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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
THE WEED NUISANCE.
The Only Way to Rid a Farm From, Al
Sorts of Weeds.

Sorts of Weeds.
It is related in a California paper
that Cinnamon are making money in
California going over stacks of straw
abandoned by farmers and clearing out
the mustard-Seed in them. One China
man will save 100 pounds or more a
day and make better wages from what
the white man throws away than farm
ers have made from their grain crops.
What commentary upon agricul-
ture. Money can be made in Califor-
MIA by separating mustard-seed from
the straw of the ceral grains. Mustard
seed as an independent crop is valua-
BILE one. Among other crops it is a
weed, and from its tenacity IN holding
to the soil vile weed. This seed is
also disseminated all over the grain
growing region of the West. The seed
holds to the soil for years, retaining
its vitality until a favorable opportu-
nifty for termination takes place. The
only way to rid farm from the mus
tard pest is to SOW only clean seed from
year to year, and to be sure that none
is carried back to the soil in the straw
or other trash from the grain.
/ l. Ills oC oSSOiA PAioiNN az WV =
ways-either by burning the straw ane
using the ashes. or by thoroughly de
composing until fully rotted. Thi.
takes time and labor, but wherever
manure is valuable it will pay.
What is here said of the seed of mus
tard will apply to the seeds of othe
weeds. They are carried to the field:
in trash and by various other means
1t is nonsense to say that the seeds o
weeds are naturally inherent in tn
soil They come from seed. rs do al
other annual plants, and in the case Q Q
perennials also from the continued lif
of the plants in the soil. A complet
summer fallow, by which the leaves 0
plants are not permitted to grow, wi
kill any perennial. even the Canad
thistle. The seeds of ANIMALS ono
eliminated from q soil will net there
after be found unless again carrie
there, and reasonably clean cultivatio
will prevent their spread. Chicag
Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
MARKETABLE HORSES.
why Farmers Can Not Afford to Raise
Second-Grade Animals.

why Farmers Can Not Afford to Raise
Second-Grade Animals.
1t may be said of horses as of wheat
that any and all grades are marketable.
but the farmer who has. from year to
year, grown wheat, knows very well
that when he succeeds in getting crop
that grades No. 1, he barely gets day
wages for growing and marketing the
crop, after counting all contingent ex-
penses. This being SO. if his crop
turns out to be of low grade there is
no escaping loss upon it, because in no
part cular is it grown for less money
per bushel than it costs to grow the
best. The same rule holds good in the
dairy. as shown by the fact that the
butter or cheese from given herd of
cows will be first class if made by one
party, while in the hands of another
the lowest grade only is produced.
Horses, like wheat and butter, take
rank in market according to their
quality, and the good, that sell for high
| figures, feed in the same pasture and
eat the same quality of oats and hay as
the veriest plug. All horses that can
do duty may be said to be marketable,
but in the sense that rejected wheat is
marketable, only at the lowest figures,
though all the process through which
the low grade stock is carried is as ex
pensive In the case of the poor in
quality as in the case of the best, save
and except the influence of the seed
used, and this of course cuts an i'm
portant figure. But, says one, TO pro
tluce good quality of grain of any
kind you must have a good quality o
seed as foundation, and applying
this to horses, the start is mor'
expensive if man would hav'
stock marketable at good figures thai
though he grew animals of lowe
grade. This, in a measure, is true
yet men who own fairly good broo'
mares, for the purpose of saving tn
paltry sum of ten or fifteen dollars il
the service of sire, will continual,
rear horses for which they get only loy
prices. The difference that grows ou
of the service of good sire, as com
pared to one of low grade, not infre
quently makes difference of one-thir
in the selling value of mature horse
and it is fair to place it higher tina
this in many cases.-National Ltr
Stock Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18

certain The sulphur is burning well, leave
the room, close the door, and allow the
room to be tightly closed for several hours.
C. Open all the windows and air the
room thoroughly for several hours. II the
paper and burn it. The floor, walls, cell
ing, wood work. etc, should be thoroughly
washed with solution MAIDS by adding
two pints of Solution No. 2 to four gallons
of water Allow this to remain on for
twenty-four hours, and then scrub thor
oughly with soap and hot water.
9. The room should be thoroughly aired
for several days, and children kept out OF
it as long as possible. The house and
premises generally should be put in the
cleanest possible condition.
The foregoing methods OF disinfection
are applicable in all contagious diseases.
If Solution No. is Objectionable on ac'
count of the odor of the chloride of lime,
an equally efficient disinfectant, to
made by adding one pint of Solution No.
to one gallon of water. 1t is necessary to
leave it q longer time-at least an hour-in
contact with the material to be disinfected.
Qt should be remembered that solutions OF
corrosive sublimate will injure lead pipes
if passed through them in large quantities }
Label all solutions of corrosive sublimate
poison.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
/. Avoid the contagium of the disease.
Especially should children be prevented
from going near a case of scarlet fever, or
from coming in contact with any thing
which has been near one sick with this dis
ease.
2. Be careful of books, toys, cats and
dogs which may have been handled by a
scarlet fever patient. The disease has been
spread by circulating libraries; picture
books having been taken therefrom to
amuse the patient, and returned without
being disinfected.
8. One recovering from this disease
should not be permitted to mingle with the
public until he and his clothing have been
| thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
| 4. No child coming from a house contain
| ing case of scarlet fever, should be
assembly, and should be prevented from
| playing with other children.
| 5. ANY one coming from such a house
| should bathe, disinfect and change hi
clothing before going where there are chill
dren.
6. Beware of any one with sore throat
do not allow your children to be kissed b,
such person, OF to drink from the sam,
cup.
| Z. When scarlet fever is present in you
| community do not take children t,
crowded assemblies in unventilated rooms
8. See that your house and premises ar
perfectly clean. Look to your cellars
and allow no decaying animal or vegetabl
matter to poison the atmosphere Of you
dwelling.
To those who fail to appreciate the seri
Gus nature of this disease, these rules ma,
seem numerous, and, perhaps, unimport
ant. Prevention is better than cure, an
the State Board of Health has presente
the best possible means known of restrict
ing and preventing the spread Of scarle
fever.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
DRIFT OF THE PRESS.

We notice that Mr.. Blaine's ap-
pearance in Pennsylvania politics was
regarded with certain GOODNESS by a
number of Republican journals. There
are evidently Republicans who see that
it is not wise to do political party up
in bundle and tie it to the tail of a
particular condidate.-M y. Herald.
The Democratic party is the
friend of labor. 1t is the party OF the
common people. While it has its
share of rich men, it has moro than
its share of those who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brows. The
bulk of the Nations toilers are in its
ranks, and from it that immense and
powerful organization, the Knights of
Labor, has drawn its membership. 1t
is the party which lifts the house we
live in by raising the foundations,
while the Republican party is satisfied
to leave the foundations in the mud
and to raise the roof.-N. Y. Herald.
Whichever else may be said ol
President Cleveland, he means to be
President, and he has the courage Oi
his convictions. Whether others SYM
pathize with the spirit of his famous
order, forbidding Federal office-hold.
ers from taking part in political cam
paigns or not. for himself he does moi
propose that it shall fall into state oi
innocuous desuetude. Two United
States District Attorneys, who thought
themselves biggermen than "old man
Cleveland" have achieved Nationa
fame contemporaneously with finding
their official heads in the basket of thu
executioner. The President mean
what he says, and whether one ap
proves or not, the great bulk of thu
country will admire him the more fo
the honesty with which he follows ri
words with actions. Raleigh en- c..
| NeaUS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A barn at Fussdorf, Moravia, burned
few nights ago, and seven persons perished
in the flames. Sixteen others who were
occupants of the barn when the fire broke
out are missing, and are supposed to have
been consumed.
Harry Kelley, ex-champion oarsman of
England, has challenged any man in the
world of his age to a single scull race for
81 600 a side. Ho is nearly sixty years old.
The Duke of Connaught has been ap-
pointed commander-in-chief Of the British
forces in Bombay.
The race for the Liverpool antumn cup
of one thousand sovereigns in specie was
won by Lord Hastings four-y -year-old bay
colt Melton.
M. Bert, formerly Minister Of Public In
struction in France, but latterly French
Minister resident at Ann am, is dead.
The official census of Prussia shows a
population of %, s,3lS,45S persons.
The burning ship that appeared off the
island of Miquelon few days ago proves
to be the British bark Caspar, of Swansea,
Captain Roberts. The Captain and his
crew had a very narrow escape from death.
Thew have reached the island of st. Pierre
in safety.
The total production Of sugar in Cuba
for the season of 1867 will amount to over
5000 tons and exceed the largest crop
hitherto raised on the island.
An equestrian statue of Washington
destined for the city of Philadelphia, ha'
lust been finished in Berlin. 1t will b.
shipped in December.
Bombay advices of the 18th state that th'
Ghilzai rebels in Afghanistan, have beel
attacked by the Afghan General sent t.
subdue them and badly defeated. The
General sent ten carloads of heads o
| rebels killed in the battle as token Of tn
| victory his forces had won.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
LATER NEWS.

AT Odin, ILL.,, Mrs. w. E. Smith, wife OF
a prominent merchant, was cowhided by
]. D. Wilcox, commercial traveller, who
claimed Mrs. Smith had been circulating
damaging stories against his wife.
NJ. BARrHoLD1 and MmS Bartholdi sailed
for France Saturday.
The loss by fire in the Pro-Oathedral in
A legheny, Pa, is $4,000.
Mr.. MoRosINI says his daughter Victoria
is travelling with friends in Europe.
SAMUEL CRUDE, an Indiana farmer, has
inherited fortune of S25000O in Switzer-
land.
CHAs. HENDERSON has been arrested at
Danville, KY, for robbing man in Indi-
ana of S., 900.
AN Investigation has proved that there
is no truth in the rumor that Cutting is
collecting recruits to invade Mexico.
A BRITISH Lieutenant and three Sepoys
have been killed by Burmese rebels.
Industry, at Washington, pronounces the
cattle disease in Clinton County, Ind, vir-
minous bronchitis, instead of pleuro-pneu-
monia. 1t is contagious and fatal all the
same.
u
field (Kan.) hotel, shot her lover, Frank E.
Lockwood, and then killed herself.
CLEVELAND, Democrat, has plurality of
1888 votes for Governor of Connecticut,
but, under the law of that State, lacks
2,SO4 votes Of election.
IT is said that "Jim Cummings and
| Richard Roe" who participated in the
st. Louis express robbery, are known, and
will soon be taken into custody.
| FRIDAYS snow-storm seems to have been
| pretty general through this country and
Canada. In New York State the snow fell
in places to the depth of fifteen inches.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA, was brilliantly
| lighted, on the night of the 14th, for the
| first time by electricity.
Mrs. MIRIAM PUTNAM, whose husband wa:
son of General Putnam, of Revolution
ary fame, observed her one hundred anc
second birthday on the 18th.
| RECEIVER DAVIS, of Grant & Ward, ha:
sued Mayor Grace for Sl50, 200, alleged to bt
due to the firm on account of transaction:
with Ferdinand Ward. Mr.. Grace made 6
general denial.
A S. PIPES, prominent planter of Oal
Ridge, La, was murdered by a negro, anG
the murderer hanged to tree.
| COLONEL INGERsoLL has refused, owing tc
want of time, to defend the Ch cago con
J Victed Anarchists.
Two hundred feet of the Mississippi rive
bank, including Levee street and severa
buildings at Plaquemine, caved into tn
J river on the 18th.
The Chicago stockyards strike has beer
/. declared of by Grand Master Workman
I Powderly,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
WAsHIHoToM.


The customs receipts of the Government
for the past fiscal year aggregate s1943
$50.
The collections Of internal revenue from
the time the present system was organized,
July I, 1869. up to June 80, 1888, aggregated
IS, 4SS, ,290 455; an amount sufficient, had Il
been applied to that purpose, to have paid
the entire public dsbr and leave q balance
of s6s1 ,65S SS4. The States in which the
aggregate collections reached over $780,
700 were New York $500, 100, 900, Illinois
26,60o,o 600, Ohio s872, 100000. Pennsyl-
~ania s2sS, 100000, Kentucky s2oi, 400. 900,
Massachusetts, s193, 200. 900, Missouri $l27,-
100000 Indiana Sis, 100000, Virginia slO5,-
100000 and New Jersey s1o4, 700, 900.
It issaid the Postmaster General. in his
forthcoming report will probably recon-
mcnd the adoption of the system now in
vogue in Europe, of sending parcel pack
ages by mail up to the weight of eleven
pounds, and to include a system of collect
ing drafts and other evidences of debt by
the postal authorities.
Secretary Manning has issued a notice
that the interest falling due December /,
next, upon coupon and registered bonds of
the loan Of 1891 will be paid at once at the
Treasury, without rebate. Coupons of the
four per cent. consols of 1907, falling due
on January 1, next, will be paid on pre-
sentation at the rate Of three per cent. per
annum- The interest on registered bonds
of that loan will also be paid on and after
December 1, next, upon application, ac-
companied by proper power of attorney.
In effect this is an offer to pay off $10.000,-
100 Of interest from thirty to sixty days in
IL IA IL m 80
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18

David Lathrop, of East Long
meadow, Mass, was awakened one
day at di.ybreak by the quarreling OF
crows. Looking out he saw large
flock of crows driving fox over the
fields. He found seven chickens gone
from the coop, and now thinks the
crows are not so inimical vs. they are
generally regarded Boston Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18

must be pushed in the United States courts
in Massachusetts,, of which the American
Bell Telephone Company is legal corpora
tion.
Edward ]. Routly, William Walsh and
Ia cph Young, fishermen, have bsen lost,
WE. their boat, in the recent gale off Man
itoulin Island, Lake Huron. The men were
at Gore Bay and sought to make their
home at Cape Robert, twenty-five miles
away, but have not since been heard from.
Two burglars went through the Burton
House at Hurley, Wis, on the night OF the
11th, pillaging fifteen rooms and securing
several hundred dollars worth of watches
and jewelry. They overlooked guest who
had So, 900 in cash in his room, and others
who had smaller amounts. The thieves
were captured in their room with the
plunder and kit of burglars tools.
The Central FIGURING Mills and Elevator
! at Bay City, Mich, were burned on the
| 18th. Loss s35. 200; insurance S22, ,0o0
William D. Burnett, thenewly appointed
| District Attorney for Southern Ohio, is a
| lawyer in Cincinnati, and was indorsed by
Governor Hoadly, Senator Payne and
other leading Ohio Democrats.
The noted imported stallion Prince Char
| lie, the property of Mr.. Dan Swigsrt, died
| on the 18th at the Elmendorf farm, Fay
ette County, Kentucky, Of collie. He was
worth $4,000.
| William Kennedy, an employe in the
Newark, O., paper mill, on the 18th fell
into tub of boiling lime water and was
horribly scalded He was intoxicated.
The constitutional amendment prohibit
| ing convict labor in the State Of Illinois
was lost at the recent election by about
| 5000 votes.
The National Farmers Alliance ad
journ ed al Chicago on the 18th to meet a
Minneapolis, Mimi, next year OHcer
| were elected as follows: President, a. j
Streetor; Vice President, J. j. Burrows
Secretary, Milton George; Treasurer, Mr.
Arnold. A platform was adopted which
| favors a union of the farmers with tn
labor organizations to ameliorate all law
pressing both classes in common; ask
that the police of all large cities be place.
| under direct State control; favors grad
ual income tax, and demands that the rail
roads be subjected to the closest possible
supervision by the Government.
The propeller Northerner, owned by J
NJ Neible, of Detroit, Mich, was burned a
Kelley Island, Lake Erie, on the 18th. Sh
was bound for Duluth with a cargo of rail
road iron and general merchandise. Loss
$4,000; two-thirds Insured.
It is reported from Bardstown, ILL.,, tina
efforts are being made by leading Demo
Gratis to induce Congressman Anderson tt
resign his seat from the Twelfth district
in order that Mr.. Morrison may be electe
In his place. The district is safe for from
5000 to $1,000 Democratic majority.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18

Every body knows that time is
money, and thus we are not surprised
that Yankee has invented an auto
matte hat that comes off the head and
returns to its place by merely pressing
the button of little apparatus at
tached to the waist. lcall that polite
ness reduced to its simplest n16ds ~
expires sion.1 Tartsf<ss
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18

"A new through sleeping car from
New York to San Francisco is to be
called Kindness" because kindness
goes long way Washington Critic.
People have been killed by kindness.
but not often while travelling. IN O.
Pscaynss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
has caused much excitement among the

has caused much excitement among the
people in the vicinity.
Calvin P. Graves and James A. McFar-
lane. both of Hancock, Me-, are thought to
be respectively principal and accomplice
in the recent murder of Depu ties Niles and
Hill at Macaias, Me. Both are still at
large.
A pardon is being sought for James D.
Fish. the defaulting president of the Ma
rine Bank the collapse of which start ed a
panic in Wall street in the spring of 1884,
on the ground that he is 80 physically and
mentally broken down that he can not
survive longer confinement.
Daniel Crowley, aged sixty years, was
arrested at Portsmou tn, N. r., on the 11th,
charged with assault with intent to kill.
1t is alleged that he beat his wife, an aged
woman, and poured kerosene upon her
clothing md set it on fire.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Company
has notified tho Pennsylvania State De-
partment of an increase in its capital stock
of $500, 600 to So. .OOo. 900.
General John M. Schofield has been
elected q member of the Union League
Club in Place of the late General Hancock.
The strikers at the hog abattoir on the
Hackensack meadows. Jersey City, N. J.,
all went back to work on the 11tIf at an in
crease of wages. Both parties made con-
cessions.
Mrs Rachel Bushman, of Batavia, N. Y,
was recently awarded S3. 500 in an action
for sIander against Mrs. Miranda Thomp-
son, who had accused Mrs. Bushman oi
stealing an armful of wood from her.
Business failures occurring throughou
| the country during the seven days ended
| the 18th number for the United States 1Ss
| and for Canada 33. or q total of 231. al
| compared with total Of 1856 the previou.
week.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, ha.
| appointed Henry Reed to the vacancy oc
| casioned by the death of Judge Ludlow.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that Gov
| ernor Pattison and Attorney General Cas-
| siday have decided to bring suits agains
| the coal pool corporations on the 10th o
| November, in the Dauphin County Com
| mon Pleas at Harrisburg.
| The case of Doodle" Alderman McCab,
was disposed of in the Court of Genera
Sessions at New York on the 18th, Judg
| Cowing holding that he need not bs sent Il
an institution, but that he might be caret
for by his wife. The judge fixed bail a
| 900 for the prisoners production il
court should he recover his reason.
Rev. A. A. Hodge, D. D., late professo
of theology in the Western theological
Seminary, and pastor of the North Pres
| byterian Church of Allegheny City, Pa.
died at Princeton, N. j., on the 18th.
The residence of Reuben Baker, at La
trobe, Pa, was wrecked on the 18th by al
explosion of natural gas. Fortunatel.
none of the family were in the house a
the time. Loss, $4,000.
The Ulster County On. " Board of Su
pervisors is a tie politically. The member
were in session two days trying to select
chairman, and adjourned after taking 10
ballots.
Charles e. Lyman, tramp, sneaked int
Daniel Engels cooper shop at Reading
Pa, on the night of the 11th to sleeI
While smoking he set the place on fire
The building was consumed and Lymal
and horse were burned to death.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18

To the public these rules may seem nu-
merous and, perhaps, unimportant, but the
State Board of Health would not be doing
its whole duty if it failed to point out the
best possible means known of restri sting
and preventing this dread disease
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
Jhe GatDu 2sllIotrat.
SPACE.

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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-18
A Good Joke.

LANCASTER PA, December 17.-FOrty-
eight tramps in the county work house
refused to go to work Thursday unless
they were given roast beef and vegetable
soup. They demanded all the chewing
and smoking tobacco they needed. They
have fortified themselves in an old build
ing, and one of the number has confessed
that they had intended to secure firearms
in another building to battle with As
yet no serious outbreak has occurred.
The authorities declare that they will de
priye the tramps of food until they sur
render.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-18
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
A Man and Boy Instantly Killed.

NEW YORK, December 1.-THE Phila-
delphia Express, which passed New
Brunswick, n j., station at $40 A. NJ
this morning, struck buggy containing
a man and boy, who were both instant
ly killed. The horse and buggy were
smashed to pieces. The station officials
said the man was a mail-carrier from a
neighboring town. The boy appeared to
be about IA years old. The name of the
man killed is ascertained to be Moses
Ryno, an ex-policeman, and the father OF
a large family. The boy, who was driy-
ing the horse, was Terrence Hickey