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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
LATER NEWS.

Mrs. SARAH NJ. VICTOR and Frank Kuntz,
both life prisoners for murder in the Ohio
penitentiary, were pardoned by the Gov
',rror Christmas.
JOHN AND MICHAEL CONWAY, brothers,
LalreIed at Dayton, o. The former
tabled the latter fatally and seriously in
--~' 'r"ir father, who endeavored to sep
arate them.
nn4L1 .os. Orazz and Lizzie Sontra, "a
young Hungarian couple who were soon to
be married, were walking on the Consoli-
Lated railroad track near South Norwalk,
Ct, on the 26th, they were struck by an
east-bound train and almost instantly
killed. The bodies were terribly man
gled.
Two FREIGHT trains collided on the Chica-
go and Atlantic railroad, near Preston,
Ind, and Engineer Edwards was killed.
JACOB MURTH, while drunk at Jersey
City, fell on his face and smothered to
death.
JOSEPH HART, aged four years, was
burned to death in New York City by his
clothes becoming ignited from Christmas
tree.
ALEX MCINTYRE, of Chicago, became
hopelessly insane while on a visit to rela-
tives in Tennessee.
AT Van Vert, O., saloon keeper named
Finkhouse, blew out his brains because OF
| domestic troubles.
THE Baltimore & Ohio express Office at
Rayville, La, was robbed of bag con-
tanning 81, 900 in silver coin.
| IT is reported that Fotheringham in jail
| at st. Louis on suspicion of being lmphcat-
ed in the Adams Express robbery on the
| st. Louis and San Francisco road in Octo-
Der, upon promise of partial immunity
! from punishment, disclosed the whole
! tory Upon this information three men
were tracked to Chicago and arrested.
one of these is believed to be the facetious
| Jim Cummings" whose real name is
supposed to be Fred Witrosch, of excel
| ent family connections at LeavenWorth,
| Kan.
Mrs. MARY WHITNEY died at Van Vert,
| O., from drinking whisky to ease the pain
'arscd bv fall down stairs.
PROF. CHARLES TINKHAM, wel-known
uius.cian, fell down a flight of stairs at
Lafayette, Ind, and sustained injuries
which are expected to prove fatal.
HARRY FARwERK, boy of fifteen, who
resided with his parents at Rosedale, a
suburb of Chicago, died Christmas of an
overdose Of whisky.
THE wife OF Chas. Barger, farmer near
> Live Neb.. during temporary fit OF
insanity, killed her three children and then
| =. ner own throat.
REV. n. c. HIGGINS, inmate Of the asylum
1T Fulton. Mo-. in attempting to escape
from his room in the fourth story, fell and
was killed.
GEORGE W. CnuDs, proprietor OF the
Philadelphia Ledger, gave Christmas gifts
In money to his employees to the amount Of
NEARLY $4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
the spectators were arrested aod committed

the spectators were arrested aod committed
for examination.
Four workmen were fatally burned on the
23d by an explosion or molten steel at Car
negie's iron works at Homestead, Pa.
The committee of the Union League and
Republican citizens of Philadelphia had a
conference on the 23d and nominated Edwin
Il. Filter for Mavor.
The action Of the New York Legislature
last winter in repeating the charter of the
Broadway Street Railway Company has
been declared constitutional by the Supreme
Court of that State. The mortgages are
also held to be lien ON the property.
William Warner, who shot and killed Mrs.
Ella Lynch at Newton, Conn, on the 23d,
soon after returned to the house and shot
himself. His body was found lying across
that OF his victim. he left note in which
he gave the cause of the murder as jeal-
ousy.
The directors of the Canal Bank at Port
land, Me-, have received communication
from the defaulting teller, Howard 1. Black
stone, giving full history Of his stealings.
He took about $4,000.
The famous English stallion Kingcraft,
recently purchased by D. Swigert, Of Ken
lucky, died on the passage from Liverpool
to New York a few days ago. Kingcraft
was bred by Lord Falmouth and was his
first Derby winner.
The steamer Galilee arrived at Boston on
the ed, bringing Captain Stephens and
seven men Of the crew of the bark Krvolith,
taken of that vessel, which was in sinking
condition, on the 11th inst. One man, Frank
Cook, had been washed overheard and
drowned. The vessel was en- route from
Philadelphia for Tralee, with grain.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
AN OCCULT SCIENCE.
Remarkable Experience of q Man WHIT
Read His Fate From His Hands.

Remarkable Experience of q Man Who
Read His Fate From His Hands.
For many years past I have been
firm believer in the truth of palmistry,
but I recently made an experiment
which has shaken my faith in the art
of hand-reading, in a measure. For
the benefit of the public, I have kind
ly consented to relate my experience so
that the matter may be satisfactorily
explained, if such thing be possible.
There are few slight contradictions
in the result my experiment brought
out, which 1 am somehow unable to re-
concile. I will therefore give my
readers an opportunity to see what
they can do to restore the lost har-
mony.
A few days ago, after attending a
lecture upon hand-reading, by Prof.
A. Stork-Edward, the famous British
savant, at tPickering Hall, bought a
book containing key to all the lines
of the hand, defining them and describ-
ing their significance for veal or for
woe. I then made an exact chart of
the lines of my hand, showing the pre-
else location of each lump on my palm,
and all the other DISTINGUISHED charac-
teristics of its surface. Then I consult
ed the book with the following extraor-
binary result:
I am nervous and sensitive.
1 have phlegmatic temperament,
and my feelings can never be hurt
shall live to be ninety-seven years
of age, six months and five days.
1 shall die before I am forty from
cholera infantum.
1 shall marry a rich woman when
am twenty-one.
I shall be the mother of twins.
Ny husband will have red hair and .
wooden arm. He will not be rich, but
my eldest daughter will marry rict
italian nobleman.
I shall never be a parent, but my wife
will be widow with eight fatherles
children.
/ shall never marry, but my secont
cousin James will 60 out West and b.
s. Mormon.
| have no second cousin James, bu
if persevere in living, may have on
before 1 die.
[ am best fitted for the ministry or TO
bank-burgling, and will make grea
success at either.
[ am very talkative, but as neve
say any thing of Importance, l need no
worry about this symptom.
l shall never be President of tn
United States, but the Gar has it in hi
mind to make me Prince of Bulgaria
1 had better not accept the position
though, because the trident on tn
Mount of Jupiter warns me that
would suffer from cold feet, if eve
became Prince of Bulgaria.
/ shall always be rich.
My will will be contested by a lawye
with one glass-eye, and a sallow con
plexion. need not worry about thai
though, for he will not win the case.
| 1 shall die in poor-house and il
testate.
| I shall be drowned in the Arcti
Ocean while 1 am travelling there to Sc
my daughter, who has eloped with a
Eskimo seal-hunter.
This is all.
Do you blame me, gentle reader, fc
being suspicious9
Can you reconcile the contradictions
If you can, you have my best wishes
--Benjami7s Northrop in Puck.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, of Pitts
burgh, it is stated has abandoned the
Scottish castle project on the mountain
near jamestown, Pa, and will dispose
of the property purchased by him on
the summit. The death of his mother
and brother have made such an i'm
preston upon him that he has lost
mueh of his spirit and ambition. The
castle, it is said, was originally con-
csi we'd by him 10 please his mother, and
now that she is gone be has no incentive
to proceed with it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30

an item on the rounds to the effect that
Senator EImunds has constructed a
fine toboggan slide. In commenting
upon it there is some difference Of
opinion as to whether the Vermont
S.nator will or will not let Jimmy
Blaine side. There can be none. how
ever, over the fact that. aocu stoned
though B aine Is to the severity OF
Maine winters, he would find it re-
markably cool If he dropped around
Detros! Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
The Fisheries Question.

The President has taken the right
step concerning the outrages inflicted
upon our fishermen by the Canadian
Government by informing the British
Government that it will assuredly be
held respon .ble for all damages and
be held to separation not merely by
the summary seizure of their vessels
and the exacticn Of heavy fines in ad-
vance of hearing and Judgment,
but for the curtailment of
privileges to which they were
justly entitled under commercial
regulations. The published corre-
spoud nee as conducted by Secre-
tary Bavard is statesmanlike and
digns,tied and the Seer, tarv talks
quite as plainly as is the custom in
diple mat c notes. The correspondence
will unque,t onably create very IA
voraole impression AMI remove any
feeliyo of dissatisfaction with sup
posSGexaction. 1t nov remains for
Cohss.r iG TO ado the recommenda-
t ons oe President. AMI then for the
Un ted Stats to see to it that full rep
aration is made for al the losses AMI
damage which the American fishermen
have su fered at ,le hands of the Cana
dian Christian at Work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30

The correspondence relating to
he fisheries. so far as its character is
sclosed in the abstract which has
cen printed, is marked by firmness
I'd steadiness of purpose on the part
Secretary Bayard which will be an
tgre able surprise to many who have
felt that the Am arioan ease WAS likely
. 60 by default-Bostoa Journal.
Rep.)
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30

We should need to go back to
the early days of the Government and
search the State papers of Alexander
Hamilton to find an ADLER document
than the report of Mr.. Manning. For
breadth of view. comprehensiveness of
argument, logical dirnctness, and a
fine power of SO grouping a mass of
detail rs to illustrate and enforce a
central proposition, the treasury re-
1ort is model. Paul Pioneer
tresS. (Rep.)
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
the EAST.


Catharine Lorillard Wolfe was on the
21st reported to be lying at the point Of
death at her home in New York City. Miss
Wolfe is noted for her extensive charities,
and as being probably the richest unmar-
ried woman in the United States. Her ben
efactions have been widespread and amount
to more than 81, 100000.
The steamer Werra, which arrived at
New York from Bremen on the Goth after a
tempestuous passage, brought queer
cargo. She had on board three gigantic
horses, twelve wild boars, 500 English
pheasants, 5000 canaries, fifty wild rabbits
and a boy and girl each about four days old
Edgar Irving Brenner, aged twenty-one
theological student in Yale, and gradu-
ate Of the University of Pennsylvania, was
drowned on the 21st while skating on Lake
Whitney, near New Haven, Conn.
By fall of rock in Connelrs mine at
Scranton, Pa, on the 21st John Rodgers,
assistant foreman, was killed, John O'Hara
had his back and an arm and Leg broken,
and several others were seriously if not
fatally injured.
The Pennsylvania State Board Of Pardons
has refused to grant a rehearing to Milton
Weston, sentenced to five years in the Pen
itentiary for murder in the second degree.
The widow Of General Mcclellan has re-
ceived from the publishers SO, 600 as an ad-
vance payment upon the Generals book.
At New York on the 21st Judge Van Brunt
decided that the assignment of Kossuth,
Marx & Co., jewellers and diaao nd dealers,
made in September, 1885, was null and void.
He declared it to be the consu mmation of a
scheme to defraud their creditors.
Forefathers' Day was celebrated at Boston
on the evening Of the 21st. Hon. James G.
Blaine was the principal speaker, and dwelt
at some length on the influence Of the de-
scendants of the Puritans upon our ma
tional life.
An epidemic of the disease known as
pinkeye prevails among the horses in Buf
falo, N. Y. The street railroad companies
have eighty-seven horses on the sick list
Thomas Fitzsimmons, president of the
Hoboken, N. j., Board Of Aldermen, is un
der arrest charged with emtezzling severa
thousand dollars from the State Lin,
Steamship Company while employed a
their agent at Hoboken. He claims that h
can prove his innocence.
The Wamsutta wooden mills at Fall River
Mass, shut down on the I'D, pending
strike of the weavers
The Weiner machine works, of Lebanon
Pa, have received orders for twelve larg
blowing engines for furnaces in course o
erection in Northern Alabama, which viii
keep the establishment busy for at leas
fifteen months.
Five suits have been brought against tn
Bay State Brick Company at Boston, Mass
by United States District Attorney Stearn
for violation of the law in importing foreigl
labor under contract. A number Of French
Canadian laborsrs were engaged in Oanad
to work in the eompany's brick-yard- Th
case viii be tried next May.
The police raidod prize night betweel
James Burke and Alexander Lasters q
Erastina, S. l., on the 22d. The principals
their seconds, referee and tweuty-eight 0
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
The Chestnut Didn't Work,

A young man with an expression of
confidence on his face entered Michi-
gan avenue clothing-store yesterday
and asked:
II am straight business. I want a
suit of clothes. There are seven of US
who will buy our clothes at the same
place. 1 have been sent on ahead to
get prices"
"Humph!''
"If 1 bring the other six here to buy
what will you make this $40 suit for?"
The clothier went over and sat down
by the stove with a disguised look on
his face.
"You didn't answer my question"
my frendt. please go oudt. You
make me VERY tired!'
whats the matter with you? Don't
you want me to bring the party here?"
mo, my frendt, l don't. All my
sales to-day goes to an orphan asylum,
and like to keep 'em down to sum-
mer coat and pair of secondhand
pants! Better try der man two door
below. ."-Detron Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30
WASHINGTON,

Inc PENSION Appropriation bill reported
to the House on the 2lst provides for total
expenditure on account Of pensions of s78,-
254, 500. The estimates were S76. PSI. 500, and
the appropriations for last year SO, ,075, 200.
The President on the 21st sent to the
Senate the nomination Of James c. Mat
thews to be Recorder of Deeds for the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and Adelard Guernon to
be Collector Of Customs, district of Mime
sofa.
The report Of the board of managers Of
National Homes for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers shows that the average number of
inmates at the Washington Home and tho
four branches during the last fiscal year
was &946, against $3.50 for the preceding
year, an increase Of more than eleven per
cent. The expenditures for the past fiscal
year were 81 900, 40, and the estimates for
the next year 81 ,599,574 The board urges
additional hospital accommodations, and
the enlargement of the western branches at
Dayton, o., and Milwaukee, Wis.
1t is reported that the caucus committee
Of Republican Senators, acting under the
instruction Of the caucus, will meet a simi-
lar committee representing the Republicans
Of the House, some time during the holiday
recess to consider a course Of procedure
with regard to the tariff.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has ap-
pointed James s. Walsh to be assistant in
spector of hulls at New York. Mr.. Walsh
is a prominent member of Tammany Hall.
First Comptroller Durham has disallowed
the claim Of John s. Mosby for s5,015 col
lected as fees while United States Consul
at Hong Kong.
Captain William Walker Moore died at
his home in Washington on the 23d, aged
eighty -four. For over twenty-six years he
was connected with the management Of the
Nationa, btelligencer, and in 1850 held the
position Of Grand Sire in the order of Odd
Fellows.
The naval board Of inspection, which sur
veyed the United States steamer Tennessee,
has reported to the Navy Department that
the vessel can not be repaired within the
statutory limit of twenty per cent. and will
have to be condemned.
Rear Admiral Worden was on the 23d
placed on the retired list of the navy, with
the highest pay Of that grade.
1t Is reported at Washington that the
President will certainly call an extra ses-
sion Of the Fiftieth Congress unless steps
are taken during the present session to re-
duce the surplus in the Treasury.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30

New houses are liable to be damp
from the evaporation from the plaster
and mortar, which contains large
amount of water. A Spanish proverb
says of new houses: "The first year
tor our enemies, the second year for
your friends, and the third year you
may live there yourselves" This tells
the whole story. Again, cellar air is
not to be unwholesome; and this is an
other reason why basement rooms are
bad. 1t is very unwise to store vegs-
tables In cellars until they decay..-Bos-
Eota Budget
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lIoZart's Genius While a Boy.

From letter Of Court Trumpeter An
.dreas Schachtner to MoZart's sister, | take
the following details. l may first be allowed
to say that trumpeter then was not what
he may be now, and that this Mr. Schacht-
her was man not only OF musical but lit
erary culture, who often lent q helping hand
with Moart's libretti lie writes: Once
I came home from church with your father,
aud found Wolferi tul!y engaged with lis
pen." Wolferi-the dlluinutlve Of Wolf
.gang-means in German, just the same Is
in English, q small wolf. The child rad q
paper before him, anu would not Leu Us see
what he wro,e because 1t was not ready
1t was full Of ink-spots because he pushed
his quill every time to the bottom or the
inkstand His father at iast took it away
from him, and found it was the manuscript
of conc erto for the piano, and on MS re-
mark that it was too difficult, tie little boy
Jumped up and said: 1t is concerto. Let
thoss who want to play it study hard and
and he sat down to the Instrument and
played it"
Evidence of his miraculous capacities was
given IN his 7th year. A trio was played,
and he begged to he allowed 10 play the
second fiddle Ills father, knowing that tie
boy had never had regular instruction,
would not hear Of il. The boy insisted. So
the father ordered him out OF the room. He
then resorted to the in.ailible means with
which children and women govern their So
called masters, the men-Ee began to cry.
OF course, one OF those present Leggel that
the child might lie allowed to nave MS will,
and, to the utter amaEement Of all present,
ne sat down and played without a 1ault,
first the second, then the first fiddle, until
it was the fathers turn to shed tears Of sur
prise and admiration Temple Bar
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Story of Eaulerbilt's Gift.

The story of the o.,er Of the splendid
steamer Vanderbilt TO the government dur
ing the rebellion has ofton bcen told, lat
not with thu circumstances supplied b.
Mr. Cro.fut in his history Of thu family.
The ship was not gift but loan, ill the
war should be over: nevertheless, when the
war was over, instead of being returned TO
her owner she was mustered into the navy,
and congress voted Mr. Vanderbilt a reso-
luton OF thanks and a medal lor a present
which had never been made. The congress-
ional committee authorized to pres :nt him
with the resolutions amd the 50 medal had
rather stormy tine OF it. lie rehearsal
the particulars Of the theft and asked th In
if that was the way a greet and noble ma
tioa ought to conduit itself. Some Of
them declared that they haI msun lersi iood,
and wanted to return tne vessel. No.
devil take your impudence!!" shouted the
commodore; keep her l don't care about
q little thing ike that.!"-Eetro.t Free
Press
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Owe AND DEATH.

They say she is dead, that her life went out
Last nigh& as the clocks struck eight;
That the bride of y year at the altar stood
Again with another mate:
A mate called Death, who bore her away
To couch more quiet than mine,
Where the love kiss comes from the lips OF
the wo:m,
And the grave-damp symbols the wine.
'Tis false, ani the liars who speak it kno"
That they lie ioc she lett ne but nov.
With the old-time light shining out of her
eyes,
And the old time kiss on my brow
If Death wants hyr body It's his, say;
Her love and her kisses are mine,
And the love is as sweet as the love Of gods,
And the kisses arc sweeter than wine.
Lou J. Beauchamp il Detroit Free iress.
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TAKING CARE OF HIS RELATIVES.
PhiladelDilia Bankers Novel Scheme

A Philadelphia Bankers Novel Scheme
to Testify His Family Affection.
"Thirty years ago tow-headed country
boy was sweeping OUT q Ea,!ket's oi.ice ard
doing odd chores at the northwest corner of
Third and Chestnut streets, said Third
street broker the other day. ale is there
vet and is kpowI as one OF the solid bankers
of the street-Col L. Il. Jamison.'
"Have YOU heard of the novel scheme for
making his kith AMI kin comfortable for
the rest of their days" said the banker
Upon receiving a negative reply the
banker said: "CoL JamiSon was born in
Indiana county, in this state. His father
and mother We're Eirginians by birth and
came originally OF sturdy Scotch-lriSh
stock.
give years ago Col Jamison conceived
the iGea of erecting and maintaining big
home for the benefit o. ell the blood rela-
riyes who might avail themselves of the op-
portunity Of spending their days there. He
bought the Old homestead where his father
and mother had lived and died, added to it
until it now amounts to over 20J accos and
placed it, with all its buildings, barns, out
houses in the hands Of five trustees. There
is matron, physician, secretary and treas
urer, and farmer on the place.
"The home is in perpetuity. In case OF
Col Jamison's death the pla:e keeps on. In
trustees select the successor. Ii all should
die the court is empowered to appoint the
trustees The property is decided to the
trustees and the colonel has no claim upon
it His relatives have been Informed that
there is home for thcm if they want 1t.
It is not, however, a place Of ldleness; every
body is to do something"
is it pretty place" was asked
ut is one of the lovelies5 spots i'll western
middle Pennsylvania. II is located at Salts
burg, Indiana county, i'll picturesque re-
,gion on the banks of Blacklegs creek, thirty
Two miles east ofPittsburg. The place is half
mile from the spot where the creek empleS
into the famous kiskilninttas river. Or
the opposite side Of the creek near the banks
of the river, is located the old Indian burial
ground, and within hall mile Of tho home
can be founl in thu channels Of the creek,
which has had its course changed, the re-
mains of an old stockade erected by the
early settlers to protect them against the
indians.
"Col Jamison is modest sort OF chap"
continued the banker. lie does not like to
talk about his idea Of establishing such a
home, which is an original one, but know
that he hes been receiving letters by the
score from people all over the country who
are trying to scrape up relationship with his
family"
rs there anybody at the home at pres
ent?"
"Yos: there are four persons. Col Jami-
sons sister is acting as matron. Ii his life
is spared he will add 10 the home and make
it one OF the most attractive places in the
country Philadelphia Letter.
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The marke ct price will be paid for \: & *. i
= st0ck. +. j. THOMSON,
Abbevlle, S. c., April s. i>s6.

ABBEv1LLE AND AUGUSTA WAREHOUSE,
Augusta, Ca. are selling choice white, corn
and meal ut 57 cents per hushel free Oh h"ard
mick and Troy is 81 cents per buShci: to
Bradley and Verdcry,9 cents: Grc"nw3ol 81
cents; Chappcrs and liySon'S ~; Ninrty-
Six and Hodges 1OH; Hone" p"th anu i'"a- l'
adds llL. They will keep Il car of corn at Ab-
beville and will continue to sci! ut 6I cents
until further notice through the PRESS H''"
Banner. Corn in car lots one cent less. log
crS d Co, Augusta, GA.
Miss Ella Bell is still with WIN. l.. Zen
1-"t
Is Mary TaggaIt has charge OF Min. L.
Bells drcss-1n;king department. III