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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
News By Telegraph.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Oscar WiIde's Picture.

WASHINGTON, December 13.-The case of
the Burow-Giles Lithographic Company
against Napoleon Sarony was argued in
the Unired States Supreme Court this
afternoon. 1t relates to the photograph of
Oscar Wilde, the apostle of aesthetic cul-
ture, and involves the question whether
the copyright acts, in so far as they
grant protection to photographs, are con-
stitutional. Counsel for Sarony argued
that the latter had invented" the picture
in controversy; that is, "had posed Oscar
Wilde before the camera, selected his cos
tune, as well as the draperies and other
accessories, arranged said Oscar Wilde in
graceful position, and suggested and
evoked the desired pleasing expression"
This, counsel maintained, made Sarony the
author or inventor, not of the subject of the
picture, it was true, but of the picture it.
self. Counsel for the lithographing COM
pany, however, contended that Sarony had
not produced or invented Oscar Wilde, but
merely arranged him-that Is, newly ar
ranged something already extant. If this
was invention, Sarony had mistaken the
remedy. He should have taken out a pat
ent instead of copyright. To obtain a
copyright the person claiming protection
must be the author of visible article on
which the copyright is granted. Sarony was
not the creator of Oscar Wilde, and the
photograph was not such an original as
could be copyrighted. All the photo
grapher did was to put Wilde in particu-
lar suit of clothes, have him cross his legs
in particular fashion, and put his hand
on his hip. This work was not the work of
counsel maintained, to copyright protec-
tion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
Great Storms Reported Throughout Great
Britain.

LONDON, December 12.-Violent gales
prevailed throughout England last even
ing, with much damage in London and the
provinces. Much property has been de-
stroyed on land and sea, and many lives
lost. Huge trees were torn up and carried
away. The low lying districts of Birming-
ham were flooded. The Leicester car
riage works were destroyed. At Birken.
head great damage was done. The chief
officer of steamer just arrived from Glas-
gov was killed. At Liverpool cabs were
Overturned and many buildings damaged.
At Lincoln the parapet of the tower of the
cathedral was blown down. A ship
was blown from its moorings in
Belfast Belfast Hapbor bpPo adft At South ahd Shields
.wherries were sunk. The British skip
Liverpool, from Quebec for Greenock, is u
total wreck hear Stranraer, Scotland, only
a man and boy saved from the crew.
Two persons were killed at Hull and several
injured. A portion of Portsmouth was
flooded. At Hartlepool many ships were
damaged. At Birmingham two persons
were killed and number injured. Three
were killed at Manchester. At Dewsbury
three were killed. AT Chester man was
Two persons were killed at Liverpool. A
portion of the roof of st. Mary's Church, at
Berwick, was destroyed. Several houses
in the suburbs of Nottingham were
blown down. At Kidwick a gasome-
ter was demolished. The postal
telegraph inspector was cut in half at
Leeds. At Bradford the monuments in
Undercliff Cemetery and portion of the
depot of the Midland Railway were blown
down. Several vessels docked in the Mer-
sey were damaged. Two vessels were
wrecked at Dunure, Scotland, and two men
drowned. The lowiands in West Lanca-
shire and Garstang District were flooded.
At Glasgow the damage to property was
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
Defects in Butter.

Why is butter sour or cheesy? Why
is butter mottled or streaked? Why is
butter soft and spongy? Why is butter
crumbly OF short? Why is butter solid
and close grained? Why has butter
white specks through it?
Butter is sour or cheesy because of
the milk or cream being kept at too
high temperature, or the butter, after
forming in the churn, was still churned
and gathered in the buttermilk which
should have been at once drawn off and
water or brine (Which is far better)
substituted to both gather and wash.
Butter is mottled because the salt
which raises the color has not touched
those spots showing light, while it
should be thoroughly and uniformly
mixed in, or strong brine while the
butter is in granule form does it about
equally as well.
Soft butter has various causes, over
working the chief one; in this case it
will get solid, cut and try smoothly ex-
posed to cold, but slight heat softens
readily. Again, churning at high tenn
perature mixes in the buttermilk, form
ing soft mass and difficult to remove,
and readily turning rancid; chilling,
washing and pressing out the only rem
edy.
Crisp, crumbly or short butter is
caused by too much water being worked
into it by design or accident, and
occurs chiefly in cool. weather.
White specks are of two kinds, one
sort being cream in the act of forming
into butter, the other dry cream, either
from while sitting being disturbed, sep
arated and drying on sides of vessel,
or from a dry, windy atmosphere.
Butter in which these are found is usu-
ally of good flavor. To finish fine.
solid butter is the work of proper tenn
perature throughout, also preventing or
removing liquids from its composition
before the butter has s1, after which,
disturbing its formation, even though
at the hands of an expert, may make it
closer grained, but not so solid or crisp,
nor will the butter so disturbed stand
up under heat and exposure so well. 1t
s generally understood that when the
grain of butter, as it is termed, is
broken up by overworking, it can never
be recovered to any extent. This is q
mistake. 1t may be subjected to par
ocular temperature (after being handled
md mussed to any extenD and yet
brought back to almost its original
solidity. 1t will, however, soften more
.eadily in heat afterwards.-F'arm ana
Ereside.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
CABLEGRAMS.
The Franco-GhInese Trouble.

HONG KONG, December 12.-Every prep
aration is being made in Canton to place
the city in q defensible condition. Yes
terday the Viceroy, with the Imperial Com
to make a thorough inspection of the forts
aud torpedo lines. He will return on
Friday.
PARIS, December 12.-Admiral Courbet
will soon ask China to renew negotiations,
the military posirion in Tonquin to remain
meantime undfsturbed. If the ncgetia-
tions are declined the Admiral will seize
Bacninh, Sontay and Hunghoa, and again
appeal for a peaceful settlement. A sec.
ond refusal will be followed by the seizure
of a main port, other than Shanghai or
Canton, owing to unwillingness to offend
other powers.
PARIS, December 13.-It is reported that
a revolution has taken place in Hue, and
that the king of Anam has been killed. An
other report says he was poisoned by the
anti-French party. There are rGmors in
Hong Kong of a fresh declaration of war
by Anam against France. Hai-Phong is
strongly fortified by the French, palisades
and bleckhouses being erected.
LONDON, December 13-A Hanoi dispatch
of the 5th confirms the report of the break
ing out of a revolution at Hue, and the poi
soning of King Hipemah. The new king of
Anam is Tlephoa. The influence of the
anti-French mandarins is paramount at
hue, anu war dSalhSI rance IS pTOClalnleo.
The French force in charge Of Hue is INSULT
cient to meet the new danger, and rein.
forcements are necessary.
SHANGHAI, December 14.-The latest
news from Pekin confirms the report of the
activity and increasing influence of th e
Chinese war party. 1t is reported that Lii
Hung Chang has been appointed viceroy
of the provinces of Kuangsi and Canton,
adjoining Tonquin, and that the uncle of
the marquis Tseng has heen appointed
viceroy of.the Province of Pechily.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
A Brutal Murder in Mains.

PORTLAND, Me-, December 13.-Lewis E.
Hopkins, "Slim Jim," and Rem Turner
were on spree last night, and killed "Old
Joe," an Indian, and then assaulted his
wife. The assailants were arrested. The
house where the murder occurred was
occupied by Old Joe and another Indian
named Nicolas Carter, and Sewall
Plummer, owner of the house. The mur-
derers, Hopkins and Turner, passed
through old Joe's room to the kitchen,
where they found Plummer and the In
dian Nicolas and his wife and little girl.
Hopkins first words were, you've
got a good fire, but if you hadn't I'd
make it hot pretty quick" Soon
after Turner asked Plummer to drink,
and both entered Plummer's room.
Nicolas succeeded in getting out of the
tempted to prevent them. While the drink
ing was going on sold Joe" and his wife
locked the bedroom door and went to bed,
only to be dragged forth again by the muir
derers, who. after drinking, burst in the
door, seized "old Joe's" wife, and threw her
on a bed in the kitchen, where she was
ravished by Turner, while Hopkins at
tackled 'Old Joe," who tried to defend his
wife's honor. Hopkins struck the Indian
a blow on the temple, knocking him down
and jumped on his head, sinking the nails
of his heavy boots deep into the Indians
After accomplishing their purpose
the murderers went up stairs
and attempted to enter the room
occupied by Carter and his family
Carter told them they could not enter.
They tried to force the door. Carter then
opened the window, and by the aid of the
water spout got his family safely out of the
house and came to the village and notified
the officers. The arrest followed. The
verdict of the Coroner's Jury was that
%4 Ii of tla
hands of Louis E. Hopkins, Lorenzo H.
Turner being accessory to the murder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
WHOLE NUMBER 1858.
THE DAIRY.

With the week ending July 90 the
exports of butter from New York
reached 100 packages, while of oleo-
margarine there were 1,04S packages
exported.
Much may be saved in winter feed
ing by keeping grain straw bright and
clean. It is not a good feed alone, but
its use will enable the farmer to keep
more stock with his grain and hay than
he otherwise would.
1t is common in many quarters to
use any kind of salt for butter, but hn
less the best salt be used the butter will
be inferior and necessarily will sell low.
1t is economical to procure good salt
for such purpose.
We have been asked, when does a
heifer cease to be a heifer and become a
cowP The logical answer to this ques-
ton would seem to be, the day on
which she drops her first calf, but such
is not the common practice. In most
dairies she is looked upon as heifer
until she drops her third calf. To make
it more Ineligible, however, she is
usually called a "heifer in milk, and
this we find to be the case with the
Herd Book of the Island of Jersey.
where she is thus called until she has
her third calf.--American DGirynan.
w. F. Brown, in the Rural NeaO
Yorker, says he ''finds more profit from
the COWS that come in fresh in the fall
than those that are fresh in the spring.
Not only does butter bring better
price, but I think the COWS give more
milk in year under this management,
for Just when they come in to the time
when they would naturally begin te
shrink largely in their milk, they go OF
fresh pastures and increase the flow
while COW that is fresh in the spring
begins to shrink just at the season o.
failing pasture and the transition from
green to dry feed, and a great falling
off of milk is unavoidable.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
Origin of the New Orleans Riot.

NEW ORLEANS, December 16.-J. D.
Houston, now in the Parish Prison, makes
the following statement as chairman of the
executive committee of the campaig:
committee of the McHenry faction of the
Democratic party: SIT was my duty. on the
day of the recent election to receive all
omplaints and visit the various polling
places throughout the city. In the per-
formance of my duty rode in cab alone
to the Seventh Ward poll. During my stay
at the poll a disturbance occurred, follow
ed by pistol shots. Moving from the spot
where the disturbance was going on, and
while walking across Morales street 1 sud-
denly found myself confrontedby Captain
Forties, and within short distance of
him. He held a pistol in his hand and
suddenly, without proyocation warning,
fired point blank at me, the ball striking
my breast fully and squarely and leaving
me under the impression that it had en-
tered my body. Believing myself
wounded, I made an examination as
soon as possible and found that the ball
from Fortier's pistol had struck button on
my vest, crushing it, cutting through one
thickness of the vest and lodging in the
other, causing q severe confusion ON my
chest Learning later in the day that an
order had been issued for my arrest, at
once surrendered"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
More swlndIlnu of Pension Applicants.

WASHINGTON, December 14.-Recently
the Commissioner of Pensions caused the
arrest of DIR. Azel Ames, of Boston, on
charge of defrauding pensioners. Ames
was the President of the Board of Exam
ming Surgeons, and is highly connected.
His case is the first one of the kind
brought to notice. The pension office
has discovered thieying pension agents,
dishonest clerks, and fraudulent pension
ers, but before AmesIwas found hout the
boards Of examining surgeons have been
of a company called the Eagle Odorless
Evacuating Company. Just before an ap-
plicant tor pension was about to receive
his money, Ames would 60 to him and say:
81 would like to have you take some
stock in our company. 1t pays twenty per
cent. and is good investment. Smith
took some stock the other day, and his PEN
sion was allowed the next day" Under
such inducements the unfortunate victim
the Eagle Odorless Company's swindling
Is up in tho thousands. When arrested,
Ames denied that his company was fraud,
and says that he had given advice
to the pensioners to purchase stock,
believing it to be legitimate
investment. The fa1lacy of this
statement was discovered to-day. In
looking up the records the Commissioner
found that an injunction had been made re-
business, by reason of its fraudulent char
ecter. This injunction was sustained by
the Attorney General of Massachusetts,
three years ago, and has never been re-
versed. The Commissioner has a clear case
against Ames, and it is said that the rigid
Investigation that is to be made will in
volvs many prominent people of the Hub.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
The Temperature to Churn.

This is the season of the year when
there are alternate days of heat and
cold with probably the widest range OF
temperature, and most farmers will ex-
perience great deal of trouble churn-
ing. One will lay it to sweet cream,
others to hay feed and . thousand little
causes. The real trouble will be more
easily found if the general principle OF
churning is kept in view. Cream soured
slightly, that is with Just tinge OF
acidity, will churn best in hot weather
at a temperature as low as fiifty-eight
degrees, while the same cream would
churn best in cold weather at as high a
temperature as sixty-five, and this
range should be regulated to meet the
varying weather of spring and fall: We
have never found any material differ
ence in churning sweet cream, though
some factorymen claim that it should
be churned at higher temperature
than sour cream. We think that sweet
cream generally colder when brought
to the churn than sour cream, which
cause has impressed upon the minds of
dairymen that it needs more heating.
When the thermometer is used, as it
always should be, in determining the
exact heat of the cream before it is put
into the churn, we think there will be
no difference found in the time the two
require for bringing the butter.
The great trouble generally in churn-
ing is that that the operator is too care
less in using the thermometer. In hot
weather the cream rapidly increases in
heat, and unless the applied heat for
raising the temperature is quickly
removed there is great danger of too
much heat. In the same way in cold
weather too little heat is retained in the
cream. Another point is to keep the
cream well stirred while heating it, SO
that every part will be of the same
temperature. The art of churning
consists in small points well guarded,
and the man who is careless about
them is Just the one to be always in
trouble and laying the blame to the
wrong cause.
Cream of the proper age brought to
the correct temperature will in any
churn with which we are familiar
always bring the butter in thirty min
utes or less, and any greater time
required is due to some mismanage.
ment. We have run churn for years,
and never had variation of ten min
utes from this time, which has made a
decided skeptic of us on the subject oi
the hand-work with cream from fresh
cows or strippers. The trouble will be
found in the lack of uniform and proper
treatment of the cream, and it is s
waste of time and temper to blame tht
COWS for it.-Ihe Dairy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
Notes,

A vessel containing twenty pounds of
eunpowder with a fuse lying near, was
found at Limerick few nights ago. A
man named Jarvey was arrested on suspi-
cion of having it in charge.
At Moscow an immense throng of poor
people gathered before the house of mer-
chant lately deceased, to receive the money
usually distributed at the demise of
wealthy person. The pressure was so great
that several persons were crushed to death
and four severely injured.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 18th says:
Exchange reports have been published
with regard to the number of executions as
the results of the suppression of the recent
revolt. The total number is only eighteen
-four priests, four merchants, school
master and nine peasants. All these were
taken red-handed. Several were executed
for shooting peasants who refused to join
the revolt.
The English authorities adhere to the
| belief that Hicks PaSha and his army have
| been annihilared. Baker Pasha has re
/ ceived news that there are 10000 Arabs
| within nine miles of Suakim, exclusive oi
those besieging Toka and Sinkat. There i:
| great want of food and forage at Suakim
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Condition af Che crops.


The crop and stock report of the State
Board of Agriculture for the month of De-
cember will give the following per cent,
acreage and condition of wheat, per cent.
and condition of rye and barley, condition
of farm animals, and the per cent. of blood
ed or high grade animals belonging to the
various classes. The figures are based on
returns from about seven hundred town.
ship correspondents:
Wheat-Acres sown for harvest of 1884,
2,626,579; being 81 per cent. of that sown
ior 1888; it's condition compared with last
fall is 102.
Rye-Acreage sown compared with last
fall, SS; condition, 90.
Barley-Acreage compared with last foil,
81; condition, 90.
Cattle-Per cent. of Shorthorns, e5; Here
fords, 2; Devons, g.; Polled Angus, /; Jer-
seys, 10; Ayrshires, 2; Holsteins, 3.
Horses-Thoroughbred 6; roadsters, 10;
general purpose, So; draft, %.
Sheep-Merinos, So; Downs, 16; long
woods, 26.
Swine-Poland China, 46; Berkshires, 27;
Chester Whites, 81; Jersey reds, 6.
Poultry-Egg producers, 81; meat pro-
ducers, 40.
Condition of farm animals, compared
with last fall, 81.
The Value of Property and the Rates of
Taxation in Ohio Cities.
The following figures are taken from the
forthcoming report of the Auditor of State,
and the valuation of city property, rates of
taxation, etc., in some of the principal cities
of the State:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-20
Another Pension Confidence Game.

WASHINGTON, December 16.-Another
confidence game practiced by dishonest
pension attorneys here has come to light.
it helps to explain in part the flood of re-
lief bills at the opening OF the
bill day from claim agent in the city
fifty of this class of bills, with
request that he should in
troduce them. The member in this
case returned them, with positive refusal.
The manner in which claim agents oper-
ate in such matters as this is shown by a
letter which a pensioner returned here,
with statement showing how he had been
misused. 1t was from n. W. Fitzgerald
& Co., and read as follows:
"We are now ready to introduce bill in
your case into Congress upon the receipt of
twenty-five dollars, our usual fee in such
cacac -