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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

There seems to be some strife
among Democrats for the ''empty
honors" of the places in the Ohio Re
publican General Assembly. For
shame! n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

Presidential candidates are being
trotted out for the 1884 race. Isn't
it a little early? Give the young
men Of the country a chance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

GUITEAU has caused the Republi-
can party more trouble and expense
than any other stump speaker it ever
had in it's employ.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The Star Route thieves are now
safe from. punishment. TIMOTHY
HOWE is Postmaster General.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

"Rotation in office" is a lovely
Christian principle, but sometimes
causeth division and trouble in the
same household of brethren.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The Ohio Legislature will com
mence to grind next week.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

There are fifty-three prisoners in
the Montgomery county Jail. II
never contained 80 many before.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The new Postmaster. General is a
pronounced third termer and awarm
personal friend of. Conkling.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The failure of Freshman & Bros,
advertising agents of Cincinnati, is
certainly an enigma to the craft,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

A hotel in the exact shape of an
elephant has been built at Atlantic
City. The idea, of course, is to draw
eXcursionists by means of the novel
ty. The structure is sc. feet long
and IS feet high. S~tairways inside
the legs lead up to a big restaurant
and other rooms in the body, while
on the back is a car forming a good
place of outlot k. The exterior is
painted and sanded so as to resemble
an elephants skin, except for the
windows. The. cost was $4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
BENZ. HUBBARD,

A TTORNEY AT LAW AND NO
N TARY PUBLIC.-Prompt atten-
ticn given to business intrusted to
him. Oficein the I'd story of Filbert's
block, northwest corner of Main and
Cherry streets, Eaton, o,
July %, 1878.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The latest controversy over exclu
sion of a negro from the best part of
a theatre is in St Louis. The man
who brings the suit for damages is
the principal of a negro public
school, and a sufficient sum has been
subscribed by his friends to meet the
costs Of extensive litigation. The
Supreme Court of that State has here.
tofore decided that the manager of
a theatre may refuse to admit any
body whom he chooses.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

President Porter of Yale takes oc
casion to declare that in the instruc
ton department of the college no re-
ligious tests r applied. 1t is not
even demanded that instructors shall
formally express a faith in God or
shall use any religious Influences
"But we do require" he says, "that
no influences or instructions in any
unchristian direction shall be allow
ed, whether directly or indirectly,
and we expect that the public will
hold us severely to this as our duty"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The Dunkers of Indiana consider
grammar frivolous, and therefore pro
test against their children being
taught it in the public schools. The
State Superintendent decides that
the teachers may omit the offensive
study, tells them to impart orally to
the bunker pupils " all that is prac-
teal in the subject"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

Blue Black was the descriptive
nickname of a Chicago negro woman.
Her husband was not only white, but
a-pronounced blond. This union of
color was unhappy in all respects
The wife was discarded by her fam
ily for marrying a white man, her
father taking the ground that the
Creator disapproved of miscegena-
tibn, and the husband, finding that
his former friends despised him, soon
managed to obtain a divorce. This
decree was irregular, however, hav
ing been secured without any Motif
cation to the defendant, and on
charges which could not have been
sustained if there had been a hear
ing ofboth sides. When the woman
learned of it she bought a pistol
She says that she meant to commit
suicide; but meeting the man, and
fearing he would kill her, she illogic
ally shot him in self: defence. He is
dead, at all events, and she evinces
a desire to live by engaging counsel
! to save her from the gallows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The New York Mail and Espress
says: "The Ohio man scents the
White House a long way off, and oft
en- goes for it across lots"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

Twenty-six thousand aged widows
of the Soldiers of 1912 regularly draw
their pension from the Government.
In the war of 1872 Is the total mum
Der of killed and wounded was a lit
tie more than 5000. 1t is seventy
years since the war, and the widows
now out-number the dead and wound
1 ed heroes five to one.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

Thursday, Dec. 90, 1851,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29

The lawyers defending a criminal
at Sterling, ILL.,, presented to Judge
Eustace the affidavits of several wit
nesses that his Honor was prejudiced
in that case, and asking for a change
of venue. The Judge promptly re-
fused to grant the motion, and or
dered the Grand Jury to indict the
witnesses for perjury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16

Why are snakes provided with
fangs7 7 The natural answer is, GAS a
means of self-defense," though obvi-
Ously correct up to a certain point,
pushed little too far? Whatever act
i've weapons an animal possesses
fangs, teeth, claws, spurs, beak, pow
ers of compression or other fOrce--are
given itprimarily for the purpose of Sc
curing its food. The bOidR, anacon-
das, etc, crush their prey by the huge
constructing strength of their bodies :;
the immense group of the nOn-venom-
Ous cOlubers have neither this power
with one or two eXceptiOns) nor fangs,
but the creatures on which they feed
chiefly frogs, lizards, and fish-are such
as are easily held by the aid of their
long backward-pOinting teeth alone !;
while the viperida, crOtalide and Ella
pida-the three principal families into
which poisonous serpents are divided
whose natural food consists for the
most part of birds, small animals, or
other snakes, kill them with their fangs
and then devOur them ut leisure. How
otherwise could a cobra or rattlesnake
secure the rats of which it is so fond ?
1t would be torn in pieces did it at
tempt snch thing, and the rat would
escape with a scratch. Or suppose a
big Flaps like the hamadryad, to seize
even tiny boa or python, if it were
destitute of fangs; directly the con-
strictor felt itself nipped it would twine
its body about the head of its captor,
and crush it in that powerful grip. A
reptiles first impulse of self-preserva-
ton, like that of every other creature,
lies in fight-the speed of some OF
| them is almost Incredible; and as a
further means of eluding capture they
adopt that motion called par excellence
''serpentine" when pursued, the con-
stantly altering curves of which renders
it very difficult to grasp them. If
caught or held at bay, its first effort at
self-defense is to bite /; and it is "A most
curious thing that this holds good OF
almost all animals, no matter what
their natural weapons of defnse may
he. To select examples from the rep
tile world alOne-the iguana, whose
serrated whip-like tail can lay bare the
ribs of dog at a blow, invariably
turns and plunges its soft, compar;I-
lively insignificant teeth into the hand
when seized by the back, using its tail
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
What Does the Business.

Ihey were holding an outdoor ward
meeting the other night, and a speaker
had Just commenced to warm up to his
WORK, when stranger, with all his
worldly "duds' i'll an old sheepskin on
ms back, boots gone, hat going and a
uyed-m-t -the-wOol- tramp air about him,
halted on the outskirts of the crowd.
Ihe speech soon caught him, and he
began to applaud. At the end of every
sentence he clapped his hands and
roared like fog-hOrn. No matter
whether the speaker ''hit 'emr or not.
the stranger never failed to come down
with the applause, and he carried a
good share of the crowd with him.
After the speaker had finished, and
while he was wiping his heated brow,
the tramp approached him and said
"Ihatere speech was one of the best
L ever heard in all my life.r
IA An am glad it pleased youn
"Pleased me ! Why, it lifted me
right otf'n my feet tell YOU. you're
Il born orator, and just wish | could
stay in this town and hear Won make n
speech every night.n
Yes, | wish you could"
But can't. am on my way West.
however, tnlnk OF your speech
a hundred times day. can feel the
electricity of it yet, and say, can't You
lend me half-a-dOllar to help me on Po
why, don't know. Why should |
lend you half-a-dollar ?"
"Oh, come now, don't try to ride any
nigh horse over me. You know how
loud hollered, and you know as well
as | do that if | hadn't put in my best
lIcks you'd have fallen as fiat as n
shingle You are a great orator. and
that was a great speech, but if YOU
don't know that it is hollering what
does the business, you'd better hang
right up"
The orator pOndered over the mat
ter for "A few seconds, and then proba-
bly, concluded the reasoning was sound.
1i as he passed over the money.-[D
Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

Adpent-Paddock Village Sabbath Services at
1890 a. IN. las and 6:jO p. IN. Sabbath School I2
m' fTayer Meetings at 1880 p. IN. Sunday, Tuesday
and Friday evenings.
Baptist-Railroad Street Corner Maple. Rev
T.. a. SandfOrd Pastor. Preaching 10. 30 AN s.
School - N. Prayer meeting 6;3O. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 1880. f.tHr
Free Bdphst-Man Street Corner Prospeet
Rev II. Lockhart. Pastor. Sabbath services To- 30
A. NJ, and $50 p N. Sabbath School at - NJ PRAYER
meeting Wednesday evening at 1870
Church Of the Messidh-( (Universalist.) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev B. NJ Tillot-
son iastor Sabbath services at las r. NJ
Sabbath School at IL M Wednesday evening meet
ing at 7:3O.
MethOdist-Central street. Rev. f. S. Locke
fastor Residence next to the Church Sab,
pain services at 1890 A NJ, and $50 p. NJ Sabbath
School at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
North COngregationdL-Main street, corner of
Chnrch Rev Henry w. Jones, Pastor. sabbath
services at lO;3O A. NJ, and $50 p. NJ Sabbath
school at las p N. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1880. N'S
South Congregational-Mai street. Rev. Ed.
ward ward l. Fairbanks Pastor sabbath services at
wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
PresbyteyiGn ChUTeh-Rev. w r. Laird nas.
toI; services at Presbyterian Hail. every Sab
bath at 1890 a m, 300 p. M Sabbath scbo9l 2.o0
Prayer meeting 6:3O. Bible reading Wednesday
evening 1880.
S. AIIdrsW's-(Episcopal Main street Rev
\. +. Putnam, Rector Services on SUNDAYS at
lo:5O a. m, and p. IN. Holy days and Fridays at
at 3:3O p. III.
Roman OdthoIic-Cherry Street Rev. 7. A.
Boissonnault. Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. IN
VespeTs and Benedietion at 3 p. IN. On the
SS'pnu SUNDAY 0i the month, service at $50 a. m,
ana y. M AT Lyndonville same day at 1890 a m
T. H. @. A.-Meetings at the rooms of the Y. NJ
= a, Browns building Main Street Sunday
mornings at 9;JO, Monday evenings at 7:3O.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
VOLUME 45---NUMBER 23O3

If at all, only in its general struggle TO
escape while a smaller lizard will also
employ its harmless little mouth when
its sharp claws might inflict far greater
injury. And | believe the construct
ors never use their power except svs-
tematically to kill for food. An enrag-
ed boa will dart at one over and over
again Open-mouthed, and NAV give
very nasty wounds with its long teeth.
Dut 1t Will not attempt to entanrle the
enemy in its coils. / have repeatedlv
seen them, when not hungry, if annov-
ed by the movements of a small animal
IN their cage, turn and snap at it spite-
iully as a Venomous snake might do,
but nothing further, and have often
been attacked without any other result.
Nevertheless, if boa be held (espec-
tally by the neck), or finds an unwel-
come object within its folds, it NAV
tighten, of course. A young tree boa
of my own jammed its head between
two of the wires of its den the other
day, and in order to free it | was obli"-
ed to hold it by the neck (where all
snakes dislike to be touched) and work
the head up and down. 1t coiled its
body around my wrists quietly enough;
DuI When the head slipped back with
jerk, in its fright and excitement it
suddenly gripped me with such force
as to make me cry out. Some time
ago, too, i'll Antwerp a python measur-
ing IA feet long, whose diseased mouth
was endeavOring to cure, frightened n
half-turn of her body across nv side so
forcibly as to crush me nearly to death.
That was because | was holding her
had she been at liberty she might have
jumped at me dozen times and strip
ped off the flesh with her teeth. but
would have made no attempt to seize
me. | have known vicious boa, foil
ed Ill his attacks by a blanket, tear it
out of ones hands, and come out again
with dlstended jaws but he always re-
colled after every blow, and seemed to
forget or to he unconscious of the great
power at his ommand.-[London
Field.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16

There was one paSsenger-a woman
on Louisville and Nashville railroad
tram, the other day, who evidently be-
lleved that railroads We're made for the
people, and not the people for the rail-
roads. BY some untoward mischance
she dropped her artificial teeth from
the car window. The thought of 90
ing among her friends at Nashville all
toothleSs was not to be endured, so she
summoned the conductor and ordered
that the train be taken back to Louis
vile, or to the nearest town where
dentist was to be found. The cOnduc-
tor demurred, and finally compromised
the matter by stopping the train five
minutes while the wOman's husband
ran back to hunt up the teeth. When
this time expired he had not returned.
and the train was started off without
him. Forthwith the wife sought the
conductor and demanded that it be
stopped, that she might get off and
stay with her husband. The conductor
hesitated. The wife remarked, "Stop
this train and put me off or I'll put n
bullet through you" Here was bust
pnSS anh tho tr.,in ,,-ps haoI-aH ta tho
got on again but without finding the
missing treasure. Then the wife in
sisted that the train be "turned around
and go back to Louisville" This the
conductor, having locked himself in
the baggage car to avoid the threatened
bullet, refused to do, and the train
went on with its toothless but irate
passenger. On reaching the next sta
ton an offer of reward for the recOv-
cry of the teeth was telegraphed back,
and they were found and sent on by
the next train.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
A Western Romance.

A romantic and still more pathetic
story is told of daughter of the late
Spotted Tail, the Sioux chief. She was
his favorite daughter. Shortly after
the war, a battalion of the Second
Dragons was ordered to Fort Laramie,
and there Lieutenant Brockhurst Liv-
ingstOn, of the well-knOwn New York
family, saw and loved the dusky girl,
and ''found his passion reciprocated."
The young officer took her to his house
and she bore him son. Of course, as
usual, he tired of the poor Indian girl
after time, and deserted her. 1t was
said by his friends, to shield him from
some OverscrupulOus persons censure
in the matter, that ''Livingston's health
failed and he was ordered to Europe,
where his mind became unsettled and
he died. 1t seemed that his mind and
his morals were alike unsettled. Any
way, the Sioux girl died of broken
heart in 1866, and was carried to Fort
Laramie by her father and there buried.
Her grave is still annually decorated
with flowers by the soldiers. The
mother of the young officer has sought
to find and educate his son, but the
Sioux give no trace of his whereabouts,
and it is small wonder that they do
not give him up to the treacherous and
selfish whites.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
San Old NuiSance.3

Mind, | quote those three words.
They are none of mine. Only, ,,think-
ing over three or four equally appro-
pirate titles, chose the one | use as
being the oldest and | always had a
fancy for odd things. And now for
my story.
On what my aunt (by marriage) and
her family founded their claims to ar
istOcracy l never could discover. My
uncle had been a merchant, it is true,
and one of considerable prominence in
his day, have been told, and so had
been his father before him, and his
fathers father before that. That his
business in his most prosperous time
was intimately connected with China
is impressed upon my mind q became
an inmate of his house when | was
about six years of age, in consequence
of the death of both my parents with
in a week of each other, leaving me
with no means of support, and no other
relatively by the fact that every first of
June saw bright new mattings laid on
our floors, to remain there until cold
weather came again, and that our man
tells and what-nots were decorated
with many pretty, dainty little pOrce-
lain cups, thin as egg-shells - rarities
in those days, but in these plenty and
cheap enough.
Now, according to all l have learned
on the subject, real Simon Pure aristo-
Gratis look down upon trade even on
the grandest scale, and never have
anything to do with it further than
once in a while marrying one of its
sons or daughters who have come in
TO possession of millions enough to off
set the honor.
| However, our family U venture to
include myself, none of my cousins be-
ing within hearing) assumed all the
airs of the .'blue bloods" of the old
country.
Eleanor, our second, wore a look OF
deep indignation for several days after
a manly, clever, gOOd-lOoking fellow
the brother of one of her old school.
mates, with a comfortable income. but
who was junior partner of a firm keep.
ing a retail store on Sixth Ayenue
proposed for her hand.
"The presumption of the man ~ sh,
exclaimed, raising her arched eve
brows in astonishment, and curling he
full red upper lip in scOrn: "to i'm
agine for moment that because
hOnOred him with my company to til,
opera two or three times, l would mar
ry him If his business had beel
wholesale, it would have been ba.
enough but fancy person who sell
pins and needles by the paper, an,
lace by the yard ~ Never, 1 woul,
die first-n
Minerva, our fourth, was equal,
horror stricken at the effrontery of
young bOOk-keeper whom her brothe
Laurence had introduced into the fam
lily circle-a rare thing for one of he
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
SquibS.

"Malaria," said the Old Orchard
landlady; "well, no, we haven't got
1T; folks hain't asked for it, but we'll
get 1t for your family"
What is the difference between sea-
sickness and putting a bankrupt's
property under the hammer2 When
you put bankrupts property under
the hammer it is the sale of effects
but sea-slckness Is the effect OF a sail.
The duelling st. Louis homeopathic
physicians have not yet decided wheth-
er they will fight with pellets at ten
PAGES, or stOmach-pumps at short
range Commercial Advertiser.
"Wbat is the moon good for 9n asked
Professor Miller: "what are its princi-
pal uses ?" And the smart bad boy
looked up from the foot of the class
and said: "TO rest the gas companies"
The New York Herald thinks that
the next generation is liable TO have
very little sense. if the present one
continues TO use tobacco and drink
riobt along
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
Advertising that Paid.

johnny Manning, the sheriff of Dead
wood, ID. T., WAS i'll st. Louis on bust
ness, and he remembered that the wear
before a st. LOuisian had been to Dead
wood and left owing man several
hundred dollars, which was to be paid
as soon as he got home. Manning met
the man in st. Louis, and he said he
would hand him the money next day,
but the days passed and the money did
not come, though the man was amply
able to pay. So one morning Mar uing
inserted personal in newspaper to
the effect that if the man who left
DeadwOOd between two days did not
pay the money he forgot to pay, before
night, the whole circumstance would
be published the next day. The no
tice was signed "JOhn Manning, Sheriff
of Deadwood." Before nine o'clock II
young man called ut Manning's hotel
and said he had come to pay S22 he
had borrowed to get out of DeadwOOd.
Manning found out who the money was
borrowed from, and took it to carry to
the DeadwOOd citizen, remarking that
he was not the man referred to, but it
was n mighty mean sheriff who would
not carry mOrey to a friend. The
next man to call was the one he want
ed, and he paid the money and apollo
gized, and begged the sheriff to say
nothing about it. ....
During the day seven citizens of St.
Louis called on Manning and paid him
money for citizens of DeadwoOd, be-
lieving the Sheriff had reference to
them in his notice and after he had
gone away, another citizen called and
asked the clerk for Manning, but the
clerk said the other fellows had all
been there and paid up and this man
had better keep his money. The Sher-
iff said he always thought advertising
paid, but he never had it demOnstra-
ted to his satisfaction before.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
St. Johnsbury Post Office.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE MAILS.
Boston sion ana intermediate offices. Arrive Ais p
BOSTON through mail Arrive 2:17 m. Close
500 pm.
New York and the West. Arrive 2:l7 and I1:OO
IN, and Ais IN. Close $50 and 500 IN, and 500
p M.
Newport and the North. Arrive 900 a IN.
Close 4:15 p m. .... -
Portland and the East. Arrive 800 p m. Close
$3.50
Swanton and intermediate Offices Arrive 1915
Close Ais pm.
Waterford. Arrive $50 a m. Close 400 m
North Danville. Arrive $50 a IN. Close 1000
III.
West Concord and East St. JOhnsbury. Arrive
900 III. Close AIS p m.
CHAS. Z. CARPENTER ID, p. NJ