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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

At Syracuse, N. W professor" OF
roller skating was arrested. He was
known rs ''liie masher," because he
was handsome and fashionable. The
charge made against him was seduc-
ton, under promise of marriage, Of a
young lady of Easton, Pa. Conley,
the real am of "the masher," was
locked up. In his trunk were found
many letters from society ladies in
Syracuse, many CT them Of the most
compromising character. Young la
dies took him driving, and ono mar
ricd lady OF prominence alludes, in
her letters, TO clandcstine meetings at
an evil resort east ofthat city. Flowers
and pertumed notes, breathing the
warIIest affection, were showered up
on this young paragon, and his Life at
Syracuse, while il lasted, was rose
colored. These roller rink "profess-
ors' have made sad havoc in many
places with the hearts of the impress
sible ladies who took to them for ill
struction."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

That truth is oft stranger thar
fiction is again fully illustrated by
the following from the St. Louis
Globe Democrat:
LET novelist of to-day tell the
story of Grants life; of the unprom
Using career at West Point; the ap.
parent lack of individuality IN the
army; the failure as a farmer; the
lack of success as q business agent;
the story of the days at the tannery;
when, half clerk, half porter, he
seemed to have relinquished both
past end future-let him tell the
tale of the succeeding twenty five
years; how the hitherto luckless
man rose step by step, with a rapid
ity almost increditable, to be the
General of the Army, twice Presi
dent, then for a year the honored
guest and associate of the greatest
nonarchs Of the earth; then let him
reduce the hero to poverty AMI at
his death honor him with 6 national
funeral, and the book would be
laughed at Is too wildly improbable
to be worth consideration"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
why Hayes Sold Esis Sin Mill.
From the Chicago News.

If General Buckland said that Mr..
Hayes did not know that there was
a liquor saloon in his building a,
Omaha, he said what was untrue.
Mr.. Hayes did know, long before the
sale was made, that the building was
used as q saloon. On April IA, Mr..
Hayes came to Chicago to attend a
meeting of the Loyal Legion, and
while here met Senator Henderson,
of Omaha, who explained to him
that a saloon on his property was in
juring neighboring property owned
by Senator Henderson. More than
a month after this-May % to be
precise-the story was published.
At that time Henry Ostcf, the keep
err of the saloon, said to the Meas
representative that his lease had two
years to run yet; and at the end OF
that time Mr.. Hayes would have to
buy him out or he would buy Mr.
Hayes out. If he had already bought
MIR. Hayes out he would Lot have
said that. That was on May %. On
June =, about a week after the pub
LEGATION of the story, Mr.. Hayes sold
the property to Henry Ostof fol-
$l4, 600.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
The Capitol saws: "We learn tina

The Capitol says: "We learn that
a joint resolution has been prepared,
which General Logan will be asked
to introduce when Congress assem-
bles, declaring it to be the wish of
the nation that the body of Gen.
Grant be placed in custody of the ma
ton, and that it be de deposited at the
capitol in order that a National monu-
ment to his memory may be erected.
1t is thought that Mrs. Grant will not
resist such an expression of the Ma
tional will. The idea is not at once
to remove the remains from River
side Park, but to allow them to re-
main there until the completion of a
grand memorial, which shall at the
same time commemorate the restora
ton Of the Union"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The July crop report of the Ohio
Board of Agriculture, based on 97C
township reports, give the following
estimates: Wheat-condition, com
pared with full crop, 46 per cent:
probable total, 1S,S34,00O bushels,
against an average crop of 41,oOO,
900 and the June estimate of 30, 900,
600 bushels, a falling off of 10 pei
cent. since June l. Condition Of
other crops, compared with an aver
age crop for five years: Corn, 81 pei
cent; rye, u; barley, "a; oats, 1O4
flax, "a; potatoes, 100; tobacco, "a
timothy, 10; clover, II; pastures, 90;
apples, Sc; peaches, 7; pears, 50:
grapes, 81; wool per cent. of full to
tai, rs; average price offered, %
cents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Hog cholera has again made it's
appearance in Fayette county and
reports from several townships show
that its ravages are becoming quite
serious. A number Of remedies
have been tried, but as yet the di-
sease has been unchecked, and there
is danger of it spreading to other
counties. The stock raisers and far
mers Of Fayette county last year
lost 10, 500 hogs by the diserse nam
ed and its return now is causing
much alarm.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
DAYTON Democrat.

: Those super-royal Republican pat
riots who now, twenty years after the
last shot in the war Of the rebellion
was fired-that is, fired from a gun
are just beginning to get real mad will
rise in indignation and wrath when
they learn that the cornerstone has
been laid for a soldiers monument at
Atlanta, Ga, which is calculated to
symbolic the restoration of the Union.
The monument is to be n hundred
and eighty feet in height and cost
100000. Near the base of the column
in inches, will be statues of Grant,
Lee, Johnston and Sherman. Near
the top of the column will be two SOL
diers. the blue and the grey, clasping
hands, and at the top of the column,
standing on q globe, will be the God
dess of Liberty. This will give our
Bourbon Republican friends another
fine opportunity to tear their hair and
rave over the utter degen eracy of the
South. The able Republican editors
must "make treason odious." Such
things as this Atlanta soldiers monu-
meDt will not do. 1t will make them
"puke."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
The worn-ou. WAR Issue.
PHILADELPHIA Times.

Ohio is naturally a Republican
State and it is just possible that the
Republicans could carry it this fall
with al Egyptian mummy for a can
didate running on a platform de-
claring that the earth has ceased to
revolye. But if the Democrats do
not dcvour each other in their quar-
rels about who shall hold the offices,
they ought to be able to whip their
Republican opponents on such q
worm out issue as the late war. 1t
is twenty years since the war ended
and the party that insists that it is
still raging and can get no nearer
the vital issues of the present day
than the speakers at Columbus were
abe to get, soundly deserves defeat,
and will certainly get what it de
serves, unless its opponents prove
TOO selfish and stupid to size their
opportunity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Now the Republicans are charg.
ing Rev. Dr.. Leonard, the Prohibi
ton candidate for Governor, with
taking a little wine for his stomach's
sake, after the recommendation o.
Paul to Timothy.
The reverend candidate must not
however, think much Of this. AS
the campaign warns up and the Re
publicans get madden and madden
he will hear that he habitually car.
ries a quart bottle id. his coat peck
ct, and that he was upon several &C
casions arrested and locked. up fol
being bowling drunk. Indeed, Mr.
Leonard may not be surprised te
learn from Republican papers fur
Their along in the campaign that in
toxication is his habitual condition
and that his father wasin Jail fol
stealing sheep.
Brother Leonard no doubt sntici
pated all this when he consented tt
become a candidate for Governor il
opposition to the Republican bull
dozers. He no doubt sized up theil
style of campaign argument and i;
prepared for the worst.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Senator German, of Maryland, is
an instance of the great opportuni-
ties that are presented to every boy
in this country. When thirteen years
of age he entered the Senate at Wash
ington as a page by appointment OF
Hon. Stephen A. Douglass. He was
several times promoted, until he be-
came postmaster of the Senate. From
that he was appointed collector Off in
ternal revenue in his native State,
afterwards elected to the house of
delegates, in 1875 elected to the
State Senate, and in 1880 was elect
ed United States Senator. His op,
portunities were no better than the
average school boy, but were improv
ed to the utmost.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
The Philadelphia Times does not

The Philadelphia Times does not
think it will be necessary to "pass
around the hat" for all the Grants.
1t says: "The country is daily hu
inflated by sensational newspaper
reports Of the financial necessities OF
General Grants family. In common
decency this wrong to the bereaved
family should stop. Mrs. Grant is
the only dependent of Gen. Grants
estate or income. She had no ex.
pense at all while at Mt. McGrego,
and none connected with the funeral.
She has the assured income of 1920,
900 of the trust fund, and the assur.
ed income of from 100000 to $780,.
900 from Grants book, with q Ger.
tain congressional annuity of$5,000
Her sons arc all married and pre-.
sumably able to take care of them.
selves, and her only daughter is mai
ried and comfortably provided for
Her income will be more than ample
for all possible wants, and she should
not be paraded in the newspapers as
q mendicant."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Senator Bremen of Montgomery
County was over here last Wedpes-
day. AS he is seeking a re-nomina
ton we suppose he came owe to ex
anime his fences. If he didn't find
them badly down and demoralized
we are very much mistaken. He
smells too loud of coal-oil to suit the
honest Democracy of Preble County
If he succeeds in getting the nomi.
nation he will be beaten, as he ough,
to be. The "dirty dog Joe Dow
ling, who circulated the infamous
lie that he paid US 500 two
years ago, for the vote of Preble
County for Bremen, in this connec-
ton, will be remembered at the pro-
per time. Scat, you Icing scoundrel.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

In the Republican convention of
Virginia a resolution was adopted in
favor Of the State caring for those of
it's citizens who we're wounded in the
Confederate service. No allusion to
this resolution that we have noticed,
has as yet been made by any of the
"b.oody shirt" Republican organs
around us. Perhaps the weather has
been too hot for them to bother with
such small t%rifes!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
of Interest and IMPORTANCE.

The following act to amend Sec
tions 1899 and 704i was passed by
the last gene al assembly:
SECTION I. Be at enacted By the
General Assembly Of the State of
Ohio, That sections 1899 and 704l OF
the Revised Statutes of Ohio be and
they are hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
SECTION 1899. Whoever asks, takes,
or receives any money, property, fee
or reward of any kind or nature, di-
rectly or indirectly. for his vote, or
for his influence IN favor Of any can
didate, or for any labor or service
rendered, or to be rendered to any
candidate for nomination at any cleo
ton, held under the provisions OF
law, relating to primary elections, oil
at any primary election held by
any political party, whether the same
be held in pursuance of the laws re
lating to primary elections within
the State 81 otherwise, shall be fneo
not less than one hundred dollars, o.
imprisoned in the p%enitentiary no
more than two years or less than ont
year.
SECTION 7O41. Whoever, being
delegate to any convention, held
within this State by any politica
party, asks or receives, directly o
indirectly, any reward, fee, money
or other property, for his vote, or TO
his influence in favor Of any candi
date, or for any labor or service rem
dered, or to be rendered to any can
didate for nomination to any offic'
whatsoever. or for any expenses in
CURED, shall be fined not more thai
five hundred dollars, or imprisoned
in the penitentiary not more thai
five years nor less than two years.
SEC. 3. The said original section
1893 and 7O41 be and the same ar
hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effec
and be in force from and after it
passage.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Skipped Out.

Joseph FL. Ensign, Secretary of the
Police Board of Commissioners OF
the city of Dayton, and q prominent
and leading Democratic "Boss" of
Montgomery county, skipped out last
week TO join the political army ofde
faulters somewhere in the west or
Canada. at the last meeting of the
Board, Ensign drew up q warrant on
the County Treasurer for $2SS, which
was signed by the President of the
Board, Mr.. H. Fl. Laubach. This he
raised to $1,2SS. and cashed it. Be
sides this there was about $500 in
cash in the safe, fines and licenses
collected by the Mayor, which he is
charged with taking. In addition to
the above, he has 81, 200 given him
by Jas. Mullen, of the Soldiers
Home. This person lost both hands,
and the above money represented his
savings for q long time. Ensign In
duced him TO place it in his hands as
a loan to the Board of Commissioners,
on which he (Mullen) vas TO receive
6 per cent. interest. There are also
other minor cases Of raising money
on notes, which may bring his defal-
cation up to $4,000. When bondsmen
and tax papers refuse any longer to
enc orse snd vote for office seekers
and political "bosses," honest men
will get into places of public trust.
Let the taxpayers of Preble county
beware of men who are tramping
around tearing their shirts" TO get
into office. They won't do to tie to.
Shake 'em all the time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13


The New York Tribune published,
with an air of seriousness, the fol,
lowing:
An employee of John Roach went
to Garrett Roach the other day and
said: "Mr. Roach, 1 have been O
Democrat all my life, but since this
Government crusade has begun
On your father l have been thinking
over the fact that Democrat and
damnation begin with the same let.
ter, and 1 have cast my last vote foI
that party"
This conscientious Democrat who
has just discovered the remarkable
fact that Democracy and damnatior
both begin with 3D." must have also
been struck with the strange coinci.
dence that Republicanism and Rob
eson, and Roach and robbery and
rotten contracts, all begin with the
same letter, and have meant pretty
much the same thing, and that they
provide a very comfortable resor,
for such roustabouts as the rasca'
who regrets the rout of the ring un
der which they fourished.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The London, England Pail Mall
Gazette, appeared in mourning OF
the 29th ult., over the confirmation
Of the revelations made in its COL
umns, of the wickedness of that city.
Sodom and Gomorrah would exhibit
a virtuous condition of the people,
when compared with the Gazette's
disclosures of London, which have
been confirmed by an Investigating
Committee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The Atlanta Constitution says
that in the South there Is a feeling
that a handsome fall business is now
assured. "Such crops Of corn and
cotton" says the Constitution, Gas
are promised US we have seldom
seen, and there are, therefore, good
grounds among merchants, bankers
and other business men for a san
guine view of the situation"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

In this country, when IN outraged
and indignant sovereign sees some
thing in a newspaper that he does
not like he stops his paper, and
there is Grape on the door of the
publication office. The same rule
apparently, prevails in England.
The Prince of Wales, who used to
have the Pail Hall Gazette flung in
to his front yard every afternoon,
has stopped his paper. There is
nothing left for the Gazette but in
solvency and ruin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Washington rests at Mount Yer
non, the Adamses are buried a;
Quincy, Jefferson ct Monticello, Mad.
ison at Montpelier, Monroe and Ty.
Ter at Richmond, Jackson at the
Hermitage, Van Buren, at Kinder
look, Harrison at North Bend, Polk
at Nashville, Taylor at Baton Rouge,
Film ore at Buffalo, Pierce at Concord,
Buchanan at Lancaster, Lincoln ct
Springfield, johnson of Greenville,
Garfield at Cleveland, and Grant will
rest in the great city of the New
World, New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Butler Co. Democrat.

The chief difference between the
two parties in Ohio on the liquor
question is, and always has been,
that while the Democratic party
has openly opposed prohibition
in favor of q high license law, in
such a way that its position could
not be mistaken, the republican
party has as constantly lodged and
tried to straddle the question for
the purpose of gaining the support
of the Prohibition element. Broken
promises, on the part of tlle repub-
lican party, to this element, has
resulted III the division now exist
ing. The result will tell most heavily
against the Republican party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

A gentleman from Kansas in Gin
%cinnati a few days ago said: 81 saw
Boston Corbett, the man who, it is
said, killed j. Wilkes Booth, q short
time ago uear Concordia, where he re-
sides. He is q semi-lunatic, who
wears long hair and two revolvers.
He imagines somebody wants to kill
him. He breaches whenever he can
get any hearers. Says he knows
Booth is in heaven, for he prayed for
him before he shot"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Dayton Democrat.

General Grant could forgive the foe
he fought and conquered ,npcn the
bloody field of battle, but The noble
"bioody shirt" politician, who requir-
ed more than twenty years to get mad
enough to fight, cannot. Tie bloody
shirt patriot cannot forgive treason !;
his noble soul is too proud for that.
He shouts ''rebels" now rs he did
when the real fighting was going on
with his mouth he stamps ont tres-
son with both feet and will not be
satisfied as long as there is an Office to
fill.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

A Missouri defaulter who got
away with only $4,000 has return
ed from Canada in disgust. He
says a mans social position depends
on the amount of swag he captures,
and that $4,000 is not enough to
put n on q good footing with the
average cashier.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The cas- of Valentine Wagner,
who was hung at Columbus, under
the new law, furnishes a fearful warn
ing. He charged all his trouble to
hard cider. Drink your cider before
it gets hard.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Danvers, Mass, over two hundred
years ago hanged a woman named
Rebecca Nourse, for being a witch,
and recently unveiled a monument
to her memory. This, after all, is a
contradictory sort of world.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has
contributed $4,000 toward erecting
q monument in Lincoln Park in that
city, to be known as a Grant memo
rial. Other citizens, it is thought,
will contribute freely.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The Clermons Sun says that
Michael Hirsch, the owner Of the
cottage in which GEL eral Grant
was born, has sold the same for ST.
900. The purchasers are New York
parties.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

John G. Thompson gets an ap
pointment from the new administers
ton, a special agent of the general
land office, worth about $4,000 q
year. When will the millennium
come against office seeking barna
claa2
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The first assistant Post master
General seems to be getting down to
business. One hundred new post
masters in one day is not bad. "Turn
the ~rascals out"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Gen. Grants only vote cast for
President previous to the war was
for James Buchanan, the Democrat
ic nominee in 1856.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Says an exchange: 1t is funny, in
view of the record Of the Republican
party, to hear Republican organs de-
plore the disastrous effects of four
months Of democratic rule upon the
one remaining great American ship
yard. The tonnage of American yes
sels in 1860 was 5,323,S7S. In 1888
it had fallen to ~4,235,4S7. The ton
mage of American sailing vessels en-
tered at United States ports fell
from 3,071,405 in 1860 to 1,533,054
in 1888, and tonnage of foreign sail
ing vessels entered increased from
l,307,275 tons in 1860 to 3,8T9,S3S
tons in 1888. While the American
steam tonnage increased only from
S67,947 in 1860 to 1,413, 194 in 1888,
the foreign steam tonnage increased
from 391,016 tons to $685. 1888.
While in 1860 the United States did
Is per cent. of its own carrying
trade, in 1888 it did not do Is pei
cent. of it. Melancholy reflections
on the disastrous effects of foul
months Of democratic administration
upon American ship building comes
with bad grace from a party whose
policy has left no ship building t.
speak of, although it was n of the
nations largest industries wher
the Republican party took hold o.
the government.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Senator John Sherman is arrang-
ing to hold o reunion Of the Sher
nan family at Mansfield, Ohio, the
first week in September.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Judge Dwyer, of Dayton, was
nominated on Tuesday for Common
Pleas Judge. or course. Was there
any democrat fool enough to think he
would not be?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The ~penitentiary expenses for the
past fiscal year exceeded the receipts
by $13, 004 50.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

this time forward ought to be given
the cold shoulder by every decent
man in the land. When men who
fought in the rebellion against the
Union + selected by the family OF
General Grant as %pallbearers to assist
in depositing all that is mortal of the
great soldier in the tomb, it is time to
bury the bitterness of the past and to
only look forward to o happy and
prosperous country in which the peo-
pie have but one object in view-the
elevation of the Union.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Thursday, Aug. AZ, 1885.

August IS and 90 is the time Sc,
for the Democratic State Con'en
tion. We get six votes in it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The Washington Post publishes a
statement showing that since 1862,
the government has paid to Mr..
Roach the enormous sum of$1O,333,-
625.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

ellis Honesty, Grover Cleveland"
is the way the Clinton County, o.,
Democrats indorse him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Buffalo News,

The blatant dcmagogues who at
tempt to tlaunt the bloody shirt from
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

Section l. The executive department shall
consist of q governor, lieutenant-governor,
of state, and an encouragement, who shall
be elected ON THE FIRST TUESDAY AFTER THE
of the State. and at the places of votin g for
members of the general assembly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
ARTVCTE Y

Section 2. County officers shall be elected
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday IN
November. by the electors of each county, in
such manner and for such term, not exceed
ing three years, as may be provided by law.