Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-12-12

State Department.....Hon. o. P. Morton has
been reelected to the United States Senate
from Indiana, he having received the vote
of every Republican member, Sd in number.
The Democrats voted for Hon. James D..
Williams, who received Al votes......O ficial
vote of Missouri: Greeley, ISL, 423; Grant,
1916; O'Conor, 2.429--..The official re-
turns from New York make Grants majority
53,525.-..Grant's majority in New Jersey is
1851, in a total vote of III ,O25......The cor
rected canvass in Iowa makes Grants ma
jority over Greeley 60,114.-..It seems to be
finally settled that Gov. Oglesby will sue
coed, without any opposition further than
what may be interposed by the Democracy,
to Judge TrumbulPs seat in the Senate from
Illinois-.-.Hon. Roscoe Conkling will be
reelected to the Senate from New York al
most without opposition.
IT is said John A. Bingham, of Ohio, will
be appointed Minister to Rome......Grant's
official majority over Greely in Michigan is
So, 36s......Oficial vote of Alabama: Grant,
9O,272; Greeley, 79s441 O'Conor, none.....
The official majority for Grant and Wilson
in California is 13,660.....Senator Sumner
office of the Now York Tribune the other
day, and had a friendly chat, during which
the former entertained his colleague with an
account of his travels and the impressions
received from men and matters abroad. The
meeting was very cordial and politics were
entirely ignored during the interview...-.
The President, according to all accounts from
Washington, stands firm, and openly de-
clares his purpose to enforce reform in the
civil service by the promotion, in every in
stance of a vacancy, of the subordinate who
is the most competent to discharge the du-
ties of the position..-....Charles Francis
Adams, as the candidate of the i-Sec
Society party, received one vote for Presi-
dent in Indiana.--"..The vote of Indiana
(ofician: Grant, 1876 ,1S1; Greeley, 1913 1922.
$500. Illineis cast 10000 less votes for Presi-
dent in 1872 than were returned in 1865.
The Republicans of Berrien county, Mich
selling Old Time by the forelock, have nomi-
mated Schuyler Celfax Tor President in 1876.
JUDGE MERnIMAN, late Democratic candi-
date for Governor of North Carolina, has
been elected United States Senator from that
State in place of Poo'e-.....Senater Spencer
has been re- elected to the Senate from Ala
bama.
IT is announced from Washington that, in
the event that Mr.. Fish ~retires from the
State Department., the President has de-
t,rmined to offer the portfolio to Mr.. Charles
Francis Ward Hunt, the newly
appointed Supreme Judge, is a prominent
lawyer of Utica, N. Y. where he was born
in 1910, and where his whole life has been
spent.
General.
SENATOR SUMNER, who arrived in the
steamer Baltic last week, had an uncomfort-
ably rough voyage, having encountered a
terrific gale on the fourth day, which con-
tinued without intermission for six days.
The commander of the vessel declares it the
toughest passage he ever made across the
Atlantic.....Prof Watson, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, reports the discovery of a new planet,
which he says shines like a star of the tenth
magnitude.
THE billiard match for the championship
of America, played at Now York, between
Cyrille Dion and John Deery, resulted in a
victory for the former. Score: Dion, 1902
Deery, 1,20l.
SENATOR SUMNER says Theirs is the Fright
man in the right place."-..The money
order business of the Postofiee Department,
during the year ending June 80, 1872, ex-
ceeded $99, 00O, 900. OF this vast sum, sent
in small re nittances, averaging about $50,
not a cent was lost.
JUSTICE NELSON, of the United States Su-
preme Court, having resigned, the President
has named Ward Hunt, of New York, as his
successor.