few days before the
election in November, 1876. He fled to
Point Coupe, but recently gave himself up.
and was lodged in Jail at st. Francisville.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
Warrington.

A caucus Of delegates to the National
Woman Suffrage Association was held in
the ladies' reception-room of the Senate, on
the It'll, Mrs. Sarah A. Spencer presiding, for
the purpose Of submitting plans for their
tenth annual Convention, with q view of
securing the immediate action of the two
Houses of Congress upon the Sixteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, prohibit
ing the several States from DISTINGUISHING
United States citizens on account of sex.
Every State and Territory was represented,
by a delegate or letter. Committees were
appointed to visit Senators and Representa-.
tives, and request 4 N to be in their re-
spective seats on the 9th inst, that the del
egates may present their claims.
The subcommittee on Military Affairs
has examined Colonel W. R. Shafter, of the
Twenty-fourth Regiment, commanding the
district Of Nueces, Texas, in relation to af-
fairs on the Rio Grande border. With re-
spect to the raiding parties, the Colonel
mentioned the case of six or seven persons
murdered by the Indians and Mexican raid.
ers in 1877, and said the number of raids was
much smaller during the past two years
than previously. The object of the incur
sions was plumber, not to make war. The
bitterness of feeling expressed on the
frontier was by those who have been robbed
of their property. Our citizens on the
border are opposed to war. They only want
protection. he Ezsw of only two instances
where the Mexiea authorities nave returned
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ranches on each side of the river, and in the
other, to an American. He knew of no in.
stance in which the Mexicans have refused
to surrdeader stolen property on applica.
tion, but as a general thing, the Americans
do not go over for that purpose, saying it is
useless.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
A igh Grin on Life.

General Charles Clarke, Ex-Governor
of Mississippi, died a few days ago at
the age of sixty-eight. He served in the
Mexican var as a volunteer, but was
sent home invalided as a consumptive
by the surgeons. Their verdict DR..
Warren Stone, the highest authority of
the Southern faculty, confirmed, one
lung having persisted completely, and
the Lieutenant was advised to go home
and lead the quiet life of a planter,
avoiding all excitement, whereby he
might prolong his life for eighteen
months, or perhaps even for two years.
He went home but did not die; indeed,
after serving in the Legislature and sew
eral public Offices, was alive to head a Con-
federate brigade at Shiloh. As he took
a parting glass with Colonel w. II. Nc
Ardle, a veteran Mississippi journalist,
he said: 81 Think you will have a good
chanceo of publishing that obituary which
you promised me thirteen years ago. I
have outlived all the doctors, but / am
not SO confident that / shall escape the
Yankee balls and shells which / shall be
compelled to face to-day" After the
first days battle General Clarke was
borne to the rear, wrapped in a blanket
saturated with blood. "You can pub
lish that obituary now-he has met with
a soldiers DEATH" was the remark of
one of those who bore him, and the
obituary was shortly afterwards pub
lished in the New Orleans papers.
Shortly after the battle of Baton Rouge,
however, General Clarke was seen again
at New Orleans. He had been shot
through the body at Shiloh and left on
the field, to be taken prisoner, to recover
and to be exchanged, and at Baton Rouge
a minie-bal broke his thigh heal the
socket. DIR. Stone wa the surgeon who
now brought round the man he had con.
demned to a speedy death in 1848, and
though his leg shortened several inches,
General Clarke lived to be Governor OF
Mississippi and to die fifteen years later
quietly in his bed, having buried several
generations of doctors, gone through two
wars with only one lung, been twice left
for dead on the field Of battle and seen
his obituary published.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
Straits of Magellan.

Commander Rodgers, commanding the
United States steamer Adams, writes to the
Secretary of the Navy, from Sandy Point,
Straits of. Magellan, giving particulars of a
revolt of the garrison there. The first MUIR
der committed seems to have been that of
the Captain of a company Of soldiers num-
bering about one hundred, who were regl-
lar artillery troops. They mutilated the
Captain in a most horrible manner, and IL en-
opened fire with artillery upon the Cover
nor's house. The Governor, upon making
his appearance, was knocked in the head
and left insensible. He, however, recovered
after some time, and made his escape. His
family also escaped almost naked to the
woods.
The mutineers then released the convicts
and altogether numbered two hundred.
Armed with rifles, the following day they
committed the most incredible excuses in
the way of wanton killing, burning, and
sacking. The next day the m%utineersd eser-
ted the place, carrying off all the public
funds and much private property.
The mutineers burned al the public
property and a number o. ,ltores; in fact,
the best part of the town is in ashes. The
streets were strewn with the dead bodies OF
the killed. Most of the killed were soldiers,
who had been shooting each other indis.
criminately. 1t is estimated that at least
fifty people were killed. Many of the dead
and wounded were burned in the buildings.
The hospital was burned, with FIVE wounded
men in it.
Commander Rodgers says it was the in.
tention Of the mutineers to capture the
steamer Memphis, soon expected, but as
her commander had previous notice of the
revolt, he seized the soldiers, convicts and
Captain of the port, who rowed cut to him,
suggesting that there was fine anchorage
under the guns of the fort. He then went
to sea, and meeting with the United States
steamer Adams, reported the conditioner
affairs. Commander Rodgers took the mh
tineers on board his vessel, and FASTENED to
Sandy Point, where his presence was much
appreciated by the Chi ian authorities.
As to the cause of the revolt, there seems
to be no reliable information. 1t is reported
and believed that the padre or priest of this
colony has had much to do in instigating it
he being the enemy of the government, anc
he is now one of the prisoners confined or
board the CHILEAN steamer Magellanese. IL
the destruction of property, not the slightes'
regard was paid to any nationality. A
twelve FOUNDER shot was fred clear through
the English consulate, the Vice Consul
himself, was pursued and fired at a numbe,
of times. He, however, escaped in his owl
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
A Rather L0Ose-JOinted Story.


dts a pretty true sayin' that truths
stranger'n fiction" remarked Galley to
the old resident, as he sat in the fish
market, examining his mouth with bone
less cod. "Twenty years ago, when /
lived up in Littleboro, there was a young
Teller there named Ringe-Si Ringe, and
he was engaged to be married to a lovely
gal who was proud and considerably
poor. Old man Ringe was forehanded
and was sot agin his sons marrying the
gal, and SO he perhibited the match.
Ringe went off and married another gal,
and the gal she went off and was never
heard of again. A few years after this.
Ringe's wife ran off with a barber and
left Ringe and ten children. Ringe he
married the BARRIERS wife that was left
behind too. In the meantime a beauti-
full gal made her appearance in town,
and Ringe fell in love with her and mar
ried her, and l am dummed if she didn't
turn out to be the gal he fust wanted ter
marry, but she'd been gone yer fifty
years, and so they didn't know n an
other till after they were married"
The old resident gathered himself up
from a pile of oyster shells where he had
been sitting, and said, with q glance of
whitening contempt:
"When a man tells SIGH sick, onrea-
sonable stories as them, the quicker he
puts on Immortality the better for his
friends.o
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

ROCHESTER Express: The story is
said to be entirely true, that at the
recent dedication of Baptist Church in
this country the ceremony of immersion
was performed for the first time in that
church by a well.known Baptist minister
of this city. When he had entered the
water, and while waiting for the candi-
date, the minister suggested that some
body should sing an appropriate hymn.
One of the deacons who stood near by
heard the suggestion, and, without think
ing, struck up the familiar hymn, Pull
for the Shore" The hymn provedto be
so suggestive, it is stated, that neither
the minister nor congregation could re-
frain from an audible smile for some
time, and the ceremony had to be post
poned until the preacher could recover
his gravity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

Assembly, A. R. Barrows, of Chippewa, a
~Greenbacker, was elected Speaker by a CO.
alition of Democrats and Greenbackers. j.
R. Hunter was elected Chief Clerk, and
Anton Klaus Sergeant-at-Arms, both Demo-
Gratis.
The Connecticut Legislature met on the
9th. C. Fl. Briscoe was elected Speaker of
the House, and Oliver Hoyt President pro
tenn. of the Senate. Governor Hubbard de-
livered his inaugural address.
Mrs. Marian Berry, of New Durham, New
Hampshire, a highly respectable widow
lady, aged ~sixty-ive years, was shot and
instantly killed recently, in the presence OF
her family, by John L. Pinkham, who had
been employed by her to do some shopping,
and for the payment of which there had
been some dispute. Pinkham entered with
a double barreled shotgun in his hand, and
after a few words, suddenly shot Mrs. Berry
through the head and fled. He was soor
after found half a mile down the road with
his throat cut, it is thought not fatally. He
issupposed to have been under the influence
of liquu-.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
The Indian Freshmen.

The following anecdote was related by
Nh. Webster in reference to his connec-
ton with the celebrated Dartmouth Col
lege case, in which the New Hampshire
Legislature attempted to interfere with
the ancient charter of that institution /;
in which, it may not be forgotten, Mr..
Webster %triumphed, by the decision of
the United States Supreme Court con-
frming the claim of the college. While
engaged in the case, Mr.. Webster told
the president that as the original charter
was granted, and the endowment made,
by Lord Dartmouth expressly for the
purpose of civilizing and instructing the
Indians, a question might arise on this
point; and, 8 as nc Indian had been at
tached to the school for a long period, it
would be well for the president to go
into Canada and bring some, of the abo-
rhymes within the walls of the college,
so that a jury could not find that the
charter had been abrogated on that
score. Accordingly the president went
and found three choice specimens and
brought them to the brink of the river;
and after some delay he procured a boat
and began to ferry them across--when
the young Indians, not precisely under
standing the object of SO much kindness
on the part of the president, and espying
the walls of the college on the bank, had
not only their wonder excited, but grew
suspicious that, if once within those
walls, it might be difficult to escape.
Whereupon the young Indian at the
bow of the boat cast a significant glance
at his associates, gave the ~war-whoop,
and, quick as thought, they all plunged
into the middle of the river and swan
for the shore. Said MI. Webster, "The
falling of the walls of Jericho on the
sounding of the rams horns could not
have astonished Joshua more han this
unlooked-for escapade of the Indians
astonished the president, He hallooed,
entreated and tried to explain all; but
the Indians kept straight on their course
to the shore, and made with all their
speed for the woods-the last President
Wheelock ever saw or heard of them"
So Mr.. Webster had to go on with the
case without the Indians. This anecdote
used to amuse him exceedingly; and
Judge Story would join in with his
happy, light-hearted laugh, which only
those who knew him can appreciate.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

had been indicted by the grand jury, and a
reward of $1,000 offered for his appreL.en-
sion.
About three weeks ago he came back on q
visit for the purpose of marrying q girl to
whom he was engaged. He was on his way
with his bride and her sister, in a wagon
driven by all old man, to take a steamer at
Concord. Sheriff Warder, being warned of
this, summoned his deputy, a young man
named Ruggles, together with additional re-
Inducements, and started in pursuit with
all speed. He also deputized another posse
to take passage on the steamer Telegraph,
and head off the fugitives at that point. The
understanding between the two pursuing
parties was that the arrest should be made at
Concord, where Underwood could be sur
rounded with greater safety and secured.
Sheriff Warden and Deputy Ruggles &C.
c%ompanied the land force, and kept carefully
behind the Underwoods. About one mile
above Concord, upon making a sudden turn
in a deep %ravine, the Sheriff and his
posse came unexpectedly upon the fugitives,
the latter having stopped at a small creek
for the purpose of watering their horses.
When the Sheriff and his party came upon
them, it was necessary for them to rein up
their horses to prevent running over the
people whom they were seeking.
Underwood had heard the approaching
clatter of horses hoofs, and was prepared
for a meeting. With a revolver in each hand
he stepped in front of his party and called
upon the pursuers to halt.
When the demand to surrender was made
the fugitive pointed his revolver at the
breast of Sheriff Warder, but before the
trigger could be pulled, a ball from a men,
Der of the posse shattered the wrist. Under
wood aimed at Deputy Sheriff Ruggles with
his other pistol, and fired. Young Ruggles
fell from his horse with a ball through his
breast. By this time Sheriff Warder had
secured an aim at the desperado's figure and
lodged a charge of buckshot in his right
shoulder, thus disabling both arms. An.
other discharge from a gun in the hands of
one of the posse took effect in Under.
woods hip. AT this time he turned and
fled, and with the aid of the m succeeded
in making his escape. He walked as
far as the head of Bush Creek Island, where,
in an exhausted and f%ainting condition, he
asked permission to enter the house OF
Louis Ruggles. The sight of a man in I'm
derwood's condition was a touching one to
Mr.. Ruggles, who is q relative of the young
man killed by Underwood. The murderer,
touched by the kindness of his host, and
believing himself about to die, gasped out
his name and the particulars Of the late
bloody work. The women verified the
story, and Mr.. Ruggles felt it his duty to
send word Immediately to Sheriff Warden.
This he did, and the Sheriff and his poss,
soon put in appearance, They took charge
of Underwood, and had him conveyed t.
Concord, his wife and sister-in-law accom-
paying him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

WALKING AND SLEEPING.-An ex-
change, in a w~ell-written article on
physical culture, says: cit is wonder.
full how fascinating the simple act OF
walking may become" All, yes; but
real, enchanting, e~nslaving fascination:
the simple act of sleeping, especially at
seven a. M, knocks the destinations OF
walking higher thar a burned boot.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

The capture of Sofia cost the Russians
but twenty-four men. 1t is a city of
fifty thousand inhabitants, in the ex-
IRENE southwestern part of Bulgaria,
and but a few days march, over the Bal
kans, from the western terminus of the
Philippolis and Adrianople Railroad,
leading directly to Constantinople.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

BALTIMORE american: A mean Coving-
ton, Kentucky, grocer was nicely sold at
Christmas. He purchased from a dollar
store a table castor, which he marked
with a tag inscribed S14," and gave it to
a Methodist preacher, whose church his
family attended. The reverend gentle
man next day brought the castor back to
the g~roceryman and said tohim: clam
too poor in this worlds goods to afford to
display SO valuable a castor on my table,
and if you have no objection l should
like to return it and take fourteen dol
lars worth of groceries for my family in
its stead" The merchant could do
nothing but acquiesce.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

WOMAN is a trusting, loving. confd-
ing angel, but it shakes her confidence
terribly when her husband comes home
at one o'clock in the morning, carrying
a dozen mess mackerel on a string, and
huskily explains that he has "been out
on q t-(hic)-fshin' 'scur-(hic)-siOn."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
Fire Record.

A breaker at the Ellen Gowan Colliery,
Lannigan's Patch, Shenandoah, burned the
other night. The c%olliery is a very large
one, shipping aboat-one hundred car loads
of coal daily. Loss about $4,000, and
four hundred men and boys thrown out of
emnloYment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
The UnderwOOds Again More Blood
In Carter County,

Jesse Underwood has been absent from
his home in Carter County, KY, for a num-
Der of years, and has been following the
calling of a farmer in Iowa. The occasion
of his leaving home, it is said, was the kill
ing Of a fellow being, for which offense he
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

WOMEN DISPUTE about other matters, but
all agree ON the merits of DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER as par erceI ence the best of all.
Grocers throughout the country keep it, and
find it gives supreme Satisfaction. By using
it the housewife is sure of delicious bread,
rusk, rolls, biscuit, buckwheat cakes, and all
the delicacies made from flour,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

GAN OUNCE OF PREVENTION, ETc."-
Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders viii
positively prevent all ordinary diseases
common to horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and
fowls, besides constantly improving them
in appearance and in va ne.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

CAUTIoN.-We caution our readers to
beware of diphtheria, pneumonia, influenza,
bronchitis, congestion of the lungs, coughs,
aud colds at this season of the year. Get a
bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment and
keep it ready for instant use. 1t may save
your life. 1t has saved thousands.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

THE constantly increasing sale of Bur
NETS COLOGNE confirms the opinion of
the best judges, that it is equal, if mo-.
superior, to any domestic or foreign. 1t
also received the highest award at the Gen.
tennial Exhibition
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

The wife of a tragedian has applied
for a divorce. She says her husband
acts so she can't live with him,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17

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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17


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Forty Years of Success is sufficient evidence
Of the value Of Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup as a
cure for Consumption. Coughs, Colds, Hoarse-
ness, Sore Throat. 1t contains no opium Is
pleasant to the taste.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-17
Honor I'm HIS own Land.

Saws Comley in his recently-issued work,
The History of New York State, "The day
has passed when the benefactors OF human
ity were allowed to live in ignominious
poverty-their sacrifices, their labors unrec-
ompensed. To-day, the benefactors OF the
prople-the men who devote their lives n
energies to the interests OF humanlty-tnese
are the men whom the world delights to
honor, and whom it rewards with princely
fortunes. As an earnest worker for the
welfare of his fellow.men, DR.. r. V. Pierce
has won their warmest sympathy and es-
TEEN. Viii e seeking to be their servant
only, he has become q prince among them.
Yet the immense fortune lavished upon him
by a generous people he boards not, but
invests in the erection and establishment of
institutions directly c~ontributive to the
public good, the people thus realizing, in
their liberal patronage, a new meaning. oil
that beautiful Oriental custom OF casting
bread upon the waters. Noted in both
public and private life for his answering
integrity and all those sterling virtues that
ennoble manhood, DIR. Pirce ranks high
among those few men whose names the
Empire State is justly proud to inscribe
upon her roll of honor. Ambitious, yet
moved by an ambition strictly amenable to
the most discriminating and well-balanced
Judgment, his future career promises to he
one of unparalleled activity and usefulness,
ably supplementing the work he has already
accomplished, by a life at once noble in
effort, enviabIe in its grand results" While
DR.. Pierce's genius and energy have won for
him SO enviable a position on the records Of
a nation, having been elected Senator by an
overwhelming majority, his justly celebrated
Household Remedies have gained for him @
vet more desirable place in the hearts of
grateful people. His Golden Medical Dis
covery and Favorite Prescription have
brought health and happiness TO ten thou
sand households.