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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-13
Electric Lights on the Hudson.


But short time ago the electric light
was an invention nowhere in use on the
Hudson, but to those who now sail up
and down the river, the electric lights
at Newburg and Poughkeepsie have be-
come familiar objects. The first cleo
trio light made use of on the Hudson
was by the Pennsylvania Coal Company
at Newburg, who have for several years
past made use of five in the summer
months. Their lights have become very
familiar and useful to the pilots, for
theirTglare slightsbp the Who'll yer.
'PIefs age also seyeEal large piaDafsc-
t6riesin Newbutg tliat make use Of The
light. The upper furnace at Poughkeep-
sic makes use of two; one of these, hav-
ing the wall of the building for agrelec-
tor, sends out magnificent Fight over
the river. Electric lights are now in
general use at Hudson, complete sys-
tenn having been established; and re-
Gently there were received at the West
Point foundry, at Cold Spring, an en-
CINE and dynanao machine for twelve
lights .-71IGGn9 Cypress. e,&S.A-k.t
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-13

pH IA WIS d Rapes sent ID. anywhere whoie
"a * sale Retail. Pricellst lree. Goods guaran-
EfNt tteed B.C.S rREBL l 81 Nabash-ay., Chicago.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-13

G70 A WEEK. S12 day at home easily made
Oi ACostly outtfree Address True Co. Augusta Ma
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
Notice to Contractors.

GEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
- cefred by the County Commission
ers of Preble County, Ohio, at the AID
itoIs office until u O'Clock, m. on
Wednesday,, .Bune 9th, 1853.
for the e~xcavatiug, materials and labor
for n triple arch bridge at the cross
ing of Twin Creek on the Swisher Road
Improvement in Harrison Township,
containing from 500 to 1000 cubic yards
of masonary. The span of each end
arches to be % feet in clear and the
centre arch to &c "a feet in the clear.
Bids will only be received per cubic
yard for work actually done. Specifi-
cations will be on file at the Auditors
Office on and after June LIST, 1888, the
right is reserved to reject any or all
bids If thought unreasonable or unsafe.
By order Of the Board.
w. B. MIKESELL, Aud. P. c.
Eaton, May 17th-3-w
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
Notice to Contractors.

PROPOSALS will be re-
- ceived at the Office of the Clerk Of
the Board of Education. of the ElDorado
Village School Distri,t t, ElDorado, Pre-
BILE Co., O., until II o'clock, noon, OIL
gE'ridny. june stsl, Iss3,
for building an addition to the school
house in ElDorado, Preble Co., O., ac-
cording to the plans and specifications
which will be on file with the Clerk
on and after May 21st, 1888.
Each bid must contain the name of
every person interested in the same and
be- accompanied by a sufficient guaran-
tee of some disinterested per: on, that
if the bid is accepted a contract will be
into and the performance of it
properly secured.
The bid for each kind of material
called for by the specifications must be
stated separat' ly, and the price of each
given, and the price of labor must also
he SCI ~arately stated.
None but the lowest responsible bid
will be accepted, and the Board may
reject all bids.
By order of the Board of Education.
j. NJ. CAMPBELL,
may17-4 Clerk of Board.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Columbus correspondent of
the NeWs Journal thus shows up the
prohibitofy clause of the Scott law
to be a cheat and q snare:
The law repeats the statute prolib-
iting the sale of intoxicating liquors
to be drank OH the premises, and afix-
es q $100 and 5000 tax, giving an ab-
solute license to any person to sell IL
quor anywhere for six days in the
week who pays the tax. The only
restriction to this universal permission
is lodged in municipal councils. They
may prohibit the sale within the lin
its of their municipalities, but not out
of them, and no such power is lodged
by the law in county commissioners
and township trustees therefore the
moment a town council prohibits the
traffic within its limits, the dealers
can erect booths and shanties, or rent
buildings just across the line and es-
tablish pandemonium outside of po-
lice or municipal restraint. Before
the repeal of the drinking upon the
premises act" this could have been
prevented by prosecution under that
law. But that is a thing of the past,
and any fellow, by the payment ofthe
tax, can step across the municipal line
and turn out drunken men sufficient
to make every man in the prohibition
village swish he were dead" All the
restraints will be thrown off, and if
the saloonist is an unprincipled fellow
he will have opportunities for wreak-
ing revenge Tor being driven out
That the municipalities will be pow
erless to prevent. Under this condi-
ton of affairs the municipalities will
discover that it will be better to keep
the traffic within their limits, where
they can control it and police it, and
the result will be that the McConnells-
vile ordinance part Of the law, except
where it applies to Sunday, will be a
dead letter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
NOTICE..

NOTICE is hereby given that there
IN will be a petition presented to the
County Commissioners of Preble Co.,
O., at their regular session in June,
1883, asking for the appointment OF
Commissioners to lay out and construct
a Free Turnpike road in Harrison
Township, In said county, on the fol-
lowing line, to-wit:
Beginning at a point in the center OF
the Castine Road Improvement where
the half section lire crosses said read
iInproI ement in section II, town. z.
range 3 east; thence running south on
said half section line through sections
20 and 30, to intersect the Brewer Road
Improvement in said range and town..
and there to terminate.
Also ask for a special levy of ON
MILL on the dollar on all taxable prop
erty within the bounds of said road
Said tax to continue for the term Of
three years.
SAMUEL LOCKE ct al.
apr26-w4*
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
A committee of colored men. q

A committee of colored men, of
whom Fred. Douglass is chairman,
have called a national convention of
colored men to meet in Washington,
Sept. oath. The call directs the
holding of State conventions to elect
delegates. The convention will con-
slider the condition ofcolored people
in this country. and the best method
of securing full enjoyment OF their
rights. We don't know what rights
these fellows want that they haven't
got. They have the right to vote, to
hold office if they can get it, and to
be poor if they + too lazy to work,
the same as the "H hite trash" What
else, pray?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

-F VII .".|E NL-s. t.|. ." .
A Cleveland pork packer, when
interviewed about the high price of
pork, said: "The short corn corp
of1SS1, would not admit of the farm
ers raising hogs last year, and the
hog products were 10000 600 head
less than in 1880. The stock of hogs
was we'll nigh exhausted, and has,
owing to the natural growth of the
consumption of provision been hin,
dered in its usual increase. Hogs
will not be lower for eighteen months,
and then something can be made at
pork packing; whereas now it takes
close figuring to come out even."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Democrats in the last legisla-
ture emphasized the position of the
Democratic party on the liquor ques-
tion, when they voted unanimously
in favor of submitting an amend
ment to the constitution in favor of
license. This system for regulating
the traffic has been tried in several
States, and has been found to work
well in controlling that business. 1t
is believed that it would apply equal
ly as well in Ohio, and the Demo
cratic State Convention to be held in
june, will NO doubt fully and plainly
express the sentiments of the party
on this subject.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Alexander H. Stephens wrote in
his will: "My property, I think, up
on a fair valuation, is worth $12,-
000." How some of the statesmen
of the grand old party" must turn
up their noses at this modest share
of the worlds goods. "There are
leading lights of the Republican
party" says an exchange, "who have
rolled up their millions after a pub
lie life only half as long as that of
Mr.. Stephens, and there is scarcely
a head of a bureau at Washington
who has not amassed ten times as
much by the skillful manipulation
of his official trust. Mr.. Stephens
was a Democrat, and to the party
which breeds such honest men tile
people look for an administration at
Washington in which honest power
ty shall cease to be deemed a dis
grace"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
PILES.

PILES are frequently preceded by a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing
the patient to suppose he has some at
lection of the kidneys or neighboring
organs. At times, symptoms of indi-
gestion are psesent, as fiatulency, I'M
e~asiness of the stomach, etc. A mois-
ture, like perspiration, producing q
very, disagreeable itching, particular
ly at night after getting warm in bed,
is a very common attendant. Blind,
Bleeding and Itching Piles yield at
once to the application of DR.. Bosan-
kos Pile Remedy, which acts directly
upon the parts affected, absorbing the
Tumors, allaying the intense itching,
and effecting a permanent cure, where
all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain on the sys-
tenn produces permanent disability,
but try it and be cured. Price so
cents. Sent prepaid on receipt of
price. Add. ess, The DR.. Bosanko
Medicine Co., Piqua, Ohio. Sold by
Webb & Coover, Eaton, o.
mar29-1y
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
The N1aclinnw Railway.

The Greenville Courier, after copy
ing a portion of our article on the
Greenville meeting, held two weeks
ago in the interest of the Mackinaw
railway enterprise, says of the $4,000
per mile subsidy proposition:
Such a proposition would cost Ea-
ton about $1,000 per mile for the road.
No wonder they can't do it! 1t would
seem that that demand was a"settler,"
that the road doesn't want to go on
south, and as the Company wish TO
use the impression that Eaton nor
Twin Valley can pay them to go
through their county. The fear that
the road wont go on south at all, as
promised, is very strong here. They
urge economy, want to seek and Sc
cure the cheapest route and the larg-
est possible subscription, and yet, it
is said, want to come into Greenville
on the D. & U. track. In doing that,
with the honest intention of going
south via Eaton OIL Lewisburg, they
must travel diagonally through some
of the finest farms in the country,
damaging them beyond any price they
could pay. The Courier is and has
been a warm friend and advocate OF
the Mackinaw, but the proposition to
Preble county, and the one to come
in on the d. & o., and then go dia.
mond shape across the country instead
of keeping on a geographical line,
don't seem reasonable, feasible or pro-
bable. The belief that the road will
not go on south as proposed, is strong
here, as above stated, and if the Com
pany actually intends to go directly
to Cincinnati on q new line of theil
own, it should at once declare it, and
make their declaration so strong a:
to be beyond any further doubt. Il
is this uncertainty that is Withholding
much of the subscription. Subscribers
expected o new road to go on straight
to Cincinnati. Let the matter be set.
tied promptly and permanently, some
way. Such would enable
the constructing company to collec:
the notes, upon which they have de
pended, worked and expended thou
sands of dollars. There may have
been a mistake in the wording of tn,
notes..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
Notice to Contractors.

GEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
- ceived at the office Of the Clerk of
the Board of Education, of Harrison
Township, in Lewisburg, Ohio, until
II O'Clock, noon, on
Thursday, May 3lst, 1883,
for building a one-story, two room,
Brick School House, on the lot situate
in Verona, Casually called West Balti-
more according to the plans and spe-
ciffcations on file in said office.
Each bid must contain the name of
every person Interested in the same
and be accompanied by a sufficient guar
antee of some dislnterested person that,
if the bid is accepted, a contract will
be entered into and the performance of
it properly secured.
The bid for each kind of material
called for by the specifications must be
stated separately and the price of each
given, and the price of labor must also
be separately stated.
None but the lowest responsible bid
will be accepted, and the Board may
reject all bids.
BY order OF the Board of Education.
A. E. MAY,
apr26-4 Township Clerk.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Ex-senator Tabor's first wife.
whom he discarded as soon as he be-
came a millionaire, is said to remain
faithful in her affection for him, and
though. she IS now rich, she declares
that the happiest days of her life
were when she kept his grocery store
at California Gulch. She prays that
he may soon lose his wealth, when,
she believes, his Oshkosh bride will
desert him and he will be glad to re-
turn to his first and true love. No
matter TO what depth of degradation
he may sink. she says she will al
ways be willir g to receive him back
to her beart and home,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
NOTICE,
A%UDIroR's OFFICE, PREBLE Co.,l
EATON. O.. April 25. 'S3.

AUDIroR's OFFICE, PREBLE Co.,(
EATON, O., April %, 'S3.
NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF Road
IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENTS:
VOU are hereby notified that the
i Duplicate of the assessments made
for the construction of the following
road improvements-Salem, Burger,
Castine, Winters, Concord, Brown,
Swisher and Brewer, has been placed
in the hands of the County Treasurer
for collection.
The LIST installment will be due and
payable on or before the Goth day of
June, 1888.
By order of the County Commission
ers of Preble county, Ohio, all persons
wishing to pay L of said assessment
on or before the above date, the inter-
est added thereto for the payment of
interest on bonds, will be deducted
therefrom.
W. B. MIKESELL,
apr26-4 Auditor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The clerk of the Supreme Court
has issued a circular to the attorneys
of Ohio stating that by the provi-
sions of an act passed by the Gene
raj Assembly of Ohio April is, 1888,
entitled can act to amend sections
455, CLIO, GIL and 1856 of the Re,
vised Statutes" no petition in error
can be filed in the Supreme Court
except by leave of court. Attorneys
hereafter will forward with petitions
in error, in addition to the papers
mentioned in section GIG ofthe Re-
vised Statutes, a motion for leave to
file proof of service of motion on OPP
posite counsel and 50 motion fee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Columbus Westbote, a lead
ing German organ of the State, says
of the Scott liquor tax law.
at is no tax law, but rather a pen
atty, with local option, McConnells-
Vile ordinance, prohibition, fine and
Imprisonment in the background it
provides no protection, and only die
tates tax and punishment. The Scott
law, it asserts, is wors than the Pond
law. 1t is fanatical, and the consola-
ton that it gives to the larger cities
IN allowing their councils to regulate
the selling on Sunday, is a humbug.
1t is inipracticable because the city
council could not grant a license, and
no ordinance could be enacted that
would. conflict with the State law. 1t
gives the councils of these cities pow
er to prohibit the traffic, but cannot
allow it under the present Constitu-
ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Concerning the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor of Ohio, Judge
Hoadly says: ut will be my duty
to obey a call to the front or an or.
der TO the rear with equal alacrity,
as I hope I shall be able to command
temper and ability to do" That is
an entirely correct view of the polit.
ical duty of every citizen. Judge
Hoadly does not diminish his chance
for preferment by showing that he
is not infatuated with the idea that
the nomination belongs to him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Washington Gazette, a Re-
publican organ, alludes to Senator
John Sherman as "the Ohio senator
ial polecat," and says it is going to
drive him out of his hole. For the
love of Lord and the health of Ohio,
don't it you please, until the advent
| of cold weather.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
Proposed Amendment to the Con
stitutiOn of Ohio.
Section Eighteen of Schedule.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. SO.
JOINT

JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing Amendments to the Constitution.
Be ii resolved by the General As embly IF Tia 81 ,hs
of OhiI, That, at the general election TO be held on
the second Tuesday Of October, 1888, there sha l be
submitted to the electors for their app oval or re-
lection two propositions to amend the constitution
of the State, as follows:
FIRST PROPOSITION.
"The additional section' in and with section
eighteen of the schedule shall be r pealed, and
there shall be substituted the following:
"The general assembly shall regulate the traffic
in intoxicating liquors SO as to provide against evils
resulting therefrOn! and its power to levy taxes or
assessments thereon is not limited by any provision
of this constitution"
SECOND PROPOSITION.
"The additional section" in and with section
eighteen Of the schedule shall be repealed, and
there shall be substituted for it the following:
"The manufacture of and the traffic in intnXic"t
ing liquors to be used as a beverage are forever rr -
hibited and the general assembly sha ! provide by
law for the enforcement oil this provision"
The electors voting in favor OF the said fist
proposition shall have on their ballots TIE wo DIS.
"Regulation and taxation of the liqror-trafi =
Yes;'' and those voting in favor of the said second
proposition shall have on their ballots the words.
prohibition of intoxicating liquors-Yes."
If either of the said two propositions be thus ap-
proved by a majority of the electors vo ing at tn,
lid election, then the amendment therein prorosed
shall constitute a separate section of arti"le fifteen
OF the const tuition. o. ]. HODGE,
Speaker OF the House Of Representdtir 5.
R. G. Rii HARDS,
President THE Senate.
Adopted April 4, 1883.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Boston Democrats assuming
that the city is now thoroughly re-
claimed from Republican DONNA
ton, think it no more than fair that
the next Democratic National Con,
vention should be held there. Mr..
Frederick o. Prince writes to a
friend as follows:
We have never held a National
Convention in Boston, and in view
of this fact, and that Boston is now
an assured Democratic city that it
has an excellent hall capable of hold
ing an audience of 10000; that it
has ample hotel accommodations,
and that the weather in the season
when the convention will probably
be held is likely TO be pleasant and
cool, l think the National Commit
tee should give our claim for the
honor their serious consideration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Ross County Register, (Ind.)
says: at is given out that ex-Sen-
ator Thurman has consented to make
the presentation speech for General
Durbin Ward in the coming State
Convention, as the Democratic can
didate for Governor. Durbin's pros
poets are seemingly Frightening. If
he gets the nomination, he will be a
hard man to beat"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

johnson G. Whitaker the colored
cadet who acquired notoriety three
years ago in connection with a charge
of having mutilated his ears while
at West Point, is now filling q pro
fessor's chair in the Avery Institute,
at Charleston. S. C..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
in the State:

In Portland there is q saloon for
every 155 persons, and in Bangor
one for every Ito people. OF course
this official showing knocks cold the
stereotyped observation of the pro
hibitionists that the liquor traffic
has been stamped out in Maine and
no drunkenness is visible there
The facts prove undeniably that the
prohioitory liquor traffic or minimize
the number of drinking places. In
Kansas also the law has been q fail
ure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
CONVINCING

The proof of the pudding is not in
chewing the string, but in having an
opportunity to test the article direct.
Webb & Coover, the Druggists. have
a free trial bottle of DIR. Bosanko's
Cough and Lung Syrup for each and
every one who is afflicted with Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Consumption or any
Lung Affection. [mar29-ly
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Hooking Valley, possessing
the richest coal field in the West, is
also the gamer by the recent discov-
cry of a strata containing six feet Of
limestone, two to three feet of hema,
tite iron ore, five feet CT camel coal,
three feet of bituminous coal, and
all the materials fer making iron.
1t is estimated that there is in this
deposit over 90, ZOO, GOO IONS of Goa
and doul lie that amount of iron.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Jonah Blizzard the "oldest inhab-
itant," died at his home in Guernsey
county, last week. He was a color
ed mar who was born near Norfolk,
Virginia, about the year 1857 or
1858, and he was consequently 125
years old when he departed this life.
He was q resident of Ohio for four
score years, as he came TO this Sec
tion while it was yet a bowling wild
erness and long before Ohio was
made a State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Amasa Stone, q Cleveland million
are committed suicide last week
Recent losses as a gurantor of a Chi
cago and Youngstown iron firm and
i'll health, superinduced alteration
and drove him to self murder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
We see it stated that the Ieg;sla

We see it stated that the Legisla-
ture has passed an act abolishing
private seals to deeds, mortgages, etc.
Hereafter, in Ohio, the atfixing of a
seal to any instrument whatsoever,
will not give any additional force or
effect to such instrument, and will
not in any way change it's value.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Scott liquor tax law taxes q
big dazzling saloon where a large
traffic is carried on the same that it
taxes the small saloon kept by the
poor man. This is about the usual
style of Republican justice.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has
enlarged to al eight column daily,
and all for 2 cents! If not upward
its motto seems to be onward! 1t
cannot be excelled al a lively Dem
~ocratic journal. 2
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Senator Camden, of West Virginia,
has expressed the opinion that Mr..
Mcdonald, of Indiana, would make
a strong Democratic candidate for
President. And he would.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Congressman Page, of California,
says that if the Republican nomina-
tion for President goes to the west,
John A. Logan, of Illinois, twill be
nominated without a doubt" But
we doubt it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Hon. Oscar Sheppard has our
thanks for a copy of the Geological
survey of Ohio, and a copy of Ohio
Statues for 1882, both valuable pub
lie documents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
April 4, 1883.


UNITED STATES OF fMERlCA, OlrDi {
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. {
I, JAMES w. NEWMAN Secretary of State of the
State of ohio, do hereby c. TT fy, that the foregoing
is q true copy of Joint Resolution adopted by the
General Assembly of the State Of Ohio, on the 4th
day of 'pril, A. d. 1888, as taken from the original
rolls filed in this office.
In TESTIMONY HEREoF I have hereunto sub
scribed my name, and aft liked the great seal of tho
State of Ohio, at Columbus, the 18th day of April,
A. ID. 1888. JAMES W, NEwMAN,
[sEAL Sec, etGry Of State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17

Richmond, Virginia, commemora-
ted the death of Stonewall jackson.
A salute was fired in front of his
monument by the Light Infantry
Blues.