Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16

three banks in Chicago, and one bank nj
Indiana, from which reports have been re-
ceived, the amount is 81, 724, 046, 1872. Num-
Der of banks, 1,663..-.The instructions of
the President to the authorities in Utah
were to the effect that there should be q firm
yet judicious enforcement Of the law. No
compromise with criminals. Latest reports
from the officials represent that all danger
of collision has passed......The President has
appointed George H. Boxer Minister to
g. Sickles has
been appointed Pension Agent at Philadel-
phia.
AT the next session of Congress, ten or
twelve bills will be introduced, for the revi-
val of American sh%ip-building, which pro-
pose to grant subsidies, to take off the duty
on all articles that enter into s%hip-building,
to construct vessels that will suit the mer-
chant service in time of peace and the naval
service in war, etc. 1t is stated that the
President and the Secretary of the Treasury,
in their annual messages, will make an
earnest appeal to Congress fer legislation to
revive our s~hip-building interests.....Au the
government officials favor the erection of a
public building in Chicago for government
uses, which Will be equally as large as any
similar edifice in the country. The estinl-
| ated cost Of such a building is fixed at 81
00O, 900. The Secretary of the Treasury will
make this suggestion in his annual report to
| Congress, and it is understood that the Pre-
| Sl1ent Will IN his next message recommend
Congress to make a liberal appropriation for
the purpose.
THE Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia has rendered a decision adverse to
the females who entered suit to enforce
their claims to vote. The court bases its
decision on the organic act creating the new
district government, which expressly re-
stricts suffrage to Ministe Nelson,
at Mexico, has been instructed to call upon
1 $500 L. l. - 1000
slant ~depredations of the Mexicans on the
Texas frontier. These incursions have been
growing more frequent and daring, and I'M
less soon stopped, Gen. Augur, the new CONF
mander at San Antonio, Will be called on to
interpose the military arm to arrest or drive
back the invaders.
Foreign.
THE emigration returns of the port of Liv-
erpool, for the month. of October, show a
total of IA 1868 departures for the United
States......The British expedition. for the OBJ
servation of the total eclipse of the sun on
the 18th of December prox., has arrived at
the island of Malta.
The unwilling of the statue of the En-
peror Maximilian took place at Vienna on
the 18th with solemn and imposing ceremo-
MES. The Emperor Francis Joseph, Arch
dukes, and members of the Ministry took
part in the solemnity. Large crowds of
people also attended, and manifested their
| respect for the Inflated monarch by impress
| sive silence.....The movement for enhanced
/ wages continues at Rouen, where the strikes
among the several trades are on the increase.
IA negro woman, of highly respectable
character, has been arrested at Jacmel,
Jamaica, upon the extraordinary charge of
cannibalism. The accusation alleges that
she has killed and eaten twenty-six chill
dren, whom she has inveigled into her
premises for that purpose.
ANARcH prevails in many States of Mex
leo. The revolution in Nuevo Leon still
continues. The revolutionary movements
are spreading to other provinces. The revo-
lutionists in Zacatecas have invaded the
State of San Luis Potosi. Numerous bands
of men are sacking the villages and hacien-
das in the States of Hidalgo and Mexico and
the federal district. Robberies are commit
ted in sight of the gates of the city......The
remains of General Robert Anderson will be
conveyed to America in the United States
steamer Guerrero.
AswINDLER named Charles J. Wilmington,
of No. "a John street, New York, has been
sending circulars to London, offering coun-
terfeit notes on the Bank of England at low
rates. The police magistrates there have
telegraphed the facts to the New York po-
lice. Wilmington is doubtless one of the
"saw-dust" windlers.....Th Lord Mayors
show, with the usual display and procession
10 MesImlhster nan, tooK pace at honoon
on the 9th.-..A terrible explosion occurred
on Thursday in the coal mine near st. Etien-
ne, France, while the gangs were at work.
None of the men have yet been recovered
alive. Twenty-Five bodies have been taken
out, and 80 miners are still in the pit, all of
whom are supposed to be dead. The explo-
sion was caused by fre-damp......The general
councils of the departments throughout
France are considering the subject of COM
pulsory education. Several have already
adopted the system, and there is good reason
to believe that all viii eventually accept
and carry it into practical operation.-...A
conference of diplomats will be held at
Dresden at an early day, to devise precau-
tionary measures against the International
Society..-..Thed degree of Doctor of Medicine
has been conferred upon Miss Dimock, an
American lady, by the university at Zurich,
Switzerland. She had completed her studies
in the medical school attached to the uni
versity.