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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
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A RAILWAY train from Paris for Constan.
tinople was thrown from the track near
Verciorova, on the 25th, several carriages
demolished and many persons killed and
wounded.
SIMEON CHARLES HADLEY, Alderman for
the Castle Bayard Ward, has been elected
Lord Mayor of London.
THE International Arbitration and Peace
Association at Paris has issued an address
to the people of France, urging that media
tion be resorted to for the settlement of the
dispute between France and China. The
address suggests America or Switzerland
for arbitrator.
IT is stated that James McDermott, who
was recently ordered to be discharged
from custody, refused to quit the London
prison unless police protection is afforded
him, as he fears he will be murdered
unless the authorities make provision for
his safety.
In connection with tie recent arrests of
Russian army officers implicated in Mill
ist plots, a large depot has been discovered
at Charkoff, containing arms, gunpowder,
dynamite bombs, and printing apparatus.
In the O'Donnell trial at London on the
2Sth, Mrs. Carey, wife of the murdered in.
former, corroborated the testimony of her
son that O'Donnell said after the shooting,
''Don't blame me; 1 was sent to do it,"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Business cards of We lines or less. 50 per annum
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A Sunday-school boy combated
with his teacher, holding that the world
being round, could have no end.-Tti-
ea9o Times.
The Board of Missions of the
Methodist Protestant Church have pur-
chased mission buildings in Yoko-
hama, and intend to push the work in
that country. !,
Mr.. John Wanamaker has added
one more to his many benefactions to
the Young Mems Christian Associations
by giving the Philadelphia Association
10000 to pay off its floating debt. The
entire amount of the debt, 5000, 900,
was made up by other subscribers
PHILADELPHIA Press.
No man has really got religion, as
the cant phrase runs, until it seriously
affects the eye and ear. The religious
eve has hsd all the greenness OF ieal-
ousy and envy washed out of it, and the
religious ear listens only to the good
that is told of ones neighbors and is as
deaf as an adder to what is bad---N
7. Herald. i
Grace Reformed Church, Easton<
Pa, was called upon recently to curb
and pave the street in front of its prop
erty, and asi is not rich organization
and could not afford to hire the work
done, the members pluckily did all the
job themselves at night, by torchlight,
the pastor himself taking conspicuous
part in the novel scene, which lasted tor
thrss nights. Pittsburgh Post. !
Rev. William P. Paxson, Superin-
tendent of the Southwestern depart
AZ
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
What 1t Means.

The cry the Republican party must
90 says concisely what thinking men
feel.
1t means more than at first appears
At the outset, observe: Not Repub-
licans, but the Republican party, must
go.
Not intolerance of men, but of meth
ods; not hatred of principles, but of
power abused; not prejudice against a
party for what it has been, but con-
tempt foriwhat it is, is the meaning.
1t is not vindictive; it is not narrow
minded. 1t expresses truth.
Long continuance in power is fatal to
any party. We do not attempt to trace
the steps of this inevitable decay. We
do seek that this decay of a mere party
shall by no means corrupt the body
polite. We find disease. We seek
health.
There is no hope for the Republican
party in itself 1t must 60. The salt
has lost its SAVIOR Is there Sumner,
or Greeley, or Phillips, or Lin
giving the life of his great spirit to
party councils? The grand old party
has outlived its vigor Old, but no
lOugGE SIdUOl, IL lullSG ~. DOISOyo . bi'
Bradys, Belknaps and Babcocks, How
gates and Shepherds, Kelloggs and Ma
homes, Robesons and Chambers, are the
men who, in spirit or in person, rule.
For what does it exist?
The great mass of its own nominal
adherents have lost faith in it. Thou
sands whose lives have been spent in its
service see that its usefulness is past.
Well for this party if its history had
closed before 1876. In the eight years
past who will sum up the losses of the
Republican party? Men of conscience,
men of honesty, have been compelled
to leave it. Patience has ceased to be
virtue. Place-holders may call it
presumption, vindictive, unmeaning
prejudice The war-horse style of ora
tors may begin their charges as of old.
But the times have changed and the
people with them. Hypocrisy must go.
Whoever is deceived is deceived will
ingly.
The Republican party must CO.
Albany Argms.'
"A little girl, the Chicago Tribune
says, unconsciously and touchingly tes-
titled to the excessive drudgery of hel
mothers life when, ON being asked: s'Is
she gray?" she replied: 81 don't know
she's too tall for me to see the top o.
| her head, and she never sits down"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Boston girls never giggle. They
merely express their delight by
dreamy, far-away, north-pole smile--
Chicago Times stt
-s.You must be quarrelsome fel-
low," said phrenologist to man
whose bump he was examining. "Say
that again and I'll knock you down" /"
was the response.-M Y. Nesos.
"A Southern gentleman has trained
a pair of pet snakes to catch mice.
His premises are free from mice, and
the snakes are family pets, taking food
from the hand fearlessly.-.Oesron
Post.
Young George Vanderbilt, fourth
son of the millionaire, wants to be a
newspaper reporter. There it crops
out again-the natural, educated and
hereditary greed for gold; the insatia-
BILE thirst for wealth, the passion for
amassing millions by the easiest and
quickest methods, and reaching a fabu-
lous competence by the shortest ways.
It's family trait.-Bur5ingtos Ha1oS-
eye. 5sa e ef
To Oscar I
Over the sundering sea, whose wind-biown
Sweeps backward to his home a fond adieU, :.
Comes a tall stranger; once by much the
Esthcte in England. Though the hair is CUT
Round his mild face, even the stern slfampo0
will not wear out the brains that yet reniatN-
In former times our voice must pierce Do
Locks that hung thick as the white winter
Down the calm front of sheep on stormy leA,i
Ere we could guess what treasure there lay
Life. !
"A Concord school philosopher has
shown that '.reality signifies existence.
in and for the world of phenomena,
while actuality is reality, plus possible
ity of potentiality. That's plain
enough now. These Concord philoso-.
pliers are pretty smart, but we don't
believe they can tell the age of dough-
nut from the corrugated appearance OF
it's back.-Norristo,c Herald.
Il brought my aunt inter the city
to-day to show 'er round" said a rustic
to a Boston police officer, "and she's
got kinder tired walkin', SO l wanter
find some place where she kin sit down
an rest bit an have bite of suthing
to eat Kin yer direct me ter any placer"
Certainly" responded the representa-
tive of Boston's aesthetic and literary
police force ''What you want is rest
your aunt. Go right into that eating
saloon" The pair went in--Boston
Transcript.
Mr.. Brown took home a splendid
doll one da.y for his little d.ughter. 1t
was provided with that wonderful piece
of mechanism which enabled it, on be-
ing squeezed, to emit the squeaking
sound supposed to initiate the human
| voice, so dear to childhood. That same
evening the little puss was sitting on
her fathers knee, and several times
pressed her small fist upon her parents
shirt front. Producing no effect, she
looked up in the paternal face, saying:
Papa" "Yes. What is it, my child?'
he replied. "Why don't you squeak,
papae" e"--Harper' Bazar.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
ROtten-BOrOugh Element Of the Repub-
lican Party.

Republican papers of the North are
beginning to discuss the question of
the negro vote at the South with some
sense of the real importance and diff
Guilty of the problem they thrust on the
country some fifteen years ago. ALI.
that was charged by the white people
of the negro States as to the debased
and debasing methods of the carpet
baggers who went South to reconstruct
that section is now freely confessed.
That the practices then pursued and the
influences eyerted over the negroes pre-
vented the inception and retarded the
growth of right ideas in the minds of
the blacks, and added greatly to the
perils of the critical periods succeeding
the war, is no longer denied, But
what most disturbs the Republican
mind is the condition now of the Repub-
lican party in that quarter of the Union.
Under the teachings of the dominant
party and as necessity of universal
suffrage, every State must be entitled
to representation in conventions as in the
Legislative branch of the Government,
according to population. The Repub-
lican party of the South, which has no
moral weight, and can, in fact, contrib
ute no votes to aid the Northern wing
of that political organization, neverthe-
less holds the balance of power in con-
ventions and committees, and is potent
in naming candidates and settling poll
cies. The Southern contingent of the
Republican party is composed of ne
groes led by renegade, untrustworthy
whites. With rare exceptions there has
been no intelligent and honest white
element in the Republican party of the
negro States. 1t has been a combina-
tion of ignorance and chicanery. Ex-
traordinary exertions have been made
10 create diversion of the capable
white race from the Democratic ranks.
But up to this time these have been sig
nal failures. Every movement has been
pied men, and SO managed as to fall
into the contempt of good citizens of
all sections. The material offering in
the South for the Republican leaders
and the Administration to work on, it
must be confessed, has been meager
and Indifferent, but the use to which it
has been put has been SO Objectionable
that disoraceful failure ought TO have
been apparent from the outset. Malone,
Chalmers, Cash and that class of men,
sche mers, tricksters and office-seekers,
are no more capable of building up a Re-
publican party in the South, or any per-
maDent etfectual opposition to the
Democratic party, than the carpet-bag-
gers were, whom they succeed. The
| situation is disturbing. not to say dis
tressing, to the better class of Northern
Republicans. They have caught the
wolf, and now cry out for somebody to
help them let it go. The delegations
from the negro States in the National
| Conventions of the party wieid one
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
residence in Ogden few days ago. Cause


OWEN UFTRRsAck, prominent farmer,
was shot and killed on his farm in Pike
County, Mo-, few days ago. Footprints
in corn-field were traced to the house of
Wesley Collins, between whom and Utter
back there was bitter feeling. Collins
was arrested.
HENRY STEWART, wealthy farmer of
Washington County, N. Y, killed himself
on the 26th. Poor health.
AT East Saginaw, Mich, few days ago,
John F. Sweeney, proprietor of the a.
Julien restaurant, drew revolver without
the slightest provocation and shot Jacob
Hauser, a freight conductor on the Flint
and Perre Marquette Railroad, producing d
fatal injury.
AT Abingdon, Washington County, Va,
on the 2Sth, Emert Gilmore, colored, and
David Duff, white, quarreled. Gilmore at
tempted to shoot Duff, but was prevented.
Duff then went off, procured pistol, re-
turned and shot Gilmore dead. Duff was
arrested.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
LATEST NEWS.

THE Coroner's Jury in the Rose Amber
case have found that she came to her death
by being choked by some unknown person,
but with suspicion pointing strongly to-
ward Lewis.
EXCITED members of the Catholic Church
at Nanticoke, Pa, met their priest, Rev.
Father Grameurs, at the door of the church
on the 30th, and refused to allow him to
enter to say mass, because of financial
mismanagement.
THE Boston newspaper dealers have
adopted resolutions agreeing to maintain
the former prices of the New York daily
papers. The New York and Brooklyn
newsdealers have announced their inten-
tion to do the same.
JOHN CANTwELL, farmer living near
Celina, O., on the 10Th instantly killed his
wife by shooting her through the head
and then buried two bullets in his own
brain.
A CRIPPLED fireman on the Cincinnati,
Wabash and Michigan road has obtained
a verdict against the company for $1,000
damages on the ground that the accident
in which he was hurt was due to the road
being out of repair.
FANNIE BRYANT, who has passed as the
wife of DR.. o. E. Newton, has followed
the Doctors example by committing sui
eide at Pittsburg, Pa. Some years ago,
when DIR. Newton was a successful practi-
TONER in Cincinnati, Fannie Bryant be-
came his copyist. An intimacy grew up
between them which caused a separation
between the Doctor and his wife. In COM
mitting suicide Fannie said she was fulfill
ing promise made to the Doctor that she
would poison herself and follow him.
THREE thousand Orangemen paraded the
streets of Omagh, Ireland, on the Goth, and
at meeting adopted resolutions denounc-
ing the Irish National League. The reso-
lutions condemned the inaction of the
English Government toward the League,
and announced the determination of the
Orangemen to oppose its designs. Rioting
is expected.
REV. HENRY PoLETHoRP HAY, late rector
of the Parish of Rosemont, in Philadel
phia, has been suspended by his Bishop for
travelling with young lady belonging to
his parish and passing her off as his sister.
THE Gentlemen's Driving Park, New
York, was crowded to the danger limit on
the 29th by the eager thousands WHO had
gone out to witness the great trotting race
between Jay-Eye-See and st. Julien. The
track was heavy, and Chase, the owner OF
the colt, wanted the race postponed, be-
lieving the conditions were in the old
horses's favor. The betting was one hun
dred to sixty dollars, and in some cases one
hundred to forty dollars in favbr of st. Ju-
lien. To the surprise all the colt won
three straight heats, the first by a nose and
the other two by half length. The time
was 2:20%, 2:1SK, and 2:20.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Notes.

=. W. CLASSIC, an attorney of Washing
ton, has been debarred from practicing be.
fore the Interior Department., on account
of irregular practices.
MRS. CAMERON, wife of the Pennsylvania
Senator, writes to relative in Washington
that her husbands health is SO much i'm
proved that they will probably sail for
home in November.
JUDGE RAY, Chief of the Division of
Postal Laws and Regulation of the Post
office Department, rendered his resignation
to the Postmaster General on the 9th. No
cause for the resignation is stated
SINCE September 10 the Postoffice Depart
ment has issued 102, 2,6O5,0O0 new two cent
postage stamps.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
The Infiuence OF On Unon Haxes.

Reports of B. G. Sparrow, Superintend-
snt of the Second Lifesaving District,
ander whose direction experiments were
recently made in the use of oil for calming
rough sea, have been presented to Super
intendent Kimball, of the Lifesaving Ser
vice at Washington. Experiments were
made with view of determining to what
sxtent oil could be used as an auxiliary
agent by the Lifesaving Service, and the
conclusion deduced from them is that oil
sxerts no influence upon the sea that breaks
upon the shore. He adds that the printed
and verbal statements made by mariners
who have used it furnish conclusive evil
dence that in deep water oil has calming
effect on the sea.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Trouble for Rettred ARMY om,e,...

The Second Comptroller of the Treasury
has rendered decision that officers who
were restored to the army by Executive or
der are not entitled to be placed on the re-
tired list. The Courts will be called upon to
review the decision. The decision affects
General Daniel E. Sickles and Captain
Adam Badeau, both of whom are held to be
out of the army by reason of having &C.
cepted diplomatic positions; Major Beni.P.
Runkle, who was restored by President
Hayes; Assistant. Surgeon BENZ. F. Pope.
restored by President Johnson, and a mum.
Der of others.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04

Convention met in Springfield on the Goth,
and nominated the following State ticket:
For Governor, Gen. Ben. Butler; Lieuten-
ant Governor, Frederick O.. Prince; Secre-
tary of State, Chas. Marke; Treasurer and
Receiver General, Cabily H. ingalls,; At
torney General, John W. Cummings; Aud
itor, John Hopkins. General Butler was
nominated by reclamation. The platform
adopted states that their party looks for
ward to the campaign with a calm assur-
ance of victory. The State and National
principles of the Democratic party were
reaffirmed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
A Protest Against Buffers Action

Ex-Governor Talbot, Chairman of the
Massachusetts, State Board of Health and
Charity, under date of September 21 writes
Governor Butler, stating that the latter's
demand for certain cash books and ledger
relating to accounts of the Superintendent
of Outdoor Poor, has been referred to him,
and he (Talbot) declines to deliver them
because the Governor has no legal author
ity to demand them. Talbot also requests
the return of ten books of records Of the
board, which the Governor got possession
of some time ago, and has since had sew
eral persons examining. Talbot protests
against such ex-parte investigation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Suicides and SIurdera.

LYMAN BLAIR, a Chicago millionaire,
committed suicide on the 25th by shooting
himself. His mind had become unbalanced
and for a month he had believed he was in
destitute circumstances.
RICHARD CURRIE shot and killed his
wife at Boston on the morning of the 25th,
because she refused to live with him on
account of his drunken habits. He was
arrested.
j. NJ. BARLOW, express messenger on the
Utah Northern Railway, suicided at his
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04

The ceremony of receiving Sitting Bull,
the great Indian chief, into the Catholic
Church, (which it was anticipated would take
place during the latter part of September,
has been indefinitely postponed, because
Sitting Bull can not make. up his mind
which of his two wives he will surrender.
The forms of the Church forbid commu-
meant to have more than one. Bishop
Morty has had him under his care for sew
eral months, and his instructions were be-
ing rapidly absorbed by the Chief, but sep
aration from one of his wives proved too
much, and he will probably return to
heathenism.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
National woo1.arower's Association.

At the meeting of the National Wool
Growers Association at Chicago on the
26th, resolutions were adopted declaring
the tarff rates on imported woods should,
at the earliest opportunity, be restored to
what they were before the late reduction;
that State, district and county associations
and wool growers in all the States should
use every endeavor to secure the efforts of
their Senators and Representatives to that
end, and that Congress be called on to
make the restoration. Hon. Columbus
Delano, of Ohio, was elected President Of
the association.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04

third of the power of the party. This
power is in the hands OF the Federal
office holders of that section as abso-
1utely as the Offices they hold. 1t is
perpetual menaee to the enlightened
portion of the party and to those who
will not or can not resort to boss rule
and machine methods. Journals and
leaders are becoming very outspoken in
tfieir determinations not to be ruled by
this essentially fotter-b borough element
of their party: But what can they dep
What is their remedyP No answer
worthy of any consideration has yet
been ofered.-St. Loatis Republican.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
aeprodu.ine Burned Records.

The clerical force of the General Land
Office at Washington is working night and
day reproducing the records of the Office of
the Surveyor-Generalo of Washington Ter
ritory, which were entirely destroyed by
are on the morning of September II. The
cost to the Government will be, as esti-
mated. by the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, about $4,000. Among the
papers destroyed were large number of
original donation claim papers that can not
be produced, entailing upon the parties in
interest litigation to the full value of the
land in question.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Airing ors.mb1cr, I'm st.'1ou.,.

The st. Louis Grand Jury made report
few days ago in which they stated that
ring existed in that city, formed of gamblers
and notorious individuals, who used money
and threats to corrupt the police and other
officials. They report that the Police Com
missioners had given blank designations,
which were made use of. They further de-
clare that Governor Crittenden has the
power and it is his duty to investigate the
matter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
The Journey with De LONGS Body.

Inc Journey WITH De Lohg's Body.
1t is expected at the Navy Department
that Lieutenant Harleer, who was sent to
Siberia to assist in the Jeanette search,
md who was afterwards ordered to bring
70 America the bodies of Lieutenant De-
Long, DIR. Amber and Jerome Collins, will
leave Irkoutsk about the 1st of November
next, and will reach the United States with
the bodies some time in January.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Three Colored muraerer. Hanged.

Sawney Younger, Reuben King and Isaac
Evans, negroes, were hanged at Chatham,
Va, on the 2Sth, for the murder of VIM. F.
Sheppard in August. Only fifteen persons
were allowed to witness the execution. ALI
three died protesting their innocence. Two
of them sold their bodies to physicians, and
sent the money to their mothers
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Fatal Boiler ExpIosson,

The boiler of the steamboat, J. S. Robin
son, lying in the harbor at Albany, N. Y,
exploded on the 2Sth, killing Captain
Warner and two other men and injuring
several others. Three boats lying along
side the Robinson were wrecked by the ex-
plosion, but none of their crews were in
jured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Accident 10 a CIrcus Train.

The railroad train bearing John B. Doris
circus, was thrown from the track near
Bonneville, Mo-, on the 9th, causing DAM
age amounting to $4,000. Twelve horses
were killed and many others wounded.
Two splendid chariots, valued at $1,000
each, were ruined. Two brothers named
Thomas, employees of the circus, who were
sleeping in one of the chariots, were badly
injured, and one of the men is reported to
be dangerously hurt
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
A Conndence shark,s sIoo, 600 PLAY.

An English confidence shark went from
Liverpool to Montreal few weeks ago
and began business as produce shipper to
England. By system Of forged drafts
and bills of lading he succeeded in getting
advances from number of the prominent
banks of the country amounting to over
$100, 900, and on the 9th absconded. De-
tectives are after him, and a large reward
has been offered for his capture. 1t is
thought he is in hiding somewhere in the
East, -,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
DOMESTIC.
Indicted for Embezz,Inr ss7. GOO.

The Grand Jury at Philadelphia on the
26th found true bill of Indictment against
Stephen s. Price, charging him with the
embezzlement of $s7, 1900, as executor of the
estate of Thomas Richardson.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Ru.ine,. Fa,Iure. for tbe v..L

The business failures for the week end
ing the 2sth, as reported to R. G. Dunn &
Co., of New York number $50, as compared
to 1SS the week previous. Important disas
ters in the clothing trade of New York
were the main features.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-04
Civil Right. Inarheater

Manager L. Degive, of Degive's Upera-
house, at Atlanta, Ga, was arrested on the
9th at the instigation Of w. D. Moore.
colored, who was elected from the Opera
house last winter for insisting on sitting
among white people.