Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-23

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crew persisted ...... Prince Pierre Bonaparte
notorious for his participation in the assas-
sination of Victor Noir, was married on
Monday at the French Legation in Brussels
to Mdlle. Riflin.....Pope Plus TX. declares
himself sole King of Rome, and announces
the determination to hold no official inter-
course Will any foreign representatives at
the court or near the person of Victor EN-
manuel.
A FORMIDABLE plot of Bonapartist generals,
headed by Fleury, to arrest Theirs and pro-
claim the empire, has been discovered.
TIL plotters' papers are in the possession of
Theirs.
THE British Government has granted a
pension of $500 to the children of DIR. Liv-
ingstone, the African explorer. DIR. Liv-
ingston, when last heard from, was slowly
making his way toward the coast......In a
letter in the London Times of the 1st inst,
from Persia, an English official states that
the people were then more emaciated than
ever. At least $500 besiege the English
resldency for food every morning, and in
their rush actually crushed two women to
death. Infants and young children are
lying about the streets scarcely recognizable
nople represent that the cholera is spread
ing in that city, and that the number of
deaths increase daily.....A frman has been
| issued by the Sublime Porte directing the
Minister of Works to inaugurate a compre-
henslve system of public improvements in
| view of the net work of railways projected
| by foreign capitalists in the Ottoman
dominioas. The harbors are to be improved,
the rivers made navigable, new roads built,
| the old ones repaired, and every effort made
to establish lines of connection with the
new railways from all parts of the country.
......A Honolulu Is. ~ letter, of the oath ult.,
gives details of the loss of the American
| brig Thelkon, which was rendered a wreck
/ .Ju1v 2 in q GALE m the Pacific ooaon on bar
passage from San Francisco to Honolulu.
| All the crew died on the wreck, and when
the steamship Moses Taylor fell in with
| her, on the 18th of October, Capt. Hopkins
four passengers had persisted from hunger
and hardship. The crew were foreigners.
Ashley Crane and Charles Davis, of San
Francisco, were the only American passen-
gers.
IT is stated that negotiations are nearly
concluded for the sale of the Atlantic tele-
graph cable to the British Governmental.
On the fete day of the ex-Empress of the
French, a large deputation from Bath, Eng
land, proceeded to Ch%iselhurst, where they
offered their congratulations to her majesty.
1.-THE steamer City of Brooklyn ran into
and sank the steamer Idea, in the Mersey,
and one officer of the latter was drowned
......Disraeli has been elected Lord Rector of
the University of Glasgow, over Prof. John
Ruskin, who was also nominated for the
honor......M Much excitement has been created
in the Spanish Cortes by a speech from
Senior Figueros adverting to the relinquish-
ment by Spain of San Domingo-...Mail adj
vices from Africa say that on the west coast
the people are dying off from smallpox
like rotten sheep.
A TREMENDOUS explosion occurred in the
colliery at Wigan at a late hour on Wednes-
day. The explosion was heard in the coun-
try around for several miles, and much alarm
was felt. Fortunately, the disaster occurred
after the working gangs had Withdrawn, or
the loss of life would have been appalling.
Six men were killed and probably one or
two more will be found. The cause of the
explosion is unknown".-.More than 300
lives were lost at Macao during the typhoon
of Sept. 2......It is said that the Pope intends
to address a communication to the European
powers protesting against certain acts as
violations of international law and the rights
and dignities of the countries concerned.
He will specify, among other acts, the ex-
pulsion of nuns from converts, and the
forcible suppression and closing of certain
international religious houses......A dispatch
from Constantinople reports that there were
$50 cholera deaths there last -weeka..The
new Governor of Yokohama has entertained
the foreign consuls at a dinner and made a
radically ProSraSsivo EPeeSh-
THE German Reichstag is engaged in the
consideration of the coinage bill. A vote
was taken upon a proposition to place the
efigy of the Emperor William upon all new
coins, instead of those of the Princes of re-
spective countries comprised in the Empire,
and it was decided in the negative by a con-
siderable majority.-..The court-martial at
London in the case of the wreck of her Ma
jesty's ship Megera has closed its delibera-
tions, and rendered a verdict fully acquitting
the captain, officers and crew-....A dispatch
from Rome states that the Pope consents
to the conservation of the Church of st.
Suare, which he had hitherto 1pfused be-
cause the church was the priyaH property
of King Victor Emanuel.