The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11


ing their wisdom they would do the town
a marked good.
Frank Filbert has Just returned from
the apple region of Michigan, where he
spent a week in selecting several hun
dred barrels of the choicest fruit for this
market.
F. P. Filbert has just returned from
Michigan with a choice lot of fine keep
ing winter apples.
The evenings are growing longer, when
one of the greatest pleasures of quiet
living will be the attraction of a comfort
able Preside and the perusal of a good
newspaper like the DEMOCRAT.
A reflective writer has been asking
readers to cast their eyes back about ten
years. Very few men have time for any
such nonsense. Mrs. Lot cast her eyes
back about three minutes, and that little
act obliged Lot to get a fresh wife.
The campaign is now over and the po-
litical christian will begin to put on his
long hypocritical countenance, and lee
ture young men and girls about rude
ness and walk half a square to avoid a
saloon!
Scarf pins and sleeve buttons in big
variety, the latest novelties, at ]. Woer-
ner's.
If the rebel women of the south ever
went ahead of some of the female Repub-
licans of this town, for bitterness of
tongue, as evinced during the late cam
paign, we can only sigh, "may the Lord
have mercy on them"
A very old man voted three times at
Washington, Ind, in the recent State
election. On his trial it was convincing
ly shown that, though sober, he had been
SO carried away by excitement as to for
get that he had already voted.
Get one of those comfortable cassi-
mere suits, $40 and $11, going fast, only
about 40 suits left, at Jos. Woerner's.
Some men and boys seem to think
that a Stat fence is made to rattle a
stick On. The music of the stick, as it
merrily trips from slab to slab, is very
sweet to the owner of the fence, especi-
ally when the fence is newly painted.
A Peoples Church has been organized
in Chicago by the Rev. DR.. Thomas, who
was turned out of a Methodist pulpit for
unorthodox preaching, and the persons
most clamorous to turn him out would
applaud Bob Ingerson at a Republican
meeting.
After you have received your mail at
the post-ofice window, it is a good plan
to step aside and let somebody else do
the same. Unless you have a mortgage
on the floor in front of the window, don't
stand there more than four hours at a
time.
Just fifty years ago it required several
cotillions and fddlers to boil a family
supply of apple butter; while to-day, On
the improved plan, one woman will do
the boiling, fiddling, wood chopping,
scolding and tasting for family and the
neighborhood. Truly, wonderful is the
evolution.
When you want a good apple to keep
for winter use, remember the Michigan
are the best. Fol- sale at F. P. Filbert,s.
We have too good an opinion of u
patrons to suppose that they would cheat
their newspaper man out of a single
hard earned cent. But we know that
the memory of a few have carried them
successfully through three years of read
ing without paying a cent therefor. No
one who understands how much it costs
to run a paper will hesitate ingiving this
matter his attention.
The Grand Jury convened on Monday
and held its session in the room of the
Sheriff, which lasted but two days. Six
bills of indictment were found, as fol-
lows: General S. Evans, (colored) lar
ceny of horse and buggy Isaac J. Weav-
er, shooting with intent to kill; Hey
wood and Jones, burglary and larceny /;
Michael Ryan, assault and battery
Samuel McNutt, assault and battery
VIM. A. Danner, assault and battery.
Frank Stockton, late in the Govern
ment employ at Washington city, left
Eaton for Texas last week, where he ex-
poets to engage in a business in which
) he will not be assessed 4 per cent. on
his income for the purpose of corrupting
the ballot-box and plundering the PEG.
pie. We wish him all the success imag.
. Unable, and glory in his manhood in re-
fusing to pay the assessment for such al
infamous and disreputable business.
{ With this issue expires the time of u
t campaign subscribers. We regret to par
with them, as we have labored hard t.
give them in our columns just what they
- might expect in a Democratic campaign
and local newspaper. We hope we sue
ceeded SO well in pleasing them that the,
now will find it hard to be without tn
. DEMOCRAT, and will send us word at ono,
that they want their names put uponth
" list as permanent subscribers.
Our farmers should be careful abou
% selling the product of their tobacco patch
=, es. 1t is a clear violation of the Unite
States internal revenue laws for a pre-
Queer to dispose of any portion of his te
10 bacco crop at retail, for money or an
other consideration, unless he has a res
ular Government license. A number {
20 farmers in this State have been arreste
j. and taken before the United States Coul
in Cincinnati for retailing leaf tobacco
st and their plea of ignorance of the la,
ar will hardly save them.
n, Geo. Wallace and Sanford Cayler, tW