Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho East

CHRISTOPHER BARRY, John Reilly, VIM. j.
O'Connor, and James Reilly, Inspectors of
Election at New York, have been held in
$4,000 each, for trial, on the charge of stufing
ballot-boxes.....At Hunters Point, L. l., on
Tuesday, forty Catholic children were ex-
PEELED from the public school by direction of
the commissioners because they objected to
reading the Bible......It is stated that a deficit
of between 5000, 900 and $500, 900 has been
discovered in the accounts of the Bowling
Green Savings Bank, New York, but that It
will be made good by the bank oficials.,,.,
1t is reported that the celebrated trotter. Mo-
hawk, Jr., was, on Monday, sold to John W.
Conley, of New York, for $40, 900. This
horse recently made the time of 2:23 on the
Cincinnati track.
The smallpox is spreading in New York
city, and the Sanitary Inspector thinks it
likely to become epidemic......A party of
young Japanese have arrived at New York
from San Francisco. They will leave soon
for England, having been sent out by their
Government to receive In English educa-
tion...-.Twenty election fraud cases are be-
fore the Brooklyn, N. Y, grand Jury.....It
is said that forgeri es on the New York citv
banks, amounting to 500, 900, have been
discovered and traced to one Saroni, who
fled to Cuba. Forged papers are said to
have passed to a considerable extent in
western cIties-..:An expedition of Catho-
AOD HSo WV Q 1OIh u JcdCn Gne natives
of Ecuador the mechanic arts and farming.
..-..1nvestigations show that $479, 900 of the
money furnished to the BROOKLYN Water
Board the present year has not been &C
counted r;..".Petltlon for a Communication
OF the sentence of Bolts, the murderer of
Pet Halstead, will be presented to the New
Jersey Court of Observation-Disclosures has
been entered in the sequestration case
against ex-City Treasurer Marer, of Phila-
delphia, for $478,000, the amount of his de-
observation-disclosures H. Wallace, clerk of
Tifany's jewelry store, has been committed
for trial at the Jefferson Market Police
Court IN New York, on a charge of stealing
$4,000 in jewelry.....The ice is two inches
thick throughout the whole section of the
Erie canal, at BoonvilIe. The canal is
frozen tight east of Utica. No boats are
moving, and the weather is cold and freez-
ing.
A HURRICANE visited the northern side of
the island off Cape Breton on the night of the
Goth ult., doing immense damage to houses,
barns, trees, and shipping. The gale began
at 8 o'clock, and lasted until 5 o'clock the
next morning. The tide was four feet HIGHER
than ever known before. The public wharf
at Port Hood was swept away, and in the vii
lage several houses were blown down. A
number OF vessels anchored at Port Mulpraye
dragged their anchors and passed out of the
strait to sea. The ~Bermudean brig Jabez.
from Chariottetown, was wrecked on Fox
1sland, ana only one man saved. Ten schoo-
ners were wrecked in the Strait of Canso. IT
IS feared that there has been considerable
loss of life by the gale...... Water has been
introduced into Providence, R. l., from the
Pawtuxet River...-.The Greystone Mill. in
North Providence, was burned Friday morn
1ng.::.-Ihe ice is about three inches thick in
the Welland Canal. Eight of the Northern
transportation propellers and other vessels
are IN the canai. A tug is trying to break
the Ice, but the prospects are doubtful.
A COMMON kitohon hoiIo- - LII
Paterson, N. j., exploded on Thursday night,
demollshlng the kitchen and basement and
partially blowing out the walls on one side of
the house. No lives were t......o Owing to
the prevalence of the smallpox in Eastop
Pa-' the students of Lafayette College gave
themselves a vacation of three months quite
regardless OF the protests of the faculty..
Five hundred more vessels passed tbyonrh
the WeIand Canal this season than dnri91
any previous one.....At New York. on Sotnro
day, Henry Beckett, in a quarrel with Bs ker
a conductor, was flung from a street car enS
had his leg broken by another car oona;1S; ~
an opposite direction. Both Conductors Wera
arrested. "ee
The West.
IT is reported that the schooner VIM. Sand
erson had gone down, with all hands. on
Lake Ontario. No particulars. Elder Or
son Pratt spoke on Sunday in the Tabernacle
at Salt Lake City with great earnestness in
favor of polygamy. He said po1vpamv was
one OF the chief tenets of the Mormon reIi-
glon: Ii that was taken away the religion
would be destroyed. The proposal to give up
Poiygamy for the sake of a State organization,
OF Ior any other purpose, would never receive
the consent of the Mormon peopIe. In fact
the Mormons would not surrender polyramy
or any part of the religion for any govern.
ne1C- Ihese remarks were received with
l010 chars all nTyn- l.
That's SO" ave won't.".--A 6isno+cb
from Little Cottonwood, Utah, saws: 1.-THE
snow, on a level, is six feet deep. Residents
OF Alta City have to dig themselves out of
tme = 9%etlngs. Many of the houses are
buried IN snow. The storm ontinues."..
me chicago Times, of the 2Sth ult., saws:
Tho spectacle of hundreds of busy carmen
teTs and masons facing the pelting snow-storm
all day yesterday, and laboring as cheerilv
as Gnougn IL was the balmiest of summer
ton"
The Supreme Court of Michigan has de-
clded the Detroit Board of Public Works act
to be unconstitutional.
A FIRE at Bloomington, Ill, on the sOth ult.,
oestroyed property to the amount of $50, 900
...'.By the explosion of a boiler at Ransom,
Mich, recently, John Critton, the engineer,
was Killed, and six other persons seriously
injured";".Miss Sarah Hughes was found
dead in bed at Hamilton, Ohio, Thursday
morning. She had retired the night before
with a handkerchief saturated with chloro-
form laid upon her face, for an aching tooth.
and, falling asleep, inhaled the anesthetic in
Snch a quantity as to cause death.....Rev
WIN. sedgwick, fifty years a Baptist minister,
oled on Thursday, at Chillicothe, Ohio. He
preached in the morning, and at 2 O'Clock p.
A MAN named Emery was killed by Blythe
K. Beatrice at Nebraska City, on Thursday.
by a blow from a billiard cue.....The Los
Angeles grand jury has found thirty-ivein-
dlctments for the Chinese massacre and
severely censured the municipal authorities
lin clearing up the residence of the late
Eesln Hammond, a wealthy citizen of
Charlestown, Ind, recently, an old trunk
was resurrected containing containing coin.
treasury notes, ETC., to the amount of $40 900.
The South.
IN the House of Representatives, at Column
bla, &c. on Saturday, Il Bowen, the much
married ex-member of Congress, presented
his credentials as a member from Charleston.
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