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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Referring to Casanave'sq intima
ton before he left Washington, that
unless the balance of the money nee
essary to relieve. his property is
forthcoming he will expose the Lou
isiana fraud in ell its iniquity, the
Washington Post says:
Casanave is prepared, too, to car
~ out his threat. He made the
practice during the sittings Of the
Board in 1875, to take possession of
all the documents that came in his
way, and he has preserved numerous
letters and kilograms which will
throw light upon the dark transac-
ton. He has a habit Of taking notes
of all important business matters
and he filed several books with
memoranda of the Returning Board
sessions. He is prepared to give q
true history of the steal and to forti-
fly his words with documentary test
mony. He exhibited a few Of his
tell-tale documents here in Washing
ton, and it is pretty safe to predict
that the fraudulent Administration
will send him the balance of the
money he demands.
The balance has been made III
and sent him, Mr.. Hayes contribu
ting $1,000 and John Sherman $500
to the fund of "hush' money! D.
honest men feel like voting to con
tinue such a party in power?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

If General Ewing were at all GER
tain or had any expectation of being
elected Governor f Ohio he would
resign his seat in Congress. He
ought to do so anyhow. 1t is con-
trary to public decency and good
morals for a man to hold one office
while q candidate before the people
for anotLer.-Xenta Gazette.
How about the Presidential
Fraud? Did he resign the Cover.
norsLip before he had the Presiden-
| CIV stolen for him? Not q bit of it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The opening Of the Republican
pow-wow on Saturday last with pray
er, fattened the "boom" intended by
the meeting. Think of lot of old
party hacks, shoddy spectators, sym
pathisers and indorsers of fraud,
corruption and robbery, asking the
Almighty to bless them in their
struggle to hold on to the power with
they have plundered and
~bankrupted the country!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

When you sell your pork at 1926
a hundred, your labor at go cents q
day, and other things in like proper
ton to pay debts and taxes, you are
enjoying the blessings of silver dc
monetization. and Republican re.
sumption.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

1t has been asserted by John sher-
mans stalwart friends that he has
not given employment to ex-rebels
in the Treasury department. An
examination of the official roster
shows that he has fourteen rebels in
his direct employ, seven of schom
pere Mosby's ~guerrillas. 'Rah fol
the "Confederate Brigadiers!~
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The late defalcation in Butler
county proves that what we have
said is true, to wit: that O long sue
cession of political power is very apt
to breed corruption. 1t therefore
behooves the taxpayers of Preble
county to vote for a change of polit-
cal rulers. 1t costs nothing and
makes everything safe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Years of Republican Legislation
against labor and in favor of capital,
only accumulated disaster to the
people, but as 500 as a Democratic
Congress began the work of repeal.
ing the evils of Republican leaders
the evidences Of prosperity are seen
everywhere throughout the country
Let the people choose which they
will have Republican ruin or Demo.
cratic prosperity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

We are requested to announce the
death of the Republican Central
Committee of this county. 1t will
be embalmed and carefully laid away
with the "bloody shirt and intomed
on the second Tuesday in October.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04
OUR SENATOR.

G. II. Edison, our nominee for
State Senator from this District, is
too well and favorably known in
this county to need more than a
passing notice at our hands. His
character as a citizen stands above
reproach, and as a successful bust
ness man, he has few equals and we
may safely say no superiors. The
strong common sense and well bal
aneed Judgment which has enabled
him to rise step by step from com
parative-poverty first ta-competence
and then to affluence, maintaining
all the time an unquestioned char
acter for integrity, public spirit and
general liberality, is an argument in
his. favor which the masses can
and will not fail to appreciate and
honor. He is and ever has been a
warm friend Of the laboring classes,
andsis always one ofthe first to ten
der them encouragement at every
advance they make. Prompt in the
discharge ofshis obligations, liberal
in his impulses, firm in his convic-
tions, he will make o Senator of
which the DISCREET need not be
ashamed, and for whom the masses
may well feel tender regard and pro-
found respect. He may in the bit
ter acerity of party, politics be at
tackled by those who have felt in
their own favor, his liberality and
strength, but such attacks only blast
with the stigma Of bare ingratitude
those who make them, and. bring out
in holder relief the sterling qualities
of the man at whom the shafts are
aimed. ,,a
We now and here predict that G
H. EDISON. at home, in his owl
County where he is best known, will
receive o vote which will be a wei
deserved tribute to his character a
a citizen and his worth as a man
He has the grand qualifications s
often wanting in noisy politicians
sterling common sense, unimpeacha
bile integrity and genuine ~liberality
Let him who can and dare assai
either of them in old Preble, an
they will find an answer at the bal
lot box next October.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Gov. Dennison says he "would
prefer JEFF Davis in the Senate to
either Thurman or Pendleton." Put
that at the head of your very able
editorial columns, Mr.. Williams. 1t
will be equal te the one standing
there now.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Union county would be q good
quarter forthe editor of the Register
to direct his aarithmetic powers"
"Not a dollar ever lost by Republi-
can dishonesty Oh, Lord, what a
pure party!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The basest and most absurd cam
paign lie circulated this yearis, tina,
Gen. Rice introduced a bill in Con
gress to pension rebel soldiers. Il
any one repeats it, "shoot him on
the spotr'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The editor ofthe Register will find
that what Nathan Peters says about
the changes for EWING and RICE in
Preble county and Ohio too, will be
more than verified at the October
election.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The Cincinnati Gazette is making
a desperate effort to "bull-doze'' the
negro Williams off the Republican
ticket for the Legislature. If this
thing was going on in Mississippi
or South Carolina, wouldn't the Rad
ical howlers yelp to 'save the
Union?n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

We want a few more speakers like
DENN1soN sent into Eaton to "culti-
vate Preble county soilF' An abun-
dant Democratic harvest will be the
crop.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

If jeff Davis was to come out and
ayow Republican doctrines, it would
not be a month until the Register
and its ilk would advocate him for
Vice President on the ticket with
John Sherman.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The "cvidences of prosperity"
throughout the country r astonish-
ing! 1t is very remarkable, indeed!
If State elections took place every
two months instead of once a year
we would be in. 'sclover" al 1.-THE time!
'Rah for a Democratic Congress!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

It is only the idiots and fools in
the Republican party who continue
to shout about "Confederate Briga-
diers." Since the. exposure Of the
hundreds Of "sich'' holding fat posi-
|tions by Republican appointment,
the sensible portion of the party
keep their mouths closed on the
matter. : 80
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Col. Moulton has entered suit
against the Cincinnati Enquirer for
an alleged libel, laying his damages
at $5O,0O0t That amount might
worry a.eity journal like the Eaqpir-
e., but It wouldn't create the small
est kind Of. o rifle in q countFy news
paper.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

We asked a Republican laboring
man the other day what he thought
Of the agood times?' He put his
fingers on hisnose and wiggled them
as he remarked: Haven't seen 'em
YETI
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Wonder if the editor of the Regis
ter will reiterate his declaration that
mot a dollar has been lost by dis.
honesty of Republican officials
Well, hardly
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

As Eph Holland is at leisure the
Republicans of this County had bet
ter secure his services to preserve
the purity of the ballot box" in o.
tober.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

1t is hardly worth while for the
Republicans ofthis county to make
a new Central Committee to fill the
place of the deceased members; the
issues of the party are old and dead
also and the people have become dis
gusted with them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The Republican ssboom' for Pre-
bic county last Saturday was a very
small one.,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The city of Dayton had a case of
yellow fever which proved fatal. 1t
found no other subject and left.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

The EWING and RICE club of Ea-
ton will meet at Stephens Hall this
"Wednesday evening. =
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

It was the thinest "boom" we ever
seen. "Preble county soil needs
cultivatingrr
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

According to the late lamented A.
Lincoln, if it had not been for the
Democrats the Southern Confedera-
cy would have succeeded. If his
word is worth anything, we are now
supporting the very element that
Suppressed the rebellion"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

Let the tax payers of this County
remember shat Il political change
will be wholesome to them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

fit prefers the party ruled by
that element which tried to destroy
the government to the party which
suppressed the rebellion, all right.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

SEC 4. The proceeds of the sale OF
said Bonds shall be by said Committee,
shall be paidto the Treasurer of saidVil-
lage, and shall be by him held, as a sep
crate fund subjects to the payment Of the
consideration money to the owner of the
property condemned as aforesaid, and
the costs and expenses of the proceed
ings for condemnation &ey upon the or.
der ofthe Council ofssaid Village
Sec s.. This Ordinance shall take eff
feet and be in force IRON and after ter
days from the date of its first publica
ton. - sssefs,o 6s5g srsr
Passed Sept. End, 1872 a f35s
B.G. ABBOTT, Mayor.
FRANK MITcnEILs Corporation Clerk
sep4-lt .s.tu ri s:l.s paaaar szetl
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04
Clocks & Jeve|Tv

and all other articles in this line Ct
trade. I intend giving my entire at
tention to this business, and hope by
fair nd>honest dealing to merit and
receive. a liberal trade from my old
friends and rev acQuaintarces.
Repairing made a Speciality.
All Watches, Clocks and Jewelry re-
paired will be warranted to give full
satisfaction. Promptness being my
motto, no one will be disappointed.
Having employed the services of Dix
Hendricks to assist me, think, by the
combined skill of both, to be able to
satisfy my customers beyond a doubt.
Ny charges will be reasonable and sat
isfactory. Call and give me q trial.
JOE CAMPBELL.
Eaton, March 81, 1S79-tf
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04

asI z5 Notice < saI
Is hereby given that the undersigned
has been duly appointeg and qualified
Administrators of the estate of Bennett
Waters, late of Preble County Ohio,
decd. DANIEL FRAME.
Foos s. FISHER, Atty's.i
Aug. IS, 1S79.-3w.n - .vaT
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04
JUST OPENED!

HAVING decided to return to Ea-
IL ton, my native place, after an alb
sence of fifteen years, to make it my
future home, l hive opened WATCH,
CLOCK and JEWELRY STORE in
Stephens building, on Main street,
where I intend keeping a full assort-
ment of the latest make and styles of
the hest,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04
Ordinance No.

AN OHpINANcE for the issuance and
sale OF Bonds of the Incorporated Village
OF Eaton, Ohio, of the denoninatiohsof
Five Hundred ($50G) and Four Htndred
and FnyD6llars ($450) respecfEeIy, for
the purpose of providing the necessary
funds for paying for the property con-
demned and costs and e~xpensesiof the
condemnation thereof for the extension
of Deem Street in the Incorporated Vii
lage of Eaton, o.
SEC /. Be it ordained by the Council
of the Incorporated Village of Eaton, OF
that Tor the purpose of raising the neees-
sary funds for the payment for the prop
erty heretofore condemned by the au-
Itherities OF said Village, by due course
loflaW, for,the extension OF Deem Street
in said Village, and the payment OF the
necessary costs and .expensesief said o n
domination, two Bonds Of said Yillage OF
the denomination of Five Hundred $500
and -Four Hundred and fifty Dollars,
(s450) respectively and payable to bear
er be issned.! ST. ms
SEC. q. Said Bonds shall bear date on
the day OF t~heirasaleeand shalibe made
due and payable in one year hom,the
day Of sale thereof,or sooner at the plea
sure of the Council, shall bear interest at
a rate not greater than seven percent
per annum, shall be signed g4he Mayor
and countersigned by the~Clerk, and at
tested by the, seal of the Clerk of said
Village. l, ss ,s1s
SEC. 8. Immediately upon the execu-
ton of said Bonds, the same shall be
placed in the hands of the Finance Gem
mittee of said Incorporated Village, and
said Committee shall ationce proceed te
sell the same at not less than their pan
value. .snsaao Hs'h ~sa' 7s zsa
SEC 4. The proceeds of the sale o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-09-04
NGIESaA

J Attest-AJoHS fTowNsBND, Clerk. Urn
Sept. 4, 187S-6w II eieeb .~eIflo3F
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-01
Couldn't Do 1t.

The tear-producing power of the late
Kew. James Sherman was SO great
that he was sometimes called Magister
lacrynaGrnxs. His pathos was certain
ly unrivaled. frequently, in the midst
of discourse his audience would be SO
moved to weeping that he had to pause
for little while. On one occasion he
had related one of his anecdotes, when
he said: "Under the effect this story
has produced we will pause for few
moments for silent prayer" He then
sat down. In about two minutes he
rose and continued his discourse. 1t
was very effective. An excellent
brother minister from the country was
greatly pleased, and determined to try
the effect on his own congregation. On
the following Sunday evening, in the
midst of his discourse, he recalled the
anecdote. He was rather surprised
not to see tears flow as freely as he
could have wished, but he said: 81
see the effect this story has produced,
and will pause few moments for si-
lent prayer" He then sat down. His
worthy chief Deacon, who for the past
septenniad had regularly given out the
hymns and slept throug III the sermons,
believing that reading the hymn verse
by verse was service enough and would
atone for a nap during the discourse,
woke up at the silence. 1t was the
signal he was accustomed to look for.
Rapidly he jumped up, and the worthy
preachers little effect was all dissi-
pated by the well-known voice on
nouncing: "Let us sing the twenty
fifth hymn, second book, common
meter, MY drowsy powers, why sleep
ye SOP Awake, my sluggish SOUL"
Then, after the service, like good
hearted friend as he was, when he
went into the vestry he offered some
words of sympathy, supposing that his
minister had "broken down." The
reverend gentleman said nothing, bore
his vexation with what grace he had,
wen: home, and read with profit how
David of old refused the armor of
Saul.-London Freeman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-01
Desperate Convicts.

Arthe Penitentiary, this morning, h.
d. Huntington, three-year man from
Ashland, cut off three fingers Of his left
hand to escape work. Huntington is
convict of more than ordinary intelli-
gence, and thought that the work was
entirely too difficult for him. He is
employed in Patton 8 hollow-ware shop,
and il was there that he mutilated his
hand. His mode of disfiguring himself
showed the man to be the possessor OF
unquestionable courage. Laying his
left hand on block, and with Ratchet
in his right he began operations. The
first blow he took off about half an
inch from the three last fingers.
Again he struck, hewing off some more.
Still thinking that he had not taken off
enough, he slashed away again. At
this iuncture the guard saw what Hun
tington was doing, and wrenched the
Ratchet from the hands of the desper-
ate man. He was removed to the
prison hospital, where DR.: Allen
dressed the mangled hand. Warden
Dyer, as soon as he heard OF the matter
ordered Huntington to be taken PACK
to Patton's shop as soon as ms nana
was bound up, and given something at
which he could work with one hand.
The Warden says he is determined to
break the growing practice OF convicts
manning themselves to escape work
Oolunbxs (Ohio) Cor. Cleveland F1os'-
dealer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-01
A Serious Joke.

A PRACTICAL joke, which was intended
to punish husband, was unintention-
ally made to recoil upon the wife, who
was the author of the little scheme.
Mrs. Fullerton, Utica lady, had a
trifling quarrel with her liege lord. and,
to make him regret his conduct, re-
sorted to q little bit of mischief. In
half an hour after the quarrel she en-
tered his presence again, apparently
very sick, declared that she had taken
laudanum, and had not an hour to live.
She threw her amrs about his neck, af-
fectionately expressed her forgiveness,
babe him q pathetic farewell, and then,
in theatric style, tainted, having first
contrived to stand over the sofa at the
exciting moment, upon which she
dropped with the artistic grace of Clara
Morris. Did this husband rave, and
cry, and tear out his hairp Was the
resolution to follow hor to the other
shore his dominant thought Such
conduct was contrary to the character
Of this extremely practical man. After
stretching her tenderly on the sofa, SO
that she would not roll off, he hurried
" procured the assistance of q medical
friend and the loan of powerful
stomach-pump. In fifteen minutes the
stomach Of the supposed suicide was
pumped as dry as bass-drum. When
this violent proceeding was about to
begin, the lady suddenly recovered con-
seriousness, and declared that it was all
q ioke-that she had not taken poison.
But her stupid husband would not be-
lieve her, and pumped SO vigorously
that the lady imagined she was being
turned inside out. She is resolved new
or to die by poison.-N. 7. Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-01

The statistics of the Union Presby-
terrain Church Of Japan, which consists
of three missions, namely, those of the
American Presbyterian, the American
Reformed and the Scotch United Pres
byterian Churches, are as follows:
There are in all 10 ordained mission
aries, 2 physicians, IL teachers. 4 or
dained native preachers, 10 licentiates.
IS theological students. The total of
the foreign staff is %; Of the native
staff. 81. There are Is organised
churches, Al preaching places, 8 mis-
sion stations, and 1914 scholars In the
schools. The number Of members 10
o7O. Nors than 800 were admitted on
profession In 1879, and 81 Infants were
beptised.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-01

to the crowd Of hunger stricken Arabs
flocking in daily. Poor Werda Rose) F!
She was, however, only one Of thou
sands, and this in . town in immediate
connection with Cairo by rail and easy
reach OF any assistance should it be
pr0fered. The American missionaries
are active here as elsewhere, but they
are only able to give help to compare
lively few-seven loaves among five
thousand.
But if the distress is bad at Assiout,
what can it be called higher up-at
Ha0u, at Bagour, and such smaller
villages on the left bankP Many of the
people there are past help, and sit
naked, like wild beasts, eating roots
the khelba that grows among the clo-
yer, the clover leaves themselves and
the wild sorrel, while some solace the
pangs of hunger with the refuse sugar
cane after distillation. A lucky few,
perhaps, steal and furtively boil q bean
or two, but such a feast is exceptional.
The look on the faces of these poor
creatures is almost superhumanly
ghastly. Suffering, endurance, despair
and madness, worked on by famine,
stamp such a brand on the starving
fellahs as cannot be easily described.
It their faces are hidden, as they gen.
orally are, from the Intense heat and
the tormenting flies, the shrunken
limbs and staring bones tell their tale
plainly enough. There are full-grown
men whose legs are scarcely thicker
than dogs, and whose arms are like
chicken bones. To see such q man ~
ing in the sun with the flies swarming
on him as if he were already dead, and
the wasted hand without strength to
drive them from his eyes and lips, is
sickening.
And this distress has come on them
without possibility of their guarding
against it, through last years inunda-
tiOns. To understand this it must be
first known that the fellah lives from
hand to mouth, from day to day, and
never has any store against a rainy
day. He has no ambition to acquire
wealth, for it would be so highly taxed
as to be worth less than the "middle
estate" giving him much more trouble
and less returns.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-01
Lightning Benefits.

WHEN boarded the train ut New
York yesterday morning, a man said
to me:
"Big thing, this telegraph
eyes," said, cit is big as grape
vine."
"No Joking" he said. II came
here to New York yesterday, one
hundred miles out of my way
to see man. When l got
here, went to the st. Nicholas, and
when l was ready to 60 cut and see
my man, by jocks, stranger, I had lost
his address, and by George, couldn't
think of his first name even. And his
last name was only johnson. Easy
name to hunt for, Ell? / was left. You
know what it is to find anybody in New
York when you don't know their ad-
dress. It is worse than finding an hon
est man. Well, this man was newcom-
er here; name wasn't in the directory. I
asked questions until I made q fool of
myself.
"Then l said to the telegraph opera
tor at the st. Nicholas:
".It'l keep me here week. I've
got to write clear to St. Louis to get
that mans address,
telegraph the operator said.
swell, I never thought of that be-
fore. Wrote dispatch right away:
"'To Gettit & Keapit, brokers, st.
Louis is our man Johnson's first
name, and what's his address?'
"And in due course the answer came
back:
"sJames P. st. Nicholas Hotel
"What you think of that, strangerp
l went to the clerk and said:
"sIs Mr.. James P. johnson in mis-
roomp'
"sThat is Mr.. James P. Johnson
said the clerk.
"The man, stranger, was standing
beside me, waiting for me to move so
that he could speak to the clerk. And
I had Just sent one Thousand and six
tv-four miles to find where he was. Fun
ny, stranger. want itr'-Burdette, in
Burlington Hasck-Eve.