Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Stamp Department of the Sub-Treasury at
New York, is a dofaulter to the amount of
$500 900, and has fed the country.
CHARLES O'CoNoR positively declines to
allow the use of his name in connection with
the Mayoralty of New York city.
A. II. STEWARD refuses to permit himself
to be run for Mayor of New York.....The de-
falcation in the Sub-Treasury at New York
is said to be not less than $1s5 900.
OVER the Prospect Fair Grounds course,
New York, the mare Huntress has Just &C
comDlished the most extraordinary ~trotting
feat on record. A purse of 81 900 was offered
to any horse that would beat the famous
Dutchman's time, 1924, in a dash of three
miles. Huntress accomplished the three
miles in 7:214, beating Dutchman's time III
seconds. She trotted the first mile in 2:2S,
the second milo in 2:26, and the third in
2;264. She dashed up the home stretch the in
last mile under a strong pull, and did not
seem at all distressed at the termination of
the race. What added to the wonderful per-
Torrance of Huntress over Dutchman is the
fact that the mare trotted in harness while
Dutehman trotted under the saddle and was
ridden by the great horseman Hiram Wood
ruff.
FORESTER, the alleged murderer of Benja
min Nathan, at New York, has been dis
charged, there not cling sufficient evidence
to warrant his detention on the charge. He
Is now held to await a requisltion from Gov.
Palmer, of Illinois, he being indebted to
that State to the extent of some thirteen
years penal servitude. .....A steam canal-boat
has just made the trip through from Buffalo
to New York, via the Erie canal, in five
days less time than the usual horse loco
motion.
The movement toward shutting down the
oil wells, SO far as to decrease the production
of petroleum, which was agitated some time
ago and proved unsuccessful, has been re-
vived, and it is thought the move will be
successfully carried out this time. The ex-
cessive production, which has reached over
$4,000 barrels a day, has caused prices to de-
cline SO low as to render the business un-
Prohtable......A fierce riot recently occurred
at Clinton, N. J., between two bands of Irish
and negro railroad laborers. One Irishman
and three negroes were killed, and several
wounded...."Ex-Mayor Kalbfeish, one OF
Brooklyn's wealthiest and most prominent
citizens, has been tued by Mrs. Mary
Frances Wade, a dashing widow, for breach
of promise of marriage.
The West.
THE value of all the property in Illinois,
as fixed by the Board Of Equalization, is
$50, 900, oOO."..Quincy, ILL.,, has been agi-
e-mysterious disappearance OF
two young girls.-..Forty-two G inese chill
dren, from Z to 20 years old, recently left San
Francisco for New Haven, CT, to be edu-
cated..-The steamer s.. s. Merrill has been
burned on the Mississippi river, at Warsaw,
Ill. No lives lost.
Two new national banks have been au-
thorized to bu inessin Chicago.
1.-THE Mormon papers are much excited
over the disc. osures concerning the Noun
tain Meadows massacre......A convic in the
Illinois Penitentiary, at Joliet, recently COM
mitted suicide by drowning himself in the
canal.
MISS PHOEBE CoUzzINs and Miss Snow have
been admitted. to practice in the District
Court, at Salt Lake City.....The New York
papers containing the expose of the Mountain
Meadow massacre commanded from $3.50 to
So per copy in Utah. 1t has produced a
great sensation throughout the Territory.
The Apache chiefs on the Dale Greek reser-
walton, in Arizona, were detected, recently,
in an attempt to sneak off on the war path.
Gen. Crook, with a guard, tried to arrest
them, and was fred upon by 400 or 500
Indians. The fire was returned, killing 80
OF the red cevils, whereupon the whole party
He'd to the mountains, pursued by two COM
panies cavalry.
HELENA, Montana. had a sharp snow
storm on the I'D ofseptember......Th The Texas
cattle fever is raging in Morgan and Scott
counties, Ill. Hundreds of cattle have been
carried of, and the disease defies all tire at
ment....Chicago has been agitatsd by another
cold-blooded murder, the victim this time
being a printer in the employ of the Times,
who was shot down, without any apparent
provocation, while quietly walking the street
at the hour of midnight, by some unknown
rufian".-..The landlord of a Dubuqe (Iowa)
hotel recently endeavored to carry out the
provisions OF the Civil Rights bill by adj
uniting q colored guest to the common table.
The high-toned waiter girls rebelled, and re
fused to serve the sable guest, wereupon they
were summarily dismissed. August Mellow
ell, ST., of the firm of Mcdowell & Co., the
Oldest carpet house in st. Louis, is dead.
A HEAVY snow-sterm is reported all along
the Union Pacific railroad, from Cheyenne
westward..... Robert West,of Kendall county
ILL.,, suspecting an improper intimacy be-
tween his comedy wife and a neighbor
named Mark Newberry, left his home one
morning, recently, with his gun, telling his
family he was going on a two days hunting
excursion. In the evening, while Newberry
and Mrs. West were engaged in a social
game ofcards, the jealous husband, who had
concealed himself during the day about the
premises, stealthily crept up to the window
and deliberately shot Newberry in the back,
killing him. The murderer then went to a
magistrate and surrendered himself.
The South.
PATTON ANDERSON, a Major General in the
Confederate army, died recently at Mem
phis--.:In Elizabethtown, KY, a few days
ago, a man named Hall quarreled with a ne
gro, whom he struck with a small rattan
cane, producing almost instant death.
Hon. GARRETT DAVIS, United States Sen
ator from Kentucky, died at his r sidence in
that State, Sept. %, of gangrenous affection
of the lungs. Mr.. Davis was over IL years
of age, aud had served in tho Senate since
186l.-..A shooting ARRAY, growing out of a
political discussion, occurred in a hotel at
Columbia, s. c., a few days ago, resulting in
the killing of an ex-Confederate officer
named Caldwell, who was endeavoring to
separate the cembatants. Major Morgan, of
Connecticut, another peace-maker, was
dangerously wounded.
Washington.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL, in his
forthcoming report, will urge upon Congress
the adoption of the postal telegraph system.
......1t is r mored that trouble is brewing
between the United States and Mexico,
growing out of the Rio Grande outrages, and
1T is said if the latter Government does not
soon evince a disposition to act in better
faith an open rupture will take place.