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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
A SagaciOus Dog.

Some one at the British Associations
meeting at Dublin read a paper on the
intellect of animals. He cited no case
so remarkable as that of Cuchino's dog,
which lives on this boat. This, and the
steamer which runs to Desenzano-ff-
teen miles away, at the southwest cor
ner of the lake-start from Riva, at che
north end of Garda. The dog was
familiar with the crews of both, and
with the other craft, but he had never
made a trip by her. For a long time
he watched her course down the otller
side of the lake, and saw her drawing
farther and farther away. until she was
hidden by the projecting point. One
day, his mind fully settled to its theory,
he proceeded to verify it. He marched
deliberately over to Desenzano, took
passage, came safely to Riva, and went
back to his familiar kitchen with an air
of entire satisfaction. He could not be
induced to make another trip by that
boat. He had done" it, and had nu
more worlds to conquer in that din &C.
ton. He had reasoned out a plan Of
actions and had found his reasoning
correct.-CoL Geo. E.. Waring, in Har-
per'S Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

brought our deceased friend to the
place Of his choice, and here we mist
leave him."
"He then announced the request Of the
relatives that all, should proceed back
to the village, and pronounced the Bone
dictiop. The pall-bearers and Mrs.
Wade, Mrs. Wills, Miss Fanny Wills,
Misses Sophie and Annie Harding, and
Miss Kane LeMoyne, remained in tine
building, while the friends who came in
the procession, and a number of people
who had previously gathered about the
cemetery, started back to town.
cat 1890 o'clock the body wa re-
moved from the coffin, placed upon the
iron crib, and was quickly thrust into
the retort, and the door closed. A vol
ume of smoke instantly rushed from. the
chimney, and the odur of burning flesh
was distinctly perceived by those out
side OF the cfematory. There was no
odor to those inside.
"The furnace had not been heated to
near the degree attained at the DePalm
and Pitman cremations, and the process
of in%cineration was slow. 1t was about
! six hours before the consumption of the
remains was completed, but athalf past
4 nothing was left in the retort except
the scattered piles of ashes. The fur
mace was then sealed, and will be left
to cool until Friday evening, when the
ashes will be removed"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
How Edison Tricked the Telegraph
Operator.

It may be remembered that when
Edison was bothered by the sending Of
messages too quick to be interpreted he
invented a continuance by which the
messages came in as slow as he desired,
however fast they might have been sent.
Recently he was asked how he managed
this, and the following is his explana-
ton in his own words: "The apparatus
for accomplishing this object consisted
of two Morse registers and a sounder.
The first Morse register indented the
characters ON the paper. This paper
passed through the second register, the
lever of which was arranged with a pla-
tina point to open and close the circuit
of a sounder, and this lever was SO ad-
iusted that the thickness of the paper
intervening between the stylus and
roller prevented the lever from closing
the sounder circuit; but when an in
dented character passed, the thickness
of paper ceased to intervene, and the
sounder closed. Thus every thing re-
corded on the first register by the press
operator at any speed was repeated on
the sounder a few minutes after at a
higher or less speed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
Fightins n Bull Dog.

A terrible fight between a man and a
bull dog has just occurred at New
Albany, Indiana. A man named String
ham, who has had familiar acquaintance
with the police for several years, ac-
cept. d q wager to fight a savage bull dog.
He prepared himself for the brutal en-
counter by getting down upon his hands
and knees and growing and snarling,
dog like, until the other brute became
Infatuated. The dog was then turned
loose and attacked Stringham stvagely,
but he caught the ear of the brute in
his teeth and chewed it of. This only
Infatuated the dog, and when loosened
from Stringham's teeth, he made
another and fercer attack. This time
Stringham caught the dog with his teeth
in the under lip, and SO lacerate6 and
worried the brute that he howled from
the pain, and. when finally released, fed
from his torturer, and could not again
he induced to renew the fight.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

The latest report from Memphis,
gives as one days work, twenty new
cases of fever and eight deaths. The
temperature the past week has been uR-
usually torrid. Those who are refugees
are requested to remain away yet
q while. The new cases, in great part,
belong to persons who left Memphis last
spring on account of the disease, but
again returned thinking the fever oyer.
They are now suffering the fatal conse-
quences of their rashness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
rndrrnaaon Of London Beauties.

Mrs. Langtryan N Mrs. Cornwall West,
two of London's famous beauties, have
caused the arrest of Adolph Rosenberg,
editor of 1owH Tall, on a charge of libel
for stating that they 1.-THE beauties) were
making an effort to procure divorces
from their husbands. The court held
Rosenberg in $4,000 bail, which he was
unable to procure, and he makes an alb.
]ect apology for the publication. The
clutches of beauty are terrible, even
without the additional pressure Of the
law being brought to bear upon it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
pITH AND POINT.

"AiAsl this fatal gift Of bootyis asthe
mah said who was arrested for receiving
stolen goods.
SMITH thinks that his tailor's persist
ent demands oughtto be checked, and SO
does the tailor.
The common people of England OBJ
iect to the nobility because their offense
is rank.
"A KIND word spoken to a husband
viii go farther than a broomstick or a
firtation," says q woman of experience.
WHEN a husband comes home after
midnight and asks his wife the time Of
night, and she bats him over the head
with a rolling-pin, and tells him it has
struck "one," it is time to retire.
@Awl it is not to be wondered at re-
marked Mr.. Toploity, as he adjusted
his eyeglass; "sea-bathihg has grown
unpopular; because you see-aw-the
vu1gah herd took to the watah, and it
has become vewy much soiled.n
An Iowa editor acknowledged a pres
emit of grapes in rather ambiguous
language. He said: "We have re-
ceived q basket of grapes from our
friend W., for which he viii accent our
compliments; some of which are two
inches in diameter"
A woRD to the wise is sufficient. A
minister made an interminable call
upon a lady of his acquaintance. Her
little daughter, who was present, grew
weary o his CONVERSATION, and whispered
in an audible tone, didn't he bfitg
his amen with him, mammal"
Two FRIENDS met each other on a
Paris boulevard. Laura-@My gracious,
Emile, how old you look to-day! !
never remember you looking SO old as
you look to-day Emile aYou
shouldn't be surprised, my dear, for ]
never was SO old as I am to-day.
A wELL-kNowN local preacher in q
suburban town, while instrueting class
of urchins In the catechistn, told them
that God could do everything, where.
upon one of them asked: "Can God
make a rock so big that he can't lift it?'
The boy'squestion remains unanswered
The beauteous, btixom Bertha Bangs
Is one of our divinest girls;
She bangs the doors and bangs the chairs,
And likewise bangs her auburn curls.
She bangs on the pianny, too,
And bangs upon the light guitar
But oh, of all the bangs she bangs.
She mostly bangs her auburn hair.
o banging, bouncing, buxom belle,
The poets Tyre with rapture twangs-
Responsive to the influence
OF thy beloved and beauteous bangs.
st. Louis Ti,nes-JoNrpdi
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
ThnfMe.ferrnIa Exnloaian.

h. 81. Corbin and wife, whose hotel,
it will be remembered, was blown up by
two kegs Of powder q short time ago, at
We~sterville, Ohio, and which crime was
charged TO the temperance people, have
themselves been arrested a the perpe-
traitors. Whether they are positively
guilty Of course is not yet known.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
The Business Boom.

One Of the best indications of the revi
val in business is afforded by the news
reported of Nelson's Business College,
of Cincinnati.
The number of students registered for
month of September is over n hundred
per cent. above the average. This pat
ronage is doubtless stimulated by the
scarcity of competent clerks and book
keepers, the demand upon the college
being greater than the supply.
WHEN NEeLEcrfUL Of the Duty assigned to
it by nature, that of s~ecreting the bile, the
liver should be disciplined with DR.. Morris
VEGETABLE Liver PILLS which will speedily
remedy its ~inaction and stimulate it to,a vigor-
GUS performance ofits secretive function. Con-
stipation, which is an invariable ~accompani-
Inent of liver disorder, is always overcome by
this great anti bilious cathartic, and indiges-
ton, chronic and acute, is completely cured by
it. All druggists sell it.
SINCE the frst introduction of DR.. F. Will
hoft's Anti Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic,
1t has steadily gained in popularity with the
people, but since its proprietors, Wheelock,
Finlay & Co., gave its composition to the
world, SO that everybody can know what it is,
the sale of it has doubled itself. 1t contains no
dangerous drug, and yet it is the greatest spec
cifc against malarial diseases, such as Chills
and Fever, and Dumb Chills. For sale by all
Druggists.
H. W. JOHNS Asbestos Liquid Paints are the
purest, finest, richest and most durable paints
~ mada for struaturol purnosas Say;nc
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
Terrible Developments.

A Mrs. Showder, residing at Chit
tenango, N. Y, is charged with the mur
der of three persons, her aunt, father
aud mother. Her mother came to her
death in 1876, while on a visit to Mrs,
Showder. Her father, who is suspected
now to have aided IN that crime, met
his death a year later, Two weeks ago
an aunt of Mrs. Showder died from
arsenical poisoning. Considerable ex-
element prevails over this wholesale
poisoning, and the news from that dis
trict tends strongly to fix the crime upon
the woman. Her object, as the develop
ments SO tar have proved, was to come
into the possession of money.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
II Continue. doing Up.

The reports from the great wheat
market centers say that wheat and all
other cereals continue. to 'boom."
Wheat advanced at Milwaukee over ten
cents In half as many days. At the
present writing it is quoted at $1.23.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
Brand AL Ererxfhinr.

A great boat race was to have come
off at Mayville, N. Y, the other day,
between two parties named Courtney
and Hanlan.< Courtney's boat was
sawed in two in the night, and he
declares hat he was approached by
Hanlan's party and offered $4,000 to
let Hsnlan beat him, which proposition
he Indignantly rejected As stated, his
boat was cut in two, Hanlan rowed over
the course, and took the purse, 5000.
II is evident that honesty and racing
ofsany kind do not go together.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

A special from Milton, Wis, gives
the details Of a horrible murder which
occurred - Christensen,
who boarded with Edward Fogarty, a
tin peddler, confesses to the following
Fogarty came home at 10 O'Clock last
night. We had been drinking, and
Fogarty insulted me, and drew a re.
volver and threatened to shoot mt. ]
knocked him down. took away.th re.
volver, and went out of doors. Fogarty
followed me, when ! picked up an az
and struck him two blows, killing him
instantly. | then carried him to the
clover stack, set it on fire, and came
back. to the house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

"Mea, Rig Heap,

Not so fast my friend; for if you would
see the strong, healthy blooming men,
women and children that have been raised
from bedsof sickness, suffering and almost
death, by the use of Hop Bitters, you
would say, "Truth, glorious truth
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
mexIco INDIAN oufrnre..

Reports from the Rio Grande Valley
Of Indian massacres are ~sickening. All
along the road near Slocum are found
dead bodies. Two trains had been
attacked by them, in ore of which were
killed eleven men, n woman and a
child. In the past four or five days
those red devils have killed no less than
forty persons, whose bodies are to be
found lying about promiscuously. Com
panies are being sent forward to repel
them, and if possible check their whele-
sale massacre.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

The cooler weather at Memphis has
had a splendid effect in checking the
fever. The latest reports two cases
and one death" The fever now, it is
presumable, may be considered prac-
ticallv over.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

Another of those horrible boiler ex-
p~losiors has recently occurred at Leaven-
worth, Indiana. A saw-mill belonging
to HlTam Benham was blown to atoms
and three men killed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
Tl60l0giGaI School

Unitarian; educates for the Christian Ministry gives
Aid 70 worthy, but INDECENT students; sutton, books,
room rent, furniture, free to all no ~sectarian test re-
quired; full course is three years; school year Is g
United fateti stx Professors; Library Of fifteen thousand
volumes: located in a beautiful and healthy city Of ten
thousand inhabitants. Apply to Rev. A. A. LIVER
MORE, President, Mesdvile, Pa.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

The verdict of the ceronsr's jury in
the Adrian disaster charges the builders
of the structure that gave way with
such terrible results, with criminal neg
ligence. They were released on $1,000
LII
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
A. n Cure Tor PILES.

Kidney-Wort acts first by overcoming
in the mildest manner all tendency to
constipation; then, by its great tonic and
i~nvigorating properties, it restores to
health the debilitated and weakened
parts. Hundreds of certified cures,
where all else had failed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
Totals. ...... IS
Democratic majority, A

LATER Later returns indicate q
falling off from the original majority
claimed by the Republicans. The ma
jority in the state will doubtless be some
place between 5000 and 20; Per-
haps 1900 will be neal the thing.
The National and Prohibition parties
are scarcely mentioned in the returns,
and of course their vote did not amount
to a great deal. In fifteen counties in
the state, 30 far as heard, there has
been a Democratic gain OF 2,700. In
thirty eight counties, a Republican gain
is reported of 1900 Hence the other
gains a only be appropriated fy bas-
ing a calculation upon the returns al.
ready made. In Crawford county the
Democrats gain 416; 174 in Defiance
county; 434 in Mahoning county a
slight gain in Harrison county; ZIG
in Mercer county; q slight gain in
Shelby county. Inc Republican gains
are mostly in Ashtabula, Clerment,
Lawrence, Hamilton, Stark, Trumbull,
Washington. Williams, Champagne,
Greene, jackson, Montgomery and Lo.
gan. Both Houses of the Legislature
Will undoubtedly De hepuDllcan, Win q
majority OH joint ballot of not less than
t~hirty-six. The majority in Hamilton
county for Foster (returns all i'm is
1869. The entire Republican ticket
was elected in Hamilton county by a
majority averaging $500. George W.
Williams, thenegro upon the Republican
ticket in that county for Representative
ran 2 200 behind his ticket, but is elected
by a majority of 1889. Thus Hamil-
ton county, for the past few years
Democratic, sends to the Legislature
nine Representatives and three Sena-
tors. The Senators elected are Benja-
min Eggleston, j. Kirby, and G. Fleisch.
man. The entire Republican county
ticket was elected, owe which there had
been considerable of a struggle and
much bitter feeling.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
Ae,.s Of the Wseh.


Nolan and johnson, Nebraska robbers,
belonging to Dc Middleton's terrible
gang, have been captured by the mill.
tary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
The DimcuIties on the Frontier

u Ihlt - ~ III
General Sheridan, at Chicago, has
sent the following inquiry to General
Sherman, which, in a measure, explains
the exceedingly unpleasant situation on
the frontier:
To Gen. Sherman:
Gen. Merritt says, in a dispatch just re-
ceiyed, that he intends to march in pur-
suit of the hostile Indians to Grand
River on the 18th, and from there to the
~Uncompahgne Agency, where he requests
supplies to be sent. Subsequently your dis
patch of October Is was sent him, with orders
to obey the directions therein given, and / pre-
sumo this will stop him. Your dispatch should
rift and Gen. Crook, the department com
mander, are at a loss to know what to do, and SO
am L. There are 10000 or $4,000 men at
White River. Their road to the Uncot1pangne
Agency is over the main range Of the Rocky
Mountains, and is very bad, and the danger of
being caught by winter snow should be seriously
entertained.
We went to the White River Agency at the
solicitation of the Indian Bureau, whose Agent
was murdered, and our men killed and wounded,
and now we are left in the heart of the noun
tains with our hands tied and the danger of
being showed in staring us in the face. am
not easily discouraged, but it looks as though
W had been pretty well sold out in this business.
It is folly to say that the murderers of the
Agent and Col. Thornburgh must be punished.
How are they to be punished, who is going to
punish them, and how long are the troops to
wait at the agency for it to be done l will
direct Gen. Crook to throw into the agency all
supplies he possibly can, as the only course
left open. [Signed] P. Il. SHERIDAN,
observation-disclosures
Since the receipt of the above dis
patch from Gen. Sheridan, he has been
directed by Gen. Sherman to withdraw
the troops under Gen. Merritt, and
order them to their proper stations,
leaving at the White River Ag ncy only
a sufficient number of men 10 guard the
government property.
The troops now at White River Agency
belong to the department of the Platte,
and will under this order, with the ex-
ception of those left at the agency, re-
turn to their respective stations in that
department.
A force will be concentrated at some
point in the Southern Ute reservation
to conduct operations against that tribe,
should they fail to deliver up the
parties engaged in the killing of Major
Thornburgh. Gen. Mckenzie, COM
handing the 4th Cavalry, will probably
be placed in charge of the latter force.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
The unaerHood War.

The Underwood war in Kentucky CON-
tinues. Jesse Underwood has Just met
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

AFTER three medical celebrities had
gone from the bedside of the French
General X, the General rang for his
man servant: "Well, Jacques, you
showed these gentlemen out; what did
they say?" "Ah! General, they seemed
to differ with each other; the big, fat
one said that they must have a little pa
thence, and at the autopsy whatever
that may be-they would find out what
the matter was
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23
The Enfant Terrible.

The speeches of Penfant terrible on
his first appearance at church are many
and singular-not to be Irish about it
and they have not all been printed,
either. This time his name was Fred,
a bright little nephew of the writer, and
he lived in Illinois-he was an Han
oyster, as Thatcher says. His mother
had taken him to a concert where there
we're r~ecitations and music. The piece
which most captivated his youthful
fancy was "Capt. Jinks," which was
sung with great eclat by a sober-sided
fellow. The next Sunday was Fred's
first day at church, and he watched
with interest the progress of the exer-
cises, keeping very still during the read
ing, and nearly through the "lons pray
err" when, becoming somewhat FESTIVE,
he pulled his mothers dress and asked,
quite audibly: Mamma, isn't it most
time for Capt. Jinksg' Editors
Dra,Uer," in Harper's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

his fate, this being the fourth now in
this family who has been shot down in
the past four months. The Holbrook
family who are at war with the Under.
woods, surrounded the house and shot
Jesse in the door of his fathers house.
George, the father, was wounded.
The Holbrook family swear they
will shoot any one who attempts to
bury Jesse. George and the women
folks of the family, are now all that
is left of that large family, and
they have called upon Governor
Blackburn for protection, and per-
mission 10 bury Jesse. In this war
during the past four months, one of the
Holkrooks was killed, making FIVE MUIR
ders in all. Yet it seems that the law
has not taken its course.
LATER.-The news reaches US that
five of the Holbrook family have en-.
tered the Underwood house and killed
old George Underwood, who was 50 Sc
riously wounded. They have now killed
all the male members Of this family
five in number. The only response
made to the family's call for protection
was by a farmer named Frank Meier
rem and his daughter Agnes, who en-
tered the place and properly buried the
dead. This wholesale butchery is evil
IDENTIFY a lamentable affair, and should
receive the attention of the proper au-
thorities.
The Indlan maseaere.
RAwLINs, wy. T., Oct. 1S.-Emil
Weber and Geo. Fuhr, two courier,
have Just arrived from what was a few
days ago the White River Agency.
They report the following particulars:
Gen. Merritt advanced upon the
Agency on the 18th inst. On his way
he found many dead bodies, among
others, the bodies of Carl Goldstein, an
~Israelite. who left here with govern
ment supplies for the Utes at White
River Agency. He was found in q gulch
six miles this side of the Agency, shot
twice through the shoulder. He was
about two miles from his wagons. A
teamster, named Julius Moore, formerly
from cambridge, Massachusetts, who
was with him when he left here, was
found about a hundred yards from
Goldstein, with two bullet holes in his
breast, and his body hacked and mutt
lated with a knife or Ratchet.
On entering the Agency a scene of
quiet desolation presented itself. All
the buildings, excepting one, were
burned to the ground, and not a living
thing was in sight, except the command.
The Indians had taken everything, ex-
cept the flour, and decamped. The
women and children were missing, and
nothing whatever could be found to in
dictate what had become of them. They
either have been murdered and buried,
or else taken away as hostages. Their
dreadful and uncomfortable fate calls
forth the most profound sympathy.
The dead body of Father Meeker was
found about 100 yards from-his house,
lying on his back, shot through the
head. The left side of his head was
mashed in with some blunt instrument
a piece of a barrel was driven into his
mouth.
The dead body Of w. II. Post, Father
Meeker's assistant, was found between
the building and the river, with a bullet
hole through the left ear and one under
the ear. He and Father Meeker were
stripped entirely naked.
Another employee named Eaton was
found dead, stripped naked, his face
badly eaten by wolves.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

GOETHE said energy would accom-
plish anything desired in this world.
Obi Goethe, old fellow, were you only
in the land of the living to-day, we
should give you the task of talking a
barber to death, competing with a man
at his own game, as it were.-Turner's
Falls RepoTteT,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

Straighten them with Lyons Heel Stiffeners,
and they will never run over again.
CHEW Jachson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-23

HE conjuring materials taken from a
Georgia negro consisted of goose quilts
filed with broken needles, a vial of iron
rust, the feathers of various birds, and
a snake skin. The negroes of his neigh
borhood had long believed in and feared
mis- power of working mischief with
charms.