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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
A Ladies' Economy Club.

There is ladies' economy club in
Philadelphia. The members have hus-
bands who get small salaries, and to
make these salaries go as far as possible
is one of the objects of their organiza-
ton. lis announced at every meeting
that the next assemblage will be at the
house of Mrs. -, one of the members,
and in this way each member has one of
the meetings in her parlor. These
gatherings are conducted upon the prin-
ciple of experience meetings, member
rising in place and without embarrass-
ment because she knows, by virtue of
tneir presence, the pecuniary situation
of those who surround her) telling how
she manages to get along on her hus-
bands small salary. These experiences
are intended as lessons by which all who
listen are to profit. Gentlemen are not
supposed to invade these places, but
often they get in under pretense of deep
interest in the cause, and it was such a
subterfuge that accounts for Record
reporters presence at one a few days
ago. 1t was in the parlor OF modest
house in the northwestern section. The
hostess welcomed her callers with q
bright smile, and, as the ladies were all
good takers, it was not long before they
proceeded to business. IT started with
making children's clothing, and the
manner in which "papa's" old breeches
were put to new service after he had
doffed them was astonishing to listen to
Old coats, hats, shirts, ETC., were, under
the skillful manipulation of the house
wife, twisted into some useful garment
for some little one at home, The tall
took wide range, and fairly turned in
side out every department of the house
hold. One lady declared that her hus
band received only six hundred dollar
per annum, and yet by economy witt
that amount she kept her two children
nicely dressed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
Careless With Money.

How careless men can be with money
is shown by the incident related in the
Sunday Gazette:
My friend was the paymaster of a
large railroad company, and one day he
went out with thirty thousand dollars
to pay the men. The money was wrap
ped up in an old newspaper, and he car.
ried it under his arm. He stopped at a
wayside hostelry for dinner, and left the
money on chair when he went out. He
had not gone many miles from the place
when he missed it. Hes.few back, and
asked the woman if she had seen q
parcel.
"There's bit of newspaper on the
chair beyant," said she; perhaps
that's it" Which it proved to be, and
my friend returned a happier and a
wiser man.
Another circumstance: A man ]
know of lost roll of bills amounting to
ten thousand dollars. They also, were
tied up in a newspaper. He tolda friend,
and the two talked over the loss and
the probability Of finding the money.
The friend made him tell all the ground
he had been over since he had the
money. The last place he was at was
the postofice. The night was wet over
head and slushy underfoot. They
stopped at the postofice, and going to
the place where the man had been,
found two or three torn bits of news.
paper. 1t was the same. They looked
further, and found the lost treasure. II
had been kicked in turn by every one
who came into the Office, and when found
was all united and completely soaked
in slush. They seized it eagerly and re-
turned to their hotel, where they spenl
several hours in cleaning it. 1t was al
there, and at last they got it dried.
The grateful man took his friend out
and bought him the handsomest gold
watch. chain he could find.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
Hayes's Grandfather.
lIPittshurg Dispatch.l

Ezekiel Hayes, the great-grandfather
of the President, was successful me-
chanic in Connecticut, and kept num-
Der of apprentices. It is said that some
times like apprentices in all ages, they
felt that they had long work and short ra-
tions. At one time new cheese was put
on the table whole. 1t stood uncut for q
day or two, Hayes saying at each meal |:
"That is nice looking cheese. 1t is a
pity to cut it" The boys thought this
was growing rather; monotonous, and
planned to chow their sentiments. The
blacksmith had one day got bar of iron
nicely heated, and laid It across the an.
vii to be cut into proper lengths. The
boys, with chisels and sledges, were to
| cut it of. But no hand was raised
Hayes asked them why they did moi
strike" One of them replied: "Tha'
| it is such nice bar of iron; it would bt
a pity to cut it." Hayes quickly saw
the point, and shouted, with laugh
l "Strike, boys, strike! The cheese shal
be cut"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29

The old gentleman who threw the pa
per down the other morning with the
impatient ejaculation, "Oh, there's
nothing in itp and went out to look at
his garden, was the same one who COM
ing back half an hour later and discov-
ering that his wife had cut up the paper
into patterns, thereupon ripped around
like yellow jacket, broke an important
commandment and window pane by
kicking cat through it, turned over a
bucket Of clabber on the new carpet and
the baby, and finally departed with a
slam of the door that clattered the
crockery to the .uttermost parts of the
house, and with withering maledictiop
on these gawlbusted women anyhow, /"
--LouisriUe Courier. Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
PERSONAL TOPICS.

CETywAYo is not highly civilized
black man. The Philadelphia Chronicle
says he doesn't carry razor.
CYRUS w. FIELD has started sub
scription with 100000 to construct a
cable from California to Japan.
Mr.. ROBERT LINCOLN and Mr..
Stephen A. Douglas are prac.icing law
in Chicago, and both take an active in
terest in politics.
THE Detroit Free Press says if S. Ed
ward Rogers is in this State, he is hereby
notified to appear at Jersey City and
claim hyena willed him by Dan Rice.
LORD BEAcoNsFIELD is returning to
the delights of his youth. A London
correspondent says the Prime Minister
is engaged in writing q novel, half
Oriental, half politics.
The late Bi-hop Ames once said he
could stand the cry of a baby while he
was preaching, but thai the humping
of the mothers heels and the buzzrsaw
"Hs's's'shp nearly drove him crazy.
DOM PEDRO packed his contribution
to the Washington Monument in fine
Brazilian wood. Now the wood, made
into model OF the monument as 1t is
planned, has been returned to him.
The Newburyport Herald says of Bea-
consfeld: ellis has been career as
dazzling as that of Napoleon, and be-
yond the daring of novelist, even of
the Jules Verne type"
The New York Graphic publishes a
portrait OF Freeman, the Pocasset
fanatic, who murdered his child. Ac-
cording to the picture Freeman is q fine,
Intelligent looking man. with mild eyes
and side whiskers.
A YOUNG lawyer in Troy has gone
crazv because of love. The sentiment,
says the Jersey City Journal, was such a
peculiar one for person of his profess
sion that the little heart which he did
possess couldn't stand it.
THOSE who have never seen Senator
Thurman NAV like to know that he has
a massive frame: a large. welI-shaped
head, covered with gray hair; bright,
humorous eyes, and a large mouth. His
manner OF speaking is eminently busi-
ness-like.
A MoNUMEST is to be erected at
Titusyille. Pa. to Colonel Drake. who
sunk the first oil we'll in the State. The
Philadelphia Bulletin eays it will be
made of papier mache, composed of GER
tificates of the stock that represented
those early oil wells, and will be at least
million feet high, if all are used.
PAUL MoRpHY is again reported to be
insane. He denies that he knows any
thing about chess imagines that he is a
great lawyer and that he was defrauded
in the settlement of his fathers estate.
He is living quietly at New Orleans,
promenades Canal-street daily, and if
any acquaintance gives him chance he
rehearses the long story OF his wrongs.
A GENTLEMAN who once called at the
rooms Of Senator Sumner in Washington,
was told by his young negro servant :
Massa Sumner, he gone to de Senate to
make him speech" What speech r
asked the gentleman, in surprise.
"Why, dat ar speech he's been hollering
out in bed ebery morning desc free
weeks. ."-Philadelphia Times.
ARTEMUs WARD is the editor of a
paper in Wisconsin. He is sixty years
old, has been in the show business nearly
all his life, and claims that the genial
Browne stole his name and fame while
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
High Life in Colorado.


In naming new towns the people in
this State and California show great
versatility and classical lore. So soon
as mining claims are staked out and a
few free fights indulged in, the town is
christened, and the name generally
sticks. Just think of writing to friends
in the Far East-Boston, for instance
how much you enjoy life in " Hell's De-
Light" what lovely time you had in
Ground Hogs Glory" and how busi-
ness is fourishing in "Hangtown."
Ask traveller where he is journeying,
and you need to brace yourself, for he
will probably tell you he is going to
"Knock Him Stiff" While you are
wondering who the poor victim may be,
and why he deserves such treatment, he
goes on to tell you that the rock at
Knock Him Stiff will go two thousand
dollars to the ton, and that there is rock
at Bung Eye that will beat that, but the
rock at Gouge Eye has pinched out" !"
The three towns last mentioned are in
this county, in Paradise Valley. There
is a great deal of irony in some of the
names: Paradise Valley is dreary and
dry. Rag Town is just over our East
ern range. Iasked a friend why it was
SO called. He gravely said because there
are no rags there.
And I find this will apply to most of
them. Last Chance is somewhere
in California; and to live in place of
that name must be an incentive to do
ones best.
To people of delicate organization and
weak nerves it must be enfeebling to
live in the classic shades of Shirt-Tail
Canon" just think for moment of
writing letter, pouring out your whole
soul as it were, and addressing it to
Miss Augusta Fitznoodle, Shirt-Tail
Canon" Do you think it could be
done7 Not bit of it. You would
look at it and say: "Hang it; it shall
never wave over love letter Of mine."
Put it in the fire, and write another,
asking the price of COWS and the pros
pect for feed in the foothills. At one
time this town had a population of
fifteen hundred; but its glory has de-
parted. 1t waves no longer. Gone the
way of all such appendages.
At Paradise and He'll Gate there are
toll roads. 1t costs dollar and half
to enter Paradise, but you can slip
through Hell's Gate for "four bits"
Here is food for reflection, but thank
Heaven / am not given to moralizing.
Let us always be thankful for what we
escape, as well as for what we receive.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
THE rARsrERs.

The farmer came In from the field one day,
His languid step and his weary way,
His beuded brow, his sinewy hand,
All showed his work for the good Of the land I;
For he sows,
And he hoes,
And he mows,
ALI for the good of the land.
By the Kitchen fire stood his patient wife,
Light of his home. and joy of his life,
With face all aglow and busy hand.
Preparing the mealfor hor husbands band;
For she must boil,
And she must broil,
And she must toll,
And all for the good of the home.
When autumn is here with its chilling blast,
The farmer gathers his crop at last;
His barns are full, his fields are bare,
For the good of the land he ne'er hath care;
While 1t blows,
And 1t SHOWS,
The winter goes,
he rest from the work Of the land.
But the willing wife, till life's closing day,
Is the children's guide. the husbands stay;
From day to day she hath done her best.
Until death alone can give her rest,
For after the test,
Comes the rest
With the blest,
By the farmers heavenly home.
-Chrisfian al Work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
ONO LEGlsLATlyR pROCEEDIsGs.

MAY 20-As amended by the House q few
dsys ago. the maximum school lew for the
whole State was put. at seven mills. NJ
WRIGHT moved to amend oy MAKING three
mills the maximuua in Cincinnati. four and
a half mills in CLEVELAND. and six n,ii,s il ali
other districts. Mr.. Worley opposed the
reduction for Cincinnati. because Of the
possibility of 1000 to 1900 children
now in the Catholic schools being thrown
upon the public schools within q few
months in CONSEQUENCE of the Archbishop's
failure. He had been advised of This by
prominent citizen Of Cincinnati who was
formerly member of the Board of Educar
ton. He wanted the levy to remain as al
ready amended in order to meet that contiu-
gency. Mr.. Wright's amendment was
agreed to, with the exception of general
levy of six mills, which was amended, on
motion of Mr.. Brown, of Putnam, to seven
mills. In the House, Mr.. Perkins offered
an amendment to the codifed school bill,
to strike out section 2, which provides for
the organization of separate colored schools.
After debate, vote was had. resulting in
the defeat of the amendment by % yeas to
As nays, astrict party vote, with the excep-
tion of Mr.. Poe Dem. D who voted yea, and
Mr.. Dawson Rep.), who voted nay. Messrs.
Kellogg and Mackey, Nationals, voted with
the Republicans.
MAY 21--Senufe MIR. Marsh submitted
report from the committee appointed to in
vestigare Longyiew Asylum, amended as
instructed by the Senate. On motion of
Mr.. Wilson it was laid onthe table and or
dered printed. Mr.. Curtiss presented the
petition of H. N. Raymond and forty
nine other citizers of Cleveland, for
the passage Of House Bill 1908, re.
lating to the sale Of railroad tickets.
Mr.. Kelley presented the rem onstrance Of
one hundred and twenty-six citizens Of
Gallipolis, againstthe passage OF the same
bill. Mr.. Krimmel introduced bill author.
izing the Columbus, Jefferson 4 CINCINNATI
Railroad to occupy the BERNIE bank OF the
Columbus feeder Tor q track. a Jolntreso'
luton from the House 10 receive Gov
ernor M1iilams, q inmana; was agreed 70.
..,.:ln tne mouse, NE; Dsi.en PressA'esq ,1e
petition OF two hundred citizens OF Noble
County, praying TOT adlournmens senate
Bill 24S, by Mr.. jackson, 70 punish as EN-.
bezzlement the misrepresentation OF trust
funds, was lost-yeas, 36; nays, 70. The
principal part OF the time was taken up
| with the codifed bills.
MAY 22.-Senate--Petstion for the pas
sage of Mr.. Swaim's Railroad Ticket Bill
1908 were presented from LAO citizens Of
various parts OF the state. hemonssrances
were presented rom zlo cieizens o. Hamii. M
tOn S0unty aSuiust tHo PaseaEo " bHc
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29

If you don't shut down on the inor-
dinate use of tobacco, you are liable to
superinduce an excruciating concatena-
ton of amaurosis, angina pectoris,
hypochondriosis, and locomotorataxy.
There isn't much fun in that.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29

MosT ofus pass our lives in regretting
the past, complaining of the present,
and indulging in false hopes of the
future, when it would be vastly better
to cut a pole, dig some bait and go
fishing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29
The 0ld.Time Editor.

I" Well, now" asked d. reporter of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat of a veteran,
"what do you think Of the st. Louis
editors of the present day, as compared
with those of twenty-five or thirty years
ago7"
Why, editing a daily paper now is
SO different from what it was a
quarter of a century ago, that tits diff
cult to draw comparison. In former
times the editor wrote long leader
every day sometimes five or six columns
in length-and he clipped his news from
his exchanges. Now the fashion is to
write short and pithy paragraphs and
squibs; and only few of the exchanges
are opened the news from abroad comes
by telegraph, while the city news is
gathered BY corps Of cheeky reporters,
who pry into every thing, and write up
items in the style of Victor Hugo or
George Lippard-aff sensation, froth,
and far-fetched ideas. Everything goes
into the papers nowadays; nothing is
| too sacred; nothing Is. SO secret that
the reporters do not find IL out and
| spread the particulars before the public
in the form of an interview, or some
thing of that sort, A man cannot die
| in peace without having reporter at
his bedside, listening, to catch bis last
utterance. Ionce knew a reporter who
slept every night in q graveyard, in the
expectation that some corpse would
come to life, and hemight interview him
and obtain the freshest news from the
other world. His enterprise came near
costing him hislife. for hewas found by
the body snatchers and carried in q bag
to dissecting room, whore he awoke
| iusr as the students were about to rip
him open as a subject"
"That's lie. I don't believe q word
of it."
"Well, one fthe reporters told dme the
story as fact. ! guess it is as true as
most of the reports you see in the
1 papers"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-29

Mr.. ALBERT WELLEs, who has writ
ten history of the Washington family,
is far from pleased with the New York
Herald for laughing at his claim that
the ancestry Of the father of his country
can be traced straight back 10 the Scan
dinayian divinity Odin. This god he
believes to be Of the progeny Of the An
akin or giantsof Palestine. Mr.. Welles
would have avoided perplexing discus
sions snd troublesome criticisms If he
had omitted mention of these compara-
lively modern personages, and dmpiy
affirmed that the great George was lin
cal descendant of Adam. Cincinnati
Gazette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-09-25

WHILE many Northern Democrats
ignore the expressions of the untamed
rebel brigadiers in Congress during
the late extra session and affect to be-
lieve that the question of State rights
was settled by the war, Jefferson Da-
Wis, the arbitrator, and Democratic
authority SO far as the South is con-
cerned, has written letter IN which
he magnanimously expresses a desire
not to be considered a candidate for
the United States Senate, going out of
his way to say that the vital issue be-
fore the country in the contest be-
tween State rights and National SUI
premacy, considering all other ques-
tions subordinate to this and express
ing great confidence that the princi-
plies he has laid down will sooner or
later be indicated. The ex-President
nf the defunct Confederacy is correct
in his statement of the main question
at issue and that is the question which
the Republican party is again marsh
aling it's hosts to meet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-09-25

NOTWITHSTANDING the earnest appeals
for harmony made by Senator Herman
and others in the New York Democrat
ic convention there was split and
there are two Democratic candidates
for Governor in the fell (.
Robinson is the regular Tilden can
didate and Kelly is the Tammany and
anti-Tilden candidate. Kelly and his
followers persist in managing their
own affairs in their own way ard thus
far all attempts at securing ''fix-up
between the contending factions have
proven futile. Should this fight be
continued till the time of election it
means Republican success in the EN-
pire State and very large nail in the
coffin of Tilden's Presidential aspira
tiOns.
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-09-25

A New YORK divine is quoted as say
ing that he never knew man or wo-
man who habitually staid away from
church on Sunday that did not come
to grief and bring others to grief. If
that divine enjoys very extensive
acquaintance wen wager that he
knows men who have habitually at
tended church every Sunday that have
come to grief. Though the factshould
not necessarily initiate against the
church it is well known that many of
the defaulters in banks, insurance
companies, industrial and trust corpor-
ations, etc., were very devout 'pillars
in the church who regularly attend
ed Divine worship while scheming
their robberies, their religious pre-
tensions shielding them from suspii
| cion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-09-25
The Milwaukee, Sunday Telegram

The Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph
saws: 1.-The acquital of the murder
ers of Judge Chisholm and his daught'
er, in Mississippi, is stronger argu'
ment in the popular mind in favor OF
military domination, federal interfer'
ence and centralized power in the
south, than all the sentences which
the democratic orators and rhetori
clans can construct in speeches and
platforms in five years. 1t is not
solid argument, but it IS a convincing
one"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-09-25
FALLS, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER s5 1879
THE MISSISSIPPI PLAN SUSTAIN.
ED.

The trial, opening on the Sth inst,
of Henry j. Gully, of Kemper county
Mississippi. charged with the murder
of Miss Cornelia Chisholm in 1877, re-
suited in Gully's acquital, though the
evidence against him was plain and
conclusive. A number of Democratic
bull doZers were indicted in 1877
| for the murder of several persons
who were killed at the time Miss CHS
holm met her sad fate, Judge CHS
holm being among the number MUIR
dered, suffering death because he
chose to advocate the principles of the
Republican party. The acquital of
Gully, his trial being a test case, in
effect renders nugatory the indict-
ments against Chisholm's murderers
and amply sustains the often repeated
charges of Republicans that in the
South many men have been mercilessly
shot down for no other reason or Of
Tense than that of being Republicans.
1t is idle for the Democrats of the
North to attempt to boot down as of
no Importance the bloody shirt ques-
ton, so long as that issue is kept alive
by political murders perpetrated in
the name of Democracy by the Demo-
Gratis of the South. The escape of
these murderers through the perjury
of Democratic jury from the pun
ishment they so richly deserve is an
additional act in course being pur-
sued by the southern "chivalry"
which is very rapidly forming a solid
North to meet and again successfully
resist the insolent intolerance of a SOL
id South. Whatever may be the pref
erences of majority of Mississippians
they will ascertain in due time that
the people of the country at large
have no disposition to be ruled by the
methods adopted in that benighted |
region.