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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
Don't Want Them,

Our Republican fellow citizens in
Indiana who are trying to get black
population in that State have not sue
eeeded in convincing any body that the
Indiana farmers are hungering for black
farm hands. In making such a state
ment as they did in November last, just
at the Threshold of winter, when 1arm-
ers always dispense with hired men as
far as they can, the exodus gentleman
committed a sillv blunder. If they
really want 100, 900 negroes in Indiana
there is no use in making false state
ments. The farm labolers are not
needed, but if the Republicans want
the blacks just to look at and admire,
they ought to be willing to quarter them
in their own houses and feed and clothe
them while they are enjoying the dusky
spectacle. If the negroes are wanted
for voting purposes, as is getting to be
apparent, the Republicans should admit
it instead of uttering deliberate false
hoods. We observe that the farmers of
Indiana vigorously deny that they
| want black farm hands, and the convic-
ton is generally forcing itself upon the
minds of the people Of the State that
| if the scrubby Republican politicians
succeed in introd ucirg 100 900 :;egroes
into the State they will be taxed to sup
port Just about 100, 600 paupers, mostly
| old men and women.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
Drunken Fish.

Never saw fish drunk on beer, did
your They were in pond in the park
at Insterburg, over in Germany. A
brewer of Bavarian beer had some acci-
dent, which made three hundred tons
of beer utterly unfit for use. The
brewery drain was being repaired, and
the beer all ran into the pond. In a
few hours the whole surface of the pond
was noticed swarming with big and lit
tie fish. They all behaved in the most
eccentric manner. Thousands of them
lay quietly upon their sides, as if SO
to await their recovery; others were
rapidly swimming and turning about in
small circles; while thousands again
would remain stationary, just holding
the tops of their he4ds out of the water,
as if to snap up the air. The surface of
the water appeared quite dark by the
number of fish with which the lake was
stocked.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
Credit Versus Cash.

The Kentucky Military Institute
Neus advances the following opinion
upon this difficult problem: The credit
system, properly guarded, is both sys-
tenn of progress and necessary to it. If
it were practicable to transact all the
business of a country at six months
credit with clearing houses in every
county and State, thus dispensing almost
altogether with the use of gold and sill
yer, intelligence as represented by edu-
cation and labor would become free
free to destiny of progress in which
capital would become the instrument of
intellect aud labor, and no longer the
master. Let an absolute cash system
prevail and both intelligence and labor
become the slaves of capital. Let an
absolute cash system become the fact,
and with it mutual confidence and in
ter-dependence are swallowed up by
capital. Men who threaten public credit
by their unfaithfulness are public enc
mics. Human liberty is conditioned on
the credit system. Indeed there is on
part of our social system more import,
ant to stability ami to progress than the
credit system, properly guarded.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
An Aged Newspaper.

A Hamburg daily paper, Der Cores
pondtnt. now in existence century and
a half, has issued its jubilee number. 1t
has appended to this two fac sinaiLes of
the paper as it appeared on the last day
of 1731 and the first day of 1740. The
former contains the manifesto issued by
Frederick the Great on his entry into
Silesia that December. The document
is especially curious on account of the
obviously sophistical justification
which the King adduces for this ster.
The New Years number contains cen
gratulatory poem, full of conventional
phases and courtier like expressions
that do not seem to have flowed easily
from the pen of the Correspondents iau-
reate. The shape of the old newspaper
is small quarto, the paper gray and
handmade, the type Gothic. The maj
agement promise to issue some further
cnriosities from their carefully kept ar
chives.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
Mormon Land Monopoly.

The Territory OF Utah is divided into
two ueariy equal parts by the Wasatch
Mountains. On the east of these noun
tains lies TIE Uintah Indian reservation,
larger than Connecticut and Rhode
Island, and the territory is bounded al
most entirely on the east by the Ute
II reservation in the State of Colorado.
Because of the location of these resar-
vatioDs, agricultural settlements cannot
be expected to exist in Utah east of the
Wasatch range for many years, for far
mers settled there would live in constant
fear of Indian incursions. The farming
settlements of Utah are, therefore, con-
fined to the foothills and valleys on the
west side of the mountains, where the
land is irrigated, without the Iss IF
capital, by the mountain streams, which
are fed by the SHOWS which lie on the
heights. Not more than one-fiftieth of
the land in Utah can now be irrigated
in this way for lack of natural streams,
and water cannot be supplied for the
remainder until the sinking of artesian
wells for this purpose has proved sue
cessful and much money has been ex-
pended in building long irrigating
canals. But experience shows that the
now barran lands OF Utah will become
wonderfully productive wherever water
can be brought to them.
Wherever the land could be irrigated
by natural streams, and could, there
fore, be used for agricultural purposes,
the thrifty Mormous ingeniously secured
it against appropriation by any persons
except those of their own faith. Little
colonies of from 200 to 500 persons were
systematically arranged along the west
ern side of the Wasatch Mountains, and
these colonies were Incorporated as cities
by the Territorial Legislature of Utah.
When Congress threw open the public
lands to settlement under the Pre-
emption law, in 1841, and the Homestead
law, in 1862, it was provided that any
lands within the limits of an incorpora-
ted town. or selected on the site of city
Or town, could not be taken by farmers.
In order to control the farming lands in
Utah, the Mormons blanketed with a
series of incorporated cities almost the
entire area which could be irrigated by
natural means and without great ex-
pense. In many cases the land of one
corporation joins the land Of the corpo-
latiop next to it, so that traveller can
90 a great distance in Utah without
passing beyond the limits of some incor-
poret ted city, although he is frequently
miles from a house or habitation. In
this way the Mormons practically shut
cut from the Territory all whe are
opposed to them. When Mormon de-
sires to acquile the United States title
to 160 acres of land, within the limits
of one of these corporations, no one
objects. hut If a Gentle attempts to get
a title the Mayor of the city files in the
United States Land Office at Salt Lake
City an affidavit that, the undesirable
settler is within the limits Of an incor-
porated city, and is, therefore, seeking
to secure title in violation of the law:
of Congress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Summarized from the proceedings of the past week.

SENATE.-The Senate bill of Mr.. Hitchcock to
regulate the advertisement of lega sales was sed.
..... The House bill for the separation Of Marshal
aud Supervisor in hamlets when so desired and iu-
tended to apply to North nd has ra sed the Sem
ate....Mr Salizsaber introduced bill amend the
statutes in regard to ap! eals from the d. cion Of
the Mayor of village extending into two c,unties,
requiring the reviewing court to take judicial notice
If the ordinances, resolutions or b,-!aws OF the
municipal corporation under which the conviction
was obtsined.
HoUsE-A petition was read from Butter County
asking tne e actmeut Of q law to compel the i'm
M date buriel Of swine dying from cholera. The
following bills we're introduced: Providing for
the expenses in getting acquisitions for persons,
bjhitne the sale Of LIQUORS within four miles of re-
Hgious assemblies or harvest home festivals etc..
The Senate joint resolution appointing committee
tigate claims was agreed tp...A bill to authorize
the Board of Public Works to build two culveTts
DIR the anal at New Bremen, at an expense OF not
over 81, 000 was passed
HousE.-The Committee on County Affairs re-
ported in favor of au horzng the Trustees of Ohio
Township, Clermont County, to levy tax for the
duced by DR.. Scott making any officer or memoer
of any board p rsonally liable for contracts made
requiring the expenditure Of any amount of money
greater than that previously appropriated for said
purpose. This seems to apply to the Committee on
Stoves aud Furnaces of the Cincinnati Board of
Education. The following bills were introduced /:
Making the converting by guardians 10 their own
use the property OF their wards EN- bezzement; re-
curing the County Treasurer of Hamilton County
to refund to the school furd the surplus dog to
the several townships in which col cted; requiring
parties asking struck jur es to secure payment Of
costs of same in case OF misdemeanors; authorizing
the Auditor Of Cincinnati to issue duplicate bonds
where they have been lost or destroyed.
SEeATR.-Cleveand asks for q Board of nine AL.
dermen So Mr.. Stryker's Hsuse bill organizing the
City Infrmary of Cincinnati was psssei...The fol.
lowing bills were introduced: By sen.tor Var
Gle al, dispensing with the publication of the de-
lnquent personal tex list; creating Board of Com
missi ners who shall have the management Of ths
L tu,an In tha 2ff nf thnriz
ing the village of Germantown, Mongomery
County, to build railroad and to lease and operate
the Petitions were presented from citzen
| If Cincinnati for the repeal of the Building anC
Loan Association Laws; also, from citizens of Clri
County asking that Cnildren's Homes be placed b.
| yond partisan ntrol.
Hotss.-Tne folio inz bills wer, introduced: In
creasing the power of City Councils to regulate o.
| prohibit shows and other amuEemepts AMI the sa,
| Of intoxicating liquor on Sunday; increasing thu
] power Of municipal corporations; authorizing tn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
Sins Of Washington Society.
Correspondence Milwaukee News.l

In the private aud personal concerns
of the capital there is never-that is,
hardly eVer-any lack of interest at
taching to corrupt and scandalous prac-
tices- This is one of the upspeakable
benefits for which we are indebted to
the benign and wholesome sway of the
eminently moral Republican party.
Thanks to the progressive spirit of which
that party is the great exemplar, our
public Offices have been converted into
nests of vice and immortality, for, the
support and maintenance of which the
dear public foots the bills and is ex-
pected to thank God for the privilege.
A woman ruined at her home by some
influential politician gravitates toward
Washington as naturally and inevitably
as water toward the sea; = the in
fuence" relied upon is exerted success
fully, and creature who has nothing
but semblance of outward propriety
to justify her being treated even with q
show of respect, is forced into the So
eiety and intimate companionship Of
the widows and daughters of our SOL
diers-ladies left dependent upon their
own exertions through the patriotism
of their natural protectors. Focilis est
dece,asus duerai once pensioped off upon
the public Treasury as a recompense for
favors granted, these pstticoated pro-
teges of official seoundrels are easily in
duced to serve their patrons and pro.
tectors in a still viler and baser way,
and as a means of retaining their names
upon the pay-rolls surrender their per-
sonal claims and devote themselves to
Turing others to the infamy in which
their own lives are sunk. Thus our
public departments are made lure for
the innocent and unwary and hot-bed
of vice, and the people are made to pay
for the guilty pleasures of their servants.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
The Soothing Hand-Organ.

The soothing influence of music when
applied to the savage breast was illus
trated by a recent event in Washing
ton. The other day, it is related, the
whole party of braves gathered at the
window to witness the strange sight of
an itinerant organ-grinder. The musi-
clan was finally induced by the offer of
several pennies to go into the yard of
the hotel and serenade the aborigines.
As soon as he began to turn the crank
it was too much for the Indians blood,
and retreat from the window followed.
Headed by Jack, the party silently
filed down stairs, out through the
kitchen into the yard, and scrutinized
the wonderful thing. After giving
them an hour of unalloyed pleasure,
tie grinder becoming weary, was forced
to desist, and the Indians returned to
their room. The music had done its
work, however, for when they got up
stairs a series of dances were INDUCED
in which would have made song and
dance man turn pale with envy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
How the South Feels.

[Ben. Hilps Letter to the Brownsville Examiner
1t is a national calamity that the
Northern people are not permitted to
of the Southern people, and those who
worst enemies of both sections. Let me
South feel and believe that our consti.
-tutional system of free government is in
very great peril OF final and complete
overthrow. With the few exceptions
mentioned before, we are naturally
more anxions to avert the overthrow
than are the Northern people. Why
should we feel more anxious? It is be-
cause our Southern people feel and be.
lieve that the causes which produce
this peril have derived much strength,
perhaps their chief strength, from tneif
own act-the act of secession. While
not 50 intended by them, they yet see
that the sectional spirit which dominates
the Republican party, and which enables
that party to dominate the Northern
people, has grown to its dangerous pro-
portions through the passions engen-
dered by secession and the war. If,
therefore, this sectional spirit shall
finally plunge all sections of our country
into despotism, the Southern people feel
that they will be held in history as
largely responsible for the result, al
though such result would have been
wrought by the Republican party and
in the direction directly the opposite Of
secession.
1t is thus proper and natural that our
people in the South should be anxious,
above all other people, to allay the Sec
tion heats their own conduct so much in
famed; to restore the constitutional in
tegrity their own mistake so woefully
unsettled, and preserve the Union of
States their own madness so nearly de-
stroyed. The fact l have Just stated
will explain much of Southern history
since the war. There never was such a
social, industrial and political revolu-
tion as that into which we of the South
were So suddenly thrust by the result
of the war. So also, there never was
such an ordeal of humiliation, insult,
robbery and wrongs as that through
which we were forced to pass in the
negro domination and carpst-bag rule of
reconstruction. That some sentiments
were provoked, do not deny. That
some excesses were retaliated, I freely
admit, and that some temporary violent
measures were resorted to in the des-
peration of self-preservation concede.
But when the history of that terrible
ordeal shall be fully known, the world
will be amazed at the forbearance, the
endurance, the patience and the self
controlling courage which the great mass
of the Southers people exhibited. Our
people were largely enabled to exhibit
these rare virtues because they knew
that those who inflicted the wrongs de-
rived their power to infiict them from
the powers engendered by secession, and
because they saw also that every groan,
every murmur, every protest and every
individual success or discretion, was
eagerly caught up by their plunderers,
and exaggerated and heralded before the
Northern people, as evidence of a con-
tinuous spirit of rebellion, in order. to
continue their oppressors in power.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04

Blaine with Grant, we can see no respect
in which Grant is better than Blaine,
while the great, overtowering objection
to Grant-that is, the third term-does
not lie against Blaine at all. There is
not the slightest danger OF Blaine ever
being elected third time.
OF course we cannot be expected to
support Blaine; but if the Republicans
are reduced to the dire extremity of
choosing between him and Grant, they
would do far better to choose Blaine.
Beside,, Blaine having his pockets al
ready full, might make comparatively
honest administration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04

Commis soners of Franklin County to extend road
levy; reducing the time. for recording de+d to
InTsy aays;Lhe following oliis weL passed; ne
bonds; authorizing the Commissioners of Va Vert
County to extend loan; Dr. scott's bill making
appropriations to pay the interest and principal of
tSe State debt; Senate bill providing that canals
aud water courses may constitute ward boundaries;
allowing the imposition of both fine and imprIson
M Mt for s,llng liquor contrary TO law; Mr.
Browns bill al owing Sheiifs mileage on each
uame in q writ or subpoena s, s1,F 3
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
Blaine or Grant2
New York Sun.l

In public affairs-and we grieve to
say it-Mr. Blaine has not kept his
hands clean.
lie possesses rare elements of popular
ity, which, if he had been content to be
poor for the sake of being honest, would
almost certainly have made him Presi-
dent But some of his "bar'ls" had to
be rolled into his cellar by back door,
in dark night, for he did not come
honestly by them.
But when it comes to comparing
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
a HYMN OF PEACE
BY EUGENE FIELD.

| 4
o Sons OF Androscoggin sires,
Aroostook men and Waldo swains,
Oye from Sagadahoc plains
Back to your altars and your firesi
And let Passamaquoddy's son,
And Pamedumcook's scion bold,
And Baskahegan's warrior hold
For might prevails and war is done.
On old Katahdin's craggy hight,
Where Madawasca's waves run high
And old Walloostook ripplPs Wy,
Proclaim the news that might Is right.
Flow down, Muscongus, to the sea.
And thou, Penobscot, downward how;
For old UmbsgUg ne'er shall know
The war that threatened once TO be.
Let old Skowhegan's rumbnngs cease,
Piscataquis' ire be paled,
And Kennebunk and Casco vailed
With gentle, hearty, lasting peacei
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04

You've man, if it is eleven o'clock
and she goes to the piano and plays a
few bars of "The Sweet By and By"
you may consider the seance over for
the night.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04

MRS. YoUNGwoMAN wants to know
chow she can tell fresh egg from a
stale one?" Taste it, goosey; taste it.
Burlington Raaokeye.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
The GatoM 9enlutrai.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Business cards OF Ave lines or less s. per annum.
Local notices 10 cents PER Line each insertion.
Simple announcements of marriages and deaths,
sad church and benevolent society no ices Inserted
free. Any additions to obituary notices VIII be
charged five cents per line.
Favors must be banHed in as early as Tuesday
morning to insure inse tion the SINE week.
Communicate ans upon subjects of general or local
inf. rest anlioited<
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04

Now they say Tennyson is plagia-
rist. His "Blow, Bugle, Blow was
probably cribbed from an ode to in
fuenza.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-03-04
PUNGENT POINTS.
From the Political press.1

GRANT is quite we'll. He is not oil
the decline as some people limited.
GRANT was always poor grammarian.
BE never could decline anything.
j. BLAINE Dear Sir: The man who
can't keen order in his own State is not
fit to be the ruler over many.
SENATOR Inc ALLs has been exoner.
ated y from bribery by the Senate lnves.
tigation committee. The verdict is in
brief: "He can't be caught atit."
WHAT do the Republicans of Penn
sylvania think of themselves by this
time? And most of them were born
free, too.-Ph.Ladelphid Chronicle.
ANOTHER comet is on the warpath.
Let the Republican candidates for the
Presidency keep a sharp lookout for q
collision.
THE President is probably wondering
what in the world became of that Civil
Service Executive A No. l of his. All
trace of it seems to be lost in the Treas
ury Department.-Chicago Times.
The Republicans want a strong
man" for President, and yet garlic has
not advanced in price. This might be
considered a pretty fair sample of q
straw Wheeling Lead.r.
Mr.. J. G.. BLAINE, of Augusta, Me-,
is Republican aspirant for nomina.
tion as candidate for President. Tho
Republican party must bs very hard up
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-03
sHERTFFS SALE.

ny VIRTUE or AN ORDER OF SALE,
d No. 1881, "a the use Of r. B. Fox vs.. M. c.
Heckworth 1t al. issued by the Clerk Of the Cir
and to me directed, will on Monday, the I'd d az
II February, 1882 within legal hours, In front Of
the cou 1t house door in the city Of kno xyille,
offer fcr sale TO- the highest bidder for cash, all
and ID. W. Hackney. In and to a certain tract Of
iaud situated 10 the 18th district of Knox ooun-
", on Beaver Creek, Containing $40 acres. more
Thos G a l4her, south by Thos. Yarneli, o st by
George Qs Iher. west BY n bert Bradley and
Robert Cu1gingtor. andievied on az the pre- per-
~ ri j. =. and u. W. Hackney, this the 7th day
4 TiS" 's-r ALkX. REEDER. Sheriff.
jlnadfwt
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-03
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mARKEr REPORTS.
Wholesale Grain and Produce hsrh"'

Wholesale Drain and Produce fark"'
coRREcTED DAILY.
OHRoSrcLS OrnoS I
~ KSoxvILLx. tenn, Fob. 2, II SOL !
I The recent decline in Wheat in all The
Eastern markets has q depressing effect
upon the market here. Corn and Oats
in sym pathy with Wheat All are quoted
dull. There is an active demand for Fiel
Seeds; Clover, $6,C0 per bushel Timothy
49, 5oas.75; Red Top, ST.. l0al.25; Orchard
Grass, 1925 Blue Grass, $1,25, Hogs are
dull. Country cured Bacon and Lard,
new country, buying at 7issc y selling q,
81; city rendered, 8la9c. = /
GWHEAT- Dull and decliEing; buying
at 81. Goal. 80 for white and Lancs,te';
Fultz 81. Goal. Is per bushel. E -
OoRr- New, dull, 5oa5lc, loose; in car
loads 68a6 O. = !
SoRaHUM--In better demand; % tos .
OATs--New crop; baying, loose, 40ail
'si PoTsa.r soss scarce. 6oaeoc.
HAY--Loose, 90ca$l00 per 100 lbs
baled hay SLIPS. an
DarnD FRUIT--Apples firm, Al to SC
per pound: Peaches; halves &c. Black
erries. 7Aa8c.
FLoUR-Nominal: country extra, huy-
/. ing, dull, - 25a3. so selling, SO 50a3. rs:
family, buying, s3z5aS.50; ceiling. Is 75a
A. 0 per sack.
FaATHsRs-Prime, dull 42c: mixed
25a DC.
= tsUTTnR-Active; good. I0l12ic ! gr, ase
butter, 5s7c. IN E1
EaGs-B Buying dull and weak, 81.
PoULTRY--Live, Hens, active; &c er
-; BOOSTERS, 2ic; Turkeys, 6s6ac' Dressef
Hens, 7c per ID; Turkeys, Sa8!c.
RAas-Ootton, 2s2ic.
Be sswAx-2lc per pound. -
Fall, $l.l6al.8 O.
sssrKA SRARs- 35a40c. -
HIDEs-Dry l6al7c,; green, 6la7a. 3
TALLow-6c.
FLAX SEED-Per bushel, 91sS1 90.
BRAss--10al Copper, 10a12o.
WooL--Per pound 42s46c. b
APPLIES Green, ST. 25s2 90 per bushel.