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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
A Harmful Position.

The Tribune is the recognized organ
of the Republican party. As such it
declares that the continuance of the
Republicans in power is necessary to
the commercial and financial interests
of the country. We are told that since
the Democrats obtained victories which
gave promise of the election of Demo
crate President " it has been impossible
to restore the confidence which is
re quisite TO the prosperity of industry
and trade. Capital has been unwilling
to commit itself to new undertakings.
Securities have gone begging for lack
of investors. Almost every commercial
OF financial interest has felt the
change"
The Tribune tells us how this condi-
ton of affairs may be reversed: cit is
possible that this year reversal of the
popular verdict may start genuine and
lasting revival of confidence, with incal-
culabfy beneficial results to all business
interests"
The position taken by the Tribune is
more harmful to capital and more dan
gerous than all the rawlings of Com
munism.
Can it be true that capital persuades
itself that the supremacy OF one parulc-
ular political party is necessary to its
safety? Ii so, it surely will be ready
to use its power remorselessly, un-
scrupulously, to defeat the attempt OF
any other party to supersede it. Ii so,
it will for self-protection pour out its
money to defeat the popular will and
control the result of elections.
This means reversal of the form ot
Government established by the fathers
of the Republic.
They decided that majority of the
people should rule, all citizens being
equal in their enjoyment of civil and
political rights.
But if capital believes that one party
"a minority party-is necessary to its
own preservation, it will use the
almighty power of money to crush the
majority and to keep the minority in
/ power.
Is this the reason the majority of the
people We're disfranchised in 1876 by
the fraudulent Inauguration of Presi
dent defeated by the people? Is thi;
the reason Garfield and Arthur were
: elected by purchase in 1Sso?-N T.
| World.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
One of the Prevalent Diseases.

In the Lancet and Clinic DR.. Tenner
defines the now so prevalent disease
commonly termed general paralysis as
an affection of the anterior portion of
the cerebrum- part which the
study of comparative anatomy and an
thropology indicates to be the seat of
intelligence, and which modern expert
mental Investigations assume to con-
tain the motor centers. The patho-
logical anatomy, according to this
writer, consists of changes in the mem
branes of the brain-usually most
marked in the interior-.as well as
changes in the cortex and subcortical
regions, affecting chiefly the anterior
cerebral convolutions. Its earlier
symptoms, he says, consist chiefly of
morbid manifestations of intelligence,
want of accustomed Judgment, loss
of memory, boastfulness, ETC., and of
failure of the motor functions occur
ring simultaneously and progressing
correlatively with the mental disturb
anceS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
Republican Clamer.

The only persons who seem to be
greatly pleased or displeased with the
decision of the Supreme Court in the
Civil-Rights cases are few OF the promi-
nent negroes at the Capital, with here
and there a Republican politician or
manager, who affects to believe that a
new slogan can be sounded which will
consolidate the colored vote to the bet
terment everywhere of the waning pros
poets of his party, To these two classes
should be added Colonel Robert G. In
gersol, who spoke to the colored meet
ing at Lincoln Hall mass of platitudes,
of which SO intellectual and capable an
orator should be ashamed.
And all this clamor is raised because
eight Judges of the Supreme Court-all
of them Republican but one-have
decided that it is the States, and not
Congress, which are required by the last
amendments to the Constitution to en-
force the provision, that the rights of
citizens shall not be infringed upon or
denied to them by hostile legislation.
There is not, SO far as Mr.. Douglass or
Mr.. Ingersoll knows, a solitary provision
upon the statute book of either of the
thirty-eight States which infringes upon
| these requirements of the Constitution,
nor can they aver with the slightest sin
cerity that one is contemplated. Yet,
| according to the first named, we are
| plunged by the Supreme Courts decis-
| ion into gloom as dense as that which
ensefofsd the negro in the days of
slavery; and. according to the other,
the decision has but one parallel in in
fanny, and that the Dred Scott case.
/ Probably every sensible and reason
able man knows that the new ruling
will make no change in the condition of
the black race or in their treatment by
the whites. Where there are compare
lively few of them, as in the North, or
here in Washington, they will continue
to crowd railway and street-cars and
| steamboats, on the same terms and be
| partakers of the same accommodations
with white persons. In the extreme
South, where there are many, they Will
continue to ride in separate cars
at lower rates and to stop at
cheaper hotels than white persons.
This will be the law of custom and not
of the statute book.
In one way the decision, so recklessly
inveighed against by Mr.. Douglass and
Colonel lngersoll, will greatly benefit
the blacks. Their treatment and con-
sideration being a matter of State regu-
lation, the politicians of both parties
and all factions will bid for their votes
by offering them more equality than
their opponents OF competitors.
The negro is at this hour as free as
any other race or class in the United
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
snicide. and Murders.

CHARLES E. DIX, cashier of Savings
Bank in Council Bluffs, Ia, committed sui
eide on the 9th by shooting himself through
the head. Temporary insanity. 8
In Columbiana County, Ark, on the
Louisiana border, a few nights ago,
Ephraim Bandy called VIM. Scott out Of
the latter's house and shot him dead, on ac-
count of an old grudge. Both were white
men and farmers.
H. CLAY MCGEE, farmer living near
Kansas City, Mo-, on the Sth cut the
throats of his wife, Oldest daughter, and
then his own. All were dead when found
He was insane.
CITY MARSHAL CANNON, of Hearne,
Tex, was shot and killed a few days ago
by Albert Bishop, a lawyer. Political
disagreement.
GEORGE T. PLoss, a prominent druggist
at st. Louis, committed suicide on the
with morphine. Cause not stated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
LATEST NEWS.

LILLY DALE, an actress, playing In Dal
las, Tex, on the 11th disguised herself as
an old woman and disappeared, carrying
with her $1,000 worth of stolen diamonds.
A MULTITUDE of fraudulent land claims
have been discovered in Dakota. 1t is es
timated that half of the Government land
disposed of in any one year is taken in
some irregular manner.
OFFICIAL returns from all but two coun-
ties in the recent election in New Jersey
give Albeit 6,67S majority over Dixon.
Parsons, the Temperance candidate, polled
about 5000 votes; Urner, National candi-
date, about 5000.
THE vote in New York on the proposition
to abolish convict contract labor from
State prisons, with but few districts to
hear from, gives majority of 234,976 in
favor of the proposition.
HOMER BOLTON, of Mirable, Mo-, beat out
his fathers brains on the 11th. No reason
| for the act is known.
ASA L. BIGGs, son of the late Judge
Biggs, of North Carolina, perished in his
burning building, near Norfolk, on the 11th
His wife was seriously burned in trying to
rescue him.
COMMISSIONER DUDLEY's recommended
ton that none but attorneys in good stand
| ing shall hereafter be allowed to practice
before the Pension Bureau, is regarded in
Washington as an excellent measure. Per-
sons with no education and with no place
of business have acted as pension agents,
to the grief of those who were so unfortu-
nate as to employ them.
| GA. CARPENTER, charged with the muir
der of Zura Burns at Lincoln, ILL.,, has been
released on $4,000 bail. Men rushed for
ward to 60 on his bond who would have
been accepted had it been $500,0O0 The
father of the murdered girl called upor
the crowd to hang Carpenter, and would
have murdered him had the police moi
taken him in charge.
THE mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of Mrs. Hannah Donegan, who
has been missing from her home In st
Louis since October 10, was cleared uI
on the 10th, when her husband identified 6
body taken from the river as that of hi:
wife. She had left her home slightly under
the influence of liquor, and it is supposed
she fell into the river accidentally.
| SERVICES commemorating the foul
hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther
were held in nearly all the foreign coun
tries on the 10th and 18th. In Germany
there were celebrations everywhere, SOM
of them of most imposing nature. Ii
London, Madrid, st. Petersburg, and ever
in Rome, there were also extensive cele
brations A dispatch says that not
Protestant community in Italy failed t.
commemorate the day. The Catholic cite
demonstrations.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
VIRGINIA.

RICHMOND, November Additional returns
show Democratic gains of one member of the
House of Delegates i'll each of the following
counties: Charlotte, Culpepper, Fairfax, Flu
wanna, Franklin, Henry. Montgomery, Nor
folk, Wythe, Princess Anne, and one in Craig
and Roanoke, one in Green and Madison, one
in Smythe and Bland, two in Chesterfield
and Powhattan, two in Rockbrdge and
loss loss of one member % I'M in Carolina, makes max the the
net Democratic gain Is, which insures a
Democratic majority in the House of 16, with
a. go9a @ prospect OF tne majority reaenlng 20 or
which will make their majority 4, with the
chances of increasing it to 8. Democrats esti-
the State between 1000 and 10000. The result
of the election causes the widest excitement.
RICHMOND, November So A. M.-The SEN
ate stands, Democrats 22, CoalItionists 13,
doubtful 8. House of Representatives, Dem
ocratS 90, Coalitionists 20, doubtful IL. When
the doubtful counties are heard from the
Democratic majority on joint ballot will prob
ably reach 25. Ha
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

whose missing daughter has been SO
prominent sensation of late, said in an
interview, after her place of conceal
ment had been discovered: ''We had
one or two cast-iron rules, it is true, but
none so severe that a girl should run
away from home to avoid them. For
instance, Mary had to practice on the
piano four hours day, whether she liked
it or not" Mary has as yet made no
statement of the cause of her abrubt
departure from home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

BROOKLYN is a bidder for the next
Presidential Conventions, but the Eagle
of that city is forced to make the ac-
knowledgement: The inland cities
have been chosen heretofore because of
their nearer proximity to the geographic
cal center of the country. The center
of population, accordingto to the last GEN.
sus, was not far from Cincinnati, fact
which might explain the favor with
which that city is regarded, other things
being equal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

LINCOLN, November TOP. M.-Returns to
ten o clock tonight show Republican gains
in almost every county on the State ticket.
Reese, Republican, is elected Supreme Judge
by 10000 majority. Broadly, Democrat, is
elected in the First Judicial District by 35 900
majority. Three other districts are not heard
Republicans elect seven Judges. Very few
counties elect straight Republican tickets,
and many are mixed. Some give Republican
majorities on the State and elect the opposi-
ton county Officer others the reverse GEN
orally all the elements united in opposition
TO the Republicans
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

s.HUNDREDs of New York youngj
men," writes a correspondent of thei
Baltimore American, '.wear nothing of
American make, from their Derby hats;
to their polcaster stockings. Their.
measures are sent to London tailors,,
hatters and furnishers, who provide the
articles ordered very promptly. By
using the Atlantic cable in ordering, a
suit of clothes can be procured in ten
days. Iq5ft,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

BALTIMORE, November THE Legislature
is Democratic in both Houses, the Democrats
having q majority of two in the Senate and
nearly two-thirds of the House. The Legisla-
ture elects a United States Senator to succeed
Senator Groome, who will, of course, be a
straight-out Democrats.
BALTIMORE, November S-3A. M.-The latest
returns show McLean's Ocmocrab majority
in the State to be L, ,069. The Senate will stand'
fourteen Democrats, twelve Republicans.
House delegates: 63 Democrats, 2S Republi-
cans, giving the Democrats a majority of 81
on iOint ballot
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

SENATOR MORRILL,, Chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Senate, is
said to regard as feasible the suggestion
made to him, that coins most easily
mistaken for one another be punctured
through the center with holes of differ
ent shapes, like the Chinese and Japa-
nese coins. Strangely enough, the sugges-
ton comes from an artist who claims
that at night he has given out five dol
lar gold coins for five cent nickel pieces.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
Death OF Ex.eovcrnor Randolph

Ex-Governor Randolph, of New Jersey,
died at his home in Morristown on the 7th,
of heart disease. Ex-Goyernor Randolph
was elected to the Lower House of the New
Jersey Legislature in 1859, and in 1862 was
elected to the State Senate, and was re-
elected in 1858. He received the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor in 1869, and
was elected, serving until 1872. In 1870 he
was elected to the U. S. Senate, succeeding
Hon. P. Stockton, and served until 1881.
Since then he has been out of the field of
politics. -'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
The Cotton Crop of Texas.

1t is estimated that the total yield of cot
ton iRTexas for 1888 and 1884 is thirty per
cent. below that of last year, or falling
off of 465, 900 bales. The chances for top
crop are reported good in three counties
and fair in two counties in North Texas,
but in all the other counties the reports are
either unfavorable or none. The season for
gathering the crop has been very favorable.
1t is expected the crop of Texas for 1888
and 1884 will be 100000 bales.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
ARemnrkahIe SIeen.

Edward Richards, an aged but healthy
inmate of the Soldiers Home in Milwau.
kee, relapsed into deep sleep on October
2S, from which all efforts failed to arouse
him. He took nourishment willingly, and
all the functions of his body performed
their duty naturally. He returned to con
sciousness on the 9th, and expressed him
self as feeling in perfect health. His un
natural desire for sleep is a mystery tc
physicians.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
THAT AIIeged ,rarrIare Contrnct,

Miss Aggie Hill, who is suing Senator
Sharon in San Francisco Court for a di-
vorce and division of property, produced
her marriage contract in Court ON the Sth.
Senator Sharon, upon seeing the document,
denounced it as a forgery in such indig-
nant terms that the Judge ordered him re-
moved from the Courtroom. The certifi-
cate will be photographed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
CONNECTICUT.

HARTFORD, November Connecticut
elects eleven Republican and one Democratic
Senator. Senators holding over, five Repub-
licans and seven Democrats. The Senate now
stands, sixteen Republicans and eight Demo
Gratis. The Lower House, with ten towns to
hear from, which were last year evenly di-
vided, stands 145 Republican and 50 Democrat,
one tie. a Republican majority OF 81, on joint
ballot IS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
Bold ThIevIng Near PIttsburr.

An organized gang of expert thieves is
operating extensively in and about Pitts
burg. Three daring robberies have been
committed recently, the boldest of which
occurred three miles from the city few
days ago. The safe of Samuel Schultz,
storekeeper, was hauled out of the build
ing on planks, blown open with powder,
and robbed of over two thousand dollars
in yaluables.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
The senate River Committee.

The Senate Committee who are examin-
ing the Government improvements made
on the Mississippi River arrived at Vicks-
burg, Miss, ON the Sth, and gave the Gov
ernment work at that point thorough in
spection. The committee expressed salts
faction with the work at the different
points examined by them, and approved of
the plans of the River Commission.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
WHOLE NUMBER 1853.

States, as secure of his liberty, as secure
in the reward for his labor, as sure of
the emoluments of industry and shrewd-
ness, of business ability or handicraft;
as certain 10 be toadied to and re-
spected if he be rich, and as inevitably
to be neglected, Stunned or punished if
he be poor, repulsive or law-breaking,
as he would be if he were as white as he
is black. -
This the eloquent and generous Mr.
Ingersoll knows; this, too, the wealthy
and provident MIR. Fred. Douglass
knows,-IFa hiagtcs Exchange.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
MICHIGAN.

DETROIT, November g. The biennial
city election took place in this city to-day:
The Republicans elect Stephen B. GrImmond
torney by fifty majority, and the Clerk by
six hundred majority: The Democrats elect
the Treasurer by twelve hundred to fifteen
hundred majority. Three members of the
Upper House of Council were all carried by
the Democrats. Half of the Lower House is
also elected by the Democrats, and with the
holdovers they carry it by one or two major
ify
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
A New Caftle Disease

A contagious disease known as "swell
head" having appeared among the cattle
at the Chicago Stock-yards, a scientific
examination of the cattle afflicted was
held on the 7th under the direction of the
U. s. Treasury Cattle Commission. 1t
was decided that the disease was the result
of the lodgment of microscopic plants in
the teeth. When the disease extends to
the jaws it nearly always proves fatal and
can be communicated to man.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
A Building Fa11. killing Several.

The entire roof, inside walls and the
iron and stone columns of the new south
wing of the Capitol building at Madison,
Wis, fell on the Sth, burying number of
workmen under the debris. Four were in
stantly killed, and twenty injured, several
of whom will die from their wounds. The
cause of the accident is not known.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

The directors of the Cincinnati Board
of Trade and transportation at a meet
ing, the other day, adopted the report Of
the committee declaring the trade dol
lar nuisance, and recommending a
memorial to Congress for its redemption.
by the Government and withdrawal from
circulation. a-is rs si=t
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
N0feA

THE British steamer Iris, from Cardiff
to Port Said, was lost off Cape Villano,
Spain, few days ago. OF her crew of
thirty-six all but one were drowned.
THE Spanish Government has received
from France note, settling the French
Spanish controversy which grew out of the
treatment of Alfonso in Paris. France
ratified President Grevy's declarations in
the Official Journal and authorizes Spain
to publish them in the Official Gazette.
LORD MAYORS DAY was celebrated in
London on the 9th by a procession compos-
ed of one million people. The Lord Mayor
was hissed by some of the populace, but
no disturbance occurred. But few Ameri-
cans were invited to the banquet.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
2, MJySISSIPPI.

JACKSON, MISS, ,November7.-The latest re-
election announced last night, except in Pan
ola County, where the fusion ticket is de-
feated by small majority. Adams, Kinds,
sion majorities. The regular Democratic
ticket had little opposition elsewhere, hence
the Legislature. as usual is largely Demo
subsidized. No further trouble is anticipated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
The Fat woman. Body so1d.

Moses, the nineteen-year-old husband of
the noted fat woman who died recently in
Baltimore, has sold the body of his wife to
a Baltimore physician named Hill. Moses
gives as his reason for this singular trans
action that he is in great poverty and needs
the money. The amount paid for the body
is not stated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

AN outsider has this to say of Hving's
first appearance: ..His chief success was,
in puzzling the New York critics, and
this he did most effectually. They
seem to be fully as much confused con-.
cerning his place in tragedy as the hen.
was with regard to the status of the!
frog that she suddenly found among her.
chicks -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
Am.rtco.Ereuch Due,,u mex,eo.

A duel was fought at Chapultepec, Mex,
on the Sth, between an American named
Degheest, of the American National Bank
Of that place, and Olivier, French mer-
chant. Olivier was killed and Degheest
badly wounded. Swords were the weap-
ons used. The difficulty was caused by a
dispute over seats at the races few days
previous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
FatalEleyator ACCIDENT.

In the Capitol building at Bismarck,
OAK, on the 9th, the clamp to the elevator
rope broke, and the elevator and six men,
Daniel O'Neil, William Buxton, Andrew
johnson, John Welton Ole Hoffman and
Oscar Sanberg, fell to the bottom, dis
tance of fifty feet. Hods and wheelbar-
rows followed and were smashed to kind
ling wood. Buxton had all his ribs broken
and will die. The other four are badly in
iured and may die.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

OF Justice at Cochran, Ga, it is re-
lated that, just as two attorneys were
about to argue case, he took up his
bat and said. Gentlemen, you may
talk about this case as much as you
please, but I've got to 60 home to set
out some potato slips. When you get
through you'll find my decision written
out there and he walked out
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15

A MAN was arrested in Brooklyn for
stealing a jug of brandy and was re1
leased on the ground that the theft was
committed while he was laboring under
a fit of insanity. caused by excessive
thirst. -ts - a. t2.sss
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
The French Adyance po.,poued

A Hong Kong dispatch of the Sth says
Admiral Courbet has postponed his attack
on Bac Mini until roads are ready for the
transportation of his heavy cannon. Prep
arations are making for a desperate de.
fense, the Chinese arsenals are busy, and
their regiments are marching south. The
Paris lie Ielegraphe says Premier Ferry
has in his possession a document showing
that the attack on Sontay and Bac Mini
must lead to war with China.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
A steam Printing Press for India.

The Executive Committee of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in annual ses-
sion at Des Moines, Ia, has voted to raise
S25, 900 for the establishment of the first
woman's periodical in India. David C.
Cook, the Sunday-school publisher, has
given s, 200 Cottrel steam printing press
to the American Mission Press in India.
This will be the first steam printing ma
chine, except those in Government use, in
use in India.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
A Succession BANK swindIer.

Edward Webster, who narrowly escaped
arrest in st. Louis few days ago for at
tempting to swindle the Commercial Bank,
succeeded in swindling the Valley National
Bank of that city out of $500 on the 9th,
by getting bogus draft discounted and
checking out part of the proceeds. Other
banks are said to have also been duped by
Webster.