The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-04
STRAY R

face the Irish Issue.
England is badly scared by dyna-
miters.
Mexico and the United States will
hold a special monetary conference.
1t is predicted that there will be no
tariff legislation this winter.
Uncle Sam pays but one and one
half cents 10 coin q silver dollar.
Morgan, of Alabama, opposes Sena-
tor Sherman's amendment TO the cleo
toral bill.
All surviving officers and soldiers
of the Mexican war will receive q
pension of So per month.
The farmers of Logan county are
being most egregiously swindie1 by
the Bohemian oats fraud.
A sweeping labor bill will shortly
be introduced in the house by Chair
man O'Neil, of the labor committee.
The knights of Pythias Will have
a big demonstration in Cincinnati on
February 10th, the Twenty third an
niversary of the order.
Rev. r. A. Gilfllan, pastor of the
United Presbyterian church. Wooster,
resigned because one of the congre-
CATION opposed his prohibition views.
Bohemian oats are selling in Belle
fontaine at % cents a busliel, q drop
of 1915 What a fall my country
men,"
Wayne county, Ind, has n large
number of Quaker citizens. Only one
Of the number is known to be q dem
ocr.it.
Francis Murphy has secured over
five thousand to the pledge
among the millmen and others at
Youngstown.
Internal revenue collections III
creased ovcr 5000 ,494 over the COL
lections during the same period ofthe
last fiscal year.
Senator ingalls, says The house en-
crossing clerks are either Ignorant
Or careless. The commonest words
are misspelled."
The eminent English physician, Sir
Henry Thompson. considers fish a
particularly suitable article Of diet for
persons unable to take much exercise.
The Belgian railroad commission is
about TO Experiment with steel rail-
road sleepers, and will lay thiriy-sev-
en- miles of line in this manner to test
THE principle.
P~edagogue McIlvaiu, CHARTERS, Pa,
suspended len Catholic children from
school because they would not attend
bible teaching. The case will be tested
i'll court.
The three strong points in the labor
problem for 1856 are the eight hour
question, the Increasing demand for
labor, and the quietmovemeni among
employers toward arbitration meth
DDS.
Black birch is fast becoming the
fashionable wood for furniture. Time
changes all things. Birch wood of
small growth especially, was always
unpopular with u foreiathers when
they were boys.
The two richest men in Russia, the
Noble brothers, are estimated to be
worth 800, 100000. They made this
immense fortune in coal oil and coal
oil lands-and yet they are reported
to have never been in politics.
The coal operators of Ohio will, by
the decision of Judge Thurman, have
pay a rebate of ten cents per ton
since the miners went TO work in No
vember, as they have only received
fifty cents with the understanding
hat the price should be what the de-
cision made it, sixty cents.
A man in New York has received q
for $4,000 against Mrs. A.
L. Stewart for falling in an elevator
in n building owned by her. This is a
case where a man was not only ele-
waited downward: but his downward
was, contrary 10 rule, q paying
one.
A son of the late Jesse James, of
somewhat unenviab;e noto, iety, is a
member of a Baptist Sunday school
in Kansas City. He is q bright-eycd,
boy, and recently
gecited the Lords prayer before a
audience at a meeting of the
Sunday school. His mother is a MEM
Der of the church.
There are complaints of shipments
of poisoned oranges from Florida.
The oranges were frozen on the trees
the lasi ccli snap, and eXter-
lally appear to be wholesome, but
hey blister the tongue and lips, and
ire injurious to the mucous men,
orane. Several seizures have been
made in New York, and the fruit
with carbolic acid, to prevent
is being eaten by the street urchins
who infest the docks.
The congressional committee on la
has under consideration the bill
presented by Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, to
establish an executive department of
abor, with a secretary of labor. The
design and duties Of this de-
,artment are, as described in the bill,
acquire and diffuse among the peo-
lie useful Information on subjects
connected with labor in the most gen.
raj and comprehensive sense of the
to ascertain as nearly as posi-
lie the causes of discomfort which
nay exist between the employers of
abor and their employees, and to rec
'mmend 10 the proper authorities !
Methods for The prevention and adj
ustment of such differences. !