Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-01

diamonds in a Baltimore stage, the other
lay. Seventy-four citizeus of Corsicana,
Texas, were arrested on the 23d of July, for
alleged violation of the internal revenue
laws. Warrants are out for $500 citizens of
the district.
Washington.
IT is now announced that the new postal
cards will be ready for distribution in
September.....The distribution of the new
series of distilled spirit stt mps commenced
July %.
ABOUT twenty Indians, headed by Mr..
Spotted Tail, arrived at Washington the
other day, for the purpose of interviewing
the Pres1dent......Among the rebel archives
recently purchased by the Government is
the report o f Jacob Thompson, Confederate
agent in Can ada during the rebellion. This
report gives details of the plots formed by
rebel agents to burn Northern cities and
release rebel prisoners, with the names OF
the persons prominently connected there
with ...... The Commission appointed for the
survey of the Northwestern boundary have
left Washington for the scene OF their
labors. The work of the Commission will
probably extend through two years.
RIcHARD BEARDsLEY, the United States Con-
sui to Jerusalem, has been appointed Con-
sui General to Alexandra, vice Butler, re-
moved.....Gen Julius White, of Chicago, has
been appointed Minister to the Argentine
Republic.....Under the new law, reducing
the number of Revenue Supervisors from
twenty-five to ten, D. W. Mum is retained
for the States of Ilineis, Wisconsin and Mich
igan s. T. Howell, for Ohio and Indiana /;
and s.. W. Heddrick, for Iowa, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and
Colorado...... Marquis de Noailles, the new
French.Minister, was introduced to the Pres
idanf on 1ulv % and dRlivarad his er0d6n-
tials......Pension Agent Collins has been di =
covered TO be a defaulter, and the Govern
.ment has entered suit against his bondsmen.
......Spotted Tail and his delegation of In
dams visited the Executive E ansion on July
"a, and had an interview with President
Grant.
Foreign.
MADRID has been thrown into a fever of
excitement by an attempt to assassinate the
King and Queen. On the night of the 10th
of July, while driving through the streets
they were fred upon by a party of five as
~sassins, but luckily the bullets of the would
be murderers missed their mark. Ono of
the attacking party was killed and two
arrested The steamer Hibernian has
sailed from Liverpool with a party of Eng
lish settlers-the pioneers of the projected
colony in Minnesota."...Capt. Burton, the
famous traveller and explorer, succeeds the
late Charles Lever as British Consul at
Trieste.
THE grave-diggers of Woolwich Cemetery
(London) are on a strike......T The cholera has
broken out in Moscow, Russia, in a malig-
nant form, the proportion of deaths to re-
coveries being eight to one. Thousands o.
the better class of citizens are fleeing to
Western Europe....Mr. Warne, an English
correspondent at Geneva, was murdered and
robbed July 22."..The Italians are rejoicing
heartily over the lucky escape of Amadeus
from the Spanish ASSESSING bullets......Th The
new French loan is issued ut the official
rate of 85f. 5c.....Three of the would-be
assassins of the King and Queen of Spain
and twenty-seven accomPlices have been
arrested. The escape of the royal person
horses attached to the carriage received
sever pistol shots.
MARSHAL McMAHoN has signifed his will
ingness to accept the Presidency of the
French Republic in the event of the death
or resignation of Thiers......The cable an.
nounces q monetary crisis in Paris. Trade
is ~stagnent, and thousand of shops are closed
for rent......Japan is making rapid progress
in reaching the American grade of civiliza.
ton. About three-fourths of the narrow
guage railroad from Yokohama to Yeddo, &
distance of II miles, has been finished, and
has cost already over $780, 700 a mile. No
| body knows where the money has gone to
and the railroad, like the New York court
house, is waiting for fresh appropriations
......It is thought the parties who attempted
to assassinate the King and Queen of Spair
were the hired instruments of a p%olitica
conspiracy. The parties arrested are be
lieved to be the men who assassinated Gen
Prim.
THERE is q secret society in the City o
Mexico, composed of the worst class of Grim
inals, whose chief occupation is that o
kidnapping people. On July % a Mexican
gentleman, Senior Cervantos, was found il
an almost dying condition, hid away by tn
kidnappers. Three of the miscreants wer'
caught and sunImarily executed. A few
days previous they seized q Frenchman, ant
tore out his eyes and tongue"...The Frencl
National Assembly, by a vote of BIT to 233
has adopted the first chapter Of he bill
taxing raw materials. This is considered a
a complete triumph for Thiers.--..The Ar
gentine Confederation has voted $2,600,00
for thr-e iron-clad vessels, which have beef
ordered from the United States.
The court at Versailles engaged in trying
the Communists has sentenced awoman 9Th
cantiniere Guyard) to death. She will b
gu~illotined, it being thought too revolving
for soldiers to shoot a woman-.-..Stanley
the Herald correspondent, arrived at Paris
July "a, and proceeded at once to London
THE cholera is abating in BIT. Petersburg
and other Russian citiee.... Three more Frencl
Communists were slaughtered at Satory
on the 25th of July......Benito Juarez. Presi
dent of the Mexican Republic, died at thu
City of Mexico on the 18th of July, of apo
plexy. Lerdo de Tejeda, Chief of the Su
preme Court, will succeed to the Presidenc,
until Congress shall order an election to FL
the vacancy. Tejeda has been looked upol
as a sympathizer with the revolutionist
during the late troubles, although he ha
remained in the City of Mexico, taking NJ
active part with the insurgents. JuareE wa
first elected in 1858, and held that Office
with the varying fortunes attending al
rulers of that distracted country, up to thu
time of his death.
The Geneva Arbitration.