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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

When the bill for the retirement
of ex-President Grant was under
discussion in the Senate, Mr.. Vest
took occasion to say:
"He was opposed to the bill and to
any measure for the retirement of
ex-Presidents. He would say now,
as he had always said, for Gen.
Grants military reputation and char
acter he had the very greatest re-
spect. He spoke of General Grants
magnanimity at the surrender of Lee
and other occasions, which had won
for him the undying regard of all
Southern men. When Gen. Grant
left the high position in the peoples
estimation of an ex-President and a
patriot, and entered the political
arena, he took the chances of poll
tical life, and he Vest wanted him
to stand by the hazard of the die.
This was not a Democratic funeral.
When General Grant was borne q
bloody political corpse from the fight
at Chicago, it became the duty of the
Republican party to take care of him.
The Democrats had killed and
wounded enough of their W to take
care Of without providing for those
OF the Republican party"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
The .Metbodist Year Rooka for

The methodist Year Book" for
1881, lately issued from the publish
ing house of the denomination gives
the following interes ting statistics:
There are now in church fellowship
900 followers of John Wesley,
with a Methodist population of 49,
100000. There are nineteen living
Bishops, of whom twelve are in ac-
tive service in the Northern States
and six in the Southern. The Brit
ish and Canadian Wesleyans and
some other branches of the Method
list family have no Bishops. The
net capital of the Northern Church
is 81, 100000, and its total profits in
forty-four years have been over 3d.
600, 900. It issues 1900 books a
day on an average. About sixty
periodicals emanate from the Church
in the North, and $50 from all Meth
odisms. The Church in the North
appropriates for missions $77S,000
for 1881, about half of which will be
spent at home, and the balance in
foreign fields. The various Method
isms have 80, 900 itinerant preachers
in the field, aud $4,000 local preach
ers, men who preach or Sunday and
pursue some secular calling on week
days. Methodism has numerous de-
nominational academies and semi
naries, and no lack of colleges,
among which are the new Boston
University, the Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn, and the new
university at Syracuse, all of which
are in prosperous condition.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The money contributions of lead
ing capitalists and corporation job
bers to the election of Garfield last
fall, were communicated to Cath
in Philadelphia. These eontribu-
tions were to carry the October
States. Jay Gould gave 500, 600,
the largest single contribution, and
afterwards added $4,000 to it; Van
derbilt gave $2O,Oo0; Morton, Bliss
and Co., syndicate bankers, 1000;
Standard Oil Company, $4,000. A
committee of bankers in addition
raised $500, 900, and refused to take
a subscription under $4,000. Dor
Cameron raised $4,000 to defeat
Bayard in Delaware. And the
wouldbe Senator, Oliver, is credited
with raising $4,000 in Pittsburgh
for Indiana. He did better than
that. When we read of the subscrip
lions of these syndicate and subsidy
gentlemen we begin to understand
the fight the Republicans are max
ing in Congress against three pei
cent. bonds and the cutting off OF
funding perquisities.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Mr.. BLOOM has done a good ser
vice in the General Assembly in
showing up the hypocrisy of the
Republican party by means of the
local option business. That hypoc-
risy had been illustrated on number
less occasions before, but never more
sharply than in this instance. Mr..
Bloom said he wanted the temper
ance people of the state to know how
the representatives of the Republi-
can party were %quarreling over their
petitions without taking any meas
ures to comply with their wishes.
Several years ago, he said, about
10000 of these people petitioned a
Democratic Legislature for the pas
sage Of such a law. They did not
see fit to do it. They did not believe
any practical good results would
grow out of it. They still opposed
it. But the Republican party went
before the people and denounced the
Democrats for that action. They
said they 1.-THE Democrats) were the
whisky party; that they had no re-
spect for the 10000 petitioners from
among the best peopie-ef the State.
They said Commit the interests of
the State into any hands, as a party,
and we will pass the bill" The tenn
perance people, continued Mr..
Bloom, believed them. They took
them at their word. They came to
Columbus as a party pledged to &C.
cede to their wishes. The temper
ance people gave up their party Or
ganization, in q, great measure, and
relied upon them. They sent to Col
umbus, last year, many thousand
names, and now come here with
165 1000 more, asking that these
pledged he made good. "But what
do we see? Quarreling over what
disposition is to be made of them!'
Perhaps the high moral people OF
the state will ponder these thing. If
the Republican party is a fraud
there is nc reason why even such
pc ople should not appreciate the
fact.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The Democratic party is not ia
vorable to a Local Option bill, but
the present Republican Legislature
was elected with the understanding
that it would pass one. There never
was o bargain entered into in which
the terms were more distinctly laid
down and understood by both sides.
Now let this Republican Legislature
fulfill its obligations and enact the
law it solemniy agreed to pass. No
"crawfshing." Face the music.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
Population ofthe United states.

The census bureau has received
the official footings of the several
States, as developed by the recent
census; and General Walker, of the
census bureau, officially transmitted
it to Congress. This shows the ag-
gregate of population in the several
States TO be 4e, 3e9, sos. To this ag-
gregate is to be added the popula-
ton of the District of Columbia,
which is 1888, and the population
of the several Territories, which ag7
gregates 6O5,6a3, making a fetal
population of the States, Territories
and the District of Columbia and OF
the United States, 5O,152,S66. The
State totals are as follows:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
Fan 9 1891

EGU. 4, 1CC1s
There is light on the electoral
count business. The Senate Demo-
Gratis have resolved to support q
substantially the same as
that adopted in 1887, when, as now,
there was no doubt about the gene
raj result, but when there was doubt
about counting a particular State, as
there is now. Unless the Republi-
cans of both House and Senate prefer
that the count shall go on informal
'ly,, and another irregularly selected
President shall be inaugurated, they
will agree to this resolution. But
the presnt count completed, some
thing more ought to be done. A
comprehensive act should be passed
covering the whole subject, SO that
hereafter nothing will be necessary
but to pass, every four years, a sim
pie resolution to go into joint on
vention. Our own party controlling
both Houses for the last two years,
is not without blame that this has
not already been done.
There is a better chance now of
an agreement upon q funding bill
than there has been since the ses-
sion commenced. The influence
brought to bear on Congress during
the last week or ten days, both from
the Treasury and from business men
have had their effect on both Sena-
tors and Representatives. It is un-
necessary to say that those influences
were all favorable to a higher rate of
interest than the House proposed,
and to a longer term for the bonds,
and to a tightening of the National
Banks alleged burdens. A well
posted Representative said yeterday
that if the Senators passed 9 bill,
making the bond and Treasury note
interest 81 per cent, the bonds to be
redeemable in five years and payable
in twenty, and the notes redeemable
in one and payable in ten years, the
House will agree to the bill with q
single change-making the note in.
terest 8 per cent. instead of 81. To
this complexion the bill will. prob.
ably come. :
Rivers and harbors will Absorb
something over ten millions this
year, including $1,600,000 for the
Mississippi river.
All the appropriation bills not al
ready reported are nearly ready il
eommittee, and it is understood. al
promised by Mr.. Atkins before the
holidays, that there is nothingin any
of them to provoke political discus
sion. It requires great skill and
high degree Of self-restraint to pre-
pare any measure in such a mannel
as to avoid attack from Cenger ani
like people, but Mr.. Atkins and hi,
able committee o N appropriations
have SO far succeeded in the genera
appropriations. Government -ex
penses, including pensions and 9th
er deficiencies, will be somewha
but not much larger than last year
This pension question, by the way
promises to cause considerable dis
cussion in both House and Senate
Payments are now SO large tina
many Congressman wish in som,
way to reduce them. The particula
measure now under discussion i
known as the "Sixty Surgeon Bill,
dividing the country up into districts
and compelling claimants and thei
witnesses to appear in person for eH
animation. The objection to this i
that it would impose such intolerabl
expense on the claimants as to be
practical denial of justice in yer,
many cases. DEM
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

A feud in the Republican party,
On account of the presence of Blaine
as Secretary of State in Garfield's
Cabinet, is strongly talked of at
Washington. The triumph of Conk-
ling in New York, in the selection OF
his man for Senator, will make him
still more aggressive; and, with the
backing of General Grant, he will
not be very particular what he says
If he is not consulted in the forma
ton of the new Cabinet. Garield's
path is strewn with thorns.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
Hon. STANLEY MATTHEWS has been

Hon. STANLEY MATTHEWS has been
nominated by Mr.. Hayes as associ-
ate Judge of the Supreme Court, to
succeed Judge SwArNE, who resign
ed a few weeks ago. If Mr.. Mat
thews is confirmed by the Senate, it
will be his reward for his services in
putting a fraud into the White
House for President. MI. Hayes
seems disposed to provide for all
who put their fingers in that great
national swindle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The yellow cadet Whitaker, is the
next greatest fraud this country owns
to the one in the White House. It
has but n pauper. The election
of JOHN SHERMAN to the q. S. SEN
ate prevented a second infection of
this kind.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

1t is remembered that Andrew
jackson went home to Tennessee,
after serving two terms in the White
House, with only $50 in his pocket.
And the old veteran didn't die in the
poor house mol whine that he had
been turned out like a used up horse
to die. He belonged to the Demo
cratic school of Presidents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The town of Lebanon has a rail
road at last, and the entire inhabi-
tants of the village r standing on
their heads and performing other
gymnastics exercises of grateful &C.
acknowledgement.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The second caring Of the colored
cadet Whitaker is now going on in
New York city. 1t is expensive but
must be done for the g cd of the Re-
publican party, the White House
fraud and the country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The xenia Democrat says the evi
dence of the Home "neuralgiar case
has been stolen from the desk OF
Senator WILKINS, at Columbus
What is it that the Republican party
won't steal2
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The necessity of an SKI Commits
sion to count in the next President
will be dispensed with, According
to the agreement of the q. S. Senate
to count the Electoral vote, General
GARFIELD will not be looked upon
as q fraud III tle White House.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Roscoe Conkling& Co, is the title
of the firm now representing New
York in the United States Senate.
Senator Platt, lately elected at AL
bany, is the @Co." They are a team
to pull the machine along!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

GRANT intends TO go to Mexico as
500 as he receives his pauper fund.
If he don't get it, he will more than
likely be compelled to go to the poor
house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

In relation to the Collectorship of
this District the immaculate "rota-
ter is silent. Was it only SO far as
the P. o. was concerned that he ia
vored rotation,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The next United States Senate
will do itself a credit when it organ
ICES to "rotate'' BRIGHT, the present
-Sergeant-at Arms, out of the posi-
tion. He is a t~reacherous and dis.
honest scamp. Investigate.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

As the Democratic principle of
rotation in Office is to be applied
by the Republicans of this county
hereafter, first term officials will
please take notice.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The editor of the Germantown
Press says he lost money by espous-
ing the temperance aus a few
years ago. Didn't you recover it,
Harky, when you went for SHULTz
and beer?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The city of Wooster, Wayne coun-
ty, had a $4,000 fire last week, and
Bro. Eshelman, ofthe Democrat, was
severely gored by an enraged BULL.
1t will rise "phenix like" from both
calamities.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The editor of apaper who would
Gull from the article of a contempt
rary a half dozen words, in order to
pervert it for a little political capital,
would. make asplendid P. N. during
an exciting party campaign. Whe~!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

All the public institutions in Ohio
are out of whack. That is the kind
of reform" the people get by taking
out their Democrats and putting in
Republicans.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The Register claims that the Or,
phans' Home scandal investigation
proved an abortion. The abortion
was proved all the same, however.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

We would suggest the "white,
wash brush" as an emblem for the
Republican party in the next politi
cal campaign.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

81. P. C. and his rotation in office
be D." remarked a first termer
the other day in Eaton. More trou
BILE ahead.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Old rotate is already sounding
the alarm of defeat through the Reg
ister for the Republicans in this
county next fall. What is the mat:
ter:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

How long are the people of Ohio
TO be afflicted with the imbecility
and hypocritieal maneuvering of the
present General Assembly?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The Republican party is getting
ready for a waterloo defeat in Ohio
next fall. Statesman STUDBs will
come in for his share of the blame.
Ministers of the different churches
will please pray for Bro. STUBS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Senator ingalls, says that in 1876
there was a plot to steal the electoral
returns from the box where they
were kept.-Fr.
Mr.. Hayes had it stolen for him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
BENZ, HUBBARD,
Attorney q. Law ! Notary Public

Prompt attcntif u given to business
%intrusted to him. Oliieein the I'd story
of Filbert's block, uorth-west corner
of Main and Cherry streets, Eaton, o.
July rs, 1873.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The Presidential election being
over now, the New York Tribune
has discovered that Republican re
pudiation in Minnesota is as dis
graceful as Democratic repudiatiop
in the South, and thus admonishes
the Republicans of repudiating Min
nesota:
1t would be well if the Republican
voters and Legislators of Minnesota
would fully realize what disgrace
their conduct casts upon the Repub-
lican party elsewhere. Not a week
passed, during the last campaign,
that the stolid, stubborn and persis,
tent dishonesty Of "Minnesota with
its 10000 Republican majority was
not thrown in the teeth of earnest
Republicans elsewhere who were
pleading in behalf of public. honor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

We are pleased that "rotation in
Office has become 80 popular in
Preble county. The offices will go
around more rapidly than under the
old Republican rnle. But how will
the efrst term" fellows take to it?-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Old Simon Cameron has gone on
his travels. He will 60 to Cuba and
Mexico and coming back will call on
Garfield and tell him what be ought
to do.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
One. Two, or Monet

It looks very much from the fol!
lowing as if our old railroad was
bound to be built. We hope so.
We would welcome it with open.
arms.
SEYMOUR, IND, February 4-This
city is wide-awake and talking new.
railroads at 8 speed that would para
lyze a fast express train. Three diff
ferent Companies a few months ago
were competing for nearly the same
route. Eleven years ago Col. Roberti
Patterson. an energetic railroad man.
and Evansville Railroad. Work Was
commenced at Evansville, and5eigh-
teen or twenty miles of the road were
built toward this city. In 1873 the,
enterprise was panic stricken and
stopped. The local aid was then lost
by lawful Limitation. With a revival.
of business, MI. Patterson commercial
working up the proposed line again.
and succeeded in having an immense.
local aid voted, the line to run to
Bellefontaine, Ohio. Another jealous
| Company now saw "big money! in.
such a line, and a lively competition.
followed. Compromises were effected
a few weeks ago, and these interests
consolidated. But now another Com
pany, the Evansville and Dayton,
propose to build this line, whether or
no, with or without local aid. The
competition amounts to almost a rail-
road war. A surveying party Of the
Evansville and Dayton Company
passed southwest through this city
to-day. They will meet another sur
veying party at Salem. The rival
Companies each swear they will have
a road, and instead of one Seymour
may get two more railroads. The
great danger is that instead Of one or
two the wrangle may cause none to
be built. However, there is little
doubt that grading will be commence
ed very soon by n or both of these
Companies. Letters received from
prominent Evansville business men
assure our people they will welcome
and encourage the Company now in
the field. Their confidence seems to
be with the E. and d. folks, while our
people have learned to love and hope
for the S., E. and B. 1t is "six of one
and half dozen of the other" to our
people, and they will heartily assist
the enterprise that promises the
earliest completion and greatest sue
cess of a new railroad connecting
Seymour with Evansville and the i'm
mense State of Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The Mt. Vernon Banner mentions
the following as among the "young"
Democrats who are spoken of as
probable candidates for Governor in
1881: Samuel F. Hunt, Gen. A. V.
Rice, John F. Follett, Michael D.
Harter, George N. Jewett, E. B.
Eshelman, Wn. w. Armstrong, Oil
yer H. Payne, Judge Hoadly, John
A. Mcmahon, Frank H. Hurd, ex'
Speaker Jim Neal, and John r. Nc
Lean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
There is a growing feeling that the
Democracy are going to win this fall
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
THE SYMPT0MS

of Liver Complaint are a bitter or bad
taste in the mouth; Pain in the Back,
Sides or Joints, often mistaken for
Rheumatism, SOUR STOMACH, Loss of
Appetite, Bowels alternately costive
and lax; Headache, Loss of memory,
with a painful sensation of having fail
ed to do something which ought to
have been done; DEBILITY, Low SPIR-
IT'S, a thick yellow appearance of the
Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough often mis-
taken for Consumption.
Sometimes many Of these symptoms
attend the disease, at others very few;
but the LIVER, the largest organ in the
body, is generally the seat of disease,
and if not Regulated in time, great
suffering, Indebtedness and DEATH
will ensue.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

It is surprising how perverse some
men do become in their declining
years. There is melancholy proof
of this in the case of the editor of
the Register. He deserves pity
rather than censure. We pity him,
and if he will publish at the head of
his editorial page the FIRST eight lines
of the article from the DEMOCRAT,
which he has so maliciously pervert-
ed, we will pay him legal rates. If
he will insert them three months we
will pay him regular newspaper rates,
and the same for six months. Now,
Uncle John, give US our medicine if
you think it is not palatable.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Bro. STuBBs, hurry up that Sun.
day law.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

The self-prcclaimed party of
"great moral ideas" in Ohio, is too
cowardly to pass the Local Option
bill, although through its promises to
grant local option and sumptuary
laws it came into power. 1t has the
power to do so. 1t is largely in the
majority, and there is nothing that
stands in its way to enact this law
that it promised. Why don't it do
SO? Why undertake to dodge it by
proposing a Constitutional amend
ment? That will not satisfy the
people.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10

Total of Territories 49,. 605,635
Grand total population of
United States. ....... 50,152,S $50
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
FACES!
NEW GOODS
OLD STAND.

r TAKE PLEASURE IN INFORM
i ing the citizens of Eaton and Pre-
BILE county, that having purchased the
Tin Shop owned by Mr.. Lanning, we
have added a
NEW STOCK OF STOVES
and goods usually keptin a store of the
kind. We are prepared to do all kinds
of Job Work, Tin, Iron and Slate Roof
ing, Iron Cornice, Window Caps, light
and heavy Sheet-iron work, including
Breeding and Stacks for Portable and
Stationary Engines also, spouting and
%putterin9.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
All Kinds Of Repairing,

All Kinds Of Repairing,
including wood and iron pumps. Stoves
repaired, and prompt attention paid to
S wee US ma ana We w will ui az y yUa g goa S Safer
goods for the same money and do your
work promptly, and at reasonable rates.
in Ohio, including Cincinnati. and
later of Richmond, Ind.
|. w-Don't forget the place.
Opposite Court House,
.LANNING'S OLD STAND.
II A s. PRICE.
Eaton, Nov. 25, 1ssO-tf