Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-04

gina senate on wednesday unanimously
passed a resolution petitioning Congress to
pass a general amnesty bill...-.In the South
Carolina Legislature on Thursday the Cover
nor's friends tried to force a vote on I'M
parchment, but were defeated. This is re-
garded as a victory for the impeachers.
A GRENADA, Miss, special says Frank
Mays, colored, was hung there on Friday
for the murder of his wife with rat poison
last April. He had been respited twice by
Governor Alec n.
A MEMPHIS dispatch says: "The latest
from Chicot states that the negroes have
d~isbanded, and all but so have returned to
their homes. The so mentioned have placed
themselves under the Sheriff. No fears are
entertained as to retaliation by the whites
AT Florence, KY, on Sunday night, the
negro population had a Christmas tree at
their church. Among the visitors was a
white man, Henry Snyder, who, being in
toxicated, was disorderly. Peter Aylor, one
of the negroes, demonstrated with him,
when Snyder drew a pistol and shot him in
the head, inf1icting a wound which will
probably prove fatal. He then shot three
others, two of whom are seriously wounded
....Rev. W. c. Wallace was shot and killed
at Atlanta, Ark, on the goth, by a man
named Shelman...-.A man named Bicham,
while resisting the Sheriff, was shot and
killed in Lafayette county, Ark, on the
1Sth-...Thos Hawkins shot and killed Port
Jelton at a festive party on Christmas night
near Cowan, Ky-...The Christmas festivi-
ties at Nashville, Tenn, included two per-
sons dangerously stabbed and two danger
ously shot; five accidentally shot; nine
boys severely injured by g~unpowder explo-
sions, two dangerously; and one suicide. The
police made 1872 arrests......A fire at Macon,
Ca, on Christmas eve, destroyed four stores.
Loss about $50 900. ....Jess R. Grant, father
of President Grant, does not improve. He
fails to recognize his friends, and his recov-
cry is doubtful.
DISPATCHES from Galveston, Texas, state
that the ship Orion, having one thous-
and bales of cotton on board, was burned on
Sunday, outside of the bar, and sunk in four
fathoms of water.....The death of ex-Gov-
ernor John A. Winston, of Alabama, is an
aounced at Mobile-.-.Mrs Sturdevant, wife
of the Superintendent of the Institute for
the Blind, at Nashville, Tenn, lost her life
Tuesday night by the explosion of a ~coal-oil
lamp"....The steamship Florida, from New
Orleans for Apalachicola, sprung a leak and
sunk in the Gulf of Mexico on December %.
The officers and crew took to the boats, and
landed 20 miles east of Mobile Point. John
Reid, colored, was drowned by the swapping
of a boat in the surf. Value of the vessel,
$4,000; no insurance.
Washington.
LATE advices from officers in charge of the
Apache Indians state that one-half of these
Indians nave come into the different camps
and are now at peace.....Society gossip has
it that the obese and jolly Secretary of the
Navy is to marry the dashing widow Aulick,
relict of the late Commodore.
On Saturday evening, at Louisville, KY,
Mrs. Charles Wisert brutality murdered her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Lorner, an old lady of
IS, literally cutting her to pieces with a
Ratchet. No cause is known for the deed.
TIE pressure fer appointment to positions
in the Government service has been much
greater since the adoption by the President
of the rules prepared by the Civil Service
Commission than at any time within the
memory of men now living. Nearly every
member of Congress has a candidate on
hand for some ofice......T There is due this
Government by that of Columbia $107, 000,
being the balance of the awards under the
conventions of 1857 and 1864. No payment
has been made since 1868. The Columbian
Minister wants an extension of time Jour
years, as his Government is bankrupt.
John l.. Glenn, the drummer boy of Shiloh,
has been appointed to a Second Lieutenantcy
in the Oath infantry.
GEN. SWEET, of Illinois, has entered upon
his duties as First Deputy Commissions OF
Internal Revenue.....The Secretary of the
Treasury on Wednesday commenced the
payment without rebate of the interest due
the LIST of January on United States bonds.
Foreign.
IT was the British ship Windsor Castle
which ran down the French bark Costa
Rica. Her officers deny that they heard
cries of distress from he Costa RIGA.
1.-The steamer Delaware, which sailed this
week from Liverpool for Calcutta, wa
totally lost on Wednesday off Scilly Islands
All on board are supposed to have persisted.
..... Count Won Beust presented his creden-
tials as English Ambassador from Austria al
Windsor Castle on Observation-Disclosures
Eugene has arrived at southampton from
Spain..-.The Messenger, official organ of the
Russian Government, announces the removal
of Minister Catacazy from Washington
owing, it says, to personal difficulties which
might prejudice the good relations existing
between Russia and the United States"....Ar
imperial ukase makes compulsory the use o.
the Russian language in the schools in Po-
land Bismarck has sent a dispatch tc
Baron Won Arnim, German representative a
Paris, setting forth the feeling of exaspera-
ton caused in Germany by the outrage!
perpetrated on her soldiers in France. He
threatens to seize hostages in the occupied
provinces unless thea ssassins in future whC
escape into neighboring provinces are de
livered up. to the German officers by the
French authorities, and declares unless
these horrible outrages cease, the army o
occupation shall be increased, and the ex
penses and burden of its support, which i
> paid by France, doubled. Letters from
South America state that an earthquake &C
) Cured at the town of Oran, lasting min
hours, with forty different shocks. TIL
streets were split open and every house tum
bled into ruins. The inhabitants all fled t
: camps outside the town.
E THE Prince of Wales was again reporte'
, worse on Friday.....The Imperial Commit
: tee of the French Assembly has rejected
: proposition for the return to Paris.....Th
Roman Catholic Bishops of the Netherland
nave united in a memorial to the King pray
ing him not to discontinue the Dutch lega
j ton at the Vatican.....The statement j
S made on credible authority that the forth
coming Austrian budget will show a surplu
of q, O0O, 1000 forms receipts over the expendi
lures for the year, instead of a deficit as an
ticipated......The recent dispatch from Bis
marck to Baron Won Armin excites tn
? French to renewed bitterness AGAINST Ger
many. The tone of the journals generally j
one of indignation.
THEIRS delivered a powerful speech in tn
D French National Assembly on Tuesday i
, opposition to levying an income tax.-..Th
Germans have seized a prominent citizen G
: the town of Revin in the department of tn
a A~rdennes, because of the troubles betwee
9 the Bavarian troops quartered there and tn
French people.....It is announced that tn
I Germans are making a census of the DriYat