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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fremont lost 100000 by the flood.
Delaware lost 100000 by the flood.
Springfield contributed $1,400 to
the relief committee.
Sandusky county loses $4,000 worth
of bridges.
Cleveland raised $500. for Ohio
valley flood sufferers last Saturday q
week.
1t is again reported from Washing
ion that Senator David Davis is to be
married.
AT The funeral of ex-G Governor Nor
gan, President Arthur aud ex-Prcsi-
dent Grant were pall-bearers.
Thousands Of acres of wheat have
been destroyed in the river valleys
near Lancaster.
The Michigan crop report for JAN
uary states that wheat has suffered no
injury. from the storms Of the winter.
Damages by flood to Seneca Lorain,
Huron and Saudusky counties may
reach $1,o00,0O0.
The revival at Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, Delaware, has resulted in the
conversion of two hundred students
Five of the murderers of Professor
Palmer have been sentenced to death
in Egypt.
"Pupils nowadays study so much
that they don't know anything" says
q member of the Massachusetts Board
Of Education.
The Washington monument will be
finished July l, 1885, q few years less
than a century after the death of the
American Founder.
Grand Sire Leech has issued a pro-
clamation requesting Lodges TO cele-
brate The siXty-fourth anniversary Of
American Odd Fellowship.
The people in the court room al
Dublin, where the state prisoners are
being tried, hiss Carey, the informer
One of the prisoners struck at Carey
Louis Montague secured a verdict
against Adam Forepaugh for soc
damages for injuries received by be-
ing U lfoin u fiOiouS elephaii'
while in Illinois,.
Fifteen millions of dollars is nc
small percentage of the total value Of
the cotton crop of this country, but
it is estimated that the cotton worm
destroys annually an equivalent to
this large amount of money.
An apple in perfect preservation
although ninety-six years old, is il
possession of gentleman in Ulster
county, N. Y. AS it rounded up from
the blossom of the parent stem in thu
early summer of 1887, a bottle wa'
drawn over it and attached to thu
branch, and after the apple had rip
ened the stem was severed and the
bottle sealed tightly. Itlooks as tresl
as when first plucked.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01
a ~RsemOraIiZed Party.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The decentralization of the Republi-
can majority in Congress seems TO be
complete. The party exhibits an ut
ter lack of policy, lack of leadership
and lack of discipline. 1t has neither
courage nor convictions. With a clear
majority in both branches it is impo-
tent to carry out any policy or accom-
plish any legislation. 1t is at the mer-
cy Of a minority, and cringes and cow
ers with a slavish fear in the corner
into which it has been driven. Never
in the history of. this country has
there been a more pitiable show ofin-
capacity, cowardice and imbecility
than this Forty-seventh Congress ex-
hibits in its dying days. In passing
steal bills and in squandering the pub
lie money it has been a success, other
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

wise a lamentable and monumental
1t has done no legislation that the
people asked of 1t, but it has done
much against which the people pro-
tested. 1t has reformed no abuses.
reduced no taxes, frightened no public
burdens, made no retrenchments,
made good no promises. 1t has done
nothing that it ought to have done,
and that which it should have let
alone, it has been diligent in. 1t has
triled away time, it has encouraged
jobs, it has wrangled, and wriggled,
and lied, and stolen. Besides this,
nothing more.
Now, in its last days the utter i'm
beeility of this worthless Congress is
more and more apparent. 1t has prac-
ticaily abandoned the revision of the
tariff. The Republican majority
shrinks into its corner, where it has
been thrust by the contending selfish
interests, each of which claimed to
own it, and whines and mumbles that
it can't do anything more. 1t has no
policy that it a enforce, no purpose
to which it car give substance. Az
II Sdu w 10 W CilHSO anu IA
dread of public Indignation, and
whimper that the Democratic minori.
ty will not permit it TO do anything
To what depths of degradation has
once great party fallen. To what phi
of abject ignominy has it come at last
When before was there a party tina
being in a majority was base enough
and abject enough to plead, in exten
uation of its utter failure to do any
thing, that the minority would not lie
it? Out with such a weak and cop
temptible party. The country has n
use for SO impotent a political organ
zatiOn.
} With such a record the Republican
party is about to face the people agail
! in a political campaign. AS sins O
. omission, utter failure to revise tn
l tariff, reduce taxation, or enact an
useful laws. AS sins of commission
!, steal bills, liver and harbor swindleI
, public scandals, extravaganza, innu
merable jobs and a confession of i'm
p%ortance. Demoralized, stampedet
without courage, without conviction
e without a policy, divided, discordan
e weak and confessedly imbecile whs
excuse is there for the longer ext
e tence of such O party?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

There are eleven States in which
women can vote at the elections for
school directors. "Women for these
Offices" says Susan B. Anthony, "are
particularly appropriate, since a large
proportion of the school teachers are
Of the same sex. 1 find that they
show much more fact than men, as,
of course, they do it in every posi-
tion." In those eleven States the quail
ifcations for voting r in nearly
every instance similar to those OF
men. In Kentucky, however, a wo
man has to be a widow to poll, and
in Michigan a taxpayer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Tie Clinton County Democrat
comes to the front with a hearty
"boom" for Gen. J. w. DENVER, as
the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. We have the pleasure of q
personal acquaintance with Gen
Denver, and know him to be q gen
tleman of ability and many excellent
qualities that would fit him for the
office of Governor of Ohio, and We
could cheerfully give him our sup
port should he receive the nomina
ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

General Hancock had much fun
poked at him by the Garfield jour
mails when he said: "The tariff is
very much g question of locality"
But the tariff debates have certainly
proven his proposition. For it is
only by combining each locality rep
resented by Congressman in favor
of it's particular hobby for duties that
the tariff is made up. Thus New
England votes for duties on cotton
fabrics and fish, New Jersey for
pottery, Pennsylvania for iron, Mary
land for coal, South Carolina for
rice, Virginia for tobacco, Louisiana
for sugar, and so OIL through the
list. Score one for Hancock.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

No demand could have more JUS
tice in it than the demand that has
gone up for the publication of the
pension lists. There are thousands
of names on the list that have been
put there by fraud supported by false
swearing, and the way to weed out
these frauds is TO make our lists by
counties aud publish them. The
neighbors Of a pensioner could tell
very quickly whether he ought to
be on the list OF not, and if a fraud
he could be Topped off. The public
would be relieved of a considerable
portion of the burden it now bears
on account of pensions and the list
would become a roll of honor on
which none but meritorious names
would appear.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

1t has been discovered that q very
large amount of gold coin recently
minted in New Orleans is deficient
in weight, and will have to be recoin-
ed. A re assay shows that from $780,
600 to 800, 600 worth of $40 gold
pieces, representing the work of sew.
eral months, is thus deficient, the
shortage in each coin being about
% cents. An Investigation will be
made.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

A Judge in st. Louis mildly repri-
manded a lawyer who arose in court
and thanked a jury when they rem
dered a verdict in favor of his client.
The judge said "you have no more
right to thank the jury when you
win than you have to curse the jury
when you lose" We think that
judge is anchored on good holding
ground.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The Minnesota house indefinitely
postponed the bill proposing q pro-
hibitory amendment to the state con-
stitution prohibiting the manufac.
ture or sale of intoxicating liquors.
The prohibition business is getting
a "black eye' in almost every state
since the late elections.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The Cleveland Plain Dealer sug
gests that there is no need of taking
Democrat out of Congress and run
ming him for Governor, and we sec
ond the motion. There is plenty OF
good timber out of use to fill the
place two or three times over.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

In the Wisconsin Legislature a
bill is pending which provides that
minors who misrepresent their age,
in order to obtain liquor, shall be
fined in any sum not exceeding $50
for each %offense. That would be a
good law in Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

In the Craft murder case at Gray,
son, KY, the jury brought in a yer
dict of murder in the first degree
and the wretched creature is ~sentenc
ed to hang on the 18th of May.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Apanic caused by a fire in a Cath
olic parochial school at New York,
where there were seven hundred pu-
pills, resulted in the death Of four
teen persons.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Prof. L. D. Brown, of the Hamil-
ton schools, is prominently before
the people as a Democratic candi-
date for State School Commissioner.
MI. Brown would make an excellent
man for the position.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The Arkansas Legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting the sale of
liquor within three miles of any
church or school house, upon-a petit
ton of the adult inhabitants of the
neighborhood.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The will of the late Governor Nor
gan, of New York, devises over S.,
900 200, out of an estate of $6,00O,-
600, to his grandson, Edwin D.. Nor
gan, jr.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

An official of the treasury depart
ment is said to have stated that $780,
900 in gold lately coined at the New
Orleans mint was short to the amount
of $25 on each $1,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Dayton Journal says the Republi-
can party in Ohio must face the Ii
quor issue squarely and that the par
ty twill stagger to an untimely grave
if it does net.' 1t makes no differ
ence it is fastening there anyhow.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01
The New York Independent week

The New York Independent week
" attacks the silver coin of the coun-
try. 1t states the amount of silver
coin remaining in the Treasury and
leaves the impression that this mon
ey is laying there to no purpose
The real facts are that for every hun
dred silver dollars in the treasury
there are eighty dollars of silver Ger
tificates in circulation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The President has nominated Nor
man B. Eaton, of New York, John
NJ. Gregory, of Illinois, and L. D.
Thoman. of Ohio, Civil Service Com
missioner.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

One thing is certain, says the Hud-
son IN. Y Gazette, and that is, We
must have a reform in u method of
choosing United States Senators or
the Senate will sink to level which
will not eve merit contempt. If
this reform cannot he secured by
choosing Legislatures of sufficient
integrity to be proof against the
Establishments of wealth, then let the
choice of Senators be given over to
the people at the earliest possible
moment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The Representative of Preble
county is a lawyer. What does he
think of getting up a bill to abolish
the Grand Jury system?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Fourteen white hearses bore the
bodies of the fourteen little girls who
were killed in the school panic TO
their graves in New York on Friday
last.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The clearing CT forests fror the
country dosen't seem to satisfactorily
account for the flood in the Ohio. In
1882 the whole region Of the Ohio
from its sources to its mouth, vas
practically a wilderness, yet the wa
ter was almost as high as it vas in
the late flood. Aquarium or riparian
philosophers will have to evolve a
new theory to account for the flood.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

A ~rehearing is to be asked in the
Iowa Supreme Court in the test case
respecting the prohibition amend
ment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Cover Butler, of Massachusetts,,
was asked to remove the Chaplain
of the penitentiary and appoint one
who agreed with. him in politics. He
responded that the fact that the
Chaplain differed with him in poll
tics was ssno reason for the removal
ofa competent, deserving officer, who
does not use his office as an election
eering machine. If any such one
does, he must take the result of the
election" That is very sound civil
service doctrine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The bodies of the seventy unfor-
tunate men submerged in the Dia
mond mine have not yet been recov-
ered
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The Poker Legislature will worry
with the temperance question and
prolongs its session until corn plant
inU
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Urichviliians sent $4,000 to Chi
cago grain frauds. That is a per-
simmon OIL two ahead of the Eato-
MANS
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

The city of Dayton is excited on
the electric light business. Its cit
liens consider the light grand.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

Water as wellas whisky has given
us trouble in Ohio this year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01
Eaton, Jan. 10, 's2-ly

ga 80 IVY not, life is sweeping by, go and
I'D EsSt!ks dare before you die, something
AZ EN- mighty and sublime leave'behind
A9A9D 4 to conquer time. SOC a week in
your own town. IS outfit free. No risk. Every
hing new. Capital not required. We will fur
| nish YOU everything. Many are making fortunes.
Ladies n Ike as much as men, and boys and girls
make great nav. Reader, IF you want business at
| which you can make great pay all the time, write
for particulars to II. d CO., Port
land, Maine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01
Nlarcl, L, 1858.

FOR COMMON PLEAs JUDGE,
JOHN w. SAFER,
OF DARKE COUNTY.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-13
STATE CAPITAL.
A Child Murderer Granted Hail, bni
Defaults.
Colored Divine In u New Role--lroi
Bridge.
Elk Comptroller Brown Preparing Il
Settle-Mysteri0us.
Some Important Department Notes

AUSTIN, Sept. IL. - Especial = Judge
Walker to-day in habeas corpus case pei
mitted negro woman, who murdered her
child few weeks ago, to give bail, liking
her bond at 81 900, in default Of which she
was remanded to jail. =,
John Slick, colored preacher, was jailed
to-day for robbing store few miles
below here.
Material for the iron bridge over the river
ut this point is expected daily, and the com
pany hone to have the work completed by
December LIST.
The collector of Henderson county set
tied to-day.
Colonel Thomas having resigned as mem.
Der of the board of trustees OF the agricult-
oral and Mechanical college, the governor
to-day appointed w. b. Camp to fill the
vacancy. :,
Temple Water: works company, capital
stock 500 900, filed charter to-day.
Twelve young men and one young lady
passed an examination to-day and entered
the university.
Ex-Comptroiler Brown and his attorney
held alengthy interview with the attorney
general this evening in relation to settling
his account With the state. 1t Is proDaole
1t will be arranged without suit.
A New York paper publishes the state
msnt that Charles Luudberg, well known
baker of this city, passing throu4 Ne"
York on his way home from Germany,
mysteriously disappeared from his hotel,
| and as he had considerable money about
| his person the paper minated that there
| mas been foul play. Mrs. Lundberg tele'
graphed for particulars tonight.
| Judge Moore was buried this evening.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-13
Washers and dudes Must Go.

A Washington special says: The Fed
Grafton of Lsbor in this city, at meeting
held last night, adopted the following reso'
buttons which explain themselves.
whereas, There Is Q notorious class o
sec llled Washers and dudes In WashiDgl
ton City. who make their living by decep-
ton, and who approach with brazen effron'
terry young women and inexperienced girls
returning TO their homes from their work
after night with insu ting proposals, pro-
tossing TO have powerful political influence
with the administration, etc aud,
"Wherees, These scouDdrels,in nearly all
cases. escapes merited punishment because
modest women naturally breads the no.
toriety that follows a complaint filed in the
police apartment, and,
"Whereas, The migration OF this class OF
our population to other climes might be a.
sisted by some extraj Judicial process. or
ganized under the auspices Of the working
classes OF this o.tv, whose daughters and
sisters are especially liable TO such insults;
therefore.
Resolved, That committee Of one
member from each trade represented in this
federation shall be appointed TO recruit a
society for the protection of women from
insult on the streets Of Washington. Said
society shall hear complaints. and deter
mine what method OF redress Is advisable
In such cases; and the community is hereby
respectfully requested % report all com
D ANTS of this character 10 said society for
their investigation"
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-13
Winnings ON the Turf,

Judging by the accounts in certain classes
of sensational papers. we are fast approach
ing a revival of the old-time English meth
cd of "plunging" on the turf, which bids
fair to bring eventual ruin to many an opu-
lent establishment. Fortunately the fabu-
lous winnings credited TO different parties
have but little existence outside of the un.
! bridled imaginations of fanciful writers
| Thus. one Chicago journal states, with all
| wealth of language and imagery for which
l'Chicago journalism is famous, that Freddie
| Gebhsrdt last Tuesday won 81 600 in stakes
and $4,000 in bets of eight to one by Eole's
vic DRY over George Kinney and Iroquois
Now, the value of the stakes WAS but So 500
to the winter; the odds against the horse
were never better than three and half to
one: Mr.. Gsbhardt could not have won $780,
| 900, because he was not on the grounds,
and even il he had been he won d not have
| landed such an amount, because his limit
of investment on his horse seldom reaches
and never exceeds 50 600. Moreover, per
feet as Eole was on that day, he was not
good thing" against such colt as George
Kinney. Eole this year started in ten
races, Of which he won five, tho Coney
Island cup. worth 800; the stirrup cup,
worth 81 450 the Navesink handicap, worth
81 600; the FREEHOLD stakes, worth 81, 100
and the renewal of the Monmouth stakes,
aggregating total of $3.50. As on the
|
generally regarded as moral certanties'
and Mr.. Gebhardt backed him heavier on
those occasions than for many of bis Vict)-
ries, the chances are that Freddie is out Of
POCKET on his horse thus far.
| Last Saturday Mr.. Pierre Lorillard was
said to have lost $50, 900 add the Dryers TO
have W, II $50 600 over The defeat OF lroquois
by George Kinney. Onethrd of these
amounts would be nesrer the truth. Young
| Johnson, the book maker. is credited with
| having earned enormous..sums during the
Monmouth park meeting. Despite occa.
sonal hauls aud an unlimited amount CT
pluck, he is probably no more than few
thousand dollars ahead. Plunger Walton
is said to have impoverished the bookmak.
ers at the spring meeting at Sheepshead
Bay. He did very well upon the whole.
though it is doubtful whether he carried of
more than $4,000. The fact is, even If
man were willing to plunge be cannot be
accommodated, for the bookmakers OF this
country upon tbs Whole, ARE men OF limited
| means, and are as chicken-hearted as they
are ignorant. Three firms regulate the
market, and if any of them lower their odds
point the other follows heller skelte..
An offer of bet OF So 600 in any particular
horse without any leading firm would pr
Awe business about thet horse. The fact
| would circulate instantly and the small fry
would refuse to lay against him. The day
| on which Monitor defeated Eole at Long
| Branch, Walton stood ready to bet $50 OOO
| on Eole, bu. he could not place 1t. Despite
| his strenu Gus labors he succeeded in losing
scarcely $40 600 Under these circumstances
revival of the plunging era is hardly to
| be expected.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-13
curious Recovery.

A verv curious incident occurred few
dsvs eince. m connection With a dozen old
n1ssets. which ] ID. Adams Post. O. A. X,
III Ixons. purchased Of the United State.
government. IL seems, that at the begin
ming OF the civil war. among the VOLUNTEERS
from Lyons was q young man named
Charles Dunn he vent into the amy end
served we'll. He was seriously wounded a.
BuIl Ron. and later died In the hospital
al 1l.rsndria. Va. From the time OF this
iriurv on the battlefield nothing vas seen
Of him or bis personal effects by hls friends.
I'D oniv the published records told them
nj his death among strangers. Last week
he uuskefs purchased BY the Adams Post
srrived. They we're being looked over one
afternoon. dn-inE the soldiers encam pment
ef s,5us Point. br HomerJ Damn. BROTH
81 cffhs dead soldier. when one II he par.
~ noticed Two large letters. @ ID carved
rpon the butt Of the run. Attrncled ~
re letfrrF q closer ernruinaiion ofThefn
uhowsd the foil name. i'Cbas Dunn" csrv-
- less plainly upon the rood. Other
rr~rinrs about fbe run-stock. which are
vel rsrnembe-ed b. bis infinite compan-
irr- IN the wsr. c0nFiDced Al VIC kntN
Durn that the rnusfef va bis Hls ornih-
- hns compared the czrTInE on n rnusEet
% otber cr-r-rrs about his Oh bone.
rrf fnfs them very similar. C0rr'ftrinE
a. furf-da 81 thousands Of similar mus-
Fsfs .rs'trred osrr buDore1s q oaftlt1 -i1sl
I'D ~ fwmera uun1 rr stolen aDd sid
T--fr.r ne -. a ID iudeed. stra1Ee Inst
- l-rr rhcrlI hars fruDd ~ Wy taxi %
frr rrr.r o - dead runrr. a11 70 ne lffy
c~nr1 Army 81 ne Rsputlic D1st o. which
- rrls frrthrr ~ be deeeased - = mem
-. Tfs A1arns Posf hss f0rr1sIlT prs-
rr-'..f Hrr1er Dam nth ~ n1-Eel- q
rt.Irt = - nsrr - photographs nnFe teen
'.tsr ~ ri-~fbufet nbgut LTo11-lOs-
rsr5 flnr1irn.