Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-03

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Northern Pacific railroad.
The Cuban Republic has. made a formal
on the State Department for the re-
storation of the Cuban navy recently seized
off Newport, R. I.......A delegation from
Texas, composed equally of Republicans and
Democrats, recently called upon the Presi-
dent with a view of inducing him to with
hold the military from the polling places
and allow the elections in that State to be
controlled by the civil authorities. Other
wise they represent tGat the elections will
be attended by riots and bloodshed, and the
will of the people tbwarted......The purchase
of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal
Company by the Government has been COM
pleted, and the property has been duly con-
veyed to the United States.
Foreign.
A DISPATCH to the New York Herald from
Bombay says letters bave been received
from DR.. Livingstone, dated July 1, 1872.
He was still at Unyanyembe, was we'll, and
awaiting the arrival of Stanley's second ex-
petition The work of executing Commu-
nists still goes bravely on in Frence-three
more of them, condemned for numbering
hostages, having just been shot on the
bloody field of Sartory-....Cholera is raging
with great violence in Persia. In Bokhara
the people are dying at the rate of 1000 q
day....Edmund About, who has incurred
the displeasure of the German military au-
thorities at Strasbourg, is to be tried by
court-martial......S Senator Sumner has ar
rived in London, much improved in health.
Thomas Hughes, NJ. P. C"Tom Brown,
of Rugby"), recently attempted to address
his constituents at Frome, Englend, but his
political opponents interrupted the speaker
to such an extent that the meeting broke up
in disorder and the police cleared the hall.
......Acts oil incendiarism have become 80
frequentin the English agricultural districts
that the farmers are organizing vigilance
| aopnn niIfaaa for THAR nrOtaofiOn A formi-
dable Carlist uprising is threatened in Spain.
has been another railroad disaster
near Barcelona, Spain, killing and wound
ing many passengers."-.Nearly 1000 Com
munists, sentenced to transportation, lately
embarked at Brestfor New Caledonia....Th
British Tory journals still continue their on
slaughts on the Geneva Arbitrators.
The failure of the American firm of John
Fox & Co., of London, is announced, with
liabilities amounting to So, 500, 000......Charles
| XIV, King of Sweden and Norway, is dead,
aged 46. His son, Prince Oscar, succeeds
him.....Miss Rye has shipped another in
stallment offfty children from Liverpool to
Canada, where homes have been secured for
them......Tne German authorities have con-
sented to allow the wife of Edmund About
to visit him in his dungeon, but no one else
is permitted to converse with the imprisoned
author. Magnanimous Germany 1.-THE
three OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Deschamps and
De Aiville-executed at Sartory, France, LAT
week, met their fate bravely. Their last
words were: " Vive la RepubliqueI Down
with traitors !"
SPAIN is about to a .olish the system Of
military conscription ..--.It is officially an
-ounced in Spain that the number of Cuban
insurgents in arms is 4,500......Fo women
were recently killed by a stroke of lightning
while working in a Lancashire England
cotton mill.....Au immediate decline in the
price of coal is predicted in England.."..The
congress of Old Catholics, recently in SEES
sion a Cologne, was we'll attended, there
being some 800 delegates present, and much
enthusiasm prevailed.....The death of the
eldest brother of the Pope is announced al
Rome.
ENGLAND experienced the first frost of the
season on the night of Sept. edmond
About has been set at liberty......A rumo1
comes from Berlin that the Emperor of Ger
may has decided in favor of the United
States in the dispute between Great Britain
and this country over. the San Juan boundary
line..--.Bullock, the absconding Governor o.
Georgia, having pocketed some 81 1000 200 Of
the bonds of that State, is living in one O.
the finest residences in the suburbs of Lon
don. A letter from that city says his " house
finest stock, his turnouts unsurpassed, and
he says he has concluded to make London
his residence for the future"
The cholera is spreading rapidly in Rouma-
mia, and, owing to the epidemic character
of the disease, it is feared it will spread
over the whole country......It is said the
German Emperor ~contemplates a large re-
duction of the army now occupying French
territory, after the second payment of the
war NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sumner is in
Paris. His health is much improved, and
he will return home in France
has just paid to Germany 81, 200, 900 francs,
completing the fifth milliard of the war in
demnity THE Gear of Russia has assured
President Theirs, through Count Orlof, that
he would not have attended any Imperial
meeting the object of which was hostility tc
France.
THE French Government having been ap-
piled to by Minister Washburne to join OUT
Government in taking such action as will
put an end to the persecution of the Jews in
Roumania, has received the proposition ia
vorably, and will insist that residents o.
that Province, of all creeds, be accorded
equal protection. ...DfJemilMehemd Pasha
Turkish Ambassador to France, is dead $500.
The evacuation by the German troops of the
Departments of Marne and Haute Marine
in France, will commence Oct. 15......The
advance in the price of coal has caused an
increase in the expenses of running the
Lancashire cotton mills to such an extent
that it has been decided to reduce the mum
Der of hours of labor..-..Santa Anna aspires
to succeed Juarez as Presidento of Mexico.