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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
Ckicken Breedinr i'm France.

Thanks to some singular statistics
Just published, for the authenticity OF
which, however, / should hesitate to
vouch, a mystery that has long hung
over our dinner.tables Is cleared up.
English travellers or residents in France
must, like myself, have often WON
dered where all the fowls that figure
daily in the menus at every hotel, re-
staurant and private house in this coun-
try, at no matter what season of the
year, can possibly come from. The sup
ply appears to be inexhaustible, and
that it is so practically is proved by the
announcement that France contains no.
fewer than 40, 600, 900 hens. which are
followed by a train of 100,000,000
chickens, about a tenth part of these
latter being destined for the duties of
propagation. The 40. 900, 900 hens lay
annually four miIliards of eggs, which,
at the rate of six confines each-a trife
| over a half-penny-the price paid to the
breeder, realize a sum of $40, 000, 90
| francs. If to this amount be added the
proceeds from the sale of fowls, whether
lean or fat, and taking into c~onsidera-
eggs and birds by reason of city tolls,
the total arrived at is setyfdewn at the
almost fabulous figure of 550, 000, 900
francs, or more than half q milliard,
produced annually by French poultry
yards. Neither ducks nor geese, nor
turkeys are included in these calcula.
tions; if they were, the gross sum would
have to be increased by several hundred
millions of francs. So, accepting thii
census as tolerably near the mark, we
may henceforth cease to be surprise d al
the vast amount of chicken bones daily
picked in France.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
Amurderou. mar.hnl.

At Hampton, Ga, DR.. D.. F. Knott and a
man named Lee had a fight. Knott drew q
pistol and fired at Lee, when Colonel McCol-
lum, a prominent lawyer, took the pistol from
Knott. John McKneely, the Town Marshal,
came up and demanded the pistol of McCol-
lum, who refused to give it mp. A struggle
enrued, and finally both men agreed to give the
weapons to a third par y. A fight then followed,
in which the Marshal was worsted- He went
away, and all supposed the difficulty was over.
In a few moments McKneely was seen return
ing with a shotgun. When McCollum saw him
coming he picked up a rock and said, "Are
you going to shoot?" McKneely replied,
Eyes, d-n you'll" and then fired both bar
rels, which we're heavily loaded with buck
shot, and McCollum fell, grasping, horribly
riddled with bullets, and died in a, few mo-
ments. There is great excitement over the af-
fair, and McKneely has been arrested. Nc
columns friends denounce the affair as q cold
blooded murder and further difficulties may
epsue s. 81
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
A Piece OF Arkansas Romance.
futile Rock Gazette.

A very singular termination to a love
affair has just occurred near this ciJy.
Sons time ago q young man, whom it
would no doubt be we'll to call James,
not because it is his real name, and
not because there is anything 30 striking
IN this ancient cognomeh, but because,
we'll because-fell in love, or thought
he did, with q young Lady whom, for
about the same reasons as given above,
it would be well to call Susan. Practical
names, both of them. The fondness of
James was returned. James told Susan
that he loved her, and Susan told James
that she slowed him. James asked Susan
to marry him, and Susan said that she
would. The young man had spent
sleepless nights in contemplating the
prize he was attempting to win, but
when he found that the pole of his at
fractions had knt cked the "persimmon"
of Susan's affections, he ceased tossing
the cover at night and slept soundly.
Finally he unused: "I don't love that
girl. I wish that I had not acted SO
rashly in engaging myself to her. 1t
would almost break her heart if 1 were
to tell her of my mistake. She is 30
affectionate. What q fool a man isl !"
Ouohu oA0 1Ob P0So al GhAo III W1luOub
musipg: Women are &c impulsiye,"
she thought. I am engaged to that man
and l declare that / do not love him.
I would break the engagement but he
might kill himself. / don't know what
to do" The parties continued to be af-
~fectionate toward one another, and the
same grave troubles affected alike the
mind Of each. Several nights 2 the
affectionate parties sat beside each
other.
Susan" remarked James, edo you
think a man should marry a woman,
when he doesn't love her, merely to
pre- serve his honor"
mo, do your
"I- don't think that he should. By
the way, Sue, l think that it would be
better for us not to get married. 1 have
been mistaken ; ] don't Love you. !
hope that you will forgive me. Have
l wrcnged your" w
"Glorious man." said the girl. "You
have lifted a heavy weight from my
heart. l do not love you, and the fear
Of fatal results has ever kept me from
breaking our engagement" %
sis that 3 I" asked James, astonished.
"T speak truthfully.H
"Well, I will be dog-goned. 1 thought
that you cared for me. Pill be BIZ:
tered if this affair hasn't got away with
me. Say, Suef" ,t g= f.
eyes" q.
"Now, let's look at this business q lit
tie closer We are both very frank.
| think that frank people make the best
husbands and wives. We understand
each other first Fate. Tell me, don't
you-that is, don't you entertain some
thing of an affection for met"
"Y-yes. Don't you for met" zs-
Eyes. Suppose, as we understand
each other 30 well, that we get married.
"All right" and the ceremony was
performed in a country church last
Sunday.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
Man a Laughing Animal.

Man is said to be the only animal that
can cry, and yet be is not really a cry
ing creature. He is a laughing and
smiling creature. The hours which
bring tsars do not come very often.
Some fresi6es see tenor twenty years in
which no one had cause for weeping.
Many, many hundreds, many thousands
meet with no sorrow for a quarter of a
century. Count them over and the day.
on which man cries are few compared
with all the days of his life: Man is an
animal that can cry, but not a creature
that often has reason for such unnappi-
ness, but he Is most perfectly a creature
that laughs Not many days pass that
bring no pleasant smile to the majority.
There is a column of laughter in each
newspaper. The light dramas of pure
and ingenious quality draw large aus
diences, while painful tragedy is les
popular, because men and women, tie
humblest and the highest, would rather
laugh than cry. 1t ought to bli an a
proiri argument in favor of fees in
trinsic sweetness and worth that man
comes up into it with his face beaming
! with smiles, and this smile widens out
as years pass and the dear old father
laughs and plays with the little chill
dren, and one merriment like cleo
tricity thrills the heart of infant and of
patriarch.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
uia-Air E-xcurnisn.

The 2sth of May was prolific with hangings.
At Woodfeld, Ohio, Peter King, jr., was
hanged for the murder of David Trembly. The
day before the hanging he repented, was bap-
tiled and Joined the Methodist Church.
At Ozark, Ark, Thomas Edmunds died of
hemp disease for the murder of his wife n
child, whom he killed and threw into the Ar
kansas River to get rid Of them.
At Marion, Ark, L. L.. Ford was suddenly
left without a standing foundation for the
murder of John Broadway the 26th of last DC
tober. He was one Of a party of four, and to
the last moment declared his innocence.
At Hartford, Conn.,, Henry Hamlin, q con-
vict, whe shot Waterman Shipman while at
tempting to escape from Jail, balanced accounts
for the mis- AXE by inserting his head in the
~hangman's moose and choking to death. He
attended special mass and died repentant.
At Hanover C.. H., Va, Charles Bollinger
atcoiored) ended his eartkIy-pilgrimage for
having CO nmitted a fendish rape on a little
girl the lst of April last. Whether he died
happy the dispatch does not say.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
Au.rribIe suna.h-up.

A Santa Cruz, CAL, telegram of the 23d inst.
says: The local train on the South Pacific
Coast Railroad, which ran to-day between
here and Big Tree Switch, with passengers to
the Independent Riff, picnic at that place, mot
with q terrible accident. At 8 :33 open cars,
with high ratings outside and at the ends,
with seats, and loaded with about one hundred
and twenty-five persons, left that place for this
city. On the way down all went we'll till No.
Seven Tunnel was passed. As the cars passed
through the tunnel the speed of the engine was
increased, it being down rade. Just as a
curve in the road was reached, the first car
jumped the track to the left and the second to
the right, the third car remaining on the track.
The people of the first two cars were thrown
into a heap inside toward the bank in a con-
fused mass, the cars passing over those who
were across the track. Those on the third
car were uninjured, merely icing knocked off
their Get. Those whs were not hurt immedi-
atc'y set to work to assist the wounded and
look after the dying and dead. A gloom of
sadness tonight is cast over our city. Every
hotel is being turned into a hospital to receive
the wounded, which will number upward of
forty. Already thirteen are reported dead,
and many others will die before morning.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
Price Respifed.

The efforts for executive clemency of the at
torney and friends of George Allen Price, who
was condemned to death for the murder in cold
blood of Mr.. Willie Black, at Cincinnati, a year
ago, have, in a measure, been successful.
Governor Foster has respited Price six weeks.
This, the public regards,-if the public prints
are to be depended upon-as but an initiatory
step to q Communication of his sentence to Peni-
Tertiary for life. The grounds upon which the
extension has been granted is a plea Of insan-
ity. 1t is but fair to presume that if Price is
insane now he was insane when he committed
the dastardly crime of which he stands con-
victed, and Uice versa. At the time of its COM
mission he maintained that he was justified in
the murder, and he still maintains it, upon the
hypothesis that the opprobrjum which the
charge of theft had cast upon his character
could Lot be removed nor the monstrosity of its
depths vindicated except by the taking of the
life of the allie sed villifer. After his arrest,
when told that Black was dying, he said he
was glad of it, and that if he did not die, he
would shoot him again. He also at hat time
expressed a very strong desire to shoot a dray-
man whom he held in enmity, and Detective
Amthauer, who previously arrested him on a
charge Of theft. As to his fate, he manifest
perfect difidence: does not believe God ever
created a soul to damn it; believes in a heaven
and a sweet hereafter. A Board of Examiners
will inquire into his sanity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 20.
To General Thomas Hillhouse, Assistant Treasurer OF
Of the United States, New York.
s1R-I am not satisfied with the prices the
Department has been compelled to pay for the
bonds recently purchased and am disposed to
extend the call for bids for four-per-oents
and four-and-a-half- r-csnts, which at mar
ket rates win pay the Government a better in
forest. I have NO fear but that Congress will
provide means for the payment of the bonds as
they mature, and I am quite sure the hope of
holders of bonds that they will run longer than
maturity is unfounded. You will, therefore,
give notice that next Wednesday, and every
wednesday hereafter until further notice, the
Department will receive bids for four and four
~and-a-half per cent. bonds of the United
States, as we'll as those of the description
heretofore named. Very respectfully,
T IL JOHN SHERMAN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
over rven.y Per.oas Drowned.


Says a special from Bracket, Texas, May
2sth: At 1 80 O'Clock this morning the heav-
lest and most disastrous rain storm ever known
here set in, and is still pouring down in tor
rents. All of Bracket, except portions upon
two hills, is inundated. On Main street the
water is from 5 to 8 feet deep, rushing down
the street with almost Incredible rapidity. The
floor ofevery business house is from one to five
feet under water. Several men were at the
mercy of the waters and went down, and all
efforts 10 save them were of no avail. Crest
anxiety is felt for the safety of families along
Las Morns Creek. More than twenty people
have been drowned and a dozen houses washed
away. 1t is thought some bore human freight.
Many houses were washed from their founda-
lions. All residences in the lower part of town
arc being vacated as fast as possible. The
greatest excitement prevails.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
4 Big Financial Cram.

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company has failed with Liabilities at
S7,657,O70; assets, $ 3,s9S, III. President
'Dwen makes the following announcement
- The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, and the Philadelphia and, Reading
Oal md Iren Company have been compelled to
suspcnd payments. The managers will take i'm
-nrdiate measures to protect intact the property
# both companies, and continue business for
this urPose. The daily revenues will be applied
as far as required, to the payment OF wages
md supplies" In New York the failure was
the absorbing topic of conversation ON Wall
street, and in brokers' Offices and bank psrlors
he influence Of the failure on the stock market
vas discussed at length. In the Stock Ex-
change Reading stock rapidly declined from
46H, after having opened at 46, to 3oH and
Bly, The effect of the decline was felt by
other coal stocks, and the whole market was
carried down in sympathy with the coal stocks.
While the dealings in the Exchange were at
tended with consid ,rable excitement, there
was no approach to a panic, and before the
close of BUSINESS a part of the loss was re-
covered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
The Markets

@cINNATL-Flour-winte family. 81 so@5 Is;
tancy, $54O@6 90; patents6 2597 Isl spring 20 so
s ssa ri j. e ezsss g q sog gssSs 81; .uPsTaas, e sSgs red ID sSd
lhelied zO@4Ic. Rye-No 2 is held in elevato, at
Bailey No. 5 is quoted :, s5ssoc extra No at %
PTdR 9s tf4n mot . nI ;as 50 ts Ps5 ton axa Me- P Fcot,
''sSE ri YoRSk.HTTfour-superAns State and West.
State, SIS 81 50; good to choice Western and State,
a 6da7 o.; common to good white wheat Western
extra, 81 i5a5 &C; good to choice. Ohio extra
No Western and State s2@ssc. Barley, common
W sS;;s1 . sse; s SsIH5SnsGos stsa4. Sasss' Lard DO:
prime steam, 7.o7LG5.10c. Cotton-The market lie
hrm; middling uplands, Ils1c.; middling Orleans
BALITMoRE.- Flour-western superhne, s. so
"A o.; Western extra, "a 2595 90; Western fam
nv, IS 25G5 %. Wheat-No. 2 Western winter red,
81 27@I IS. Corn-Western mixed S551c. Oats
4oNc.; Pennsylvania, 45@1sc. Rye Good to prime
Observation-Disclosures extra fam
Nv, medium, IS IS; and choice to fancy, IS SOC
6 Is. Ryehour, 81 Is. Grain-WheatN NO. West
ern red. 81 2s%@12s n; Ohio amber, q IS; Corr
ON A track, sHa55c. oatsNNo. ; white, Ic.; No.
l white, 4Se. Lard, Western heTes' 57ec, FAM
65o. Grain-wheat, red and amber, 81 o.. Corn
No. white 4s@4sMc mixed, tO94le. Oats-Mhite
36LLc.: mixed, 35Lc. Rys-No :, s49e5c- Hay
common to choice, s14@i7 per ton. Pork, is lower
at 11@sll rs. Lsrdzchoice prime steam 1c.i
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is weak; No.
2 red 81 09@1 10. Corn-Is quiet at 31@SIHc.
Oats-Are firm at S29S5c.
STOCK MARKETS.
CINCINNATI.-Beef Catte-Common. 2@2. SOC.
fair to medium, 2.76@3.50c.; good 10 choice butche,
| erades 8. 1904 SOC; fair to good shippers, a7594.6oc.
lair 10 GOOD cows, 3.75@4.5cc.; common to good
stockers, '2.5o@s SOC. H~ogs-common, s.as9s; sSe.
qrades, s.90a4.2oc. and seiscted butchers qualities
2.zO@l.s0c; Sheep-common tofair, s.6o@4.6oc' ane
NEW YohK.wBeef oattle-Prime stess SIC
eve; Texa. sides ah9so Sheep and LAm NIB : asc
3 Soc. for spring lambs. Hogs-dressed, "a 60@4 90
EAST LiBERIY; PA.ssssi Co., e II, = 's seaa
Ss5oS3 rs: Common, So 75a3 rs per 100 lbs Hogs
Ssies made Of Workers. 1t q to@4 Per 100 lbS:
Philadelphia hog, s+.2o@4.so. s~heep-sslnE at VA
"a OK mar 1A0 thAL
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
BABY PRIZES, 5000.

An eminent bankers wife of -, N.
Y, has induced the proprietors of that
great medicine, Hop Bitters, to offer
$500 n prizes to the youngest child that
says Hop Bitters plainly, in any Ian
guage, between May l, 1880, and July
4, 1881. This is a liberal and interest
ing offer, and everybody and his wife
should send two-cent stamp to the HOY
Bitters Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y, U.
s. A, for circular, giving full particu-
lars, and begin at once to teach the
children to say Hop Bitters, and secure
the prize.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
A Infallible Test.

E. 8. Gregory, the host of the Fox
burg House, relates some amusing in
cidents which have come under his
observation in the way tramps manage
their beating profession. He says that
in the rear Of his hotel is a yard, in
closed with a high fence, with a gate
opening out. Whenever q tramp
''strikes" him for aid he steps to the
back door, opens it and points majesti-
cally to the unkempt lawn of debris and
rubbish and pronouuces the Ito them)
awful woodwork" They usually &C
quiesce and show themselves very will.
ing-until the colonel turns his back;
they then walk out the back gate and
are seen no more forever. This, the
colonel says, is an infallible remedy
against the plague, and he offers it to
the public without hope of renumer-
alton. Yesterday noon, as the valley
train for this city was waiting for din
ner, an aged, bent, wIinkled and mill
dewed dame of some seventy-fve
winters, dressed in a tattered blue
check gown, a cotton shawl where dirt
the original color concealed, face
whose piteousl pleadings would move a
book agent, to generosity, accompanied
by a little girl of twelve years came into
the Office and sang out: Gentlemen,
for the luv of God, would yes give a
poor wildly, wild ore child, some pennies
to get through to Bradford? "You
can have something to eat" said Gre
CORY. And the boy brought her out
two sandwiches and some cake. While
che was devouriDg the viands. she
stated that she and her husband-"poor
man! glory be to GodP'-lived in
Canada; he fortunately, perhaps) died
of typhoid fever, and she was now on
her way to find her uncle, Jerry Carroll,
who was working in Bradford. When
she went out some of the gentlemen
present remarked upon the deplorable
case of this poor woman. "Tut, tut
said Gregory. "Don't you see that
woman is a professional tramp7" Why
no; why-why do you think sol" said
three or four. "Why, because she ate
her cake first" replied he; chad she
been hungry she would have first de.
voured the sandwich"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03

tiguous to the postofice at Toledo, and to erect on
Courts. cuBtom-house, bonded warehouse and ar-
propriating SIS 600 therefor Thirty bronse cam
mons were voted TO the Fairmount Park Art Asso-
Agricultural Bill was taken up An amendment ap-
prOpriating Se 900 instead Of IS 600 for experiments
in connecttun with the culture Of tea, and $1,000 in
stead OF 5000 for experiments for the improve
ment Of varieties and culture Of cotton was agreed
to. After other amendments the bill finally passed.
It adds about SIS, 900 to the bill as 1t came from the
House.
HoUsE.-In the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
matter an amendment was adouted appropriating
$4,000 for printing aud binding. under the direction
atsthe Secretary Of War, 10000 copies of the conn
pilation of the "Oficial Record Of Union snd Con-
fedt rate Soldiers Of the War of the Rebellion, p 30
far rs the same may be ready. A running debate
followed, and without action the bill went over
Mr.. Goth, from the Committee on Appropriations
reported The General Deficiency Appropriation Bill.
ordered printed and committed
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
A Lively Time a, Leadville.

The condition of the strike at Leadville i
not much improved. A procession constituting
about 1000 men, marched through the prin-
cipal streets, headed by a band, and was oc
casiOnaliy cheered by the observers. After
parading, the miners held q meeting on Fryer
Hill and passed resolutisns expressing a deter
mination to maintain their demand for 81 a
day of eight hours. Many mine owners OK
pressed a determination not to accede to the
demands under any circumstapces. The
smelters were not interfered with, and ar,
running as usual.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
One ara rhon..na

John E. TiIlotson, aged thirty-fve, from
Iowa, and operator on the Board of Trade,
committed suicide at his boarding house, il
Chicago, BY shooting. Cause, domestic trouble.
occasioned by the infdelity of his wife, who ran
from home, taking a little four year old
laughter. She was young and pretty, and the
husband expressed in a note left to his brother
that he loved her better than life. He had
been searching for her several days, but could
only learn that she was in some bagnio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
The D,.ab,l,ae. of Women.

At the meeting the National Woman's Suf-
frage Association in session at Indianapolis
Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, President of
the Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, re-
ported that one hundred and eighty thousand
women hay, sent a petition to the Capital,
asking the right to vote on the temperance
question. Aside from this, thousands have
sent petitions asking the right to vote for
school officers, and others have sent petitions
to Congress in favor of the sixteenth amend
ment, SO that over two hundred and fifty thou
sand of the disfranchised women of that State
have asked that these disabilities be removed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
De.,ruct,ve ri.c IN Brookryn.

On the morning of May 26 a fire broke out
in the oil works of Denslow & Bush, at Twenty
third street and Third avenue, Brooklyn, and
the flames spread so rapidly that the efforts OF
the iremsn for a time seemed futile. An oil
tank exploded killing several men. The flames
extended to several vessels and to Adams
lumber yard. The coniagration was nearly
half a mile in length, and said to have been
the most brilliant ever witnessed in Brooklyn.
The loss will not fall short of S40o, 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
The We.tern Way.

Thos. c. Thurston, of Leavenworth, Kansas,
who killed his business partner. Mr.. Emory,
the 1st of January last, and was acquitted
about a month ago, met D. R. Anthony, the
editor of the Times, on Delawar street, and
after passing him, turned and fred TIVE shots
at him, neither of which took effect. One of
them, however, struck John P. Douglass,
making a severe scalp wound, and the other
struck Lucian Baker, a lawyer, in the left
side and passed through his body. His physi-
clans think he may recover. Mr.. Baker is a
prominent attorney, and defended Thurston
and cleared him when he was tried for murder
ing Embry.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03

DIR. RUDOLF VIRoHow, Professor of
Pathology in the University Of Berlin,
and one of the most eminent of living
Psychologists, says: w cannot teach,
we cannot pronounce it to be a con
quest of science, that man descends
from the ape, or from any other animal.
We can only indicate it as a hypothesis,
however probable it may seem and how
ever obvious a solutioa it may appear"
Those, therefore, who reject what is
known Is the Darwinian theory, can
quote one of the foremost men of mod
ern science to the effect that it still
lacks the proof requisite to establish it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-03
Red Tnpe.

Robert A. Morris, an oaio man, who is clerk
in the Congressional Library at Washington,
is in trouble. He drew $4,000 at the Treasury
Department with which to pay the expenses of
the-ibrary, and stepped to one side to countit.
After counting the greenbacks ($2, 7OO) he
wrapped them in paper, around which he placed a
rubber and laid it at mis- side to count the gold.
In the meantime, he says, some one took the
and replaced it with a package of red
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