The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-31
NEWS ITEMS.

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A resolution requesting the re
s%toration of the wool tariff has pass
ed the Ohio Legislature.
Prohibition conventions are to be
held February %, in every county of
the State.
The Shakers of South Union, La,
one of the thirteen Shaker communi
ties in the United States-own 90
600 acres in one of the best parts of
Louisiana.
Preparations are making in New
York to receive the remains of De-
Long and comrades on February 22d.
T,lmage has volunteered the use Of
his church.
The Salvation army seems to get
a great deal of money. 1t has lately
had erected an immense hall at Brigh-
ton, England, capable of holding g.,
OCO people. By the general public
the Army is regarded as an unmiti-
SdGSu uulSoEC6.
One of the striking sentences in
Senator Voorhees, speech was one in
which. speaking Of the dead Dukes
and his lonely resting-place, he said:
"Over his grave nightshade will
weep poisonous dew, and no bird of
song will ever rest"
Congressman Follett is pushing
his plan for transferring the Pension
Bureau to the Treasury department
and ab%olishing the Pension Agencies.
Carl Schurz said of bill incorporat
ing the same idea, introduced into
the Forty-fifth Congress, that the
change proposed was expedient and
practicable.
Under Mississippi law a woman is
liable to Indictment for assault if she
strikes her husband; but the man is
not liable for a~ssaulting the woman
if he uses a switch no longer than his
little finger in doing so. 1t is now
proposed to so amend the statutes as
to give the wife the same immunity
that her husband enjoys.
Foreign countries that have unjust
ly excluded American meats from
their markets will do well to observe
} that the Senate, after almost a day,
discussion, has taken the first ste,
; toward resorting to that discrimina
l ton in a practical way. They SHOULD
equally beware of assailing tn
, American eagle on his crag and TIL
: American porker in his sly.
r Alliance CO., Leader: The dem
|, oeratic press of Ohio, with but on
. or two exceptions openly, fearlessly
! and scathingly denounces the mean
3 by whici Henry B. Payne was ele,
ted Senator. The voice of the pres
| is the voice Of the masses. We ca
4 at least rejoice that our party pres
can not be debauched. Democrat
e will live and rule when the carcas
!, Of monopoly lies rotting in its grave
The Grand Army of the Republi
$ has had a remarkable growth of lats
S There are said to be now on its roll
s a quarter of a million members i
good standing, and before the mex
elcampment it is expe. ted that ther
will be an army of three hundre
8 thousand comrades. So many nortl
ern soldiers have gone to live in th
South that there are Grand Arm
e organizations in all the Souther
States.
4. The scene of the battle of Pitt
" burg Landing was visited the otht
n day by a correspondent Of the CAL
Peoria, I'll. He says that farmer
still gather lead and iron in the fiel,
'e and that n merchant shipped ov,
g 1900 pounds of old bullets last yea
..e The other day a child found a she
that exploded after it had bee
,t bur- ed for twenty one years. OF IL
~ $500 soldiers whose remains lie
d the cemetery, 1851 were ~unrecogni
ed. Two large iron cannon serve
st columns at the gate of the cemeter
lie The grave nearest them is that of IL
Drummer Boy of Shiloh" Able
E. Sidney Johnson died under a lar.
lie tree that stood near by but of IL
n tree there is only the stump renal
~ ing, and the spot is marked by
~ young evergreen.