Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-09-12
NEWS OF TIL WEEK.
The East.

A1Ebb OOSEfHlNb MAhSFlELDS EHIIu
YVES sold at auction in New York, the other
day, and attracted a large crowd. The furni-
ture and trinkets, which originally cost S20,-
600, realized only $4,000 1.-THE New York
Herald v~ehemently denies the imputations
OF fraud cast upon Stanley's discovery of
Livingstone, and gives evidence of former
correspondents of the great explorer, who
testify to their belief in the genuineness OF
the letters purporting to come from him......
Michael Sanford, of Madison, N !, while
beating his wife, was shot and killed by his
son Melvin, a few days ago."..FrancIs W.
Moroneyz a poor s~tone-cuttcr of New York
city, has just fallen heir to an estate valued
at $500 900, in county Glare, 1relaud......
The buff 10 hunt by Indians, at Niagara
Falls, last week, commenced with a war
dance by the Indians. Four buffaloes were
then chased around the park, the Indians
firing showers of arrows, many of which
landed among the crowd of spectators. A
number of roughs broke down the incIosure,
when the buffaloes were recaptured and
housed for anothe exhibition.
By a collision in Long Island Sound be-
tween the steamer Metis, from New York
for Providence, and an unknown sailing
vessel, the steamer was badly stove, and
sank Immediately, causing the loss of nearly
one hundred lives. The Inflated vessel had
on board, including officers and crew, about
$50 William Scha&er, recently of
Chicago, who lost his fortune by the great
~ AASy IL oS10NI
City, a few days ago. a brother of the
deceased destroyed himself from the same
cause, q short time ago".-.The attempt of
the New York Sun to prove Stanley a fraud
has signally failed. The credibility of the
HerGld's enterprising correspondent is still
further fortified by the testimony of Prof.
E. R. STRANGELY, Recording Secretary OF
the American Geographical Society, who has
addressed a letter to the Herald, in which
he says: "I have compared the original
letter of DR.. David Livingstone, addressed
to James Gordon Bennett, ESQ.,, Jr., with an
original letter of DIR. Livingstone, dated
River Shire, in Africa, Jan. 6, 1862, and adj
dressed to the President of the American
Geographical Society, and / do not hesitate
to pronounce the handwriting of those two
letters to be identical" From the follow
ing note, picked up on the beach at Marble
head, Mass, it would seem that James Cor
don Bennett, Jr.'s, celebrated yacht Daunt-
less has been lost, together with all on
board ~"Sinking, and all on board likely
to be lost. Longitude Z deg. 20 min lati-
tude AZ deg. AZ min. Yacht Dauntless,
Aug 29.'
HUNTERS PoINT, L. l., has had another
destructive fire, involving a loss of $500, 900
worth of property.--New York had 6Ss
deaths for the week ending Sept. 1.....Ad-
vices have been received at New York of
the burning of the steamship Bienville, en-
route from that city to Aspinwall, with 127
persons on board, the most o. whom escaped
in boats and RATS, and were picked up by
passing vessels. One of the boats, with mine
persons on board, capsized, and all were
drowned. Thirty of the passengers remain
as yet unaccounted for, the majority of
whom, it is feared, are lost.....Alber ThaBe,
a well-known.base-pall player, and a member
of the Brooklyn Atlantic Club, was drowned
the other day, at Fort Hamilton, N. Y,
while fshing.-...Ths loss of life by the
steamer Metis disaster, in Long island
Sound, was not so great as at first reported,
4ho nnnnhnr n0- hai-- a11an - o
The reported loss of the yacht Dauntless
was a New York Sun canard ...... Manton
Marble, of the New York World, who has
been heretofore reported hopelessly i'll, is
fast recovering, and will shortly resume his
editorial labors.
ABOUT thirty lives were lost by the burn
ing of the steamship Bienville, between
Aspinwall and New Melville
Sandford, the young mau who, a few days
ago, at Madison, N. j., shot and killed his
father, while in the act of assaulting his
mother with a knife, has been honorably ac-
quilted by the Coroner's jury, on the ground
of excusable .John Livingstone,
of Canada, brother of the African traveller,
adds his testimony to the.genuineness of the
letters purporting to come from DIR. Living
stone, and explains the presence of the
curious expressions in those letters by the
fact that the explorer was always fond of
INDUCING in humorous and quaint savings.
Keemski, an exiled Polish
nobleman committed suicide at New York,
the other day.-..Henry Quackenbush, of
Hackensack, N. Y, a boy of II years, fell
in love with a girl several years his junior,
and, because the child refused to marry him,
on the ground of their extreme youth, the
respondent lover committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head.
A WELSH paper printed in New York says
Stanley's real name is job Rowland, and
that he is a native of Denbigh, North Wales.
EX-SENATOR Sumner sailed from Boston for
Europe last week......A whole family, con-
sisting of five persons, while crossing the
track of the Long Island IN. " railroad in
a carriage, recently, were run over by a
train and instantly killed.
The West.
Mrs. NARY KEEP, of Chicago, is having
over the grave-of her late husband
Formerly President of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad) a splendid mauso-
leum, to cost $780, ....Track-laying has
been commenced on the Dakota South ern
railroad, between Sioux City and Yankton,
and will be pushed forward at the rate of a
a day.
AMAN named William Swager has been
on the charge of numbering Kane
near Chicago. There is strong
tending to show his guilt......A
SAPSO ~O GIL |
organized in San Francisco....A San Fran
cisco telegram announces that the subscrip-
to the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
have reached $1.62s, geo .....John B. Lyon,
The chief manipulation in the late wheat cor
ner, has been summarily expelled from the
Board of Trade. The universal
is, i" Served him right."......Nea
Columbus, Ohio, the other day, Michael
in a fit of insanity, superinduced by
whisky and Jealousy, murdered his wife by
'hooting her three times with a pistol, and
hen blew his own brains out......A slight
rost-the first of the season-visited some
of Northern Illinois on the night of
Aug. 80.
A MODERN Borgia by the name of Mrs.
Lamb has been arrested in Pierce
Wis, on a charge of poisoning five
ersons-....A Pittsburgh telegram announces
les that the Western Nail and Iron Associa-
ions lave decided to raise the price of iron
A per ton, and nails rs cents per keg.....
from Camp Mcdowell, Arizona, ]
tate that every Indian has left the reser- ]
alton there, and that d~epredations are
DING on in every direction. Meanwhile the
roops, in accordance with the peace policy,
re lying idle in camp, while the work of l
'illa6e and murder goes on......The Cali ,
ornia, Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com L
any, having in view the constructor of the 7
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