Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-12-26

AECs Apbo1 YAOVJVOOssssssA IL OOlAOA Va q SU"
mill in Wayne county, Mo-. exploded, the
other day, with frightful effect. The mill
structure was literally blown to atoms, frag-
ments being pi ;ked up half a mile away.
others dangerously wouhded...Five men
were entombed in a trench which they were
digging at st. Louis, last week.
EDwARD A.PoLLARD,t the Southern historian,
has just died at L~ynchburg, Va, aged A..
The Alabama Legislative troubles have been
settled according to the plan proposed by
Attorney General Williams, and legislation
is going on smoothly.
Washington.
SECRETARY CT THE INTERIOR DELANo has
gone TO Cuba for his health...-.It is believed
that the bill increasing the Presidents salary
to $50, 900 will pass both houses of Congress.
......As illustrating the extent of the Office
seeking mania, it is stated that over five
hundred letters nave been addressed to Chief
Justice Chase in regard to the vacant Mar
shalship of the United States Supreme Court.
The Secretary of War has issued an order
stating that, inasmuch as all political dis
tinctions of race have been abolished in the
country, no imposition or ~indignity to the
colored cadet at Annapolis, on account of race
or color, will be tolerated THE heirs of the
late Stephen A. Douglas have presented to
Congress a claim for $500 worth of their
cotton and other property teized in Missis-
sippi during the war-...John G. Nicolay, of
Illinois, succeeds Col. Parsons as Marshal of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
has denied the writ of prohibition in the
case of Warmoth against Kellogg, deciding
unanimously that it had no jurisdiction in
the matter......Qui a sensation was created
by the testimony of n. s. McComb before
tho Tya1it MohiIiar ,uocfiOafinn Commit.
tee, that he witnessed the payment of a
number of shares of stock to Congressman
Brooks, to be used in influencing Democratic
members. Mr.. Brooks, however, stigmatizes
the testimony of McComb as utterly false.
Vice President Colfax went before the COM
mittee and made a general denial of the
charges made against him during the cam
paign...-.The Methodist Book Concern of
Nashville, Tenn, has fled a claim with the
House Committee on Claims for nearly $780,
600, for the use of their buildings by Union
soldiers during the Wharf.-The President has
sent to the Senate the following nominations
Mimi. J. D. II. Anter, Webster City, Iowa;
A. 81. Wilson. Pella, Iowa; D. II. Frost,
Belleplain, Iowa; A. B. c. Hitchcock, Sidney,
Ohio; 81. Grant, Stevens Point, Wis. G.
Stewart, st. Joseph, Mich; II. E. Clapp,
White Pigeon, Mich; j. R. Higgins, Pal
ident has concluded to pardon all persons
now under conviction for Ku-Klux e~fenses,
where such is asked for by their reputable
neighbors.
THERE was a stormy time at the meeting
of the Credit Mobilier Committee, the other
day, when Cakes Ames submitted his state
ment, rejecting severely upon McCemb.
The latter became greatly excited, and de.
manded the right to examine Ames, which
the committee refused. Judge Jerry s. Black
is counsel for McComb, while Ames has en-
ployed Caleb Cushing to represent him before
H. L IT-.-- -
Territories has unanimously agreed to report
a bill enabling Colorado to form a State Con-
stitution preparatory to her admission into the
Union as a State.....The British and Ameri-
can Mixed Commission have disallowed the
claim of Barron, Forbes & Co., the English
commercial firm doing business IN Mexico,
who asks compensation for 2 S,000,0 900 for
quicksilver mines taken possession of by the
United States in 1s46.....The House Com
mittee on Postoffices and Post Roads have
agreed to recommend the establishment of a
letter carrier system in all cities of 10000
inha~bitants.....The developments of the
Credit Mobilier investigation have become
the sensation of Washington. Cakes Ames
the other day presented a statement which
disagreed decidedly with several of the de
malls printed during the campaign, and also
furnished q list of members of Congress to
whom he had sold stock. His testimony,
with that which has gone before, has fixed
direct or indirect ownership or interest in
the Credit Mobilier upon nearly all of those
whose names appeared in the McComb list.
Foreign.
INTELLIGENCE comes from London of the
loss in the North Sea of the emigrant ship
Franklin, from Hamburg for San Francisco.
Eighty persons are known to have perished.
......Paris and Versailles were recently visit
ed by q terrific gale, killing several persons
and causing great damage to property.....
A meeting in support of the Tichborne claim
ant was + ED in London the other night, a =
which the claimant and several of his adj
herents made speeches. There was much
disorder during the proceedings, and parties
in the audience who expressed disbelief in
the assertions of the alleged Sir Roger were
roughly treated by his friends and hustled
out of the hall.....The London papers pub
lish a letter from Garibaldi, in which he says
he Joined France in 1870 purely from de-
votion to democratic principles, yet he feels
q pang of sorrow because he had to fight
against those noble Germans who, in their
progress toward truth, are struggling against
the hydra of Jesuitism. He confesses with
shame that Italy is going back to the Inqui-
sition......News has been received at Berlin
from Herr Mauch, the German explorer of
Africa. He was on his way home.....Bra
I'll and the Argentine Republic rave brought
their little differences to an amicable con-
clusion by neaceable negotiation, and the
prospect of a war, which at one time was
SO threatening, has entirely disappeared.
IT is reported that employees of all the
English railway compares will strike on the
I'd of January....It is reported that Bis
marck will resign.the Presidency of the Prus-
sian Council, to devote his entire time to his
duties as Chancellor of the North German
Empire. Minister Schenck has returned
to London, after a protracted visit in South
ern Europe.
V1scoUNrEss BEAcoNsFIELD, wife of Right
Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, is dead.".-The
French National Assembly has had a long
and exciting debate over the petitions for
the dissolution of that body. The discussion
is described as the most violent and acrimo-
NOUS that has ever taken place in the AS
sembly. 1t was decided, by a vote of 400 to
201, to reject the petitions. The conflict be-
tween Theirs and the Assembly, it is be-
lieved, cannot last long, and that one or the
other must soon yield.
TIE London papers deny that Eliza Cook,
the ~well-known p~oetess, is dead. She is in
the enjoyment of excellent health--.A large
open air meeting at Stockton, England, n
favor of Fenian amnesty, was charged upon
the other day by English and Welsh, who
carried off the Irish flags, trampled them in
the mud, and broke up the meeting.
RIsMARcK has raai0nad thu Praeidancv of