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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
A Remarkable Wedding,

WHEELING, w. VA, January 25.-Thurs-
day afternoon two people were married at
Martinsburg by Rev. John Longstreet, for
merly chaplain of Jeb Stuart's Confeder-
ate cavalry. There was nothing peculiar
about the ceremony, except that both par
ties to the contract have been known for
thirty odd years as respectable women
in that vicinity. The groom, if such a
name can be applied to the leading spirit
in the transaction, has been known for
ten years in Martinsburg as a lady of cor
rect habits, modest demeanor and marked
intelligence and refinement. His (or her)
name is Jane Catharine Payne. Jane for
ten years has kept little store on the
famous Winchester pike. There is no
better family than the Paynes. Jane, liv-
ing quietly and attending closely to busi-
ness, was looked upon as an old maid, born
to blush unseen, and waste her sweetness
on the desert air. Judge of every one's
astonishment, therefore, when on last
Tuesday Jane Catharine appeared in Mar
tinsburg, boldly announced her conversion
from the gentler to the sterner sex, pur-
chased and arrayed herself in a suit of
masculine habiliments, and also announced
her intention of marrying Mrs. Annie Hin
ton, lady who for years has been her as
sistant and companion. The license was
made out in the name of j. G. Payne, it
being James intention to get the Legisla-
ture to change her name.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
The Fatal "Number Ihirtsen.n

NEW York, January 25.-When Miss
Susie A. Hooper graduated in the Paterson
High School on January 30, 1888, the class
consisted of thirteen members. She was
the only colored member. Because the class
numbered thirteen some of the more timid
ones said that there was danger of ill-luck
happening to some of them before the year
was out. This inspired one of the gradu-
ates, Miss Maggie Wright, to select for her
theme, ''The Number Thirteen" She COM
mended the course of the New York Thir-
teen Club, and said that the time was COM
ing when knowledge would sweep away all
such ridiculous superstitions. As for her.
self, she did not fear harm because the class
nambered thirteen. Some of the others,
however, have felt differently about it, and
they were just congratulating themselves
on the approaching close of the year,
when they were startled at the news of Miss
Hooper's death. Miss Hooper's funeral was
held to day. 1t was more numerously at
tended, it is said, than that of any colored
person ever held in Paterson. Everybody
felt an interest in this young girl, who had
made a long and successful effort to be an
ornament to her race.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
Poisoned Her Husband.

LAKE CITY, MIMI, January M.-Mr.
Sterritt, farmer, seventy years old, liv-
ing in Mount Pleasant, leaving home, was
told by his wife that she would spend the
day with her sons, and that she r9uld
leave food on the table for him on his re.
turn, calling attention to some strained
honey, OF which he was particularly fond
Mr.. Sterritt returned from the city about
the middle of the afternoon and ate slice
of bread and butter on which he spread
about teaspoonful of honey. He noticed
taste of exceeding bitterness while eating.
Soon after he became blind and dizzy and
fell upon the floor. In a few minutes he
recovered from the attack sufficiently to en-
able him to start for the house of his son,
but on his way he fell down again in terri
bic commissions. He was discovered in this
condition by a neigbor and taken to his sons
residence. DR.. Patton, of this city,
was sent for, and pronounced it
to be case of poisoning
by strychnine. When almost at the point
of death Mr.. Sterrett rallied with the med
ical assistance afforded, and now recov-
ering. DIR. Patton brought the honey sof
which Mr.. Sterrett had eaten to this city,
and found numerous undissolved crystals
of strychnine in it, enough, in fact, to kill
twenty men. Mrs. Sterrett is about the
age of her husband, and is his second wife.
1t is supposed that she is insane, and prob
ably an examination will be held to deter
mine her mental condition.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
A Bold Burglary.

DAYTON, o., January %. - Early this
morning burglars entered the Brown street
railroad Office, at the extreme southern
part of the city and committed one of the
boldest robberies known in this section.
Observing the watchman in the office, they
knocked at the door, which being opened,
they declared their purpose and at once
commenced to blanket him and tie him
down to chair with ropes, so that he could
safe was opened without difficulty with the
keys taken from the watchman, but the
other with combination lock was blown
open with dynamite. The officials of the
road can't tell accurately how much money
was taken, but think they did not secure
over $500. A blacksmith shop near by was
also burglarized and several sledge ham,
mers used in the other burglary, stolen. A
lot of tickets dropped by the burglars were
afterward found scattered about the street.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
A HURRICANE
Disastrous Winds in Great Britain and
France.
A Vast Amount OF Damage to Property
and Many Lives Lost.

LONDON, January 27.-The wind blew
hurricane all last night. Much damage
was done to the city. Many persons were
injured. The glass roof of the Westmin-
ster Aquarium we're demolished during
performance. A panic ensued and several
persons was hurt. A printing office in
the Haymarket was unroofed and boy
and a large number of lives were
lost. Telegraph communication with
the continent, also the Atlantic cables,
were interrupted several hours. The storm
ragged in Paris. Railway and telegraphic
communication is broken in all directions.
The wires are prostrated. Much damage
was done in the suburbs. Many persons
were injured in the streets. An immense
number of lamps and windows were wreck
ed, trees uprooted, and chimneys demolish-
ed. The Freethinker's Hall, at Portsmouth,
was destroyed. No boats are allowed to
leave Portsmouth. AT Hastings the thea
ter and pier had to be closed. Electric
lights along the parade were extinguished,
and the sea dashed over the streets,
making walking dangerous. At Mon
burst their bounds and flooded
the highways. Southampton and East
bourne suffered severely. Railway traffic
is greatly deranged. At Torquay there
were many casualties. A mail cart was,
overturned by the violence of the wind.
Many boats are swamped. The Iron Chap
ell at Newcastle has gone down. A falling,
roof killed woman and two children. At
Leeds the roof of dwelling collapsed, ,
killing one and injuring four occupants.i
The mail train between Durham and Dar-
lington was twice stopped by the gale. The
shops in the Isle of Wight closed early. A
lady was knocked down by the wind and
had her leg broken. At Newry, Ireland,
many houses were unroofed. The police
barracks were made untenable, and
the police were compelled to take refuge in
the courthouse. The bark Nokomis, Cap
tain Murphy, from Londonderry for Balti-
more, anchored in Lough Foyle, parted
cables, and was driven to sea. 1t is feared
that the vessel and crew are lost. Reports
from all parts of the kingdom agree that
the gale was almost unparalleled in sever
ity. The railway station at Elanswell was
hurled across the track. Seven bodies
were washed ashore at Hythe. The Steamer
Frisia, at Plymouth, reports tremendous
seas. A. bark was towed into Dover with
its masts literally torn out of the deck.
|. During performance at Pyrt st. Martin
Theater, Paris, panic was caused by the
sudden e&tinguishing of the gaslight. Cries
were raised to turn off the gas. The slam
ming of the door by the wind and the roar
of the tempest drowned the cries of the
actors. Bernhardt's foot was wounded by
fragments from broken window.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
In Favor of Cremation.

Every one who has seen the opened
vault of a noble family has been
shocked by the repulsive objects ex
posed-the stained and 'decaved velvet
coverings, the rotting wood, the lead
coffin fiattened to half its original
depth All that can be said in favor
of mausoleums is that they are a little
less repugnant at first to feeling than
the cold, clayey, damp and dismal
earth grave. The stone sarcophagus is
decidedly the better form of burial, but
it is not procurable for one in a quarter
of million, and as the population goes
on increasing the cemeteries will be-
come as Objectionable as the old grave
yards, with their hideous arrangement
of tier on tier of collins until the surface
is reached, and the ground becomes
fetid mass, carrying death in its swift
est and most terrible forms among the
healthy living. After death from such
diseases as smallpox and scarlet fevel
it becomes necessary TO destroy by fire
the bedding and clothes of the deceased,
and to extend destruction to the bodyis
but another step in sanitary direction.
Repellant as destruction by fire may a,
first seem, is it not to be preferred to
the slow and sickening process OF cor
ruption? Much may be said in favor
of the saving of the expense of the or
dinary funeral-to many families a
most distressing burden when least
able to bear it-of avoiding the many
risks of infection in large towns from
the use of the mouldy mourning car
riage; and where expense is first OBJ
iect for consideration, the saving of the
cost of the grave and tombstone is not
to be disregarded. The new system
would allow of more frequent monu-
ments, tablets and windows in churches
and chapels, and would be useful in
collecting the records now strewed over
the face of large cemeteries. The main
difficulty in the way is the provision OF
public crematoria. Men of large for
tune and landed estate can have their
own funeral temples and crematoriums,
but the great mass of the public will
seek facilities for burning their dead in
vain until public opinion, backing up
the recommendations of the medical
profession and the suggestions of COM
mon sense, shall demand the legisla-
ton of recognized national system of
cremation, and this is only a matter of
time. -Sherborne (Eng.i Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

A CoASTING accident occurred on tho 10Th
a. Newark, John Rogan, while driving
his horse and cart up hill had his horse
struck by sled load of coasters, and
broke its leg. 1t had to be killed.
DR.. BENZ. TAPPEN, well known and
eminent physician of Steubenville died
few mornings ago after long illness.
He was son of Judge Tappen, who was
in the q. S. Senate from this State in 1889.
His age was seventy-two.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company have
purchased the Buckeye car-works in Co
lumbus, and twenty eight acres of land ad-
joining, for shops for new work for the
company's lines west of the Ohio.
FRED FRYER, saloon-keeper of Ports
mouth, was adjudged insane by the Pro-
bate Court on the 10Th. ------.-
CONDUCTOR HOLMAN, who had been run
ming on the Little Miami road for thirty
years, died suddenly in Columbus on the
Goth.
CHAs. BoLLA, of Sandusky, who had
been on a protracted spree, and who had
become respondent from inability to pro-
cure work, shot himself in the left breast
on the Goth. He cannot recover. Bolla is
a single man, aged twenty-six years.
JESSIE MIDDLEswARTZ, a prominent
young farmer, living three miles from
Winchester, met with an accident on the
Goth while coming from church. His horse
jumped from small bridge, throwing him
from the sleigh, breaking leg and other
wise injuring himself.
JOSEPH RoEMER, son of Anthony Roe.
mer, of North Monroeville, Huron County,
ha1 iorl1t han off oil lv
by his father chopping wood a few days
ago.
AMOS MARKIN received - the peniten.
tiary October last from Gallia County on
an eighteen months sentence for horse
stealing, was taken to Vinton County a
couple of weeks ago, where he was con
victed and sentenced to two years. addi-
tional for similar crime. He was taken
back to the penitentiary on the 10Th.
THIRTY-Two of Cleveland's solid and
respectable citizens were arrested and
taken before the Police Judge at Cleveland,
few mornings ago, on a charge of failing
to clear the snow off of their sidewalks on
Euclid avenue and other prominent streets.
They were all fined round sum for their
| negligence, and reminded that when it
comes to keeping sidewalks clean, Cleve-
land justice is no respecter of persons.
A YOUNG man named Rowland, SON OF
Dan Rowla nd, had his right hand mangled
in the machne-room of the car works al
Lima few days ago. 1t was afterward
| amputated.
THE narrow-guage railroad from Dayton
to Toledo will soon be changed to the stand
ard guage.
NINE prisoners confined in the county
| Jail at Newark, for burglary, robbery ant
various other crimes, attempted to make
their escape a few nights since by
breaking the locks from tine cell doors. By
the timely discovery being made by Sher
| iff Hall the plan was frustrated, and tn,
prisoners put in cells heretofore unoccu
! pied.
| AN incendiary named lues, who fired 1
farmers barn near Youngstown, mar
rowly escaped lynching after his arrest OF
the 23d.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
Penitentiary Fire.

ST. PAUL, MINI, January ga fire
broke out in the State prison at Saltwater
at half past twelve to-day. 1t was first
discovered in the offices, which were burn
ing briskly at 1:30. The flames were
then spreading to the cell-rooms in the
main building. The prisoners were
all removed in safety, and secured in
another part of the yard. Two
thirds of the building was burned. 1t
is rumored that the fire was started by
friends of Younger, the notorious des-
perado, to aid him in effecting his escape.
The conviots are locked up in the foundry
building, guarded by military company K.
Governor Hubbard has called out compan-
les G. and d. to reinforce the guard. The
loss may reach 100000. Strict discipline
was maintained in the removal of the con-
xictS-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
Fatal Marine Disasters.

LONDON, january 94.-Several disasters
to shipping occurred along the southern
coast of England yesterday afternoon and
evening, in consequence of violent gales in
the channels. Three men were drowned in
Plymouth Sound by the swamping of their
boat. The telegraph wires are down in
many places, and kilograms of all kinds
have been seriously delayed. At Belfast,
a granite monument, in a cemetery, was
overturned, woman was killed by the
blowing down of a chimney, and a child
was blown into Logan River. At Darwin,
in lancashire, a man was buried and killed
under a falling wall, and at Liverpool a
man was blown down and had his skull
fractured
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
-Rsron Won Scboeler- of Corn,

Baron Won Schoeler, of Corpus
Christi, has strange pet. 1t is an i'm
mense snake of the anaconda species.
The Baron's influence upon his horrid
prisoner has been such as to reduce it
to fawning docility. At the merest
sound of the Baron's voice the reptile
Immediately manifests sense of per-
feet delight by describing such q variety
of evolutions as to amaze one. 1t will
actually assume a perpendicular posi-
ton, resting upon its head, and in q
twinkle assume the reverse by resting
upon its tail and all this and much
more while the Baron stands fastened
in the den of the writhing, squirmiDg,
acrobatic monster. - Corpus Christi
Critic
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

-Twenty-three ostriches stalked up
to the New Orleans Times Democrat
reporter and began to peck at his coat
buttons, and Mr.. l.. j. Selfridge ex-
planned that he had imported the Lirds
for breeding, and that they are the best
that the American Ostrich Company's
agent could find in South Africa. They
were brought in padded ostrich stalls
three and half by four and Il half feel
and five feet high, and arranged in the
ships hold as houses are in Il city, and
in pleasant weather the birds were eX
ercised, four at time, in the streets
thus formed. For food they were pro-
vided with l 100 pounds of cut forage,
1,600 pounds of barley, 5000 pounds of
Natal mealies, 1000 pounds of crushed
bones, 100 pounds of rock salt. 1.000
heads of cabbage, 500 punches OF car
rots and 800 of onions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
Accident by a FaIlinu Wall.

: NEW York, January 24.-The coping
and top of the rear wall of the Hebrew Free
School, in East Broadway, fell this morn
ing on the roof of the extension, two stories
below, in which were fifty pupils ranging
in age from three to seven years. 1t
crushed through the skylight into the class
room, throwing the pupils into wild fright
and injuring several slightly. The screams
aroused the neighbors, and frantic mothers
rushed in clamoring for their children.
The teachers did their best to stay the
panic, but yielded before the rush of moth
ers, each of whom seized her child and
carried it away. For a time great excite
nra-vailaH
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
ATrain Wrecked and Burned.

BLUFTToN, o, January 25.-As the accom-
mediation train from Lima, east on the
Lake Erie & Western, was about one and
a half miles from here this morning the
train was wrecked by broken rail. The
caboose and passenger coach turned over
and into the ditch, and the latter caught
fire at both ends from the stoves. Jacob
Bowman was badly burned in the side; Mr..
Shaw, from Findlay, o., was seriously hurt
in the shoulder and back; his partner,
Stills, was burned in the arm and leg; o. S.
Langan and wife, of the Exchange Bank of
this place were both hurt on the head; A
]. Owens, attorney, also hurt on the head; /;
John Zobn had his hands crushed, and sew
eral others were bruised more or less.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

The yew tree is said, in certain cases,
to have attained the age of thirty-two
hundred years, the cedar two thousand,
the oak fifteen hundred, the spruce
twelve hundred, the walnut nine hum
dred, the maple five hundred and the
elm three hundred.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

The longest line of fence in the
world will be the wire fence extending
from the Iudian Territory west across
the Texas Panhandle and thirty-five
miles into New Mexico. Its course will
be in the line of the Canadian River,
and its purpose is to stop the drift of
the Northern cattle. 1t is bold and
splendid enterprise, and will pay q
large percentage on the investment.
The fence will be over two hundred
miles long. Chicago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
The Managing Mamma and Her Seven
Daughters.

DaugnterSs
What is this?
This is a managing mamma, darling.
Why a managing mammaP"
Because she is managing or trying to
manage.
To do what?
To marry off her daughters.
My! that is a huge undertakings
Mountainous, my precious.
But those seven gawks tagging be-
hind her?
Sh Those, dear, are her charming
and accomplished daughters.
But that sallow old girl with the gig
lamps and stiff neck
That, my precious, is Mathilde, the
literary light of the family.
How ''literaryP"
Well, Mathilde has read Swinburne
and Herbert Spencer, knows two Pro-
fessors of the Concord School of PhilOs-
ophy, has published four poems in the
Philadelphia Ledger, and can write
verse all night long. Besides, Mathilde
knows four consultations, Mathilde
does, acts in amateur theatricals, and
is writing play.
Gracious! and how old is shep
just nineteen, sweet.
And who is the wall-eyed young lady
with .freckles and fever blisters walking
with MathildeP
That, dear, is Angelo, the beauty of
the family.
How the ''beautyP"
Well, whenever they get up tableaux
at the church Angelo is selected, and
that proves it.
How old 10 Anna1ap
Just nineteen, love.
And that one Immediately behind
Mathilde?-the young lady with the
crooked teeth and nose like an india
rubber shoe run down at the heel?
That, darling, is Therese?
And what does she doP
She is the good girl of the family
goes to church twice day, says grace
at meals, and works Bible-marks fol
every man she meets.
How old?
Next?-the pudding-faced girl with
twisted hairP
| That is Marie.
| WellP
Marie is the fiirt of the family. Marie
uses slang and purses up her mouth,
smokes cigarettes and makes faces,
| and always says what an awful bad,
naughty girl she has been, and is gen.
orally as; playful as kitten.
| Old?
| just nineteen, dear.
NextP-the meek little Ounce with s
figure like shad?
! Madeleine.
Well, what is the matter with her?
She is the housekeeper of the family
Madeleine can cook right through foul
cook-books; she can make her OWL
dresses.
l could have guessed as much my
self.
Sh!- and then Madeleine looks aftel
everything, and sees that everything ii
right, and OH well there's no end tt
the comfort brought about by Made
leine.
She is Just nineteen, too, suppose
} Nineteen last week, darling.
Next?-that bilious scarecrow in thu
hat?
Sh! that, my precious, is Belle.
Well, what is the chronic trouble
with Belle?
Why, Belle has travelled. and she il
the wit of the family. When Lord Muf
fyn was telling long story to Angelo
last evening, Belle told him to " saw i
off," and ''cheese it."
That was very funny.
Yes, dear.
You say she has "traveled?''
Yes, dear.
Where?
, Well, she has been in Colorado, AM
3 Chicago and Milwaukee.
: Her age?
( just nineteen, sweet.
4 Well, now tell me about that poo
: little consumptiye, with gold teeth.
3 That, dear, is Celeste.
Nineteen?
/ Just.
) Any miraculous talent ?
e Yes, darling.
r What?
A voice."
D Cultivated?
Well, Signor Tutti Frutti di Verm
4 celli says that he thinks about 200 lie:
f sons will "develop" it.-Boston Glob'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
River Men Alarmed.

PITTsBURG, Pa, January 25.-The river
men are alarmed over the prospect of an
immense ice gorge in the Youghiogheny
and Monongahala Rivers. The former is
frozen almost solid. Gorges exist at Port
Royal, Shaner, Layton and Smithton. In
many places the ice is piled twenty feet
high. The river men made no preparatio ms
to protect property. There is but little
coal on the river, and it is thought all will
be saved in case of sudden rise.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

IT is said that the use of salt to melt
snow on car tracks is not only not in
furious to the feet of horses, but cures
scratches on sore. heels, provided the
feet are washed and dried as soon as the
horses return to their stables. 1t is also
claimed that much of the poisonous gas
in sewers are destroyed when the melt
ed snow with salt in it runs off.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

GENERAL CHARLES GORDON was
only thirty years old when placed in
command of division of the Chinese
army. He always went unarmed in
battle, even when foremost in the breech,
directing his troops by waving little
cane. AS he was uniformly victorious
in his engagements, his Chinese sol
diers considered the cane to be mag
ic wand which insured his protection
and their triumph.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31

A New SOUTH WALES letter to the
Baltimore San describes the Wentworth
Falls which makes them more than a
rival of Niagara. There are two falls,
one of 700 feet and one of 300 feet, a
total of 1,50O feet. The valley below
the falls is fifty miles across, with but
one outlet
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
RuruIars Make a Good Haul.

New YORK, January 27.-The safe in the
jewelry store of E. B. Hayden, No. 2O5 Full
ton street, Brooklyn, was broken into last
night and $1,000 worth of jewelry taken.
The burglars are supposed to be some of
the gang who secured jewelry valued at
So, 600 in raid upon the Maiden Lane es-
tabliShment week ago.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
PROF. PUTNAM, of Harvard, lectur

PROF. PUTNAM, of Harvard, lectur-
ing upon his own explorations of the
Turner altar mounds of Ohio, said that
among the 100000 specimens found
were some showing how large space
the mound-builders and their trading
allies covered on this continent. There
were grizzly bears teeth that must have
come from the Rocky Mountains, alliga-
tors teeth from the South, and pearls
from the seashore. Thousands OF
pearls were found in one altar, all
drilled for stringing.