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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
The Ohio Avalanche.

AS we have already declared, the ex-
plantations that the Republicans had
prepared in advance to soothe their
party and mislead the world, in the
event of defeat, do not fit the situation
as it now stands, yet we see them forced
into duty, all the same. The Journal
tell its readers that "the result is due
entirely to the active efforts of the adj
vocates of the Prohibitory Amendment,
which reused the liquor interest to put
forth the most desperate efforts to carry
the election during the last two weeks
of the campaign" We doubt if the
Journal succeeds in getting that be-
lieved even by those who have believed
q great many wonderful statements and
theories appearing in its columns. 1t
certainly will not be believed by any
who have the intelligence and have
taken the trouble to analyzc the returns
and see for themselves their real signifi-
canoe. That is the way that the Re-
count for defeat, we know; but when
the defeat came it was unexpected in
its character and strange in its features.
The Republicans expected that their
great gains were to be made in the
y,
be wrought by the Prohibitory Amend
in the cities. If their premises
the inevitable conclusion, of course.
But the premises were false, and while,
after almost superhuman efforts and
prodigal expenditures of money where
it would be likely TO do the most good,
hn nf
duced in the cities; the rural districts
that were depended upon to greater
extent to take care of themselves gave
prise party. 1t will do the Republicans
no good to ignore the particular char
acter of their defeat. Many of them
were astounded by the defeat, but
more of them, if they face the facts
niiicance. Local issues did not come
into consideration to any great extent.
In fact, before the returns were all in,
jubilant on account of the gains they
were making lover the Rhine" Evil
IDENTIFY, the people have been doing
some thinking in their quiet rural
homes the past year, and the result of
their meditations is shown in the cleo
ton of Hoadly and Democratic
Legislature. We regard the vote of
Ohio as a vote of confidence in the
Democratic party, without any Ifs :"
or " butts" about it, and we believe
that it will be strengthened by 1884.
At least, Ohio can no longer be
placed in the unquestioned Republican
column. She belongs in the list of
doubtful Presidential States, with the
probabilities just now decidedly favor.
able to the Democrats, Post,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Naiex.

MIFFLIN ELMER BELL, of Des Moines,
Iowa, has been appointed Supervising Ar
resigned.
THERE are over ten thousand dogs in
Washington, eight thousand of which pay
no tax. The District Commissioners have
determined to include the tax of two dol
lars on each dog on the bill of every tax
payer. Those owning dogs who are not
taxpayers will be prosecuted.
The War Department has issued an
order appointing Court of Inquiry to in
vestigate the cause of the failure of the
Greeley relief expedition.
The formal transfer of the command
of the army from General Sherman
to General Sheridan took place at
Washington on the 1st without ceremony.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
French Women Addicted to Twilight.

Parisians are always thorough in their
hobbies, and if they somewhat overdo
the medieval or whatever style they
affect, and crowd their rooms inconven-
iently, their choice is on the whole made
worthily, and bad limitations of old mod.
els are very carefully eschewed. Per-
haps the worst specimens of bad taste
are manifest in stained-glass windows,
for whereas individuals here and there
get hold of fine bits of stained glass
The spoil of some ruined church or alb
bey-the far greater number have re-
sorted to modern productions, often
crude and inharmonious enough. This
filling in of window frames with semi
opaque instead of transparent glass diff
fuses dim. uncertain light through
many Partisan drawing the
introduction of stained glass is by no
means reserved for the back premises,
as in London-and as matter of course
the short window curtain, hanging
against the glass Uitrage-it is called
here-is suppressed. English men and
women would not readily submit to
dwell in the mysterious half light of a
Gothic aisle; but French women
are rather addicted to twilight,
especially when they have sought
to make up for the irreparable
outrage of time with cosmetics, and
even those who are by no means afraid
of appearing in the broad light of day
when out of doors, are nevertheless par
tial to half measures at home. When
they do not go in for stained glass they
drape the windows very closely with
lace and embroidery, sometimes COM
bined with thin colored silk; and if they
possess a bay, studio, or gallery win
dow, it is hung with awhile or crimson
silk blind, gathered in billowy drape-
ries by means of a complicated arrange
ment of cords. The plain white linen
blind which does duty in so many Lon
don mansions would be considered an
absurdly primitive article here. Fig
ured muslin and machine lace is the
simplest material permissible for the
purpose, and some of these are very
handsome limitations of the old Cluny
and Venetian point, while the more
costly are in machine or hand embroid-
cry, with the monogram or family
crest worked. in the center. Even the
| figured muslin sometimes exhibits
| heraldic devices woven to order, as
| they are in tablecloths and napkins, a
bit of extravaganza not dreamed of out
of France, l should think, where beau
| tiful house linen is held in sort of ven
Grafton, and young woman on her
marriage is often provided with enough
| to last her her life and set up one
daughter in housekeeping for the least.
-Paris Cor. London Telegraph.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Sued for n Reward.

During the last state campaign in Penn
sylvania, W. U. Hensel, Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, circulated
hand-bills in every city and village in the
Commonwealth offering a reward of one
thousand dollars for the arrest and convic-
tion of any person or persons violating the
Pennsylvania election laws. B. ]. Will
mouth, a detective, caused the arrest of
two repeaters, who pleaded guilty before
the Court. The detective now brings suit
against the Democratic Chairman for the
one thousand dollars reward.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

PEOPLE are often unable to under
stand why well, isolated on a farm, may
contain impure water, and do not take
into account the filthy cesspools which
may be in the immediate neighborhood.
Of record is a family all stricken down
with typhoid fever simultaneously, and
it began to be suspected that the water
supply might be contaminated. In
quIry was accordingly made, and this
established the fact that sewage matter
was constantly percolatingdnto the well
from an adjacent stable and manure
heap. xs
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
The PablIc Debt Statements.
The following is the Public Debt Stat
Fit.geraId's indignation.

W. W. Fitzgerald, the suspended Wash
publication at Washington of a paper
called the Citizen Soldier, through which
he proposes to present his grievances to
the public. In its issue of the Sd he ar
raigns in scathing terms the great dailies,
which he claims have given publicity to the
charges against him and aided in his perse-
cution at the command of monopolies who
want all the money. He wants his clients,
the soldiers, to know that the attacks upon
him is an attack upon them. He assures
them he intends to sdie with the harness
on and fighting under the old flag,"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Rnnk suina,er Ar,a,ted.

A young man giving the name of Nourse
was arrested at st. Louis on the ID for at
tempting to swindle the Commercial Bank
of that city. The plan was to deposit $500
and in day or two draw it nearly all out,
then deposit a draft for large amount
and check against it. The draft in this
case was for $4,000, from the Merchants
National Bank of Evansville, Ind, on the
Leather Manufacturers Bank of New
York. When Nourse called with a check
for So, 800 he was arrested.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Starving ON an I.land.

The schooner, Henry Dervish, which ar
rived at Key West, Fla, ,on the 1st, reports
that as she was passing Swan Island, oc-
tober "a, she was boarded by boat asking
for provisions. The island people, four
teen in number, had nothing but wild hogs
and cocoa nuts, and had no ammunition
with which to shoot the hogs. The schoon-
er supplied provisions that will probably
last ten days. The people were expecting
a vessel from Baltimore with provisions,
but if nothing has passed since, they are
starving for food.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
sn..Hi. sten.mother.

John Collins, son of E. K. Collins,
large steambo at owner of New York, has
brought suit for $5O, 900 for false imprison-
mont and malicious prosecution against
his step-mother, Mrs. Sarah ]. Collins. He
claims that she secured his arrest on a
charge of perjury, in May last, for the pur-
pose of deterring him from contesting his
fathers will, by which the greater portion
of his property was bequeathed to her.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

Miss Aggie Hill, claiming to be Mrs.
Sharon, has brought suit in the Superior
Court at San Francisco against Senator
Sharon for divorce, division and COM
munity of property, and alimony. Her
claims are based on willful desertion and
repeated acts of adultery. She says when
she married the Senator he was deeply in
debt, with property only worth $5,OOO,OOO,
but under their joint management as man
and wife the Senator is now worth $4,000
600. She asks that the value of their COM
mon property may be determined and
equally divided.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

A BURGLAR entered the house of a
respectable citizen in Cheshire, England,
few days ago, and stole considerable
amount of jewelry and money. He was
traced through the pawnshops by the
police and arrested, and proved to be a
brother of the man whose house had
heen rObbed
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Life sentenc. for ForEe,y.

"Steve', Raymond, for the forgery OF
coupons OF the Union Pacific Railway
bonds, was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life at New York on the 1st. The pris-
oner is a noted thief and forger, and has
passed twenty-five years already in con-
finement for various crimes; indictments,
trials, convictions, sentences and weary
terms of Imprisonment have made up the
total of his life since boyhood. The Judge,
in sentencing him, said the penalty was
severe, but under the new code in that
State forgery was punished by life inn
prisonment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

COMPLAINT is made regarding the
postal notes that the color of the face is
of two shades of yellow, while the back
is shade of green. The combination
affects the eyes badly, and two cases
have been reported where clerks have
been temporarily incapacitated for serv-
ice by the strain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Po.tna.ter Gresham su.talned.

1t is authoritatively stated that the
President has decided to sustain the action
of Postmaster General Gresham in the
New Orleans National Bank case. The
decision of the President is in answer to
the petition of large number of mer-
chants, bankers and others of New Or
leans, who protested against the recent
decree of the Postoffice Department in the
lottery case, which decided that long as
the National Bank in question acted as
agent for the lottery company just SO long
as that Of the lottery company which it
represented.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

John W. Eyster, Giles Russell, Fred c.
Kilsy and Charles Brown, prominent young
men of Erie, Pa, attempted to cross the
lake during a gale on the I'd when their
boat capsized and all were drowned.
Search for their bodies was unsuccessful.
Their sailboat was found. on the beach with
a hole in its side.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

EUGENE O'NEIL, an ex-detective in
the Phenix Park murder case, having
cut his throat with blunt razor, says
he was driven to attempt suicide by the
persecution of Fenians, who so blast ed
his character that even the Salvation
Army rejected him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

OYSTER dealers say the demand is
enormous and prices viii probably ad-
vance. Everybody eats oysters now.
Even with the poorest families fried and
stewed oysters are common dishes.
Railroads carry them into all parts Of
the country, and grocers in small inte-
rior towns have out signs Oysters in
Ru1k'f
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

a the 1st while Q number sf child
rem were gathering kindling wsod. John
Laws, aged eleven, and Eliza ]. Barnes,
nine years, were killed; Louis Lacomb,
eight years, was fatally injured, and a
carpenter was severely hurt. Suit will be
brought fer damages against the contract
ors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
FOREIGN.
The Alleged work OF Fenians.

Two mysterious explosions occurred on
the 29th at nearly the same time In the
tunnels traversed by two of the London
underground railways. Forty persons
were injured, some of them dangerously.
No satisfactory explanation has been Of
fered as to the cause of the explosions, but
they are generally believed to be of Fenian,
origin. Trains were passing the points
where the explosions occurred, and the
persons injured were passengers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Terriac ConnaEratIen in sa1annah.

A fire broke out in warehouse in Sa-
vannah, Ca, on the 81st, and got beyond
control of the Fire Department.. Three
hundred houses, covering a radius of half
mile square, were destroyed, together with
three thousand bales of cotton. The loss is
estimated at $1,0oO,O0O, with insurance
aggregating less than half that amount.
Most of the houses burned were occupied
by colored people, three of whom are known
TO have perished, and it is believed the
number will be raised to ten. Fifteen hun
dred people are rendered homeless and des-
titute.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

The Philadelphia Ledger calls atten-
ton to the fact that Congress and the
President were warned against the dan
gers of polygamous Mormonism, in an
official report on the survey of Great
Salt Lake, by Lieutenant Stansbury
thirty wears ago.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

DURING the year 1881 80 there were
2S7 disasters to vessels within the field
of United States life-saving station oper-
ations. There were 2,270 persons on
board these vessels, of whom 2, 25S were
saved and only twelve lost.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

AN English flour seller was recently
fined one hundred dollars for adultera-
ting flour with alum to the extent of
thirty grains to the pound. A medical
officer testified that the daily use Of
bread from this flour would soon result
in permanent and serious injury to
health.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
senatorT.bor Win,H M. x,,,

The celebrated case of ex-senator Tabor
VS.. William H. Bush, until recently his
confidential adviser and business partner,
for $50, 900 balance of account, has just con-
cluded in the Superior Court at Denver,
COL, with a verdict for Tabor of nearly
1000. In reaching the verdict Bush's
counter claims of $4,000 for aiding Tabor
to procure divorce, and several others,
aggregating $1S,S0O, were not allowed.
Bush will appeal
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
AYouthfuI Forger.

Hugh N. Goldsmith, the nineteen-year:
old son of Hon. j. NJ. Goldsmith. of Stone
Mountain, Ga, was arrested at Macon on
the 1st, charged with forging his fathers
name to q check for five hundred dollars.
When arrested he had made all arrange
ments to elope to Texas with a prominent
young lady of Macon.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

persons and the injury Of twenty-seven
others, rendered a verdict censuring the
engineer department for negligence and
the railroad Superintendent for allowing
heavy trains to cross at the rate of fifteen
miles an hour, and the Chief Engineer for
allowing the bridge to go without inspec-
tion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

ENGLISH doctors say tea drinking is
causing more mental and physical dis
eases than beer drinking. French doc
tors are reported as saying exactly the
same thing, except that .'wine'' is sub
stituted for the word '.beer."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Railroad Labore.. Indulge In a Riot.

Twenty-one railroad laborers employed
on the Schylkill branch of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, at Gibraltar, five miles
from Pittsburg, were paid off on the I'd
and discharged because they were rebel
ious and demanded higher wages. They
got drunk, intimidated other laborers and
tried to persuade them not to work. Next
day they attacked the laborers' quarters,
tore down shanties and broke and destroyed
everything they could lay their hands on.
Aman and woman was assaulted and badly
injured. The rioters were arrested.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

Nev.paper, ReducInr Price.

The Post and Tribune and the Free Press,
the two morning dailies published at De-
troit, Mich, on the 1st announced a reduc-
tion in price from ten dollars per year to
seven dollars, and from five cents per
single copy to three cents. No reduction
IL Fiade in the size of the papers or in the
am6unt of reading matter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

THE rage in the family for antique
crockery led to the finding by st.
Louis man of his grandfather's whisky
Jug, which was slowed away in the
garret. The jug was not empty, and
the lucky finders cup of bliss was full.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

AMERICAN players and authors are
becoming as popular in England as Eng
lish players are m America. Therefore
we may expect soon to see it fashiona-
BILE to appreciate American genius at
homo
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Texa. Negroes DIssati.Hed,

Adjutant General King reports the
negroes of Texas dissatisfied with exclu-
sive cars for their accommodation, and says
the train men on the Texas Central, where
that system has just been inaugurated, are
compelled to take colored people out of the
cars assigned to whites. They desire ad-
mission to the cars occupied by whites
when they pay the same money.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
NEWS EPITOME
Of the Important Events of the Week.
AT WASHINGTON.
Report orthe Utah Com mission.

Report ofthe Utah Com mission.
The Utah Commissioners made their
annual report to the Secretary of the In
terror on the 30th. Under the anti-Poly-
gamy Act the Commission had COED success
at the general election of Auguss, 1888, in
excluding polygamy from the polls, and
very few illegal votes have been cast in
Utah since the commission took charge of
the registrations and elections in August,
1882. They claim, however, that unless the
monogamic Mormon Legislature shall en-
act laws which will carry out the Ed
munds Act in its spirit, and provide for
the disfranchisement of polygamists, Sc
we're measures should be adopted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

Now we are informed why Berlin
ladies of fashion will not buy dresses in
Paris. 1t is not on account of political
prejudice, but because they can get bet
ter bargains at home. That's business.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

IT is estimated that the vote of Ohio.
for President next year will be in the
neighborhood of 100000. In 1872 it
was 529, ,49s; in 1876 it was 659, III; and
in 1880 it was 724,967.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Tvo Ye,..I. sunk-Lo.. Of Life.

The steamer Holyhead, from Dublin, col
lided with the German steamer Alhambra
bound from Liverpool to New York, in the
channel twenty miles off Holyhead, on the
31st. Both vessels Immediately sank. The
Alhambra's entire crew and two of the
Holyhead's were drowned. A later dis
patch states that sixty persons were drown
ed
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Sent to a..,..inate BI.narck,

A man named Piot vwski has been ar
rested at Dirschau charged with being
sent by the Nihilists to murder Bismarck.
Piotrowsisi said he was a Russian actor,
that the Nihilistsfprovfded him with money
to travel to Dantzic, via Riga, and that his
money had been stolen from him at Dant-
zic. An instrument for injecting morphia
and Nihilist poem were found upon the
prisoner. He confessed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
Bu.ines. Failure. for In. Wick

The business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the sew
en- days ending on the Cd, as reported to r..
G. Dun & Co., of the New York Mercantile
Agency, number two hundred and fifteen
against two hundred and eighteen the pre-.
vious week, and two hundred and forty
three the week before.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

THREATS of tar and feathers have had
the effect of discouraging the prose-
lyting work of the Mormon Missionaries
in the Southern States.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

Two women in Connecticut were
so affected by thunder storm the other
day that they entirely lost their MEM
ory of everything that had occurred
during the preceding twenty-four hours.
There are men mean enough to wish
their wives would be. struck by light
ming once day, just as hard as those
Connecticut ladies were.-Indianapotts
,JO7lrnuL
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

MANUFACTURERS have been warned
that cigars falsely labeled key West"
and ssHavana" are liable to seizure, but
there doesn't seem to be much of apanic
about It.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

ENrERPRIsINa merchants in several Of
the large cities, advertise to take trade
dollars at par.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

In CHICAGO, too, according to the
EUening journal, .sall kinds of criminals
feel comparatively safe behind the invul-
nerable shield of legal technicalities.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

The latest Partisan fashion is to go to
restaurant, order a good dinner, eat
it, and before paying the bill blow out
your brains.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

The Chinese Legation in Paris scout
the idea that the arrival of French re-
inforcements in Tonquin will end all re-
sistance to the demands of France.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

'LUMPY-JAw," which has appeared
in the cattle-pens at Chicago, is said by
dealers to affect only the jaw of the
beast and not the beef.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

Tar may be readily removed from
the hands by rubbing with the outside
of fresh orange or lemon peel and
wiping dry Immediately. The volatile
oils in the skins dissolve the tar so that
it can be wiped off, Chicago Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08

The new labor hours in the New Eng.
land railway shops at Hartford, are
from 7:S0 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-08
milwaukee nu.Iue.. Nan Disappear.
H. Eisen. a Milwaukee clothing mer-

ID. IL. Elsen, q milwaukee clo9nlns mer
chant, left home for his place of business
on the morning of October 81, and has not
since been seen. During the past few weeks
he has shown signs of an unsettled intel
lect, and it is supposed that business
troubles had prayed on his mind. The
members of the firm declare they are as
sound as dollar, but are contemplating
dissolution on account of hard times. The
police think that Eisen committed suicide.
He has a wife and three children.