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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
LATEST NEWS.

THE drouth, which is reported as affect
ing limited portion of New England and
the Central States, has become so severe in
Texas that the grass has dried up and
prairie fires are raging. Stock raisers will
suffer heavy losses.
THE boiler of an engine driving a thresh-
ing machine exploded near Frankfort, Da-
kota, a few days ago, killing four men and
badly injuring five others.
A CIRCULAR has been sent to British sea-
ports by the Executive Committee of the
International Fisheries Exhibition, recon-
mending the American method of catching
mackerel and herring.
A FIRE in New Haven, Conn, on the I'd,
having its origin in the Stage Manufacture
ing Company, destroyed 100000 worth of
property. The Dewey Stove Company's
factory at Bloomdale, o., was fired by
tramps and damaged to the extent of $1O,-
900. The store of Bowen 6 Keller and
other buildings at Shawhon Station, Ky,
we're damaged TO the extent of $4,000, and
fire in the old Ashbrooke Courthouse in
st. Louis damaged it an equal amount
TRADERS on the Alaska coast protest
against the giving of rifles to the st. Law
i renee Bay Indians in recognition of their
kind treatment of the crew of the Rodgers.
They say the rifles will be traded to the
| savages of Norton Sound, who will make
| trouble with them.
TwENTY-sEvEN thousand three hundred
and eighteen deaths have occurred from
cholera since its outbreak in Egypt.
| An arrangement for a billiard match for
| the championship of the world between
Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago, and Maurice
| Vignaux, of Paris, has been completed in
New York. The contest will occur in
Paris next November.
For the first time, on Sunday, i'll the his
tory of Dodge City, Kan, the gambling
| houses ,dance-halls and saloons were closed
on the I'd. Some of the bad characters
| with w hich the place swarms are leaving
in disgust.
| A BERLIN cablegIam of the 2I, says a
train passing Steglitz ran into IL crowd of
people. There were forty killed and
wounded. The crowd was pressing for
ward to take a train from the opposite di-
rection.
MARY ANDERSON made her debut in Lon
| don on the evening of the 1st, in lingo
MARI She had many recalls and made a
good impression. The house was crowded.
Two express trains collided at Colches'
| ter on the Vermont Central Railroad, on
| the night of the 1st. Thirteen persons
were injured.
THE effort to break up colored military
company at Marshall, Tex, resulted in a
skirmish between the company and three
hundred white men. General firing was
continued for some time, but the only casu
alties the wounding of two colored
children.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Policy and Principles.

There is no mistaking the fact that
the outlook for Democratic success next
year is SO reasonably hopeful that it re-
quires no prophetic eye to discern the
promised land through the haze and
mist which yet intervenes. "A long
lease of power, much longer than the
Republican party has deserved or eX-
pected to hold, has led to so much pub
lie abuse and filed the land with so
much concern for it's futJre welfare,
that good people of both parties, men
who place their patriotism above mere
party preference, are preparing to de-
sert it for better order of things.
1t might, however, be we'll for our
party leaders to understand that be-
cause there is an evident turning toward
Democracy and Democratic principles
in all parts of the country, it does not
necessarily show that these new re-
cruits will all be found acting with the
Democratic party at the polls simply
because they are at present disgusted
with their own. There are conditions
which will precede such active cooper
alton, and it is to the consideration of
these conditions that we wish to address
those who may be prominent in party
councils, or have within their power
the direction of party issues. 70 1t has
been charged against the Democratic
party that its genius for blundering was
something wonderful. 1t is not tiatter-
ing to ones self-esteem to admit unpal-
atable truths, but that there is much in
this assertion of our enemies, no one ac-
quainted with the past history of the
party need stop to deny. We have been
caught in follies and have made
blunders, and it is The knowledge of this
which leads us now to raise the voice
of warning that the very promising
future now before US may not prove to
be illusory and delusive.
Notwithstanding that the Republican
party has been loaded down with rec
ord confessedly bad, and has gone into
the past two campaigns with the chances
very much against them, it has had
men for leaders who were polite and
careful, and they have SO managed the
direction of party expression, and sc
shaped the action of party councils, that
the people were led to forget the things
complained of in the zeal with which
they espoused the public welfare, and
the unity of purpose which seemed tc
promise the fulfillment of all their new
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
An Incident in Stock Speculation.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29

a stock speculator in this city, who sat
watching the declining quotations on the
blackboard Monday morning, turned to his
broker and requested him to ask his New
York correspondent, by telegraph, what
effect frost in Minnesota would have upon
Chicago Il Northwestern. When the dispatch
reached New York it was construed as a
matter of actual occurrence, and soon
found circulation sufficiently to drive North
western off a couple of points, whereupon
the speculator grew alarmed and sold out at
loss he had himself engineered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
The New Postage Stamps.

WASHINGTON, aug ~.
The Postoffice Department has selected
as the color for the new four-cent or double
rate stamps shade of green somewhat
darker than that in which the present three
cent stamp is printed. AS the three-cent
stamps will be retired from circulation, 10
errors are likely to arise from the similarity
in the color. The new stamp bears the pro-
file of Andrew jackson. The distribution
of the new two-cent stamrs will begin Sep
tember 1, and it is believed everything will
be in readiness for the change q etOber l.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
suit. For Deducted Ware,.

Suit has been brought against the Beth
lehem Iron Company, at Allentown, Pa,
by large number of former employees to
recover the amounts deducted from their
wages at the end of each month in payment
of bills incurred at the company's store,
and Judgment has been rendered against
the company in two cases for more than
$500. The total amount involved is very
large, and the question concerns other es-
Establishments in Pennsylvania.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

James Collins, respected citizen of Mil
waukee, was terribly beaten few nights
since by his sons Morris and Timothy, who
broke into his house where he and his re-
Gently married wife were sleeping, and as
saulted him with clubs. 1t seems that the
old gentleman lost his first wife a short
time ago, and he has married woman
very much younger than himself, on ac-
count of which the sons left home. They
had several times threatened the old mans
life. His present injuries may prove fatal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
DOMESTIC.
ACxcIone ON the Sea.

The steamship Britannia from Marseilles
arrived at New York on the 18th, and re-
ports having been struck by a cyclone on
the morning of the 26th. In his description
of the occurrence, the captain said the sea
seemed drawn towardth the clouds and dashed
over the vessel, carrying away the boats
and the rails. The lightning seemed to
jump from the sea to the clouds, and the
wind came from every point of the COM
pass. The straining steamer was whirled
around like an egg-shell. Daylight turned
to darkness. The cyclone vanished as sud-
denly as it came, when the crippled vessel
was still capable of making her port.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Notes.

THERE are now 4s,049 postofices in the
United States, of which 2,176 are Presiden-
tial offices and 6,273 money order offices.
Since the year 1876 the number. of post
offices has been increased 40 per cent.
The District Commissioners at Washing
ton have Commenced preliminary inquiry,
the purpose of which is to compel telephone
and telegraph companies to take down
their poles in the streets and to use under
ground conduits, to be built in the alleys.
THE Commissioner of Patents has made
the important decision that a word merely
descriptive of an article of trade, as to its
qualities, ingredients or characteristics,
can not become lawful trademark by vir-
tue of change in its photography to that
of a foreign language in which it possesses
the same meaning.
IT is rumored at Washington that in an
investigation which will shortly be made
in the interests of the Government, some
sensational developments will be made
public with regard to the manner in which
the verdict in the Star-route trial was Sc
cured.
The report as to the probable investiga-
tion Of the way in which the last Star
route verdict was found, originated in the
statement that one of the jurors, when in
his cups, dropped some curious hints.
A PERMANENT quarantine at Hampton
Roads has been recommended by the Sur
geon General of the Marine Hospital.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
The Texa. Catte Fever i'm Detroit.

The Texas cattle fever has broken out in
Detroit, in the herd of a milkman on the
outskirts of the city. The whole herd,
twelve, are infected, and several have
already died. A herd of forty-one steers
bought by a Genessee County farmer
some two weeks ago have also been
attacked by the disease, and five have died.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Drouth i'm New England.

The droutE in Eastern New England,
which has lasted five to six weeks, has be-
come so serious that crops have been great.
ly injured, with the present prospect of
still further damages, as the drouth is not
broken. Farmers are compelled to take
cows from pastures and feed them ON win
fer hay.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Alleged Cholera In Milwaukee.

Milwaukee is agitated over an alleged
case of Asiatic cholera, which has just
been discovered there. A man named
Watchky was taken sick and became torpid,
and DR.. Zelowski, who has had experience
in Turkish hospitals, pronounced the dis
ease Asiatic cholera. DIR. Richards, Assist
ant Health Commissioner, agrees with Ze-
lowski, but other physicians call it cholera
morbuS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
The Prince of MONTENEGRO. W,

The Prince OF Montenegro, who
some time ago closed all the cafes and
drinking-shops in his dominion, regard
ing them as schools of etfeminacy, ex-
ished all titles, so that while formerly
every other man in Montenegro was an
"Excellency," now even the ministers
have to be contented with plain 'tMr.,"
has recently issued an edict against all
Luxurious wearing apparel, " including
cravats, gloves, walking-sticks, para
soils and chicago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
HOW We Arc Loaded With Pauper,.

Two assisted pauper Irish emigrants were
sent back to Canada from Buffalo ON the
31st. They stated that eleven hum
dred came over in the same ship, all of
whose expenses were paid by the British
Government. The Britishers' plan is to
ship them to Canada, and from there to the
States at different points. A large number
have been sent back from this country re-
Gently.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

In Georgia, a sinful young farmer
who, at revival, refused Bible and
made light of the words spoken by one
of the eXhorters, went home and was
struck by lightning twice in five min
utes. He considered it pretty loud
call, and joined the church that day
Chicago NeUs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Rioting Must Re stopped.

Tisza, President of the Hungarian Coun.
Gil, in order to put stop to outrages upon
Jews, has decided upon severe measures,
which are to be put in operation wherever
anti-Jewish riots occur. The measures pro-
vide that anyone who shall be condemned
to death by martial law shall be executed
within three hours after sentence is i'm
posed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

Snake matches are the latest
wrinkle in field sports on Long Island.
The contestants start in different direc
tions, and the one returning with the
greatest number of snakes hanging to
his BELTS proclaimed the victor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Destructive storm on the newfoundland
Coast.

A terrible wind-storm prevailed along
the coast of Newfoundland a few days
ago. Hundreds of fishers dories which
were away from the shore were capsized,
and between seventy and eighty lives lost.
The gale is said to have been the most ter
rife known for ten years. Trees that
have been landmarks for a century were
uprooted, and great damage was done to
houses along its path. Ten schooners
were driven ashore and wrecked. The loss
on all kinds of property, including crops,
aggregate an immense amount.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

The story of that whistling alligator
is on the grand rounds. Imagine an
alligator's mouth puckered up to a
whistling point.-Ipdianapolis Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Thirty People Injured in a Railroad Ac-
cidcnt.

The express train on the. Philadelphia &c
Atlantic Railroad, narrow-gauge, was
thrown from the track at Pleasantville, on
the 30th, by loose switch which swerved
after the engine passed. The baggage-car
turned upside down and four passenger.
cars were completely wrecked. No person
was killed but about thirty were injured.
Among those seriously injured were De-
tective Houghton, Conductor Lee, E. S.
Lippencott, Geo. De Haven and Mrs. NJ. A.
Scott, all of Philadelphia. 1t is believed
none of. the injuries are fatal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

Grief for his first wife caused
Samuel I. Magruder, of Jamestown,
Md, to cut his throat, although he had
been married about one year to an es-
timable lady.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

The man who once traded the land
on which Denver now stands for mule
has been summering at Saratoga.-Iroy
IN " Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Gle Gatau H.mort.
RATES OF ADVERTISING

Business cards of i've lines or less So per-aDnun.
Local notices, IL cents per line each Insertion.
simple announcements OF maria .es and deaths.
and CHURCH aud benevolent ciety notices inserted
Tree. Any additions to obituary notices will b
cha 'gad five cents per line.
Favors must he handed in as early as Tuesday
u1ornng to insure insertion the same week Tom.
muu'cai,cns upon subjects OF general or local
iaterest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

"A romantic couple who were sum-
mering at Phenica, N. Y, were mar
ried under an elm tree by candle-light
recently.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
IMPORTANT EVENTS
coLLATED AND COMPILED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
AT WASHINGTON.
A WORLDS Exposition for $50.

A worlds ExpOaifion Tor 1s91.
At the meeting of the Worlds Arbitra.
tion League at Washington on the 2sth,
resolutions were adopted favoring the hold
ing of worlds exposition of art and in
dustry at the Capital of the United States
in 1892, the fourth centennial Of the discov-
cry of America, and recommending that
there be held with it a representative con-
gress of all nations for the discussion of
Questions affecting the moral and social
relations of the human race" 1t was also
decided to appoint a committee of seven
members of the league to wait upon the
President and request him to take into con-
sideration the propriety of recommending
to the next Congress some legislation look
ing to successful attainment of the ends
contemplated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
C,r,ou, Ler.l oue.tion.

The question of the responsibility of the
National Government for the reconstruc-
ton of State Governments in the South is
to be called to public attention in a novel
way, through claim just prepared by
some capitalists in Germany. The claim
sets up that the United States is responsi-
BILE for the payment of certain bonds repu-
dated by Georgia in 1869, in aid of the
Brunswick Railroad. Inasmuch as these
bonds were repudiated during the admins
traticn of Provisional Governor, appoint
ed by the United States, the bondholders
maintain that the Federal Government is
responsible for them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

"A two-months child of Edgar Pal
mer, of Lysander, N. Y, fell into pail
of sour milk recently and was drowned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

"A peddler tried to coax Michigan
farmers wife into buying some of his
wares by patting her under the chin
and saying that she was nice little
woman. Her husband soon returned,
and she told him. With friend he
overlook the peddler, whipped him,
threw his pack over a fence, took him
back to the house, whipped him again,
then tried him before mock court, and
fined him three dollars, which he paid.
His retaliation is suit for damages
Detroit Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
FOREIGN.
Terrible De.truction orLif,. i'm x,,,

Terrible Destruction OF Life i'm Java.
A dispatch from Batavia, Java, on the
18th, says the towns of AMER, Tjiringine
and Telokbelong have been destroyed by
tidal waves caused by volcanic eruptions.
All the lighthouses in the Sunda Straits
have disappeared, and where the mountain
of Kramatan formerly stood the sea now
flows. Between 5000 and 1900 lives are
estimated to have been lost.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Java's Fearful Calamity--Seyenfy-fiv
Thousand ives Lost,

Later advices from the scene of the vol
canic eruptions in India indicate far great
er destruction to life and property than was
first reported. 1t is now estimated that
seventy-five thousand persons have lost
their lives. The entire Harding range of
mountains, extending along the coast in a
semi-circle for sixty-five miles, have sunk
into the sea. One populous town within
twenty miles of Batavia has been swept
away. A tract of country fifty miles
square, extending north from Point Caper-
cioh, containing two villages and many
country people, has been swallowed up.
A bed of solid ice of enormous size was
emitted from one of the craters and carried
along in the flood of molten lava. The dis
patch says it is supposed this ice had
formed the crest of some vast subterranean
lake. The Strait of Sund has become dan.
gerous to navigation, new islands have
arisen and the coast-line is changed. Six.
teen volcanoes appeared between the sit
where the Island of Krahatoa formerly
stood and the Sibisie Island. A portion OF
Bantam is an ashy desert. Cattle are starv.
ing, and the people are in despair.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
GOyerpOr Crittenden Prefers Prohibition
to LaWleARneAa.

Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, is re-
ported to be seriously considering the ques.
tion of calling an extra session of the Leg
islature to either amend the Downing Sum
day law so as to make it apply to st. Louis,
or to prepare and submit a prohibitory
amendment to the Constitution at the next
general election. The Governor, in an in
terview, is reported as follows: 81 am an
Prohibitionist from the soles of my
feet to the crown of my head but I feelwith
the people of the State, that if the law is
to be defied in st. Louis, and I have to
choose between lawlessness and prohibition,
am a Prohibitionist." Under such provo
cation it is declared Prohibition will carry
by fifty thousand majority in the State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
The triumph or Yankee ingenuity.

ImO u Ah&chuhV.
The Consul General of the United States
at Rome, under date of July 81, has fur.
nished the Department of State with an in
teresting account of a series of contests be-
tween combined reaping and binding ma
chimes manufactured in several countries,
in which those of the United States were
successful. The trial was severe, the
ground being in many places marshy or
stony. The result clearly showed the su-
periority of the American machines. There
were but two prizes offered for combined
reapers and binders, and both of these
were won by Americans. The Consul Gem
eral, in this connection, calls attention to
the benefits resulting from American rep
resentation of such exhibits, and to the
promising field in Italy for the introduction
of agricultural implements of American
manufacture,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Naval omcer Killed.

The Acting Secretary of the Navy on the
18th received the following telegram from
Rear Admiral Crosby, commanding the
Asiatic Station, dated Yokohama: "Lieu-
tenant Noyes was killed this morning. The
topgallant mast fell while exercising"
Lieutenant Noyes was native of Maine,
and was appointed to the Navy from Vir-
ginia in 1854, and was regarded as one of
the best officers in the service.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Having at the Naval Academy to be Pun
ished.

The idiosyncracy Of hazing seems to be
still in vogue at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, and Court.nJartial has al
ready been ordered to try number of Of
tenders. The Commandant of the cadets
says the charges against the accused con-
sist Of making the boys expose themselves,
turning them out of hammocks, compelling
them to eat soap, turn somersaults, sing
songs; etc., and do all kinds of ridiculous
things. Hazers, he said, had no excuse, as
they had been amply warned of the conse-
quences. The law of Congress is kept con-
stantly before them, and has been posted
up in the quarters for years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
Peculiar Newspaper Libel sait.

Thomas Brown, jr., member of the New
York Democratic State Committee, has en-
tered suit against the New York Times for
libel, for the publication of false state
ments with reference to the attendance at
meeting of the committee. Damages of
$4,000 are asked.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

A Crematory Suggested for New Orleans.
The New Orleans Grand Jury, in its re-
port few days ago, suggested as sa1ii-
tary measure that crematory be estab-
lished, under the direction of the officers of
the Charity Hospital, for the purpose of
burning the bodies of those who die of con-
tagious diseases.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06

Arrest for Indecent Exposure OF Person.
George B. Bunnell, proprietor of Bum
nell's Museum, New York, was arrested a
few days ago, on complaint of Mrs. Maria
McGee, for indecent exposure of person on
board the express train from New York.
Bunnell was completely broken down on
account of the charge; said he was re-
spectacle man and Knight Templar, and
that the charge againt him was terrible
mistake.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-06
DiaboI1eal Attempt at PoisoninE.
NJ AZ NJ S-a:4l of NanL-;llo q e. 4 -.

Mr.. N. N. Smith, of Nashville, a few days
ago received from the postofice a box of
cake accompanied by a letter signed
"Annie L. Sullivan" dated New Albany,
Ind, with the Louisville postmark on the
envelope. The letter explained that the
cake was wedding-cake, and announced
the marriage of the sender. Mr.. Smith
ate two pieces of the cake, and discovering
a bitter taste, suspected it contained
poison. Shortly after he was quite ill
from the effects, and was only restored
after some hours by the physicians who
were called in. An analysis showed that
the cake contained strychnine. Mr.. Smith
does not know Annie L. Sullivan, and is at
, Q loss to divine the motive for the attempt
to poison him.
| Two Magnificent Sts suctures Completed.
The great Cathedral of Incarnation and
st. Paul's School at Garden City, L. l.,