Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-27

SEVERAL London dealers in Erie stock
have failed, on account of the decline in
the price of the shares......The cable an
nounces that " the state of Spain is alarm
ing" that Serrano has fled to England and
Sagasta to France, and that the Radicals are
arming to meet the threatened uprising of
the revolutionary Republicans..:..The bill
prescribing Jesuits has passed the German
Parliamentary a collision on the Orleans
(France) railway, on June 10, several per-
sons were killed and thirty ipjured.....A
London telegram announces that a lockout
was begun by the builders of that city, on
June 19, by which 10000 journeymen are
thrown out of empIoyment.....The cable
watts a rumor across the waters that Miss
Nellie Grant is engaged to q Scottish Lord.
1.-THE Pope protests vehemently against
the approaching enforcement of the law
suppressing converts in Italy. He cannot
submit to such usurpations, and a conflict
between the Holy See and the Italian Gov
eminent seems inevitable......A town on the
Japanese Island of Sekishu has been de-
stroyed by an earthquake; 500 people per-
ished-...Two steamers collided-one being
sunk-near Shanghai, May 4, causing the
loss of sixty lives, nearly all Chinese.
The Carlists are again on the war path in
the Spanish Provinces of Tarragona, Biscay
and Galicia......V Vain raseda has resigned the
Captain Generalship of Cuba.-..A Dictator
is the latest remedy proposed for the ills
which afflict poor Spain.
ALEXIS has arrived in Rio Janeiro..--.Ad-
vices from Mexico state that the revolu-
tionary Generals Trevino and Quiroga have
offered to surrender their armies and treat
for peace......A band of Mexican brigands,
on June Is, made a raid into the suburbs of
Matamoras, murdered two persons, and
robbed many more......A woman named
Phebe Campbell was hanged June 20, in
Montreal, Canada, for the murder of her
husba i'd. She mot her death calmly, evin-
cling no emotion.-..Advices from the West
Indies state that the German fleet bombarded
Port-au-Prince for several hours, and board
ed and captured the Haytien heet-all on ac-
count of the refusal of the Haytiens to pay
an alleged indemnity of $15 900. The Hayti
feet withdrew.....The cable steamer DaclI
has not been heard of since May rs, and it
| is feared sho is lost......The negotiations for
the payment of the German indemnity by
the French and the withdrawal of the Ger
man troops are completed. The first pay
ment of one milliard francs is to be made
Feb. Is, 1878 the second, a smaller amount,
before the close of '73 and the third, another
milliard, during IA The Departments of
Marine and Haute Marine are to be evacuated
as soon as SOC, 600, 900 francs have been paid,
and the present force of the army of occu-
patton will be reduced by one-third after the
payment of each milliard to Germany. The
French Government is already negotiating
for bills of exchange to the amount of
SOC, 000, 900 francs......The French Govern
ment has just paid to Switzerland an addi-
tional sum of 1900, 900 francs towards the
payment for expense incurred IN maintain
ing Gen. Bourbaki's army while interned in
Switzerland. The remainder of the debt
due-2,2eO 900 francs-will be paid shortly.
...... Bancroft & Sharpe's livery stables were
burned at Montreal, June 20. Thirty-fve
horses were Loss, 100000.