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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Some Old.Fashioned Scotch Funerals.

Talking of funerals, in the good old
times, and in the mansions of the lairds,
these used to be the most enjoyable of
parochial festivities. The kith and kin
came from great distances to be enter
tanned in astyle BETTING the occasion.
There were grave faces at the gathering
when the guests assembled round the
coffin to listen to a suitable prayer.
Then glasses of wine we're handed
round once, twice, Dr. oftener-the poor
est people would procure wine for the
occasion-and "the memory of the
deceased" was toasted in silence.
Then the long procession moved off to
the kirkyard, and the body was laid 81
lently in the grave. That duty being
solemnly discharged, a load was visibly
lifted from the assistants. Acquaint-
ances came together in the carriages
and mourning coaches, and there was
plenty of animated conversation. When
the guests took their seats at the tables
in the dining-room all we're in excellent
spirits and appetite. The neal relations
might be sad at heart, but they felt hos
pitably bound to stif1e their sorrow, and
there were ample appliances for drown
ing it. When the old fashion of drink
ing healths and taking wine" pre-
vailed, mourners were apt to get merry
in spite of themselves, while, as may be
supposed, the mere acquaintance of
the deceased gave themselves over easily
to boisterous joviality. It was a churl-
ish thing to be the first to break up
good company, and wen the minister
might well sit it out till convivial ex-
ample upset his decorum.-CorrshM
MAGAZINE.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
xLvth CONGREss-Third Session.

MARCH Sup to the last hour from
Washington, all the Appropriation Bills
had been agreed 10 but two. There is no
compromise as yet on the election laws, and
no prospect of an agreement. 1t is
thought that an especial session
to make appropriations is inevitable. The
conference committee nave agreed on the
River and Harbor Bill, and the report has
been adopted by both houses. The bill,
as it came from the sub committee, ap-
propriated about $4,000, 900. The full
committee added another 81, 200, 00e,
the Senate committee another 5 $1,000.
900, and the Senate more than another
81 100000, in all about 8,500,C00. the Con-
ference Committee reduced it $500, 900.
Davis Island dam on the Ohio is allowed
800, 600, and the Marietta ice harbor $780,
900. The Conference Committee on the
Legislative and Army Bills have failed
to agree, and will SO report, and further,
that there is no prospect that
they can agree. This greatly increases the
prospect of an extra session. Mr.. Hewitt,
from the Conference Committee on the
Army Bill, reports that there is
no possibility OF an agreement.
At midnight the House came
to a vote on the articles of i'm.
parchment preferred by the Springer
OOmHlLbc6 dSdlHhb dr. CcWdlu, minister 10
China. There are sever teeh articles OF
Impeachment, and the Republicans will ask
q separate vote on each, besides other
dilatory motions.
MARCH 4.-An annual Appropriation
Bills, except the Legislative, Executive,
and Judicial Bills, and the Army Bill,
were signed by the President, and
have become laws, together with
the bill making requisite an appropria,
ton to pay arrears of pensions. 1t is un'
derstood a message vetoing the River
and Harbor Appropriation Bill was pre-
pared. but under great pressure the Execu
tive signature was affixed. In the Senate, g
number of bills on the calendar and Pension
bills passed, including a pension of fifty
dollars a month to the widow of Gen. R. C.
Buchanan and Mr.. Harris called up the
House bill to prevent the introduction Of
infectious or contagious diseases in the
United States, and to establish a Nationa.
Board of Health, which was passed. Ar
exciting debate occurred in the Senate OF
the Election Laws amendment to TIE Legis
lative Bill, and in the House on the Army
Bill, and both Houses finally adjourned
) sine die without acting upon them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
COrnered at Last.

His wife had, probably, been arguing
and coaxing for years, for he looked
like a man whose spirit had been worn
out before he had consented to have his
photograph taken. He had halted at
the door of a gallery as if trying to in
vent some excuse, but she pushed him
upstairs, and he was in for it at last.
He hoped the photographer would be
crowded with work, but he wasn't. He
hoped the camera was out of order, but
it was in fine condition.
Cant take me to-day, a youP" he
queried.
"Oh, yes-take you right away" was
the reply.
"Have I got to sit up straight"
"No; sit as you please"
"Hain't these clothes too ight?"
"Not a bit"
II can't spare over three minutes"
Every well-In take you in two"
There was no way to get rid of it,
and, with a despairing look around and
a frown at his wife, he old chap dropped
into a chair with a sigh, shut his eyes,
crossed his legs and groaned out:
"Well, if I must, I must. Bring on
your laughing gas, and don't let my
wife go through my pockets while I'm
unconscious!"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Perished In the Flames.

Recently, between one and two o'clock in
the morning, fire broke out in the wagon
shop Of Mrs. Henrietta Bausch, on Broad
way, East st. Louis, and owing to there
being no fire apparatus in the city, and no
call being made on the Fire Department of
st. Louis, one brick and five frame build.
ines were destroyed, entailing a loss of
$4,000. In the second story of the wagon
shop, where the fire started, which was
occupied as a residence by Mrs. Bausch,
there were sleeping her three children by
a former marriage, named Charles Guchen.
back, about sixteen years old, and John
and Emma Zipp, several years younger,
Henry Schoepperkoetter, a blacksmith, and
Mrs. Catharina Borst, who was spending the
night with Mrs. Bausch, all of whom were
burned to death, they being unable to es-
cape by reason of the door leading to their
apartments being fastened on the outside.
Mrs. Bausch was also asleep in the same
house at the time, but she jumped from the
window, and was fatally injured. At the
inquest testimony was elected pointing so
strongly to incendiarism that John Borst,
the husband of Catharina Borst, Andrew
Marshall and Thomas Almond were ar.
rested and locked up.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
4 New .Exeelsior.n

It was about half-past 7 o'clock in the
evening when ayouth created something
of a sensation by passing through an
Alpine village, in a driving snow-storm,
carrying a banner, upon which was in
scribed the strange device, Excelsior"
His brow was sad, but his eye according
to all accounts he had but one eye)
flashed Like a falchion from its sheath,
while he pushed on, looking neither to
the right nor the left, but not forgetting
to call loudly, EXCELSIOR" At first the
villagers thought he had been drinking,
and a policeman was started on his
track; but, finding there was nothing
disorderly in the boys conduct, he was
permitted to go his way unmolested. In
happy homes the young fellow Jaw the
light of household fires CLEAN warm and
CHEEKY, although coal was away up out
of all reason, as it always is in cold
weather; above, the spectral glaciers
shone, and from his lips escaped a sigh
that was heard all over town, to this
effect, EXCELSIOR"
"Try not the pass" the old man said;
"Tve lived here for ninety years; I'm
the oldest inhabitant, an 1 never saw
the signs more favorable for a big storm.
Besides, the roarin' torrent is wide and
deep, an if you get across you can't get
back for a week, unless you go around
by Rabbit-hash an cross on the bridge.
Take my advice, young teller, an stop
over night; you'll find the Washington
right over the way, the cheapest house
in town. Shall I take your ~baggage?"
The boy turned up another street, indi-
eating that he intended to climb the hill
on the west side of the town.
"Oh, STAY" the maiden said, "and
rest your weary head upon this breast"
And right here the conduct of the young
man became inexplicable. He did not
accept the maiden's invitation, although
she was comedy, about 16 years of age,
and evidently belonged to the best So
ciety. He simply said hat he was in a
hurry, and would probably stop the next
time he was in town. The maiden passed
into the house, slammed the door, and
remarked to her mother that if she ever
offered to assist a man in distress again
she hoped she might be blessed. The
young lady was quite indignant, indeed.
Beware the pine-tree's withered
branchl beware the -"
ooh, give us a rest!" screamed the
boy, who was getting out of patience,
and the wen-meaning peasant retired
without completing the warning, which
was no doubt something about "the
awful avalanche"
At break of day, as heavenward the
pious monks of st. Bernard uttered the
oft-repeated prayer, they were startled,
nay, shocked, to hear a young man
shouting Excelsior" and cursing the
country black and blue for being the
toughest, coolest and most-forbidding
of any he had seer since he left New
Jersey. "How far is it to the next vii
lage?" he asked; "for I have something
here that will knock the socks off of
anything in this country" With that
he passed on, still grasping in his hand
of ice that banner with the strange de-
vice, while in the other he carried a
little tin box labeled Excelsior Corn
and Bunion Eradicator." = Oil City
noS-r;cI.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Russia as an Introducing Country.

Russia promises to become a formid-
able rival to the United States in the
European oil market. Oil wells near
the Caspian sea are reported to equal in
their yield the greatest wells in Pennsyl
vania. In the oil-producing region in
Russia, a large number Of wells have
been sunk, and a great many more are
under way. Reports from there say that
there is as much excitement over the
discoveries as existed in Pennsylvania
when the oil fever was at its height.
The wells are drilled and pumped in the
most primitive manner, and a large
amount of oil is wasted through the
want of proper means of saving it. At
present the only way of getting the oil
to market is by way of the Volga and
the Russian canals to st. Petersburg.
If q railroad should be constructed from
the Caspian to the Black sea, a distance
of 400 miles, Russia, it is thought, could
supply the European market at such
rates as to drive out the American
trade.-San Francisco Commercial.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
The Hax Hof Hengland.

In 1910 an English gentleman visited
this country and brought back an
American ak and helye, which, from
the peculiar curve of the handle and
shape of the head, proved infinitely SUI
perior-the expert, Mr.. Gladstone, gave
similar testimony not long ago-to any
thing of English manufacture. His son
still has the ak, which is serviceable,
though, of course, tho handle has been
renewed several times, always on the
model of the old one. When it was
first used, carpenters and woodmen
came from q distance of ten miles to in
spect it, and many times the owner was
offered ten times its price for tim
deed, one enthusiast tried to steal it.
Nevertheless, SO tenacious is habit, to
this day hat venerable ak is the only
n of its kind in the n~eighborhood.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Numbering the HEARTH Beats.

A French medical journal states that
DR.. Guyor, after consulting the best au-
thorities on the subject, and making the
necessary calculations, has determined
that the number of pulsations during
the different ages of life is as follows:
During the first year, 63,000,000, in
round numbers; during the first two
years, 12O,00O,00O; the first eight years,
435,000,0O0; the first twelve years, 614,-
100000; the first fourteen years, $685.
100000; the first thirty-six years, giving
the figures in full, 1929, 904, 900; during
a lifetime of fifty years, 1925, 160, 900;
of sixty years, 2,269, 100000, and OF
eighty years, 1907, 040,00p.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Message from the President ON the Gem
tennfal Expedition.

ennfal Exposition.
President Hayes sent the following brief
message to Congress on the last evening:
"To the Senate and House:
81 nave received from the United States
Centennial Commission their final report,
presenting a full exhibit of the result of the
United States Centennial Celebration and
Exhibition of 1876, as required by the act
of June 1, 1872. In transmitting this report
for the consideration of Congress, 1 express,
l believe, the general judgment of the
country, as'well as my own, in assigning
of success gratifying to the pride
and patriotism of our people and full of
promise to the great industrial and COM
mercial interests of the country. The very
ample and generous contributions which
foreign nations made to the splendor and
usefulness Of the Exhibition, and the
cordially with which their representatives
took part in our national commemoralion,
deserve our profound acknowledgment.
At the. close of the great service rendered
by the United States Centennial Commission
and Centennial Board of Finance, it gives
me great pleasure to commend to your atten-
ton and that of the people of the whole
country, the laborious, faithful, and pros
porous performance of their duties, which
have marked the administration of their
respective trusts. R. B. HAYES.
WASHINGTON, March s."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
The Only WAY

The only way to cure catarrh is by the
use of a cleansing and healing lotion, applied
to the infiamed and diseased membrane.
Snuffs and f~umigators, while affording tenn.
porary relief, irritate the affected parts and
excite a more extended Inflammation. Be-
sides, no outward applications alone can
cure catarrh. The disease originates in a
vftiated state of the blood, and a thorough
alternative course of treatment is necessary
to remove it from the system. DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy has long been known as an
efficient standard remedy for this disease,
but to insure a radical and permanent cure,
it should be used in conjunction with DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the best
vegetable Alternative yet discovered. The
Discovery cleanses the vitiated blood, while
the Catarrh Remedy allays the infam.
nation and heals the diseased tissues.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Curious Things.

A pair of ladies' shoes that aren't "a
mile too big"
A newspaper communication that was
not Struck off in a hurry"
A clowns joke less than forty years
old.
A country residence for sale that isn't
"within five minutes walk of the rail-
road station"
A newspaper that isn't "the best
advertising medium in the county"
An impartial baseball umpire.
An infant that isn't "just the sweet
est baby in the world"
Anything advertised three weeks be-
fore Christmas hat isn't Suitable for
holiday presents"
A paragraphist that never made a
pun on Turkey, in connection with
Thanksgiving day.
A didn't-know-it-was-loaded gun that
never killed anybody.
A political stump-speaker who never
abused the opposition candidates.
A young lady who al pass a plate
glass window on the Sabbath without
turning her head.-No1ristoUn Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Exciting Debate in the Senate.

Early on Monday morning, while the
Senate was considering the amendment of
Mr.. Shields placing soldiers of the Mexican
war on the same footing as the soldiers of
1872, Mr.. Hoar offered an amendment pro-
viding that no pension shall ever be paid
under this act to Jefferson Davis. A CORE.
spondent says..that the debate on this amend
ment, which began at one o'clock in the
morning, was not concluded until broad
daylight. The exciting character of The dis
cussion may be imagined, when it is stated
that nearly every Senator remained in his
seat throughout its duration, while very few
of the spectators in the galleries at the
time of its commencement left until its
conclusion. II was unquestionably one of
the most animated and vehement political
debates that has occurred in the Senate
in many years. The argument used
by the Democrats in defense of
Jefferson Davis was that he had but obeyed
the summons Of the Southern people to lead
them in their attempt to overthrow, and
that he was no more guilty of treason, and
no more deserving of the stigma sought to
be placed upon him by Mr.. Hoar's amend
ment than any of those Southern Senators
who had participated in the rebellion. Mr..
Lamar went still further, and lauded Davis
to the skies, and in a eloquent strain re-
ferred to Davis's exalted character, brilliant
talents, and well established reputation as
as statesman, patriot, and soldier. The
speaker, in the height of his enthusiastic
admiration for the ex-Confederate chieftain,
declared that Davis was a worthy disciple
of Washington; and that posterity would
not fail to place both names side by side.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, followed
Lamar in defending Mr.. Davis from the
waEton and malicious attacks of those who
were striving "to perpetuate the memories
of the war or partisan purposes" He con-
cluded a long eulogy of Davis by declaring
that Mr.. Davis was the peer of any Senator
upon the floor for purity of personal char
acter.
Speeches were made by Blaine and Hoar,
and an animated one of ten minutes by Chan
dler, reviewing the causes of the recent war.
and animadverting upon the character of
Jefferson Davis. A vote was finally taken
on the amendment, resulting in its favor
yeas, %; nays, %.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
FrenLn OF fha Elecfriclfx.

During a violent thunderstorm at Cleve-
land, Ohio, lightning descended the chin
ney at No. 70 Hanover-street, and tore a
boot and stocking from the foot of a five.
y~ear-old SON of Henry Northrop. The boys
leg was blackened to the knee, but the in.
jury is not serious. On Lorain-street an
almost similar accident happened, and a
young SON of Peter Bullock was struck on
the temple, but not injured. The lightning
left a black and blue mark as large as a
copper on his temple.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Two Men

John H. Swan, aged eighteen, the only
son of George Swan, of Saluda Township,
and Thomas Spencer, u colored man, aged
twenty-one, were drowned in the Ohio
River, a few miles below Madison, Indiana.
The two had started across the river with
eight head of sheep in a skif, when it is
supposed the sheep became frightened,
and kicking about knocked a hole in the
bottom of the skif. letting in water rapidly.
The cries Of .he drowning men attracted
the attention of the officers of the steamer
Clinton, a passing steamer, who went with
a yawl to their rescue, but too late to save
then.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Phrenology, Murder and Suicide.

Boston's latest tragedy, the killing by
Wilson of himself and wife, appears to
have been caused by his conviction that
she was his superior intellectually. Not
long previously they went to a phrenol-
ogist to have their heads examined, with
a view OF settling the troublesome ques-
ton. The phrenologist told them that
the wife had the best brain, and was
fairly entitled to leadership in the fam
lly. Wilson was greatly agitated by
this information, and weepinglyd declared
that he had made the most serious
blunder of his life in marrying a
weman who knew more than he did.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Extra Session.

On account of the final adjournment of
Congress without making the usual and
necessary appropriations for the Legislative,
executive, and Judicial expenses of the
government for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1880, and without making the usual and
necessary appropriations for the support of
the army for the same fiscal year, the Presi-
dent called an extra session to meet on
Tuesday, the 18th of March.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
marrow Escape OF n IatfIe Girl.

A little girl Of Andy Robenaldts came
near committing suicide at Tifin, Ohio, by
hanging. She, with other children, were at
play, when she mounted a box and placed a
cord about her neck. attached to a hook in
the ceiling. Missing her footing, she fell
of, and hung until her father, alarmed by
the cries Of the children, came in and cut
her down. She was by this time nearly
strangled, but with great exertions was
resuscitated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Agriculture in Italy.

The Journal of Chemistry says
there is no nation in Europe SO ad-
vanced in its methods of teaching agri-
culture as Italy. 1t possesses two high
schools of agriculture, a school of for
estry, a school of horticulture, one of
viniculture, two veterinary schools and
t%wenty-one secondary schools, varying
in prominence and organization, but
which may be compared broadly with
similar French colleges. These insti-
tutions are largely subsidized, either by
the state or the province where theyare
situated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Nitro-GIycerine Explo1ion-six PERSON.
Killed.

Apremature explosion Of nitro-glycerine
at Dutch Gap, james River, Va, killed NJ.
C. Haggerty, Government contractor for
widening and otherwise improving Dutch
Gap, and seriously wounded five or six
negroes. 1t is reported that Elias Hall
who has charge of operating the glycerine,
was blown into the river and his body not
recovered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
End OF the Potter Committee.

The Potter Committee has made two re.
ports, amaiority report by the Democrats,
and a minority report by the Republicans.
Thirty thousand dollars have been spent,
four thousand pages Of printed testimony
taken, and the county has the report Of two
parties OF the question, differing very ma
teriallY in their statements.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13

CLOCK WORK is not more regular than
the liver, the stomach, and the bowels
when they are put in order with DR.. MoTT's
VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS, a supremely eff
fective and safe alternative, cathartive and
blood depurent which promotes thorough
bilious secretion, a regular habit of body,
sound digestion and nervous tranquility.
1t is the best possible substitute for that
terrible drug, mercury. For sale by all
druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
Convicted OF LibeI-A Heavy sentence,

John H. Pendergass has been convicted
of libel before Judge Mackey, at Kings
Tree, Sonth Carolina, and sentenced to two
years hard labor in the penitentiary, or pay
$500 fine and costs of suit. The libel con.
sisted in the publication in the Washington
Republican, last November, of a letter
charging the managers of the election at
Kings Tree with stufing the ballot box,
aud charging certain citizens with voting
more than once. Pendergass was one of
the principal witnesses before the Teller
Committee at its recent session in
Charleston.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
An Imporinut Omission.

In the hurry and confusion of the last
hours in the House, the Senate amendment
Of the Arrears of Pensions Bill failed to
pass, and goes over with other unfinished
business. Whether it will be taken up and
passed at the extra session, or await the
regular, depends upon the disposition of
the incoming Congress to make short work
Of the session.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13

If you are a very precise man, and
wish to be certain of what you get,
never marry a girl named Ann, for we
have the authority of Lindky Murray
and many others for the assertion that
"An is an indefinite article"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13
nsws Of the Mseh.

Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities are said to be over
S4,00O,O0O.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13

COUGHS AND CoLDs-Those who are
suffering from Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, etc should try "BRowN's
BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" Is cents a box.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-13

PRICES are a little higher for the Mason &
Hamlin Organs than those of very poor or
gans, but the quality is a great deal better.
1t is certainly good economy to obtain the
best, when there is no more difference in the
price.