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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Discovery in Eronautics.

A German engineer, named Fisher,
has made an important discovery in
@ronautics, by which he is enabled to
condense OF expand the gas in a bal
loon. The agent he employs is com.
pressed carbonic acid, with the help of
which he can ascend or descend at
pleasure. This perpendicular move
ment puts it in the power of. the zero
naut to go up or down until he finds 9
current of air moving in the horizontal
direction he wishes. Military critics at
tribute great Importance to this dis.
covery, because in time of war q bal.
loon will be able to reach the enemy's
territory and ascend again without re-
curing a fresh supply of gas.-Bostor
Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
Attempt to Blow up London Bridge
with Dynamite.
Sentence Of the C~annibals Commute to
Six Months Imprisonment-Minor Notes.

LONDON, December IA terrific explo-
sion occurred yesterday morning under the
London bridge. The latest account show
explosive material was thrown from the
bridge, and striking the water burst into
flame. The explosion was heard ten miles
outside of London. At Woolwich arsenal
the gates were shaken. The police think
a boat containing the explosive with
a burning fuse attached was al
lowed to drift beneath the bridge. A care
full inspection of London bridge was made
to-day. 1t was found that no injury to
the structure whatever was don A po-
liceman who at the time of the explosion
was standing on the top of the steps lead
ing to the steamboat pier On the Surrey
side of the river, with his back to the
stream, says he saw a binding glare, like a
sheet of lightning, which was followed by a
terrific report. He was almost stunned,
and his helmet was blown some yards
away by conclusion. The houses damaged
were on the Middlesex side, where the win
dows were smashed as far as Bilingsgate
Market. Several panes of glass were
broken in F~ishmongers' Hall, but otherwise
the building received no damage.
Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens, the
Mignonette c~annibals, is committed from
hanging to six months imprisonment with
out labor.
VIENNA, December 14.-By an explosion
in the colliery of the Staatsbahn Company,
at Anuna, Steyrdorf, South Hungary, sew
enty-fve men were killed, all husbands
and fathers of families.
LONDON, December 14.-At the System
Park Library sale, Saturday, a Mazarin
Bible fetched f3,900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
BY STORM.
A Solid Column of Fire Two Feet
High.

ST. LOUIS, December 1.-THE fierce
storm which swept over the city to-day
caused the collapse of the largest gasome-
ter of the st. Louis Gaslight Company.
The heavy snow caused one of the col
umns to fall about 1 O'Clock tonight. The
friction which followed produced An
explosion, the like of which has not
been seen in the city for years. A solid
column of fire two hundred feet high shot
In the air and Illuminated the city from the
western limits to the river. The loss by the
gas explosion, on Fourteenth and Papin
streets, is S15O,00O. The gasometer -four hun-
dred feet in circumference, containing
forty thousand feet of gas, exploded,
and is a complete wreck. A large amount
of property in the vicinity was damaged.
There was nobody hurt, but the engineer
n fireman had a narrow escape. The
explosion will prevent the company from
carrying out its contract. B.. Allen is Pres
ident of the company. There is a little in
surance OF the works.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
A Novel Idea.

WASHINGTON, December 11.-President
Arthur has signiied to Commissioner Gem
eral Morehead, who is here in the interest
of the New Orleans Exposition, that he
win comply with the request made yester-
dayto start the machinery of the EXPOSE
tion on the 10th, by electricity. Awire will
be run directly from the Executive Mansion
to the Exposition Building, and SO arranged
that when the President opens the cir
cult in Washington the motive power will,
by this act, be applied to the machinery in
New Orleans. Members of the Supreme
Court, delegations from the two houses of
Congress, Cabinet officers and diplomatic
representatives of foreign countries will be
in attendance at the Executive Mansion, to
witness the opening. This novel method
of opening the Exposition meets with gen.
eral favor here,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Whole Family Injured BY a Loaded Gun.

WHEELING, W. VA, December 11.-This
morning John P. Hardin, who resides near
Littleton, accidently shot himself, his wife
and four children while trying to extract the
oad from a shot gum. He was pounding the
muzzle. of the gun on the hearth stone to
jar out the los of slugs and shot, when the
gun went off. Eighteen slugs>took effect
on the various members of the family.
One slug broke Mrs. Harden's leg, and the
baby had seven marks in the region of the
abdomen. These two are the only ones
seriously hurt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Como.

BERLIN, December 12.-Count Herbert
Bismarck has gone to Brussels to confer
with King Leopold upon matters relating
to the Congo Country. A proposition to
abolish the slave trade in the Congo Coun-
try, will be submitted to the Conference
Committee at its session this evening by
Sir Edward Malet, English delegate to the
Conference. The proposal will be warmly
suRPorgea Dy tne american n
traffic both on the coast and in the interior.
General Sanford has reserved the right to
bring his railway project before the Con
ference in the event of its rejection by the
Committee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Lost in Flames.

DETROIT, December 12.-This evening the
girls employed in the second story of Gray,
Toynton & Fox's candy factory were ter
rified at the discovery of fire breaking out
in the rear room, where they worked. A
rush was made for the front of the
building, for the fire escape. In
descending the ladder n girl fell,
and was slightly hurt. Three
were seen by window but the flames burst
through and drove them back ,andithey were
not again seen until the flames were sub
dued, when their bodies were discovered
lying near the window. Their faces were
burned black, but the bodies had not been
touched.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18

Rates for living were never higherin
Washington than they are now A
Senator who has to live upon his salary
vent to one of the uptown hotels and
asked for rates for himself, wife, and
daughter. He wanted a sitting room
and two bed rooms. The amiable
hotel proprietor said he could accom-
odate him with the room and board
desired on the fifth floor for $40 a week.
But that is more than my salary"
II can't help that" said the landlord.
eve have no trouble in getting these
figures" This same Senator tried for
rooms in fashionable flat, and found
that on the top floor he could get four
small rooms for $3.50 a month. This
did not include board. Washington
Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Convention of Masons Of High Degree.

BOSTON, December IA Masonic Con-
vention was held the past week of all
Masons in the United States of America
having taken "the ninetieth degree or
ninety-ffth degree of either the Rites of
Memphis or Mizraim or thirtieth
degree OF thirty-fifth degree of
the ancient and primitive rite, no matter
when or from whom, or under what
sidsring the advisability of establishing a
Union Sovereign Sanctuary, embracing all
the mysteries of the above named rites
from the fourth to the ninety-sixth degree
inclusive, to be known as the Sovereign
the United States of America" The body
organized with Judge Isaac H. Parish, of
Michigan, as Most Ilustrious Past Grand
Master,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
GONE DOWN.
. Number of Schooners Engulph-
ed IN the Chesapeake.
Forty or Fifty Lives Supposed to Have
Been Lost.

= BALTIMORE, Nd, December 12.-Twenty-
seven lives are SO far known to have been
lost during the terrible storm on the Chesa-
peake Bay last night. The hurricane
struck a large number Of schooners heavily
loaded with oysters. 1t ragged with un-
bridled fury until after midnight, tossing
the schooners about on the a like
cookie shells. About thirty or forty men
were upon the schooners known to be
lost, and but one has been rescued as
far as learned. Thirteen bodies have
been recovered and brought to this city.
Thomas Bowers, the sole survivor of the
oyster feet, stated that yesterday about
three O'Clock the weather was calm, and no
one suspected that in a few hours a fierce
storm would rage. 1t swooped down sud-
denly on the unfortunate tongmen. In an
instant all the schooners were capsized
and their crews thrown into the raging
waters. None were able to reach
the shore. Bowers chung to the rigging,
and after awhile caught hold of a
self to the mast. This morning the steamer
Weems rescued him Inc brought him to
Baltimore. 1t is thought as many as fifty
lives were lost in the storm, and the
wharves are thronged upon the arrival
Of every steamer from down the
done terribly fatal work in
the Rappahannock River, and fears
are entertained as to the fate of several
vessels at that point. William Greshup, in
the employ of the Weems Line of steamers,
while driving across the bridge at Urbana
with his wife and child during the storm,
met with a narrow escape from drown
ing. The horse and carriage were blown
over the bridge, throwing all three in
the water. He succeeded in saving their
lives, but his horse was drowned. Captain
Kirwin, who arrived tonight from the
scene of the disasters, said: "The men
were thrown into the rough water, and
were unable to swim ashore. Many of
them chung to the boats for a time,
but were finally washed away
and drowned. Very few, If any
of them, escaped" Two more bodies nave
been recovered, end many more are miss
ing. 1t is scarcely possible that any of
these latter have escaped death. The
storm approached from the southwest,
and its track was up the Rappahannock
River, the waves running twenty-five feet
high, with the wind blowing fifty miles an
hour. When the storm came up the tong
men were at work near Monoskin, in the
Rappahannock, and had their small skiffs,
bateaux, f1at-bottom scows and canoe
quite heavily loaded with oysters.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Iron Trade on the Lakes.

CLEVELAND, o., December Incomplete
statistics collected by the Iron Trade Re-
uieto show receipts at all Lake Erie ports
during the navigation season OF 1884 of
1881 tons iron ore, as against 1852, 6s9
tons last year, an increase over 1888 of
about nine per cent. Total amount of iron
ore on dock at all Lake Erie ports
at the close of navigation, 1,03S, 135
tons; at the same time last year the
amount on dock was 943,095 ions. At the
two principal receiving points for receipt
ores, Cleveland and Ashtabula, the amount
of surplus on dock, December /, wa fifteen
per cent. greater than at the same date
last year.,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
CIeyeIand's Inauuuration Boots.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, December ia
shoemaker at W~ytheville, a few days age,
wrote to President-elect Cleveland, asking
for his measure for a pair of boots for his
Inauguration. Governor Cleveland replied
in a polite note, inclosing a twenty dollar
bill for the boots. The shoemaker returned
the money, but the Governor insisted on
paying, and sent the money back, adding
ton day,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
VERGREENS

Their Use for Decorating at Christmas
Time-The Christmas Tree.
The use of the Christmas tree, with
its fruit of presents, is recent in En-
gland, and was introduced from Ger
many a few years ago. There is great
dispute about its origin, whether in
India, or whether it does moi represent
the tree Yggdrasil, or world tree-the
ash tree of existence of Scandinavian
mythology. But the use of evergreens
in England is as old as the days when
the Druids brought the mistletoe from
the woods with solemn ceremony. In
Stoves time every mans house, and
also the parish churches, were decked
with holm, ivy, bays, and whatever the
season of the year afforded to be green,
and the conduits and standards in the
streets Ca hint for the present telegraph
~companies) were likewise garnished. In
the year 1444 he says there was on the
LIST of February a great tempest OF
thunder and lightning, which set Pauls
steeple on fire; and at Leadenhall, in
Cornhill, a standard of wood which was
set up in the pavement and nailed full
of holm and ivy was torn up and cast
down by the malignant spirit Gas was
thought). On Christmas eve, at the
time the Yule-log was brought in and
lighted with the last years brand, it was
customary to decorate the windows OF
every house, in cottage and hall, with
bay, laurel, ivy and holly leaves. An
English gypsy told MIR. Charles q. Le-
land the reason for using evergreens Qp
Christmas. 1t is this: The ivy and
holly and pine tree never told a word
where our Saviour was hiding Himself,
and so they keep alive all winter, and
look green all the year. But the ash,
like the oak, told of Him when He was
hiding, so they have to remain dead
through the winter. And so we gypsies
always burn an ash fire every Great
Charles Dudley Warner, Ia Har.
per's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
A Notable Incident.

sioner General Moorehead, of the Worlds
Exposition, who will represent the Board
of Management at the Executive Man
sion on Tuesday, when President Ar
thur starts the. machinery in the build
ing by electricity, has invited to be pres
emit on that occasion the Governors of
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the
New England States, as well as the May
ors of the principal cities of those States.
The District of Columbia will be repre-
sented by a number of distinguished citi-
Zens, with the ladies of their households.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
How He viii Use His Money.

PHILADELPHIA, December 1.-THE Press
viii tomorrow publish an article stating
that a saloon-keeper of this city, who
claims to nave been made a millionaire by
the death of a Cuban uncle, has written to
O'DonoVan Rosa saying that as soon as he
received his money he would give 500, DOC
Tor scientific" warfare against England
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
WiId Ride Down a Mountain Side.

DENVER, December 14.-Late last night,
while a freight train of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad was coming down the
side of the mountain near Marshall Pass,
the air brakes failed. After a two-mile
run, and gaining a speed of not
less han fifty miles an hour
the engine jumped the track, followed by
twenty cars. The engine and cars are q
badly bruised. The head brakeman was
buried unde the wreck. The conductor and
rear brakeman succeeded in detaching and
stopping the rear car.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Brave Deed off a Fireman.

LANCASTER, Pa, December 12.-As a
passenger train on the Reading and. Co.
iumbus Railroad wa running at the rateof
thirty miles ar hour, near Ephrata, last
evening, the engineer saw a child on the
track some distance ahead. He called the
attention of the fireman, T.. j. D. Calnan,
to the fact, when the latter made his way
to the pilot and grasped the child just as
the engine was about to pass over it. The
child was taken to Columbia to await iden-
fi6catinn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Reuben Summers Will.

CINCINNATI, December 14.-Reuben r.
Springer, the philanthropist, in his will,
bequeaths to the Archbishop in trust for
charities, 5000, 900; an additional endowment
to the College of Music of s., 800 per annum.
To the Music Hall Association he leaves an
additional income of 5000 per annum. His
two female servants receive $25 900 jointly,
and his coachman $4,000 and his horses,
carriages and harness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Great hurricane in Vienna.

VIENNA, December ia violent hurri-
cane of three hours duration ragged here
to-day. Railway trains, omnibusses and
cabs were overturned. Many people in
jured. Shop windows were blown out, and
goods on display scattered. Many high
walls and roofs were destroyed. The storm
unroofed fifty houses. People were dashed
against walls by the violence of the gale
and many had their limbs broken,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18

The locomotive Ell Gobernado,
built at the railroad works at Sacra-
mento, has been sent down to the
Tehach:pi pass. Its weight is consider
ably more than one hundred tons, and
it has ten large drivers, five on a side.
1t was named after Governor Stanford.
San francisco Call.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Exhaustion of Jews Ordered.

ST. PETERSBURG, December 11.-Count
Tolstoi, Minister of the Interior, has order
ed the expulsion Of all Jews residing in
Odessa, Kieff, and other large cities, with
foreign passports, unless they also possess
special Government permits of residence.
Jewish firms doing business in these cities
are dismayed at the order, and many will
probably be obliged to go into liquidation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18

"A small volcano has been discover
ed in Steubenville, o. Several years
ago a fill was made near the upper blast
furnace, composed of slack coal, cinder
and hot Stag from the furnace. A
wagon passing over the road broke
through, revealing a smoldering fire
which is now known to have been burn
ing for three years. Several parties
have noticed smoke at times issuing
from assures in the earth. The fire had
about reached the surface, leaving only
a crust of earth and Stag to hold up that
portion of the street Cleveland Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Probable Murder by a Policeman.

CHICAGO, December 11.-Wm. Lynn,
twenty-five years old, died Tuesday night
from blood poisoning. 1t is now charged
that a police officer, about a week ago, in
directing some young men to move on,
threw his club at Lynn, striking him on the
head, causing a wound which resulted in
his death. The matter will be investigated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
The Weeks Failures.

NEW YORK, December 12.-Failures in
the last seven days in the United States,
314; Canada, "a; total, 34s, as compared
with 32O the previous week. Failures in
the Western, Southern and Pacific States
are above the average. The other sections
are about as usual.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Christians Massacred by Turks.

LONDON, December ia dispatch from
Odessa to the Times says: "Turkish
atrocities in Macedonia are increasing.
Two hundred Christians nave been muir
dered within the past few weeks, and three
villages burned. Kidnapping is common,
and inhabitants are afraid to leave their
houses"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
The Cotton crop.

WASHINGTON, Dece~lber 12.-Late re-
ports from the cotton districts indicate a
total crop of barely five and t~hree-quarters
million instead of six million bales, as was
expected with the increased acreage of IL is
year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Methodist Sunday School Celebration.

BALTIMORE, December 1.-The pulpits
of all the Methodist churches in this city
were occupied to-day by delegates to the
Centenary Conference. In the afternoon
there was a Sunday-school celebration.
twenty-five thousand children participant
ed. 1t was held in t~wenty-one churches,
fifteen white, representing forty three con-
gregations, and six colored, representing
thirteen congregations.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18

Il gives us great pleasure to state that
the merchant who was reported being at
the point of death from an attacked Pnen.
monia has entirely recovered by the use
LUNGS. And in giving publicity to this
statement we are actuated by motives of
public benefaction, trusting that others
may be benefited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
A Police Justice Cremated.

ST. MARYs, KAs., December 14.-Alva
Higbee, Police Judge, missing since the
fire yesterday, was found in the ruins to-
day. Nothing but some charred bones re-
manned unconsumed, He was easily iden-
titled by the key of the city ~calaboose
found with the remains.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Mother and Daughter Fatally Burned.

LANCASTER, Pa, December 12.-Llzzle
Balbach, aged twenty-one, living on Chest
nut Hill, this county, was fatally burned
Wednesday afternoon by her clothing
catching fire from the stove. The girls
mother was also dangerously burned while
s~ndeavoring to ~extinguish the lanes
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Business Depression,

DETROIT, MICH, December 14-It is said
there are now fully ten thousand men out
of employment in this city, and many more
whose time and pay ave been reduced
The only interests not affected are tobacco
manufactures, f~urriers and brewers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Railway AGENTS Safe Robbed.

CAIRO, ILL, December 1.-THE safe in
the agents office of the N. G. & st. L. R.R.
at Dresden, Tenn, was broken open last
night and 81 900 TAKEN. Two hundred dol
lars reward is offered for the arrest of the
thieves,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
of Interest to Graue Growers.

PARIS, December ia doctor claims to
lave discovered the means Of preventing
the ravage of p%olloxera by treatment with
arsenic. His experiments proved success
full. Experiments OF a large scale are now
being made. The discovery excites great
interest,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
maryland, MY Maryland
-. pretty wives.


Pretty Wives,
Lovely daughters and noble men"
"My farm lies in a rather low n miss-
matte situation, and
"My wifew
aWho?"
"Was a very pretty blonde"
Twenty years ago. became
"Sallowp
"Hollow-eyedp
"Withered and aged~
Before her time, from
.Malarial vapors, though she made no
particular complaint, not being OF the
grumpy kind, yet causing me great uneasi-
ness.
"a short time g I purchased your
| remedy for one of the children, who had q
very severe attack of biliousness. and 1t oc-
CURED to me thai the remedy might help my
wife, as / found that our little girl, upon re-
covery had
"LostF'
"Her sallowness, and looked as fresh IS
a new blown daisy. Well the story is soon
told. My wife, to-day, has gained her old
timed beauty with compound interest," and
is now as handsome a matron (f I 90 say it
myself as can be found in this county,
which is noted for pretty women. And I
have only Hop Bitters to thank for it
"The dear creature just looked over my
shoulder, and says I can fatter equal to
the days of our c~ourtship,' and that reminds
me there might be more pretty totues y my
hrofbor foru,oro uculd do "a I have d0uaD
Hoping you may long be spared to do
good, / thankfully remain
C. L. JAMES.
BELTsvILLE, Prince George Co, Nd,
May 26th, 1883
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Another Mine Explosion.

W1LKEsBARRE, Pa, December Low
ing to the fan stopping at No. 10 Mine, at
Sugar Notch, this evening, gas accumula-.
ted in one of the chambers. A lamp with
a miner caused an explosion. One miner
was killed and three seriously burned. All
were PolanderS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Colored Migration.

PETERSBURG, VA, December ia
party of colored emigrants from Cheraw
County, S. c., arrived tonight en- route to
Arkansas. The object of their emigration
is to obtain more profitable employment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
COWBOYS Duel.

PORTLAND, ORE, December 1.-Two
Idaho cowboys fought a duel with knives,
their left hands tied together. One re-
ceived twelve stabs and the other seven
teen, and both died.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
Over an Embankment.

EVANSVILLE, O.. December 14.-Andrew
Taylor drove his team over a twelve foot
embankment near this city, and sustained
fatal injuries by falling beneath the horse
and wagon.