The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-13

promising beds.
Everything froze stiff about here last
Monday night. The roads were solid
enough to bear up a horse. No doubt
the peaches, early cherries and apples
are all killed and later fruits seriously
damaged. "a
Swisher & Conger keep flour, exchange
feed for sale, and also Flax Seed to loan.
America rates third among the beer
manufacturing nations of the world. On
an average six gallons a year is made for
every citizen, There are people extrav-
agant enough to consume their average
in a single night.
Strawberry Plants for sale at re-
duced prices. Sharpless, Seth Boyden,
Monarch of the West, Charles Downing
and Kentucky Seeding.
4t5 H. H. MARTIN.
Isaac Hickman, an old pioneer resi-
dent of this county, living hear Wheat
vile, died on Monday last. He was a
quiet, upright and honest Dunkard, very
highly respected by his friends and
neighbors. stt
The next School SUPPLEMENTARY is
worrying the gizzards Of a few. Like all
other offices of pay, there is a ''ring" OPP
Grating about it. Let our School Board
be careful to "sit adown'' heavy On all
such business if they have the welfare
and success of our Schools at heart.
Rev. VIM. Tucker, D. D., will preach
in the Universalist church, corner of
Somers and Cherry streets, on Sunday
next, 10Th inst, morning and evening.
Alsotoni Monday evening, 18th, he will
deliver "a lecture, at the same place, in
review of the ~fallacies of Bob ~Ingersoll.
For farm implements see Swisher &
Conger opposite the depot.
Aman who was too poor to put any
thing into the church contribution box
said 81. owe too much money; L must
be just before am generous, you
know" "But, William, you owe heaven
a larger debt than you owe any one
else" .sThat's true, parson but heaven
amt pushing me like the rest of my
creditors.'
The improvement of our Mineral
Springs as a summer resort and the or
ganization of a healthy building a~ssocia-
ton, will-give Eaton a boom that will be
noticed in less, than a year. There is
but one more enterprise needed in our
city, and that is another railroad. The
prospects are bright for it now from
Greenville. 3u s
And now the organ grinder comes,
Dread harbinger of spring,
With his organ slung across his back
And a monkey on a string.
S And while. he grinds his music out
That makes the stoutest quail,
His monkey passes round the hat,
And-thereby hangs a tail.
1sae Exchange.
An unusually large comet is said tobe
on its way towards the sun and it prom
ises to- be the most magnificent celestial
visitor that has been seen for centuries.
Although 200, 600, 900 miles distant, un-
der the telescope it even now shows a
bright nucleus and tail, and a good idea
can be formed of what it will be as it APP
proaches its perihelion. 1t will, it is as.
serted, reach within 100000 miles of the
sun before it again turns to fly OFF into
space.
Swisher & Conger buy all kinds o
grain and seeds at the Miller & Lake
grain house opposite the depot.
We hope the new Council will worl
some. reform" in the Corporation be
fore another election comes around. W,
would suggest the abolishment of Stree
Commissioner-the repeal of the foolisl
resolution about the $3.50 bell on tn
Opera House, paid for by the taxpayers
and establishing the price of city Hal
rent to all home organizations, such a
churches, Bands, political parties, &c.
at S. or Sc per night OF day. These re
forms will meet the hearty endorsement
of every sensible taxpayer in the Coz
poration. Don't forget it.
1t is a pretty we'll established fact tha
the brotherhood Of professional tramp
and beggars have an organized syster
of gate and door post hierogylphic chal
marks and other signs, by which the
indicate to each other the peculiaritie
of the, inmates of houses at which the
stop in the course of their aimless wal
Z behring's. For instance, a circle NEAR
mo good-won't give anything;" a cro'
: indicates that the inmates will give foe
but nc money; an upright cross convey
1 the information that the house is a goe
one TO call at; a figure 9 means that IL
people keep a dog; a ross with a circl
that the occupant is out Of town, and
6 on. rs
Judge Jas. A. Gilmore's name W,
n placed upon some of the tickets as a ca
didate for member of the School Boa
atrthe recent election. He received 4
: votes and was declared elected. 1t
proper to say that Judge Gilmore W
> not consulted as to his candidacy al
was absent on election day. He nc
giyesit as his opinion that he is inelii
} BILE under section II, article 4th of t
. Constitution of Ohio, which provides
substance that Supreme and Comm
Pleas Judges shall not hold any 9th
is office OF profit or trust. The same Sc
ton provides "that all votes for either
re them, for any Office except a Judicial
fee, under the authority of this Sta
,s given by the General Assembly or t
~ people, shall be void" We think t
ofplain and unmistakable, and the imp
tant question is, who takes fireplace Il
The cannot accept? As the votes cast
Judge Gilmore are VOID, it is the same
if they had not been cast at all. TIL
were three members of the School Bo