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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19
The Peculiarities Of a Massachusetts
Swan.

Visitors to Pine Grove Cemetery, at
Milford, Mass, are much surprised to
see swan standing on a grave, near q
child's rocking horse. The swan utters
a shrek if any one attempts to approach
the grave. Some years ago the mate to
this swan died, and soon after the rock
ing horse was placed on the newly-made
grave, when the surviving swan immed-
ately stationed himself as protector over
the horse. IF the father of the little
boy that is buried there approaches, the
swan makes no outcry, but no one else
is allowed to approach the spot. Re
Gently the horse was taken away and
painted, and while it was absent the swan
took no notice OF the grave but passed
its time on the pond or in its house, but
when the horse was replaced the swan
took up his position by its side, thus
showing that it was the rocking horse
and not the grave that was the object of
its vigil. It is rumored that the trustees
ordered the horse removed, but the
owner of the lot refused to comply with
the command, because his son had re-
quested that it should be placed above
his grave.-Boston Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19
Polite Yet Brutal.

The Moors of Morocco are described
by Capt Colville, in his new book of
travels as barbarians, but their barbar-
ism is concealed by a politeness 'tgenu-
inc and gentleman-like." Yet "the kaid
or pasha with whose polite manners and
lavish hospitality one has been so struck
may Just have been watching a slave
fogged to death. or may, at the very time
he is talking to one, be starving a man to
death in an upper chamber, or planning
% he may eztort money from d MS subjects cts.
cruelty, "but always for purpose"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

-6cers
President-John Burt
Vice President-Gen. James A. Garfield.
Secretarv-Wm @. Colburn.
Treasurer-Albert Ives.
Directors-John Burt, j. Leonard, W. W.
Wheaton, Joseph Hubbard, Austin Burt, Israel
Mowry, A. G. Noyes, Vim. @. Colburn and DR..
Morse Stewart
The company had capital stock of
10000 shares, per value $25, represent
ing paid-up capital of $500, 900. Dur
ing the first year of its existence it had
several wells bored in Venango county,
Pa, and laid out a large amount of
money in unsuccessful attempts to
strike oil. Then assessn ents began to
come in, and some of the stockholders
paid them and others turned their stock
back to the company and went out. ALI
their enthusiasm in the oil business
faded away, and the stockholders began
to comprehend that they would have to
get rich elsewhere. After year or two
had passed the company was somewhat
startled to hear that parties had laid
claim to the land which they had pur-
chased from Garfield. Supposing that
Garfield would protect their common
interests, the stockholders in Detroit re-
NAMED idle until news came one day that
some points of the suit had been decided
against the company Letters were
Immediately sent to Garfield asking
what in -, SO to speak, was the mat
ter, and Garfield replied with an oily
communication urging the company to
| put their minds at ease, for he would
take immediate stops to see that their
rights were protected. And thus it
went on until the lands which the COM
pany had bought of Garfield ct al.
passed into the hands of the rightful
| owners.
Letters were repeatedly sent to Gar
field, and assurances were continually
received from him which amounted to
nothing for it is understood that he
never appeared in court to defend the
suit, or took any steps whatever to pro-
tect the company. The case, so far as
known, was allowed to go by default
and, when a delegation of the company
went down to see what was the matter
they discovered that their own title tc
the property was worthless. There was
however, nobody to hold accountable
for it except the lawyer, Burrows, whc
had executed all the papers in his owl
name, and who turned out to be worth
| less, mpecuuouS, Soou-aoi-IoohAAaS SoA
of shyster.
When the delegation came home ant
reported these things there was gen
eral howl of indignation all along tn
line. Some growled about John Burt
having engineered the company into thu
pitfall; but it is alleged that Mr.. Bur
had prudently disposed of his stock whel
he discovered that crash was coming
Others were eager to bring suit againf
Garfield ON his bond that ''satisfactor
title" should be given, but when th
bond was placed in the hands of lawye
he snapped his fingers and said it We
no good.
"When you accepted the deeds thu
were given you," said this man of Law
"and paid your money and became 9
Eaoto owners of that land, Garfield
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19
WHOLE NUMBER 694.

legal responsibility ceased. The deeds
were shown to be satisfactory from the
fact of your accepting them !"
And thus ended she little project in
which the ttoily-toEgued" Garfield, as
the NeDs calls him, seems to have
adroitly victimized the speculative De-
troiters,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

English Club of this city, this evening,
Ephraim Radasch, Appointment German,
and recently Chairman of the Repub-
ican County Central Committee of Lee
county, came forward and signed the
club roll, amid the widest enthusiasm.
Mr.. Radasch has heretofore been wheel
horse in the Republican party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

FATHER" But Charley, again I see
no improvement in your marks" Char
ley" Yes, papa, it is high time that
you had serious talk with the teacher,
or else he'll keep on that way forever"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

ONE swallow makes no summer; but
one day with the thermometer 80 deg.
in the shade exercises more influence in
that direction than q square acre Of
swallows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

LIBERTY will not descend to a people:
q people must raise themselvesto liberty.
It is blessing to be earned before it can
be enjoyed IELton,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
An Earnest Plea for Peace.
CFrom the Chicago Daily News, independent r

An Earnest Plea for Peace.
lFrom the Chicago Daily News, Independent Re
pubhcan.]
What is now really wanted to crown
the present prosperous condition of the
country is peace. And peace is assured
If the politicians on both sides of Mason
and Dixon's line ignore the old bloody
shirt" business. Gen. Grant passed
through the South short time since.
Returning to Illinois, he declared the
Southern people both peaceful and
prosperous. And he evidently knew
whereof he spoke, for the facts and fig
ures of the census and of the
Statistical Bureau at Washington
fully confirm his statement. Yet,
in his speech in this city on
Saturday night, Mr.. Chauncey I. Fi1ley,
of st. Louis, would have us believe that
the South is in bad way, both political
ly and materially. He said that he
"wanted the South to forget the lost
cause let them start factories, as in the
North" Now, this is the very thing
that the South is doing, and to an ex-
tent that is beginning to cause alarm to
New England. The followingis state
mint showing the number Of cotton
e,,;y d1ao ~, 4ba Co1fba,,, CEofac.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

AN Indiana woman gave birth to four
children the other day. IF the little darl-
ings live, she might haveaspanking good
time before long.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

Mr.. BmDERBAoK laid down his paper
and gazed thoughtfully into vacancy.
"From the frequency of glowing and
highly eulogistic obituary notices." the
old man said, "I Judge there is an un-
precedented mortality among the mean
men just now"
In the seven years of the Revolu
ionary war Great Britain sent to America
about $4,000 soldiers and $4,000 sea-
men. The forces raised by the United
States during the same period consisted
of about 232, 900 Continental soldiers
and Sc, 900 militia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

Amid the Widest Enthusiasm.
[Keokuk Qowa) Cor. Chicago Tinaes.]
At meeting of the Hancock and
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19

Business cards Of i've lines or less Ss per annum.
Local notices 10 cents psr line each insertion.
Simple announcements Of marriages and de1the.
end church and benevolent society noices inserted
iree. Any additions to obituary notices viii Be
charged ave cents per line.
Favors must be handed in ~ early - Tuesday
moruing to insure fnseftion the ssme week.
CommunicaIi,ns upon subiec.s Of general or iocaf
Interest ave solicited ~ Z
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19
Jere Black on Hancock.

Judge Black, writing from Paris to
the editor of the New York World,
says: I inferred from your interroga-
tory that some vil-disposed persons had
been attributing to me the authorship
Of the orders and letters issued by Gen.
Hancock while he commanded in Lou
isiana and Texas. MY ddentaf by @tele-
graph was intended to cover the whole
ground. I neither wrote those letters
nor suggested word of them. I had
no precognition of his views on the s''''
ject to which they relate, and heard
nothing from him about it until he had
taken the public into his confidence. In
deed, mypersonal quaintance with him
was then very slight, and our relations not
at all intimate. The opinion that I would
offer or he would require my aid in pro
ducing such an order as his No. 40 Is
absurd. His determination to stand by
the constitution and the laws needed no
expression but what he could give
better than any man alive. 1t was not
an argument, not an exposition of the
law, not an essay on the rights of man,
that was wanted at that critical time.
The spoken act of patriot soldier III
high command alone could save civil lib
erty from the destruction with which it
was threatened. That was what Han
cock did, and it was the timeliest lift
that the great cause ever got from an!
hand except that of Washington.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-19
Grants Most Intimate Friend.

ISt. Louis Cor. Chicago Teegraph-1
John T. Long, themost intimate friend
of Grant in the West, and leading Re-
publican, in an interview with CORE
spondent, said yesterday: "Ishall vote
for Gen. Hancock, and believe he will
be elected. I think he has the qualif-
cations to make q good President. He
will have the good sense to surround
himself with the right kind of advisers.
have never heard Grant discuss Han
cock save as General, and in that re-
spect he always spoke well of him. I am
a Republican still. I have been in cor
respondence with many political and
personal friends respecting the political
situation, and shall vote for Hancock. 81
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07
Old Eph Makes His VIII.

Old Eph took notion the other day
that he must make his will, and called
to consult a lawyer for that purpose.
The attorney gathered a pencil and a
piece of paper and prepared to make a
schedule.
swell Eph, what property have you
gotp' i4a
"Well, sab, dar's dat onery bobtailed
dowg dot nebber sleeps, or eff he does
he's allus talkin' in it. Leabe him to
dat neffy of mine. nebber liked dat
niggah."
IAN right" said the attorney. s.therc
goes the dog"
"Den dars dat hazel splitter sow.
Leabe her to whoebber kin kotch her."
"The sow is disposed Of" said the
lawyer.
"De bacy-box an pipe kin go to the
boy soon as he gifts old enuf to spit froo
his teef." ~ - re-
cit is SO recorded" answered the at
torney. fss5
"De house and lot goes to de GAL"
But there's an incumbrance on the
house, Eph."
"What dats you say?'
"There is an incumbrance on the
house."
"Oh, dere am, am de? Den Use wuff
morn l thought was. Leabe de cum.
brans to de ole woman for to live Cd.
--pes Moines (Io,ca) Register,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

My son, if you have fallen into the
custom of the land this January, and
I" sawed Cd :" onsan your bad habits; If
you have "dropped on all manner of
fermented or distilled conviviality; if
you have made up your mind that you
will be good boy this year, and pay
less for billiards and more for pew rent,
and that you won't have any but "hon-
est :" headaches; if you have determined
to cultivate a taste for good reading and
elevated conversation, and hatred for
shady stories and peep-o,day parties
you can do it In the simplest and easiest
way in the world. There is. nothing
complicated. or intricate or difficult
about it. To paraphrase Horace Gree
ley, the way to do il is to do it. Don't
'sswear off, my son. That won't help
you bit, and you will want to break
your oath every time you think of it
and all the time You don't think of it.
Don't rush out with public and private
and social confessions. Don't. pride
yourself on your observation-disclosures
the world is so full of better men that
you don't count for cipher on the right
hand of the decimal. But Just simply
quit. Just stop it. Just be honest
with yourself, and then you will be hon.
est with the world And when you get
to be honest with yourself, my son, you
viii be surprised to find what good
fellow you are. You win like yourself.
You viii want to shake hands with your
self and pat yourself on the back, and
call yourself "o old boy" and be on
familiar, friendly, "Tom and Bill =
terms with yourself. But so long as you
are MT fair and candid and honest
with yourself, SO long as you make a
promise on the first of January, and
break it on the second, you win hate
yourselfs you will be ashamed of your
self, you will seek any society to avoid
the rebuke of your own presence So,
be good to yourself, my boy. BE honest
with yourself, and il you made any
promises on the first of january, stick
to them if you have TO 60 ont Of society
and live in a cave. Keep them, If you
break trace a hundred times day.
BE honest with yourself, and by the mid
die of june you and your conscience
will be SO satisfied with each other, that
you viii want 10 run yourself for Presi-
DENT Burlington Hawkeye. -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

Formerly women never were in
vited to any notable banquet or break
fast. At the authors breakfast, given
to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his seven.
tieth birthday, woman in literature was
recognized for the first time on such a
grand occasion. Some twenty lady con-
tributors to the atlantic Monthly were
present among the great Yankee liiera-
~ lights.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07
PEACH AND APPLE MERrNGuE-Stev

PEACH AND APPLE Neutrality-suspicious.
and sweeten ripe, juicy apples after par
ing and slieing them; mash smooth and
season with nutmeg stew some lemon
peel-and remove when cold. Fill the
crust and bake until just done; spread
when cold with meringue favored with
vanilla or rose water Eat cold.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

ORANGE CAKE.-Two cupfuls white
sugar, two cupfuls -four, one-half cupful
water, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder,
pinch of sals,five eggs-all the yelks, ard
whites of two--one orange, grated rind
and half of the, juice. Bake in four
sheets. Icing to spread between the
layers--whites of three eggs, half the
juice of the orange. one cupful sugar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

HERE is the most remarkable presence
of mind heard from so far: A brake
man on the Rochester, Lockport and
Niagara Falls Railroad had his right
foot caught in the guard rail, and there
was locomotive backing some cars
toward him. If he threw his body out
ward both legs would be cut off. The
engine would crush him to death If he
stayed in the middle of the track, but he
lay there, face up, and as the car APP
preached he watched his opportunity,
and, just as 1t reached him. seized the
brake-rod and hung on with DEATH
like grasp. The effect was that his right
foot was crushed by the wheel, and his
hold on the rod pulled the injured foot
from the boot. Except his crushed foot,
he was uninjured. a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07
prof William r Harris after a con

Prof. William T. Harris, after con-
nection of % years with the St. Louis
public schools, has given notice that he
will not again be candidate for the
SUPPLEMENTARY, but win retire at the
close of the present scholastic year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

high-school pupils to an academy or
private school, provided there is one
within its bounds which gives competent
instruction of the kind required and
which is not controlled by any religious
sect OF denomination.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

The works for the railway across
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec have been
commenced. The line will be $50 miles
long.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

{" It's astonishin',''i remarked the -
forty-niner this morning rs he nodes
over his glass to our reporter, "it'ss
tonishin' what a coward man y ~
homes regular crawlin' sneak,
Jove! I've travelled good bit and re
up my end in most o. the camps on t1e
coast sence 40. I've got three bullee
inside o. me. I've shot an been snos
at, an never heard nobody say hsdn5
rs good grit as most fellers that's go'.
But at home I'm a kyote. Afore ia y
the old woman know that her hot q
cult wasn't A when it's like shh ans
gam, I'd fill myself as full as re'oL.
I've done it lots o. times. Most o.
teeth is gone from tuggin' on bcefsfes-
that the old woman has fried. py
think | roar out and cuss when
over chair in the dark? No, ~:
While I'm rubbiu' my sshins an keepe,9
back the tears I'm likewise sweating =.
fear the old woman has. been woke
the upset. 1t didn't use to be so
sighed the poor fellow, thogn1uIy
rubbing, his shining scalp. Mnen
wass first hifclied 1 Thought . was -
superintendent, but after year or w
of argyin' the pint | settled aown I,
Shown the car at low wages, y.
any man o. my age an' size, =. cflea ~. ~
old gentleman, banging the saloon 49, 49,
win his wiinkled fist. III shoot
Knife, stand up or rough and tumble T.
coin, but when I hang my hat o. iSv
peg in the hall an take On my ILL.,
boots, an hear the woman ask = - la
me, | tell you the starch comes l r'gn'
out ont O. me. - Vrginia (Nsv.) ctr0'''f'<'
Frederick, Duke of Schlessie-'s e.
stein, died recently, in the nl!. 4
. The younger Branch Of hi: . family Y n =
consequence Of the remuneration q -
father. lie was sIalor,G General a,; e II 3 !
Bavaiian Army, and was maLi ,rSter
1856 to the Duchess Adeiaioe, IL fsebeu.
of the late Ernest, Prince "
e-Langenburg
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

AN active tool never grows rusty.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Harvard University has in Its libra
nv a set of Goethe's works which he
himself presented.
Prof. F. Blass of Kiel has discovered
on sheet of Egyptian parchment. a
fragment Of one of the plays of Eurip-
ides.
MIR. Black has written novel dealing
with the secret political associations OF
the day, called " Sunrise; story OF the
Times"
Ole Bull now resides at Cambridge,
Mass. He is near neigbbor OF Long
fellow, and has dedicated composition
for the violin to the poet.
Mark Twain tells new joke about
Artemus Ward never before in print.
Ward said to Twain one day, 81 have
done too much fooling, too much nj
fling; am going to write something
that will i've" Clemens asked him
what it would be, and Artemus an
swered promptly, "a lie."
= Henry w. Longfellow's seventy
third birthday is to be celebrated in
! Cincinnati on the 9th of February
proximo by 1900 pupils of the public
schools. The great poet expresses his
regrets that he can not prepare special
poem for the occasion, but he gives the
children some excellent advice in prose.
Comparatively, books in the Nine
teenth Century are cheap. In A. ID.
900, the King of Northumberland gave
800 acres of land for history of the
world; and Countess of Anjou once
gave 200 sheep and large parcel OF
furs for volume of homilies, and l20
crowns for a single book of Livy! In
1920 Latin Bible was valued at $3.50;
and this was time when two arches of
London Bridge were built for less than
$50. A laborer's wages in the Eight
.eenth Century we're so small that the
earnings of 10 years had been necessary
to buy the Bible; and, the Bible being
in Latin, he could not have read it after
all.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-15
PERSONAL,


Pat Bray, Of Henderson, is at the Claren-
| don.
81. H. Shepherd, of Madison, is at the Clar
Judge Thomas Wilson, Wiucna, at uhe Metro
politan.
Hon. NJ. J. Severance of Mankato, is at the
Merchants.
Nj. D. Comstock, of Eau Claire, Wis, is at
the Clarendon.
]. T. Ingalls,, of Dubuque, Iowa, is stopping
at the Clarendon.
Hon. 81. g. Waite, of st. Cloud, is talking
business with our merchants.
Jameo D. Mann, q. s. A., was among the ar
rivals at the Metropolitan yesterday.
W. FL. Thurstou, ESQ, returned home from
the East yesterday, and registered at the Mer-
chants.
Hon. b. W. Lamberton, of Winona, was
greeting his ST. Paul friends at the Merchants
yesterday.
Hon. G. A. Gilman, of st. Cloud, was among
the distinguished arrivals at the Merchants
yesterday.
Gen. John T. Averill arrived home yesterday
from an absence of several weeks in Washing
ton and other Eastern cities. Gen. Ayerill has
apartments at the Merchants.
DR.. w. A. Burleigh, of YanktoD, was in st.
ping anecdotes with his friends, and can proba
bly, be found at the Merchants to-day.
At the Metropolitan: R. r. Briggs, Moor
head; Vim. Warren Fiske, Baltimore; j. l.
Cowing, Charles Barnes. Cincinnati; E. @.
Preston. Detroit; ], W. Horton, Milwaukee; j.
Peetrey, London.
Hon. s. &. Comstock, of Moorhead, and
Hon. r. l.. Frazee, of Frazee City, were among
the representatives of the Northern section of
the State in the city yesterday, with headquar-
tiers at the Merchants.
Mr.. Fred II. Ertel, of the Hotel Reporter, and
wife, left yesterday afternoon for a brief visit
to st. Louis and Chicago. Mrs. Ertel will re-
main with relatives in ST.. Louis for a few
weeks after her husbands return to st. Paul.
Mr. Alex. Guiterman, accompanied by his
wife and son Alfred, left last night for New
York, en- route for his old home in the city of
Bamberg, Bavaria, after an absence of forty
three years. They leave on the steamship
MAN, May 18th, from New York. Bon
voyage!
At the Merchants: John 81. Brown, r. II.
Peleser, b. T. Bramble, Deadwood, d. t.; F.
j. Burnham, Moorhead; j. A. Johnson, Far
go, d. T.; w. NJ. Maynadier, G. 3. Maynadier,
q. s. A; @. II. Whipple, G. W. Ehle, Fari-
bault; h G. Smith, LIE Sueur; F. F. Sander
SON S. mSrys Ont.