The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-04-28

have received the $4,000 assessment on
the death of NJ. T. Ayers, to be placed in
the hands of the administrator for pay
ment to his family.
The decoration of the soldiers graves
is becoming a topic now. tits analmost
played put farce, because not one in a
hundred who participate in the business
care a copper whether they are decorated
or not.
Sells, Robinson,s and Van Amburg's
~circuses are now loose in Ohio, and all
menacing Kenton. What have we done
to be thus NATURALIZATION Dem.
You amt good looking, Dave, is your
misfortune.
o. A. Bartholomew, of Covington, KY,
will preach at the Church of Christ, Ea-
ton, o., on Monday evening, May End,
at z 80 p. M, and on succeeding ave-
nings during the week. ALI are cordial
ly invited.
The fields in the country, which for
some months have been under the ban
of old Winter, are putting on their green
robes and show outward signs of rapid
vegetation. In a little while everything
will be fair to the eye, glorious and beau
tiful.
A medical journal of Munich says that
diphtheria caught by kissing is likely to
assume a much severer form than if the
disease were contracted or the contagion
impaired in any other way. Boys, be
careful when you kiss the girls that there
is no diphtheria lurking around.
Charley VanAusdal and Charley Stod-
dard, two of Dayton's lively young men,
took a ride from that city to Eaton last
Friday on Bicycles, distance o ftwenty-
five miles. They made it in about four
hours. They returned on Saturday af-
ternoon.
The Knights of Honor of Eaton pro-
pose givingan entertainment in the Opera
House, on Wednesday, 4th of May, which
will consist of both vocal and instrument
al music, refreshments, &c. A program
of the particulars will be issued this
week. Keep your eyes open for it.
AN exchange says, the following is
now a law: Any person who shall, after
the passage of this act, knowingly falsify
as to the number and size of fish taken
by him at any time, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by
thirty days in the county prison without
relief.
The circus business has radically
changed in character within a few years.
As many as thirty tent shows formerly
travelled, and they were usually small
affairs. This season, three enormous en-
terprises-Barnum's, Coup's, and Fore
paugh's-are sweeping all before them,
and only six OF the small concerns sur
vive.
The fourth quarterly meeting of the
Southwestern Ohio Teachers Associa-
will be held in the High School
building, at Hamilton, on Saturday next.
The program is an interesting one, and
the G. H. & D. road will run reduced
rates to members of the Association who
certificates of attendance, all the
teachers from Preble should go.
Our friend NJ. H. McKinstry has locat-
ed in the village of New Hope, on the
Richmond pike, and opened out an agri-
establishment, where he will be
to wait on the yeomanry Of Pre-
BILE county and sell them anything in his
inc on terms that cannot be exoelled
anywhere else in the county. Give him
call. He keeps everything.
We have sent out bills of account to
many parties owing US for job work, adj
Tertising and subscription, but few have
responded. 1t seems about as useless
or a printer to dun men in arrears as it
S for ministers to preach against the
Devil for opposing Christianity. If a
number of persons owing us find their ac-
in the hands of some Justice of
he Peace very shortly, they need not be
We are getting out of pa
fence begging for what is justly and hon
,stly due us for our labor. Look out.
Two horses were stolen near Eaton last
week. The first one from the farm of
Fisher, the thief going a short dis
ance across to the farm where James
zoutz lives and helping himself to a bug
", harness and robe, belonging to young
sloan,- a hand working for Mr.. Koutz.
The second one was taken from the farm
If Abner Dunlap, on the Dayton pike,
~ miles east of Eaton. Neither of the
have been recovered, although
he Dunlap horse was traced to Sharps-
,urg. Keep your stables locked.
In the progress of business interests of
,very community, manufacturing estab-
ishments hold a conspicuous place, as
hey should, for manufacturing is the
point Of the prosperity and growth
# any city. Eaton is not blessed with
1ery many, which is her great misfor-
une, but among the few in our midst
lone occupy amore prominent place in
he business of our city than the sold
Reliable planning mill of ]. J.. Robinson
I Co., which has just made a change in
is firm by adding our alive and industri-
us mechanic, w. B. CLAYTON, to its in
e~rests, ]. J. Robinson stepping out,
the firm now W. B. Robinson,
". B. Clayton and John Upham,. who
propose to run the business extensively
mo supply the wants of their customers
viii. any thing to build a house, in the
way OF wood, at the very lowest cash pri-
We commend them to all who wish
anything in the way of building material.
The Literary Revolution.
EDISON & YOUNG are agents for the