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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Thurlow Weeds Earliest LabOrs.

In his forthcoming autobiography,
Thurlow Weed says: II felt the neces-
sity at an early age of trying to do
something for my own support. My
first employment, when about eight
years old, was in blowing black
smiths bellows for Mr.. Reeves, who
gave me six cents per day, which con-
tributed so much toward the support of
the family. I stood upon a box to
enable me to reach the handle of the
bellows. My next service was in the
capacity of a boy-of-all-work, at a
tavern in the village of Jefferson. two
miles from Catskill, kept by a Captain
Baker, who had, l remember, made a
great mistake in exchanging the COM
mand of ship for tavern. After the
Sheriff took possession of Captain
Bakers wrecked hotel, Igot a situation
as cabin boy on board the sloop Ranger,
Captain Grant. This gratified desire
I had to see the city of New York. 1
was then QS06) in my ninth year. I
remember, as if it were but yesterday,
after carrying the small hair trunk of a
passenger from Coenties Slip to Broad
Street, finding myself in possession of
the first shilling I could call my own.
l remember, too, how joyfully pur-
chased with that shilling three two
penny cakes and three oranges for my
brother and sister, how carefully I
watched them on the passage back, and
how much happiness they conferred. :"
~ Y. Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
EATON OHIO. THURSDAY. JUNE 81 1888.

Conn.,, was found dead in his bed at the
Pacific House, at Council Bluffs. Ia, few
mornings ago. Among his effects was q
we'll written letter stating that he Dad taken
poison, but no cause was given.
Rev. E. w. CHASE committed suicide by
hanging at Richfield, near Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 18th. He went to st. Paul
sixteen years ago, and was then Secretary
of the Y. NJ. C. A. and President of the So
ciety for the Relief of the Poor and Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. Insanity
was the cause of his self-destruction.
EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN, an Irish peddler,
was murdered by Aaron Harris, colored,
near Enterprise, Miss, few days ago.
The negro was arrested, and in his confes-
sion said he sat on log with the peddler,
shot him through the head, rided his pock-
cts and then took possession of the pack.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Their Gratitude.

For some years past two ladies have
been seen passing daily through Ninth
Street to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, with
an evidently aged but still noble-look-
ing Newfoundland dog. He usually.
walked slowly and painfully between
them. They often stopped for the ami
NAL to rest, only moving when he
evinced a desire to proceed. They
were permitted to bathe him in the
park lakes. A few months agoh he died,
costly coffin was made for him, and
he was buried in the family lot in
Greenwood Cemetery. Inquiry revealed
that several years ago the ladies,
mother and daughter, were wrecked on
the Jersey coast. While being trans
ferred with the dog from the ship to
the beach the boat capsized. The dog
rescued the daughter, and, returning
through the serf, aided the Life Saving
crew in bringing the half-drowneil
mother ashore. BROOKLYN Eagle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Conversation.

A ready, easy and discreet talker is
one of the rarest characters met with
in society. And yet there is scarcely a
single other accomplishment that can
render one so charming as can this.
We are filled with admiration for him
at once, and if he be person of fair
character we find ourselves craving his
friendship, that we may revel in the
luxury of the words that fall from his
lips. Good conversational powers give
a man an influence among his fellows
that he would never WELD without it,
and he who would help to elevate his
race can do no better than to cultivate
this rare gift. We also are in sorry
need of it in our homes. There is great
and lasting good to be accomplished by
the parents in molding the characters
of their children and developing their
young minds, to say nothing of the inn
portant work of perfecting their con-
versational powers, by simply convers-
ing well in the family circle. Children
are good listeners and admirable imi-
tators; they will hear what you say and
note how you say it. If you allow your
table and freside talks to be groveling
in their nature, or gossip or in any way
unworthy of you as cultivated men and
women, you need expect nothing better
of the children than that they will talk
as father and mother do. If you in
dulge in expressive slang, so will
they, and much also that is neither ex-
pressive nor fit for sears polite"
The ability to talk we'll has been said
by one of our modern writers to be
among the lost arts. But we cannot
agree with him fully. The professional
conversationalist, who crammed for
occasion and prepared his talk for a
dinner party with as much care as the
cook her viands, has doubtless become
almost a thing of the past, and no one
will be sorry when the few remaining
species of the genus shall be numbered
with their kind; but there is . style Of
conversation as vastly different from
this as is day from night, and that is
the spontaneous expression of truth
from well-stored mind, or of the sen
timents of pure heart full of love fos
humanity.
In the first case, the man crammed
to the end that he might show his SUI
periority or sustain the reputation of a
brilliant conversationalist, while the
other, with no ambition to crafty and
without thought of self, is careful
only that those in his company shall be
happy for the time being.
The very selfish man is never a good
talker. He may have glib tongue
and goodly store of information, but
the all-important '.I'' will assert itself
50 continuously that his most devoted
admirer, if we except himself from the
list, will be wearied from the verge OF
impatience with him. Here, then, we
find the true secret of good converse
tional ability to lie in the power of the
man to forget self and become inter.
ested in others. But this will be found
a most difficult role to assume where
the proper sentiments of heart are
wanting, and he who attempts it under
such circumstances will find, despite
his most desperate efforts to the con.
trary, that partial failure at least will
be his portion.-BurIingto Hawk-Eye
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A mules hind leg has only one sea-
son-it is always beautiful spring,
even if it is backward. Spring in this
case is always followed by an early fall.
An exchange says all the cotton fac
tories in the South are making money.
That is s'queer" Isn't the mint In rup-
ming order?-Bmrlington HaUk-Eye.
Some one wants to know why Nils
son announces every concert she gives
in Boston as a farewell Because
she does fare well every time. Milton
Neaos. ,a-z
Here is proof conclusive that a pig
may be fish. A tautog is fish; an
educated pig is taught hog; ergo, tn,
metamorphosis is apparently. 7. I'D.
UertiSer.
Baseball fashions for 1885: Fingers
will be covered with cotton cloth, cut
a la mode, and held in place by splints;
eye-patches will be dark blue in color,
and without fringe; bandages will be
cut bias, and court plaster will be worn
on all occasions. Chicago Times.
"A wellmeaning person gives hints
telling "How to live on seventy-five
cents a week" There is such thing
as being too close, and most editors will
just keep on squandering eighty cents a
week, even if they see ruin staring them
in the face.-Ieras SJtings.
The Toronto Globe has found the
bane of Manitoba. 1t is the too eager
pursuit of wealth. Wehad an idea that
it was forty-eight degrees below zero in
winter and good sleighing all the
spring, but the Globe probably knows
best.-Detro1 Free Press.
Miss Fitzjoy-aw-are you not
fond of etchings know they
are deuced clever-some of them arep"
'Ah, yes, indeed, Mr.. Featherweight.
And do you know there is something
about you that reminds me very much
of an etching?" "Why, really-aw-
how charming" Eyes. There is
about you such a foggy suggestion of
something that isn't there, you know"
Hartford Post.
"A few years ago two boys of the
name of John Smith were sent to the
same school where the pupils had
learned that 'a rose by any other name
were more prodigal than particular in
comforting new names upon each other,
but the twin name of "John Smith for
time staggered them. At last, how
ever. they discovered that one of the
young gentlemen was the son of an
auctoneer and the other the son of a
waiter, so the former was at once
dubbed Going Smith and the latter
Coming Smith, names by which they
are ill-distinguished.- Chicago Iri6-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
DOMESTIC.
sscce..faI Ob.erva.isn oran Eclipse.

BuccesafuI Observati0n OF an Ec1pse.
The scientific expedition sent out by the
Government in March last to observe the
total eclipse of the sun at Caroline Island,
in the South Pacific, has arrived at San
Francisco. Professor Edward 8. Holden,
Of Washburn Observatory, of Madison,
Wis, in charge of the party, reports that
the weather on the day of the eclipse was
perfect for observing purposes, and the re-
suit is a great success. Several good pho
tographs of the Corona and spectrum were
obtained. The supposed planet Vulcan
could not be found. It win be remembered
that this expedition went from New York
to Lima, Peru, and thence for q voyage of
some weeks in the United States sloop
Hartford to Caroline Island to observe the
eclipse of May 8, 1888, having q totality of
six minutes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There is a colored church in New
York City whose leading members have
property valued at $4,000, ,000.-M z.
Times. :,
The Reformed Episcopal Church In
to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its
organization December 10 next.
tive never saw the book" re-
marked member of the Baltimore
Board of School Commissioners, in a
discussion about introducing new
grammar r.-Bdltimore Sun.
DIR. Lyon Playfair,i in recent
speech on the Scotch universities, said:
''Whereas/ the English universities
taught man to spend f1,000 a year
with dignity and intelligence, the Scotch
universities taught him to makeit.n
DIR. w. w. Macfarlane has offered
twelve-dollar medal as prize to the
young ladies of Hardin College, Mis-
souri,, for the best essay on any subject,
filling at least three foolscap pages and
containingno word of more than two
syllables. 7d 9l-F foits..5.;.,fs
Boston University has now the
largest conservatory of music in this
country, whether measured by the
number in the faculty, the attendance
of students, or the number and excel
lence of instruments and accommoda-
tions for pupils.-Boston Transcript.
Union Theological Seminary, New
York, has property worth 81, 730, 900,
which is an increase of nearly million
dollars as compared with what it pos
sessed ten years ago. Liberal donations
of wealthy friends and the rise in GER
tain pieces of real estate have united to
bring about this prosperous state of af-
fairs.-N. Y. San.
Rev. DR.. d. II. Wheeler, formerly
United States Consul at Genoa, subse-
quently Professor of English Literature
and History in the Northwestern Uni
versity at Evanston, ILL.,, and for the
past few years editor of the New York
Methodist, has been elected President of
the Allegheny College at Meadyille,
Pa.
"A report from the records of the
courts of France upon the relation be-
tween education and crime describes re-
suits directly opposed to those obtained
in the United States courts. OF 25,000,
persons wholly illiterate, five were;
criminals; of the same number able to
read and write, six were transgressors,
and of an equal number of persons of
superior instruction, fifteen were under
the ban. Relapses into crime were
found much more numerous among
educated people.-N. r Herald.
Nearly two hundred women of
New York, wives of some of the best
known citizens, have petitioned the
Board of Education to make the teach
ing of sewing to girls between ten and
twelve compulsory in the primary
schools. A plan of teaching ac-
companies the petition, and pro-
vides that after attaining certain pro-
ficiency the children may bring their
own work. This is step in the right
direction. The tendency of our modern
education is too often away from home;
it trains the brain, but does not make
housewives. But as these good women
point out sewing is of much more i'm
portance to the mother of poor fam
lily than arithmetic, or geography, or
history.-N Y Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
LATEST NEWS.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT has come for.
ward with subscription of $500 toward
the expenses of the American Rifle Team
upon their proposed trip to England. There
is some apprehension in London lest the
Americans, although they are to be handi-
capped by having the use of the screw wind
guage disallowed, will be victorious in the
International match at Wimbledon.
HEAVY rains in Kansas have done much
damage to railway property. Nearly all
the roads centering at Leavenworth and st.
Joseph have abandoned their trains. The
st. Joe and Western Road has lost forty
bridges. Damage is reported from several
portions of Ohio from the heavy storm of
the 10th.
THERE is story afoat that Postmaster
General Gresham contemplates that letter
carriers shall wear knee-breeches. The Chi
cago Ietter-carriers have petitioned the
Congressman from that city to use their in
iueEce against the promulgation of such an
order.
A SERIOUS fight occurred at the New Ha-
ven Comm steamboat landing on the 18th.
Officers attempted to arrest drunken pas
senger, and were resisted by the crowd, and
several officers and others were severely
beaten.
THE spasm of virtue which has seized
Washington, and forbidden gambling, has
led to the arrest of several persons who
were operating spinning jenny at fair for
| charitable purpose, but pool-selling and
betting on horse races are allowed to go
on unrebuked.
McGEocH, the Chicago lard speculator,
| failed on the 18th. He loses over 81 ,000,-
OOO The failure caused much excite
ment in the markets of all the large cities
where provisions are handled. Lard sold
down from SILT to $3.50. McGeoch has
been heavy buyer of lard for a long time,
and his buying kept prices up. Many firms
in other cities will be affected by the
| failure.
| A TERRIBLE calamity, INVOLVING the
| death of one hundred and eight y-six
| children, occurred on the afternoon of the
18th, at Sunderland, County Durham, Eng
land. The accident happened at the close
of performance which was attended al
most exclusively by children. In attempt
ing to leave the hall by flight of narrow
steps, the only avenue of exit, one child stum-
bled and fell, and was unable to rise again,
owing to others pressing on. Apanic ensued
und the children rushed pell-mell over each
other, trampling and suffocating to death
those who had fallen upon the stairway.
The bodies laid six and seven feet deep.
Many who were not killed outright had
their clothes torn from their bodies, and
arms and legs broken in the merciless
crush. 1t is estimated that the number OF
deaths will reach two hundred. The ages
of the children ranged from four to four
teen years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
The ex-Empress Charlotte, of Mex

i ne eX-EmPfess CharIotte, OF Mex
leo, sister of the King of the Belgians,
is in much more tranquil state of mind
than formerly. Her splendid black hair
has whitened, but her health is good,
and she has recovered from the attack
of madness which followed her being
told of the execution of Maximilian.
She is very fond of music, spending
many hours in playing duets with one
of her ladies of honor, and also shows
much interest in her garden.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Mrs. DIR. Jeffery- of Relair

Mrs. DR.. Jeffery, of Belair, Md,
on going to the cellar the other morn
ing, found that rat-trap which had
been set the night before contained
eight rats. As the trap was set SO that
the first rat entering would spring it,
it is mystery how they all got in
Baltimore Sun,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21

William Jordan, of Mount Solon,
near Staunton, Va, eighty years of age,
was very i'll on election day, and asked
that the ballot-box be sent to him from
the polling-place. The clerks obliged
ee e cas ag lis Rote %s b 5ie t
for before the polls had closed his spirit
had passed Chicago Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
FOREIGN.
John Bright ON the TarinPoliey or Amer.

John Bright ON the Tarin Policy OF Amer.
lea.
Hon. John Bright delivered an address
before twenty thousand people at Birming-
ham, England, on the 18th. After an elo-
quent allusion to the war which abolished
slavery in America, he said: 81 believe the
next election for President will be fought
on free trade lines. The great people of
the United States will declare it to be the
inalienable right of every American citizen
to spend his money in the worlds cheapest
markets.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21

ing Mutt waited ct q corner where Dukes
was to pass, and taking him unawares shot
him three times in the back and once in the
ankle. Dukes was carried to the same
room in which he killed Capt. Mutt, and
expired Immediately. Mutt was arrested.
Dukes had been repeatedly urged by his
friends to leave Uniontown, but always re-
piled that he "would either live in Union.
town or be buried in its cemetery"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Mr.. Lola Scott. the Greek ha

Mr.. Lola Scott, the Greek half
that his people have progressed in spite
Territory. He says that fifty years ago
he used to paint and go to war dances
with the rest of the braves, but within
the past twenty years he has joined the
Baptist Church, helped to sell 800 sew
ing machines, and seen reapers come
into general use among the tribe. Even
if they have little family quarrel on
hand, this is better than snaring catfish
and hunting squirrels with bow and
arrow: They have even substituted the
improved Winchester rifle for the last,
named implement Chicago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
AFat.r Quarrel About . Trade.

At Millview, Williamson County, Tenn,
Q few days since, two men, named Jack
son and Stanfeld, got into fight regard
ing horse trade, and Stanfield cut Jack
SON in several places ON the body and
hands. Jackson's wounds are fatal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
feudal- granted charter b,

The feudal- granted charter by King
Charles I. to Sir Fernando Gorges, of
Maine, in 1859, gave more extensive
powers than were ever bestowed by the
Crown upon any other subject. Under
them a Recorders Court for the city
of Georgiana was established, having
jurisdiction over all criminal offenses,
and from whose judgments no appeal
could be taken. 1t is presumed that a
trial by jury was allowed, but whetbe,
as a matter of right is uncertain. as but
few particulars exist as to the modes o!
procedure. The first capital case beforh
this novel tribunal was that of a woman
charged with numbering her husband
in 1914.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
ExcIuaea from the BaptIst Church.

The Monongahela Association Baptist
Church met at Connersville, Pa, on the
18th, and after hearing the charges against
tho Rev. r. G. Morgan, alleging malicious
and general lying, rending the church into
two parties by unjust and unscriptural
ruling, indecorous and grossly immoral
conduct, unanimously sustained the charges
and excluded R. G. Morgan from the Bap-
tist Church.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Notes.

sive scale are taken to prevent rescue of
tho prisoners concerned in the dynamite
conspiracy on trial at London, while being
conveyed to and from Court, Twelve
mounted policemen with drawn swords sur
round the van containing the prisoners,
and policemen with drawn revolvers ride
inside the wagon. The streets are cleared
to allow the rapid passage Of the vehicle.
Considerable excitement has been caused
at Cairo, Egypt, on account of the con-
version of a young Mohametan by Ameri-
can missionaries. Arab fanatics attempted
to maltreat the convert, but British Consul
Wallet protected him. 1t is probable he will
be sent to Cypress for safety.
IT is stated that IN consequence of the
riots during coronation week the chief Of
the Moscow police will be replaced by the
chief of the st. Petersburg police. The
principal st. Petersburg firms have been
required to furnish written promises not to
give their workmen a holiday on the occa-
sion of the Cars State entry, the object be-
ing to prevent further disorders.
DR.. GALLAGHER, Wilson, Whitehead and
Curtin have been found guilty at London
for dynamite conspiracy, and sentenced to
penal servitude for life. Bernard Gala
CHER and Ansburgh were found not guilty.
IT is believed the Dublin police are cog
nizant of the fact that society has recent
ly been formed there for removing the
informers who testified in the late trials,
particularly James Carey.
TIE village of Valloires, in the depart
nient of Savoy, France, was burned a few
days ago. The inhabitants barely escaped
with their lives. All the live stock, inclu.
ding one hundred head of oxen, perished.
A MISSIONARY named Schroeder has been
murdered in Zululand.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Civil Flights I'm Texas.

In the United States District Court at
Austin, Tex, on the 14th, an opinion was
rendered in . criminal prosecution under
the Civil Act Of Congress of March, 1915,
for a penalty Of $500 for excluding Laura
Evans from the ladies' car of the Houston
& Texas Central. Nineteen similar cases
were also disposed of, and the Court held
thelaw unconstitutional, and that the things
alleged were cognizable by State tribunals
only; also, that the act was an infringe
ment on the rights of the several States.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21

1t is said that decaying cabbage
will produce diphtheria sooner than any
other nuisance about the house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Nihilist.' Sentence. Commuted.

The Gear has committed the death sem
tences of the Nihilists Boganavitch, Telaloff
and Boutsevitch to penal servitude for an
indefinite period. He reduced the life sem
tence of Stefanovitch to eight years. penal
servitude, and the sentences of the woman
Lisofskava and Pribyleva to four years.
He also mitigated the sentences of Gruen-
berg, Boxcisch and Juschkowa.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Fire I'm {. Mine.

A Braidwood (Ill.) dispatch of the 18th
says: "At 1880 o'clock last night . fire
broke out in Shaft G in this city, and has
been raging ever since. The Fire Depart
ment labored all last nightto extinguish the
flames, but without success. Violent ex-
plosions were heard during the night, and
thirty-two mules were burned, and it is ru-
mored several lives lost. The shaft is one
of the most valuable in the coal fields, and
was worked solely by colored men. The
loss, it is thought, will be very great"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Reward. for the Egyptian Campaign.

The English House of Commons has
passed the bill prividing for grants to Ad-
miral Seymour, Lord Alcester and Lord
Wolseley for services rendered the British
Government during the war in Egypt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
Lyrehed by H,s Victims Friends.


At Enterprise, Miss, on the night Of the
4th, twenty mon, friends Of Edward Nc
Laughlin, the murdered Irish peddler, came
from Meridian disguised, overpowered the
guard, broke down the calaboose door, took
the negro Aaron Harris out and hanged
him from the railway bridge.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21
r1l. Account. $40, 600 short.

VIM. A. Squire, dry goods commission
merchant of Philadelphia, has disappeared
from that city with his accounts $4,000
short as agent of the Mount Vernon Mills,
of Baltimore.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-21

Three Col0red Men Arrested for the Con,
10issiOn OF the Crime-AlIeged Confession
0fWilIiam DireIy-The Ashland People
Discretlit the Story-Neal iand Craft Re.
j0lce Over the News.