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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
They Saw the Real Mrs. Dash.

Mem york Letter 10 me boston COitfter.
heard the following story just before
| left Saratoga, and 1t is vouched for rs an
actual occurrence. A married couple
from New York, who spent last winter In
a Washington hotel, saw in a Saratoga
paDer this summer the name OF lady
from the West which was the same as
that of one they had known in the hotel in
Washington, who WAS at the latter with
her husband, a member Of Congress, and
having had pleasant relations with her,
went 20 call upon her as soon as they
noticed her arrival at Saratoga. When
they asked for Mrs. Dash, they were
shown into the public parlor Of a small
hotel and told she was there, but, looking
about, saw only lady who was a stranger
20 them, and 30 went out again 10 the
Office and said they could not find the
lady they had called 10 see. A walter
then accompanied them again to the par
lor. and said:
eyes, there is Mrs. Dash. knew she
was In hero"
"But.D the visitors insisted, "this is not
the Mrs. Dash we came 10 see, whom we
met in Washington last winter"
The conversation by this time attracted
the attention Of the lady who had 80 un-
consciously caused IL, and, rising In her
wrath, she said:
ayes, / am Mrs. Dash---the only Mrs.
Dash-but suppose you came 10 see the
creature who was living with my hus-
band in Washington last winter"
Great embarrassment 20 the visitors
and hasty retreat followed this, OF
course.
They we're aware that a divorce had
preceded the marriage OF the Congressman
ia question with her whom he took as his
wife 10 Washington, butdld not know UNI
I'll after the visit recorded above that the
proceedings had been sufficiently irregu-
lar 10 justify In a measure the charge
broughtb by the first wife, whose language
was far more explicit than have re-
corded " above.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
Yellow Jacket Trap.
From ne Eatonton Cal Nesaeno

From me Edtontoh tGd.l Messenger.
Mr.. Hiram Moneyham has discovered a
ordinary fly trap, bought at Mr.. Hearn's
store, knocked out the bottom, and placed
II snugly over the nest Of yellow jackets.
Some two OF three Of the bees came In and
began fighting each other. The noise they
made brought all the balance into the con-
hlor. They continued 10 fight until every
one was killed and the nest broken up.
he found another nest and set the fiy trap
over them as before, with the same result.
So be continued until oil the yellow jack
cts In five nests on his premises had de-
stroyed themselves.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
Mistaken for a PuIlet.


Mistakes are sometimes quite sad in
their character, and we have no doubt
the thief above alluded tO-after pulling
away at the tough meat of a decrepit and
AGED fowl-whe ne learns tnat ne really
devoured a chicken, actually dying with
cholera, will regret his midnight raid on
the roost. The theft occurred one night
last week. In the dead hour of the night
a most honest and unsuspecting party
heard noise. The sound was
peculiar, but there was no
mistaking that same old hen
had been grabbed by the neck and
was being strangled as she was making
desperate effort to free herself from her
peril. A window was hurriedly opened
and the occupant of the house cried out:
.eLet those chickens alone" In the dim
light creature with pants on was seen
to run rapidly away, carrying white OBJ
ject under one arm. 1t occurred to the
person who had frightened the thief,
and was ascerCained early next morn
ing. that the ''Old white hen" had
been stolen. She was really an old hen,
a landmark OF her race. For some time
the poor creature had been troubled With
q violent and almost fatal attack OF chOl-
era, and her owner had worried a good
deal Of physic down her. Almost dead,
skeleton, she was not fit to die, and yet
too sick to live; but if death was newt
able il is a great consolation to know that,
instead Of a human lion, a human hyeDa
picked the leathery fesh from the tough
homes of the old white hen.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
Georrla Thrin.

r. II. Richards has sold his handsome
house and 300 acres Of land near Marietta
~ Mr.. Reynolds, OF Atlanta, for $4,000
cash.
Twelve thousand bushels OF cotton seed
are on hand awaiting the operation OF the
cotton seed oil mill at Waynesboro. The
machinery IL being put in place, and the
mill will be ready for work In a few days.
A gentleman, who has taken the trouble
10 count them up, says there have been %
new dwelling houses erected in Elberton
within the last six years, and none OF
them. with the exception Of perhaps one
or two, cost less than $500. THIS does not
include the new stOre-houses, shops, ETC.,
which have been built, OF which there are
a couaiderable number.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
Having His Own Grave Dug.
- - $40 - ~ ~@NC ASAAfss
From the Hdrietta Journal.

A wealthy old gentleman In an adjoining
county, who has a wife and no children,
is making active preparations for his own
and wite's burial. He has recently given
as order for a fine monument to cost some
500 which is to have memorial inscriptions
for himself and wife. He is also having
the graves dug, walled, and cemented.
The burial caskets are also to be pur-
chased and ready for use. The expense
will amount to over 81 200.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
No Wrong.Doers.
from fAs Americus RSc0rdsr.

FrOn fhs Af1erlcus IfecVFH7F'
'sHave any Of you gentlemen been doing
ANYTHING wrong. lately ~ asked Capt. a.
G. Bell Of a number OF gentlemen Ia front
of BoswOrth's yesterday.
swer. .,..
nWelI, 1 thought would be discharg-
ing nv duty II L inquired" said the Cap.
tain. "This morning Judge Fort charged
the grand jury 70 make diligent inquiry
as 70 any wrong-doinE In the county, ana
am trying 10 DISCHARGE my duty
The crowd took theirs without any
sugar.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
Two Foes of Success.

ITVH5 NO OUt7dgIOI IUI,T NllT.
A truth, solid truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, momentous
ruth: Judge John d. Stewart, most
excellent, fair-minded, sympathetic and
Christianly tender-hearted Judge, in SEN
fencing criminal last week, who had
been indicted and found guilty of two
criminal acts, brought about by whisky,
said: "There is no man on the face of
the earth, | don't care who he is, that
drinks whisky and carries a pistol, but
will come to some bad end.v
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16

money to buy the medicine. While max
ing the search she happened to see laying
on the ground in front of her wad re-
sembiing greenback. She stopped
still, looked at it a second, ard then say
ing;
"rhe Lord be praised" sprang forward
and grabbed the wad. She opened it with
trembling hand and found that it was a
dollar bill. She lost no time IN hurrying
back to the sane drug store where she
purchased the medicine and told her story
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
The TaIe ID . small BOZ.

From the BraAstcick tAe.l Ietegraph.
A little fellow years old visited Old
Orchard, where he saw a monkey, with
whose antice be was greatly pleased.
Upon his return home he was asked what
he saw, and bis quick reply was:
"a little boy with q tail"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-16
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Ohio Crops.

The June crop reports of the Ohio
Board Of Agriculture, based on re
turns from about nine hundred regu-
lar township correspondents, gives
the following estimates; Wheat
Probable bushels with good weather
till harvest, 100000 bushels, or
81 per cent. of an average crop, OF
10000, 900 bushels short of the five
years average, S,OOO,0 900 bushels
short of the April estimate, and g.
600, 600 bushels short of that for
May. Rye-Condition, II per cent.
Barley-Area, 81 per cent; condi-
tion y per cent. Oats-Area, LOG per
cent; condition 80 per cent; Corn
Area, los per cent. condition, 81 pc,
cent. Potatoes-Area, 90 per cent.
condition, 95 per cent. Apples
Prospect, II per cent; peaches, :
per cent; pears, 80 per cent. grapes,
So per cent. The wheat figures are
the result of two independent est
mates, n by percentage on the
known crop for five years, and the
other estimated bushels per acre or
the known acreage. Both are gotter
up with great care and agree almost
exactly in total bushels for the State
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
The Penitentiary Ga1lows.
Columbus Times.

The gallows to be used in the execu-
tions at the Penitentiary arrived yes
terday by express from Cleveland.
This gallows is the one that has been
in use for long time in Cuyahoga
county, and with a little "greasing"
will, nodoubt, do the work nth "neat-
ness and dispatch" 1t was used sew
eral years ago in introducing into the
"after awhile" Charlie McGill, ofCol-
umbus, who killed his best girl, Mary
Kelley, in Cleveland, by Kidding her
with bullets. 1t ia complete, even the
black cap that covered McGilr's face
and the rope that caressed his neck
accompanying the apparatus. The
rope is seven-eights of an inch thick,
made of the best hemp and cost $35.
The trap doors rest upon two small
iron plates, which are connected with
the lever by several iron arms. These
are so adjusted that when the lever
is pulled both plates open outward al
the same time and the doors fall. This
trap, upon which the doomed mar
stands, is swung by the simple move
ment of a lever. The lever is the on.
ly part of the iron work visible, the
rest being concealed beneath q false
floor. The gal!ows will be placed il
the part of the east cell building now
being divided off by a brick wall
where executions are to take place. Il
is left TO the judgment ofthe Board o
Managers to say what compensation
/ shall be allowed the commissioners o
Cuyahoga county.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
NOTICE.

T EVI WOLF, of DeIavan, Tazwell
IL county, State OF Illinois, will take
notice that on the 9th day Of May, A.
D. 1885, James Werts-surviving mem
Der of the firm of j.. w. Werts 6 Son
filed his petition in the Common Pleas
Court of Preble county, Ohio, against
the above named Levi Wolf, praying
judgment for the sum of $1O9.91 with
so interest from April LIST, 1871, on q
note dated April LIST, 1871, payable one
day after date; and hat an order Of at
tachm ent has been issued and levied on
the undivided one-thirteenth part
subject to dower-of the following de-
scribed real estate in Preble county,
Ohio, to-wit: 16O acress off of the north
side of Section II, Township Z, Range
3 east; and that unless said sum is
paid, said real estate will be sold to
pay the judgment SO to be obtained in
this case on final hearing. Said Levi
Wolf Is required to answer said petit
ton and order Of attachment on or be-
fore the LIST day Of August, A. D. 1885,
or judgment may be taken against him
JAMES WERTS.
By l.. F. LIMBERT, Atty.
Gjun11-6t
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Columbus Times.

The Republicans as represented by
their press are already filled with pan
ic, strife, timidity and vaccillation,
though the work Of the campaign has
progressed no further than the selec-
ton of an untried city as the place for
holding their convention. They are
in doubt whether to f1aunt or 10 pack
away the bloody shirt. And they can
not be got to say whether they are in
favor Of prohibition or license in the
matter of beverage. The only rallying
cry upon which they agree now is that
of Sherman, Sherman. If Sherman
were to go from among US, they would
be as broken and demoralized as were
the conspirato:s of Nicaragua, when
word was passed along the line, that
Barrios had fallen in death. The party
which consists only of one man and
his following is not likely to win
among a free, intelligent people. Even
the wealth and magnetism of Blaine
could not prevail unaided by princi-
| pie and justice.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
MutiIated Coins.

The Director Of the Mint has is
sued the following order:
The Superintendent ofthe United
States minis at Philadelphia, San
Francisco and New Orleans have
been authorized to purchase mutila,
ted and uncurrent United States sill
yer coins of standard fineness at the
rate of SO cents an ounce, troy weight
when presented in sums of three
dollars and upward. Coins may be
forwarded to those minis by register
ed mail or express, charges prepaid.
and the value will be returned at the
sellers risk and expense.
Persons sending full-weight Uni.
ted States subsidiary silver coins
would receive at the rate authorized
about IS cents a dollar of their face
value, but for mutilated coins a less
amount proportional to their def
cheney in legal weight. At the rates
paid mutilated silver coins will be
worth at the minis: An ounce, troy
SO cents: an ounce avoirdupois
about SO cents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

1t is alleged, and undoubtedly with
reason, that the appointments of no
former President have ever been sub
jected to such close scrutiny and I'M
sparring criticism as have those of
President Cleveland. From the day
he announced his Cabinet every man
whom he has selected for prominent
Office has been compelled to run the
gauntlet Of public opinion, and his
past political associations, his out
goings and in comings, his family re
lations, his business connections ant
his private character have been thor
oughly ventilated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

The colored people of Philadelphia
have undertaken to raise funds for
the establishment of an industrial
training school. They claim that,
says the Current, while there is no
lack of opportunity for the colored
youth to study Latin, Greek, Astron
omy, Theology, ETC.. no provision is
made whereby he can learn to make
a boot or perfect himself in any in
dustrial a%vocation. 1t is high time
that something should be done to give
colored youths these advantages, and
it is especially gratifying to observe
that the colored people are taking
the matter into their own hands.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

The Columbus Times says: The
suggestion to nominate Mr.. Thurman
by a unanimous vote of the conven.
ton, meets with such universal en-:
dorsement by the Democratic press
of the State, that there seems little
doubt of the sincerity of the move
ment. As to Mr.. Thurman's accept.
ance, this is a matter which need moi
be discussed. After the nomination
has been made, there is no question
as to Mr.. Thurman having the patri
otism to accept.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

The Louisville Courier Journal
says: "The Republican editors must
take the people for a pack of fools.
They, the editors, are parading the
balance of the Treasury books as an
evidence of Republican honesty in
off, e, as if an organized body of pub
lie robbers could not carry on their
work OF pillage without making a rec
ord of their crime. The books are all
right; not to them need we look for
evidences of theft. The rogues got in
their work on legislative appropria'
tons and on fraudulent contracts
The Robesons and the Reaches could
tell where the millions went which
stand on the books for war ships and
repairs and other well planned job
berries for beating the people witt
their own money"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Snecula,ors in wheat give out Il

Spectators in wheat give out the
following figures: In 1880, with a
crop of 499, 600, 900 bushels, the
price was $1.l0; in 1881 with a crop
of 100000 bushels, wheat was
sold from $1.10 up to $1.50, and even
$1.6O; in 1882, with a crop of 502,.
0OO, 600 bushels, wheat sold from
$1.33 down to $1.20; while in 1888,
with a crop of 2O,OOo,O 600 bushels,
it sold from $1.25 down to $1.1O pei
bushel; in 1884, with 513, 200, Oo(
bushels, it went off at 7s4 cents, and
this year, with a possible 400,00O,O 900
bushels, the expectation is the price
will go from $1.10 to $l.25 per bush
el.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

The following is the programme
of the new Ministry of Brazil for the
abolition of slavery; A general regis,
ter of slaves, with a declaration of
five per cent, making the maximum
value of slaves of 60 years at 200 mil
ions each. Slaves over 60 years will
have no monetary value, but will be
obliged to serve a term of three years.
The existing emancipation fund will
be continued, and a new fund erected
besides, with a tax of five per cent,
on all public revenue, except exports,
naturalization being made to slave
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
Eaton, April 8, 1ss5-tf

Rev. DR.. R. H. Allen, secretary of
the Freedmen's aid society, in pre-
senting his report to the Presbyteri-
an general assembly, gives the fol
lowing significant statistics touching
the negro
"Twenty years ago, at the close of
the war, there were in the Southern
states 3,947. 900 colored people, and
now there are more than 1000 900.
Then there were in Mississippi 22,-
900 negroes. now &c. O0 Then there
were in Georgia 454, 900 negroes, now
4as,eee-Thea-there were in South
Carolina 400, 900, now more than 600,-
600. Five hundred colored babies are
born in the United States every day.
The colored population of the Uni
ted States doubles every 20 years
the white population only once in
IS years-eight years will not have
passed before the negroes will be in
a numerical majority in some of the
Southern states. At the present rate
Of increase, in 1885 there will be
ninety six million white people in the
United States and one hundred and
n~inety-two million colored people,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
The WASHINGTON Post. speaking

The Washington Post, speaking of
President Cleveland, says: GAIL
things considered, he has fallen into
few errora. The prodigious trans
formation involved in installing q
party which, has been ont of power
for a quarter of a century is being
effected with far less clash and blum
der than might have been expected
The president is thoroughly in earn
est" The work of changing one hun.
dred thousand Office holders involves
an amount of laborious investigation
that the general public has but LITTLE
idea Of. The president seeks to i'm
prove the public service by selecting
the best of the Democrats presented
to him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

Preside MT Cleveland shows him
self the great statesman and friend
of the people he is, by declaring tina,
"our system Of revenue should be So
adjusted as to relieve the people
from unnecessary taxation, an essen,
tial work which the Republican party
promised to perform, but mos,
shamefully juggled with" He also
wisely declares that "the. public do.
main should be protected from pur.
Joining schemes and unlawful occu
PATTON" as it certainly has moi been
under Republican rule. The creates,
blessing that ever happened the
country was the election of Grove,
Cleveland, and the defeat Of tina,
leader of rings and public jobbers,
James G. Blaine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

A man named Snyder, who served
in a New York regiment, called at
the Pension Office in Washington
and surrendered his pension, because
he was able to live without it, and
the governments had done enough
for him. The officers of the bureau
were nearly paralyzed by the request.
He has been drawing $72 per month
for o long time. If Snyder should
have any imitators-and he ought to
have a good many-we will be as
prompt as possible in announcing
the fact.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

Statistics prove that the American
people are rapidly changing their
drinking habits. In 1860 the popu-
lation of the United States, in round
numbers, was thirty one millions, at
which time the consumption of spir-
ituous liquors amounted to S6,000,-
900 gallons. In 1884, with a popu-
lation of not less than ffty-five mill
ions, the consumption was less than
5000, 900 gallons. On the other
hand the consumption of malt liquors
has risen from 100, OOO, 900 gallons
in 1860 to 500, 100000 gallons last
year, and that of native wines from
1,S0O,O 900 gallons to 17,OO0,O 600 gal
Ions. The Stark County Democrat
regards the substitution of the light
er for the heavier drinks, as shown
by the figures, during the past TWEEN
ty five years, as a social fact of some
significance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

Senator Vest of Missouri is said to
be mad at the newspapers, and has
expressed himself to a reporter, in
sulphurous language that is unpar-
+liamentary and which calls for re-
vision. The New York World gives
it back to the Senator in the follow
ing:
"But here the Senator is eyre
giously in error. He and other Sen
ators and public men generally have
the greatest use and need for news
papers, which in reality make them,
by giving publicity to them and
,heir doings, and without, the news.
papers the most of them never VIZ uld
have been known beyond the bound
aries of their own arn-yards."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

Secretary Whitney will appoint a
board to Investigate the expendi-
lures upon the United States steam
ship Mohican, recently repaired at
the Mare Island Navy Yard. 1t is
said that a far greater sum than ad7
visab,e' a spent in repairing her,
and rumor places the amount at
800, 600. We have little faith that
there is q Republican paper in the
country that will recognize this as
anything more than a ''two cent"
business however.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

The Republicans will have a ma
.jority in the United States Senate till
March A, 1887. Even the election o;
q Democrat in Illinois to succeed Lo-
gan would not have prevented that,
though it would have been an impor.
tant aid in overcoming the Republi-
can ascendency a little less than two
years hence. Logan will be sworn in
at the next meeting of Congress, and
the Senate will then stand forty-twe
Republicans to thirty-four Demo
Gratis. One-third of the Senate, q:
near as may be, changes every two
years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
According to the Charleston New

According to the Charleston News'
the Charleston Library, which was
founded in 1748, and which has con-
tinued in operation without Interrupt
tion, except for a short period during
the late war, is in a more precarious
condition than at any time since its
foundation. The Indifference and
lukewarmness Of the community in
this matter Is such that the member.
ship of the Charleston Library Socie.
ty has been gradually dwindling I'm.
til now, out of a white population o.
$4,000, the society can show but 22E
members on it's roll.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11

The Ohio State Board of Fund
Commissioners sold 81, 500, 900 Ohio
State bonds to Nitter & Co., of Gin
cinnati, at $685. interest in the ex.
change for 6 per cent. bonds due this
year. This is a reduction in interest
Of $2.35 per annum and yet we see
that some Of our contemporaries con.
slider the rate too high, as 8 per cent
is now considered a fair rate for the
rent of money on long time in she
over supply of our national currency
not having its effect on the rates
Of interest.