Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


nor Mario, the celebrated tenor, arrived at
New York the other day.....The exact num-
Der of lives lost by the sinking of the steam
er Metis, in Long Island Sound, can never
be ascertained. Thirty bodies have been
recovered, and from fifteen to twenty per-
sons remain as yet unaccounted for...-.Over
a quarter of a million dollars worth of prop
erty was destroyed by the recent destructive
fire at Erie, Pa....John Gregory Smith
having resigned the Presidency of the
Northern Pacific railroad, George W. Cass,
of Pennsylvania, has been elected to sue
coed him.
AIKEN, the New York policeman who was
detected in the act of committing q burglary
while patroling his beat, and who confessed
to a series of similar crimes, has been sem
fenced to twenty years in the P~enitentIary.
......A New Haven, Ct, brute the other day
Drained his wife and child with an axe, and
the ncut his own throat from ear to ear. Rum
and jealousy impelled him to the horrid
deed......P Patrick Morrissey was executed at
Buffalo, last week, for the unnatural crime
Of numbering his mother. The culprit read
a confession on the scaffold, acknowledging
his guilt, attributed it to rum, and warned
those present to beware OF intoxicating
drinks and shuu evil associates....Dr.
sohoePpe has just been scquitted, on his
second trial, at Carlisle, Pa, of the charge
of numbering Miss Steinnecke. The first
trial resulted in a conviction and death
sentence....In Portland, Me-, the other
day, an infant child of Mrs. Herrick lost its
life by a cat sucking its breath while sleep
ing.
BILL ~FoRREsfEK, the suspected murderer
Of Mr.. Nathan, the New York banker, some
three years ago, was arrested in Washing
ton last week......The New York Tribune,
referring to Senator Summers departure for
Europe, says his ." illness, while serious, is
not reported dangerous. Among the incl
dents of his injuries in 1856 was an inffam-
nation of the spinal cord, the effect of blows
on the head. Out of this grew an abnormal
affection of the heart, which recurs with
o4erwork, and is only cured by rest and by
restoration. of general health "-..John v.
Gerlach was found drowned at Philadelphia,
the other day. He leaves four disconsolate
widows to mourn his death.."..The Board of
Education at Hunters Point, Long Island,
has ordered the Bible to be read in the pub
lie schools every morning, children whose
parents object to the Bible to be allowed to
remain from school until after the reading.
Tai General Council of the international
Society will hereafter have it's headquarters
in New Yerk city, and Karl Marx, the
most prominent among the International
leaders, will hencsforth reside in that city.
:....The feeling is strong among the New
York detectives and reporters that Forester,
recently arrested at Washington, is the real
murderer of Benjamin Nathan, and that a
chain of evidence will be worked up that
cannot but result in his conviction. 1.-The
statue of Sir Walter Scott, designed for
Central Park, has arrived at New York.
Dr.. SCHoEPPE, recently acquitted at Car
Isle, Pa, of the murder of Miss Steinecke,
has filed a caveat to the will of deceased.
......A box containing $40, 600 worth of coun-
terfeit notes, and plates for the manufacture
of the queer, was seized in a Brooklyn ex-
press Office the other day.
The West.
a. COLLISION occurred recently between
two passenger trains on the Lake Eric di-
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
near Independence, Ohio, resulting in the
death of five persons and the ~wounding of
twenty-eight, several of whom will probably
die of their inJuries......An affray occurred
last week in Virginia City, Cass county, ILL.,,
between C. F. Diffenbacher, Circuit Clerk,
and Edward Unlisted, in which the latter re-
ceived a mortal wound from a pistol shot.
MOSES W. FIELD, Republican candidate
for Congress, has sued the Detroit Union for
$500 worth OF SANDER.
A REPORT comes from the Indian Territory
that two rival factions of the Creek Indians
had q fight recently, in which seven were
killed and a large number wounded. The
difficulty, it is said, grew out of the election
of a negro as Chief of the nation by one of
the factions....Grea excitement has been
produced in Salt Lake upon the reported
discovery that the entire soil of Farm val
ley, near that city, is auriferous, averaging
$40 per ton. The Journal says the whole
section of land is rich with precious metals.
.....Mr. L. B. Drew died at San Francisco, a
few days since, from the effects of a cancer
produced by a friend pinching his arm Is
amputations without avail.....The news
from the West is full of accounts of Indian
depredations. A Sioux City telegram states
that a band of Indians who were eng .ged in
the tight with Maj. Baker, in the Yellow
stone Valley, recently came into the Chey-
enne Agency. They report their own loss
at eleven men killed, and Bakers loss at
over forty killed and wounded, and say he
was SO badly crippled as to be obliged to re-
turn to Fort Ellis without having accom-
plished the object of the expedition. The
redskins are still committing depredations
in Southern Utah. In Arizona the Apaches
are'o on the rampage, numbering, robbing and
stealing unfortunately. Lieuts. Riem
and Stewart have been murdered near
Tucson, and Corporal Black captured and
tortured to death.
The Texas cattle faver is spreading in
Morgan and the adjoining counties of Illi-
nois.....Hon. Samuel CALDWELL, a prominent
citizen of Peoria, ILL.,, and late Representa-
tive in the Legislature, has been adjudged
insane. The Art Exposition at Cincinnati
has been largely attended, and has proved a
grand success..-.Murder and lawlessness
have grown 30 alarmingly frequent in Chi
cage as to arouse the people of that city to
the necessity of taking some measures for
mutual protection against the assassins and
robbers that infest the town, and with that
view a call has been published, signed by
seventy of the most prominent citizens, for
an open-air meeting. Vigilance committees,
lynch law, and other strong remedies are
loudly talked of as the most effectual means
of meeting the emergency.
GEN. SHERIDAN telegraps fromDuluth, Mimi,
that tt Q Yellowstone expedition, started out
by the Northern Pacific railroad managers,
is a failure, the engineers refusing to proceed
further than the mountains of the Yellow
stone Valley, fearing an attack of Indians.
Zone of the men summoned for a juror in
the Fair trial, at San Francisco, stated to the
Court that he had been approached by a per-
son who offered him 81 1000 if he would Sc
cure a place on the jury and vote for the ac-
quittal of the accused. The briber was
promptly arrested and held to answer the
charge of contempt...... Christian Rafferty,
has been tried at Chicago for the murder of
a policeman in August last, and sentenced
to be hung.
The South.
The following letter from New Orleans