Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-12-26
OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Ar Co1umbiana, Pa, last week, a demon
named Eben Porter, in a fit of insanity, SUI
perinducsd by liquor, murdered his two
babes, aged respectively one and three years,
by Draining them with a hatchet--..A Bos-
ton dispatch hat an opening has
been effected into the central shaft of the
Hoosic tunnel, and that workmen have
passed from one section to the other......Two
other wills of Mr.. Greeley nave been I'M
earthed-one bearing date of 1857, and the
other of 1851.
EDWIN FORREST leaves his entire property,
including his wardrobe and valuable library,
to be used for the foundation of a Home for
Disabled Dramatic Artists. Sixty acres of
ground within the limits ofPhiladelphia have
been mad over to the corporation of the
city for this purpose......It is now known
that Mr.. Greeley left no less than five wills,
dated respectively in 1859, 1861, 1858, 1871
aud 1S72-..,.The trustees of the New York
Tribune held a meeting the other day every
member being present, at which the Colfax
proposition was brought forward by
Mr.. Samuel Sinclair. 1t received the sup
port of only himself and one other, six out of
the eight trustees opposing it, sustaining Mr..
Reid's conduct of the paper, and urging that
he be etained, with no instruction save to
continue carrying out the policy of Mr.. Gree
ley's card. It was settled that no change
would be made in the policy of the paper as
Mr.. Greeley left it, without change in the
RIOpEI0bOI5ulp. nnEs o1AC4dI
then went to work to make up a pool of out
side stockholders to sell the controlling in
terest. 1t is understood that he, with DIR.
j. Q. Aver, and the representatives of the
estates of one or two deceased proprietors,
not including Mr.. Greeley,s, AVE nearly or
quite made up the 81 shares needed, and
propose selling at the rate of 81, 000, 900 to a
combination representing the telegraph and
Administration interests.
The Italians of New York are fercely de-
nouncing the home government for permit
ting the emigration of so many of its poor to
this country-.....The Chicago and Rock
Island Railroad Company has notified the
NewYork Stock Exchange of their in
tention to issue $4,000 shares of new stock.
1.-THE contest for the control of the New
York ITlbnne has resulted in the discount
ture of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, and the triumph
of MI. Sinclair. The former offered Mr..
Sinclair a large price fer his thirty-two
shares of the stock, but he refused to sell.
Then Mr.. Reid offered for sale certain shares
owned by parties in his interest, and Mr..
Sinclair at once purchased them. Mr.. Reid
t~hereupon retired from the editorship, leav-
ing the Tribune under the management d
interim of Mr.. Misunderstanding bloody
murder has been added to the frightful repu-
tation which New York is rapidly acquiring
as the foremost homicidal city in the country.
The other evening two ~well-known lottery
dealers-John Simmons and Nicholas n.
Duryea-engaged in a desperate struggle in
a crowded thoroughfare. Simmons sue
ceeded in throwing his antagonist, and,
drawing a large knife, proceeded to stab and
carve him in a most horrible manner. The
murderer fled, but was subsequently, ar
rested.
A F1END named Terrence Donlan is under
arrest in New York for roasting his infant
son to death on a red-hot stove.... Over 1000
Italian .emigrants are under the
care of the New York Board of Emigration.
1.-THE trial of Stokes, for the murder of
James Fisk, began in New York last week.
His counsel are confident of his acquittal......
It is settled beyond all doubt that Schuyler
Colfax is to become editor-in- chief of tho
New York Tribune. Also that Samuel Sin
clair, present publisher, has sold Is out of
his 20 shares, and therefore has no longer
controlling power, except IN so far as he acts
in accord with the interests represented by
VIM. Orion.
The West.
A PARTY of medical students at Cleveland,
Ohio, a short time ago, in making a raid on
q cemetery for " subjects unfortunately ex-
humed the corpse of a smallpox victim.
r esult-Sever tudents down with the dis
ease, and a general panic in the college......
Miss Keesling, of Logansport, Ind, has just
kindled her last fire. She used kerosene.
TOLEDO was visited by a disastrous conda.
grafton on the 18th, over $3.50, 900 worth of
property being destroyed, upon which there
was an insurance of $150,0O8.....Gen. Crook
is prosecuting the war vigorously against the
Apaches in Arizona, having
already slain over 100 of the dusky devils
since he commenced the campaign. He de-
clares his policy is to follow these savages
constantly, and hunt them down in every
direction .....Chief of Police McGraw, OF
Quincy, ILL.,, was recently shot by a desperate,
and owes his life to the fortunate circum-
kI-k -
ped the pistol ball aimed at his heart. Go
and buy q watch.
GEN. JOHN McARrHuR will succeed Col.
as Postmaster at Chicago.
The South.
GEN. LESLIE COINS, of Kentucky, denies
over his own signature the report that he
had been murdered by a desperate, or any
other man..".A New Orleans dispatch of the
gives the following as the status of the
contest between the two rival State Govern
lature has adjourned to the first Monday in
January. The Pinchback Senate has ex-
PEELED Senators Campbell and Mcmillan for
acting with the Warmothites. The represent
atives of 48 houses in the principal Northern,
Western, and Eastern cities, doing business
in New Orleans, metthis evening and signed
an address to the people of the North, re-
them to write in a protest to Cen
gIe66 and Lne GreS1uenI against inc arD1trary
OF power and place by political
The State militia refuse to
the orders of Gen. Longstreet, or any
one else acting under authority of the Kei-
logg faction. A hundred armed Metropolitan
policemen marched to the armory with the
of capturing it, but to the last mo-
ment, just as a collision seemed imminent,
were p~rudently Withdrawn. The fol-
lowing dispatch has been received by Hon.
John McEnery, the fusion Governor elect,
rom the Attorney General: "WAsHINGToN,
Dec. 13.-Hon: John McEnery, New Orleans,
La: Your visit will a hundred citizens will
be unavailing, SO far as the President is con-
cerned. His decision is made, and will not
be changed, and the sooner it is acquiesced
in the SCORER good order and peace will be
restored. GEO: L. WILLIAMS, Attorney
3eneral."."...A boat containing five pilots
was sunk near Wilmington, N. c., a few days
ago, and ali of the men were drowned.
Phil. ARNOLD, the head ~manipulator ia the
recent Arizona diamond fraud, announces
the Louisville Courier Journal that
ID has discovered silver mines in Kentucky
v yrtl S300. 000- 000 and has honObf f0r