Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-14

SANDY BRADLEY, while intoxicated, was
run over and killed on Monday night, near
Fountain Read, Sumner county. Tenn, by
a train on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad--...A Macon [Ga.) dispatch says
the Planters Bank, of Fort Valley, was
robbed on Monday night of $4,000 in cur
rency and S 1000 in specis......On Monday
evening, Col. Lonham, a prominent lawyer
OF Paris, Tenn, was shot and instantly killed
in a difficulty at Henry Station, Tenn.
A RALE1eH IN. CO. dispatch says that in
telligence had been received there of the
killing of Henry Berry Lowery, the chief of
the Robson county outlaws, by his brother
the deed, reporting in person to the authori-
ties. The Roanoke Ne1Os doubts the informa-
ton, and thinks it a mere russ to enable
Lowery to evade the officials, who are now
organizing for his capture.-..Alsxander
Moseley, editor of the Richmond Wing, and
James c. Southall, editor of the Enquirer,
were arrested on Wednesday to prevent an
anticipated hostile meeting; They were
both placed under bonds of $1,000 to keep
the peace.
OK Monday evening at Courtland Station,
on the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad,
the stores of Simpson & Hunt and NJ. G.
Hall & Co. were destroyed by fire. Loss
500, 900 /; insured for $15,OOO......The upper
stories of the buildings 1874 and 166 Canal
street, New Orleans, burned on Thursday
morning. The buildings were occupied by
Wagner & Meyer, Ernest & Pragst, and Dol
haus's Commercial College. Loss estimated
at 800, 900.
Washington.
STOKES, of Tennessee, was sentenced on
Friday, and escaped with a fine of 1900
and costs. The fee he received for working
the fraudulent claims through Congress was
$40, 900, and the real fraud upon the Gov
eminent was between 100000 and 100000.
The evidence elected on the trial was uni
versally regarded in official circles as show
ing one of the blacklist cases of corruption
which was ever brought to light in Wash
ington Courts....Gsne Howard has been
charged to proceed to Arizona to eport pom
the pending troubles with the Apache lndl-
ans, and will start soon.
The japanese Embassy reached Washing
ton on Thursday afternoon. They will
occupy fifty rooms of the Arlington Hotel,
and two entire buildings on the opposite
side of Vermont avenue.
THE Japanese Embassy were presented to
the President on Monday, and a compli-
mentary speech was made by the japanese
Minister, introducing the Embassy, followed
by an address from Iwakura, and a response
by President Grant. Members of the Cabinet
were present, with all the army and naval
dignitaries in full uniform, together with
Vice President Colfax, Speaker Blaine, etc.
THE Government on Monday night gave a
grand reception to the Japanese Embassy
at the Masonic Temple. About 1,40O per-
sons were present, including Vice President
Colfax, Speaker Blaine, Secretary Fish, the
Judges of the Supreme Court, and others.
The President did not attend.
5EN. R. W. HEALY, United States Marshal
at Montgomery, Ala, has applied to Attor-
ney General Williams for troops to aid him
in arresting the parties indicted at the late
term of the United States District Court
held at Montgomery for K outrages.
The Attorney General recommends to the
Secretary of Wal that the necessary troops
be furnished.
Foreign.
THE directors of the Great Rhenish Mu-
steal Festival, to be held next summer at
Dusseldorf, have engaged Madame Parepa-
Rosa as the principal selo vocalist......Two
hundred and twenty-nine persons were in
iured in London on the occasion of the
thanksgiving celebration, but only two ia
taIly......A building in which a large num-
Der of persons resided fell on Friday morn
ing, at Frankfort, burying the inmates in
the ruins. Fourteen corpses have thus far
been taken from the debris.
1t is believed that the Pope meditates de-
parting from Rome at an early day. The
archives and jewelry in the vatican are
being securely packed so as to be in readi-
ness for removal. 1t is said that he will go
to the city of Trent, in the Tyrol.
THE operatives in the fax mills of Leeds
nave struck for a reduction of their time and
labor to nine hours per day. The number
of persons on strike is estimated between
$1,000 and II 1000.
PoUYER QUERT1ER, the French Minister of
Finance, has resigned. M. Goulard, the
present Minister of Agriculture, has been
appointed his successor temporarily......The
Upper House of the Austrian Reichsrath has
passed the Compulsory Election bill pre-
viously adopted by the Lower House......It
has been ascertained from official sources
that Austria has made no offer of asylum to
the Pope, and reports that His Holiness in
tends to leave Rome are discredited at
Vienna.
In the celebrated Tichborne case in Lon
don, on Wednesday,, the counsel for the
claimant announced that his client had de-
cided to withdraw his cause from before the
court. After the announcement, the de-
Tense asked for the arrest of the claimant on
a charge of perjury, and that bail be fxed
at 100000. A warrant was issued for his
arrest accordingly. The claimant was not
present at court, and it was believed that
he had hed......Queen Victoria has presented
her groom, John Brown, with a gold medal,
and granted him an annuity of $4,000, for
his promptness in arresting O'Connor, when
he assaulted her Majssty-...M. Stanton,
editor of lie Corsaire, fought a duel in Paris
on Wednesday, with M. Rogat, of LIE Pays.
The latter was twice ounded......T dona-
tions granted by the Emperor on the ami
versary of his entry into Paris, have given
rise to much comment on account of the
largeness of the sums disposed of. 1t is said
that Prince Charles, Gems. Moltke, Room,
and Manteuffel, and the Duke of Bavaria
received each 300 200 thalsrs; Gen. Goeben
and Minister Delbruck 200 1000; twelve
others $4,000 each, and that Gems. Fabrice
and Blumenthal, and others, were prspor-
tionately remembered.