The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-24


We are very glad to learn that Mayor
Abbott, on the rape trial last week, clos
ed the door of the Court room to young
boys. The acts of some of our young
gentlemen and ladies are not proper to
be explained in their presence. Young
men, go a little slow. You have now at
tracted public attention and aroused con-
siderable disgust.
On Thursday last at the adjournment
Of Court in the Ludlow divorce case,
there came very near being a t'wumpus"
and a "wow," between the principal of
this celebrated case and some of the wit
nesses. Some blows were struck and a
pistol discharged in the melee, but there
was no blood spilled and nobody badly
hurt. No arrests.
There is a penalty for defacing United
States coin, though from the amount OF
such pieces in circulation many of those
who handle itwould seem mott be aware
OF the fact. For the information of such
We would say that the legal penalty is
two years Imprisonment and two thou
sand dollars fine. Think Of this, we clip
pers and borers of dollars, halves and
Quarters.
Dog days begin to-day Thursday and
we believe last about six weeks. 1t is re
galrded by many people as more unheal-
thy than that which Immediately pre-
cedes or succeeds it, and as being atime
when mankind are more liable to attacks
from disease from exposure or impru-
dence in their general habits, If there
is no foundation in fact for this belief, it
is q superstition of long standing.
If there ever was a time when we long
ed for a little surplus cash, it has been
in these sweltering hot days, SO that We
might retire to the country and seek ga
lodge in some vast wilderness, some end
Hess contiguity ofshade, " where we might
sit on rocks and muse Ger food and
fell, and slowly trace the forests shady
l%scene, as we sipped.the cool and invig-
Grating mint julip. slis inns
The wheat harvest is; over and all seem
ito be wellpleased with the crop, Agreat
many OF our farmers have threshed their
crops and report a heavy yield to the
acre, some have made as much as 80,
some IS and some as high as 40 bushels
to the acre. This news is encouraging,
indeed, not only to the farmer but to all
business men-to everybody, for out of
the ground all must come tomakea com
munity prosperous and happy.
The Norborn (Mo.) sDEpENDEEr says
Of the Mt. Garroll Seminary; Carroll Co,
H.: tsThis institution, for educational
facilities, for beauty of location and gem
eral surroundings is unsurpassed by any.
institution of a similar character in the
country. For a quarter of a century it
has been under the management of one
principal and is complete in all the de-
partments Of ~literature, arts and music.
Persons wishing to send their daughters
abroad to receive aSfnished education
cannot do better than p~atronize this in
|stitutien. For particulars, terms &C.,
CORRESPOND with theaprineipal.n
l4E4I BI .EDaa
~Thesscene on Barron street last Satur-
day morning when itawas announced
that. the scandal suit was transferred
from the Mayors Office to the Court
House, was a graphic one indeed, and
would have been a splendid cartoon for
the celebrated Mast, of Harper's Week
lyle Wegb believe Eaton could discount
h@alifax on occasions of this kind. A
perfect stream of hatless, coatless, bald
headed men, swarthy negroes, ragged
and dirty boys, from years up to
seventeen, poured toward the Temple OF
Justice and filed the front seats with
their manly forms and the room with a
sweet odorl Any Court that would clear
a room of such a rabble, who gather and
laugh and smoker at questions and an
lswers given by the unfortunates on such
occasions, would receive the %applaudits
Of every respectable man and woman in
the community; .e