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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
whistling to Keep Their Courage Up.

"A leading organ of Republican 0pfn-
ion hereabouts devotes itself with cfab-
crate detail to an exposition of the ne
cessity of counting New York and Ohio
in any calculation of Republican vic
tory at the next Presidential election.
1t has compiled an ingenious tabular
exhibit of the extreme possibilities OF
Republican success, if victories in New
York and Ohio are assured, showing
that the Republicans might get ma
jority of one in the Electoral College
even if New Jersey, Connecticut, Indi.
ana, Colorado, California, Nevada and
Oregon should go Democratic. 1t is
fair presentation of the desperate situa-
ton in which the Republican party finds
itself and the exhibit is hardly calculat
ed to stimulate Republican confidence.
New York and Ohio together cast fifty
nine electoral votes, and, if not impos-
sible, it is at least highly improbable,
that the Republican party can make up
their loss. 1t could not be done if the
seven States already mentioned as ac-
corded to the Democrats in the ex-
hibit in question should 60 Republic
an, for they aggregate only forty.
seven electoral votes. Add Virginia
to the Republican list and the
loss of New York and Ohio would
just be counterbalanced. 1t need not
be said, however, that the Republican
party will not have even remote
chance of carrying the eight States
named, if it can not carry New York
and Ohio. 1t must make its fight for
life in these States and If it fails in
either it can not hope to make up the loss.
Indeed there is no escape from the evi-
dent fact that the Democracy will go
into the next campaign with the odds
heavily in their favor. Out of the fif-
teen States which are accredited to the
Republicans in the exhibit of our con-
temporary, there are only four-Iowa,
Rhode Island, Minnesota and Vermont
in which the Democrats have not
been able to poll majority vote at
some general election within the last
six or eight years. Out of the four
hundred and one electoral votes which
the country will cast at the next cleo
ton, but twenty-eight belong to States
which have proved impregnable strong
holds of the Republican party. On the
other hand the record shows fourteen
States, casting one hundred and twen-
ty-nine electoral votes, no one of which
has ever gwen a Republican majority,
except under the reconstruction regime.
Is more needed to show how the odds
stand?-St. Louis Republican.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
THE PARTY SHLBBOLETH.

4 pethorfc party, rich and fat
with many years Of steady stealing,
Has learned additi0n's fessSps pat,
Division, silence, and all that,
Its deeds SO carefully concealing.
fntrenched in office everywhere,
And strong in many bad alliance,
For honest Eu0s it scorned to care,
And felt that it Gould bs15ly dare
To bid the voting men deffaneei
It made the Treasury its prey,
1t swamped the navy with freebooters,
It sold TIC p6oples rights for pay,
It holds above us all to-day
Its Whisky Ringsters and Star Reuters.
Its leaders boarded goods and gold,
Allied with public rogues and robbers;
HonoPolies grew strong and bold,
And frnfer was the fatal hold
OF party hacks and Rings and jobbers.
ithid in guarded offices
The secrets Of its foul SoTruptioni
To blind the public eye to these,
False issues it could raise With ease,
And twist or change them at its option!
1t still efirtcbes party friends,
And still it grinds its private axes;
And still it serves its selfish Srds!
And still the weary Nation bends
Beneath its load of needless taxes a,
The issue now, beyond doubt.
Is that the nuisance be abated;
Then let the rogues be put to rout,
And all the banded thieves turned out,
And public places fumigated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

back to red lIot brick wall until insensi-
BILE, when he fell forward into the glowing
Goals.
CHARLES SEITz, a paper, anger Of Alls-
gheny City, Pa, shot and fatally wounded
DR.. G. W. Langflt, at Bellevue, a suburb Of
Pittsburg, on the 18th. Langfit had broken
a marriage engagement with the formers
sister without assigning cause for his
conduct.
A coLoRED man named Wade shot and
killed his wife, at Birmingham, Ala, on the
10Th, and then blew out his own brains.
The wife's determination to procure di-
vorce was the cause.
SOPHIA WARFMAN, of Philadelphia, aged
nineteen, who in April last nearly sue.
ceeded in killing herself with revolver,
almost severed her head from her body d
few days ago with razor. She was ruined
under promise of marriage.
M. W. WILKINSON, farmer of Lincoln
County, Mo-, was shot dead with double.
barreled gun on the 10Th while sleeping in
his bed. The assassin escaped and is un-
known.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

PETITIONS are being daily received at the
Department of Justice from Federal Off
GERS near Jefferson, Tex, asking protection
from the outlaws who assassinated Judge
Haughn.
In AN interview, Secretary Lyncoln pro-
nounces the Texas story about General
Crooks campaign untrue, and declares the
War Department entirely satisfied with
the result of General Crooks campaign
The sentence of dismissal of Lieutenant
Samuel D. Holmes, of the Thirteenth In
fantry, has been approved by the Presi-
dent. He was recently Court-martialed at
Fort Bliss, Tex, for duplicating pay ac-
counts.
In reply to petitions from Federal officers
In Texas, Attorney-General Brewster says
his Department has no authority to proceed
against the assassins. They are amenable
to the laws of the State only. He thinks
reports on the extent of the reign of terror
have been exaggerated.
THE Chief of the Secret Service Division
of the Treasury Department has instruct
ed his agents to suppress the manufacture
of ''bangles' by jewelers., in imitation of
gold and silver coins.
In THE case of VIM. Pitt Kellogg, who is
charged with receiving money while a
United States Senator for expediting cer-
tain Star-routes, Judge Wiley has held
that the pleas in abatement are insufficient.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Angel Not TO be Partlo.ed.

Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, has de-
clined to pardon Chas. w. Angel, con-
victed in 1873 of the embezzlement of a
large sum of money from the Pullman Pal
ace Car Company. Angel surrendered
himself to the United States authorities
while in Portugal, and turned over to the
Pullman Company $4,000 of the stolen
funds. A petition for his release was
numerously signed, and among others by
the Prosecuting Attorney and Judge before
whom he was convicted. He has six years
longer to serve.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Progress or the yellow Fever.

The Surgeon-General at Washington re-
ceived dispatch from Vera Cruz on the
18th, in which it was stated that yellow
fever was prevailing with unusual severity
at Vera Cruz, IA deaths having occurred
since july l. Seven per cent of the Amer
icanf sailors have died. A New Orleans
dispatch Of the same date reports the ar
rival of two vessels with yellow fever on
board, both of which were quarantined.
The Surgeon-General says no case of the
fever has yet appeared on shore in the
United States
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

"A handsome German girl, fresh
from Rhineland, was up before New
jersey Justice on charge of desertion.
Through an interpreter she said she
didn't know she was married, the old
Dutchman who claimed her having told
her that was the way servants were
hired in this country. The learned
Justice said it made no difference what
she thought she was married anyhow.
and must obey her husband. She at
once declared she would return to Ger
many, where no fellow could marry her
without her knowing something about
IN Y. Mail.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
nrouninS orH.W.L Lord.

Information was received at Washington,
on the Goth, that the body of H. W. Lord,
a son of ex-Congressman Lord, of Mich
igan, and recently clerk in the patent
office was found floating in the Potomac
River by some fishermen. The men were
ignorant, and towed the body ashore at a
point near Beall's landing, about eighty
miles down the river, and buried it in the
sand. 1t is supposed he fell from one of
the river steamers
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Suicides and Murders.

AT Philadelphia, on the 10Th, Joseph
Staegerman, saloon-keeper, shot his wife
dead and then killed himself. Trouble over
money matters led to the tSsgedy.
CHARLES FISHERMAN, an inmate of the
insane asylum at Rochester, Minn., COM
mitted suicide few days ago by jumpin;
into furnace in the boiler-room. After
getting inside the furnace he stood with his
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
A General Quarantine Advised.

At a meeting of the New Orleans Board
of Health on the 10Th, a resolution was
adopted advising the Governor to proclaim
quarantine against all Mexican, South
American and West India ports, to take
effect Immediately. A resolution was also
adopted requesting the Governor of Hi
nois to forbid DR.. Rauch, the Health Off
Ger of that State from intermeddling in
sanitary affairs at New Orleans, and to
cease his designing efforts to impair public
confidence in the Louisiana State Board of
Health.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

Dennis Kearney delivered a speech at
Cooper Institute, New York, on the goth, to
an audience of two thousand persons. He
said convention of wage workers would
be soon. held at which laboring men
throughout the country will be represented.
The purpose of the speaker was to secure
the election of men to the Legislature
and to Congress who would raise freight
and passenger rates, and thus raise wages.
Stephen Maybell, ''the poet of the sand
lots" also made an address.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
GallOKa Eruif.

George Mcmillan, for the murder of his
wife, was hanged at Canton, O., on the
Goth. In Lexington, KyS Dan Timberlake
paid the death penalty fof assaulting lit
tie girl nine years of age. Robert Wilson
was executed at Memphis, Tenn, for the
murder of a store-keeper. Mcmillan and
Timberlake died persistently asserting
their innocence.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Let the Stable Be Cleaned Out.

The press and not a few public men
of the country have been heard from
respecting the Star-route trials and the
acquittal of the depredators on the pub
lie Treasury. Though acquittal was
something of surprise, conviction was
hardly expected. The minds of reflect
ing men, therefore, turn to the offenses
and to the consideration of a service in
which such abuses are possible. Itmay
be taken as absolutely certain that all
opportunities permitted by the Govern
ment to peculate on and defraud the
Treasury will be promptly noted and
fully improved by the watchful class
which lives and fattens by what it thus
gains. The only method, therefore,
of protecting the public interests is to
put the Executive department in the
hands of men capable of transacting
business and honest enough TO refuse to
connive at any and all efforts to get
money without honest service. Such
are the ramifications of fraudulent agen-
eies in the Republican party, and the
relations of the leaders, managers and
machine men with the contractors and
guagers that pure public service under
shat party is practically out of the ques-
lion. IL Is Impossible. Whatever may
be the professions of the thick-and-t
partisans and the attempts of the
wounded leaders to parry the blow
which has fallen upon them, the conclu-
sion is plain that the way to better
things is through a change total,
absolute change-in the Executive as
well as the Legislative department of
.he Government. Put men in who are
in no way whatever connected with or
lnder any obligation, even the least, to
:he class who have so long lived by
public patronage and from advantages
which actual or supposed party services
have emboldened them to claim. There
must be new deal all round or there
can be no reform. and there will be none
worthy the name. Such now appears
TO be the conclusion at which the most
5andid and clear-headed observers have
reached. .-Erchange.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
E.p,o.ion OF Eight Boilers.

The eight boilers of the Anthracite Fur
mace located at Reading, Pa, owned by the
Philadelphia and Reading Company, ex-
ploded on the morning of the 18th, reducing
the furnace to mass of ruins. The engin-
ser was instantly killed, and six others in
Iured, some of whom will die. The explo-
ZION was felt distance of five miles.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Bu.Ine.. Failure. for the Week.

The business failures throughout the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ending the Doth las reported to RIG. Dun
& Co.'s mercantile agency, New York, num-
ber 10S, as compared with 159 the week pre-
vious, distributed as follows: New England
States 10, Middle %, Southern 15, Western
90, Pacific States and Territories %, Can.
ada and Provinces %, and New York
City 10.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
DIsa.trou. Fire-TweIve Men Injured.

DfsastrouA Ffre-TWeIVe Men Injured.
A spark from an engine fell into pile of
jute which had just been landed on Har-
beck's dock, at New York, on the 18th, and
the flames spread with such rapidity that in
few moments the entire dock was ablaze.
Three ships lying alongside the dock were
totally destroyed. Twelve men were Sc
riously injured by the falling in of the roof
of one of the buildings.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Chier Ju.t,e. waite Injured.

While General Terry, Senator Edmunds,
Chief Justice Waite, and party of army
officers were riding around Mount WASH
burne, in the Yellowstone Park, Dakotah,
few days ago, the pony ridden by Chief
Justice Waite threw his rider violently to
the ground. Judge Waite struck on the
side, injuring and probably fracturing .
rib
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

Texas Cattle Fever ia Massachusetts.
Several cases of fever have appeared at
Worcester, Mass, among Texas cattle re-
Gently taken there. The Board of Cattle
Commissioners have issued an order for
bidding the bringing of any more of those
cattle into the State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Released From JaiI ny a Mob

The two Barnard brothers, confined in
the Jail at Verona, La, charged with muir
der and arson, were released on the night
of the 18th by a crowd of armed men. They
captured the guard, and, forbidding the
Sheriff coming near them, broke the lock of
the Jail. None of the crowd were identi-
fed. The whereabouts of the prisoners is
unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

short in his accounts. He has fed to Eu-
rope. His bond, in the sum of $4,000, is
said to be worthless on account of irregu.
larities. It is announced that the financial
standing of the order will not be affected.
Hechmer resided and conducted the affairs
of his Office in Grafton, w. Va.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Acting American Consul BrufalIy RcafeD
by MexfcanS.

A mob of Mexicans entered the office of
the American Consul at Monterey, few
days ago, and after beating to insensibility
the Acting Consul, Rev. Shaw, broke up the
furniture and destroyed the papers belong
ing to the Consulate. DIR. Campbell, the
American Consul, was on visit to Loredo,
Tex, at the time of the occurrence.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
IMPORTANT EVENTS
COLLATED AND COMPILED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
AT WASHINGTON.
ABrutal Outrage at Washington.

Brutal Outrage at Washington.
A man representing himself as Water
Inspector, entered the house Of family
named Spein at Washington, on the 18th,
and brutality assaulted a young lady, the
only person In the house. He choked her
into insensibility before accomplishing his
purpose. Serious doubts are entertained
of the lady's recovery. The perpetrator
was not arrested.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Victor Hugo believes that n

Victor Hugo believes that plants
are sensitive and suffer almost as much
from confinement as birds or insects do.
For this he quarrels with his son-in-
law, who has large hanging garden
filled with wild flowers, grasses and
shrubs brought to Paris from the mount
aims and forests.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

The first ice-cream ever seen in st.
Louis was ON tue occasion of the mar
riage of Miss Louise Chouteau to Ga
briel Paul, tifty-nine years ago. 1t was
served by New Orleans caterer and
created a sensation.-St. Louis Globe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
FOREIGN.
Rereft OF An Her Loved Ones.

Two sons of Mr.. Lord, aged thirteen and
fifteen, and a son of Mrs. Marchand, aged
sixteen, were drowned in the River du
Loup, at Quebec, on the 11th, while bath
ing. Mrs. Marchand's husband and two
sons were burned to death few days
previous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

The United States Consul at Vera Cruz
has been ordered by the Department of
State to advise all vessels bound to South
ern ports of the United States to stop at
Ship Island for inspection. If this request
Is not observed they will be sent there
from the port of destination by the health
authorities.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Powder Explosion In Russia-Nine Mel

By the explosin of a powder-mill at st.
Petersburg, Russia, on the Goth, the mixing
room was destroyed. Nine persons were
killed and two severely injured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

Major Robert Smith, of Davenport, died
from injuries inflicted by himself. 1t is
said that he lived ten days with bullet in
his brain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
A Horrible ! avn Tenni. Tragedy.

During the progress of a game<of lawn
tennis at st. Cuthberts, England, on the 18th,
Mr.. DeVere, an army officer, suddenly, and
without provocation, drew his revolver and
instantly killed a young lady named Nc
Kay, aged twenty years. He then blew
out his own brains. 1t is believed that
jealousy prompted the crime.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

ss 0wope Wfthdraws His Resignation.
AWashington telegram of the 18th says
the resignation of Col. A. NJ. Swope, as
Collector of the new Internal Revenue Dis
trict of Kentucky, has been withdrawn,
and q new bond was sent him for execu-
tion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Mr Irorton,. succe..or.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has appointed Isham Young, of Knoxville,
Tenn, as Revenue Agent, vice c. Nj. Hor-
ton, Of Boston, removed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

THE Spanish Government has introduced
bill in the Cortes for credit of one mil
lion pesetas to defray the cost of the adop-
tion of all possible measures against the
Introduction of cholera.
THE National Zeitung, published at Ber-
lin, approves the protest of the English
people against the Suez Canal agreement,
and proposes that all the maritime powers
buy the canal and place it under the con-
troll of an International Commission.
The steamer Daphne has been raised at
Glasgow. Twenty-seven bodies were
found in the engine room and stoke hole.
THE Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of
Commons on the 18th reported to that body
that Bradlaugh had brought an injunction
against him to restrain him from prevent
ing Bradlaugh from entering the House.
THE London Standard in a recent issue
says great complaints have been made at
Hamburg against the excesses of the crew
of the United States steamer Lancaster.
The police have been obliged to arrest sew.
eral sailors and officers belonging to the
vessel.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
The monterey outrage Conn. med.

A telegram was received at the Depart
ment of State on the 10Th from W. 8. Camp
bell, Consul at Monterey, dated at Loredo,
Texas, confirming the press report Of the
assault upon Shaw while Acting Consul at
Monterey.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
DOMESTIC.
Heroic Rc.cr

Heroic Rcscue OF n Young Lady.
While in bathing at Long Branch on the
18th, Miss Mollie Coombs, of st. Louis, got
beyond her depth,a and was drowning, when
q young man named VIM. Whittlesey,
twenty-one years of age, swan out and
rescued her. The young lady, who is re-
puted heiress to $100, 600, presented her gal
liant rescuer with gold watch and chain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Virginia Republicans Condemn Arthur,
AdminiAfratfO ton.

The Virginia State Central Republican
Committee met at Richmond on the 10Th
and elected John F. Dezendorf Chairman,
vice j. Cochran, resigned. The resolutions
adopted indorse Dezendorf, condemn the
National Administration for throwing its
influence against the Republican candidate
at the instance of the bosses of the Read
juster party, end in removing from office
Republicans who have always been active
in support of the party ,and placing in their
positions men who refuse to acknowledge
themselves Republicans. The resolutions
declared James G. Blaine the choice of the
Republicans of Virginia for President.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
De Lesseps and His Proposed Canal.

At meeting of the stockholders of the
proposed Panama canal, held at Paris on
the 18th, De Lesseps said that the co-opera-
tion of the American contractors had dissi-
pated the prejudices existing in certain
sections of the United States against his
company constructing the canal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Freeboottng in Texas.

Four heavily armed men went to j. H.
Smiths store in Cincinnati, Tex, on the
l7th, and presenting Winchester rifles at
the clerk, forced him to submit to the rob-
bing of the store. They obtained small
amount of money and as much goods as
they could carry off. On leaving they fired
ut the proprietor, severely wounding him.
Bwayne Confesses 10 Stealing the Ledger.
Roland o. Swayne, the ex-Deputy Clerk
of the Supreme Court ARRESTED on suspicion
of having stolen the ledger from the State
Treasurer's office, at Nashville, Tenn. made
full confession of the deed on the 18th.
He says that he took it at the instigation of
Polk, whose friends paid him $40 for COM
mitting the theft.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
The Apache. Again o. the murder.

The Mexican Consul at Tucson, Arizona,
on the 10Th received letter from the from
tier, dated July IA, stating that at or near
the place where General Crook left the hos
tiles in the district of Montezuma, they at
tackled Mexican settlement, killing five
persons. A detachment of Mexican in
fantry pursued the savages, but found them
in too strong force, and were repulsed with
the loss of seven soldiers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26

Business cards Of Se lines or less, s3 per annun
1Soai notfces 10 cents oer line each insertion.
simple announcemens o, ularrages and deaths and
church and benevolent societ NOTICES lnserted free
Any additions TO obituary notices WIN pe charged nve
cents per line. ,..s.,
ing to IN -ure insertion the same week.
Communications upon subjects Of genera OF iocS
interest solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-26
Telegraph Operators Strike for q Redress
ofGrieyaneea.

ofGrieyances.
The strike threatened for some days by
the Brotherhood of Telegraphers of the
United States and Canada eliminated at
noon on the 10Th by dispatch from the
Executive Board at New York ordering all
members employed by the Western Union,
Baltimore and Ohio and Mutual Union Of
fees to quit work. About 80 per cent
of the operators struck. Business was
slightly interfered with, but the in
terruption was only temporary. Ex-
elusive of the 10 per cent. of the old op-
orators who refused to strike, the COM
panies have secured help from colleges and
country towns. The business of the Asso-
ciated Press is not interfered with, as no
differences exist between them and their
operators. The volume of news, however, will
of necessity be somewhat curtailed. Indi-
cations point to a long and bitter fight,
with both sides confident of success. The
Brotherhood of Telegraphers claim to have
$3.50, 900 in their treasury, with the treasury
of the Knights of Labor open to their re-
lief when needed.