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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06

The cholera epidemic at Naples is
causing a most distressing state of
affairs amcng the musical profession.
The greater part of the professors are
without pupils, executants have moth
ing to do, theatres are closed, the
churches have suspended their fes
rivals, and music, even of the hum
blest kind is silenced. Consequently
many artists are suffering from &C
tual want. Several musicians have
succumbed to the epedimic, among
them the editor of the artistic journ
al Mefstofele. and also a promising
young composer, Giovanni Gnarro.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06

The election in Eaton was very
quiet.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06
Preble County!

Below we give the vote Of Preble
county, with the majorities of each
Township:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06
EDMOND S. DYE,

A TTORNEY AT LAW AND NO.
N TARY PUBLIC. Onice-with
Judge J. V. Campbell, No. III Barron
| ST., Eaton, O, jun22-Gms
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06

j. II. Rhodes, Secretary of the
Garfield Monument Association, on
being questioned as to when the con-
tracts will be let, says that, owing to
the lateness of the season, it will be
impossible to do any work before
next spring. Mr.. Keller, the archi-
tect of the accepted design, viii, at
his own expense, in the meantime
spend several months in a special
study of the monuments of the old
world, SO that advantage may be
taken in the way of perfecting all
the details of the design by anything
which Mr.. Keller may observe in
Europe. Mr.. Keller is determined
to make the Garfield monument in
every way worthy of its object and
to spare no pains Oh expense in the
way of ~perfecting his detailed plans.
He will return to Cleveland in time
enough to make the contracts SO that
the work may be under full
Roadway as early insthe spring o.
1885 as it is advisable to begin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06


California grain growers have a
reaping machine which requires
mules to propel it. The machine is
called q s'header," in that it cuts off
the heads of the wheat stelks, taking
in as little of he straw as possible.
The heads are carried on an endless
belt to a cylinder, where they are
threshed and afterwards cleaned.
The grain is run into sacks, the
sacks tied up and left on the ground,
to be gathered up by wagons. These
combined harvesting and ~threshing
machines are yearly becoming more
popular, although they cost $4,000
leach.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-06
Halt the peppermint used in the

Halt the peppermint used in the
world is said to be raised in St.
Joseph County, Mich. The crop is
cultivated with hoe and pillow, cut
with a scythe in August, packed and
tramped down in large wooden tubs,
a cover fastened on, steam turned in
from the bottom through a tin pipe,
steam, impregnated with essence,
carried from the top in another pipe,
where it is condensed and carried
through a worm into a tub of water,
and the oil is then separated. An
acre yields from fifteen to twenty five
pounds Of oil, worth from SIS to $3.50
per pound.
The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1884-11-06
Little Rocky Placer Diggings.

Several of the Maidenites who took
in the Little Rocky stampede, returned
last Friday for the winter. Mr.. Henry
Born and Robert Mills are greatly
pleased with their success, having
secured a considerable quantity of the
precious metal. Like all placer dig
gings, some are fortunate in securing a
rich piece Of ground, while others work
hard without reward. During the
coming winter, parties owning claims
on which they are compelled to sink
from 20 to 40 feet to bedrock, intend
to do so and be able to utilize the
vastly increased amount Of water in
the spring,
The yield from the deep claims will
the richness and perma-
nency Of the diggings. Should they
prove rich, miners will be warranted
in going there, until then they will do
well to stay away
The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1884-11-06
Rolled Gold.

Rolled gold IS made by casting an
ingot of brass, and while this is still
hot pouring upon it a thin layer of
gold alloy The ingot when cold IS
forced between steel rollers until a long
thin ribbon Is produced, of which the
proportion of gold and brass IS the
same as Of the ingot. The percentage
of gold is. reduced as low as two and
three per cent This rolled gold is
used in making cheap bracelets and
watch chains, aud costs but little more
than brass. 1t wears from one to ten
yeass.-AIining Review.
The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1884-11-06
Branding Machine.

The Fort Worth, Texas, Live Stock
Journal gives the following account OF
the workings of branding machine
In some sections of the southern range
country: about ten thousand head
of cattle have been branded this sea
son at the Crawford corral, on the
south side of the river, in the Parker
machine. The capacity of this ma
chine is about four thousand daily.
The price for branding is from seven
to ten cents per head This week one
thousand head of Mathers cattle have
been branded there. The machine is
about twenty feet long and will hold
from four to SIN at a time. 1t is just
wide enough for the passage of a full
grown animal. When the cattle enter
the machine they find on the bottom d
wooden frame crossed by iron rods
about SIX inches apart. When the
machine is full the frame IS elevated
by puileys operated by horse. The
legs of the animals are between the
rods and presently the rods strike
their abdOmcns and lifts then from
the ground, their bodies resting on the
rods, with Their legs swinging under
meath. While in this helpless con
dltion the branding iron IS applied.
1t requires Eve men to work the ma
chine" "
The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1884-11-06
MONTANA NEWS.

The Northern Pacific earnings for
the first eight days of October were
P356,o9I, an average of S44, $50 for
each day.
1t IS said that the fellows who stop
ped the Boulder coach crossed the
river the other day at Edmundson's
ferry, and are now hiding in this
county.
]. K. Toole was run away with
Monday by wild team out near
Drummond, and received a severe
CASH in the forehead by being thrown
out of the vehicle.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia Wonder. E"
has been up to Butte. Montana.
With her little finger she raised the
editor of the Miner above her head
and spun him around ike a top
Bismarck Tribune.
The Northern Pacific company has
applied to the Stock Exchange to list
Po25,oo in general first mortgage six
per cent land grant gold bonds issued
on IS miles Of the new road. Total
issue. S473S4ooo on 1895 miles of
road.
Last Thursday Joseph Hill, Teton
rancher, was instantly killed by a
vicious broncho. 1t seems he was
driving the team in wagon, and stop
ped to repair some defect in the har-
ness, when the animal kicked him.
breaking his neck. We understand
the deceased was a man well and
tavorably known in the Teton country
and leaves family to mourn his un
timely end.-Sun River Sun.
On Monday a special train having
on board a number of Northern Pa
cifc officers, passed through Billings
Immediately after the regular train.
The special remained here about ff-
teen minutes and proceeded west.
The party consisted of Vice President
Oakes md his private secretary, N. {.
Thrail, Assistant General Manager
Odell, General Passenger Agent Fee
and General Freight Agent Hanna
ford.-Billings Herald.
A letter to Major Maginnis from
Secretary Teller (replying TO a letter
from the major states that insuuc
tons were issued on the 9Th ulr. for
the payment to the Flathead Indians
OF the money due them from the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
for the right of way through their res
ervation. The amount will be paid in
cash and divided among the Indians
The total is $4,000, that being the
amount agreed upon at the conference
held two years ago between Assistant
Attorney General McCammon and the
Flatheads.
The Northern Pacific officials pass
ed here on the goth ult, going west.
Mr. Oakes stated that he was well
pleased with the stock and wheat
Of the company The stock
east will be fully $4,000 head
this fall. One hundred thousand head
have been brought here by the North
ern Pacific this season, and probably
I5o, 900 head have come over the trail
nto Montana. Cattle are going east
n excellent condition. Mr.. Hanna
ord states that six miles wide on each
side of Beaver creek will be reserved
rom sale in order to insure a good |
,attle drive to Mingusville and the
anne policy will be pursued on other
treams.-Bismarck Tribune.
The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1884-11-06

The sheep men of this section are
well provided with hay and sheds.
Jos. Herring, after summers hard
rustling, farming on shares has moved
back to town. Joe isn't like the fellow
who wonders where his hard earned
summer wages have gone when winter
oyertakes him; not much his root
house is full of vegetables of every
variety, and Joe is proportionately
happy.
Everything looks favorable for good
school this winter. Parents must re-
member that it is their duty to aid
the teacher in the matter of deport-
ment to a certain extent If parents
give their children to understand that
they must obey the teacher, it will
assist in their government. 1t is wnen
their disobedience finds sympathy at
home that the efforts OF teacher
becomes almost powerless.
A large and appreciative audience
welcomed Miss Fannie Palmer, the
brilliant newspaper correspondent and
actress, at the skating rink, Monday
and Tuesday evening last. Miss Palmer
is clever delineator of human char
acter, and her renditions were loudly
applauded, she being called before the
curtains a number of times during the
performance. She is making tour of
Montana and the far West for the pur-
pose of gathering food for romance and
other literary work in which she is
engaged; and also for the purpose of
writing up the country for the Eastern
press, u profession to which she has
devoted the most of her life, and to
which she owes much of her success.
She will give an entertainment at Mar
tinsdale tonight, from whence she goes
to Philbrook, Lewistown, Maginnis and
Maiden. We wish her pleasant
journey. Husbandman.
On account of the important discov-
cries in the Little Rocky mountains
there is an urgent necessity for mail
route from Ft. Maginnis to Rocky
Point, which, when the reservation is
opened, can be extended to the mines
and on to Fort Assinaboine. There
are two hundred persons who would be
accommodated by such service at
present, and it seems to us there should
be no delay about securing it. We
would suggest to those interested to
forward petition to that effect to Dele
gate Maginnis, who will doubtless give
it immediate attention. - River Press.
Maginnis has tried several years-not
very hard - to get the reservation
thrown open to settlement in which
these mines are located. He promised
to get this mineral belt cut out of the
reserve be has done tin
horn He has not done much for this
section of Montana but promise. A
mail route to Rocky Point is very
desirable, but we doubt whether the
of Maginnis would aid in
its establishment
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14
The Angry Tree.

A specimen of the "angry tree," in
digenous to Australia, is growing upon
a farm in Nevada, and is now eight feet
high. When the sun sets it's leaves fold
together, and the ends of the tender twigs
coil up like pig tail. If the twigs are
handled the leaves move uneasily for a
minute or more. A singular thing con-
cerning the tree was its apparent resent
ment on being removed from pot in
which it had matured into much larger
pot. Hardly had it been placed in it's
new quarters before the leaves began to
stand up in all directions, like the hair
ON the tail of an angry cat, and soon the
whole plant was in quiver. At the
same time it gave out an ordor most
pungent and sickening, resembling the
odor given out by rattlesnakes and other
kinds of snakes when teased. So strong
and offensive was the smell that it had to
be removed from the house for several
days.-Lumbermdn.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14
A Sample Of Florida Pluck.

Between three or four miles northwest
from Leesburg, Sumter county, Florida,
the traveller enters a delightful country
of hill, valley and lake, in charming va
riety and agreeable contras to the miles
of low, fiat pine and palmetto SO YEARLY
monOtonous in many sections Four
years ago Major O. 7. Rocks, an ener-
getic, intelligent gentleman from Phila-
delphia, brought his family and settled
ON a hill top overlooking one of the
clearest and prettiest of these lakes.
and amid the disheartenin9 incredulitv
of his neighbors, began demonstrating in
a practical way the productiyeness of
black jack land when properly managed
On this soil, which to an ordinary farm
er would look exceedingly poor, he has
yearly harvested large crops of sweet
potatoes and other vegetables, mean
while planting probably the greatest va
riety OF fruit and ornamental trees and
plants to be found in the State. He has
now under successful cultivation one
hundred named varieties of fruit, includ-
ing nearly all the named varieties of
choice lemons, lines, citron, figs, guavas,
(of which he makes speciality, Japan
plum, yams, bananas, olwes, a large
patch of thrifty pine-apples, and even
peaches, pears and red astrachan APP
pies. About his house he has also a
great variety of semi-tropical ornamen-
tai trees, vines and shrubbery-all of re-
markable size and vigor as ;s attested by
the dark rich foliage OF the orange and
other leaves. He uses little fertilizer
but that produced on his place, by his
flock of $50 Plymouth Rock fowls. which
he considers the most valuable in this
respect. Beside the above. he success
fully grows sugar cane, rice, tomatoes,
peas, squashes, cassava and millet,
which with the eggs and poqltry as well
as Dream and trout from TIE lakes, en-
able him to set a table Of Ills own pro-
ductions the year round, without MAX
ing his main dependence tjg and hom-
iny. : the unyarying diet OF l;o many ma
Il -. aAsaasA-a-A--4.-z n 4sss,<l- a., 4.
- s.e.....s L .lS laISs -.
a great variety OF nrOductsS lille all adj
NIT the supericsisy OF slE soils for
building purposes. 1t isb1t just that
sus:h man should receive iM his pluck
ana pe1EeSgi jif tie 8 He Of untold
ss:Ourag dement's, tic due fIward which
ne finds in tile threngs OF ftfEsgifty settlers
from the North who are raAidly buying
up the land in his vicinitvk4lnd forming
a adelightful, congenial SpGIstai about him.
A new station ON the Floii.fa Southern
Railroad has been established on the
spot, christened Frlitland Yark, whose
prospects are bright for pretty, thrifty
.town.E1he' SoUth.- saTfia.@
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14
A Dutch Colony.

Five families of Hollanders and one
man without q family came up from Fer
nandina last Wednesday night to locate
near Tallahassee. There are twenty
five of them in all. They were induced
to come to Middle Florida by reading the
Florida State pamphlet, translated into
Dutch by DR. Wertheim and distributed
in Holland. They left Holland April 5,
and came via New York to Fernandina
where they. were met by Mr.. f. A. Sal
omonson, who accompanied them to
Tallahassee as interpreter.
Their aim is to purchase lands and
locate all in one community. Most of
them are gardeners and truck farmers,
one is dairy man, one a carpenter and
another blacksmith.
AS it is rather late in the season to
start a crop, they express willingness
to hire about until fall. They were met
very cordially by our people, and homes
on the most liberal conditions have been
offered them by several of our land own
ers. They are now deliberating on which
of the offers they will accept.
They express themselves perfectly de-
lighted with this section, and say, that
if their experience holds them out in
their good opinions of Middle Florida,
larger colonies of their countrymen will
follow them here next winter. of
FIOarefs.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14

hold of faith y On the Fourth of July
next grand celebration will be held at
Lake de Funiak, on which occasion DIR.
B. NJ. Palmer, of New Orleans, is expect
ed to deliver an address, and a general
jollifcation in Scotch Presbyterian style
will be held.
Judge w. j. NanKirk has inaugurated
a movement to establish there a men,
orial college to commemorate the faith
and lives of those sterling fathers OF
Presbyterianism in Florida, and it is
hoped that all the necessary funds will
be subscribed, and that the corner stone
will be laid on that day.
The town and lake are worth a visit,
and we hope to meet there host of
Presbyterians from all over the United
States on the appointed day. The Chron-
icle is under obligations to Hon. G. G..
Banfill, President of the Lake de Funiak
Park Association, for an invitation to be
present.
We are also requested by Mr.. Banfill
to extend a general invitation to every
body who can to meet these Scotch peo-
pie. 1t is about twelve hours travel
from Birmingham via the Louisville and
Nashville and Pensacola and Atlantic
railroads, about the same from New Or
leans on through sleepers, and from
Charleston, s. CIV. G. Gun71, IN Bir-
minghdm Chronicle.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14
A New Enterprise.

Nj. V. Eichelberger of Dayton, O., is
now engaged in a number of very inter-
esting and so successful experiments in
RANT ana VIGOROUS 6rcwr1f.- 1f.ss = s-s-l--
oUsaiii5,i, and from the fine samples we
have examined, we judge he may well
be. The palmetto turns out the greatest
variety OF useful material, and the salt
marsh grass an incredible percentage of
the best of fibre or pulp. Properly carri-
ed out with the assistance of capital here
is a possible source of revenue exceeding
any that we now have. The material is
i'll excessive abundance, easily reduced
to a commercial shape, and has a rapidly
increasing demand. The artesian wells
furnish all the fresh water of good quality
needed and there is apparently nothing
to prevent a very lucrative business from
being established amoung us. Mr..
Eichelberger is an inventive genius who
is capable of producing astonishing re-
suits with very simple means. We
should like to see the business take
tangible shape. Capt. James is assist
ing in carrying on the experiments
HaHtqr Journal
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14
Scotchmen. Read.

We are informed of an nfinteresting
meeting to be head at Lake lie Funiak,
in Walton county, Florida, @n the 4th
of July next. In the year '::23 a small
colony of Scotch Presbytrians from
Scotland, emigrated to the Iaautiful and
fertile valley lying betwesn the sand
hills onthe one side and Ele Chocta-
whatchie river on the other. The valley
was called 'Euchee" from !ie tribe OF
indians who inhabited it. Vast Wild
erness spread out before t.iese sturdy
SONS OF Caledonia, but undis mayed they
went to work and soon had constructed
rude houses iii which to shelter their
wives and little ones. Fields were
rapidly cleared, and with n5 drones in
the busy hive, they were soon prepared
to make an honest but hard living. The
wild beasts of the forest ~ere there,
and the writer, when chile, has had
his very frame to shiver at the recital
by the "old folks of narrow escapes
from the infuriated bear and blood
thirsty panther One of the first steps
taken by the new settlers after they had
provided for their families. WAS to or
ganize a Prepbyterian church. They
had been reared in the "a'lid kirk o.
Scotland, and must have tESseHir children
baptized and taught by believer in the
doctrines of Calvin and Knox. For many
years Scotch ministers who were CONVEX
sant4with both the Gaelic. and English
languages preached to thesepeople twice
each Sabbath, the morning sermon being
in Gaelic and the afternoon IN English,
the older people, many of them, disdain-
ing the idea OF becoming fa;niliar with
the language of their bitter prosecutors
in the days of the Stewart ds'nast, when
CIaverhouse became household word
of hatred to every Scotch Presbyterian.
Soon an academy OF high grade was
opened and their children were well
educated, both in modern and ancient
languages, mathematics anN sciences.
Those who were able sent tlseir sons to
colleges and universities to lie fitted fol
the higher vocations of life and not a
few of them have risen to eminence in
the world. A few of those old people
are still alive, and their descendants are
still here, members of the same "house.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14
Another New Orange.

The Press and Horticultural, OF Cali
fornia says:
'tMessrs. S. A. Ames and AS White
have just received an invoice of about
thirty orange trees from Toxic, Japan.
through the kindness of Capt. Murry, of
the steamship City Of Toxic. The trees
are of the Seedless Sweet Mandarin va
rieties and are young grated trees about
foot in height and they came to hand
in splendid condition. The trees came
from the Imperial Botanical Gardens and
are known to be true to name. The fruit
is quite small but unlike the Mandarin
orange now grown in this country, Is
very fine favored and very sweet. The
importation is likely to prove to be val
liable acquisition to our stock of fruits.
We are under obligations to Mr.. Ames
for a sample tree which will be cultiva-
ted with care.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14

one. Let the fault rest where it belongs.
The constitution in some matters, as we'll
as in the methods of its framing and
adoption, cannot be defended; it should
be changed; but it should not be blam-
ed for the selishness, Incidence, or in
competency of representatives in the
legislature. j. G.. KNAAP.
Limona, Fla., April 10, 1881.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-05-14


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No. 81.
llEMllED ESTIMATE
f'Nas ,. nEcEssAsn FoR SCHOOL "PERAIioNs II
N.- ,%n ,yn ran,e,i I'M rNN "''''-S 'Ne
Money due teachers
For purchase of text books. charts, etc. -
For. rent, or construction of school
houses, ..--..-----.--------. -
ls.ll ror e,p esepa.rs u sciloolhousc,----.-
or saIa,., of - ~ co.
- months
For salary of teacher of school Ne. > for
months .....--.... -
FOR salary OF teacher OF school No } for
iion.ls, e ~ 60
: y ss'''ry ~ ,eaeiiei u seiioei ~. icr
For sal.,, Of tes,.I,er of school No for
wnIonths.
For salary of teacher of school No 6 for
months, .....--...--...... -
For salary OF teacher OF school No. for
1-iIlohsiis' \. -
. ,,;oUths so.a,s y, ve'''e' u seooi 80. : ~
For salary Of teacher of school No. 8 for
- months,
Complete the List of Scllools.l
Total .----..---...-..----.S -
This form, ;s ;ssuad in ni,rsuapco of tho
law as laid down in the fifteenth clanse
Of this Same 3otb section Of the Act ra-
ferred To and IS as follows.
tsTha Hoard of publ;c Instruction IN
each comfy shall ON or before the last
Monday in .Iune of each wear nrenaref
an item;zed statement showing the
amount of money required for tbe MAIN
tenance Of the necessary common schools
Of their comfy for the next ensuing
scholastic wear Now under the act Of
the Legislature Of 1881. nrovidinp for
a county school tax. the law does not in
anv manner affect this law as quoted.
but simplv. provides for review of the
missions, ssssar5ls of County. ifA.-ss.
inn ~ .l.,..,., s,;,,.,
tie 3I,n Ra,5s of P,shI;c Ins
str,,ct;or. made in their ;tenaized state
oSants 1f srs rISyront = sr5 ;,pi,Ies,f \, sSnen
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c,aarlv i, tl,e no,car and that Il is the
a,,fv y tha Roards aI ~ p,,l,l;c Trstructio,,
to Lnild sn;tal,la scbooI-h -honsas FL, the
education of the children Of the varions
Counties tho cbildran Of the state Now
Of course y dna cons;derat;on ~ the
ability Of the neonle to, nav should be
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