Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-24

shaking hands the latter hurt a boil which
Oval had on his hand. From this trivial
cause an alteration arose, which eliminated
in Michael receiving a death stab from the
amiable Jsmes.--.W William Cluck has been
sentenced to be hanged, at Indianapolis, for
the murder of his wife in April last.
The South.
THE Pope county, Ark, troubles have been
settled, the MALTA disbanded, and peace
once more reigns there."..Five members of
John Robinson's circus have been arrested
in Richmond, charged with murder and
highway robbery in Charlotte county, Va.
LOUISVILLE has been having a grand jolli-
fcation over the opening of her new railroad
to the South.
THE architect, contractor and builder of
the structure which fell at Louisville, the
other day, and crushed several persons to
death, have been arrested and he'd in $780,
600 bail each. Five deaths have already re-
suited from the calamity, and others will
probably die of their injuries-...The build
ing in which the Raleigh IN. g. Sentinel
day, by an explosion of g~un-powder, which
some parties had placed under the press
room. The presses and machinery were
completely demolished......Over LOO Ger
man emigrants, en- route for 1exas, arrived
at New Orleans in one day last week, by
steamship from Hamburg Bishop BayIey
has been installed as Archbishop of the
Diocese of Baltimore.
THE work of building the Texas Pacific
railroad is being vigorously pushed. Five
hundred miles are already under contract,
and a large force of laborers has been en-
gagged. Negro labor is being mainly en-
ployed, but Gen. Dodge has arranged for a
force of 1000 Chinese. The line under con-
tact is that part of the main stem from
Ma rshall west to Fort Worth, and the branch
north from Marshall to a point opposite Full
ton, Ark, and thence ~westwardly to the
west main stem near Fort Worth, will pro-
coed during the winter......At Louisville the
other day, a negro named William Frey
murdered his wife and mother by stabbing
them with a knife. The murderer gave
himself up, and said he wanted to be hung
Immediately.
THE first frost of the season in the South
occurred at Nashville, Tenn, On the 18th of
October.-...James Kenny, a. prisoner at
Nashville, has confessed to the 500, 900 dia-
mond robbery at New Orleans, in which, he
says, Forester, the alleged Nathan murderer,
was an accomplice, AMI that the steamboats,
Thompson Dean, Magenta and others were
fired to aid in the robbery. Kenny accuses
Forester of the Nathan murder.
Washington.
THERE was in the Treasury last week
$6,s67,572 currency, $5S, 99,659 coin, and
1924, 959, 900 coin certificate
IT is stated in a Washington dispatch that
the President has refused to obey the die
tum of Cameron to drive John W. Forney
out ef the Republican party, and said he
looked upon their differences as of a local
nature.
IT is announced that President Grant, in
his forthcoming message to Congress, will
recommend that prompt and vigorous meas
ures be taken to protect the citizens of the
Texas border from the incuIsions of Next
can bandits and cattle-thieves...-.Bids were
opened at the Quartermaster Generals office
last week for furnishing headstones for SOL
| diers' graves in the different national ceme-
tories. There were in all TIA bidders, and
the bids ranged from SO cents to SIS per
stone.....All the departments were closed
and dressed in mourning on the 18th of Oc-
tober, the day of Mr.. Stewards funeral.....
Since the adjournment OF Congress the Gov
eminent printing office has been finishing
the printing ordered during the last session.
This amounts to $50 900 octave and quarto
volumes, ranging from 300 to 600 pages each.
OF this number 255 900 volumes are agricul-
tural and u-Klu reports, the latter being
IL volumes, and tho printing of the census
reports is also in progress. Four thousand
volumes in muslin are bound daily. Three
hundred compositors and thirty pressmen,
and four hundred females are in the Office,
and the aggregate of all the persons en-
ployed is over 1000.
Foreign.
In the Spanish Cortes, the amendment to
the address of the King asking for the aboli-
ton of slavery was defeated by a large ma
jority.....Th workiDgmen of Berlin are about
~inaugurating another general strike.....A
number of coal masters of Wales lave re-
solved to close their works, pending a educ
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THE startling announcement is made from
C-onstantinople that over three millions of
human beings have persisted by the famine
in Persia. It is doubtful whether there was
ever before a visitation of this kind attended
with such awful consequence and the fact
is difficult to reconcile will the idea that
the adjacent Christian nations performed
their whole duty toward the suffering peo-
ple.....A London letter says that the publ
cation of the ponderous judgment of Sir
Alex. Cockburn, dissenting from the award
of the Geneva Arbitrators, has had the effect
to create the belief that the award was fla
gravity unjust to England. The language
of the Lord Chief Justice is very severe, and
he is alike indignant at the British and
American Governments..... The London pa
pers comment at consid cradle length on our
October elections, and their probable effect
on the Presidential contest..~-.Mr Bentinck,
member of Parliament, in a public speech
at London, recently, denounced the settle
ment of the Alabama claims as a dishonor
and a disgrace to England, and declared
that Great Britain deserved the scorn of the
whole world, and would cease to hold her
position among the nations Two more
Communists lave been sentenced to death
at Paris.....The Abolition Society of Madrid
continue the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton. They lave just sent to the Cortes a
petition for the commission of slaves in
Cuba and Porto Rico.
A REPUBLICAN revolt of alarming proper
tions has broken out in the Spanish province
of Corunna..."..The news of the death of
Mr.. Seward was received in England with
great surprise, no intimation of his illness
having reached there. The daily papers of
London contain elaborate biographies of the
distinguished statesman. Tho Nelos says:
although Mr.. Seward was unpopular here,
by reason of his rather peremptory bearing,
he leaves behind him a great example of
vigor, energy and success" ...Another re-
ligious row is threatened in Lisburn, Ireland,
and an additional military force has been
sent there...-.It is reported that Thicrs has
requested Victor Emanuel to recall the Ital-
ian Minister to France, because he is a Bona
partist-....Prince Napoleon has been BAN
ished from France...-.The election for Pres
ident of the Republic of Mexico occurred on
Saturday, October IL. There being no op-
position to the present m Lerdo de