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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
The Hero's Career.

1t is narrated Of General Grant, that his
determination to enter the service against
the rebellion was taken and announced as
he drew on his coat upon reading the
telegram which told of the surrender Of
Fort Sumter. He came into his leather
took up the coat which he had laid
aside, put it on again and observed
in his quiet way: "The Govern
ment educated me for the army, and al
though 1 have served through one war I
am still a little indebted to the country
and willing to discharge the obligation"
Taking with him a company of volunteers
which he had enlisted, he went to SPRING
field and rendered his services to Governor
Yates as a volunteer. The troops were gath
cred in chaotic mass, and the Governor
and his staff were nearly distracted.
General Grant presented himself to
the Governor with the remark that
he had been educated at West Point
something to do. He was told to
call again, as there were no vacancies.
Grant returned to his hotel, and calling
again the next day received the same re-
Spouse. He called again AMI again with
ming low and his board bill being due,
Grant, as q last resort, asked for office
work. This was given him, and he began
work, very much elated over his success.
From this subordinate place he was soon
transferred TO bno OF.
flee, n after making a tour of inspection
of the various military camps in the State
was rendered the Colonelcy of the Twenty
first Regiment of Infantry, a fine body of
men, but SO turbulent and unmanageable
that nobody cared for the command. He
drilled and marched some of the unneces-
sary spirit out of this regiment during the
first four weeks it was in his charge, and
after marching it into Northern Missouri
he was, on the 9th of August, 1861, through
the influence of his old-time friend, Mr.. e.
B. Washburne, of Galena, appointed Brig
adler General and put in command of a
district composed of Southeast Missouri
and Southern Illinois, with headquarters
at Cairo. Here was begun a military ca
reer which in less han four years gave
him a world wide fame.
1t is not the purpose of this review OF
the career of the dead General to recount
the incidents that marked his rise from q
BrigaSier- General to General of the army,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
BAAlB &c.
Description of the Ruins Of the Ancient
Damascene City,

Description Of tho Ruins of the Ancient
Damascene City.
The ruins of the ancient city of Baal-
bee. situated on the plain forty-three
miles northwest of Damascus, are the
wonder of modern architects.
Everything is colossal. The area is
larger than hat of the temple at Jeru-
salem. We may begin with the walls.
which are half a mile around, and Of
such height and depth as are rarely at
tanned in the most tremendous fortress.
Where from within 1 climbed to the
top, it made me giddy to look over the
perilous edge to the depth below; and
when from without the walls l looked
up at them, they rose high in the air.
Some of the stones seem as if they had
been reared in place, not by Titans. but
by the gods. There are nine stones
thirty feet long and ten feet thick,
which is larger than the foundation
stones of the temple at Jerusalem.
dating from the time of Solomon, or
any blocks in the great Pyramid.
But even these are pygmies compared
with the three giants of the western
wall, sixty-two feet, sixty-three and a
hall feet, Sixty-fOur feet long, These
are said to be the largest stone ever
used in any construction. They weigh
hundreds of tons, and instead of being
merely hewn out of a quarry, which
might have been on the site. and left to
lie where thew were before. thew have
been lifted nineteen feet from tbs
oronnd- and there embedded in the wall,
Never was there such cyclopean archi.
lecture. How such masses could have
been moved is a problem with modern
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
NO MORE TO Me.
I. Q. GOULD. pubusA~.

Alone and silent / sit in my room,
when the garish light has fed,
And wait to hear, through the gathering
gloom,
The footsteps of the dead.
But no sound / hear, and no sight 1 see.
For my o comes Jack no more to me.
How soft the light of her tender eyes,
As she smiled in her sad, sweet way:
AS we stood beneath the glowing skies
At the close of that blissful dayi
That smile, when / close my eyes, I see,
But my love GENES q no more to me.
Too fond for kisses or warm embrace,
What could We do but stand,
And give and take, with lender grace,
The thrill Of q clasping hand7
Thef hand no more in mine shall be,
For my love comes back no more to me.
II love end pity go hand In hand,
How quickly they may learn
what grief remains for those who stand,
And wait their loves return.
That grief In my hear must always be,
For my love comes back no more to me.
Henry Scheu Lobin0ter, In Current.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
~ErArE-PRIsoN convicts are like the hairs
Of the head, because they are all numbered.
IN. 7. Mail. -
All Out"

Don't know what ails me lately. Can't
eat well,-can't sleep well. Can't work,
and don't enioydoing anything. Amt real
~ sick, and l really amt well. Feel all
kind O. played out, someway." That is
what scores OF men say every day. If they
would take DIR. .Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" they would soon have no oc-
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tones up the system and ~fortifes it against
disease. 1t is a great anti-bilious remedy
as well.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

DoN'r disgust everybody by hawking.
blowing and splitting, but use DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy snd be cured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

PIXIES ooTHACHE DROPS curei In minute 70.
GSnn's Sulphur Soaoh heals and beautf0es. 10.
GERMAN CORR RECEIVER kills Corns Z BuntonA.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

THE man in the moon must fesl all brpk6
up when he is reduced to The last quarter
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

PHYSICIANS appear to be very bard 20
satisfy. II their patients get wen they
lose them, and il. they die they also lo6s
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

Cheese, when excessively acid. is
likely to produce alarming CASTRO
intestinal irritatiop.-N. ?. Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

BANANAS are more easily FeceMtfe1
the fall than at " other SHs OF ne 49,
-Fretzel's Weekly. A
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

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ceiving your letter, and it has cured me-.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
HAY-FEvER.


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Is years. I read Of the
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er one application I was
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est discovery known
DUuA1lKL CLAKK, Farmer
Lee, Mass.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30
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ELY BROTHERS,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

Jury. General Grant has been held in Pc
culiar esteem and affection by the people of
the whole Union of late years, and nothing
more touching or beautiful has ever been
witnessed than the universal sympathy and
tenderness with which they watched over
his last hours of WEAKNESS, weakness and
suffering. The fatal end has been seen ap-
preaching stealthily but with cruel and re-
!entless steps, and the brave old hero fac-
ing death with imperturbable and undis-
mayed demeanor made an intensely pa
thetic and impressive picture, but one ex-
Quisitely in keeping with the dying mans
character. He showed no fear of death,
which he had seen in close proximity and
terrible form scores of times before, but
the battlefield never subjected him to a
more awful strain than the slow sapping of
his vitality by the dread and insidious dis
ease which had seized him in its remorse-
in a power before which even his
iron will was hopeless, the popular
heart went out, and it is not too
much to say that could others
lave assumed the burden of his woe, hun
dreds of chivalric souls would have been
ready to take upon themselves the pain
and weakness and death. even, to relieve
the illustrious sufferer and spare him to
the country. But it could not be, and the
dauntless leader on many bloody battle
fields was left perforce to meet the dark
angel in a struggle that must have but one
sad ending.
1t is not easy, within the narrow confines
of a newspaper article, TO do full justice
to the extraordinary character of General
Grant. Doubtless the eminence he will
occupy in history will be due chiefly to his
military achievements, and this will be
natural and just. But to the generation
| contemporaneous with him he has pre-
| sented in his personal attributes many
| claims Upon the popular regard ASSOCIATED
from his purely military career-or
| rather, he was seen to COM
| bine in that career the quail
| ties which most strongly appeal 10 Ameri-
cans for recognition and approval. He
was grounded in simple principles of man
illness and probity which distinguished him
| all through his marvellous course, and ne
| rose from obscurity to greatness and sue
cess by sheer force of merit and innate
| ability. It Is folly to a of such men
coming to the front by accident. A
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-30

The next day General Grant visited the
rebel ines and conversed with General
Lee. Both were convinced, Lee as firmly
as Grant, that the war was over, and Lee
expressed his satisfaction at the result.
Slavery, he said, was dead; the South was
prepared to acquiesce in this as one of the
consequences of National victory. The
end mad long been foreseen. The utter ex-
haustion of resources, the humiliation of
armies, which had been steadily going on
for a year, could nave but one termination.
Johnston, he said, would certainly follow
his example and surrender to Sherman,
and the sooner the rebel armies were ali
surrendered the better, now. Nothing
could be accomplished by further resist
ance. When Grant discovered that Lee
entertained these opinions he urged him to
address the rebel Government and people,
and use his great influence to hasten the
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
The First Railroad in America.

The First Railroad In America.
The Globe-D Democrat says (: In the
course of a paper read before the
Franklin Institute, bearing the title,
Transportation Facilities Of the Past
and Present" Mr.. Barnet LeVan cor
reefs the commonly received statement
that the Granite railroad, built at
Quincy, Mass, in 1927, by Grindley
Bryant, for transporting stone for the
Bunker Hill Monument from the gran
lite quarries of Quincy, was the first
railroad built In the United States.
On this point he presents interesting
testimony to prove that, far from be-
ing the first, the Granite railroad was
really only the fourth in order Of pre-.
cedence in the United States. We
quote from that portion Of the paper
relating to the subject as follows !:
Railroads were also first introduced
in Pennsylvania. In September, 1909,
the first experimental track in the
United States was laid out by John
Thompson the father Of John Edgar
Thompson, who was afterward the
president Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company civil engineer of Della
ware county, Penn, and constructed
under his direction by Somerville, a
Scotch millwright. for Thomas Leiper.
of Philadelphia. 1t was $50 feet in
length, and graded Il inches to the
yard. The gauge was four feet, and
the sleepers eight feet apart. The ex.
pertinent with a loaded car was so sue
cessful that Leiper in the same year
caused the first practical railroad in
the United States to be constructed
for the transportation Of stone from
his quarries on Crum Creek to his
landing on Ridley Creek, in Delaware
county, Penn, a distance Of about one
mile. 1t continued in use for nine.
teen years. Some of the original foun.
dations, consisting of rock in which
holes were drilled and afterward
plugged with wood to receive the
spikes for holding the sleepers in place
may be seen to this day"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
Thieves, Picnic at Canton.

OpeCldl W tHe commercial herdlU.
CANTON, MISS, Aug. 12.-Thieves
held high carnival here last night,
taking advantage of the fact that most
residences are thrown open owing to
the excessively warm weather. A
number of houses were entered, that
of John R. Mayson among others,
where they got Mr.. Mayson's pocket
book and contents from his pants. j.
L. Gray, an ex-Federal soldier, and an
invalid, had just drawn from bank
yesterday one hundred dollars of pen
sion money. Ninety-three dollars Of
this money was in his pants pocket.
His house was entered and the above
money stolen.
N. G. Orick's hardware store had
been robbed several times recently, and
last night Mr.. Orrick set a trap to
catch the thief. The rascal made his
appearance about 9 o'clock, but sue
ceeded in escaping. He was identified
and arrested later, and had a large
quantity of stolen goods in his posses
sion.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
The Jesse Woodson Reward.

AAAG 10000 gkA1AA now IL
Editor Commercial Herald;
Dear Sir: The very brief and cpl
timized communication which appear
ed in your paper the other morning
from Mr.. II. G. McCabe, is either very
difficult of explanation, according to
the rules of a modern thesis, and de.
ductive~ philosophy, or Mr.. McCabe has
made the mistake Of nominating his
logic under the very opposite expIetive
tenable from his standpoint.
Cause sine qua non.
To proceed with Mr.. McCabe's ipse
defendendo in his dictum on the ques-
ton of the power of the board of
mayor and aldermen to offer a reward,
a%nnihilating as it may appear in the
kaliedescropic retina of Mr.. Nc abe's
mental vision (if the same be not
clouded with the incongruous
nebula of technicalities) the pub
lie, l am satisfied, will be hardly
able to comprehend as assimulative
analogy Of "his case'' with the accept
ed stare decisis. Multitudinous OBJ
jections may be urged calculating the
legal anachronism in which my erudite
friend has ~unhappily stumbled.
Examine the presidency of his argu-
mentation and he is left with his
philosophy in phimosis.
Inductively, Mr.. McCabe may be
correct. But deductively, l leave it
to any disciple of Adam Smith or Her
bert Spencer to decide whether or not
the opposite of what he asserts is true.
There may be some innocent con
glomeration Of terms with the law
giver, and the too voluminous vocab
ulary may have engendered the nicer
titude which Gas always the case with
doubt) evolved error. 1t is true Mr..
McCabe is not arguing his position from
this standpoint, according to his ipse
dixit, and he may say this is an anas-
trophie Of what should reasonably
follow the aufracuosity of his commu
nication. but this you see at once is
apodictical.
1t will not be allowed anybody how
ever to shelter himself behind a clever
subtifuge which all see to be an apot-
tresis in logic from the true ''issue.'
There is an apparancy in all he says
and lawyers are said to make many
things apparent that are otherwise
non substantiated and such is the ques
ton for the people to decide, while in
the meantime, Jessie Woodson, goes
scot free with the blood of an limo
cent boy unavenged. But perhaps
Cernet omnia Deut vindex.
Respectfully.
VUX POPULI.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
VIEW.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
was chagrined at and all its bitter
spite aroused on account of the part
x-Confederates were given in the
Grant funeral. The following from
the New York Times, a Republican
paper, shows in bright contrast with
the spirit displayed by the Commercial
Gazette, and will meet with a hearty
response from all just and fair-minded
men, whether Republicans or Demo-
Gratis:
The composition of the procession
was most fortunately adapted to
emphasize to every American the
consciousness of a restored, a purged,
and a triumphant nationality. When
the troops of Virginia follow the troops
of Massachusetts, tothe grave of Grant,
when Sherman and Johnston go
together in one carriage and Sheridan
and Buckner in another to carry the
pail of the victorious Commander
in-Chief Of the Union armies,
these visible evidences that the
war is over will have weight
in every household of the land.
Its bitterness has passed away the
memories Of the valor and the devo-
ton it was the occasion of displaying
remain the heritage of the American
people. And so the trim regiments of
the National Guard that preceded the
hearse were less touching than the
long ranks of simply clad, middle-aged
mer. that followed it, the old,fashioned
uniforms and dingy, war-worn hous-
ings of their mounted officers,
the empty sleeves, and, more
than all, the rows of tattered
and faded colors that were borne here
and there among them. Here were
those that could be gathered of the
citizen soldiery of tie Union, having
SO completely merged the soldier in
the citizen again, and being so reab-
sorbed into the ranks Of peaceful in
dustry, after they had done their
work under Grant, that when they re-
appeared as soldiers to follow his coffin
it was as if the history of twenty years
ago were reproduced before our eyes,
and the victorious hosts of the Union
that were disbanded and dispersed
after the great review of 1885 in Penn.
sylvania-avenue were marching uI
Fifth.avenue in 1885.
Ten years ago the passions of the
war were not so far abated that such
demonstration over the open grave Of
the leader Of the Union armies would
have been possible. Ten years hence
in the course of nature, not all the ia,
nous soldiers of both sides whose
presence so signalized the demonstra-
tion of yesterday would be alive to
participate in it. The leaders of a
great rebellion paying the last tribute
of honor to the leader of the armies
that put it down furnish a spectacle
without parallel in human history
Their presence and participation give
proof Of the generosity and the for
b~earance of the victorious Government
and they give proof also Of the mag
nanimity of the American character.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
saratoga VILLAGE ReIIgIon.

odd by Eli Perkins.
Deacon Knapp has been the main
pillar of the Saratoga Methodist church
for over forty years. Every Sunday
morning has found him in the centre
pew of the old church. One month
ago the old deacon died. A few weeks
after the pastor called on the deacon's
son, Ben. Ben had not experienced
the wrath to come" like his father,
and had left the old pew vacant.
"Now, Ben," said the pastor, "for
over forty years your father has occu-
pied that same old pew in the center of
the church. He has enjoyed my SER
mons all these years, and l hope to see
you in the same old pew"
"But father and L are different"
said Ben. ut would be harder for me
to sit there than for father"
"Why harder for you, Benz" asked
the clergyman.
because" said Ben, "father, you
know, was deaf"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
A Seducer Flogged.

LONDON, Aug. l2.-The Pail Mall
Gazette this evening says a well known
gentleman, who was recently appoint
ed a member Of a royal commission,
was met on the stair last of his Office
on Indian avenue to-day, and soundly
fogged, by a gentleman who publicly
accused him of having seduced his
daughter. The thrashing was preceded
by a violent assault, the angry father
shaking the betrayer of his child like a
TERROR does a rat. The father then
logged him until the stick broke when
the bystanders interfered.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
These are Solid Facts.

The best blood purifyer and system
regulator ever placed within the reach
of suffering humanity, truly is Elec-
trio Bitters. Inactivity of the Liver,
Billiousness, Jaundice, Constipation
Weak Kidneys, or any disease of the
urinary organs, or whoever requires
an appetizer tonic, or mild stimulant
will always find Electric Bitters the
best and only certain cure known.
They act surely and quickly, every
bottle guaranteed to give entire satic-
faction or money refunded, Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by Hardaway &
Cassell. 4
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
Rewarded After Ten Years.

INUW lUTh IIIIIt5.
About ten years ago Edward Allen,
of Fort Chester, while visiting at Long
Branch, rescued n of three children
who were in bathing and had been car
ried out beyond its depth. The chill
dren were under the care Of ]. L. Lo-
rillard. The circumstance was almost
forgotten by Alien, when, a day or two
ago, he received a letter from Mr.. Lo-
rlllard, now residing in Cleveland, o.,
rehearsing the matter and expressing
his gratitude, and inclosing his check
or $1,000.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
The Cholera Causes a Panic In Mar
SeilleS,

MARsEILLEs, Aug. 12-The cholera
panic increases daily. The average Of
departures from Marseilles by railway
alone has already increased two thous-
and per day. AS an instance of the
laxness with which Marseilles SAM.
tary authorities perform their duties,
the case of the captain of an Rnnlish
vessel lying in this port may
be mentioned. The captains daughter
died OF cholera aboard the ship. He
at once notified the authorities and be-
gan a disinfection of the vessel.
Although at noon to-day thirty hours
had elapsed since the girls death, no
official action has as yet been taken
concerning the event by the Marseilles
authorities.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14
CURE FOR PILES.

Piles are frequently proceeded by a
sense of weight in the back. loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing
the patient to suppose he has some af-
lection of the kidneys or neighboring
organs. At times, symptoms of
Indigestion are present, as fatulency,
uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A
moisture, like persriration, producing
a very disagreeable itching, after get
ting warm, is a very common atten-
dant. Blind, Bleeding an6 Itching
Piles yield at once to the application
of DR.. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which
acts directly upon the parts affected,
absorbing the Tumors, allaying the
intense itching, and affecting a per-
manent cure. Price, 80 cents. Ad-
dress, The DR.. Bosanko Medicine Co,
Plqua, Ohio. Sold by G. G. Reynolds
& Co. l
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14

HEADING, Pa. Aug. 12.-Daniel
Noll, who several months ago set fire
TO the outbuildings on Augustus
Wertzers farm, in this county, which
resulted In the burning Of four per-
sons, was acquitted in court here this
afternoon, on the ground Of insanity.
The court ordered him to be confined
in a lunatic asylum.