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THORNTON AND FULTON.

A Government Omcer Who Claimed to Be
the Inventor OF Steam Navigation.
DR.. Thornton, a native of the West
Indies, had charge Of the Patent Bu-
reau, then in the State Department,
from the administration of Washing
ton until that of John Quincy Adams.
After his death it was discovered that
his wife was the daughter of the cele-
brated DIR. Dodd, executed at London
for forgery. in the reign of George the
Third Mrs. Dodd, calling herself
Mrs. Badeau, came to Philadelphia
when Congress sat there, and opened
school for young ladies, which was pat
ronized by the best families in the city.
DR.. Thornton fell in love with her
young daughter, and, after having
been confidentially informed of her real
name and parentage. married her. He
removed here when the seat of govern
ment was established here, and his wife
and mother-in-law used to manage him
somewhat despotically, although they
could never conquer his love for horse
racing, to which he was passionately
addicted, and at no small cost to his
purse, which was not always able to
bear it. On one occasion a suit was
brought by him to recover the sum of
$1,000, the price of a celebrated race
horse, Rather, the defendant contend
ing that the horse was broken down for
want of food before he was sold, and
pleading mo consideration" A wag
present at the trial, hearing DR.. Thorn
toms counsel complaining that they
had not been paid, rs per agreement,
wrote:
With his horses unfed. he loses his races,
With his lawyers unpaid. he loses his cases.
DR.. Thornton claimed to have been
the inventor Of steam navigation and
to have made experiments on the Della
ware before Fulton made his on tho
Hudson. This claim brought the two
into collision, and when Fulton came
to reside in Washington they carried
on bitter newspaper and pamphlet
war. Fulton asserted that Thornton
was an ignoramus, and, to prove the
assertion, narrated the following con-
versation with him: shave invented. :"
said Fulton, 1.-THE conversion of saw
dust into planks by hydraulic pres
sure" .Ohr' contemptuously replied
Thornton, "there is nothing new in
that; 1 have known of that for long
time" ''But," rejoined Fulton, "you
never knew of my invention how to
make oak plank out of pine saw-dust. "
DIR, Thornton saw that he had been
quizzed and changed tho subject.-Bcn:
Psrlev Poore. in Boston Budget
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

when it is the old-fashioned blue mass, blue
pill sort, and insist on using DR.. Pierce $
"Pleasant Purgative Pellets" u modern
medical luxury, being small, s1gar-coated
granules, containing the active principles
Of certain roots and herbs and which will
be found to contain as much cathartic
power as any of the o'd-fashioned, larger
pills, without the latter's violent, drastic
effects. The pellets operate thoroughly
but harmlessly, establishing permanent
" healthy action of the stomach and
bowels, and as an anti-bilious remedy arc
uneuualed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

Another veracious statement from
below is that young man went to
work for the first time on his home
stead. providing himself with good
sand-iv netting bar. The first night
he pitched tent. hung his net and went
to bed. For three days and nights he
did not stir. The mosquitoes had so
thickly covered his net on the outside
that it was perfectly dark inside-hs
did not know when daylight came
Ina,an Rirer iFtd.l Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

A UNIFORM and natural color of the whi$-
kers Is produced by using Buckinghams
Dye. =.
BUR family, for colds, with perfect success.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

Piles, fistu!p rupture and strict
ure radically cured Book of particulars
10 cents in stamps Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, n. Y.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

BEEF tongue and ox-tail soup make both
ends meat-Prairie Farn,cr.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

"ALrrTLE FIRE Is quickly trodden out
Which. being suffered, rivers can not quensa"
Procrastination may rob you OF time,
but by increased diligence you can make
up the loss; but if it rob you Of life the loss
is irremediable. II your health is delicate,
your appetite tickle, your sleep broken,
your mind depressed, your whole being out
Of sorts, depend ON it you are seriously dis
eased. In all such cases DR. Pierce's 'Gold-
en- Medical Discovery" will speedily effect
a genuine. radical cure-make q new man
of you and save on from the tortures of
lingering disease.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

POSTMASTER CoSaER, Of Washington, D.
c., was promptly cured by Ped Star Cough
Cure,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27
.Tbrov Phy,ic to the Dory -

yrRE-rLAck has q CRATE opportunity
Carl prsfzlra Kkeklu.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

EVERY person is interested in their own
affairs, and if this meets the eye OF any one
who is suffering from the effects of torpid
liver, we will admit that he is Interested in
getting we'll. Get bottle of Prickly Ash
Bitters, use it as directed, and you will al
ways be glad you read this item.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

An earthquake is not like othsr trouble
II WON'T blow over.-S1n Frdnetseo Alt0.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

3 months treatment for Soc. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27
Hoods SarsapariIIa

ia. me, unparalleled success at home sucn mas
become its popularit. In Lowell, Mass. where " Is
made that whole neiGhborhoods are taxing =. .n1
,;,. Tb. same wonderful success is extend-
inc ali over the country. Its positive and peculiar
meri, makes new friends daily. 1t Is sold by an
druggists 81; six for S. Prepared only " ~ l.
HOOD CO, Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass-
100 Doses One Dollar
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

t.As GOOD as represented" is what every
body says of Frazer's Axle Grease.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

WHERE is the doctor who does not like
his cough-fee.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

A DouBLE-sHELLr ace-CIams and oysters
Hartford Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

A ROPE is thing that Is easily taut.-
Marathon Independcnt.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27
ALrrrLE FIRE /. quickly trodden out

PERSONS who take measures to enlarge
their businsss-Tailors-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27
Hoods Sa.sapariIIa

=. ..r.red from sarsapsrills, DandelioE. Ian
ar.Ses Dock, Pipsssewa Juniper Berries ano o,ne.
velLknown and valuable vegetable remeus r..,,.
combination. proportion. ana prepa r.,,rs mower
ma. possessed by other medicines. IL enso'' ~
m.rtable cures where others fail.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

KANSAS MISSOURI.
40
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27
p,irifies the Blood

No other preparation has such pu,ns go
- W .ss h,,nd =. Hoods Sarsaparilla- II srAor
e.se. every impurity and cures scroful. sais
Rheun. nol.. Pimples. all Humor.. Dyspeps aa;
niiionsne.s. sich Headache. Indigestion. genera
Debility, Catarrh. Rneansiisn Kidney anu .ssi.
Complaints. 1t overcomes that e's'eae
ing and builds upthe system
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27

Principal once, ssl Main St.. LOUISVILLE, Kf.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
General Destruction Did Not Follow.

We regret to see that Senator John Sher-
man, for whom We entertain a high admira-
ton, does not reciprOcate that feeling sufi-
GENTLY to cause him to read the Commercial
Advertiser regularly. For if he did, we are
sure he would not make a speech to show
that the business of the country is in a bad
way and getting worse. Our news is quite to
the contrary, we are happy to say.-N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
From many sources as thoroughly
Republican as this, and from many
more of all shades of politics, has come
the same condemnation of Senator
Sherman's Portsmouth speech. In his
vain search for a party issue he shut his
eyes to facts that stare the blindest OBJ
r in the face in every city in the
land. The country and its business are
in far better shape than they have been
for several years. Senator Sherman
and his party predicted that general
destruction would follow the election of
a Democratic Administration. Instead
of that, we have a general revival of
business and an era of growing pros
perity. That is what troubles the Re-
publican speakers. -Enquirer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
General kohIer on Governor Foraker

Scene, Governors Office. Actors,
Attorney-General Kohler and the col
ored porter:
Attorney-General (entering)-Would
like to see the Governor Immediately on
important business.
Porter-The Gov'ner, sab, has gone
to Cincinnati to tell about the tannery
on the Scioto.
ttorney-General-Where is Mr..
Kurtz?
porter-Gone to the Pen to interview
a convict.
Acknowledgement = Well, where's
Beatonp
Porter-Taking the affidavit.
Attorney General. (getting hot)-
Where's Charley Pryor.
Porter-Examining a new hide just
discovered.
Attorney General, Gin disgust) This
is pretty business for the Governor of
the State to 20 off to Cincinnati to make
speeches. while all his assistants are
running off on this crazy hide BUSINESS.
Important matters are entirely neg
lected. ., how shiftless! (Exit.)-
,Cotumbus Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
WIND VS.. STEAM.
Recent Experiments With Improved Amer
lean Sailing Vessels.

Recent Experiments With Improved Amer
lean Sailing Vessels.
Notwithstanding the improvements
in steam navigation, transportation by
sailing vessels is SO much cheaper. that
new experiments are being tested in
wind-driven crafts. On the lakes, it
has been found economical to use huge
grain vessels, those which ply between
Chicago and Buffalo, carry i've masts.
There is now building a five-masted
schooner for salt water with a carrying
capacity of three thousand tons. The
competition between Ru sian and
American petroleum is making both
nations do all they can to cheaper that
useful and wonderful product of nature.
While Americans have heretofore sent
the refined oil to the rest of the world
in barrels, the Russians have sent it out
in bulk, making a large saving thereby.
Several American vessels have been
fitted up to carry oil to Europe also in
bulk. As steam is costly and fire dan
gerous, it is proposed to build a six
masted schooner that will carry one
hundred thousand cans of oil. Mineral
oil, by the way, is very cheap. At last
accounts, crude petroleum was selling
at sixty cents a barrel. This is a re-
markable boon to the poor of all coun-
tries, who have now a brilliant illumi-
nant cheaper than was the old tallow
dip.-Demorest's Monthly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
MRS. FREMONT.
The Devotion of h Strong-Minded Wo-
man to Her Husbands Interests.

Tho Devotion Of This Strong-Minded Wo-
man to Her Husbands Interests.
Mrs. Fremont's figure is too stout to
be graceful-she always had tendency
to amplitude-and this, with her white
hair. gives her a grand maternal air,
which is in accordance with the fact.
At first she strikes you as older than
sixty-two. After talking with her for a
while you think she must be younger.
Her mind is as fresh, alert and spark
ling as when she was twenty-five; it is
affiuent in resources. 1 have often
heard her called one of the most INTEL
lectual women in America
When Fremont visited California after
Buchanan's election, and at the end of
two or three years went to Europe, his
wife accompanied him, of course. He
and she have been in~separable, except
where circumstances absolutely forbade
their being together. She was anxious
to Join him in his early explorations into
the wilds of the then unknown West, in
which the strongest men nearly persisted,
and she would have gone. but for the
fear of making her husband ridiculous
almost the only fear of which she is cap
able. Courage physical as well as
moral, is one of her most valiant traits.
1t is a paternal inheritance, and is what
Napoleon called of the two-o'c1ock-in-
the-morning order. She would have
been only too happy to follow her hus-
bands fortunes in the field, and was re-
strained only by the consideration have
named. She and her son, then a small
boy, were with him, and slept in the
same tent, when he was in Missouri in
1861, and ironical soldiers frequently
spoke of her as being his chief of staff.
She is capable of carrying musket, and
using it, and I am confident she would
lead any folorn hope, particularly if its
object were to advance her husbands
prospects. She is without the weak
nesses go prominent in many women's
characters, and for the ordinary woman
she has little liking. Her natural prefer
enc is for the society of men, because
| they are less frivolous, broader and have
higher aims. The stronger and more
Intellectual class of women she affects.
and numbers many of them among her
dearest friends. But she has no sym
| pathy with what is known as woman's
rights.-Cor. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
Nine. Janauschek's Advice.

"Young ladies, 1 fancy, ask your ad-
vice as to their going on the stage?"
Eyes, hundreds. Every week some
girl comes and asks me: Madame, I
want to go on the stage; shall IP'"
':And you answerP" 81 nsw No,
no, no, my child; no. They know
nothing of the life of the stage, its
temptstions and its hard work. They
see us only al night, nicely dressed. and
with every thing perfect. They know
no more. 1 have been thirty-three
years on the stage, and 1 say there is
nc life like it. 1t has no happiness, it
leaves you no time for domestic or So
cial pleasure, no time for any thing but
work, work, work. / was once a good
pianist. But for years I have hardly
touched a piano. love to draw, but
there is no time ever. All is work and
travel, travel and work. To girls who
think of going on the stage again, / say
no, no. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
Republican Duplicity.

John Sherman opened the Republican
State campaign once more last night at
Portsmouth. 1t appears that the CAM
paign requires a good deal of opening
this year, OF else it won't stay opened,
or something of the sort. During the
coursesof the distinguished gentleman's
remarks it is said that he ''touched upon
the failure of the Democracy to restore
the tariff o. WOOL" For a specimen OF
cold. monumental gall, this certainly
takes the whole bakery! How does it
come hat 1.-THE tariff on WOOL needs
'.restoring?" Who destroyed it in the
first placer Not the Democrats. They
voted almost to a man against the re-
duction of the wool tariff, and in favor
of giving the farmer and wool-grower
something of the same protection that
the tariff affords to other classes. -NeW-
ark Advocate.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
The Artificial Manufacture of Q%uinine, A
cording to Hewett's Plan.

The Artificial Manufacture of Ouinine, Ac-
cording to Hewett's Plan.
A remarkable discovery, by which the
price of q%uinine may be reduced to
something like six cents per ounce, has
been made by Mr.. Cresswell Hewett.
The s%ynthetical manufacture of q%uinine
was first suggested to Mr.. Hewett, in
1869, by the late DR.. Mattheson, of st.
Bartholomew's Hospital, while giving
his assistance in a course of expert
ments in connection with apomorphia.
Subsequently, Prof. Parkes, of Netley,
aided with his advice, and to these gen
tlemen, rather than to himself, Mr.. Cress-
well Hewett modestly explains that the
process is due. The Importance of this
discoveryis rendered greater by the fact
that while hitherto we have been de-
pending for our quinine on the c~ultiva-
ton of the cinchona tree, from whose
bark only about two per cent. of good
quinine can be extracted, ninety-eight
per cent. being valueless, the drug can
10 be manufactured without limit by
a very simple process from an article
which a always be got in abundance
in any part of the world.-London Lam
Get.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
LossEs
Facts as Shown by the Oficial Figure
Which Are on File.

Facts as Shown by the Onicial Figures
Which Are IN File.
The financial part of Governor For
aker's speech at Columbus so far as
it related to the Ohio Penitentiary, con-
tanned some very ingeniously arranged
figures. Of course, Governor Foraker
is not responsible for their arrangement
somebody else misplaced and improp-
erly arranged them.
The main point at issue in the arrange,
ment of the figures was to show that
during two years of Democrat C admin.
istration the pe~nitentiary lost $2O5, 061,i
while under four years of Republican,
administration il cleared S212, DOC. The:
official figures on file with the proper,
State officers 10 not show this, of
course, and no one would suspect Gov
ernor Foraker of making them tell a
crooked story. The question is: Who
deceived and misled the Governor
In his speech Governor Foraker dwelt
particularly on the fact that when the
Foster Administration turned the peni!
Tertiary e to Hoadly it was clearing
$50. 600 year with becoming regularity;
This. it will be remembered, is the
strong point in Governor Foraker's s.
speech. Now let us see how completely
the Official figures put this fairy story
down. I quote the exact official figures,
losses and permanent improvements dur
ing the four years of Foster, on the same
basis that Governor Foraker figures dur.
ing Hoadly's Administration. These
figures are as follows:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
Duration Of righteousness.

The duration of the infectious stages Of
various Diseases thus given by DIR. j.
F. Pearse, an English physician: Meas
les, from the second day of the disease,
for three weeks; smallpox, from the
fourth day, for four weeks; scarlet fever.
from the fourth day, for seven weeks;
mumps, from the. second day, for three
weeks; diphtheria, fir ON the first day for
three weeks. The incubation periods,
or intervals occurring between exposure
to infection and the first symptoms, are
as follows: Whooping cough, fourteen
days; mumps. eighteen days; measles,
ten days; smallpox, twelve days: scar
let fever, three days; d%iphtheria, four
teen days.-Arkoasdw Traveller.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14

DECENT Republicans are becoming
thoroughly disguised with Foraker's
tmud-sling ng methods of carrying on a
political campaign. Hon. Larkin Nc
Hugh, Commissioner of Labor Stats
tics, say the general opinion is that
Foraker's penitentiary game will recoil
and hit its managers a terrible blow.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14

A NIAGARA FALLS mar has for twelve
year been a cementationist-the discov-
erer of a process of preserving the body
in cement, and says that if Moses had
been served up in this process he ''could
now give every college in the world a
perfect model of Gods chosen leader"
Here is a plan that might perpetuate
Little Brooches and his skin cane Give
the cementationist a chance at Foraker.
Evening Bee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY

Is the Party of Hollow and False Pre-
1t is the enemy of the laboring man,
and all business men.
The Republican party is the party of
monopoly and favoritism in govern
ment, enacting laws that rob labor and
honest business and make millionaires,
hence pauperism.
The Republican party of Ohio, true to
sets up in its fifth plank of its platform,
that it is the friend of labor, and favors
protecting the laboring man from dan
gerous foreign competition, etc.
The Republican party has promoted
and encouraged dangerous foreign
competition" in enacting laws to allow
contracts to that end. and for long years
refusing to prevent the importation of
Chinese coolies.
Republican party rolicy has oppressed
labor. brought on financial crisis, DIS
turbed values to the ruin of labor and
honest business; spread pauperism and
filled the land with tramps, and render
ed labor and its rewards alarmingly
precarious.
The Republican party is the party of
injustice; opposes equal taxation and
equal privileges before the law. Its
protection only means monopoly and
robbery of labor and honest business,
in proof of which one only need point
to the fact that labor. under its policy,
is more uncertain and worse paid than
it ever was under the just Democratic
revenue tariff of 1916.
The Republican party, in power twen-
ty-four years, continues its policy by a
Repu; lican Senate. Its enormous war
taxes are still the same, depressing all
labor, and unfavored business and in
dustries. Like the Tory party of Brit
ain, this Republican party forgets moth
ing and learns nothing. 1t adheres to
its wicked Chinese policy and ''protec-
tom Notwithstanding the ruinous re-
suits upon labor. Once the United
States had ships that carried our COM
MERGE to all lands. and now little Greece
is ahead of us. Such is the result of
Republican policy.
A Republican Congress reduced the
tariff on farmers wool, Senator Sher-
man voting therefor, all to please the
monopolists that control the party in
and out of Congress. This party in
Ohio pretend they would restore the
wool tariff of 1867, when they know
they can not if they would. and would
not if they could. The Republican is
the party of hollow and false pretense.
WHEN Foraker, Kurtz & Co.. started
to investigate the department at the
Penitentiary formerly superintendent by
Aaron Nelly, they .'barked up the
wrong tree" MI. Meily's accounts
show that for the two years he was
there, the per capita per diem cost of
feeding the prisoners was reduced more
than one cent below what it was under
the Foster administration. This may
look like a small matter but it is not.
There were in the prison during this
period, on the average. 1850 prisoners,
and it was a saving of SIS per day, or
for the whole period of two years a saw
ing for the institution of 80, $50. Such
an officer m very near earning his
salary. Mr.. Fo- aker will not only find
that Mr.. Nelly has books, but that those
books reflect credit upon the Hoadly
administrat on.-Colunabus Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14

REPUBLICAN papers are claiming that
John. Mcbride is the candidate of a
faction and not the candidate of the
Democratic party. They will find when
they hear the Teturns of the election in
November that Mr., Mcbride was ths
undoubted candidate of the Democracy
of Ohio for the Secretary of S ate
Youngstown Nindicator.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14

"a LrrrLEn IRE is quickly trodden out
Which, being suffered. rivers can not quench."
Procrastination may rob you of time,
but by increased diligence you can make
up the loss; but if it rob you of life the loss
is irremediable. If your health is delicate,
your appetite tickle, your s'eep. broken,
your mind depressed, your whole being out
of sorts, depend on it you are seriously dis
eased. In all such cases DIR. Pierce's "Gold-
en- Medical Discovery will speedily effect
a genuine, radical cure-make a new man
IF you and save you from the fortunes OF
lingering disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14

THE Republicans under Charlie Fos-
ter were the first to debauch the pol ties
of Ohio by the lavish use of money at
elections. They made election to Office
in Ohio-depend upon the most skilIful
application of Doodle. Now under the
less able and INSCRIPTIONS Foraker,
they are ~dehauching the people with
lies and dragging politics into lower
depths of degradat or than ever Fo ,ter
did. There is no SANDER too vile nor lie
too mean tor the Foraker gang to per-
petrate. Is it not time that decent Re-
publicans repudiate sach diSreputable
campaign methodsp-T0tedo Bee.