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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
Aaron Burr and Mrs. Hamilton.

When on an official visit to the United
States in 1858, I spent day or two al
Mr.. Stuart Brownies place on the New
Jersey shore of the Hudson River, above
Hoboken. General Taylor, of Ohio, was
another guest, and as the house was at
no great distance from the spot where
the fatal duel between Burr and Hamil-
ton took place (July IL, 1900, conver-
sation arose on the event, and the char
acteristics, public and private, of the two
men. General Taylor told MS that when
very young man, studying at West
Point, he was one day on board river
boat, and among the passengers were
Mrs. Hamilton, widow of Alexander
Hamilton, and Aaron Burr, who had re-
turned to the States after his enforced
absence in Europe, in consequence of his
proved reasonable practices. Burr was
then an old man, but still retained much
of his former confidence and manner, es-
pecially with ladies. To the astonish.
ment of those who knew him, on discov-
ering that Mrs. Hamilton was on board
the steamboat, he approached her, took
off his hat, and bowling, said: 'sMrs
Hamilton, L believe? Ny name is Burr. :"
The effect upon the lady, now well
stricken in years, was electric. Rising
from her seat, she gathered up her dress,
as if to touch Burr with it would be con-
tamination, drew herself up, and looking
at him from head to foot, swept away
with dignity and grace worthy of her
best days, and left him standing abashed,
if he were capable of feeling 80, before
the spectators. Burr replaced his hat
upon his head, and slowly moved back
to the seat he had left purposely to make
this experiment upon the feelings
of the widow of THE man he had
slain, for one can not suppose that he
had any intention to apologize or explain,
since this was impossible. and
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
White Horse Shares.

A New Yorker. was seated in an office
in Gunnison City, Col, one day, when
a grizzly looking old chap entered and
asked if that was the place where they
sold shares of the White Horse Silver
Mine. Being assured he was in the Of
fee of the company he observed:
81 have heard the White Hore spoken
of as being likely mine"
cit certainly is. We took $40, 900
worth of ore out in one day."
"Phewl She must be just old richnessl
How many men have ye got to york.
"Oh, about three hundred"
"Have ye, though? Are the sheers 60
ing off purity liyely?"
'Shares are selling like hot cakes, and
we have only a few left. Everybody
says the White Horse is big invest
ment"
"What are sheers worth to-day"
81 will sell you at ninety-fve, though
I know they will be worth face value to-
morrow"
''Nol You don't really mean ninety
fve?"
81 do"
"Well, that's better; there's hundred
sheers which you sold my pard yester-
uuJ lOI bhouGy uo1leuo. l. "Oho oFOA "
the mine, found nothing but hole and
dead mule, and told him I'd come up
and get his money back, or do some
shooting! I'm tarnal glad to find them
sheers has riz from twenty to ninety-fve,
That will give my pard his money back,
and buy me winter outfit besides
Here's the sheers, and now let me SET
the color of your money!"
'tBut, sir, we"
"Pass out the cashl" said the old man
as he rested the end of his shooter OF
the edge of the counter.
The company had left his revolver il
his overcoat outside, and he didn't be.
lieve the New Yorker would shoot fol
him. After look around, he bega1
counting out the money with a blanc
smile, and as he made the exchange h
said:
Certainly, sir-greatest of pleasure
sir. Sorry you didn't hold them on
day more, and get the full face valued
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
The Mates Yarn.

One evening, when the clouds looked
Wild and whirling, I asked x. if it was
coming on to blow. sNo, guess not, {"
said he; ''bum-by the moon will be up,
and scoff away that ere loose stuff. I"
His intonation set phrase "scoff away"
in quotation marks as plain as print. So
I put a query in each eye, and he
went on.
"There was Dutch cappen onst, an
his mate come to him in the cabin,
where he sot takin' his schnapps, an says,
'Cappen, it's gettin' thick, an looks
kim O. o'squally; hedn't we's goods shorten
sail?' 'Gimmy my almanick,' says the
cappen. So he looks at it spell, an
says he, The moons due in less'n half
an hour, an she'll scoff away evythin'
clare agin.' So the mate he goes, an
bum-by down he come agin, an says,
'Cappen, this 'ere's the alfredest, power
fullest moon't ever you did see. She's
scoff'd away the maintogallants1, and
she's to work on the foretops1 now.
Guess you'd better look in the almanick
agin, an fin out when this moon sets.
So the cappen thought it was about time
to go on deck. Dreadful slow them
Dutch cappens be"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
COMBINATIONS.


The Senate confirmed Henry G. Pierson POST
master at New York.
Postmasters- Thomas E. Douglas, Mansfield,
Ohio; John G. Magaw, Coshocton, Ohio; Geo.
J. Williams, Youngstown, Ohio; Conley @.
Guilford, Wauseon, Ohio; James A. Wildman,
Indianapolis; John B. Dowd, Rockville, Ind; !;
Jacob NJ. Wells, Marion, Ind; George Pheger,
South Bend, Ind James b. Clark, Mattoon,
ILL.,; Hiram W Hubbard, Centralia, ILL.,; L.
Clarke Carr, Galesburg, ILL.,; George F. Deck,
Bloomington, ILL.,; Orlando II. Merwin, Evans
ton, ILL.,; Greenville u. Mitchell, Charleston,
ILL.,. Mrs. Priscilla W. Wilson, Braldwood, Ill. (;
Almond B. Reford, Benton Harbor, Mich ;
James G. Sherman, Menominee, Mich. Charles
Esslinger, Manilow, Wis; James o. Rymond,
Stevens, Point, Wis Justus T. Moak, Water
town, Wis; VIM. H Hartman, Waterloo, Iowa;
VIM. G. Candy, Manchester, Iowa; Edward
Russell, Davenport, Iowa; John Kennedy,
Hastings, Mimi. Francis W. Seeley, Lake City.
Mimi; Eden N. Leayius, Farlbault, Mimi.
Thomas Hall, Omaha; Thomas ]. Anderson,
Topeka; Geo B. Reicheneker, Wyandotte,
Kan; Lorenzo ]. Warder, Lawrence, Kan.
Frank Patterson, Junction City, Kan; w. L..
Harvey, Minneapolis, Kan; Charles W. Ramer,
Fort Collins, COL; John A. Post, Boise City,
Idaho; Henry W. Briggs, Gilroy, California.
Collector Of Internal Revenue, R. W. Berry,
of Boise City, for Idaho.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

House bill making appropriations for the
benevolent, penal, and correctory institutions
OF the State for the last three quarters Of this
fiscal year and the first quarter of the next
fiscal year, was passed. A message from the
House of Representatives, announcing its re-
fusal to concur in the Senate amendments to
House bill $780, Stubs Sunday Bill, was re-
ceived, and, on motion Of Mr.. Pond, the Sem
ate insisted on its amendments, and Messrs.
Pond, Horr and Parker were appointed COM
mittee of conference on said bill.
Bills were passed allowing sidewalks to be
constructed outside Of farms that lay along the
highways outside of corporations; House
amendments to Senate bill by Mr.. Sinks, requir-
ing Superintendents of insane asylums to no
tify Probate Judges, of the death, discharge,
or escape Of any patient.
The Senate concurred in House amendments
to Senate bill by Mr.. Sinks, to authorize the
construction Of an avenue from Dayton to the
Soldiers Home.
Mr.. Licey's House bill providing for better
treatment Of convicts in the Penitentiary, was
passed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

VANITY OF HIGHwAYMEN.-A Calves
weston lady was reading newspaper ac-
count of a stage robbery that recently
took place west of San Antonio and was
very indignant on reading that besides
robbing the passengers they had opened
the mail and read the letters, among
them, possibly, letter the lady herself
had written to friend. "You needn't
be alarmed" remarked the lady's hus-
band. 'T dare say they did not read a
word in any of those letters, as those fell
lows don't know B. from bulls foot. {"
''Why, then, did they make out that
they read them ?" "Oh, they made out
they could read SO as to make a favorable
impression on the passengers. ."-Gal-
Uesto1 NeUs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
s.vtur the NouI. OF M-rderer..

!. In his sermon week ago, Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher expressed himself as follows respect
ing sickly sentimentality over murderers who
are about to pay the penalty of their crime:
"If there is one thing consider thoroughly
indecent, it is the way in which criminals are
cossetted and carried out of life. When muir
derer is to be hanged, women send flowers to
him, and would kiss an ulcer for his sake.
Priests run to him and philanthropists hurry
after them. He is going to die. Are not 10, 900
persons dying all around, and there is nobody
to run to them. There is no sympathy for them.
But if the monster is to die for foul murder,
the fiood-gates of sympathy are opened, and
the newspapers tell how he died trusting in
Jesus. Faughl What mischief that thief on
the cross did! Can a man who has crept up to
the gallows through common sewers at the last
moment, just before the last effort to obtain
pardon, suddenly blossom out into fervent re-
ligious life2 don't believe it,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
Destrorers of Contagion.

The Boston journal Of Chemistry
says: Modern science has let in flood
of light upon the causes of many ILL
nesses, and the nature of the contagia
upon which their propagation depends.
Not only has the cause of disease been
traced to agents external to the body,
-hnt- tho -axaet farras of these disturbing
organisms has been pointed out. They
consist of minute particles, probably in
most or all cases of a vegetable nature
they are therefore on-gaseous and in no
respect comport themselves like gaseous
bodies.
The best method to disinfect clothing
is by the use of heat. Experiment has
shown that no form of contagia can with
stand "a temperature of 220 degrees
Fahrenheit therefore, clothing placed
in box two hours, with dry heat above
that of boiling water, is thoroughly dis
infected; or it may be soaked In boiling
water with the same result.
Chlorine is q gaseous body, and is in
ordinary cases an effective disinfectant.
It is, however, inferior to sulphurous
acid this is the most valuable agent we
have, but unfortunately it is not safe in
inexperienced hands. A room in which
a case of infectious disease has been
placed can be thoroughly cleansed by
burning little sulphur in the absence
of the inmates. The sulphurous acid is
a gas exceedingly disagreeable and ire
| spirable, and great caution is necessary
| in its use.
Permanganate of potash is true dis
infectant having oxidizing powers of
high capability, but it must be used in
much larger quantities than are usually
| l., Jc hor 10 ifo
free use, and it is not clearly seen how
it can ever become much cheaper.
Chloride of lime, freely used, is good
disinfectant; but when it is placed in
vessels in small quantities in sick-rooms
or sparingly sprinkled in drains, it has
but slight influence as a destroyer OF
contagion. Carbolate of lime is cheap
and good 1isinfeetant, but it must be
used in large amounts to. be useful.
| Several of the metallic salts have power
full antiseptic properties; for example,
the protosulphate of iron. This salt, In
strong solution, is a valuable agent, and
is worthy of notice. At this point il
should be stated that carbolic acid and
the metallic salts, used in small quaint.
ties, are preservative agents, and may
actually prolong the life of contagiun
by preventing its destruction through
natural processes.
There are numerous patented "anti.
septics" and "disinfectants" which are
perfectly worthless SO far as any infu
enee upon septic germs is concerned
1t is very important that heads of fam
lilies, and especially physicians, SHOULD
clearly understand what is required
when selecting an agent for practica
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
Extortiue Money.

A correspondent, who recently went on
visit to Cuba, writes: SAT Nassau We obtained
from the Spanish Consul our passports at a
cost of o. each, permitting us to visit the Is
land, and good for six months. Before our ar
rival at Matanzas the purser took them up. Civ
ing as a reason that he was compelled to show
them to the Spanish officials with the passen-
ger list, and informing us that the Custom
house would return them through the Ameri-
can Consul. We called for them at the Ameri,
can Consulate and were informed by him and
Lewis Drake, clerk in the office Of Malloy's
Steamship Agency, it would cost $3.50 to have
them revised, which amount We paid. They
then informed us it would cost $3.50 to have
them revised again before we could leave the
island. The captain of our vessel and the
American Consul said the charges were correct,
that we would probably be jailed if We failed to
pay. AL paid again. The passengers reported
the affair to the Governor of the Province, who
ordered file of soldiers and arrested R. w.
noosyeft, american consul, and Lewis Drake.
They begged for mercy, and refunded the
money to all present. Fifty witnesses can be
produced to prove the facts"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
Average of Human Life.

Calculated in years and hundredths,
the expectation of the duration of life at
the following ages is At birth-males,
1891 females, 41.S5. At 10 years
males, 47.O5; females, 47.67. At 20
80 years-males, 80. rs; females. 1881.
At 40 years-males, 26.06; females,
27.34. At 30 years-males, 1854; fe-
males, 20.75. At go years-males, ID. So /;
females, 14.34. At 70 years males,
s.45; females, 9.02. At 80 years-males,
4.93 !; females, 5.26. At 80 years-males,
2.84; females, 3.01. At 100 years
males, !. 68 /; females, 1.76.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

THIS is the way lady writes to the
papers concerning social ostracism: $50
long as an unmarried woman has mod.
erately comfortable home, and works
merely to increase her stock of white
satin slippers, her social position remains
unimpaired; but let that home be broken
up, and let that same young woman from
dire necessity continue that same occu-
patton or trade in order to earn her daily
bread, and she is Immediately beyond
the pale"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
A Gigantic scheme.

Now that the Philadelphia capitalists who
are about to reclaim the immense tracts Of land.
in the State of Florida known as the Ever
glades have completed their contracts with that
State, it is no longer a secret that one of the
main features of the gigantic scheme Is the
building of ship canal across the State Of
Florida. The project is almest equal in i'm
portance to that of reclaiming the twelve mil
lion acres of the richest land in the world south
OF the frost-helt. A ship canal across the State
Of Florida has been the dream of engineers for
many years. It would not only shorten the
distance between the American ports on the
Atlantic Coast and all European ports to New
Orleans, Mobile and all shipping points on the
Gulf Of Mexico, but it would avoid the dangers
to navigation which are experienced on the
countless keys and coral reefs of the southern
and southwestern coast Of. Florida: ALI ship
captains know OF this danger, which is often
aggravated by hurricanes which are common
to the southward of Florida, but which are
comparatively unknown on the west coast in
the region of Tampa Bay. 1t is well known
that a number of New York capitalists have
been endeavoring for some years to get
charter from the State Of Florida to build
ship canal, but the Philadelphia company, with
q great deal of shrewdness, has got ahead Of
them: In connection with the Isthmus Canal,
now in the course of construction under M.
Ferdinand DeLesseps, the Florida Canal must
at once attract the attention Of the capitalists
not only Of America but Of Europe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
Fatal Boiler Explosion.

The portable boiler of Tyler & Harrod's saw-
mill, on the Kentucky River, two miles below
Frankfort, exploded March 10, killing and
wounding all of the nine men in the mill, ex-
cept one. John Herrod was blown forty feet
and instantly killed; his brother, Lawrence
Herrod, died in an hour, and Frank Graham
died in. three hours. VIM. Arnold's jawbone
was broken, and James Redding, William
Wheeler, Louis Harrod, and Hugh Tyler were
badly scalded.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

A correspondent telegraphs: Considerable
sensation was caused in Madrid by the fact that
. few hours before King Alfonso received the
news of the assassination of the Emperor of
Russia, he had met party Of workmen, as he
was returning from hunting in Ell Prada, who
cried out as he passed "Long live the Federal
Republic down with the King" Only after
nine days Of investigation were the police able
to discover the offenders.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
A Diabolical Arrangement.

It is astonishing how many Americans
there are who can sympathize with that
famous remark of Carlyle's, evoked by
lifelong suffering, about "that diaboli-
cal arrangement called a stomach. :"
Many dyspeptic has felt thankful to
the grim Scotchman for thus character
izing an organ that has played the mis-
chief with his peace.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
ForPauEh's Troubles.

Adam Forpaugh advertised that he would
pay $4,000 for the most beautiful woman IN
the United States. The past months the mails
have brought him thousands of letters from
applicants, containing their photographs and a
description of person Forpaugh- has finally
settled on four, one of Kentucky, one OF
Chicago, one of Pennsylvania and one of New
York, whom he has summoned to Philadelphia
that he might see them in person and make his
selection.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
lli..ourtI I.ani suindle..

For the past twenty years there has been 60
ing on systematic system of land swindling
in the sale of Missouri lands, and persons who
have money invested in land in that State will
do well to examine into the validity of their
claims. Investigations are resulting in the ar
rest of agents and real estate dealers all over
the country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

THE tricycle. is now used by many
women in England. 1t can be easily
propelled at a rate of eight miles an
hour. In the South of England ladies
are constantly seen making calls and
shopping in the neighboring villages
upon the easily-managed animals. With
the clergy and medical fraternity they
are also great favoritss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

In valiant suffering for others, not
in slothful making others suffer for us,
did nohleness everlie. The chief of men
is he who stands in the van of men,
fronting the peril which frightens back
all others; which, if it be not vanquished,
will devour the others. Every noble
crown is, and on. earth will forever be, q
crown of thorns.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

At a regular meeting of the Chicago Social
lists, March 20, resolutions were passed approv-
ing of the assassination of the Gear, who, they
said, was bowlder in the pathway of human
progress and had to be blown out Of the way.
Secretary Blaine's action in sending q message
of sympathy TO the Russian Government was
also severely criticised. =
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

IT costs but little to make child glad !;
it costs but little to secure the grateful
remembrance of child; but if it cost a
hundred-fold more than it does, it would
be a profitable investment. It pays well
to have monument erected to ourselves
in childs memory and affections. And
this we may have by little thoughtful
ness and attention.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

An axcursien party from Canada. gotten np
by the Grand Trunk Railway, and consisting of
750 persons in twenty coaches and with sixty
five cars of baggage, stock and freight, bound
for Manitoba, were blockaded by snow at the
Stockyards, at Bloomington, Illinois, four days.
The incident was merely foretaste of what is
in store for them in future.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
.1irelx street ncene.

A naked negro, delirious from smallpox,
rushed through .Twenty-seventh street, Sixth
avenue and Broadway, Now York, yelling
smallpox at the top of his voice. The streets
were cleais cd at his approach and there was
quite panic for the time being, but he was
finally captured and taken to the hospital.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
snow-Siorm.

Dispatches under date of March 20, from
Chicago, Clinton, Iowa, Ell Paso, Illinois, Che
noa, Decatur, st. Charles and many other
points in the Northwest, indicate that the storm
of the 18th was by far the most severe of the
season, the fall of snow being from twelve to
eighteen inches, heavy, damp, closely packed
and in many places drifted badly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31

After being out twenty-four hours, the jury
in the Kalloch case, atSan Francisco, brought
in verdict of not guilty. The verdict was re-
ceived with applause. A dispatch says: ''The
defendant was heartily congratulated by his
friends. When Kalloch was discharged and got
into a carriage to go home, an immense crowd
took the horses from the vehicle and pulled
him to his house, some three miles away"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
An Expensive snit.

Five years ago Thos. McCarty, at wilkesbarre,
sued the Luzerne Iron and Coal Company for
&25, which, after passing through three courts,
has boon decided in favor OF the plaintiff.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
Re.pectable snurrle,,..

The New York Times says: "Chief Special
Treasury Agent Adams says the quantity Of
goods smuggled into this country by persons
claiming to be respectable is enormous. Women
and men dress themselves for the first time IN
new garments and carry in their hands new
umbrellas, canes and parasols, and slung over
their backs new opera or field glasses and other
articles when about to leave the steamer, and
Custom officers are helpless.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
stage Robbery.

A San Antonio special says the San Antonio
and Corpus Christi stage was stopped fifteen
miles north of Oakville by four armed men,
who robbed passengers of s40O and several
watches and jewelry and rihed q mail bag Of
valuable packages; one passenger secreted $40o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
HunerInr rinIoMn

News from the northwestern portion of
IoNa reports great suffering in consequence
of the late heavy snow storm in that State.
On the 18th instant the gndwsin portions of
the State still lay at tho depthsok four feet.
and people were tearing down portions Of their
houses for fuel.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
the trouble Brewing.

Says Constantinople dispatch: 'There is
great activity in all the Admiralty factories.
The Porte is negotiating with Newcastle firm
for the delivery Of Goals at Chic, Rhodes,
Crete, Volo, Solonica, and in the Dardanelles.
Another thousand troops have gone to Volo.
The total Turkish force on the frontier now is
SOOO0."@