Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-18

titled his belief thai Ketchum was not
poisoned by tartar emetic, and DR.. John R.
McClurg, of Westchester, Pa, testified that
the death of Ketchum was the result OF
purely natural causes.
In the Wharton murder trial at Annapo-
lis, on Tuesday, Prof. White testifed that
the tests establishing the presence of poison
in Ketchum's stomach were insufficient.
Other medical experts were examined, but
nothing of Importance was adduced....Gen.
Halleck died at his residence, in Louisville,
KY, on Tuesday evening, of congestion of
the brain, su~perinduced by disease of the
liver, with which he had been afflicted for
some time......The difficulty between Gov.
Warmoth's friends and the Carter faction in
the Louisiana Legislature, is becoming seri-
Gus. A regiment of Federal troops,
with cannon, were stationed near the
State House, on Tuesday, to repel a
threatened attack from the Lafayette Square
mob. The State House is filled with armed
police, the militia are in the armories, and
two hundred citizens have been mustered as
militia guard at the Governors ofice.-...W.
R. Wheyland, a member of the Lower House,
was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon,
while at tempting to prevent the arrest of a
brother member
A COLUMBIA Is. c. letter states that the
defense in the Ku-Klux cases is entirely
broken down, and those implicated are fee
ing. The Khan is most effectually broken
up.....Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, issued
another proclamation on Wednesday order
ing the Carter faction to desist from further
proceedings, and commanding the members
to return to their seats in the General As
sembly.
Washington.
GEN. BABcocK, of the Presidents staff, ha
written a letter to the R-etrenchment C mn
mittee asking that they make a most
rigid investigation into the charges
made against him of participating in the
profits of the general-order business of the
New York Custom House, and he takes the
liberty to suggest that the witnesses be ex-
mine exclusively by the Democratic Nom
Brown, an agricultural chemist of Indianap-
oils, Ind, has accepted the position of chem
list of the Agricultural Department rendered
him by Commissioner Watts.
THE action of the Senate in legislating ad-
versely to the admission of six Japanese
as cadets to the West Point Military
Academy has induced the Japanese Minister
to visit Senators and urge them to recon-
votes. The Japanese Government
proposes to pay all the expenses of the
and only desires to send them to
West Point because they believe it is the best
military school in the country. Most of the
Senators object to admitting foreigners to
the institution on account of its being SO
bad a p~recedent.-..Mr. Williams the newly
appointed Attorney General, formally as
sumed charge of the Department of Justice
observation-disclosures Alexande r n.
Semmes, of the navy, has been found guilty
of cruel punishment, abuse of official power,
ing an officer and a gentleman, and SEN
fenced to be suspended for three years, and
in general orders by the Secre-
tary of the Navy.
Foreign.
TRE ship Spirit, of London, which sailed
this week from Liverpool to San Francisco,
was driven on the rocks off HoIyhead, and
is a total wreck. Only five of her crew es-
capped ......Gen. Andrew Porter, formerly of
the United States army, died at Paris on
.hursday.....A st. Petersburg letter says
the unfriendly feeling toward Germany
has quieted down in Russia. Sympathy for
France, too, has greatly died out. This is
said to be partly due to the Theirs Govern
and partly to the conduct of the
themselves. The execution of Ros-
created an unpleasant impression in
Russia.
VAUrRAIN has defeated Victor Hugo for
the French Assembly by a large majority
1.-THE British Government having refused
to help the Royal Geographical Society to
organize an expedition to search for DIR.
Livingstone, the Society row appeals to the
people for assistance. Great efforts are being
to start the expedition next month
THE ex-Emperor Napoleon, on New
Years day, is reported to have said: "I will
give Theirs six months of the Presidency of
the French Republic, and at the end of that
time Gambetta will be in his place, and the
change will be favorable to the Imperial
cause."--..Jos. elliott, the steel-pen manu-
facturer, is dead.
LONDON journals, in articles on the assas-
s~ination of Fisk, cite the cases of Richard-
SON and Crittenden, and attribute the fire.
luency of such cases to the peculiar civili-
zation of America. They denounce the laxi,y
Of public entiment......1 is said Napoleon
will soon publish a historical work, in which
startling revelations will be made in regard
10 the French military system during the
late war..-..A private letter from Messina,
Italy, Dec. g., says almost every city in Italy
IS infected with the small pox.....A Bombay
etter to the New York Herald says that an
expedition of 10000 troops had been
tent thence to s~ubjugate the natives on the
northwestern frontier of India.
THE captain of the ship Windsor Castle,
ran down a vessel in the English
channel, and who was reported to have
passed on without needing the cries of the
mariners, has been acquitted of
III blame......1t is announced that the Pope
will shortly send an ultimatum to the Roman
;atholic Bishops who have not accepted the
of infallibilty.