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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

In sixteen of the states thcre is
no provision of law prescribing the
form and size of the ballot. In
Florida and Louisiana the ballot
must be printed on white paper. In
North Carolina AMI Oregon the pa
per must be white and without de-
vice. In Nevada nothing is said
about the color of the paper, but the
prescribed size is 4by 10 inches. In
Illinois it is provided that there
shall be a blank space below each
name. This requirement seems to
be distasteful, as it is often observ-
ed only in the most formal way. In
Minnesota the ballots in cities must
be on white paper, and of equalsize,
In South Carolina the tickets must
be white and without device, and J
by 5 inches in dimensions. In Yer
mont the law ~prescribes only the
'orm of the words in which the bal
lot shall be printed. I'm Rhode Is
lind the ballots are furnished by the
Secretary of State in ~self-sealing
envelopes of uniform size. Of all
he modes this is said. to bethe best
for the prevention of frauds.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Senator Mitchell of Oregon will
vote to confirm the Presidents APP
pointmcnts. He makes public proc
lamation of the fact. Those seven
teen Democratic votes were not in
in vain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

1t is understood that while Gov
ernor Foraker is in favor of the
civil service law, he will not retain
any of the Democratic State off
cials to help him enforce it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Congress meets next Monday.
Carlisle will be reelected Speaker
of the House without opposition.
Heis acknowledged by both parties
to be one ofthe ablest and most i'm
partial Speakers of the House, the
country has ever had.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

President Cleveland and the
members of his Cabinet are not
much on the talk. They maintain
the placid silence of men who are
engaged in attending strictly to
business.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

It is estimated that 10000 people
viewed the remains of yice-Presi-
dent Hendricks on Monday last, as
they lay in state at court house in
Indianapolis.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

1t seems to be the impression
with many persons that the adop-
ton of the constitutional amend.
ment relating to township officers
changes at once the terms of town
ship trustees from one to three
years. This is a mistake. The
amendment only empowers the
Legislature to make the proposed
change if that body chooses to do so
The Legislature may leave the
terms of township officers as they
now are, or it may change them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Senator Camden, Of West Virgin
ia, recently said that in a year from
now President Cleveland would be
very popular with Democrats that
many persons who looked forward
to an exciting session of congress
will certainly be disappointed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Indianapolis vas a perfect jam OF
people on Tuesday last. Bands of
music and uniformed bodies pour
ed in on every train from every di-
rection, topay reverenceto the great
man dead.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

President Cleveland concluded at
the last hour not to attend the fun
eral of Vice President Hendricks.
MI. Cleveland we think made mis-
take in his conclusion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

A hitherto unknown widow of a
nephew of Thaddeus Stevens comes
forward now to claim a share of his
estate. She claims to be the wife OF
Alanson Stevens, and wants from
the Stevens estate $1,000, with in
terest from 1858, the amount owed
at that time to her husband and his
brother by the Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens. The woman has establish
ed a pretty fair cllim and unless tn
statute of limitation deoars her, she
will probably obtain the money.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

1t is noticeable that while the
Northern Republic press laments,
OF pretends to lament that the Re-
publican vote in the South is not
counted, and claims that if it was
there would befound to be Repub-
.lican majority in several of those
States, it is a fact there are no Re-
publican newspapers there. If there
are Republican majorities in Missis.
sippi, Alabama and Georgia it
seems a little singular that many
prosperous Republican newspaper
are not sustained.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Governor-elect-Lee, of Virgini",
declines an ostentatious Inaugural
ton. He will be simply sworn into
Office without any display, as all
good American citizens most prefer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

A memorial to the late General
George B. Mcclellan is to be erected
in Paramount Park, Philadelphia.
The Park Art Association has APP
propriated $4,000 toward it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Gov. Hoally refused military
display when he was inaugurated,
but Foraker proposes to makes big
display ofthe "meelish"and thetax-
payer foot the bill! Such is Repub-
lican rule.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

1t is predicted that the next Ohio
Legislature. will be the most re-
markable one that ever met at the
Capitol. Doodle" will flow in
abundance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

A meeting of ex-union and con-
federate soldiers was held in Chica-
go on the 23d of last month at the
fremont House and formed a per-
manent organization for holding
a grand reunion of all living sol
diers of the civil war in this city
sometime next summer. The name
of the convention will be "Re-union
of the Blue and the Gray. General
l.. N. Stiles, the well known lawyer,
orator an politician, was elected
president. General Stockton was
made permanent chairman of the
reunion executive committee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Postmaster-G General Villas has
adopted as a rule of the postotfice
department that no women are to be
removed from positions except for
good
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

The Indebtedness of Hamilton
county is s27, s79,7 46.2o which is
more than half of the total debt OF
the State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

]. c. Thornton, a Darke county
convict at the Ohio penitentiary.
died from poison taken on his way
to the prison. Was only in week.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

There is a strong probability of
the passage of a bankrupt law by
Congress this winter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Judge McKemy, of Hamilton, is
a candidate for U. S. District Attor.
ney for Southern Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Mormon preachers are convert
ingthousands ofpeopleinthe South
and sending them to Utah.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03
1.-THE Ohio Senate should turn on

to be Democratic, the old 'barna
cles" are getting ready to drop in
again. 1t is about time they get thc
"grand bounce" They are an eye
sore.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Kansas City is next to Chicago
in the pork packing trade.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

The newspaper sensation about
Rel not being hung is too thin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Miss Cleveland has dropped liter
airy work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Thomas A. Hendricks is the Sec
ond vice president who died before
completing his term ofoffiee. The
first was William R. King, of Ala
bama, elected with Franklin Pierce
in 1852. Mr.. King died in April,
1858, a few weeks after taking the
oath of office. -Four presidents have
died in Office; William Henry Har-
rison in 1S41, exactly onemonth af-
terhis Inauguration Zachary Tay-
lor July 8, 1850, in the second year
of his term Abraham Lincoln in
April, 1865, in the second month OF
his second term James A. Garfield
in the first year of his term.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

There are $4,000 men in the I
S. army.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

Moody, the evangelist, denoun-
ces church fairs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

The whole number of newspapers
and periodicals published in the
world at the presenttime is estimat.
ell to be $4,000, of whichnumber 49,.
494 are,i in the United States. Of pa
pers printedin foreign language the
German are the most numerous, and
these are followed in order by the
French, scandinavian (of which
there r sixty, and Spanish. AL
most every nationality is represent.
ed. There are fifteen Bohemian pa
pers, five Polish, two Finnish, ono
Cherokee, and one Chinese. There
are 523 papers printed on Sunday
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

The coming Congress, SO far as
the popular branch is concerned,
will be made up largelyo of new men.
Of the 325 members of the last Con-
gress only 125 have been reelected.
OF these 112 are Democrats and 70
Republicans. One hundred and
eighty-nine Democrats and 81 Re-
publicans fthe last Congress will
not be present in this.
General Rosecrans, Register of
the u. S. Treasury, has discovered
that over fifteen million dollars in
fraudulent greenbacks we're issued
abou5 ten years ago and afterward
redeemed. General Rosecrans sus-
poets this little fraud to be only a
drop in the bucket. The Republi-
cans lay much stress on the point
that the cash exactly correspondent
with the books when Clevelan1t took
charge. The fact is, the books are
unreliable.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-03

The Revised Statutes in the case
of the death of both President and
Vice President thus provides as to
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
The Lop-Sidedness of Genius.

1t is an unfortunate truth that ge-
MUS is not domestic, nor, as a rule,
amiable. Men who are great in intel
lect are small in emotions; like q Rus
sian suDtlower, they all run t0head,
and what is not flower is litter. Chau.
Ger, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Dick
ems, Bulwer and Carlisle. Brain and
heart always in inverse ratio; eyes al
ways gazing out at the misery of the
world to the neglect of the misery at
their own hearthstones. From Socra-
ties, with his aggressive nose in every
stew pot but his own, to Goethe, with
sympathy for every suffering but that
caused by himself, the history of ge-
MUS is the history of woman's suffer
ing. the husbands triumph and the
wife's grief-the apotheosis of brains
and the degradation of heart. Where
talent flies, love creeps; and genius,
with its head in the sky, has its feet in
the desolation of its own home. 1t
would seem as if great talents were
destructive of the domestic virtues;
that with man, a perfectly rounded
life were impossible; that what feeds
talent is robbed from the emotions,
while symmetry is lost in lop.sided-
ness. Hero worshippers rather adj
mire this lop-sidedness in their heroes,
and the philosophic Germans, for ex-
ample, have written many erudite
treatises to prove that the develop
ment of Goethe's genius was due TO
Goethe's immortality: but to simple
people who are not philosophers, and
who have no theory to- defend, the
vices of genius are the most in~excusa-
BILE of all vices.
1t is a sad fact, that the worlds he
roes are anything but heroic; and if
they are angelic as to thought they are
coarsely clay as to flesh; and it is only
what is left after the grave closes over
them that is deserving of admiration.
Had biography been an art in Eliza
beth's reign, Shakespeare would doubt
less have been a sufferer; were biogra-
ply not an art in Victoria's reign,
posterity would be grateful.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
LIQUOR i'm the Army.

Gen. Mcclellan found it difficult to
prevent the sale of liquor to soldiers,
and finally gave orders that the stock
of any one violating the regulations
should be, summarily destroyed. The
next night the provost guard visited
Springman's hotel. on Pennsylvania
avenue, and destroyed nearly $4,000
worth of liquors of varions kinds. The
guard went into the celler of the estab-
lishment, where most of the liquor was
stored, and stove in the heads of the
casks and barrels, pouring their con-
tents upon the floor, forming a pool
deep enough to float a bateau. The
Columbia restaurant, kept by Joseph
Piatz, situated on the square below.
was next oyerhauled by the guard, and
the liquor found on the premises served
in the same manner. The atmosphere
in the neighborhood of the Springman
house was fragrant with the odor OF
whisky, brandy, gin. aud cordials, and
was shifted up by the several old topers
standing near with peculiar satisfac
tion.-Ben: Perley P0ore.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

near to the fort that he can count
every man and gun in it, and is put
ting guns in position. st. Clair holds
a council of war and decides TO retreat.
AT 2 o'clock on the morning of July 8
the garrison is in motion, stealing
away quietly up the lake shores to-
ward Castleton, and away from the
eager b~esiegers. The hot pursuit was
without result.
This was the last incidetl. of moment
in the history of Fort Ticonderoga.
On Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga the
English abandoned the fort, and again
~reoccupied it in 1880. Then came the
year 1888, and Ticonderoga became as
useless rs the child's toy to the full
grown man.-New York EUening Post.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

DIR. Blister is one of those physicians
who do not take any nonsense from
their patients. One day he presented
his bill to Nose Schaumburg.
some hundred and fifty tollars! ex-
claimed Nose. ivy, mine Colt, two
funerals in dot family would not hal
cost me so much as dot"
Its not too late to have a funeralin
the house yet" replied DR.. Blister,
drawing an army-size revolver. DR..
Blister heels himself whenever a pa,
tient feels indisposed to settle -Teras
Ss.ftings.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

The man who listened hardly thought
of her sacrifice. He obeyed. Hulda
was in the boat.
Keep courage until we come back
he shouted, and rowed away.
Jean chung to the chimney side, and
kept her feet firm on the roof; but they
were ankle deep now.
The water was rising still. She knew
hat there was little hope, but she was
very happy,
80, dear old fellow-dear, dearNed,n
she said aloud, for there we're none
to hear her, ''there'l be no blight, for
you know you'll have your love safe
and sound tomorrow. What's plain
Joan to any onep Who'll miss her
but a poor old woman who'll follow
her soonP But she, Hulda, is half
your life. Ned. Oh, God be
thanked that / can give myself for
Hulda, for your sake
And in the starlight her face shown
calm and sweet and happy, with more
then martyrs happiness. as the water
arose toward it.
And at last her feet lost their hold,
and her strength was gone. She was
lifted and whirled away; the long
brown hair, unloosened, 0swept far
behind her; the marble face cleaned
through rings of water that the star
light made a halo of. A voice sobbing
through it, said: "Ned (! Ned darling
Ned, goodbye ~ and there was
nothing to be seen but the flood still
rising, and the sky spread out
above it.
On the morrow Jean Abbot's body
was found lying close to the old
church, whence by that time the water
had retreated. And Ned and Hulda,
among others, came to see it. Hulda
wept. Ned stood quiet, but with a
strange regret in his blue eyes. The
story of her sacrifice had thrilled his
heart. He looked down at her face,
on which the beauty of her beautiful
love and unselfishness had rested in
her dying moments, leaving an angelic
smile upon the marble lips, and said in
a dreamy way:
"Hulda, she "a pretty. | never
knew Jean Abbott was pretty before"
And then he kissed her.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
But ha! Winter, no! Winter,

But ha! Winter, hol Winter,
What about the Poor?
Who've no stronghold against the cold,
No bride or sinecure
TO set at bay the singing day,
Or soften down the night
Who note the thick ming Window-panes
With sinking hearts alright
Who draw their babies close and sing
Their shivering In labys,
Then sleep and dream Of steaming feasts
That hunger-sleep supplies
70 wake at morn with shuddering sense
or heightened fast and cold,
AID find that gauut-eyed Want hath wrought
Its ira e within the fold.
Ha! Winter, no! Winter,
Hard your reign on these;
Sod pity such! aud send warm hearts
To all who starvt and freeze.
-NGrid Barrett Butter, IN The Current.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

HO! WINTER.
Hal wintor, hol Winter.

Ha! winter, hoi Winter,
King Uf the northern blastl
You meet us all, you greet us all,
With grip that freezes fast.
n regal pony you've gathered up
Your royal robes of snow,
nd by their trailing men shall trace
Wnalevcr ways you go.
t,ur grim relainers all, alack!
Make but a cruel train
ii biting sleet and singing winds
And Ice aud frozen rain.
he rich with furs and blazing hearths
Your carnival may scorn,
While Mirth and Cheer may reign supreme
From wassail eve till morn.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

mad with terror, when a light glim-
mered close before them, and a voice
cried:
..Good folks, there's room for some
hele. How many of you are therep"
-Four" said Jean.
"We've room for three" said the
voice. ..Is it Welton's folkp"
s.Yes,m said Jean.
Then a stout fellow strobe over the
roof and carried away the old woman,
and then the old man, and came back.
..We'Il return for the other as soon
as we cam said he; .keep up our
age:'' and seized Jeans arm. SIN
with you, he cried, There's little
time to spare"
And Hulda gave a scream, and
cried. Don't leave me! don't leave
MEL
Then Jean, in whose heart jealousy
had lighted the fires OF hell bat an
hour or so before, felt that the angels
had quenched it with the waters OF
love. She wrenched her strong, white
arm from the grasp Of the man who
held it.
Leave me, and take her." she said,
..I'm no afraid. I'm able to bear
more. And she is to be Ned Welton's
wife tomorrow. Save her for his
sake"
She commanded; she did not i'm
More. or seem to speak from duty.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30
younr wilkes.

One of the best stations in Michigan, rec
ord 2:28l trial 1917, will make the season of
1886, commencing March 18th, and ending
November 18th 1885, at the subscribers sta
bles in Paw Paw, on the following terms !:
Owing 10 hard times have been induced to
put Young Wilkes service fee at thirty-five
dollars, to be paid in cash or an approved
note at time of service or before mare
or mares are removed from my prem
ises. Young Wilkes stands among the great
sires of America, having sired colts with rec
ords from 49, down 10 three minutes, and
some of his colts have shown trials of 2:13l4
Geo. Wilkes, the sire of Young Wilkes, was
the greatest sire that ever lived. Young
Wilkes is trotter himself and a sire of trot-
ters, and hesprings from the greatest family of
trotters known in the world. His colts are
large rangy fellows. Young Wilkes will be
limited 10 eighty mares. is a sure foal getter.
For further particulars and full pedigree
send TO his owner at Paw Paw, Mich. Pas
turage at $1.00 per week, or $50 per year.
Mares will be carefully cared for, but all acci-
dents and escares at owners risk.
64tloo79 THOMAS WEIGH.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30
Local Department

Miss Hattie Van Kirk began her school
in the Young's district, just west of town, on
Monday last.
disastrous fire occurred at Cassopolis on
the evening of the Goth inst. Losses about
$4,000; insurance about $4,000.
Frank Stearns is home for visit of a
week or so. Travelling seems to agree with
Frank. He looks tough as buck.
Frank Kelly of Cadillac, spent Sunday
with friends in town. He returned home on
Monday taking his family with him.
The Almena telegraph company will hold
its annual meeting at A. G.. Glidden's, on
Saturday May I'd, at z p. M. All interested
are invited to be present.
A very pretty post Office war is in progress
at Allegan. AS republicans own neither the
husband nor the bear, they rather enjoy the
racket, and care not which whips.
DIR. Dunning has so far recovered as to be
able to come down town. He has four legs,
but only uses three of them to any great ex-
tent; sort of quadrupedal tripod, as it were.
Last Sunday, as Mr.. and Mrs. Will Mosier
were driving out to Almena. their horse
stumbled and fell, breaking its shoulder.
They had to knock it in the head to save its
life.
Will Thayer. on Monday last, shipped 16l
fat sheep TO the Buffalo market. Their
average weight was III pounds in their
shirtsleeves. finer lot of mutton, proba-
bly,, never left our county.
The supervisor is on the war path, and
now is the time when the friendless canine
hath neither owner nor permanent abiding
place, neither hath he place where he may
rest his weary limbs in peace.
The handsome babies we mentioned last
week belong TO Kate Anderson, and not to
her sister Hattie, who is not yet a matron
No doubt, if she ever marries and has a
family, her babies will be Just as good look.
ing as Kate's.
Making garden is occupying the time OF
many of our citizens. We know one gentle
man who has already set out his tomatoes
planted his beans, melons, cucumbers etc. He
has been rather previous in the matter and
may yet receive a disastrous call from old
Jack +.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30

AT a regular communication of Paw Paw
Lodge, No. %, +. d. A. NJ, held April 2S, 1885,
the following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS IL has pleased the Great Architect cf
the universe to remove from midst our late
brothers, E. O. Briggs and w. G. Mackellsr; and
WHEREAS, IL Is but just that fitting recognition
Of their many virtues should be had therefore, be IL
RESOLVED. by Paw Paw Lodge, No. rs of Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, that, while We bow with
humble submission TO the will OF the Most High, we
do not the less mourn for our brothers who nave
been taken from
RESOLVED, That In the death of T.. o. Briggs and
W. @. Mackear this lodge lamente the loss OF roth
ers who ever ready TO pro6er the hand cf aid
and the voice OF sympathy to the needy and dis
tressed of the fraternity, active members of this
ciety, whose utmost endeavors exerted for
its welfare and prosperity, friends and companions
who dear to us all, citizens whose upright and
noble lives were standards Of emulation to their fell
lows.
RESOLVED, That these resolutions be spread upon
the records OF this LODGE and that copy thereof be
transmitted to the families Of the deceased brothers,
and to each Of the newspapers Of Paw Paw.
L. G.. HURp,
A. VI. SMITH. }CoM.
G. n. OcoBock,
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To whom IL May Concern.

Notice is hereby given that my signature
to promissory note conditioned for the pay
ment of the sum of seven hundred and fifty
$4,000 dollars, running to A. j. Davis or
bearer, and bearing date April sth, 1885,
was obtained by fraud and misrepresentation,
and never received any value for said note
and caution the public not to purchase
said note, as shall never pay it. At the
time of my signing the said note " full pay
ment and satisfaction thereof was endorsed
upon the back of said note by said A. j. Da-
Wis. Respectfully, NELSON ROWE.
Dated Hartford, Mich. April IA, 1885.