Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-18

THE Secretary of the Treasury transmit
ted a bill TO the House on Wednesday, with
recommendations that it pass, providing for
the appropriation of SCI, IVA to reimburse
Treasurer Spinner for losses incurred by
embeZzlement, etc.
Foreign.
A D1spATcH from Yeddo, dated March 26,
announces that an attempt had been made
by a party of twelve persons to assassinate
the Mikado of Japan. The efforts of the
would-be murderers proved unsuccessful.
The guards of the Mikado captured two of
the party, but the other ten escaped. This
attempted assassination caused great uneasi-
ness on the part of the Government. Orders
have been issued f~orbidding foreigners to go
beyond the limits of the city of Yeddo......
The London Echo says: Sir Travers Twiss,
whose wife mysteriously disappeared during
the examination of Chs fers upon a charge
of publishing articles defamatory of her
character, has become insane.
The city of Antioch, in Syria, has been
visited by an earthquake, causing a terrible
loss of life. One half of the city was totally
destroyed, and 1 900 persons lost their lives.
Great distress prevails in that portion of
the city that was not demolished, and the
remaining inhabitants are sadly in need of
assistance.
A LONDON letter says that the object of the
visit of the Queen to Germany, though os-
tensibly to see her half-sister, the Princess
Hohenhohe-Langeberg, is really to hush up
a scandal which threatens the royal family.
The story is that Prince Teck, son of Prince
Alexander of Wurtemburg, has been accom-
panied in his late travels by a we'll known
London actress, and that the Princess Teck,
the Princess Mary of Cambridge, who was
born in 1S43, and who is four years the
senior of her husband, was so enraged there
by that she was about to apply for a divorce,
to prevent which her Majesty went to Baden.
1.-THE Pope has refused to receive a sum
of money offered him by the italian Govern
ment. In declining the gift he declared
that when it became necessary for him to
accept aims as q means of subsistence, he
would only receive them from the Catholic
world.....M Mount Vesuvius is again in a state
of violent eruption. A column of flame
shoots several hundred feet above the crater,
and stones, ashes and cinders fall in dense
showers around the summit. Tourists are
fastening to Naples to witness the spec
tacle....Additional particulars of the recent
dreadful earthquake at Antioch represent
that the River OFontos rose and swept over
the lower portion of the city. The two
bridges across the river were carried away
and great portions of the city walls were
thrown down. Assistance is rapidly being
sent from the adjacent cities to the scene Of
the disaster.
THE Anchor line steamship Dacian, with
a cargo valued at over half a million of dol.
lars, from London for Halifax and st. John
went ashore on Tuesday morning on flint
rocas, Clam Hnrbor, about forty-fve miles
from Halifax. The crew, passengers, and
part of the cargo were saved. The vessel if
q total less......A Paris dispatch to the Lon,
don Times says that Theirs has abolished
the passport system. Henceforth travellers
will be registered at the frontiers. No tax
| will he levied theraf0r- nor will thew be
subjected to the scrutiny of the civil officers
while in the country".-.The claimant o.
the Tichborne estates appeared in court OF
Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to the
indictment against him. A writ of certio-
rari was issued removing the case to the
Court of the Queens Bench, where the
prisoner will be tried in June. Meanwhile
he is re-committed to Newgate.."..Forty'
seven thousand women of Alsaee and Lor'
raine ha We addressed a petition to Bis
marck, in which they ask that theil
fathers and sons may be exempt from ser
vice in the German army for a few years.