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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

of some of the pension agents in
Washington, they can well afford to
pay this expense, and there is little
doubt they are doing it.
This sort of thing is not entirely
new. A similar method has before
been resorted to to food Congress
with petitions. What has appeared
to be n popular demand, and in ODE,
dience to which Congress has voted
hundreds of millions of dollars, has
been produced largely by the devi.
ces of pension agents.
1t would be bad enough were there
no bogus cases allowed; but when
as it is admitted, thousands of such
cases draw from the Treasurys mil
lions of dollars annually, the crime
exceeds a thousand fold the wildes'
idea concerning the famous Sta,
route cOnSDiracy,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The editor of the Germantown
Press is terribly out of humor-mad
as q March hereinafter than a
confined lunatic-and he goes q great
ways around to spit out PERSONAL
ties upon friend and foe. And all
because the prospect of a railroad
into the little and obscure village of
Germantown has gone ~glimmering
in the distance even fainter and
farther than the late comet. Take
it cool, Harky, personal abuse never
accomplished anything substantial,
and when resorted to without just
cause exhibits q very bad spirit and
a weak mind. Never mind your
neighbours private matters, 'pull
down your vest" "wipe off your
chin,' and you may yet succeed il
getting a railroad.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

"From twenty-five thousand to
thirty thousand voters of Indiana are
members of the denomination of Dis
ciples and at least half of them are
Democrats. A quiet but very earn
est movement wholly outside the State
Committee has been organized, and is
being vigorously and judiciously
pushed, with the strongest probabiii-
ty that at least two thousand five hun
dred changes of vote in our favor will
result"
The above extract, from a letter
written by General Garfield to ex
Senator Stephen W. Dorsey during
the campaign of 1880, and which has
but recently been given to the pub
lie, leads the New York Sun to re-
mark: "What an outburst ofindig-
nation would there be if a Roman
Catholic candidate for office were
thus to countenance an appeal to
voters for their support, based SOLE
lily on the fact that he and they were
members of the same communion"
The Sun also says that Gen. Gar
fields letters reveal an intimacy with
the Arkansas Senator which renders
it difficult to believe that Mr.. Dor
sey would have been prosecuted with
"vigor and rigor' if Garfield had
lived: "Don't relax your grip any
where" writes Garfield; II rely great
ly on your calm equipoise, which
has shown itself so often and so well
hitherto" Dorsey is invited by Gar
field to come to Mentor for cousulta.
ton, and, after the October election
in Indiana, he writes to the Star
Reuter-, as follows:
81 especially congratulate you on
your mastery management of the
campaign and the thoroughness with
which you have watched all the de.
tails and incidents of the fight. Let
me counsel you now to take some
much needed rest and save yourself.
for the final struggle soon TO come
on. We shall need all our powers
during the last two weeks of the
contest; but just now.go to bed and
sleep two or three days, and wher
you are sufficiently rested come here
and make me a visit, or better still
come here to sleep"
The Sun concludes that the desiI
Eof Garfield to send his Dear Mr.
Dorsey" to sleep for months ano
years in a State prison would no
have been a very burning one.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Jefferson Davis, in writing to a
friend contradicting some Of the pc.
riodical lies that are told upon the
ex- president Of the confederacy.
takes occasion to say: 1.-The truth
is, I never drank nor gambled, and
any one who ever served with ms
would probably say that in my youth
1 was oyerwilling to fight. The sto,
ry of the elopement with General
Taylor's daughter is as unfounded
as the rest. l was one of the two
officers selected from the First in
fantry for promotion in the new reg
iment of dragons organized in
March, 1888, which separted me from
Colonel Taylor's regiment. In 1885
1 went to Kentucky, where Miss
Taylor was with her fathers sister,
near Louisville, and there married
her in the presence of General lay
lor's brother, sister, his son in-law,
and daughter doctor and Mrs.
Woody, with many other members
of the Taylor family. 1 served I'M
der General Zachary Taylor in the
siege of Monterey, and was enc of
his commissioners to arrange for its
capitulation."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The admission of Dakota to the
sisterhood of States just before a
Presidential election would be so
purely and patiently o political act
that the Democratic majority IN Con
gress will be fully justified in resist
ing the bill by every obstructive or
delaying device the rules Of the
House OF the Senate, put in their
hands. There is nothing in the pop
ulation reported by the census or
indicated by the last vote of Dakota
territory to Justify the party forma-
ton of a State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11
'E'Eae Pension Agents at Work
New York Sun.


Petitions are every day presented
in the Senate and House for increas,
ed pensions to persons who lost a leg
or an arm while serving in the Union
army during the rebellion. They
come from nearly every part of the
country, and are uniform in language
and in every other particular. Since
the session began, probably several
hundred have been presented in each
branch of Congress.
That these petitions are the result
of concerted action is evident. It is
believed that the machinery which
has been deliberately arranged and
is being industriously worked is in
the hands of pension agents in Wash,
ington, who are thus striving sys-
tematically to increase their bust
ness.
In about corresponding numbers
remonstrances are pouring in against
any reduction Of the internal taxes
until all pensions are paid.
These remonstrances apparently
are also the outcome of the machin-
cry already referred to. Together
they constitute evidence of q compre-
hensive and a well worked plan, de
vised by pension agents for increas-
ing the pension appropriations al
most indefinitely.
Senators and Representatives, Of
course, cannot decline to present
these petitions. The petitions re-
ferrcd to, so far Is they have been
examined, are found to be signed by
leading citizens in the localities from
which they come. This, and other
circumstances, prove that thorough
work costing money is being done.
From what is known of the business
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

panv for damages. On the trial it
was shown that the approaching train
could not be seen from the highway,
u~ntilsclose to the crossing, on account
of a covered bridge and eucalyptus
trees. 1t was also shown that the
train was behind time, and running
from SO to 35 miles an hour, the usual
speed being 25 miles an hour. The
Jury awarded $l0,800 damages to
plaintiff, and defendant took an APP
peal. The Supreme Court has affirm
ed the judgment, holding that Tin view
of the rule ofdamages prevailing here
we cannot be reasonably expected to
hold that for such a loss as the plain
tiff in his case sustained, the amount
awarded him by the jury was exces-
| siyr."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Out of our thirty or more Ohio
democratic exchanges not one sup
ports Mr.. P%endleton's new-fangled
civil service bill. Surely Mr. p. is
mistaken in his bill being democrat
ic, or the Ohio democratic editors
are very dull of its meaning.-Eaton
Democrat.
We are glad to recognize you
among them. If You recollect, less
than a year ago you criticised us for
criticising the Pendleton SWIVEL rot.
Butler Co. Dem.
Oh, no, Bro. Brant, you are mis-
taken. It was because of personal
abuse for his vote confirming Stan
ley Matthews. We are with you and
a large majority of Democrats against
his vote for Matthews and his civil
service sham, but we have no desire
to see him personally abused or read
out of the party. He is human and
liable to err like all of us. Besides.
he is too good and able a Democrat
to spare Just now.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The Judge Of the Court Of Com
mon Pleas of Philadelphia has re-
versed enc of his decisions upon
learning that the main witnessin the
case, whose testimony convicted the
accused, was an infidel. In aeknowl-
edging his error in admitting the
infiders testimony the Judge says:
"The belief required by our laws is
a belief in the existence of an ON
niscient Supreme Being, who will
impose divine'punishment for per-
jury. If the belief be short of this,
it falls under the ban of legal con-
domination.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The New York Tribune advocates
the passage by Congress of the act
to place General Grant on the retir-
ed list of the Army, with the same
rank and pay that he would have
had if he had not resigned from the
military service to accept the Presi-
dency. General Grant must have a
hard tug to get along-struggling
with grim poverty on an income of
not more than $4,000 per year
and he should by all means be shout
dered by the tax payers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Ben
ton were lucky, after living frugally
through life, to leave estates suffi-
cient to pay their debts. Window
points to his 81, coo, 600, Blaine and
Sherman to double this amount, &C..
as evidence of their moderation in
gathering money during their sena'
torial careers. But the value of theil
abilities should not be measured by
the standard of those old fogies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

johann Most, in a speech in Chi
cago before an immense audience,
urged the tearing down and Cutting
of banks, the butchery of priests,
the arming of socialists with mus
kets and heavy ordinance, and the
removal of the president of the Unit.
ed States. Those sentiments were
greeted with wild applause. Are
there no vacant lamp posts in Chi
cago?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

As soon as the President signs
Senator PENDLEToN's civil service
bill it will be a law. the House hav-
ing passed it by a large Republican
majority. If there is anything else
that Mr.. Pendleton can do to keep
Republicans in Office he is entitled
to the floor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Says the Washington Post: Of
the 1000, 900 voters in the United
States who cannot write their names,
more than 1900, 600 belong to a class
that is claimed as practically solid
for any Republican ticket prescri5-
ed. Let the government help the
States to send the schoolmaster
abroad, and the evils that Republi-
canism has brought on the country
will disappear.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Unless it had great merit Parker's
Ginger Tonic could not be so popular.
Its sale has rapidly spread all over this
country, because invalids find it gives
them new life and vigor when other
medicines fail entirely.-Ohio Farmer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

C. Foster remarks in his message
that in certain parts of the State the.
Saint Smiths Sunday-law isn't en-
forced because the authorities
haven't the back bone to enforce it.
He certainly had 10 allusin to the
Republican governed town of Eaton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Ben Butler in his message exhib-
its a dark picture of the way Repuh-
lican Massachusetts has been gov
erned for the past forty years. One
half the Inhabitants feel inclined to
take to the woods since reading it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Colonel Mosby, the famous troop
er, who now serves a reunited coun-
try as Consul at Hong Kong, writes
to a friend in Virginia: 81 regard
Malone as the most vindictive, IN
scrupulous and meanest tyrant that
ever figured in American politics"
1t is said that Colonel Mosby will
return to America to take the stump
against Senator Malone next year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

There is no sort of doubt as to
the Temperance principles of John
B. Cough. He is a total abstinence
man and will not even buy his gro
ceries where liquors are sold. Yet
he takes directissue with the prohi-
bitionists. 81 am not in favor he
says, 'sof putting the element into
politics. It does not belong there.
/ am a moral suasion-i idea man. /
believe in laboring with the young;
for if we educate them properly in
this regard they will come out all
right, and then the whisky traffic
will be killed by limitation"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

9 j. R. Newcomer late of the Cham
paign County Democrat, has pur-
chased the Wilmington Democrat.
We wish Jim" success in that strong
radical hole of Republicanism-Clin-
ton county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Governor
Foster says in his message that there
are sixteen thousand saloons in Ohio.
The report of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, which ought to be correct,
says there are 1872. We can only
account for this discrepancy on the
theory that Foster got into the same
saloon twice.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The goody good old sanity read
ers of the Gazette don't like the Com
snercial heard of their religious jour.
nal, and the readers of the CONNER.
cial hate the Gazette tail to their
free and liberal paper. 1t don't GO
down very well here.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Ohio has three candidates for Ser
geant-at arms and two for Speaker
of the next House of Representa-
lives. Pendleton's civil service bill
may check the Ohio clamor for Of
fee. s,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Every Democratic member of Con-
gress from Ohio who was in his seat
at the time, voted against the Pen
dleton Civil Service bill. We are
pleased at the record.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The Cleveland Democrats had q
grand and good time at their St.
jackson celebration. Cleveland
Democrats never do things in a half
way.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

C. Fosters message on the liquor
question is stiff, but the Cincinnati
amalgimation sheet passes that part
of it by in silence. There is where
the Gazette has swallowed the Com
!, aercinaLr
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

When such men as Boss Cameron
in the Senate and robber Robson in
the House, vote for Civil service re-
form, hypocrisy is about exhausted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11


C. Foster in his message makes
the following suggestions III the liq-
uor traffic:
First-An alternative amendment
to the constitution, granting to the
Legislature the power to regulate by
tax, license or otherwise the liquor
traffic; or, to absolutely prohibit the
traffic.
Second-Pending action on these
amendments, the passage of q law
taking saloons uniformly and max
ing the property of the saloon a lien
for the collection of the tax. In short
a re enactment of the Pond law, mi
nus the bond feature oft.
Third-The re-enactment of the
Adair liquor law in its original form
Fourth-The re enactment of the
"McConnellsville ordnance law,
which is in effect local option.
Fifth-The repeal of the law max
ing it criminal to sell liquor 30 be
drank ON the premises.
These recommendations will not
please either faction very we'll
Speaker Hodge who is opposed to
any more Pond and Smith law fool
ishuess, is credited with saying that
the Governor, in his recommended
lions on this subject, has "shut down
the coffin lid on the party and driv-
en- in the last nail" His recommen,
dation to repeal the clause that for.
bids liquor to be sold by the drink.
will disgust the temperanceites and
Prohibitionists. The outlook foI
the party in Ohio is rather dark.
The message will be found on oul
outside.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Col. Marsh T. Polk, State Treas
urer of Tennessee, got away with
$4Oo, 900 of the peoples money. He
has disappeared and his whereabouts
is unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

The Governor of Florida reports a
full Treasury and says taxes may be
reduced. Florida is a democratic
State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Connecticut has q Democratic Gov
ernor, Notwithstanding the color of
the ballots cast for him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Hon. Geo. Fl. Pcndleton has our
thanks for valuable public docu-
ments.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

We tried that, and the o we
read and studied the bill the less we
thought of it, and so it must be with
every Democrat who is tired of Re-
publican popsucking officials.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11
REE0ORT

nF the condition of the FIRST NATION
AL BANK OF EATON, at Eaton, in the
State of Ohio, at the close of business,
December Both, 1882.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

If some of our Democratic jonr-
nalists who are makingasses ofthem-
selves by denouncing Senator Pen
d~leton's Civil Service Reform bill,
could but carefully read and study
that bill could not fail to endorse it
as a wise and human measure.
Von;1 Nome ( Dem
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11
PLEASE LOOK HERE!

TgiTGE! j GsG 9Ssns are s a5T is.rs. oa the tSeI IP9 ssTDt
E3 q "a : ings, and iii time become wealthy;
"a A&a&5 those who do not improve tleir OPP
portunities remain in poverty. We offer u great
chance 10 make money. We want many men,
women, boys and girls TO work for us right in
their own localities. Any one can do the work
properly from the first start. The business will
pay more than ten times ordinary wages s. EX-
penstve ontlit furnished. free. No one who en-
cages fails to make money rapidly. Tou can de-
vUt" our whole time to the work, or only your
spare moments. Fail information and all that is
needed sent free. Address STINSON & CO.,
Portland, Maine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

lawyer recently, waxing confidential,
though as q matter of course we try
to defeat it, but we put our main re-
lance in the other end Of the Capt.
toll. The Senate is very careful about
disturbing property IL v~aluabies,
and it moves very slowly. A great
many Senators are directly interest
ed in railways as owners or attor-
neys, and it is not expected that
they will set fire to their own houses
or jeopardize their own interests
without serious consideration. Sen
ators are human like the rest of man
kind, and it is natural they should
feel kindly toward a class of citizens
who pay them big fees for legal adj
vice, and for their services in cases
pending before the Supreme Court"
This is the way they all talk or
think, and this is about the size of
it. Until we stop putting corpora.
ton attorneys into the Senate and
upon the Supreme bench the rail
roads will continue to get the best of
the people.
The Chinese Legation here is an
object of great interest to q number
Of boys in this city. Two nephews
of the Chinese Minister, Kin-Tan
and Tia Sin, are pupils at Professor
Young's training school for boys
These Chinese boys are sons of a
very wealthy merchant. Each will
have over a million of dollars when
they ale grown. The Chinese boys
speak excellent English, and rank
among the best of Professor Young's
scholars. They wear our dress while
at school, but the Chinese dress at
the Legation. The Chinese boys are
very popular. They invite the A
merican lads up to the Legation,
where they masquerade in Chinese
dress, learn Chinese words, and much
about China not found in the geog
raphies. AS many Of the boys who
GO to Professor Young are the sons
of officials, it is not impossible that
the boyish intimacy of the present
may sometime have its effect upon
our future relations with China. The
lads who are being educated here are
sent here to learn the duties of flu
ture official life. The Chinese are
slowly following the japanese in the
study of English, and the best fea-
lures of our institutions. PHoEo.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

Thursday, Fan II, 1883.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

a party of young loafers entered a
Methodist church at Waseca, Wis,
and began a nights with
whisky and cards. AS there was no
police force that could be called in,
the pastor wrapped himself in a sheet.
emerged from behind the pulpit, and
spoke in such a ghostly fashion that
the intruders fed in dismay.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-11

a comparison between the Ohio
and Indiana asylums for the insane
shows hat in the former the per cap
ita expense for the past year was S13l,
and in the latter $l94-a difference OF
$l3 in favor Of the Ohio institutions.
The per cent. of recoveries in Indiana
is IS; in Ohio 40.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-05

Our city churches were well attended
on Sunday. Fewer people left the city
for recreation, and large number ap
peared to be religiously inclined. The
German church, Rev. G. H. Bollinger
pastor. was well filed. The old church
on the plaza was, as usual, unable to ac
commodate the worshippers, and the
same may be said OF the seating capacity
of the Cathedral of Santa Vlbiana
Every Sunday large numbers OF people
are compelled to stand up, YET there i;
abundant space for fifty per cent. more
seats. At the Fort Street M. E. church,
which is always crowded, large as it is,
the music was excellent, Prof. White
presiding at tho organ, Prof. Fin.
layson being unwell. The new Congre,
gational church attracted many stran.
gers by its beauty, in addition to the
regular attendants.
The new Presbyterian church was ex.
ceedingly crowded, the fine new organ
being great cause of interest. Mis-:
Hobbs, the organist, outdid herself in the
management of the instrument.
The present Episcopal church is SC
small that it is almost impossible to OBJ
tain seats. Rev. L. Birdsall, the rector,
delivered very impressive sermon. Al
Trinity church, Asbury Chapel, the Bap.
list Society. the Second Presbyterian
church and Rose.street Chapel the samt
may be said The collections taken W
were also larger than usual.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-05
B. of L. q. Picnic.

Below we publish the list OF prizes,
with the names of the donors, to bs
competed for at the picnic Of the B. Of
L. L. at Newhall, next Thursday;
H. Clawson Los Angeles Hotel. two
solid silver butter knives; s. Nordlinger,
one eight day alarm clock, one fancy
napkin ring, one chain and locket; Thos.
Strohm, one ham; Dotter h Bradley,
two fancy camp chairs; L. Mesmer, one
cigar holder; Cheesebrougb 4 Caldwell,
one box cigars; Geo. II. Fonda, drug
gist, one Rus ,ia leather box Of perfumei
Siegel, the halter, one fine hat; Wange-
man & Dreyer, one meerschaum PIPE;
B. Bush, two elegant vases aud one per
fume stand; Barker & Allen, one fancy
rocking chair; City of Paris, one dozen
tiue handkercaiefs; Jacoby Bros, one
half dozen shirts; Polaski Bros, one
pair fine sn.peDders; Peoples Store, one
lady's parasOl; Lambourn & Turner, one
box Of cigars; D. Desmond, one fine hat;
c. Fisher, one pair slippers.
The prizes eau be seen at Siegels,
corner Commercial and Main streets.