Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-16

ures, which he held back in his former
speech, and which will be very damag-
ing to certain high officials.
The dead body of a week-old infant
was recently found in a cistern in the
rear OF a yard on jefferson street, be-
tween Ford and Preston streets, Louis.
vile, KY. Elizabeth Wilson, .colored
was arrested, and confessed she was the
mother, and had thrown it into a els
tern and pushed it under the water with
a pole so as to drown its cries as quickly
as possible. A.
Secretary Boutwell, has written
letter to the Chairman of the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, in which he
says that he cannot shrink from hi,
duty in advising a continuance of the
present. system of taxation until the
meeting of Congress in December next
We are now, he says, hardly better
qualified to judge of the effect of the
recent changes than we were when those
changes were made.
Serious complaints are made against
Commodore Worden, Commandment al
the Naval Academy at Annapolis. 1t is
charged that he overworked the cadets
and harshly maltreated them, and it is
stated that fevers prevail to an alarm
ing degree at the Academy. An effort
is being made to have a commission APP.
pointed to investigate the management
of the institution.
The steamer Judge Wheeler ex-
ploded her boiler, burnt, and sunk on
Sunday, at Bells Landing, f~orty-five
miles above Vicksburg. The killed
were Con. 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 ; C.-N. Pope,
of Little Rock, badly. Very little OF
the cargo was saved.
s "A special correspondent telegraphs
hat it is understood at Washington,
and stated as explanatory of Minister
Schenck's delay in leaving for England,
hat a British diplomatic agent is on his
way to Washington, with authority to
settle the points in. dispute between
England and America, relative not only
to the Alabama claims, but to the fishery
question. If this proposition is accept
ed by our Government it is believed
Gen. Schenck will remain in Washing
ton and conduct the negotiations pm the
part of the United States H.I
"A correspondent of the Wheeling
Register says that on Thursday last an
explosion occurred in Ritch & Co.'s as
phaltum coal mines, situated about fit
teen miles from Cairo, Richie county,
w. Va, by which three men lost their
lives instantly, and several others were
covered up in the mines, The fate of
the latter is yet unknown. The explo-
sion was caused by the ignition of a keg
of powder, by some means unknown.
hs9In Cheatham county, Tenn, some
nights ago, a band of masked men took
Lewis Hanna, colored, from his cabin
and whipped him then went to the
house of John Davis, near Kingston
Springs, and gained admittance by
promising to harm no one. Samuel
Finlay, an ex. Federal soldier, iJohn
Davis and his son Oscar, were the male
inmates. The ruffians took Finlay cut,
said he had shot a comrade of theirs
at Shiloh, and must die. They then
fred at him three times without effect,
and concluded by beating him severely,
Davis and his son were also badly
treated. Finlay has lived many years
in Cheatham. The Davises recently re-
moved thither from Pennsylvania.
FOreisnr = eza
1t is ascertained beyond a doubt
that the result of the French elections
is a triumph for the Conservatives. q =
The military chest of the French
Army of the East, containing 100000
francs, has boen surrendered to the
Swiss Government. .a.psSt
The Cologne Gazette acknowledges
in glowing terms the fact that United
States Minister Washburne has, during
the siege of Paris, given needed succoI
to seven hundred Germans.
The Liverpool Courier of the 18th
says that q French transport, with
1880 persons on board, has foundared
off Cape La Hague, and Z that all, on
board were lost. @-~~Sea
The Echo dul Nord has a special dis.
patch from Berlin, saying that contribu-
tions already executed by German com
manders viii be dednoted from the
amount of the war indemnity, also the
value of the railways of Alsace and Lor-
raine. 81
london advices report hat the az
mistice1 has been extended, and that
King William and Bismarck feel as
sured that the wal is over that prepa-
rations for the continuation of the cam
paign are merely to show the French
WAd0 bhOy AAA6hO OoRSOSh UhOy hOS
refuse the terms offered &0 aSA
"a Berlin dispatch says: Uheasi
ness is succeeding the exultation caused
by the fall of Paris. The funds are de
pressed. and no confidence is felt that
terms of peace will be accepted by the
Bordeaux Assembly. Incessant exer
tions are making for the resumption O
the plan, being tore-equip armies to over
run The whole of France, and reduce i
to submission by a savage and RELENTLESS:
campaign.
The Prussians commenced to pro
vide for the restoration of the railways
and the provisioning of the capital the
moment the armistice was concluded
but the rolling stock was found to be il
such a wretched condition that it is a.
vet impossible. Paris, consequently
suffers for the want of food, being still
supplied from the rations of the Ger
mans.
1t is probable, says a Berlin cor
respondent, that Prince Wilhelm, o
Baden, brother of the Grand Duke anC
General, who has greatly distinguished
himself in the campaign, will be ap'
pointed Stakeholder of Alsace, after thu
restoration of peace. The new PROVING,
will not be embodied with any of tn,
German States, but be placed under thu
control of the Government, and b,
subject to the Emperor and Fedora
Council.
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