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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
The war In nreathitt counts.

Referring to the Breathitt County
troubles, the Courier.Journal correspondent
at Camp Taylor says: "The action of Judge
Randall, in arresting all the ringleaders on
the Gambrel and Little side, has created
CONSERVATION and dismay among those
who have been concerned in the late diff
c%ulties, and Breathitt County to-day is the
most peaceful in the State. None of the
ringleaders of the Strong party have made
their appearance, but their friends still
say they will be in before long. Judge
Linden told me yesterday that Wallace
Mcclure, the man who is reported to have
XII led Tom Little, would be here during
Court, ready to answer any charge that
may be preferred against him. This morn.
ing Brock Combs, son of Jailer Combs, was
arrested and placed in Jail, charged with
being implicated in the murder of Judge
Burnett. This makes five of the Little
party who are now closely confined. Jokn
Altman is yet at large, and if he does not
desire to give himself up it is extremely
doubtful whether they will be able to find
him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
Indian TERRITORY Anair..

The statement that. the subcommittee,
who visited the Indian Territory last sum.
mer, viii, soon after recess, submit a report
recommending important changes in the
government and features of the Territory,
has caused considerable criticism at Wash
ington. 1t is charged that the committee
acted solely in the interest of the railroad
companies, and that the testimony taken by
the committee was furnished by parties
acting in the interest of..the roads, and care
was taken to exclude all testimony favorable
to the Indians. If the recommendations of
the committee are accepted by Congress,
the result will be to deprive the Indians OF
some of the finest lands in the Territory.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
shootinr My,tery i'm Kentuchy.

A special to the Cincinnati Commercial
says that on Saturday Deputy United States
Marshal Adair was on a moonshine raid
near Horse Cave, KY, assisted by Ed. Wyatt
and William Pfanz. Adair and PAan1
were riding ahead, when the latter went
back to help Wyatt find his pistol, which he
had lost. Soon afterward Adair heard g
pistol shot, and he ran back to see what was
the matter, when he found Wyatt holding
up Pfanz, who was mortally shot. Wyat
denies having shot him. Pfanz died soor
afterwards. One of the barrels of Wyatt
pistol was empty, butt he claims to have free
it off in the woods. Both of the men GO
along well with each other.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
Home and Farm Items.

MATRIMoNIEs: Three eggs, well
beaten, a little salt, -four enough to mix
hard; roll thin as paper; cut into fingers
and give them a twist. Fry in hot lard
hotter than for common fried cakes.
To make a cheap pork barrel, buy a
coal oil barrel; knock one head in; take
a bunch of old hay, set fire to it, and
throw it the barrel; let it burn until
the slaves begin to burn; put it out by
turning it upside down; scrape the Goals
off, and you have a good, sweet barrel.
RUSSIAN salad is made by cutting up
raw apples and every kind of available
vegetable into small slices and laying
them in a shallow dish with salt, a little
vinegar and pepper, and the best oil.
The dressing must thoroughly saturate
the mixture for at least twelve hours,
and then the effect will be found very
agreeable.
PUFF pudding: Beat six eggs; add
six spoonfuls of milk and six Of flour;
butter some cups, pour in the batter and
bake the buildings quickly; then turn
them out, and eat them with butter,
sugar and nutmeg.
BAKED ham: Choose a small ham,
and soak over night, putting it in quite
warm water, in the morning lay it to
drain, and wipe dry; mix -four and
water in a stiff batter, and cover the ham
with it, place it on a trivet, or ON the
sticks laid across the baking pan; when
cooked trim the rind and garnish as you
would a boiled ham.
FOWLS occasionally fall into the bad
habit of devouring their own eggs, in
duced probably by their privation OF
meat food. One poultry-raiser, whose
flock persisted in the practice despite
the best of care, tells how he finally
broke it up, after trying many remedies
in vain: At last | thought 1 would
play a trick Oh them, so / got an egg
and broke the butt open large enough to
let out the inside. Then l mixed up
some good strong mustard and filled it
full, putting a piece of shell over the
part broken. 1 went to my coop and
put the egg in the nest. l had no
sooner dropped the egg than one of my
hens bounced ON it like a cat ON q
mouse.
The journal OF Chemistry says there
is no nation in Europe so advanced in
its methods of teaching agriculture as
Italy. 1t possesses two high schools Of
agriculture, a school of forestry, a school
of horticulture, one of viniculture, two
veterinary schools and twenty-one sec
ondary schools varying in prominence
and organization, but which may BIZ
compared broadly with similar French
colleges. These institutions are largely
subsidized, either by the State or the
province where they are situated.
PROFESSOR S. w. Clark of Parma tolc
the Western New York Farmers Clut
that his family prefer rather small-sizeG
potatoes for their own use, and have {
novel way of cooking them: They keel
a kettle for the purpose, in which they
keep beef suet, and after pairing the po
tatoes and wiping them dry, they droI
them into the boiling suet and fry then
as they do doughnuts. In the ordinary
way of boiling, much of the nutrition
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
oar Tenure OF Ife

Depends in great measure upon u regard
for or neglect of the laws of health. If we
violate them we n expect to snake old
bones" But that the span of existence al
lotted to a naturally delicate constitution,
or one which has been shaken by disease,
which we have daily proof. The vivifying
and restorative influence of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters upon a failing physique af-
fords a striking illustration of the power of
judicious medication to strengthen the hold
on life. Restored digestion, complete assimi-
lation, renewed appetite, sound repose,
these are among the benefits conferred upon
the debilitated by that supreme renovant.
With a circulation enriched, a frame invigo-
rated, and a nervous system tranquilized,
the invalid, after a course of the Bitters,
feels that his life-tenure is no longer the
precarious thing that it was-that be may
vet enjoy a" green old age,D
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
Guttenberg's Death.

A curious old manuscript, containing,
strange to say, an allusion to the death
of the great inventor of printing, Gut
tenberg, has recently, according to the
German journals, been found in that
wonderful storehouse of ancient Ger
man art, the Walraf Museum at
Cologne. This manuscript contains the
poems, written in Latin, of a certain
Jan B~utzbach, who speaks in one of
them of a "recent invention by means
of which the works of the ancient
writer's can be rapidly multiplied"
adding hat this "invention had proved
fatal to the discoverer, for a band of
malcontents had entered his house,
borne him away in a carriage, and then
cut his throat" The moral that the
wise medieval poet derives from this
circumstance is that the love of gain
is often the cause of u ruin" The
poem is dated 1914, and is composed of
Two thousand verses.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09

PRINCE BIsMARCK's mode of life is
peculiar. He gets up late, toward ten
o'clock, because he does not succeed in
going to sleep till toward morning. At
breakfast he takes tea and two eggs, and
after that nothing until dinner, when
he eats and drinks freely. Bismarck
himself complains of such a regimen,
but the habit is formed. In one of the
conversations he tells how the nights
pass. MY BRAIN" he says, "is inces-
sanity at work. All the combinations
of politics come back to me as in a
nightmare, and l see every thing IN its
dark side. 1 fall asleep as soon as my
head is on its pillow, but I soon awake
and remain awake until dawn. Now
and then a dream gives me rest for {
while. / see Varzin-all the trees thai
7 know so well, and the blue sky, and
fancy that I am enjoying it all" LITTLE
wonder that sleep should flee from thu
Chancellor's couch!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
He Dreamed he Drew the Capital Prize,

An Italian gentleman with a nice lit
tie income had q nice little servant girl,
who said to him n morning: "TOh, if
you please, won't you give me three
francs to buy a lottery ticket with? /
dreamed last night that No. 41,144 was
going to draw the capital prize, and ]
want to buy that number"
He gave the girl the three francs, and,
next day, on happening to look at the
report of the drawing, saw that No. A.
IA had drawn the capital prize of 518,-
652.S5 lire, or, to speak more accurately,
500, 900.
Returning quietly to the house he
concealed his emotion and said to the
servant girl: "Susan, / have long OBJ
served with appreciation your piety,
beauty, modesty, skill in the art of cook
cry and other good qualities calculated
to adorn the highest station. Be mine.
Let me lead you to the hymeneal altar.
No delay. Just as you are"
"Honest lnjun?" said the blushing
virgin.
"You bet. Iswear by yonder silver
spoon that tips with beauty all the fruit
pie top
"Then count me in, and regard me
hereafter in the light of your turtle
dove"
Hasten, then, Susan; put on your
bonnet and shawl and let us take &
walk around the block to the old friar'i
cell, where we shall be made one"
In a few minutes the bride-elect re
turned, clad in a red shawl, with a blacl
velvet bonnet trimmed with ~sunaowerl
and Victoria regia. In a few minutes
more the ceremony had been performed
and the twain were one. They returned
to the house, when the husband care
lessly took up the paper and said, will
a well counterfeited start of surprise:
darling, everything is bright for u
upon our wedding-day. You remembe
the ticket in the lottery that yol
dreamed about and I gave you thre'
francs to buy? Where isit, my ownest p
80, ! didn't buy it. Ispent the none,
for this duck of bonnet"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
new Enrland sreenbael.r. In boston.

New England In Boston.
About a hundred delegates of the Green
back party from the several New England
States met in Boston on the I'd. A resolu-
ton favoring the forming of some Green
back organization, in which all the New
England States shall be represented, was
adopted. Wendell Phillips made an ad-
dress, in which he said he had ~endeavored
to form a labor party, and it could not be
done, and he was glad of it. A committee
reported the following plan of organization i:
That a committee Of one from each Con-
gressional district be appointed, who, to-
gether with the Chairman and Secretary of
the State Central Committee, shall consti-
tu,e an executive committee of union.
Also that the name of the "Greenback-
Labor party of New England be given to
the Organization. Aresolution was adopted
that the paramount issue Of the G~reenback.
Labor movement is the immediate sub.
stitution of greenbacks for National Bank
currency,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
How to Deal with Rats.-We clea

How to Deal with Rats.-We clean
our premises Of these detestable vermin
by making a whitewash yellow with
copperas and covering the stones and
rafters of the cellar with a thick coat of
it. In every crevice where a rat might
tread we put crystals of the copperas and
scattered the same in the corners of the
floor. The result was a perfect STAN
pede of rats and mice. Since that time
not a football of either rats or mice has
been heard about the house. Every
spring a coat of yellow wash is given to
the cellar, as a purifier as well as a rat
exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery
or fever attacks the family. Many per
sons deliberately attract all the rats in
the neighborhood by leaving fruits and
and vegetables uncovered in the cellar
and sometimes even the soap scraps are
left open for their regalement. Cover
up everything eatable in the cellar ane
pantry, and you will soon starve then
out. These precautions joined to thu
service of a good cat will prove as goot
a rat exterminator as the chemist cal
provide. We never would allow rats t,
be poisoned in our dwelling; they are 8,
liable to die between the walls and pro
duce much annoyance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
villainous Outrage.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com.
nsereioI says hat a novel entertainment was
held in City Hall, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Wed.
nesday evening called the "Feast of Mon.
damin," from Longfellow's poem, ella,
watha," and passed off quietly. On Thursday
1t was discovered that the victuals had been
poisoned. Upwards of one hundred and
fifty persons were confined to their beds
On Thursday all those affected in the sam,
way were taken with violent pains in the
stomach. Among those affected are many
prominent citizens. From general reports
the supposition is that croton oil was used
Perpetrators unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
nIr FIre Id marIe.ton.

At three o'clock in the morning of the
LIST, the large cotton press and warehouses
of the Union Cotton Press Company, in
Charleston, S. c., were destroyed by fire, to-
gether with 1921 bales of cotton. The
property contained four cotton presses,
with a capacity of pressing about $500
bales of cotton per diem, and a storage room
for over 10000 bales. Only two presses
were running. The buildings and presses
were valued at about $780, 600. Insured for
$4,000. The loss on cotton is estimated
at '$475,000. The insurance amounts to
$4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
4 Peae..rIan conle.t Clo.ed.

The pedestrian contest between O'Leary
and Campana closed on Saturday evening
the 2Sth inst, at Gilmore's Garden, New
York. The Garden looked like a very
fun menagerie. 1t was thronged, and every
man present who could afford a cigar was
smoking one. The match was a fzzle, as
far as good distance was concerned, TO,
O'Leary only covered four hundred miles,
while eSport" made but three hundred
and .ifty-seven miles and two laps. The
widest enthusiasm prevailed throughout
the evening, and the walkers were cheered
beyond measure, although they did nothing
extraordinary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09

structed, and the captain, chief engineer,
second mate and two passengers left the
vessel on it. OF the six persons remaining,
Theodore Stinert, o. A. Anderson and one
passenger left on a floating hatch, leaving
two cooks and N passenger, whom it was
impossible to help, as the steamer disap-
peared three minutes afterward. At day
break on the 18th Stinert and Anderson
were alone, no boats or bodies being in
sight-nothing but floating cargo. The
two men saved were rescued at five o'clock
in the evening by a schooner bound for ia
maica.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09

A cold wave of unusual severity struck
the country on the night of the I'd. At
Chicago the thermometer, which was
twenty-five degrees above On New Years
Day, went down on the night of the I'd to
from fifteen to twenty degrees below.
Similar changes are reported in the States
North. The change was followed in many
places by great snow-storms. 1t was found
necessary to abandon freight trains on the
Lake Shore Railroad. Trains were stalled
at Buffalo and other cities in New York.
At st. Paul thirty degrees below zero were
reported, and several deaths by freezing.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
walton Dwight. Requests.

Walton Dwight, the Binghamton man
whose sudden death after his life had been
heavily insured led the companies enron
eousiy to suspect fraud. not only left a hand
some fortune to his relatives, but remem-
bered the local charities. After doing what
he thought best for the churches and other
benevolent organizations, he bequeathed
$4,000, the income of which is to be annu.
ally appropriated for Christmas dinners for
the poor of Binghamton, $1,000 for a dinner
for the Fire Department, and $1,000 with
which to provide the newspaper men of the
place with a yearly feast. If the last sum
realizes a net income of only $40, it will
probably afford each editor and printer a
"square meal" ion there can hardly be
more than forty of all branches of the pro-
sion in the town.
Report from the War in Central America.
A passenger by the steamer Granada, Just
arrived from Panama and way ports, re-
ports that as the Granada was leaving
Mazatlan, bound north, news was received
Of a severe battle between the forces of
clerical Chief Lerma and the national
troops under Gen. Escudero, military com.
mander a. Guadalajara. Lerma, with his In.
dams, had captured the town of Topic, in
the name of the clerical party, and there
held high carnival for a few days. He also
held the road leading from Topic to the sea-
port of San Bias. Upon the advance OF
Escudero Lerma marched out to meet him,
but was totally defeated and most Of his ad.
herents captured, of whom eighty were i'm.
mediately hanged. The balance of those
captured, claiming to have been forced
into the rebel service, were allowed to go to
their homes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
Plumber from, The Recon, Floods.

The Poughkeepsie Press says Lssny men
have been engaged on the Hudson at thai
place in picking up wreckage from the
Rondout and Esopus Creeks. Among the
articles brought Town by the recent flood
were small boats, parts of buildings, We
hicles of different kinds, etc. The river
surface is numbered up with stuff of all
sorts, and the boatmen are securing profta-
Bile plumber. 1t is informed that in the
wreck of a house that was secured by one
man a gold watch was found in a bureau
drawer. One individual has secured ma
terial for a house, and has besides a three
years supply of kindling wood. A barn,
minus roof, ioated on the beach at Esopus
Island, and on the NOW a mule was found
quietly grazing. Chairs, sofas, and various
other articles of furniture, have been taken
from floating buildings. The shores are
lined with the debris of ruins along the
creeks mentioned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
nur.tlnr OF a Gun.

Admiral Horribly, commanding the British
feet in the siege of Marmora, telegraphs
that one of the thirty.eight-ton guns of the
turret-ship Thunderer burst on January 2,
killing Lieutenants Coker and Daniel, two
petty officers and four seamen and marines.
The gun burst just in front of the trunions,
the muzzle blowing overheard. The gun
had just been fred with a battering charge,
but when it burst it was loaded with full
charge and empty shell. The boatswain and
thirty-two men were wounded, twelve Of
them very badly. The turret was disabled,
but the ship was otherwise u%ninjured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
PhxsicIan1

Many of the more advanced physicians,
having found DIR. Pierce's Family Medi'
cines prompt and sure, prescribe them
regularly in their practice.
TwINv1LLE, Tenn May %, 1877.
DIR. R. v. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
catarrh. FINALLY called in DR.. Zachary, o.
this place. He furnished me with your
Nasal Douche, Sage's Catarrh Remedy, and
your golden Medical discovery. These RENE
dies speedily effected an entire cure.
Yours truly, JOHN s. CHAMLESS
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09

{ THERE is nothing to cleanse an impure
circulation or wake up a dormant liver like
Scovilps Blood and Liver Syrup. 1t does the
business thoroughly in either case, promot.
ing active bilious secretion, restoring to the
life current the purity of perfect health, and
removing from the cuticle dis6guring erup'
tions and sores. Chronic rheumatism and
gout also succumb to its curative infu.
ence. For the diseases peculiar to the gen
tier sex, it is a capital remedy. All Drug.
gists sell it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
A Razor Drive. the Wolf from the Door,

n Ah3-AO SAO VIVA AOA e"C A~OSAs
An Enquirer correspondent says that
James Kavanaugh, a well-known citizen, of
Baltimore, Nd, aged ffty.four, committed
suicide lately, by cutting his throat with a
razor. Poverty prompted the crime. The
scene of the tragedy was the dining-room of
his own residence. The family had retired
to the upper part of the house, with the ex-
ception Of one of the daughters, Hattie,
aged fifteen, and boy of four years. The
deceased began searching in drawer where
he was accustomed to keep his razor, when
his daughter asked him what he was look
ing for. He made no reply, but turning to
her gave her three dollars, with the request
that she would pay a bill with it. The next
instant the young girl was Mortified to see
her father fash an open razor through the
air, and in a moment the bare throat was
laid open with a terrible cash and the warm
blood gushed forth on the floor. The suicide
called the little boy to him and imprinted a
kiss upon his face and made some unin-
telligible remark. He remained unconscious
and appeared unconcerned, even taking his
shoes off after the physician had dressed
his throat. In a couple of hours he was a
CORPSE.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09

properties Of the potato escapes into the
water, but when fried in hot suet, the
external pores are closed at once, and
all of the properties retained.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
HENS Of the Nssh.
Cremated wl.h Coal on.

A colored man and his child, aged i've
years, were burned to death, and an older
child badly burned, near James Hogan's,
1--WE miles from Nicholasville, KY, a few
nights since. he poured coal oil on a fire
he was building, when the can burst, cover
ing him and the child with the burning
fluid and setting the house on fire. The
mother barely escaped with the injured
child.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
Fearful Boiler Explosion.

The distillery of Huffman & Fairbanks,
on the bank of the Wabash, at Terre Haute,
Ind, the largest distillery in the world,
was lately the scene of a frightful explos-
ion. Three of the twelve boilers exploded,
with astonishing force, and the conclusion
was as loud as that OF a twelve pound can
non. The engine-house, an old frame affair,
but quite substantial, was totally demol-
ished, and of the walls on which the three
boilers had stood not one brick was left on
another. One of the boilers was broken up
at the riveting, and one joint was
thrown against the opposite bank of
the river, a distance of two hundred and
fifty yards. Another Loiler flew up the into
air, entwined around itself the iron ladder
that hung from the tall smokestack, and
fell Upon a wagon loaded with coal, killing
one of the horses and knocking down the
driver, though not hurting him. The third
boiler was ripped from end to end, and a
piece of it fell among the cattle in the slop
pens, carrying with it enough of fire from
the furnace to set ablaze one of the long hay
sheds. Two persons were instantly killed
by the explosion, one a colored fireman
named William Day, aged twenty.three the
other was Frank Hughes, a boy, fourteen
years old. Bo h we're buried in the ruins
terribly scalded and mangled.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
Details of the Wreck of the SteaImkhip
Emily d. AOuder.

The following details are received of the
loss of The steamship Emily B. Souder:
A leak was discovered at nine O'Clock on
the morning of the 10th, and the deck load
was thrown overheard. A. eleven the
crew began throwing overheard the cargo
in the hold. All five in the evening the
wind was blowing half d hurricane, and
saving the vessel became hopeless. Four
boats were got out, but one was found USE
less. The first boat, containing the first
mate, John Christen, George Scan and five
passengers, was swamped alongside. The
second boat, in which were engineer Booth,
two of the crew, one baby and several pas
sengers, drifted away. The third boat, con-
tanning the purser and others, also drifted
clear. AT ten O'Clock a ~life-raft was con-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09

For coughs and throat diseases, use
"Brown's Bronchial Troches," having
proved their efficiency by a test of many
years. % cents a box.