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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
A south Carolln. Duel.

At Camden, s. c., a duel was fought q few
days ago between Colonel W. shannon and
Colonel E. B. G. Cash, the former being in
stantly killed. Shannon had sued Cash, who,
being a man, of desperate character, imme-
diately challenged Shannon's attorney to fight
aduel. The challenge was accepted; but the
parties were arrested before arriving at the
field OF honor andpreyented the bloody ARRAY.
Cash then began to heap insult after insult
upon shannon till at last, in sheer desperation,
Shannon sent Cash q peremptory challenge.
Cash was only too glad to accept it, and ar
rangements were at once made for the fight.
When all was in readiness, care you teadysn
was asked by one Of the seconds. srYes," was
the answer of the two men who faced each
other without manifesting the slightest agita-
ton or fear. Cash were an eager, malignant
look. his eyes emitting sparks Of rage. Sham
mons expression denoted sadness and serenity.
As the word was given, Shannon fired, missing
his mark, his ball burying itself at the foot Of
his adversary The word two was given and
Cash drew, o bead On his foe and pulled the
trigger. His leaden messenger did It's work IN
simultaneously. The arm was torn and the bull
LET penetrated the heart of Shannon. A bolt
Of lightning could not have caused death more
suddenly. He dropped his weapon, reeled,
whirled around inc fell dead. Cash seeing
what he had done ~incontinently left the field
without even casting a parting look at his vic
tim. As soon as the news Of the fatal combat
reached Camden, the intensest indignation was
shown by the whole community. If Cash had
shown himself in Camden he would certainly
have been lynched by the outraged people.
Warrants are out for Cash's arrest, and if
caught, he viii be prosecuted for murder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
The First Man a Black Man.

The primitive preadamite man, ac-
cording to Prof. Winchell, lived in a
country lying between the present fri-
can and Asiatic continents, and thence
he dispersed himself ever the earth.
He was essentially a black man, as dis
tinguished from the white man ; not an
African negro, but of dark leathern skin,
like the. native Australian races. The
native Australian is inferior In structure
and intelligence to the African negro
he falls as far below the negro as the
negro below the white man, and is more
nearly related to the primitive man than
any other race,ao The black races now IN
existence are the. Hottentots, the ne
groes, the Australians and the Papuans,
the latter Of whom are dark-skinned and
almost black, occupying New Guinea
and some smaller islands north of Aus
tralia. yigadgfs-igfR 9sresffi
/. Primitive man also gave birth to the
brown races. These are, now found IN
the islands of the Pacific, and of them
the Sandwich islanders are specimens.
They crossed to the American continent
and their descendants are the Indians Of
North and South America, from Green.
land to Patagonia. and, on the Asiatic
continent, the Chinese, the Japanese,
the Tartars, the Turks. the Malays, the
Burmese. etc. 1l. iEfsT q 4~sta9to
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
HOW Grant Went to west Point.

A Columbus (Ohio) letter to the Gin
cinnati Commercial relates the follow
ing entertaining story on the alleged au-
thority of a Republican ex-Congress-
man of that State, who says that Gen.
Grant told it to him Just before his first
nomination for the Presidency: "iWhen
I was a boy" said Grant, Giving In
Georgetown, my mother ran out of but
ter one morning, and, needing some be-
fore 1t could be had at the store, she
sent me over to the next-door neighbor's
to borrow some. Well, I was Just as
well acquainted there as I was at home
almost, and opened the door and went in
without knocking, and just as I went IN
one of the folks, the old gentleman, I
believe, was reading a letter from a son
who was in West Point. Well, I didn't
want to disturb them while they were
reading the letter, and stood there and
heard what was read. Well, the son
said in this letter that he had been
found-that is, he had failed to pass e1-
animation, and he would have, to come
home. and he had sent the letter one
mail ahead, so that the surprise
at his return might not be SO great. Igot
the butter and took it home, and then
rush eddown to Thomas L. Hamar's of
fce-he was our Congressman then
and L asked him if he wouldn't send me
to West Point. He told me that he
couldn't send me until this other boy
got through, and that wouldn't be for
three years yet. But, Hamar, said I,
suppose this boy should fail to pass ex-
animation, and should be sent home,
will you send me, then2' well, Uly,'
said he, Il guess if he can't pass there'.l
be no use of your trying it.. But |
want you to promise that you will send
me- said All right said he, if he
can't get through, I promise to let you
try it. Well, during the day Hamar
heard about the other fellow, and the
next day I went and asked him if he had
heard the news He said he had. and,
after laughing at me for the promise, he
said it was all right, I should go. Well,
I went, and because my mother hap
pened to be out of butter has made me
General of the army of the United States,
and don't know, after all, but what it
may make me President"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Tn. rraneins of George Praee.

George Price, the negro who murdered Vnis
Black, . tobacco merchant at Uincinnaa, che
year ago last spring, was hanged In the Hamn
ton County Jail yard On the 9th Inst; In the
presence of between A1e and six hundred per-
sons. No man ever met death more ganely than
did Price. Although soms weeks prior 10 the
execution he manifested q Reluctance approach
ing on 10 ecssfdice in anticipation Of the event
rs the time for the hanging drew nearer, the
feeling Of fear seemed to leave him, and when
he was marched outon the scaffold 1t was with
a steady step and q countenance
wreathed Ia smiles. Those around whom
he recognized here and there through the
crowd, he bowed and spoke to very much in the
manner of a church Deacon in his happiest
mood. It is noteworthy that since the oommis-
sion of this cold FLOODED murder he has never
so much as expressed the least regret FOR his
victim, the bereayed family or the commission
Of the deed, but rather boastfully maintained
that by It's enactment he had only done justice
to his outraged feelings, viz: the stigma Of having
stolen a hogshead of tobacco. When all was
in readiness-when the prisoners arms and
legs had been bonnd and the moose adjusted to
his neck, smiling complacently on the crowd be,
low he said: "AllTye got to say is, Ihave lived
the best I could. Good bye" b black cap was
drawn over his head, and before the culpfit
was hardly aware of his awful fate, Sheriff
Weber sprung the lever, and George Price was
launched into eternity. At his expressed wish
no minister was present to administer to his
spiritual welfare, and no reference to his future
state was made by him on the scaffold. At ten
minutes past IL am. the drop was sprung,
and fifteen minutes after he was pronounced
dead by the physicians. The fall was five feet,
and he died without . struggle-and the muir
der Of Willie Black, one of Cincinnati's best
citizens-"a man whose nature was as mild as
that of a woman" as his n~eighbors express IL
has been avenged.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
A million Copies a Year.

An interviewer asked Nj. William 81.
Appleton, the head of the great publish
ing house in New York, what was the
best selling book published by his firm.
Ifs answer Was :" rWsbsters Speller,'
ana il has ths largest sale Of any Book In
the world except the Bible: We sell a
million copies a year." Upon the inter-
viewer expressing his establishment at
this statement, Nj. Appleton added:
eyes, and we have been selling it at
that rate for forty years. The year fol-
lowing the emancipation of the slaves we
sold 1850, 900, because every negro in
the South thought it only necessary to
have a 6 Webster's Speller' to read. At
ter that year it fell back to the original
million, and has never varied. We sell
them in cases of se~venty-two dozen, and
they are bought by all the large dry
goods hptises and supply stores, and
furnished by them tS every crossroads
store in the Country"
It was in 1888, ninety-seven years ago,
hat Noah Webster published the little
work which he afterward named "Spell-
ing Book" He first called it, First
Part of q Grammatical Institute of
the English Language He must
have soon simplified this name, be-
canse we fnd1 Dr. Franklin writing to
him ini17S9.
Permit me to make observation
that I imagine may regard your inter-
est. It is that your spelling Book is
miserably printed here Philadelphial,
SO as in many places to be scarcely legii-
BILE, and on wretched paper. If this is
not attended to, and the new one lately
advertised as coming out should be
| preferable in these respects, it may hura
the sale of yours"
MI. Webster probably acted upon this
hint, for the book, as we see, has held
its own to the present day. Noah Web.
ster lived Upon the copyright of hi.
Spelling Book for nearly half q century
it is said; and was thus enabled to pro
duce his great dictionary, which yielded
him, no profit atsall, ~althoughit has been
a valuable estate to his family.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Sheen Raising,


The sheep industry In the United
consideration of which there are two
partially distinct, and at the same time
interlocking interests. Sheep were IN
early times grown almost solely for their
wool, aud with the aiintial shearing came
the years income but in later times,
and never sc prominently as now, the
carcass is looked upon as an important
item in sheep husbandry. Mutton as a
cheap and acceptable meat has of late
grown greatly In popularity; and mutton
now stands as one of the two important
factors in the successful raising of sheep.
In view of the fact that the merino is
essentially q wool-produeing breed, with
a fleece Of the finest and best quality, it
is evident that the pure-blood merino,
though it may supply our manufactures
with the material for the finest of wooden
goods, On the other hand cannot
satisfy the butcher. The sheep having
to both feed and clothe its keeper, 1t is
an important question |. What Is the
best breed of sheep to do thisf Evil
IDENTIFY not the pure-blooded merino.
Though the growing Of the pure-blooded
merinos has its place, and an impor-
tant one, and the demand for their wool
indicates the prosperity of manufacture
of the finest goods, tits by the crossingof
them with other breeds in which the
fe-sh-producing qualities predominant
that a sheep best for both meat and wool
is produced. cfoss-breed is the one
that in most localities is to pay. The
merino is slow. of growth and small of
carcass when mature ; but when crossed
with a rapid grower, n that natures
early, is a high feeder, and lays on flesh
rapidly, but not remarkable tor its wool
either in quantitysor quality, a sheep is
obtained that pays for itself in its wool
of prime quality, and furnishes a good
quantity of mutton as a profit. OF such
character are the crosses of the merino
with the Cotswold and the South-down.
But with the great mass of American
sheep on the Western plains, wool is the
important product, and here the cross
must be with the merino upon the
native race of sheep which has
grown out of a variety of early impor.
tations to this country-an i~ntercrossine
/ of various breeds in which many of the
good points have been lost. In this field
the meEino hasa great work to do tc
raise the yield of wool one, two, or more
pounds per head, and give it a highe,
value. ". rsEr. -tfa 81
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Arre.ta Line.

; Edward W. Patchett, manager of the bank
ing Office of Guy, Beyant 4 Co., at No. 40 Ex-
change Place, New York, and Lawrence R.
jerome, IT., sen of L. R. Jerome, a citizen well
known In sporting circle, have been arrested
for secretly retaining possession Of stocks Of
the value of Ss7, 200, which were found by
detectives in the formers trunk. Brayton
Ives, formerly President of the Stock Exchange,
had sent a messenger boy, with the stocks to
deliver them, who returned shortly after his
departure saying he had, lost them. It is
thought that the. arrested parties stole them
from him, as they have confessed that they
knew who the stocks belonged to, and admitted
that it was their purpose to negotiate them in
Enoland rt-hl
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
The Dear Old Mother.

Honor the dear old mother. Time.
has scattered the snowy flakes on her.
brow, plowed deep burrows on her
cheeks, but is she not sweet and beauti-
full now? The lips are thin and shrunk-
en-, but those are the lips which have
kissed many a hot tear from the childish
cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in.
the world. The eye is dim, yet it CLOVIS
with the soft radiance of holy love which
car never fade. All, yes, she is a dear
old mother. The sands Of life are nearly
run out, but, feeble as she is, she will go
further and reach down lower for you
than any other upon earth. You cannot
walk into a midnight where she cannot
Q you you cannot enter q prison
whose bars will keep her out !; you can
not mount a scaffold too high for her to
reach that she may kiss and bless you in
evidence of her deathless love. When
the world shall despise and forsake you,
when it leaveth you by the wayside to die
unnoticed, the dear old mother will
gather you in her feeble arms, and carry
you home, and tell you of all your viz
tues until you almost forget that your
soul is disfigured by vices. Love her
tenderly, and cheer her declining years
with holy devotion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Revenue omcer. Arrested In seorris.

Revenue Onleera Arrested in Georgia.
internal, Revenue Commissioner Raum has
received a Telegram announcing the arrest un-
der State process of several Deputy Collectors,
engaged in the Red River affair, in Campbell
County, Ga, in which one of the party was
killed by the revenue officers; who allege the
firing on their part was in self-defense. Gen.
Raum, after comforting with Attorney General
Devens, telegraphed the Assistant District At
torney to appear in behalf of the revenue Off
GERS who are under arrest, and to take writs of
habeas corpus, with the view of transferring
the cases to Court GA
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
The old veteran. of h War Of Isia


Only six of the veterans of the war of 1872
assembled, according to their annual custom,
this year, to partake of a dinner at the Sturte-
want House in New Yerk City, as the GUESTS of
Messrs. Lelands< Since the 4th of July of last
year, twelve of theyeterans have died. When
the veterans first took dinner together at the
Sturtevant House, in 1874, they numbered be-
tween fifty and sixty. Those who were present
this year were Thurlow Weed, now eighty-three
years Of age; General Daily, eighty-ave years
of age; Thomas -, eighty-fve years; Gar
diner R. Lilibridge, editor of the Harlem Locas
Reporter, eighty-one years; Charles Coombs,
eightyTfye years; Thomas Stewart, eighty-fve
years. Among the guests were Mrs. Charles
Coombs, Miss Stewart. Miss Davenport, daugh-
ter of adeceased veteran, ex-Goy. Mccormick,
of Arizona, d. R. Locke, author of the Mas
by" papers, Leonard Lathrop, &c. Banks.
Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Weed,
Locke, George Leland, Mccormick and La
throp. 5S
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Ohio u. : Gre-n., state.

A correspondent at Camden, Ohio, under re-
cent date, writes as follows to the Cincinnati
Gazette: oneof the freaks of nature presented
itself in this locality, and It Is indeed an object
of interest, It is the truth and no puffed-up
fraud. On the farm of Mr.. John Byers, east Of
town about two miles, o cow gave birth to q
calf with two separate heads, TIVE backs and
tails, and eight legs. This curious wonder was
born alive and remained SO for two days, when
it died. 1t was visited by many, whose curiosity
was aroused, and also by those doubtful Of its
truthfulness, but all who went came back sntis-
fed and pronounced it indeed a wonder in
nature. i.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
I, owar.ny MEN.

AyAcht containing a party Of fourteen per-
persons capsized on White Bear Lake, twelve
miles from st. Paul, Mimi. They we're struck
by a sudden squall, and having no competent
sailor on board, the yacth went over. Eight of
the passengers were men, of whom seven were
unmarried. The rest were women and children.
The seven single mon swan ashore without
making any efforts to save the lives of the wo-
men and children, who were all drowned, with
one married man, who stayed and made an eff
fort to save his family,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
A eIea.ant LatfIe Entertatnmanta

Eleosons Aiette hsntersA1nmenG
It is stated from Stockton, Texas, that . par
ty Of rangers met . band Of desperadoes, thirty
miles this side Of Fort Davis, and, both sides
d~ismounting, took to the rocks, and firing
began. Three desperadoes emerged from the
rocks and threw up their hands. The fourth
came, also, but continued the firing and killed
one of the rangers. He was forthwith riddled
by the rangers. The desperadoes surrendered.
Telegraph wires had been out in several places,
the supposed work Of this gang.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15

Edward Davis, a resident Of Nashville, Ind,
lied the past week, aged one hundred years.
he was married four times, and was the father
Of thirty-two children: Twelve by his first wife,
twelve by his second, none by his third-from
whom he was soon divorced-and eight by his
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Slow News.

Much that is not very important is
but into "news papers nowadays ;
put the ideas of the more-ancient editors
as to what is really worth telling were
very defective indeed-as much SO as
were their means of getting news and
sending it abroad.
Wendell Phillips, in a lecture deliv-
cred in New York city, noted the
wonderful growth and power of the
press in the direction of journal
ism. This is an agent of civilization
that has developed chiefly within fifty
years.
The account of the battle of Waterloo,
which, Phillips said, was the grandest
event of European history in this cent
ury, occupied only one-third of a col
umn of the London Times. Compare
with this journalistic enterprise that
which lays a full-page history of the
Ute massacre of ten persons in Colorado
before the readers of our great dailies.
Garrison was mobbed in Boston in
1885,, and narrowly escaped being
hanged. With all the files of the Bos-
ton papers of that year before him, Mr..
Phillips could not find anything like a
detailed account of the event, /" which
shook the city while it blasted" .i
When President Harrison died in 1841,
it took ten days for the news to reach
Springfield, H., from Washington, and
then Abraham, Lincoln dlsbelieved the
report because it seemed impossible it
could reach there so oon
Now in the newspaper you buy this
afternoon you "may read the words
Queen Victoria spoke to ner Parliament
since the sun rose in England, or what
a congress of European Representatives
said and did on the banks of the Bcs-
phorus the evening before. As Phil
lips pertinently says "The man who
reads the paper has a telegraph wire that
connects him with the world, and the
man that does not read might as well be
Robinson Crusoe on his island"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
ConnectIcut Green,,,cher.

The Connecticut .Greenback State Convention
nominated for Governor Henry @. Baldwin;
hieutenant Governor. F. s.. Sterling; Secretary
of State, L. d. Pinney; Treasurer, Thomas E.
Ryan; Comptroller, H. R. Wright. A resolu-
ton was passed repudiating any attemptto
bring about . coalition with either the Demo-
cratic or Republican party. The platform in
dorses the action of the Chicago Labor-Greep
back party Convention. 80
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
The Markets.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES family. So 1906 rs;
fancy, S535@6 90; patents6 25SI. So, spring 20
-four, SIS 63@4 rs. GRAiN.-Wheat-No. 2 red sold
at 81 o4@l G5 and No. 2amber at Sl@1 % Corn.-No.2
shelled 9%94G Rye--No. 2 is held in elevator at
100 74c. Oais.-No, 2 mixed are selling at '29@soc.
Barley Fali-prime to choice Sr@S5c. Hay-good to
prime timothy s13 -50@14 so per ton. Mess pork,
81 lgl = Lard prime winter steam, s.75e. Cot
NEW YoRk. -Ffour-Superfne State aud avest-
1ern, So al t5; common to good extra Western and
State, 81 LU945,; good to choice Western and State,
81 fp@7 o.; common. to good white wheat Western
extra, s45 as 06; good to choice Ohio extra
a saini W. - fIs6 Ia So' red 81 ssSI s. RES rea.
so. 2 swtesfIsi and state ss@sss. Bar BARLEY, common
Western, SOC. Corn-Ungraded, 46gsic.t No.
prime steam, 81 3Oa7 22%c. Cotton-The market Is
quiet ~middling ~uplands. II a-16c middling Orleans,
BALTIMORE Flour Western s~uperfne; 50 rs
@3 80; Western extra, So 1894 so; Western fam
fE, So DOGS IS. Wheat No. Western, winter red,
s5@86c. Pennsylvania, S6S5aXc. Rys-Good 70
Observation-Disclosures extra FAM
az o.. Rye -four 81 l2114@4 Is: Grain-Wheat,
Corn-mixe Western, on track, 49@5Oc.; steamer
on track, 4s@I9c. oats-No. 2 white, 3g@39hc.
No 1ou Tljtei I s :. - Ea,d; Western 4 se sss, 7 z. Sc,
@625. Grain-Wheat, red and amber, soc. Corn
NO. Z whte 4zt2c., ml4eu. oS12c. OaiS-Wn1te,
3Ic.; mixed, 29c. Rye-No 2, Tie. Hay
common to choice, sio@l5 per ton. Pork, is steady
at S12 IS. Lard-choice prime steam &c.
choice in kegs, @sssc. Cotton, 1l14c.
Observation-Disclosures IL steady No.
2 red 81 O29l 03. No. 2 red, new, 95997Hc. Corn
Is quiet nj 34@35c. Oats-Are firm at 2693Jc.
STOCK MARKETS.
CINCINNATI.-Beef Cattle-Common, 1. 1892. Csc.
fair to medium, rs 63.4'c.; good to choice butcher
grades, s.65@44' c.; fair togood shippers, 4.0O@46'ci
good to choice cows, 3.6594.Gee.; common to good
stockers, 2.5ha3. soc. Hogs-Common, 3.25@3.9 &c.
fair to good light, 4.1o14.3Oc. fair to good packing
grades, 4.u0@4 .35c, and selected butchers qualities,
3.35d4.45c; ~Sheep-Common to fair, 2.25@3.25c., and
good to choice, 3.5O@4 soc.
EAST LIBERTY. PA.-Beef Cattle-Best steer
at s5@5 IS per 100 lbs. Sales made Of fair to good
81 2594 81; common, So s5@4 90 per 100 lbs. Hogs-
Sales made of Workers. at 81 3e@4 40 per 100 lbs
Philadelphia hogs, Si.5094.65. sheep and lambs
Sales were made at 10@l5c. per 100 lbs.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-Beef Csttle-Choice to fancy,
native shipping steers, "a 4os4 50 per 100 lbs
prime, 81 35@4 IS; medium, 81 ol94 rs. Fair Il
choice native shipping heifers, 81 509a Is; shes@E
and l~amhs-fair 10 fancy muttons, IS oO94 90
Hogs Yonkers and Baltimores, "a 1894 IS; mike
packing grades, a 1904 25i select heavy grades
IA Qnal An
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15

THIS is a Dramatic News correspond
ent's view Of the Hub: "To promote
suicidal inclinations easily, rapidly and
by an entirely natural method, L know
of nothing more infallble than being a
stranger in Boston. The hotels are
wretched, the citizens look upon you
with an air of cool suspicion that would
exasperate q craven image, the sidewalks
are SO narrow that walking upon them
reminds you of a tight rope perform
ance, and the streets are SO crooked that
by walking straight ahead for twenty
four hours you pass the starting point
exactly eighteen times"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-07-15
Justice E.ecutea WIN LittIe Cost

At the yulture Nine, Arizona, ON the 21st Of
june, a Mexican, Jose Maria Salazar, a disap-
pointed sutton of Miss Lubiate, called at her
residence, and after a brief conversation shot
her dead. The murderer fed, but men secured
the country on foot and horseback, and soon
captured him. They held a Lynch court, and
on the testimony of eyewitnesses to the deed,
convicted and hung him. The whole affair was
carried out in a quiet and orderly manner.