Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-23
NEWS OF H WEEK.
East.

Staten Itsand, on the 18th.
I AT New York, recently, j. Stuart
/. Gwynne was semtdncedot0 the Peniten-
tiary for five years, for bigamy.
Col. Thomas Chickering, one of the
ssChickering Brothers. piano manufac-
turers, died suddenly Tuesday morning,
of apoplexy. 200
"a committee OF The, Irish citizens
1 of Boston ave collected 81 800 for the
benefit of the released Fenians- Hal
pine is to be cared for on his arrival.
Three or four Germans who attemp-
ted to cross on the ice from Staten Island
to Elizabeth, IN the 10th, are. missing.
There is no doubt that they were
. drowned. nv ELL f8 GfA
George H. Matthew's aweli known
Broadway bookseller, died on the 18th.
{ He was a warm friend of all phifan-
thropic and p frequent con-
tributor to the press
"A Boston dispatch says that the
United States Circuit Court, on the pc
tition of Samuel j. Muscroft, of Ohio,
has granted an injunction ON the repre-
s~entation of the " Drummer Boy of Shi-
\ loh,'' except upon the payment of such
a sum as may satisfy the petitioner, who
is the author.
-The giving her name as
sarah Bennett, and claiming that her
husband was on the Inflated train, and
10 identified a hat at Poughkeepsie as
4 husbands, and tainted, and who has
collected considerable money from sym
pathetic persons, was arrested as an inn
poster, but, out of consideration for her
children, released.
The West.
4. Immense rich silver mines have
been discovered, in the Bradshaw dis
.trict, Arizona, near Prescott, causing
much excitement.
The California orange crop is very
fine. Many thousands of orange and
lemon trees are being planted in the
central part of the State.
Cincinnati is again 'agitated over
the question of keeping the public
library open on Sundays. The sub
ject was on Sunday alluded to from the
pHlpits. Nee
"A San Francisco dispatch says
4 The schooner Cygnet, coming up the
coast from Scammon's lagoon, Lower
California, has 100 turtles on, board for
Chicago. ,,f,a,a
"A woman about thirty years old,
supposed to be Johanna Essert, was
found dead in the woods, near Clifton,
o., on the 18th. Her right wrist vas ter
ribly gashed. sfms b
Census returns from Michigan foot
up as follows /: Number of dwellings in
the State, 235,6S7 humber of families,
2S4, 725 number of voters, 268, 756 ;
number of inhabitants, 1 ,184,63S.
Coal operators in st. Clair and
II MadisOn oOuptioc Ill have roaoluo6 To
pay only four cents per bushel for
mining hereafter, and will close their
mines until the miners accept these
terms. f70G. 8 81
Six inches of snow fell at Peoria,
Ill, on Saturday night, the heaviest of
the season. At Boston and Springfield,
Mass, yesterday, it showed all day,
twelve inches having fallen at the lat
ter place.
The River and Harbor A~ppropria-
tion bill, just reported, appropriates
100000 for the Chicago harbor, and
$4,000 for Calumet. The total for
Michigan is $4,000, the principal item
of which is $250,00O for ST. Mary's Falls
canal and river improvements. The
total Tor Wisconsin is s$251,000, the
principal items in which are $4,000 for
Superior City and $4,000 for Milwau-
kee harbor.
The South.
The receipts of the Treasury for the
quarter ending Dec. 81 1870, were $685.
9 7,l2O, and expenditures, $74,115,723.
An engine on, the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad exploded near Piedmont,
Va, on the 14th, instantly killing R.
McClurg, the fireman, and slightly scald-
ing the engineer.
The man-of-war seen on the 18th
ult- by Capt. Hopkins, of the bark Mary
Baker, was in adj probability the Ten.
nessee, as Secretary Robson states that
none other would be in that locality at
that time. The news was received in
Washington with great joy.
William B. Waters, a boy ID years
old, recently jumped on the COW.
catcher of a heavy freight train, neal
the Shore Line depot crossing,and falling
off, the engine ran over him, cutting of
his right leg, crushing his left leg nearly
of, and bruising and mangling him hor
ribly. He lived four or FIVE hours. The
engineer was arrested and held in $2,00(
bail.
+ The steamer Judge Wheeler ex.
ploded her boiler, burnt, and sunk on
Sunday, at Bells Landing, forty-fve
miles above Vicksburg. The killed
were Con.H Hogan, "a deck hand Thomas
Welsh, a deck sweep, and another man,
whose name is unknown. The injured
were Capt. holland, serious; Charley
Storey, carpenter, slightly G. N. Pope,
of Little Rock, badly. Very little OF
the cargo was saved:
FOreign.
1t is ascertained beyond a doubt
hat the result of the French elections
is a triumph for the Conservatives.
The Liverpool Courier of the 18th
a y that a French transport, with
1880 persons on board, has foundared
off Cape La Hague, and that all on
board were lost.
The London Spectator believes il
quite probable that Leopold, King OF
Belgium, will be put on the French
throne, with the consent of his own
subjects and of the Emperor William.
i'm consequence of certain prepare
tons made in the south of France fo1
calling into service the military class of
1872, Bismarck will consent to prolong
the armistice only five days.
Dissatisfaction is felt at the presence
of Chanzy and Faidherbe in Paris. 1t is
thought that an oversight in framing the
armistice permits these generals, under
pretense of voting, to communicate with
the authorities in Paris.
The Paris Figaro says " 1t is report
ed that the German propositions fol-
mace run thus The c~essiOn of Alsace