Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-04

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course of construction t~wenty-nine build
ings, with future plans even more extern
sive.
Washington.
ADvIcEs from the capital state that the
man Bratton, charged with murder in North
Carolina, who was recently abducted from
Canada, is to be sent back DISCRIMINATING
Secretary of the Treasury Richardson is pre-
pairing a book giving q full history of the
Treasury Department, and of all laws relat-
ing to finances and the public debt.....The
Postoffice Department is examining designs
for the postal cards under the recently en-
acted law.
IT is announced that the law providing for
the introduction of the one-cent postal cards
cannot go into effect for some time, as ar
rangements for printing the same have not
yet been completed ."..The Treaty of Wash
ington has been SO often reported lost, and
so often claimed as saved, that reports either
way have lately received but little credence.
The latest official advices from Geneva in
dictate that the treaty will not only be saved,
but that arbiti alton will proceed.
TIE reported invasion of the northern
frontier of Texas by large bodies of Indians
is discredited by the Indian Bureau.-".The
Trade Mark Convention between the United
States and the Austro-Hungarian Empire
mas De6n pIOCldlLQOu ny IL I0SlucnG,
will take effect from July %, and continue
in force ten years......W Washington news is
the effect that all controversy on the sub
ject of tie Alabama claims has ceased, and
that farther proceedings before the arbitra-
tors will go on smoothly to the end.
GEN. HowARD's delegation of Arizona scalp
snatchers called on the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs the other day, on a pretended
mission of peace....The State Department
has been notified that the American schooner
James Bliss has been captured by a Cana
dian cutter for alleged violation of the Do
minion laws, and taken into port with the
| Dominion flag hoisted over the Stars and
Stripes, the American flag being union down.
......Commissioners Brunot and Cree left
among the Indian tribes of the West, with a
view of averting, if possible, the threatened
Indian war,
Foreign.
ALEXIS has arrived in Rio Janeiro.-..Ad-
vices from Mexico state that the revolu-
tionary Generals Trevino and Quiroga have
offered to surrender their armies and treat
for peace......A band of Mexican brigands,
on June Is, made a raid into the suburbs of
Matamoras, murdered two persons, and
robbed many more.."..A woman named
Phebe Campbell was hanged June 20, in
Montreal, Canada, for the murder of her
husba Id. She met her death calmly, evin-
cling no emotion ....Advices from the West
Indies state that the German fleet bombarded
~Port-au-Prince for several hours, and board
ed and captured the Haytien fieet-all on ac-
count of the refusal of the Haytiens to pay
an alleged indemnity of SIS, 900. The Hayti
Government squared up, and the German
feet withdrew.-...The cable steamer Dacia
has not been heard of since May rs, and it
is feared she is lost......The negotiations for
the payment of the German indemnity by
the French and the withdrawal of the Ger
man troops are completed. The first pay
ment of one milliard francs is to be made
Feb. Is, 1878; the second, a smaller amount,
before the close of '73; and the third, another
milliard, during IA. The Departments of
Marine and Haute Marine are to be evacuated
as soon as SOC, 200, 900 francs have been paid,
and the present force of the army of occu-
patton will be reduced by one-third after the
payment of each milliard to Germany. The
French Government is already negotiating
for bills of exchange to the amount of
500, 000, 900 francs....The French Govern
ment has just paid to Switzerland an addi-
tional sum of 2,OO0,0 900 francs towards the
payment for expenses incurred In maintain
ing Gen. Bourbaki's army while informed in
| Switzerland The remainder of the debt
due-2,2 eO, 900 francs-wi1l be paid shortly.
...... Bancroft & Sharpe's livery stables were
burned at Montreal, June 20. Thirty-fve
horses were consmued. Loss, 100000
FRANCE is on the eve of a serious political
crisis. There has been an open rupture be-
tween Theirs and the party of tbs Right, in
the Assembly, and several members of the
Ministry, of the same way of thinking, have
rendered their designations, but, at the
earnest solicitation of the President, lave
consented to remain in the Cabinet tempo
porarily. The Deputies of the Right have
been in secret conference with the Duke
D'Aumale. The Left are quiescent, appar-
emily waiting to seize upon any advantage
that may present itself.-..It is reported
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cessfully landed her cargo of men and mu-
nitions on the Island of Cuba.....It is said
that the Spanish Ministry have declared in
favor of the separation of Church and State
in Spain.....Elic Frederic Fory, Marshal Of
France, died June 20, aged IS years..-..Mar-
guerite Dixblanc, who was sentenced to
death, in London, for the murder of her
mistress, has been repriev we'd.
THE Mexican insurgents seem determined
to make good their successes in the vicinity
of Monterey. The latest advices are that
they are strengthening the Notifications and
concentrating all their forces there. This
contradicts the report sent through Gov
eminent channels, a few days ago, that Ire
vino had proffered to treat for peacefully
Golden Club, oe London, have issued invita-
tions to the various powers throughout the
world to send representatives to an 1nterna-
tional Free Trade Congress, to be held in
the English metropolis next year.."".Gen
4 0neTuQdu was uOluR OmltZ0I1dAo d y 1dSl
ccounts......Th first account of the Ger
man bombardment of Port-au-Prince were
greatly exaggerated. Only two shots, il
seems, were fred......The DUKE of Montpen-
sier is out in a manifesto asserting the right
of Don Alphonso, son of ex-Queen Isabella
to the Spanish throne.....Mail accounts
from England give the particulars of an at
tempt made on the night of June 10 to blow
up the statue of the Prince Consort, in Mer-
rfon Square, Dublin. The explosion is de,
scribed as tremendous, shaking the whole
square. The monument was, however, but
slightly injured. A simultaneous attempt
was made to blow up the statue of the Earl
of Carlisle, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, which
also proved abortive-only the legs of the
statue being injured-...A Madrid dispatch
states that our Government has waived the
question of claiming DIR. Houard to be an
American citizon, and bases its action upon
the ground of friendly intercession in the
doctors behalf, for an amnesty to be granted
by the Spanish Government.
THE latest news from Mexico rep resents
that the Juarists, 5000 strong, were march.
ing on Matamoras, and that a decisive con.
fict was imminent.....A party of Canadian
militia, in camp at Windsor, made a raid or
Mr.. Edwin Benefits garden the other day
Mr.. B. blazed away at the depredato RS with
a doub9e-barreled shotgun, and seriously
-orolad HornOrol Telau Tho unlnntaors