Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-10
THE NEWS.

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| The colored schools of the district OF
Columbia cost $125, ,S66.
The work of rebuilding the docks OF
New York city began Friday.
The Louisville canal was closed last
Thursday afternoon at O'Clock.
A dispatch from Newport, Rhode Is
land, says Miss Phoebe Cary is dying at
that place.
A heavy shock of an earthquake was
felt in New England early last Thursday
morning.
1t is said Secretary boutwell, is salts
fled, and the Kentucky war claims will
now be paid.
A dispatch from Portland, Me-, says
the horse-foot disease has made its ap-
pearance in that city.
| Marsha SERRANo has formed a new
cabinet in Spain.
Germany received from France, on the
10Th inst., 400, 100000 francs of the in
demnity, and 525 100000 francs have been
| received since.
Last accounts from Fort Fetterman
represent that Red Cloud is making
ready for the war path, and that he has
bringing in stock.
| An engine on the Lehigh Valley rail
road blew up last Thursday, killing six
men. The bodies of four of them were
found, but were so terribly mangled that
they could not be recognized.
A letter from Paris says 10000 persons,
| including 5000 women and children,
were slaughtered in the suppression OF
the commune. Ninety thousand prison.
| ers have been captured, and the police
are hunting for $4,000 more.
Mr.. jefferson Davis brands, over his
own signature, in the Memphis papers,
the report of indecent conduct on his
i part in connection with a lady in sleep
ing car on the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, as a malicious falsehoOd.
| During the year ending June 80, 1871
| 107, ia passengers arrived at the port of
New York from foreign countries, of
whom 101 ,015 were actual immigrants.
The Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort
| Wayne railroad is to be leased to the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad; the
terms of lease having been agreed upon.
The Missouri River Telegraph Compa-
ny, on Thursday completed their line to
Fort Randall, distance OF 100 miles
above Yankton. '.
The Rev. Joseph F. Berg, professor in
the theological seminary in New Bruins
1 wick, r. l., an author and writer for the
periodical press, died on Thursday even
ing.
Robert Bufum, who murdered NJ.
Sevarns, at Newburg, New York, last
winter, committed suicide OH Thursday,
in his cell, at the State Asylum for In
sane Criminals, in Auburn, N. Y.
| The trial of Nourse, the leader who
killed two of his companions, is under
progress at Cheyenne, with nine men and
I three married women as the jury. The
Husbands and children of the lady jurors
made an Intellectual attempt to get the
lady jurors released from custody durin g
the night of the 17th. q .'-... :
A Harrisburg dispatch tells this story:
ga very bold robbery has come to light,
by which it is alleged a traveller stopping
at the depot in this city was robbed of a
satchel containing $150,000. He had
care1essly left the bag under the seat of
the car while he went to get some re-
freshments." The money was recovered.
There is a strong telling among Re
publicans in, Louisville in favor of the
appointment of Col. Josiah Given, deputy
/ commissioner, as Commissioner of In
| ternal Revenue,in case of the resignation
! of Pleasonton, which private adyices say
is imminent. A petition TO, that effect
has been forwarded to Washington, and
others will probably be sent on.
| A Detroit dispatch says: AT about IL
o'clock yesterday morning Colonel Henry
Barnes, late pension agent, formerly
! postmaster of that city, and at an earlier
| Tribune, was found dead about two
miles below the city, under circumstances
| that indicate death at his own hands. Of
the cause which led to his death all is
yet all surmise, but it is well known that
Colonel Barnes has had many financial
reverses within a few years past. That
these reyerses had to do with his suicide
is quite probable. ,5 Galg>Z
! The Newbern (N.C.) Republican is re-
named Edward Brown, OF Pitt county,
fled to the swamps during the late war
to avoid the draft, and has been lately
discovered living hermit life in a den
and settlement of his own in dense
thicket near the bank of the river. When
first discovered he fled to his hiding
place, upon being pursued he showed
| fight, but finally surrendered, and in
| sisted upon refusing to 60 in the army.
| Upon being informed that the war was
ended about six years ago, he concluded
/ to abandon his hiding place and return
to the old plantation where he found
many changes since the commencement
of the rebellion. His only clothing was
made from the skins of coons and other
animals which he has captured during
| the time. Having seen no one with
whom to converse during about eight
years, he has nearly lost the control of
language except a few profane words.
His father and mother have both died
during the past year.