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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Another Terrible Corll.Ion.

A dispatch from Leghorn says the steamer
Ortigia came In collision with the French
steamer Onkle Joseph, near Spezzia, and that
the onkle Joseph was much injured and soon
sank. She had on board 800 persons, $50 of
whom were drowned. The following details
are telegraphed:
"The steamer Onkle Joseph sunk immedi-
ately after the collision. Two hundred persons
are known to be drowned and fifty saved. The
fate of the other fifty is at present uncertain.
Heartrending scenes followed the collision, as
the Onkle Joseph was wanting in means to
save the lives Of the large number on board.
Eye witnesses of the collision say they can not
satisfactorily explain the manner and cause of
the occurrence. The passenger list of the On
kIe Joseph shows a total of aga PERSONS on
board and sailors numbering thirty-three. Her
cargo consisted Of eighty tons of merchandise.
At the roll call of the survivors thirty-fve pas
sengers and thirty-three sailors only answered
to their names. The Captain also persisted.
The Onkle Joseph was an iron screw steamer of
1928 tons gross, and the Ortigia was Of 1858
tons burthen." A dispatch from Paris says:
"Great uneasiness is felt in English and Amer
lean circles here, as it is feared many English
men and Americans were passengers on board
the Onkle Joseph"
A dispatch from Rome says the passengers
aboard the steamer Onkle Joseph were emil
grants for South America. The Captain Of the
ortigia states, the night on which the collision
occurred was pitch dark. The Onke Joseph
-an across the ortigia's bows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Full or

The cable states that there are an unusual
number of minor outrages occurring through
out Ireland. Fourteen men have been arrested
FOR participating in a Fenian procession, from
which shots were fired. The cable says: ''Sev-
eral attempts have been made to shoot Captain
Mitchell, at Athlone, by Rev. Mr.. Biddulph, a
Protestant clergyman, of Forras O'Kane, Coun-
ty Tipperary." The Governments bound not
to be beaten in the League cases for want of
preliminary precautions. Detectives stand over
the printers who are employed in putting in
type the League speeches, intended for use at
the trial of the agitators. The printers are,
moreover, sworn to secrecy; the proofs are
sealed, and the type Immediately distributed.
Of course, is done to prevent the Govern
ment's course of procedure from becoming
known. A landlord near Loughrea, named
Kennedy, VIII recently refused to accept Sir
ichard Grifith's valuation, was fired at whilst
walking in his garden. Three shots were fired.
all of which missed the intended victim. The
trial of the indicted Land Leaguers has been
xed for the 18th Of December.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
METEOROLOGY.
The Future of weather F-oreteIiins.

tAtlantic Monthly.l
In no other part of her wide realm has
Science done so little for the good of man
or her own fame as in the department. of
meteorology. In the solid earth her pro-
phecies have long had a high value, in
the far-of heavens her empire is affirmed,
but in the unstable air between these two
well-possessed provinces there is a re-
gion that is not yet s~ubiugated. Around
the border of the domain of meteorology
some gains to the cause of law and order
have indeed been made; we control the
lightning, we are able to track a clearly
defined storm for days on its path, and
q help the sailor to knowledge that Of
ten enables him to escape its clutches
when it assails him on the deep sea; but
as for foretelling the weather in any
proper sense, we have not yet attained to
it. Is it attainable? Can we hope to
compass the condition of our days so
that we may SOW, reap, travel, feast Oh
make war in weather of our own choice?
This is, after all, perhaps the most in
teresting of the question that the future
history of science must determine. But
though the perfect answer is not to be
given at present, there are some things
in the existing conditions of our science
that makes us hopeful that we are but at
the beginning of the work of weather
forecasting.
There have been two distinct scientific
efforts at weather foretelling, as distin-
guished from the current survival of the
modes of thought of ancient ages hat are
introduced in our ordinary weather pro-
phecies; that undertaken by Admiral
Fit1ro1- IN EnOJonl onl fhof ha-,, -,
this country by the United States Signal
Corps, under the control of the late Gen
eral Myer. Both of these have made
their basis of the simple principle that
weather always has o history; that it
means conditions that pass from one re-
gion to another by certain laws of move
ment and at a certain rate. This general
fact was long ago recognized by meteor
ologists, but it was not until the telegraph
enabled knowledge to outstrip the storms
that it was possible to make any use of it
in foretelling the weather. By the adj
mirable labors of the United Signal Ser
vice this method of announcing the weather
that is %journeYing toward any locality
has been brought to a high point of per-
lection, but it has not to any extent
helped us to foretell the creation Of
weather. When q weather area forms
in the far West, it is now traced as clearly
as the path of an army, until it passes
away. Sometimes the state of the bar
ometer will tell something about storms
that have not yet gathered themselves
for their eastward march, but beyond
this there have as yet been no means of
foreseeing. The weather bureau is of no
more use than a grounding, or a goose
bone for telling us whether our coming
spring or summer is to be warm or cold,
rainy Or dry. Is this the end of our adj
vance? Can we hope to do more than
take the storms we find af1oat, and trace
them on their courses, OR can we hope to
look behind them to the conditions of
their origin SO clearly that we can foretell
their time and place of working?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Uses for Sawdust.

Saw dusterine, says the Northwestern
LumbeTnlan, is to be discounted by q
French chemist, who does not think its
~adaptability as an article of diet equal to
its Importance to dyers and chemists.
NJ. Jansen thinks Minneapolis is the
best place to manufacture an acid now
wholly imported from France, which can
be obtained In endless quantities from
fine sawdust. How fine the dust must be
he does not inform the public; but his
enterprise will be of value to the sawdust
world if it only leads to the use of trim
ner saws in the manufacture of lumber.
Bay City also finds a mysterious-looking
building going up on the banks of the
Saginaw, opposite "the metropolis of
the valley" in building which the utmost
secrecy has been observed. No one
knows whether it is being erected to ex-
tract acid from sawdust or bismuth from
salt bitterns. No doubt its projectors
expect to find "millions in it " whatever
the purpose to which it is destined.
This is an era of progress. Hiram Smith,
of Flint, Mich, turns the smoke of char
coal burning into acetic acid, and finds
the smoke of more value than the char
coal. A patent has recently been taken
out for window shutters In which paste-
board is substituted for wood; the Stats
and panels may be covered with orna-
mental paper and painted or stamped in
imitation of wood of any grain or pat
tern. Wooden pals are beingsuperseded
by those made of paper, while paper
holdings and paper ornaments r
pressed into shapes and sizes and for
purposes where but a short time ago
elaborate carvings and the skill of the
artist was all necessary. And now comes
acid from sawdust. Whether to be used
as a substitute for tea and coffee, or to
manufacture the beautifully tinted
lemonade which is such a favorite with
lovesick SWANS at the annual circus, de-
ponent saith not; perchance it is to take
the place of the beverage which inebriates
more than it cheers, In which case Min
neapolis is not bad choice for a location
for its manufacture, provided certain of
its mill men do not take too much stock
in it, payable in sawdust.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
FIxhtinr nIini.,.-.


Rev. S. B. CHM is the pastor of the Oregon
hill Free-WM Baptist Church, at Richmond.
Va. As the pastor emerged from the ediice.
after services, last Sunday, a young man named
Marion Sutton, standing outside. began to
abuse him, using very opprobrious epithets.
Inc pastor warningly shook his finger at the
young man, whereupon the young man afore-
SAID knocked him down. The good pastor did
not arise and turn the other cheek to be smote
again, but jumped up and lit into the Young
man In first class pugilistic style. He was
however, knocked down a second, and a third
time, and then his wife, who was with him,
made a dash for the Sutton aforesaid and pulled
out nar by the hand full. They had a splendid
Tune OF II, and the fun would perhaps had con-
tinued for some time had not meddlesome peo-
pie interfered. The parties were all arrested
and taken before the police court, where thew
were fined
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Modern Rome,

The Rome correspondent of the Phila-
adelphia Bulletin writes: 1t is not true
that Rome has not improved during the
last ten years. She has a new town built
in an airy, healthy neighborhood. She
pays for the peoples education; she en-
dows her theaters for the peoples muse
ment, and she is putting herself in rail
and Geographic communication with
every other part of Italy. In a word,
she is doing in q small way what some
nations with larger resources do in a
larger way. Old Rome was not built in
o day, neither can we expect new Rome
to be built in a day. If she does as
much, however, within the next ten
years as she has done within the last ten
years, we shall see q city which has few
rivals; and seeing what has already been
done, Rome may well rejoice in the Goth
of September, that day that opened its
doors to new light and civilization. Even
the most bitter antagonists of the Italians
confess that Rome is not recognizable by
those who knew it under the rule of the
POpeS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Statistics Of Suffrage in Europe.


The relative degree of practical deyel-
opment attained by the principle Of pop-
ular representation in the various coun-
tines OF Europe may be seen from the
following figures: In France, there are
1851, PSI electors, viz, 26 $40 per cent.
OF the inhabitants; in Switzerland, 642,-
8 electors, viz, "a 2-1O per cent. of the
inhabitants; in Germany, s, 523. 446 cleo
tors, viz, 20 2-1O per cent. of the inhab-
itants; in England, 2,719, 500 electors,
VIZ, IL $40 per cent. of the inhabitants;
in Austria, 1922, 946 electors, viz, s
9-10 per cent. of the inhabitants: in Por-
tugal GIG, 68S electors, VIZ, S 4-1O Der
cent. of the inhabitants; in Italy. sos. OO7
electors viz, 2 2-1O per cent. of the in
habitants, and in Belgium, SO, 278 cleo
tors, VIZ, l $40 per cent. of the inhab-
itants. The French republic thus counts
a larger proportion of electors than
Switzerland, the country which was the
first to adopt universal suffrage. This is
partly explained by the consideration
that the proportion of children to adults
is smaller in France than in Switzerland.
The relative number of foreigners having
to vote may also possibly be largerin the
latter country. The franchise shows an
equal development in Germany. The
difference between Germany and England
is almost two to one in favor of the for
mer country. The electoral body is also
larger in Portugal, a country of pure
monarchy, than in Italy or Belgium.
Another fact worthy of attention is the
extent to which the franchise is actually
exercised by the electoral population in
each of the countries mentioned, re-
pecting which we have the following fig
ures: France, 1876, 1885, $50, or rs per
cent; Germany, 1874, 1921, 500, or 81
per cent; Austria, 1873, 1853, 155, or &c
per cent; Portugal, 1867, &c per cent.
Italy, 1876, 1868, $50, or SO per cent. /;
Belgium, 1874, senate, 36,0S2, or 60 per
cent. deputies, 45,1S4, or II per cent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
European Rapacity-Chinese Modera.
tiOn.

IF Europeans, in truth, understood the
duties resulting from the five relation
ships, then we should discern the effects
in their lives. Love between prince
and minister, father and son, elder
and younger brothers, husband and wife,
friend and friend would bring due subor-
dination and careful fulfilment of rela-
tive duties; peace and order would reign
supreme; there would be no angry rivalry
or unrestrained greed, making use of
deadly weapons to bring destruction on
mankind. But do we see these results
in Western countries? No, indeed Their
whole energy is centred in the manufac-
ture of different kinds of machines
steam vessels and locomotives to bring
rapid returns of profit, guns and rifles
to STAY their fellow-men. They rival one
another in greed and in cunning methods
of acquiring wealth; they say they are
rich and mighty; and put it all down to
their true knowledge, forsooth! But
from the time when the heavens were
spread out and the earth came into ex-
lstence China can boast a continuous line
of great men; SO that mans wants have
been better supplied each day than the
one before it, and our language immeas-
ably excels those of Europe in strength
and depth. Property is wealth to the
foreigner; moderation in his desires to
the Chinese; material power is might to
the foreigner; to live and Jet live is might
to the Chinese. But the heaping up of
words will not explain these principles.
China forbids strange devices m~achinery)
in order to prevent confusion; she n
courages humanity and justice as the
very foundation of good government; and
this will be her policy forever. Yet for
eigners say that such principles are
profitless. Proftless, indeed! Profita-
bile, rather, beyond expression DIARY
Of Lin Ia,Jen, in the Nineteenth Cen
tuY.Y.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
startling Speculation. ON De.tb.

Startling developments are being made i n
Berks and Montgomery Counties, Pa, in the
matter of crooked cooperative life insurance.
1t has been the custom of agents of these life
associations to induce relatives and friends of
old, sick and even dying people to insure their
ives Tor heavy amounts, the. spectators fire.
quently paying the assessments on these poll
cies and taking the lions share of the money
when the assured die. One Caleb H. Bland. of
Pottsdam, has figured extensively in this bust
ness. DR.. L. @. B. Forgey has acted both as
agent and medical examiner in O ther cases. E..
u. h~unnaw1lls, of Pottstown is dying of chronic
disease; yet he has been insured for S14, 900
within six months past, $40, 600 since Septem-
Der 20. He says that Forgey offered him S75
to let him take out a policy, and that Bland Of
Tered him one fifth of the sum of several 80, 900
policies, and to pay all fees and assessments. if
he would allow them to be placed on him. He
consented, but never underwent an examination.
Mrs. Reinhart died at Amity, lately, of con-
sumption, only a few weeks after being insured
for $1,000 in the Reading Mutual, Prudential
Mutual and Home Mutual, of Lebanon. DIR.
Forgey was agent in one case and medical ex-
aminer in the other two; DR.. B. Herman, of
Douglassville, signing the certificate as exam
iner in the Prudential case, though he confesses
he never saw the woman. The holiness of
these Spectators is marvellous. A few
months ago a restaurateur was asked
to buy a policy for one thousand dol
lars on the life of a Reading man. Fifteen dol
lars was the first price asked, though it came
down until twelve dollars was named as a bot
tom figure. The restaurant man, however,
declined to purchase although he was INFORMED
that the assured was on his last legs. The
Spectator said, 81 insured a man not many
weeks ago, and he's dead already. why, Ihavo
just deposited twenty-five hundred dollars in
the bank off a risk. 1 don't want to practice
any more; there's more money in this. Go in
with me, and I will pick ont a couple of good
men who won't live long. There's plenty in it."
The same individual said to a journalist in Phil
adelphia a few days ago: 'I'm looking for a imam
now I think will die in a few weeks, and when
L find such a one I mean to take out q policy on
his life. l will make ten thousand dollars if I
make a cent, out of this business by next SPRING"
Last Thursday morning Daniel Rhoades was
buried at Boyertown. His life was insured for
between $12, 900 and SIS, 900. Some of herisks
have been placed within six weeks of his de-
mise. He was eighty years old and very feeble.
Caleb Bland has lately put from $40, 900 to
$780, 900 on Robert Bland, a WORKOUT drunkard.
h died lately at Monocacy, by making poll
cies In the names of various people. Insur-
ances in favor of certain people to the extent of
about $35, 900 have been effected recently on
job Reday, q feeble man Of eighty-two years,
Of Birdsboro.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Vegetine.
Complaints.
DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS.

The symptoms of an acute attack Of Inflammation Of the
kidneys are as follows: Fever, pain in the small of the
back, and thence shooting downward; numbness of tho
thigh, vomiting, usually at first a deep red color of the
nrIne, which becomes pale and colorless Ms the disease
increases, and is discharged very often with pain and
difficulty; costiveness and some degree Of collie. In
chronic diseases ofthe kidneys the symptoms are pain in
the back and limbs, dryness ofthe skin, frequent urina-
ton, especially at night, general dropsy, headache,
dizziness Of sight, Indigestion, and palpi!ation of the
the face, cough, and shortness OF breath.
In diseases Of the kidneys the yEsETIsE gives i'm
mediate relief. 1t has never failed to cure when IL is
taken regularly and directions followed. In many cases
it may take several bottles, especially cases Of long
standing 1t acts directly upon the secretions, cleansing
and strengthening, removing all distractions and i'm
purites- A great many can testify to cases Of long stand
ing having been perfectly cured by the vEeErrsE, even
after trying many of the known remedies which are SAID
10 be expressly for this disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
wholesale PoI.oniur Az "a wedd,nr.

News has been received of the poisoning of q
wedding party in Roane County, Tennessee,
adjacent to Hamilton County, resulting in the
death of six and the probable death of three
others. Joel Hendree and Jane Dale were the
contracting parties, and both being members of
the most prominent families in that vicinity, a
very large number of friends witnessed the nup-
tails, which were performed at the residence of
the brides father, at q point on Emory River,
ffty-six miles above Chattanooga. After the
ceremony the guests, numbering about fifty,
were invited to the hospitable board of Colonel
Dale, and partook Of the bountiful repast there
served. The evening was spent in various
festivities, and at night the guests again were
invited to supper. After the evening meal q
sudden lethargy seemed to overtake the mem
bers of the festive party, and one by one they
commenced complaining of dreadful pains. In
a short time twenty-seTen of the party were I'M
conscious. The greatest excitement prevailed.
Colonel Bales house being too small to accom-
modate all the invalids for the night, twelve
were removed to other houses in the neighbor-
hood. Forty-eight hours afterward two of the
afflicted died-EmmaP Peters, granddaughter
OF the brides father, and Matte Lowry, each
aged about eight. The brides brother, Robert
Dale, died a few hours later. The brides I'M
Gle, Mr.. Mike May, died the next day; and Al
bert Gallaher and Matte Lovelace, two of
guests, died the next day. The brides father,
mother and brother are very low, and will
probably die. The precise cause of the poison
ing is yet unknown, but several conjectures are
afioat. The most plausible is that arsenic had
been put in the edibles2 Jas seasoning instead of
salt. ColonelaDale had purchased a quantity
of arsenic a few DAYS previous for the destruc-
ton of crows that were preyipg upon his wheat
fields. Pending the excitement of the approach
ing wedding this had been left bundled up in
the kitchen. 1t is supposed that in the hurry
the cook opened the bundle containing the poi
son, and intending to salt the ~victuals threw in
q quantity Of arsenic.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
Murder For Sport.

1t is said the Earl of Cawdor and five
friends killed 500 hares in one days
shoot in England. If the noble hunts
people had ''shoed 'em" into a corner,
and exploded a quarter of a pound OF
dynamite over their tame and docile lit
tie 'heads, they might have saved just
twenty-three hours and forty minutes
valuable time. We should just as soon
think of shooting IN old house tabby with
half a dozen kittens at the breast basking
on the kitchen doorstep as to go hunting
the nor than half-domesticated rabbits
and other game the gentry of Great
Britain pride themselves in destroying
for SPORTY. Y. Com. Bulletin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02

So"tP1oHeT VI me currency S hep0Tf.
III Comptroller of the Currency, in his an
nual report, in referring to tho subject of State
taxation of National Banks, says that the States
have a right to impose whatever tax they
choose upon the shares Of banks organized
under their own laws; but they have no right
to impose a greater valuation on National Bank
shares than on any other moneyed capital in
hands OF individuals, since thereby the tax be-
comes heavier on bank shares than on moneyed
capital, whereas the law, rightly construed,
says it shall be the same. 1t is respectfully
suggested to Congress, whether it would not be
advisable, In order to avoid expense and annov-
ance OF lons-continned litigation, to pass a lew
liking the maximum amount of taxation
which may be imposed upon the National
Banks by State authorities. In presenting his
annual tables, giving as far as can be ascer-
tanned the amount Of taxes imposed upon the
banking capital of the country, the Comptroller
repeats his previous Recommendation for the
repeal Of the law imposing a tax upon capital
and deposits, and the two-cent stamp tax upon
checks. Tn amount collected by the Commits
sioner OF Internal Revenue during the whole
fiscal year, with the exception of S11, 096, 464,
Is shown to have been derived from tax on
spirits, beer, and tobacco. The Comptroller
says III sAAS COHnecuOn: were the entire tax
upon banks and bankers of this country, in
Guiding the two-cent check tax upon matches
and upon patent medicine removed, the amount
of revenue received by the Government from
the tax on spirits, beer, and tobacco would
alone be sufficient to meet its expenses and re-
duce the public debt at the rate of hundreds of
millions annually" The principal reason here
tofore urged against the repeal of these taxes
has been that the amount produced was neces-
sary for the support Of the Government, and
this reason, it is stated, has ceased to exist.
The amount Of taxes paid by National Banks to
the United States for the year ending July 1,
1886, was as follows: On capital, 1878, 1874; on
circulation, %, 1853, 6s5, and on deposits, s4,-
05s, no. The amount paid by banks other than
National to the Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue for the fiscal year is shown to have been
on capital ss11, 4S6, on circulation s2s, IT'S, and
on deposits %, $40, IT'S.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-02
- A FIght with Ouua-

News from Deadwood says that for months
back q band of outlaws have kept the citizens
Of Fort Pierre, a town on the east bank of the
Missouri River, in terror until the respectable
portion of the community organized a Vigilance
Committee with the determination of Kidding
the place Of the roughs. Last week the two op-
posing forces came together, both strongly
armed. A fight ensued, resulting in the killing
OF Arkansas Joe, the leader of the gang, and
the wounding of four others. The yigilants es-
capped unhurt.