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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
Connarraflons.

Among the recent fires are mentioned the
destruction of the new court house OF Lick
ing County, Ohio, and burning of the Hi
nois Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Jackson.
vile, Ill. The loss by the burning of the
Licking County Courthouse is estimated
at $4,000, with $4,000 insurance. The
county records were saved in good condi.
ton. The asylum at Jacksonville was dam.
aged more by water than by fire. Estimated
loss, $4,000. The fire originated on the
roof. A workman engaged in repairing the
roof left his smoldering pot and irons and
went below, and when he returned the fire
had started either from the wind blowing
over his fre-pot, or melting the seams OF
the tin roof and originating the fire under
meath. No one hurt and all well.
A fire at Madison, Wis, destroyed the
two upper st ries of the Fairchild Block.
Loss on building $4,000. Other losses
about $4,000. During the progress of the
FIRE three separate explosions occurred,
throwing the firemen and others down q
stairway to the street. The second explosion
caused the rear wall of the building to fall
Several fremeu were injured, three, it was
thought, fatally. The origin of the fire il
a mys'ery, but supposed to be incendiary
1t is suspected that something of ar
explosive nature was placed between
the floor and the ceiling in the third story
for the purpose of causing a destruction Of
the entire block.
At Claremont, N. H., the fremont House
burned early in the morning and five per
sons persisted: Mrs. Hannah P. Gibson, O.
Chester, VI, mother of one of the proprie
tors, Charles Morgan. a boarder, Lydis
Merrill, table girl, Anna johnson, chamber
maid, and Mrs. T. A. Place. C ok. VIM
Butler, of Brattleboro, VT, and Frederick
Marvin and wife were severely injured BY
leaping from the windows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
A California Story.

The unusual spectacle of budding
orange-trees coated with icicles was re-
Gently noted at San Gabriel, Southern
California. A man left his revolving
sprinkler playing upon his nursery of
orange-trees over night, and in the
morning was amazed to see them in
cased in glittering mail, some of the
icicles upon them being twenty-five
inches long and an inch in diameter at
the base. Gala lilies and roses that
stood near by were not touched by the
frost, and the lowest point reached by
the thermometer during the night was
only 38 degrees, OF 6 degrees above the
freezing point. The cause of the phe-
nomenon is probably this: The air
was cool and dry, and, as the water was
thrown off in a fine spray, inducing
rapid evaporation, the atmosphere about
the trees was made much colder, and
thus allowed ice to form.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
Hanged to a Lamp-Post.

A Fort Scott, Kansas, dispatch says:
Bill Howard, a negro who cruelty and
diabolically outraged Clara Pond, a twelve
year.old daughter Of George Pond, was
discovered in an old mine, half a mile dis.
tant from the residence of Pond, and about
six miles from st. Louis. After some little
parley, Howard came forth and delivered
himself up, after being promised by his
captors that he should receive no bodily
harm from them. About two O'Clock,
the cortege arrived in town, and the
prisoner was promptly lodged in Jail. Ex-
element rose to fever height, and threats
of lynching were announced with emphasis,
the facts in tie case being 50 horrible as to
be without parallel in the history of crime.
About seven o'clock in the evening a crowd
of people numbering fully one thousand, &C.
c%ompanied by thirty masked men, in solid
line, with drawn revolvers in their hands,
marched to the Jail, and, o~verpowering all
resistance, tore ar iron grating from the
window of Towards cell, and forcibly took
him out. A rope was tied around his neck,
and, amid yells and shouts, the demon was
dragged by a hundred hands a distance OF
five blocks and hung to a lamp post on the
corner Of the Public Square. The infuri.
ated mob, whose anger and excitement had
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
The Bouquet; an Amusing Game.

Each player in turn supposes herself
or himself a bouquet, consisting of
three flowers. Then, having deter
mined on the flowers, each names them
aloud, and the leader writes them down
privately, and adds the names of three
persons to each list. He then asks each
player to what use the flowers named
were to be put; the player tells him,
and then he adds them to the papers
after the names. As for example:
Leader-Kate, choose your three
flowers.
Kate-Marigold, Bachelors Button,
and Rose.
Leader II have written down. What
will you do with the Marigold?
Kate-Throw it on the fire.
Leader-And the Bachelors Button ?
Kate-Put it out the window.
Leader-And the Rose?
Kate-Wear it in my hair till it
droops, and then put it in water.
Leader-Very good. Then, Miss
Kate, you have thrown Charlie into the
fire, put your aunt out the window, and
worn John, the footman, in your hair
till he dropped, and hen dropped him
in the water. Next player. A gentle
man this time. And so the game pro-
ceeds till the circle is complete, or the
players choose another.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
Lost In Flames.

A Hickman, KY, special to the Nashville
Bonner says: The wharf5oat belonging to
the Nashville, Chattan ooga & st. Louis
Railway Company burned in the morning,
and it was one of the saddest affairs that
ever happened here. About 1.3O O'Clock
Mr.. Douglas, clerk, and Mr.. Comstock, tele
graph operator, were awakened by the
smoke, and found the whole boat in flames
With wonderful presence of mind,
they ran from across the roof
and dropped to the lower deck,
and walked on a spar to the
land, saving nothing but their night clothes.
These gallant gentlemen then tried to assist
Waterman Jas. Mays, West Campbell, and
two unknown men who were waiting fer a
boat, but their efforts were too late. The
persons on board persisted in the flames.
One body was found, and is supposed to be
that of Mays. The wreck, burning through
its fastening, drifted away with the other
corpses. The origin of the fire is supposed
to be the work of al incendiary. The boat
and small amount Of freight is a total loss.
The fire was kept from spreading to the
neighboring warehouses by the heroic
efforts of citizens. This accident has cast
a gloom over the entire community.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

There is a good old English maxim that
teaches US to "believe every man kones.
until we know him to be villain" Amer
lean custom seems to lave reversed this law
and appears to make every man a villain un-
til he has proved himself an honest man. As
with people, so with things. Every article
placed in our markets can lay claim to pop
ular favor upon intrinsic merit and value
alone. Continued popularity, therefore, is
proof positive of intrinsic excellence. DR..
Pierce's Family Remedies are far more pop
ular to-day b eve before. The people
have tested them and know them TO be gen
uine remedies for the diseases they are rec
commended to cure. The Golden Medical
Discovery and Purgative Pellets are the best
alternative, tonic, and cathartic remedies that
can be used in chronic diseases of the s.om.
ach and liver. The worldwide popularity
Of the Favorite Prescription, as a never.
failing remedy for Female Diseases, would
have alone secured to its discoverer the
fame he has so richly won. DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy, of which DR.. Pierce is also
proprietor, is recommended by those who
nave tested its virtues as q safe and reliable
remedy for catarrh in its worst forms.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
God HI Dfgested

Imperfectly nourishes the system, since it
is only partially assimilated by tie blood.
Pale, haggard mortals, with dyspeptie
stomachs, impoverished circulation and
weak nerves, experience a marked and rapid
improvement in their physical condition by
availing themselves OF that sure resource of
the sick and debilitated, Hostetter's Stom.
ach Bitters. This genial tonic and altera.
tive lends an impetus to the process les of di-
gestion which insEres an adequate develop.
ment of the materials of blood, fiber, and
muscular tissues. Moreover, it soothes and
strengthens overweight or weak nerves,
counteracts a tendency to hypochondria OF
dependency, to which dyspeptic and bilious
persons are peculiarly liable, and is an
agreeable and wholesome appetizer and pro
moter of repose. The infrmities of age
and of delicate female constitutions, are
greatly relieved by it; and it is a reliable
preventive Of, and remedy for, malarial
fevers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
The Heliogranh in War.

The heliograph was used for the first
time in war by the British troops which
operated against the Afridis on the
Peshawur frontier, India. This instru-
ment consists of a circular mirror, NOV
ing upon a universal joint and support
ed on a tripod. Wishing to send mes
sages, the operator, by a quick elevation
or depression of the glass, SO as to catch
the full glare of the sun, is able to throw
flashes a distance of twenty-five miles.
The length of the flashes corresponds
with that of the dashes in the Morse al
phabet, by which the messages are trans
lated. This method of field telegraph
does away entirely with the dangers OF
wire tapping and cutting by the enemy,
and, after a thorough test, has just been
adopted by the Spanish military au-
thorities.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
ru,t,ae n : st.,,ou.hou.e cell.

Sinclair Mex elden, a young man twenty
eight years old, committed suicide at half
past seven o'clock at night, by hanging
himself to the bars of his cell with the aid
of a handkerchief, he being confined in the
First street Station-house: in Louisville, for
drunkenness. McKelden was a man of good
family, but wa much addicted to strong
drink. Some three or four years ago he
separated from his wife, and last fall they
had a romantic reunion, he discovering her
on the stage at Macauley's Theater, and
fainting in the audience. Several days ago
his wife left him, and it is supposed his
trouble caused him to commit the deed, al.
though he was in a state OF intoxication at
the time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
sIt.lnr Bun ana me C.b,n.,.

At a recent meeting it was decided to call
the attention of the British Government to
the report that Sitting Bull, now an I.dian
of the Dominion of Canada, proposes a raj
upon United States settlements. Under
our treaties, and the agreement reached by
the Joint Commission of the two Govern
ments, which visited Sitting Bulls camps
in 1877, it was agreed between these rep.
resentatiyes of the two Governments that
Sitting Bull should be regarded and treated
by both parties in the future as a Canadian
Indian. 1t will be held by our authorities
that the Canadian Government is as re.
sponsible for his movements and acts as for
those of any other tribes of Indians inhab
iting thai territory.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
foundation. I'm uuueary.

Recent dispatches from Pesth and Vienna
bring information that the water at
Szegedin is again rising. If the rise con-
tinues, there will be little chance of saving
the few remaining houses.
Titel will scarcely escape a terrible dis
-aster. The water is breaking over the
dikes. Soldiers and laborers strengthen.
ing them are exhausted. Other places are
threatened.
There is not a single boat at Devaoanva,
and great loss of life is certain if the food
increases.
Renewed floods in Hungary have covered
twelve thousand acres of land which had
already been sown, and the lives of twelve
thousand people are endangered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
TWENTY-FIVE Sons.

Hiram Y. Reese died, recently, at his
home in Franklin county, Pa, aged al
most 80 years. He was the father of
twenty-five sons, twenty of whom are
yet living, the eldest being &c and the
youngest "a years old. His first wife
had six sons, his second eleven, and his
third eight, and six of the children were
twins. He was a soldier in the War of
1872, and had nine sons in the Union
army during the late war, two of whom
were killed at the first battle of Bull
Run, a third at Balls Bluff, and a fourth
was drowned during Banks in-starred
Red river expedition. He was a re-
markedly robust man, and never but
once in his life did he take medicine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
Feminine Curiosity.

A gang of c~ounterfeiters has just been
broken up, and three of them arrested,
in Preston county, W. Va, though the
curiosity of a young girl who had been
hired by David Stenchel to nurse his
wife in sickness. Noticing in one of the
rooms of the residence an old trunk,
she, through curiosity, opened and
looked into it. She saw in it a
large lot of nickels, quarters and half
dollars, besides several dies for making
spurious coin. She went home and
told her father what she had seen, and
he communicated the information to the
proper officers. Warrants were issued
for the arrest of Stenchel, Campbell and
Williams, and, after a desperate fight
with the moonshiners, the officers sue
ceededin arresting the three men above
named
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
HnnrInr nt na.hx,n..

Knox Martin, for the murder of John
Whittemeyer and wife, was hanged at Nash.
vile. on Friday, in the presence of an
immense throng of people. He made a
confession, saying that he and George
Berry, who had him arrested, bad made up
their minds to kill Whittemeyer; met il a
woodland near his house on the night of
the murder, and went to the house 10.
gether, Berry going in first. Berry struck
him with a stone, and then he struck Berry,
knocking him senseless the first blow.
When he had struck Mrs. Whittemeyer the
first time, Berry told him to hit her again,
which he did, killing her. Berry robbed a
drawer of money in big bills, of which he
only got fifty cents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

the cityfo several days, awaiting the COM
pletion of collections ia assist them in pur-
suing their journey. The E. b. Durfee left
at midnight, and took three hundred and
fifty to Wyandotte, Kansas. Tickets were
sold at two dollars and fifty cents, and al
though not one in fifty left their homes with
that amount OF money, they have since their
arrival at st. Louis, been furnished with
funds by the charitably disposed of the city,
and each had means to take him to his
destination. Eight hundred dollars were
raised by the colored people to assist in
shipping this cargo.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
cold Discovered I'm Kansas.

The st. Louis Globe Democrats special
from Wichita, Kansas, says gold has been
discovered thirty miles southeast of that
place, and great excitement exists among
farmers and others. A New York company
is said to have bought q mile square of land,
and trying to secure more. Four companies
have already organized. Ore from a shaft
sunk some time ago is said to have assayed
over two thousand dollars to the ton. One
farmer has been offered thirty thousand dol
lars for his farm, and refused it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
The WAY Out.

In a case before the Recorder yester-
day a witness for the defense, in giving
his evidence, observed: The whole
affair, your Honor, did not amount to q
row of pins" Counsel for the prosecu.
ton" What is the value of a row Of
pins?" Witness (naively scratching
his nose)@4T That all depends upon the
extent of the row." Counsel-aI have
no mor questions to ask this Witness
Montreal Witness,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
A Devotion.

As a passenger train on the l., C. & l..
R. r. was passing West Riverside, near
Cincinnati, a little three year-old child,
who was playing OF the, track, became CON.
fusedin its efforts to seek a place of safety,
and ran directly in front of the rapidly.
approaching engine. The child's mother,
Mrs. Cork, on seeing the danger, dashed
forward with a parents devotion, pushed
the little one out of harms way, and was
at the same instant struck by the engine
pilot and killed outright. She leaves a
husband and two daughters.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
RaIlway Casualties.

A brakeman named Alfred Steele fell into
a caitle-guardat Nunica, Mich, and was run
over by a freight train and killed. The
body was cut in three pieces, and otherwise
disfgured almost beyond recognition.
Fred Miller, of Oregon, was rue over by
cars ON the Detroit and Bay City road, at
Lapeer. Mich, and killed, the body being
horribly mutilated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

MARCH q -House-Mr. Springer pre.
sented the memorial of J. J. Wilson, claim.
ing to have been elected from the Ninth
Congressional District of Iowa, ON the 9TH
of November, and offered a resolution re-
ferring the memorial to the Committee on
Elections, when appointed. Ali the sitting
members from Iowa were elected on the
day claimed on the other side as not the
day legally fixed for the election. The reso-
luton was adopted by a party vote. Mr..
| Young had read an extract from the report
of the Grand Jury on the election in Ham,
ilton County, Ohio, to prove that his col
league (Butterworth) and himself were not
considered very bad persons. The House
then went into Committee OF the Whole on
the Army Appropriation Bill. After con-
siderable discussion, the Committee rose,
without action.
MARCH 29.-House "A point of order
raised by Mr.. Reagan, that there were no
rules governing the House .(none having
been formally adoptedl, was discussed at
length. The Speaker said that, under Rule
147, the rules of the preceding House were
the rules of every succeeding House until
otherwise ordered, and quoted the ruling
Of Speaker Grow to that effect. The House
then went into Committee of the Whole
IN the Army Appropria ion Bill, with Mr..
Springer in the chair. Mr.. Stephens argued
that public sentiment, North and South,
was against the employment of troops at
the polls. There was no need for such a
thing. The country had got along without
itfor th~ree-quarters of q century, and there
would be nc harm done, therefore, byrepeal-
ing the law. The Chairman finally over
ruled the point raised by Mr.. Reagan, and
held the section was germane. An appeal was
taken Inc the decision sustained 125 to l07.
A general discussion was then opened by
Mr.. Garfield, the agreement being that NO
vote will be taken to-day. The subject dis.
cussed was the policy of attaching legisla'
ton on appropriation bills. Messrs. Gar
field, McMahon, Wood, Sparks, and White
participated in the discussion. The debate
will be resumed on Tuesday, Mr.. Bedford.
of Colorado, having the floor. Before ad
journment, the Speaker announced the ap
pointment of the Cincinnati Committee
mr.. Mcmahon having declined to act) al
Messrs. Carlisle, Kenner, New, Sanford
Conger, Brown, and Robinson, of Massa
chugetta.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

PERFECT PURITY is restored to the circu-
lation when contaminated, il ScovILL's
BLOOD N LIVER SYRUP is taken. Scrof.
ulous, syphiiitic and m%ercurial disorders
are completely ~vanquished by it, persist.
ence in the use of the remedy being alone
required to accomplish a cure. Eruptions
of all kinds, sores, chronic rheumatism,
govt, liver complaint and goitre yield to its
remedial action, and it not only purifies the
blood but yitalizes the system. Sold by all
Druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

The wife of John Bold, of Indianapolis.
left their two year old SON at home alone,
and when she returned found the charred
remains Of her boy in the fireplace. Either
in a ft or play he had fallen into the flames,
and being unable to rise, was literally
Ioested 70 . crisp.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

Little Wolf aud his band Of Cheyenne In.
dians, numbering thirsy-fve lodges, with
two hundred aud fifty ponies, were cap
tured by Lieutenant Clarke, of the second
cavalry, with eighty.hve men, on Box Elder
Greek, near Yellowstone River.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

The State Tennessee Senate has concurred
in the House amendment to a bill to com
promise the State debt at fifty cents, with
four per cent. interest, to be submit ed to
the people for ratification, if the bond
holders accept the proposition.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
n..,h nr marar Iohn.ton.

George w. G. Johnston, a prominent and
well-known politician, and for two terms
Mayor Of Cincinnati, died, a few days ago,
after a lingering illness of a complicated
character.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
Two Nexroe. Hanged.

Patrick Smith and Julius Christian, me-
groes, convicted of the murder Of John G..
Lacy, ON the 18th Of January last, were
hanged at New Kent Courthouse, Va. Two
thousand people were present, including a
number Of colored women.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03

passed all bounds, after the body had
hanged some fifteen minutes, dragged it
to the Square, and literally roasted and
burned the remains in a fire of d~ry-goods
boxes and coal oil.