The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-20

state to get new desks ana carpets.
The hall never was before used
for local partisan purposes.
Bob Ingersoll, now the most pro-
minent Republican in the country,
demands that bible readings shall
cease in Legislatures, prisons and
public schools; that all laws enforc-
ing the observance of one day above
another upon religious grounds shall
be repealed, and that all laws re-
curing judicial oaths to be in any
religious form shall also be repealed
The number of new men in the
next Congress will be small when
compared with the two previous ses-
sions of the House, 2O2 will be old
members; lS4 were reelected from
the present Congress; Is have seen
service in one or the other houses of
Congress, which leaves 81 members
who have never sat in either cham
Der.
Senator Maxey, of Texas, says he
is most emphatically opposed to any
movement to cut up that state into
smaller States. He thinks the peo-
pie of the state agree with him, as
they take great pride in their state,
its magnificent extent of territory,
its rapid increase in population, and
the sturdy character of the settlers
who are coming among them.
The late Senator Elliott, of Phila-
delphia, managed, by careful saving,
to accumulate some $S75,000 as a
Republican office-holder in the short
space of fifteen years. CT course he
was an honest, faithful and econom.
icaI official, saving the government
while serving as a public servant,
All these Republicans in office are
honest, economical and useful men
(g).
Mcpherson has finally made his
count of the next house, which he
claims will stand as follows: Repub
licans, 148; Democrats, 135; Read
busters, 2; Greenbackers, s; total,
293. The Greenbackers are divid
ed as follows: Three Democrats ant
five Republican Greenbackers. The
former are Laid, Murch and Jones
the latter Ford, Rice, Burrows and
Hazeltine. Brum, of Pennsylvania
is counted with the Republicans.
Under the new administration thu
power of the office-holding oligaFehy
will be solidified and extended fol
the next campaign against the PEG
pie. Conkling has declared that 81
is impossible to sustain a party with
out patronage" and it was a maxim
of the late Zach Chandler that 81
there were no spoils, there would OF
no politics." Upon these noble prin
ciples of civil service reform tn,
next administration will be conduct
ed.
The miles of road embraced il
what is called Gould's consolidation
are as follows: The Wabash system
both east and west of the Mississir
pi river, and branches, 2,487 miles
Missouri Pacific and branches, 712
central branch of Union Pacific, 1853
Missouri, Kansas and Texas an
branches, 825; Kansas Pacific an
branches, 1,O11; Union Pacific ant
branches, 2,115; Denver and Sout
Park, POI; Iron Mountain an
branches, 6S4; International & Grea
Northern, 664; Texas & Pacific, s
far built, 5S7. Total, S,649 miles
In addition to this, there are SO
miles of road under construction
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, whic
, will enter into the Wabash systel
when completed, and nearly if nc
, quite 1000 miles under contract {
projected road in Texas and Me
: leo.
The death of John Waiter at Cir
/ %cinnati, ends the history of IA strang
organization. In 1882 seven prom
nent Cincinnatians, dining togethe.
: agreed to commemorate that ever
by an annual dinner so long as the
lived, the chair of each member t
be placed at the table afte
his death. A bottle of wine wa
locked in a casket and the Ike
thrown away, the same to be opene
: and the wine drunk by the survive
after the death of all the others. d.
Waiter was a member of this societ
and some years ago performed thi
last duty in remembrance of his as
sociates. In past years he has cate
this annual dinner alone with th
six empty chairs and dinner for ST:
more prepared, but never used. Hi
death ends the strange organizatio
known as "The Last Mans Society.