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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
The Newspaper as a Text Book.

The Superintendent of the Pittsburg
schools highly commend the use of the
daily papers as text book. The lively
interest the pupils would take in the
geography and history of affairs con-
hected with daily events, would serve to
impress both studies deeply upon their
minds. Ample illustration of the in
terest possible in such studies is afforded
by that which was aroused in the minds
OF many readers during the war of the
rebellion, the Franco -Prussian war, and
to some extent, the Russe-Turkish war.
The curiosity excited in the places at
which great events are transpiring, is
taken advantage of by business men |;
for during both the Prussian war and
the Turkish war, not only were cheap
maps designed and sold, but insurance
companies and other concerns adver-
tised themselves by means of maps. of
the "seat of war" which they distrib-
uted gratis. The human nature which
shrewd men of business understand,
might well be worth the study of those
who engage in the instruction of youth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
The Bloody-Shirt Element Lacking.

Some of the organs of the Radical
party affect to believe that the Admins
tration has made a grave bfunder in de-
Gliding that the Monroe doctine applies
to the construction of ship canal across
the lsthmus to be under the patronage
and control of any European power. 1t
is unfortunate that Mr.. Hayes cannot
display the broad National spirit that
breathes in every line of his canal mes
sage without incurring the censure of
Republican journals. If he had issued a
fervid appeal to sectional feeling, if he
had raised the old Radical banner of hate
and uttered the old war cries of bloody
shirt campaigns, these organs would now
be shouting glad chorus of approval.
But because he has, for once, gotten on a
higher plane than that of the partisan,
because he is National and not sectional
in this instance, because he is American
rather than the exponent of party
creed, his coat tails are seized and he is
implored to ego slow" and not rush the
country into war. But the good sense
of the American people, irrespective of
party, will sustain the Administration in
the course indicated by the canal mes
sage. We do not want and we will not
have any power of Europe established on
the highway between the Atlantic and
Pacific States. The ownership or control
of Darien ship canal would be but the
precursor of such an establishment fol
the power owning or controlling that
work. This is SO palpable that no argu
ment is required for its demonstration
The right of the United States to exis
as nation carries with it the right tt
protect that existence. And the exercise
of this right is all that is intended by
our Government in its re-afirmation o.
the Monroe doctrine. There isn't any
power in Europe that is going to maxi
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
Mr. Seymour win Accce pt.
IKansa. City rimes.I

A Washington special to the Times
conveyed the welcome and authoritative
assurance that Horatio Seymour will ac-
cept, if rendered the Presidential nomi-
nation at Cincinnati. This, to be sure
is only confirmation of the 'oft-repeated
assurance of the Times tacitly author
lied by Mr.. Seymour himself when in
terviewed at his home some months
since by our own representative. But
the present timely announcement
through the Washington Post, will re-
lieve whatever doubt has existed on the
subject, and will be welcomed every
where by the Democratic party with a
qualification akin to joy. 1t villa once
put an end to the rumor asssiduously
circulated by the Tilden newspapers
that Mr.. Seymour would in no event ac-
cept q nomination, and the mass of the
Democracy will now rally as one man
in support of the only man who can
certainly be elected President over any
candidate in 1880.
MIR. Seymour will be seventy years Of
age in May. The principal rulers, states
men and military generals of Europe
have passed their seyentieth year. He
is as young in appearance and intellec-
tual power as are most men at fifty, and
his lease of life is good for another score
of years. No public man can be named
who is better stored with culture and ex-
perience, or who is more sound upon the
leading questions of the day. Long and
faithful service to his party entities him
to its highest honors, and no blemish has
ever marred his private or public life.
He is rare instance of public man
who is venerated and admired alike by
men of all parties, because of his STAIN
less character an his successful ates-
manship. His political record will bear
the most searching scrutiny, for in the
gravest crisis of this country there was
never time when he did not fulfill the
highes. demands of pAtr otism.
The election of Mr.. Seymour to- the
Presidency would be peoples, rather
than party, victory. As against Gen.
Grant he would enlist the ardent support
of the anti-machine Republicans, and
sweep the States of New York, Pennsyl'
vania, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Illinois,
and Indiana. like a whirlwind.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
Sad Story Of a Beautiful Woman.

Correspondence of the Sunny south1
In Little Rock, Ark, lives the once
most beautiful woman of Arkansas, now
a beggar, and, though not a literary
woman, has q wooden leg. She is the
daughter of Sandy Faulkner, the origi-
nal "Arkansaw Traveller" She has
been married several times, and is now
known as Mrs. Trapnell. In the old
days of Arkansas aristocracy, when the
rich planters and men of note gathered
at Ashley Mansion, Miss Faulkner was
the belle, petted, fattered and admired
by every one.z2er wardrobe came from
Paris, and her lovers from everywhere.
Slave to the demands of gaiety and
conquest. she was naughty, and consid-
cred heartless. Her sway for years was
undisputed, and when her financial de-
cline came, she would not recognize
fact which seemed to her 80 preposter-
Gus. She married, but her husband did
not prove to be wealthy. From this
husband, if I ana correctly informed,
she was divorced. She was still beauti-
full, and, though divorced from her hus-
band, she was inseparably welded to
society. But the bright star of her
life had begun to grow dim. Her
father died and left her with compare
lively nothing. She still had offers of
marriage, but she disdained them on
financial grounds. On one occasion
a. large party was forming to visit
the New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities.
She was unable TO meet the necessary
expenses. A gentleman who bad heard
her express herself, and with whom she
was scarcely acquainted, remarked to
her: y a. l 'et5St2 &
"If You will marry me, will take
you to New Orleans" AZ WILL" she
exclaimed, and they were married. The
husband, / think, died shortly after
ward. Some. time after this she met
with quite an accident. While riding
in a buggy the horse ran away. She
was thrown out and sustained the in
jury of broken leg. This might not
have proved so serious had abe not dis
obeyed the instructions of physicians
and disregarded the advice of friends.
She insisted on receiving visitors, and
would sit all day and half the night,
propped up in bed, laughing and talk
ing in her gayest humor. Her restless
ness at last rendered amputation neces-
sary. I met her to-day. She has Just
been turned out of house for failing
to pay her rent. A more forlorn-look.
ing woman never lived. She had been
out begging, and limping along she car
ried basket. She is quite old now
and her hair is as white as the record oi
st. John. You can tell in q moment
that she has been beautiful, for hel
mouth, pearly teeth, and her eyes and
magnificent brow, all declare that they
were once organized into a convention
of beauty, with a rich suit of hair al
the chairman.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
The Greatest Danger Of Railroad
Travel.

The risk of sudden death; says the
Journal of Chemistry, is very trifing com.
pared with the inevitable injury sus-
tanned by every individual who has to
make long journey by rail. The t-av-
eler really takes his life in his hand
whenever he sets out. The danger is
less from accident than by design, less
from misplaced switches than from mis-
placed yentilators, less from bad road
beds than from bad air. We are not
now speaking of the barbaric nuisance
of having to smell, breathe, and bathe
in the smoke, SCOT and cinders pouring
in from the engine, which, until some
other method is found to obviate the
difficulty, ought to be in the rear
OF the train, instead of-the front. OF all
conductors, brakemen, porters, and pas
.sengers, probably not one in thousand
understands the vital Importance of
pure air, nor indeed do they know what
pure air is. To the conductors mind,
as to that the majority Of his passengers,
the comfort of the car depends upon
the temperature-it is matter of
warmth or cold entirely Awarm car,
or more commonly hot car, is the one
desideratum, albeit the warmth is the
product of animal heat from fifty bodies,
many of them not very clean and OF
exhalations from fifty pair of lungs, with
little chance for the escape of vitiated
air or the ingress of pure afr-a condition
Of things tending to produce a state OF
"blue e'blood not contemplated by the
haut ton. When the life current comes
up to the lungs to be changed from blue
to red, to throw of the carbonic acid
and take in oxygen-and the, whole
volume of blood makes the circuit once
in every half minute, or over one hun
dred times an hour--if there is lack oi
sufficient ventilation in the car or sit
ting-room or sleeping-room, the blood
can not undergo this vital transforma
ton. 1t goes back to the heart, an6
from thence is pumped through the ar
teries from crown to soul, throughou
the complicated meshwork of the capil
laries, in q state entirely untitled t.
perform its functions of supplyin,
oxygen to all parts of the body, or car
rying of the waste particles ,resultin,
from the "never ceasing death" of tn,
atoms composing the body, and of re
placing these with fresh, living atoms
or, as it is usually put, repairing tn
| Wasta %
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
The Salvation Army.

(
The London correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun thus describes the per-
sonnel and objects of this now famous
weather permitting, your chores will be
blessed. even in disguise, by the landing
of the Commander IN Chief, his staff,
his escort, and his daughters of the
regiment of I" the Salvation Army"
What was born and cradled in England
will grow in America, and in future
entage of a new ISM have before
transplanted in America are by English
isms." Goodness knows we have enough
of native eccentricities without any
foreign ones, be they of the " Salvation
Army or the Holy Land Navy
We may adopt and fondle our own
native organizations, but we should give
to Cesar the things of Caesar. Have
you any remote idea of what "dashing
wbite corporaln doesf Can you figure
to yourself blushing viviendier at the
canteen Of the celestial encampment of
this armyf The white corporal may
call his company roll, the blooming
maiden of circumscribed ekirts and
stout pedals may fill up your cup of
bliss-but is that salvation3 To some
it may be. On Shrove Tuesday when
pancakes were the evidences of an ab-
dominal Christianity and muscular
piety, took o stroll in. the East End,
where docks mark the jumping off part
of London. There / had the grateful
opportunity of being brought vis1d vis
with virgin of the Salvation Army.
She was clad in meek and evange1i.
cally humble india-rubber, ,overcoat with
an ample hood, and looked for all the
world just like pious pictures i have
seen in Russia. learned that her
adopted name was Margery of Mis-
sions.D / rather like the the ALTERATION
and surely Margery is intensely pretty.
g Yougo to American / ask in SUBJ
dued and seductive tones |" In course /
DO" says Margery. "May ask to what
partTs, Well, it don't make much
difference 20 long as it is New York, !"
said dttheeEeograpically informed Mar;
gerry OF Missions. ITO save souls p
quoth 1, in sort of impediment shy
mesa. "Oh, yes; heaps of 'emlp Heaps
of 'em! Think of that % Gothamite
godly people Heaps of 'em i,."What
is your process P-I had almost said
PATENT also timidly asked. Well,
you see, salyationists as we are, believe
in pointing out, proving practically the
sinfulness of sin, the wickedness of the
wicked; we exemplify this, show it up,
and then in 8 moment ask the sinner and
the wicked one where he is or how she
isp You catch them in the act fla
granite delicta, 30 to speak, and then res
cue them from the enemy red-hot p
swell, do not know exactly what you
mean; we catch them as sinners, and at
once recruit them into our ranks, and
they become better-and that's why we
call ourselves the salvation armyp, In
self-defence I piously whispered in her
ear, Young woman, go West!' She
has gone where it il good for her to 60.
And when the rising, or for that mat
ter the sinking generation, shall be found
in ain, let Margery be there, and the en-
tire phalanx of " The Salvation Army !'
The home of the brave and the land of
the tree has not yet instituted prohibi-
tory tax on saints. Free trade in piety
is boon that the Constitution or the
Custom House dare not tamper with,
Ldss Deo.,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
Latitude Of European Cities.

In reading dispatches relating to the
temperature and storms in Europe, per-
haps additional interest would be given
them if we bore in mind the relative
latitude of the places mentioned as COM
pared with places in this country. The
following statement is near enough cor
rect for this general purpose:
Rome n'latitude little to the south
of Detroit. st'l'-,
Vienna, Paris, and strasburg as Isle
Royal. Lake Superior -r~v,9
Berne as Keweenaw- Point, Lake Su.
perior.
Frankfort and Brussels as Cape St.
John, Newfoundland.
Berlin and Amsterdam as Manitoba
London and Dresden as the northern
extremity of Lake Superior.
Prague as Van Couver Island.
Milan as Ottawa, Ontario. EGf1
Lisbon as Baltimore. g,'kta s}i!tt
Edinburgh as Sitka.
Dublin as Strait of Belle Isle, New.
foundland. 80 -
St. Petersburg as center of Hudson
Bay. 3l@
Madrid as Columbus, Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
Republican Partisanship in the Porter
Case.

The discussion of the Fitz John Por-
ter case has served an excellent purpose
in one respect SO that if it is indefinitely
postponed, as now seems possible, it will
not have been had in vain. 1t has shown
how utterly dependent the Republican
party feels upon the revival of war IS
sues when the question is of conducting
q political campaign. The fact has long
been apparent to its opponents; but the
confession has never been made quite so
clearly on its behalf as it has in the saw
age onslaught on Porter. There was
nothing in the case calling for the at
tack. Porter did not appeal to Congress
as partisan but as q so dier, wronged
by the decision of urt-martial acting
under the pressure of war feeling and
with an imperfect knowledge of the
facts. He came before Congress, not
with any partisan Endorsement or back
ing but with the certificate of three gem
eral officers of the army, all Republicans,
that the injustice he complained of, and
uider which he professed to have suf-i
fered for sixteen years, had actually
been done him. The question presented
was, therefore, whether Congress would,
to the extent of its power, atone for the
Injustice; and it was one of the last
questions in. discussing which there
should be any trace or taint'of PARTISAN
ship. Yet such was the condition of
the Republican party and such were its
needs in view of the approaching contest
that this purely bipartisan question
was seized upon. as the basis and occa-
sion for one of the most bitter and acri-
monious displays of partisanship that
the Capitol, has ever witnessed. The
speech of Logan, in all save its discuss
ion of military law-for which. he ap-
pears to have been indebted to the coun-
sci who appeared against Porter on the
hearing before the court of inquiry
was an elaborate attempt to /" fire the
Northern heart" as the Republican
party puts it; while Carpenter made no
concealment of the fact that his argu-
ment was merely Introductory to puff
for Grant, as the Presidential candi-
date of the believers in 1strong gov
| ernmentn - -
| It is n humiliating confession for a
| party like the Republican party to
make, that it has no claim to continued
| control in the executive department of
the nation but its ability to howl louder
and longer and more bitterly than any
ether party, about issues which were
| practically settled about fifteen years
ago. Yet, humiliating as the confession
is, the party has to make it. 1t has no
other battle cry with which it can rally
its forces There is no great principal
of government upon which its members
are united; and there is nothing in its
record to which it can point as estab-
lishinga claim to support. On the con-
trary, its record is what it has chiefly to
fear in any contest. . Iss gAc
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
A Romance Of French Society.
London Globe.1

: v
. A melancholy ending to a very sad
story was related by some of the guests
at the Duchess de Bisaccia's. Some
time ago Mile. Helene de la Roche-Mau-
rion, on the eve of wedding the Marquis
de Kannisgan, the husband of her
choice was siezed with violent attack
of brain fever, which carried her of in
three days. The marquis, only % year
of age, was deeply affected by the sud-
den death of his fancee, and he left So
ciety to bury himself in one of his
country houses far from Paris and So
ciety.
His aunt, the Princess de Talmont,
tried to persuade him to travel, and it
was thought that he had gone abroad
until few days ago the princess received
a letter from her nephew informing her
that he had entered the Monastery of
La Trappe, near Montague, as novice,
and that he was known henceforth as
Brother Sebastian. ...sr
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Summarized from the proceeding. ofthe pas. week.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The following bills were passed: Senate bill re
peaing act Of last session directing the Commits
doners of Guernsey County to sell certain railroad
stock and invest the proceeds in county buildings
House bill making graye-robbing penitentiary
ofense; House bill repealiog the act creating o
special school district in Mentor Township, Lake
County; House bill to prohibit the pursuing Of
game on another mans premises, and to prevent
trapping and netting Of game; Senate bill to pro.
vide for the payment of the State debt by levy
of six-tenths Of mill for three years.
The Senate bill authorizing the City of Sandusk y
to build a railroad to Fremont was referred. The
House bill OF Mr. Reed, of Ross, providing manner
of veting upon the question OF purchasing toll
roads and making them free, was passed. The
House bill by Mr. Carpenter for the relief Of E. W.
Browning and his suret'es on their official bond a.
Treasurer Of Lebanon Township, Meigs County,
was passed. The following new bills were intro
duced: To authorize the Commissioners of Noble
County 10 construct free turnpike; prOvidiug for
an additional judge and clerk of esection where q
Justice of the Peace is voted in municipal elec-
tions in the spring The following bills passed
,use bill providing for additional levy in the
cities Of the first end second grade o. the first class.
fve-eigh OF one mill for sewer purposes; to aid
in curing defect in conveyances of real
authorizing the Board of Public works to enlarge .
culvert in HarIison Township, Pickaway County I;
limiting assessments for improvements to Is per
cent of the value of the property as show by the TAX
duplicst6.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
HOUSE.

Disposition made of hills follows: House
bill authorizing the Commissioners of Noble County
to make pro rata distribution Of railroad stock held
by the county among the several townships was re-
ported from tine Judiciary ittee and indefinitely
postponed; Senate bill relating to the appointment
of trustees of township cemeteries reported from
the Committee on Municipal Corporations and In
definitely postponed; House bill dividing Olmsted
Township, Cuyahoga County. into two election pre-
cincts was reported from the Committee Counties
and indefinitely postponed; House bill authorizing
the levy of special in Union County for county
purposes was reported from the Committee on Coun-
ties aud indefinitely postponed; House bill requir-
ing the location of schoo to suit the conven
ience OF all the pupils Of the district reported
from the Committee on Schools and Indefinitely
postponed.
Local option petitions bearing about 1900 signa-
lures were presented. The Committee on NUM-
cipal Corporations reported favorably on Mr. VAL
landigham's bill to authorize the city Of Dayton to
extend her water works. The general appropria-
ton bill was taken up, and pending its discussion,
the House took recess. The amendment was dis
agreed to-yeas l6 nays 81.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
WHOLE NUMBER GA.
war on the United States for simply do
ing what any other respectable nation on
the globe would do under the same con-
The Supreme Court Decisions.


the globe would do under the same con-
ditions.
The Supreme Court Decisions.
An Eastern paper, considering the re-
cent Capitalization decisions of the
United States Supreme Court, SAYS:
These four decisions reach as far as
the most arrogant advocates of a con-
solidated government and central ON
impotence can possibly demand They
strip the State of the power to try a
Federal official for numbering one of its
own citizens, or of negro for violating
one of its laws; they subject State judges
to responsibility to Federal courts for
alleged crimes against the United States
in administering State laws, and, as
last and crushing assault upon State
sovereignty, decide that State elections
shall be subject to the control, regulation
and supervision of Congressional author
ity. How much farther the majority of
the Supreme Court can go in their at
tacks upon the rights and powers of the
State remains to be seen. But unless
the people shall heed the warning voice
of Judge Field and the venerable Judge
Clifford, there is certainly but little
hope that they will stop short of an OBJ
liberation of State lines as well as State
autonomies or rest in their assault upon
the Constitution until they have made
this consolidated government, supreme
over every inch of land once known as
the United States of the American Re-
Dubiic p
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
The Strongest Man In the World.

Reno, New, claims to possess the
strongest man IN the world, in the per-
son Of Angelo Cardela, an Italian of
thirty-fye years. His spinal column
seems to be double, and his bones and
joints are all very large. He has re-
peatedly lifted with the third finger of
his right hand men weighing from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred
pounds, by placing his finger under the
hollow of one of their feet and thus
carrying them around room. He can
strike with his fist blow with power
of five hundred pounds, as measured on
a register, and when couple of big
lrishmen attacked him the other day,
he seized one in each hand and Knocked
them together until they were insensible
and half dead. =
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
The Cashier Of the Period.

There is good deal of square COM
mon sense about the directors of
savings bank down at Marysville. They
engaged new cashier the other day, and
the President said to him: Mr.. Steele,
your duties will be very light, and
and the salary $400 month. Now, if
you'll agree not to speculate in bonds,
or gamble, or hypothecate the deposits,
we'll double the pay. Come, now, what
do you sayP "Pm very much Obliged
to you, gentlemen" was the reply,
" and I'll think it over and give you an
answer in the morning." But he refused
the offer after all. He said he couldn't
be cramped down in that way.