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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
A Proud "Cheese Parer.

No account of the Democratic lead
ers of the House would possibly be
complete without including sketch
of the old watchdog of the treasury,
William Steele Holman, of Indiana.
Beginning his service with the Thirty
sixth Congress, he served through all
the stormy period of the rebellion as a
war Democrat, the friend of Lincoln
and Stanton, and the steadfast cham
pion of the Union cause. 1t is the
fashion of reckless statesmen of easy
virtue and extravagant notions to
sneer at Holman as cheese parer and
picayune economist. Mr.. Holman ac-
cepts the epithets good naturedly. He
says he is cheese parer. Experience
has taught him that money is not
saved to the Government by striking
off million here and there, but by re-
ducing the multitude of small items
that amount to millions in the aggre-
gate. Vice-President Hendricks never
said a truer word than that Holman
was worth $25,OO0. 900 year to
the treasury as long as he stayed
in Congress. He bids fair to stay
great many years yet. He has just
been renominated for the twelfth time,
and will be elected, of course. Mr..
Holman is not one of the orators OF
Congress. His voice is thin and high
pitched. and not strong in tone. He
can not be heard across the chamber.
He stands at his desk when talking,
and nervously twirls his spectacles by
way of gesture. He never speaks un-
less he has something to say, and the
members always cluster about him to
catch every word, for they know that
it is ten to one he is going to expose
some bit of jobbery in an appropria-
ton bill. Mr.. Holman is sixty-four
years of age, spare and lean. His thin,
dark brown hair is literally streaked
with gray, and the stubby bit of beard
on his CHIN is grayer still. His eyes are
small and deep sunken; his cheek bones
high and prominent. He chews tobac
CO necessarily. He dresses plainly.
At this season of year he wears an ala
paca coat and dark trousers. He wears
an old-fashioned standing collar, with
black stock, and altogether is IA very
good type of the Indiana statesman O.
| the old school. He is close attendant
on these closing days of the session
and woe to the jobber who presume'
to launch his little schema any of thes.
warn, afternoons on the snppos!tior
shst the cid man IL eslsse,--& 4. ssa
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
SAD ACCIDENT.
A Mother and Her Two Daughters
Drowned
While Attempting to Save the Life of q
Younger Child.

ERIE, Pa, Aug. I.-Fairview, this coun.
ty, is in mourning over the melancholy
fate of Mrs. Mary Ann Kreider and her
daughters Ada, Bertha and Hattie, aged
fifteen, thirteen and eight years respective
ly. Mrs. Kreider, the wife of Martin Krei-
der, Nickel-Plate railroad employe, went
down by the side Of Conneaut creek to do
the family washing She was accompanied
by her daughters. Hattie, the youngest
child, wandered down the creek bottoms
and fell into the stream. The
recent rains had created cur
rent, and the waters were high. The
child's screams attracted the attention of
Bertha and Ada, and both ran and 1eaped
into the creek after their little sister. The
water being beyond their depth they were
all carried into the flood. Their screams
called their mother, and she rushed down
and without moments hesitancy also
sprang into the seething stream. Her ago
mixing screams mingled with those of her
drowning children. With superhuman
strength she succeeded in get
ting near her daughters, and
in time to see the baby, Hattie,
go down. Ada and Bertha clasped one an
other and sank in despair. Mrs. Kreider's
of some railroad men, who, divining the
cause, ran as no human beings ever ran be-
fore; but all to no purpose, for upon ar
irving at the spot there was nothing to
mark the spot where the four lives had gone
down but an occasional bubble of air ris-
ing to the top. The bodies were all recov-
cred, and tenderly borne to their homes on
hand-car. The bereaved husband and
father is frenzied with grief.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

Nothing so much destroys our peace
of mind as to hear another express an
intention to give us piece of his.-M
Y Herald.
1t costs but little to live according
to the demands of nature, the main ex-
pense is living according to the require
ments of fashion. Hebreso Standard.
-ssSome men can take new furniture
and make it look as if it was made
century ago." says an exchange. So
can some children.-NesO RGCen NesUs.
SO live that thou shalt make the
ground thou walkest over the house
where thou dwellest, sacred shrine
for the children who shall outliye thee.
The venerable Hopkins has been
connected with Williams College for
sixty-six years, and yet he can not sign
his name without making his Mark
LoaDel Courier.
Law without lawyers is the title
of new book. That's nothing strange.
Lemonade without lemons has been an
old thing ever since picnics were in-
vented.-Burdette.
in. 1870, there being a very dark
day, one of the parishioners of the Rev.
DR. Byles sent her son over to ask the
doctor the cause thereof. 'Give your
mother my compliments" was his an
swer, and tell her that / am as much in
the dor5 as she Chicago STANDARD.
Young Featherly had been impart-
ing some information to Mrs. De Towser
| which interested that lady very much.
81 am quite surprised, Mr.. Featherly,"
she said, ito hear of this. 1t only
| shows that-that-" Zone is never too
old to learnP" prompted Featherly. gal
Pittsburgh Post.
Mrs. A. went into the kitchen
one morning and informed Ellen that
Mr.. Thompson, neighbor and prom
inent resident, had committed suicide.
Ellen looked at her with an expression
of mingled astonishment and disgust,
and said: ''Oh-h-h, mum, has hep Wild
p"--Harper's Monthly.
Art auctioneer: We have here.
ladies and gentlemen, most superb
marine view. Assistant Tin loud
whisper)-Hold on; it's picture of a
sheep. Auctioner-As I was saying.
ladies and gentlemen, we have here a
picture of most superb merino. What
am offered on bidP-C Chicago Trib-
use.
IL attended a swell party last
night" says DR.. Funnytonic to his friend
Steadyboy Il didn't know you were a
society man." answered Steadyboy.
..Welf, as a general thing / am not
But you see, the party l attended had
the mumps, and couldn't well refuse.
1t was very swell affair, l assure you. "
| l-Pr1irie Farmer
Cora rapturously)-What a mag
nificent tree that is over there. Merritt
Quitting on)-Yes, my dear; that's what
Tennyson would call an immemorial
monarch of the forest. Cora Gnquisi-
tively)--But how do you know it's so
old. Merritt Cooking very funny
Because I see it's q chestnut-The
Judge.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
BLOODY BELFAST.
A Night of Continuous Rioting-Bush-
whacking From House-Tops.


whacking From House-Tops.
BELFAST, Aug. 15.-Rioting has been re-
sumed in Belfast. From midnight last
night until four O'Clock this morning q
rif1e fight was in progress on the Shankhill
road and the Old Falls road. One person
was killed and many wounded. The town
is seething. Sectarian strife has required
in a deplorable, cold d-blooded fashion. Ex-
pert marksmen this morning conducted q
rifle fight from roof-tops, chimney
stacks and street corners. Immense
crowds of partisans, who carefully
kept out OF range, were prepared to assist
by supplying ammunition and removing
the wounded. The sides were equally d.
vided. The moon shone brightly through
the contest. The Orangemen admit that
one of their men, named Macfarlane, was
killed, and that two others, named Smith
and johnson, were mortally wound
minor casualties on their side.
While minor casualties in the Orange ranks
were quite numerous, they claim however,
that they killed and wounned large mum.
Der of Catholics; but the latter deny that
any Of their number were killed and ad-
in the vicinity of tho battle ground
are riddled with bullets. The
military made repeated attempts to
stop the firing, but whenever they appeared
tne combatants shifted their positions, and
it was finally five O'Clock in the morning,
and after the riot act had been read twice,
that the soldiers, by succession of charges,
were enable to clear the streets, and this
they did only temporarily. The town has
been in a turmoil all day, and the police
were several times attacked and fired upon
by the mob.
AUGUST 16.-At two O'Clock this morning
the town is quiet. Desultory fighting was
maintained throughout the day and until
midnight, when the priests, by almost su-
perhuman efforts, induced the Catholics to
retire. AT this hour all the wounded in
the hospitals are progressing favorably ex.
cept one, little girl, who was shot In the
chest and is dying.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The English Baptists report an in
crease of $40 members for the past
year..
The various committees of the Vow
York Y. M. c. A. employ 597 young
men as active workers.
The Corean Government has issued
an educational law which requires all
children between eight and thirteen
years of age to attend school
Rev. John Houghton and wife,
missionaries of the United Methodist
Free Church of England to the Gallas
in East Africa, have been cruelty muir
dered.
The Church Missionary Society of
Great Britain has attained, in respect to
receipts, the highest figures ever reach
ed by any similar society throughout
the world. The actual receipts were
233, ,219 pounds sterling; that is, about
81, ,161 900.
The Springfield (Mass.) Union has
grown little tired of the talk about
educating girls to become wives and
mothers, and suggests to the faculties OF
male colleges that it would be just as
desirable to train young men to be-
come good husbands and fathers.
-Louisiana has the prospect of quiet
Sundays, as the Governor has signed
the bill passed by the Legislature COM
pelling all stores, shops, saloons and
places of public business to be closed
from midnight Saturday to midnight
Sunday.-N. o. Times.
1t is not often that minister has
the privilege of officiating at a wedding
for three successive generations, as was
the case recently with Rev. Austin Put
nam, of Whitneyville, Conn.,, who
united in marriage both the parents and
grandparents of the groom.-Hartford
Post
| Mr.. Ruskin's advice to feeble
churches Ito beg rather than borrow, .
drew from a Methodist church, near
London, letter inclosing his article
and, OH the strength thereof, requesting
a contribution. He sent them a pound
note and subscription at once, as be-
ing a man who will help the practice of
his preaching.
The Sabbath-school at Sunderland.
on the banks of the Connecticut, has
started q novel method of raising mis-
| sionary funds, each member of the
SCHOOL DeinS luNltcu W pidco Ii tuo UoA,
on his or her birthday, the number of
pennies corresponding to the age on
that day. When the year ended. in
June, the box-full of coin, counting out
over twenty-five dollars.-Hartford Cou-
rant.
"A most successful primary teacher
in the Sunday-school says that, as .
rule, these teachers have too elaborate
plans, both for management and in
struction. Simplicity is undoubtedly a
prime requisite. In every lesson there
is sure to be some one strong point,
and the whole time may frequently be
devoted to bringing that to the attention
of all. Fifty-two seed truths thus plant
ed in the plastic soil of a child's mind
may confidently be expected to yield q
harvest. Chicago Standard
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT.

Another Instance in Which the Chief
Executive, in the Cause of Honesty and
Justice, Uprooted Venerable Repub-
Hcan Custom.
Under Republican Administrations
the habit grew of rushing bills through
by the hundreds during the last two or
three hours of a Congressional session.
Scores of bills which could not bear the
light of day were held back to those
last moments, when the rush was SO
great as to prevent examination. Many
even of the appropriation bills were so
retarded that some of their clauses
might not meet with careful inspection.
In the last hours of the session the
President was brought down to the
capitol, and sat there signing bills as
fast as he could write, without any op-
portunity for intelligently considering
the measures which he was thus sup
posed to approve. Such was for q
quarter of century the Republican
practice.
We have now, for the first time in a
generation, a Democratic President,
and he has sufficient respect for his po-
sition to formally notify Congress that
his Executive approval will not be ap-
pended to any bills in any such fashion.
He recognizes that the constitution
makes him part of the law-making
power. He does not propose to sign
any measure, whether an appropria-
ton bill or private bill, until he has
had time to carefully examine it, and to
make up his mind upon its merits.
President Cleveland, this country
will stand by you to a man in that po-
sition. The only kickers will be the
hired lobby, the Congressional jobbers
and the beneticiaries of public steals.
Your friends pray most earnestly that
you will not bulge an inch from this
position. If necessary to sustain it,
you should smash every appropriation
bill that is left 1t requires heroic
treatment to cure such a cancer as has
fastened, IN this respect, upon our Ma
ton. If it is necessary to kill every
one of the bills of the closing hours,
and to call an extra session of Congress
to pass necessary measures, in order to
establish this principle, the country
will sustain it.-Cimcinnati Enquirer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
ATTENTION, MILITIA.

The Acting Secretary of War Wants to
Know How Many Will Volunteer to
Fight Mexico.
WAsHINGToN, D. c., Aug 15.-The ousual
Sunday quiet which ordinarily prevails in
the War Department was broken to-day.
Adjutant-General Drum, who is Acting
Secretary of War, was on duty, with
several clerks and force of telegraphers
Messages were sent to number of
commanders of local military organi-
cations by General Drum asking how
many volunteers they could muster to go
that their services shall be required. 1t is
not, it is understood, for the purpose of
mastering force for Mexico at once, but
merely as precautionary move to ascer.
tain what additional force can be made
available to cooperate with the regular
military in case trouble should grow out
of the present complications
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
REVOLT IN HAYTI.
A Defeated Candidate for President Raises
avery Large Sized Row.

A Defeated Candidate for President Raises
avery Large Sized Row.
Boston, Aug. ia letter to the journal
from San Domingo, dated July %, says:
The Presidential election took place here
on the 26th of June, General Ulyssus Her.
eaux being elected by large majority.
General Masses, the defeated candidate,
left for Samana two days after the cleo
tackled Santiago and was defeated by the
Government forces. General Hereaux, the
President-elect, left here to-day, leading
5000 men, to reinforce General Luperon
at Santiago General Scaraman left Port
Au Plat, on the North Side, with 5000 men,
and will join Hereaux, making an army of
12,000 men. This is the strongest revolu-
tion that has started in San Domingo for
some years, but the revolt will be of short
life, as General Hereaux is a brave and de-
termined man, and understands the mode
of fighting in this country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Jhe Gatou 9et'Iufrat.
RATFS OF ADVERTISING.

Business cards Of I'VE lnes or less . per ennum.
Local notices cents per line each inserton Simple
annou,cements Of marriages and deaths. and church
and benevolent society notices inserted free Any
addition to obituary notices win be charged nye cents
FaveTs must be handed in - early - Tussday
morning to insure insertion the same week. Com
municttons upon subjec1 OF general OF local sufsree
ere solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Nothing to Do With the Case.

A widow in town in the interior of
this State made her appearance at the
office of the gas company the other day
and asked if it were true that electric
lights were to supersede gas-in all the
public lamps. When answered in the
affirmative she continued:
81 own gas stock, and I want to know
if this move won't reduce dividendsP"
..Most assuredly not, madam, !" said
the secretary.
But it will be so much less gas con-
sumedPn
Exactly; but what has the quantity Of
sas consumed to do with gas biltrs--
RaN Sifsss EfsVA
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Guarded BY Cruisers.

ST. JOHNS, N. B., Aug. 12.-The Canadian
Government has issued orders forbidding
American vessels from entering the Bay of
Chaleurs on pain ofinstant seizure, and has
stationed the cruisers Critic and Lindsay
at the entrance of the bay, while the flag
ters. Besides these, crusier Conrad has
been placed on guard at the mouth of the
Miramichi river, the Roulette is stationed
at Casoumpec, Prince Edward Island, and
the Terror is doing duty at Shelburne.
General Middleton is in the neighborhood
Of Grand Merran and st. Andrews.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
USING The VETERANS.
The Queer Way In Which the Admtnis-
tration Has Shown q Revengeful
Spirit Toward Union Soldiers.

The Queer Way in Which the Adminis-
tration Has Shown q "Revengeful
=. Spirit Toward Union Soldiers.
The opposition to the Presidents
vetoes of private pension bills is an
other form of the effort to use the vet
Grams to gain party advantage. The
vetoes are represented as proofs of
revengeful spirit toward Union SOL
diers for saving the country, and the
attempts to insinuate or to declare this
wretched calumny are utterly con-
temptible and unworthy of the Repub-
lican name. The President with dig
nifty and truthfulness says, what every
honorable and patriotic American citi-
zen will approve:
1.-THE blatant and noisy self-assertion of
those who. from motives that may well be
suspected, declare themselves above all 9TH
ers friends of the soldiers can not discredit
nor belittle the calm. steady and affectionate
regard of grateful nat on"
The President points out that an ap-
preparation of seventy-six millions OF
dollars has just been made for pensions
under liberal laws, to meet every mer-
itorious case, and that more than a
million of dollars was added to main
tain the Pension Bureau. The rate of
pension in certain cases has been in
creased. and large appropriations have
been made for homes for sick, disabled
and needy soldiers, and there is a re-
cent liberal grant for their enlargement
and greater convenience. All this. as
he says, is no more than should be done.
Besides this is the fact, which he
does not mention, that the committee
of the Democratic House has reported
favorably six hundred private pension
bills, against four hundred reported by
the committee of the late Republican
House; that many were rejected as ut
terly undeserving, showing how great
is the pressure of unfounded claims;
and that Of the six hundred the Presi-
dent has vetoed but ninety, most of
which had been rejected by a Repub-
lican Commissioner of Pensions. Thus
while President Cleveland has signed
more than five hundred pension bills
in sixteen months, General Grant ap-
proved only five hundred and forty two
in the eight years of his Administra-
tion. Such facts dispose effectually OF
the unworthy partisan assaults upon
President Cleveland as hostile to the
soldiers. Weekly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Crank0Iouy.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 12-John Premo,
painter, and Fred b. Becker, street-clean-
ing overseer. propose on Sunday next to
navigate the rapids and whirlpool in an old
oak beer hogshead which has for six years
been lying empty in Geo. Roos' brewery.
The barrel is five feet long and four feet in
diameter at the head. The barrel will be
weighted down with 1,500 pounds of sand
in a box, and upon this upholstered seats
will be constructed. 1t will be free-and-
easy trip in all details.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
0arfield's phvsjcIans-

NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Dr. Hamiiron, emf.
nent surgeon, who was called to at end
President Garfield, is dead, aged seventy,
three years.
CHAGRIN FAILS, O., Aug. 11.-Dr. D. W.
tives here, is suffering so seriously from
the effects of a runaway accident in Cleve-
land, week ago, that grave fears are felt
that he may not recover. DR.. Bliss is well
known as the physician who attended Gen.
eral Garfield during his last illness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Mexican Troops Moving.

GALVESTON, Aug. IA special from
Eagle Pass to the Meas says: 1t is very
evident that Mexico is getting in readiness
should war be declared by the United
States. There are now 200 troops stationed
at Piedras Negras, and 1t is stated on good
authority that 500 more left Sabinas Tues
that 100 are stationed at the pass below
Guerrero, under command of Lveanor VAL
dez. One company of United States cav
airy, consisting of fifty men, IS stationed
at Eagle Pass, and this place is defenseless.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
The Corn Crops.

CHICAGO, Aug 13.-The corn season so
far, according to a comprehensive report
in the Chicago Times, has been very pc
culiar one, starting out as it did under the
most favorable circumstances-them month
of June dry and cool, with just enough
moisture to keep the corn growing and put
the fields in condition for uninterrupted
cultivation until the 1st of July; but ever
since that date the corn crop has been sub
jected, with the exception of some limited
areas in Ohio and Indiana, to such ex-
tremes of dry weather and heat that the
general prospects to-day point to a crop
reduced in quantity and quality.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Forest Fires Dyjnu Out

MILWAUKEE, WIS, Aug. 13.-Latest TO-
ports from the Northern woods are that
the danger is rapidly growing less, and the
fires are subsiding for want of fuel. The
work of relief is being actively pushed by
the citizens of Green Bay.
DETROIT, Aug. 13.-Specials to the Iri-
bune from different parts o. the northwest
ern portion of the lower Peninsula report
heavy showers, which lave effectually put
a stop to the forest fires in many places.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
In the Temple of Justice.

Attorney-Now then, sir, did you OF
did you not threaten to kill the plain.
tiff?
Witness-I did
Attorney-That will do. The jury
will notice the admission.
Witness-But haven't finished. l
was about to say that l did
Attorney-Quite right to confess it.
You may step down.
Witness-Your Honor, insist upon
my right to finish the sentence.
Judge-Go ahead.
Witness-I did-not- - Philadelphia
Call.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Captured in the River.

RACINE, Wis, Aug. n.-Henry Dempl, a
Milwaukee Anarchist, who was convicted
during the recent labor troubles in that
city, but upon whom sentence was sus.
pended until August 10, failed to appear,
and his bond of $500 was forfeited. A
deputy sheriff from Milwaukee arrested the
man in Racine, but while being taken to
Milwaukee he jumped from the train and
ran into the river. He was followed by the
officer and compe led to surrender at the
muzzle of q revolver.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Circus Wrecked by Wind.

EDNA, Mo-, Aug. 13.-Seils Brothers
circus exhibited here to-day. A tremend-
Gus wind-storm came up, tearing the inn
mense canvas from the poles, creating a
of Novelty, had three ribs broken. James
Withrow, Of this city, was badly cut in the
head. Two ladies had legs broken, names
unknown. Several children were slightly
injured. Several others were bruised and
trampled upon.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-19
Seven Hundred Homeless Families.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. l5.-In the Wis
consin forest fires the counties of Mara.
thon, Clark, Wood, Portage, Calumet,
Brown and Door suffered most severely.
The number of homeless families is esti-
mated at seven hundred; the loss of prop
erty 81 200, 900, exclusive of the damage to
the lumber interests.