Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-27

year.....Si cases of sunstroke in Chicago on
June l9.....A comet-the tail of which is
described by the telegraph as ga wavy, lu-
minous and rose-eolored vapor"-was seen
by the San Franciscans ON the night of
June Is. 1t moved rapidly, and soon disap-
peared.
NEAR Des Moines, Iowa, on June 20, a
young man named Allen was fatally sun
struck while blowing in the feld.....Nea
Golden City, Col, last week, Mrs. Graham
and her child were drowned in Cedar creek,
by the upsetting of a buggy"-..A Manistee,
Mich, whisky mob of some $50 persons last
week made an attack on the house of DR..
Ruggles, an ardent temperance reformer,
and, but for the protection afforded by a
strong squad of police, would probably have
dealt roughly with him.....Som Buffa-
lonians found a set of burglars tools some
where in the vicinity of the custom house,
on June 20, and think they have frustrated
a scheme to rob the Government depository.
The South.
ADvIcEs from the northern frontier of
Texas represent that the Indians, variously
estimated at from 1900 to 10000, had made
an incursion into that State, and were over
running Young, Jack, Denton and Parker
counties. The settlers were filled with con-
sternation and alarm, and were fleeing in
every direction. The Indians declare their
intention of marching to Huntsville, to
liberate the chiefs Saboula and Big Tree,
confined in the Penitentiary there. Every
thing indicates that a big Indian war is at
hand. A Washington telegram announces
that the Secretary of the Interior has undo
advisement a proposition submitted to Presi-
dent Grant by a delegation of Texans for
the Cancellation of these tribes depredating
on the Texas frontier-which is, in sub
stance, that the Government release one of
the two ~chiefs-Saboula and Big Tree-now
confined in the Texas P~enitentiary for life,
a-l 1o-l hT-n ar.o-~ H. k-1h a - -4-0HIafA
terms of peace-the Government to retain
the other chief as a hostage. This plan was
proposed by the Indians themselves, and it
is probable it will be adopted.-..An eight
hour league has been formed in st. Louis.
THE Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road is finished, and trains are running to
McAlis ter, 10S miles north of Sherman, and
the grading and masonry are completed 80
miles further. Gamblers and desperadoes,
who had followed and given SO much trouble
to the railroad men, have been effectually
driven away by the military.
A CONVENTION in the interest of narrow
gauge railroads convened in st. Louis on
June 10, and was largely attended..-.The
captain of a steamer has been fined by a
Baltimore court for refusing frst-class ac-
commodations to a colored passenger.
The bodies of 71s Confederate soldiers, dis-
inferred at Gettysburg, recently, were rein
lAJcIISu az 11Olly "OOO ulS 1siChuIOAuI
Va, on June 20, amid most impressive and
solemn funeral ceremonies. .....Logan H.
Roots. United States Marshal for the West
ern District of Arkansas, has been suspended
from Office for alleged malfeasanee.
Washington.
THE War Department has ordered all avail
able troops to the plains, to look after the
hostile Indian tribes......Th smallpox is on
the increase in Washington.
The United States and Japan are nego-
tiating a new commercial treaty--..The in
ternal revenue receipts for the fiscal year
up to June Is were over $25 ,000, 000....The
President and nearly all the Cabinet officers
attended the Boston Jubilee.
The internal revenue officials say that
the increase of the whisky tax in the last
three years over the the previous three
years, will foot up nearly $50, ZOO, OO0......Th
following item of interest to tobacconists is
telegraphed from Washington On and after
July l, 1872, every person who sells, or
offers for sale, manufactured tobacco, snuff,
or cigars, except manufacturers of those
articles, who sell only their own products at
the place of production, will be required to
pay a special tax at the rate of SIS per an
mum, without regard to the amount of his
annual sales. The exemption of persons
whose annual sales do not exceed $1eO is
repealed by the new law.
The President returned to the capital on
June 10, and in the afternoon was in con-
sultation with his Cabinet Ministers. A
telegram ~oun that e" the indian situa-
tion was discussed, and much solicitude ex-
pressed concerning the unhappy condition
of affairs on the frontiers, the peace policy
being reluctantly regarded as a failure, and
much anxiety being felt as to the necessity
existing for the Inauguration of vigorous
measures for the suppression of the Indian
outrages, which are arlarmingly frequent"
ADv1cEs 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 there......Acting
Secretary of the Treasury Richardson is pre-
pairing a book giving a full history of the
Treasury Department, and of all laws relat-
ing to finances and the public debt....The
Postofhce department is examining designs
for the postal cards under the recently en-
acted law.
Foreign.
HE tribunal for the arbitration of the
Alabama claims met in Geneva, Switzerland,
Saturday, June Is. All the members
were present, consisting of Count Sclopis,
representing the King of Italy, President of
the court; Charles Francis Adams, on the
part of the United States; Alexander Cock
burn, representing Great Britain; Jacob
M representative OF the SWISS Gov
and Baron D~'1tajuba, representing
the Emperor of Gen. Sherman and
Lieut.. Fred. Grant are in Paris......In Eng
land, the weather is fair, and favorable to
crops.....The new Spanish Cabinet promise
a vigorous prosecution of the war in Cuba.
-.~...Fifty-fve persons were killed, and a
large number wounded, by the explosion of
the boilers of a Spanish steamer in the port
of Marseilles, On June 16.
A PARIS correspondent writes of Marshal
Bazaine, in prison at Versailles, that, with
The exception of a few relatives and intimate
personal friends, nearly everybody holds
aloof from the unfortunate Marshal..-.Sev-
Communists lave been so far sem
to death, 212 to hard labor for life,
8 ,794 to transportation, and 1852 to lesser
grades of punishment; Zip lave been ac-
quilted REV Norman Mcleod, leader of
the Scottish Church, is dead.....The extern
sive cotton mills in the town of Warrington,
in Lancashire, have been burned; loss,
900. 1.-The bill depriving the member
of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) of the rights
Of citizenship has passed it's second reading
in the German Parliament-yees, 1888 nays,
1O1......The 26th anniversary of the accession
of the Pope to the pontifical chair was cele-
with great pomp at Rome on Monday,
Tuna I A da1aoofion Of I 000 rapraaautinO