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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A Good Place for Sale.

sI want to sell my place" said a re-
taller to the publisher of this paper.
SIS it good place2" the publisher
asked.
"Well," the retailer replied, "we used
to have saying when I was boy, that
there are two kinds of good. Good, and
good for nothing, and I guess my place
is one of those kinds of good"
,"Pn tell you what kind of place it
is" he continued. '1t's a place where
you are expected to crop your hair and
stand behind the bar and spit over onto
the tables once in while. You are ex-
pected to swear like horse marine, and
fight like bantam cock.
'The customers bang you in the nose
for good morning. and pelt you in the
stomach on leaving. They address you
as a a-- -, and tell you if you
don't fill the beer glasses up to the top
with clear beer they'll lay your liver
over your eyes and clean the sidewalk
with your hide. Very few of them haye
any money, but the trade amt allowed
to suffer on that account. They hang
you up for everything, tell you to put
the account in your head and they will
come around on Saturday and kick it
out
'.Stll, I amt complaining. I'm only
giving it up on account of my health.
The doctor has ordered change of air,
that's all. You can put it down as a
good place, but for heavens sake don't
get in the address, or my customers will
insist on celebrating the event, and the
few sound chairs, tables and things I
have managed to keep together will go
without selling. Put it down as a good
place, doing lively trade. Satisfactory
reasons given for leaving.-New York
Retailer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21

Yellow Fever an Havana.
There were twentythree deaths from yellow
fsver In Havana, last week.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Absorbed.

Castle-building is generallya harmless
way of wasting time, bringing no other
perils than loss of will-power and the
consequent enervation of character:
Prof. Wilson, the famous " Kit North, :"
of Scotland, dearly loved a long reverie
befure bedtime. One night the habit
almost proved fatal to life. While edit
ing BIackwood's Magazine he often
worked till the small hours of the morn
ing, and then, for fear of disturbing his
wife, threw himself on a lounge in his
study, and slept till breakfast.
A friend had persuaded him to intro
duce gas, just then coming into use in
Edinburgh, and the professor found it a
wonderful illuminator during his long
ght tolls. But one night, after finish
ing his writing, he seated himself before
the fireplace for long reverie. Castle
after castle was built, dream plans fol
lowed each other in quick succession,
till suddenly he discovered that the fire
was low, and he was shivering.
Half rousing himself, but still lost in
his dreams, he blew out the gas, and
threw himself on his lounge. In an hour
he woke, nearly suffocated, and found
the study filed with pungent odor,
and an atmosphere hard to breathe. He
threw up the windows, turned off the
gas and rushed out of doors. The next
morning the gas-pipes were torn up
they were dangerous conveniences fol
one of his habits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A Thorough Job.

Judge M, a well-known jurist liv-
ing near Cincinnati, was fond of relating
this anecdote. He had once occasion to
send to the village for carpenter, and
a sturdy young fellow appeared with his
tools.
81 want this fence mended to keep
the cattle. There are some unplaned
boards-use them. 1t is out of sight
from the house, SO you need not take
time to make it neat job. will only
pay you dollar and half"
The Judge went to dinner, and, COM
ing out, found the man carefully plan
ing each board. Supposing that he was
trying to make costly job of it, he Or
dered him to nail them on at once just as
they were, and continued his walk.
When he returned the boards were
planed and numbered ready for mailing,
d" told you that this fence was to be
covered with vines," he said, angrily.
"I do not care how it looks.
"I do" said the carpenter, gruffiy,
carefully measuring his work. When it
was finished there was no part of the
fence so thorough in finish.
Chow much do you charger" asked
the Judge.
ga dollar and half" said the man,
shouldering his tools.
The Judge stared. "Why did you
spend all that labor on the job, if not
for money!"
"For the job, SIR
Nobody would have seen the poor
work on it"
"But I should have known it was
there. No; I'll take only the dollar
and half" And he took it and went
away.
Ten years afterward, the Judge had
| the contract to give for the building OF
certain magnificent public buildings.
There were manyapplicants among mas
ter-builders, but the face of one caught
his eye.
at was my man of the fence" he
said. 81 knew we should have only
| good, genuine work from him. I gave
him the contract and it made rich man
of him."
1t is pity that boys were not taught
in their earliest years that the highest
success belongs only to the man, be he
carpenter, farmer, author or artist
whose work is most sincerely an thor.
oughly done.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
| ican legislation; favors civil service reform
and condemns the spoils system.

Albert Nealus, plasterer by trade, at Gin
cinnati, is charged, on good evidence, with
trying to burn his wife and two children. Nea-
lus is drunken, lazy man, and for several
years has been supported by his wife. Mrs.
Nealus attended picnic contrary to the will Of
her husband, which seemed to anger him very
much, and heavowed to a neighbor that for the
act he would burn her up. A few nights after,
at midnight, he hindled fire in the cellar, di-
rectly under the bed occupied by Mrs. Nealus
and her children. The night was intensely hot,
and the neighbor to whom Nealus had made
the threat, was sitting at her window tanning
herself when she discovered the fire through
an aperture in the cellar. She alarmed Mrs
Nealus, who made her escape just in time to
escape horrible fate. The fire department
was called out but four dwellings were burned
before the flames were extinguished. Nealus
was shortly after arrested at a boarding house
near the scene of his dastardly attempt and
lodged in the station house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
The cutter" Kangaroo Soup.

Any one in London desiring to in
>dulge in basin of kangaroo-tail soup
can do so much more readily than if he
were living in any of the great antipo-
dean towns. Several of the. colonial
meat companies have made the tails of
the kangaroo an article of export for
consumers in England, and shilling or
two will place Londoner in possession
of luxury of Australia which the col
onists there can generally obtain only
after hard days work on horseback.
AS matter of fact, it is the rarest thing
possible to see kangaroo hanging In q
colonial butchers shop; and potage
queue de kangaroo Is rarer item on the
carte de jour of Melbourne or Sydney
dining-room than it might be in the res
ltaurants of the Boulevard des Italiens or
Regent street. The soup is a thing
which, if once tasted, is to be forever re-
smembered. Prepared, as it ought to
be, with due admixture of white wine
and the yellxs of hard boiled eggs, it is
richer than that made from hare or
grouse, with peculiar and quite indie
scribable flavor. But, except the liver
and digestion be sound, it Is not to be
partaken of with impunity. Had Brillat
Sayerin but tasted it, he would have i'm
mortallzed its merits. No pen except
his could do justice to. its appetite-in-
spring aroma and its gastronomically
quite "too utter" SAVIOR.
But, for the rest, travellers have as
serted that the hams of the kangaroo
the only other parts of the animal which
ever find place at table-are equal in
taste to venison. In this opinion few
who have partaken of them will concur.
Every allowance mayb made for men
weary with hunting in the Australian
bush; but, experto crede, any one capa-
BILE of making such an assertion never
deserves to eat venison pasty again.
Not the skill of Gordon bleu of the
kitchen, however celebrated-not all the
sauces in the world-could disguise or
subdue the rankness OF kangaroo or wal
laby ham.-London Globe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
GeraniuIns,

For constancy of bloom the geranium
is unequaled. Small plants, that can
be bought very cheap, if put out in May,
will completely fill bed in three weeks
after planting, and early in June will be
a mass of flowers, and continue getting
better and better until blackened by the
frosty nights of autumn. While other
plants are whiting under the scorching
rays of our summer SUN, the geraniu1n
seems to glory in the hottest weather.
There is such variation In the color of
the flower, as well as in the form and
color of the leaves, that with few vari-
cites of geraniums more artistic and
varied bed can be made than with almost
any other flower. The center of large
bed may be scarlet, with light colors
around, or few rows on the border may
be of the silver-leaved kinds. Indeed,
we have seen delicate and intricate pat
terms formed of geraniums alone in some
of the celebrated gardens of Europe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Two Lost Vessels Heard From.

The whaler, Thomas Pope, Captain Willard,
has arrived at San Francisco from the Arctic.
She left the Straits June 81. The day before
leaving she spoke the whaler Progress, Captain
Barker, and from her learned that Indians
near East Cape had found the two missing
whalers Vigilant and Mount Wollaston. The
Indians found three corpses only on board the
Vigilant. From their appearance in was evident
that they had died in the first year of their
captivity in the ice. The Indians brought
away from the Vigi1ant some money, a spy
glass, bomb-gun and fowling piece. No one
dead or alive found on the Mount Wollaston.
The revenue cutter Corwin has sent a sledge
party in search of the Indians to recover the
articles named and obtain further information
No news from the Jeanette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
The Ohio Democrats.

The Ohio Democracy have placed the follow
ing ticket in the field: For Governor, John w.
Bookwalter; for Lieutenant Governor, Edgar
N. johnson; for Supreme Judge, Judge E. F.
Bingham; for Attorney General, F. c. Do
herty; for State Treasurer, A. P. Winslow. NJ.
d. for Momber of Board of Public Works,
John Grow. The platform adopted favors the
equality of all before the law; equal taxation,
unpolitical legislation, and a free and pure
ballot as the cornerstone of free institutions.
Opposes monopoies and subsidies of all kinds
and requires the strictest economy in national
State and local administration, that labor may
be lightly burdened. The maintenance and
advancement of the common school system,
condems the present contract system in the
State Prison, and the course of the late Repub-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A Warning to Mothers.

Here is warning to spanking moth
attempted to administer corrective to
one of her children in the good, old-fash-
ioned way which we all know more or less
about from extremely sad experience, to
wit: across the maternal knee. The little
one held in her hand piece of glass and
as the admonishing palm was descending
hand and the glass opened the radial
artery of the mothers wrist. The blood
gushed out in stream half way across
the room. and had not medical assistance
been promptly secured the consequences
might have been fatal.-Siour city
LoWa) Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A sro.t Exce,lent Drin,..

There has been received at the White House
q package containing four bottles of Jamaica
rum nearly, if not quite, 100 years old. They
were a part of several which were presented a
short time since to New York friend of the
President by an English nobleman. They came
into the family of the latter in 1857, when the
Governor of Jamaica took the stock from which
they came to England. 1t is being used in
very small quantities in the Presidents food.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Total. 81, ,l16,5s5 &, ,2OO, ,ss4

IOtai.- siiosoSS oo,<uUsSo1
1t will be seen by this table that while
the older of the coal-producing States,
like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois,
have about doubled their output, the
newer States like Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska have increased their production
ten and twenty fold.
The consumption of coal at Pittsburgh
for 1880 is about 1000, 600 bushels;
New York, 5,25O,OOO. The receipts of
coal at Chicago were 1855, 748 tons; st.
Louis, 1,675, 600 tons; New Orleans,
3,187, 400 tons Cincinnati, 1,787, $50
tons Cleveland, 1,750, 900 tons.
The United States stands next to
Great Britain as coal-producing coun-
try, but, while Great Britain exported
18, 1922 ,551 tons last year, the United
States exported GA, 600 tons, more than
half of this going TO Canada.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
The rorrid Heat.

Never before in the history of this country
have there been so great number of prostra-
tions from heat during the same length of time
as there have been during the present month.
The 11th inst. will long be remembered in the
Ohio Valley particularly. At Cincinnati, upon
that day, there were eighty-two cases of pros
tration, thirty-eight of which were almost
instantly fatal, and of the remaining forty
four, fully one-third of them were regarded as
hopeless. Mercury was variously reported at
1O3 and LOT in the shade, according to location.
Covington, Kentucky, reported seven fatal
cases, and Louisville, Kentucky, seven. At
Franklin, Ohio, mercury was reported to have
reached 1O8 degrees. Almost every village and
hamlet in the country reported prostrations.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A Gigantic swindle.

A dispatch from Geneva states that the
estimates or the amount of false coin shipped
to Egypt and other eastern countries by the
swindlers who. for years past, have made
Geneva a base for their operations, vary from
10000, 900 to 10000, 900 francs. The villages
in the interior of Egypt are literally inundated
with it, and the government will probably be
compelled to Withdraw piastres and replace
them with coin Of the same value, but of q
different name and appearance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Proposition to Guifeau.

VIM. J. F. Darling, writing from Northeast
Maryland, to District Attorney Corkhill, says !:
az have great interest in the man (or beast)
Guiteau, particularly his appetite. Now, sir,
propose to cut two ounces of flesh from him
every day and make him eat lido SO until he
eats himself up. Then he will have histori-
cal reputation as the man that shot Presi-
dent and then ate himself up. If you can not
find any one to do it in Washington, just call
on me. I mean it."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
hatchery i'm the FIJI, I.Iands.

The Fiji Times of April 80 says a horrible
massacre was perpetrated at Tapitawa of one
of the Line Island natives, recently prosely-
tized by q Kanaka missionary, named Kabu,
who induced them to give up their weapons.
Latterly, the people of the Southern portion of
the island BECAME dissatisfied by the constant
requisition on them for Cabra, and the apos-
tatized Kabu preached crusade against them,
armed his followers, and led them in person.
An indiscriminate slaughter ensued, over q
Thousand men, women, and children being
nassacred, the bodies collected in pile and
burnt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A Kamilx,s Horrible Fate.

Some time last spring, probably about the
middle of April, Josephus Whittam, of Ripley
County, Indiana, concluded to seek his fortune
in the distant West, and removed his family,
consisting in all of fourteen members, to Ore
gon, where he expected to spend the remainder
of his life. After reaching his destination,
however, he was unable to find location that
suited him, and-in short time made up his
mind to return to Colorado. While on the road
thither in wagons he was overtaken by fire on
the plains, and all the family, except himself
and one child, persisted in the flames.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Darlue K,,Ivay Robbery.

At Winslow Station, in Missouri, on the
Rock Island Road, gang of dospcradoes side
tracked the train of Conductor Westfall, ct
$50 at night, and proceeded to rob the pas
sengers, who were SO thoroughly frightened
that they made no resistance. Conductor
Westfall, who resisted them, was instantly shot
down, and after that every one meekly sub
mitted. After finishing their work, they dis
appeared in the darkness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Rradlauxh Getting violent.

Charles Bradlaugh, ousted from the British
House of Commons because he does not be-
lieve in the existence of God and therefore
would not take the required oath, gives notice
that on or before August he will present him
self at the table of the House and that anyone
endeavoring to prevent him will be acting ille-
gally and that he will resist by physical force to
overcome it if offered. In other words, he will
fight for his rights.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21

The vicious practice of Americans in
Europe, in squandering large sums of
money and displaying their roll on all oc-
casions, is bearing its legitimate fruit,
and an idea seems to have taken possess
sion of Europeans generally that Ameri-
cans have more money than they can get
rid of with scoop shovel. They seem to
think that almost every American owns
a mine that turns out trade dollars in
clusters, like grapes, and that the vines
produce two crops each season. The
vulgarity displayed by Americans in the
lavish manner in which they squander
immense sums have been frequently
commented on, and the Europeans of
course only see this phaseSof the Ameri-
can character Those of us who remain
at home, and are free from this vulgarity,
are not taken into account
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
WiIliom ,Iorran.. Fate.

A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, states
that the youngest daughter of William Nor
gan, who, it is claimed, was put out of the way
for having divulged Masonic secrets, many
years ago, is now living in Marion County, that
State She states that her father was drowned
by five men, who took him into the lake. She
says one of the men who assisted in the
drowning lived for many years in Portland,
Oregon, but is now dead.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
How to Treat sunstrolxe.

An eminent Cincinnati physician has ad-
dressed communication to the public on the
treatment of patients who are sunstruck or
overcome with the heat. In substance he says
that the only safe and reliable remedy is, to
bathe the patients head, face, neck and
chest with salt water as hot as it can be
handled
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
wheat Crop short.

Reports from State Agricultural Boards are
to the effect that the wheat crop will fall short
as compared with last year as follows: Ohio,
II, 2,OO0 600 bushels; Illinois, s7 OOO 600 bushels
Michigan, Il, 500, 900 bushels Iowa, II, 900, 900
bushels. Total shortage for the four States,
30, SOC, 900 bushels.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
HaoEnlan's Day.

On the 18th, Willis Reeves was hanged at
Van Buren, Ark. Fink Brown and Jesse
Meyers, at Sikeston, Mo. and Isaac Green and
John Harding, at Mariana, Ark. As an incl
dent of some interest, the correspondent at
Van Buren relates the following in connection
with the hanging of Reeves: He said on the
gallows that he was no religious nigger-not
afraid to die. Before hanging he sang song,
which was not, as usual, hymn, but about his
girl. The preliminaries being over, the Sheriff
advanced and tied rope around his body and
arms. This reused him like tiger in despera-
ton. He burst the knot and vigorous strug-
gle began, and men were bumped around in
wild disorder. The Sheriff dropped through
the trap. Upon the eve of a jump from the
gallows the criminal was caught just in time to
keep him from plunging upon the bayonets of
the guards beneath. He was secured, and e
moose placed around his neck. The trigger
was touched, and down he dropped, but not to
his doom. By horrible carelessness the rope
was too long. The toes of the unfortunate
man struck the ground and rebounded, to dan
gle until drawn up again through the trap and
the moose was released. Keeling, trembling,
bruised and weak, he gasped reproaches fol
the cruelty that was perpetrated on him. II
was ghastly, sickening sight The rope was
again fixed, and the trigger sprung, and this
time with fatal result.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
The siberian PlaRue.

The Siberian plague has made its appearance
In the environs of st. Petersburg, and is
spreading with alarming rapidity. Horses are
DYING by the score and many persons are af-
hicted. The local authorities are helpless, ow-
ing to q want of efficient doctors and.the fact
that the peasants sell the skins Of the beasts
which heJe died Of the disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Had Reeu Unfortunate.

A man named Gibson, in Philadelphia, was
up on charge of some petty crime. care you
married." asked the Judge. A smile o'er-
spread the mans face as he replied: "Judge,. Il
have seven wives in Salt Lake City, and seven
more outside, but I'm afraid my marrying days
are over now" That was enough. The Judge
had the man sent to the insane asylum at once.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
He 1Iurdered Five Men.

James McElsow was arrested st Falmouth,
KY, a few days ago, for the murder Of his
brother some years ago in Bracken County,
Ky. Since his arrest he has confessed to the
murder of four other men, concealing their
bodies In q cellar near Berlin. An invesigs-
ton revealed the bodies, and there is consider
able excitement in consequence.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21

Maud g., has beaten her best record one
quarter of a second. At the Pittsburg Driving
Park, July 13, she trotted mile in 2:105S, ac-
eording to official decision, although outsiders
maintained that she made her mile in 2:101z.
Bair, her driver, says she could have made 1t
in two seconds less time
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Trouble I'm Tunis.

Later dispatches from Tunis state that the
insurgents have assumed such large proportions
that unless put down with strong hand the
consequences all over the Regency may be very
serious. Mere occupation of Sfax will have no
effect on the insurgents. There are 1900 in
surgents around Sfax. They build up during
the night what the French destroy during the
day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Horrible Fate.

At Pontire, Province Of Koorsh, Russia,
nineteen men and one girl, who refused to
work, were shut in q barn by the steward Of
the property and were burned to death by q
village mob who set fire to the building. One
person arrested confessed to his share in the
erin
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
A Good Haul.

Three masked men assaulted messenger in
the Grand Central Depot, New York, and took
from him $4,000 in currency, and having a
wagon at hand, drove rapidly away making
good their escape,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
Heiur Halfimnn.

Intelligence from st. Petersburg says il is
probable that the Gear will commute the death
sentence Of Hessy Hoffman, who was con-
cened in the murder of the late Czar.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
euiteau,. sanity.

Guiteau has made full statement Of his
sourse in Washington preceding the attempt to
assassinate President Garfield, showing that
ne had sought for six weeks an opportunity to
commit the murder. The account demon
strates his sanity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21

AN old angler says that fish does not
suffer much pain from being hooked.
But let him tell the yarn to the man
who felt in his pocket for his knife and
found he had left seven fishhooks in
there, if he wants to be called an un-
principled old slanderer.