Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-17

and other Americans from the positions to
which they were called, is disbelieved at
Washington, our Government having re-
ceived no official notification of the fact.
Six men were arraigned in court at Wash
ington, the other day, charged with murder.
......"be President has stated that no will
ask Congress for an appropriation to send a
delegation of skilled laborers, to be selected
by the various labor organizations of this
country, to the Vienna Exposition next year,
to learn some of the new and practical arts
in Europe, and make a report upon the
same.
Mr.. MORT, Japanese Charge d'Affairs at
Washington, has resigned. He desires that
an older and moro experienced person should
fill the important position. Mr.. Mort denies
the recent statement tn at the Americans who
were appointed to official positions in Japan
have been dismissed, or that the non-pro-
grcssives have obtained any considerable
control in hat country....The internal
revenue receipts for the first three months
of the new fiscal year amount to $50 ZOO, 900.
The Comptroller os the Currency has called
upon the national banks for a statement of
their conditien......The Government has re-
ceived information of extensive smuggling
on the Gulf coast, from Key West to New
Orleans, and measures are being taken to
suppress the Illicit traffic and arrest the
offenders.
IT is again rumored hat Secretary Fish
will shortly resign the portfolio of the State
Department.-....It is stated that prompt and
vigorous measures will be taken by the Gov
ernment, at an early day, for the p election
of the Texan border against the incursions
and outrages of Mexican smugglers ard rob
bers and the punishment of the scoundrels.
The matter, when decided upon, is to be
placed in the hands of the Secretary of War
and Gen. Sherman.
Foreign.
A PASSENGER train between London and
Edinburgh, while running at a furious rate
of speed, recently, came in collision with q
freight train, causing the instant death of
eleven persons and the ~wounding of many
more. During the months of July, August
and September, $4,000 emigrants sailed from
Liverpool for America...The celebrated
monastery of Escurial, "a miles from
Madrid, in Spain, was recently struck by
lightning, and the magnificent edihce, to-
gether with the royal palace adjoining, with
its splendid books and paintings and rare
and costly manuscripts, were totally destroy
ed by fire......Over $4,000 persons left the
city of Metz in two weeks to seek homes
under French Jurisdiction. The population
of the city is reduced to less tn an 10, 000......
Mexico is flooded with copper money, of
which each dollar is worth about ten cents.
Mail adyices from Japan furnish full
particulars of the burning of the steamer
America, liz the harbor of Yokohama, on the
goth of August, by which disaster trreo
Americans and ffty-nine Japanese lost their
lives.
TIE r~inderpest continues to spread in En-
land......Sir James Shaw Willes, ono of the
Judges of the Common Pleas, recently com
mitted suicide in ......It is said Presi-
don't Theirs will urge upon the National As
sembly, at its coming session, a proposition
for the establishment by proclamation of a
permanent republic, based on strictly con-
servative principles.
AGRARIA violence is rife in County Mayo,
Ireland. Many outrages have been COM
mitted, and landlords in some instances shot
at. but the perpetrators manage to escape
detection 1.-THE fire in the Escurial, near
Madrid, Spain, did not prove SO disastrous
as at first reported. Two of the towers and
a portion of the roofing were destroyed, and
the loss is estimated at three million reals.
......Another reinforcement of 1000 troops il
to be sent from Spain to Cuba.-..Gea. Won
S~chweinitz, German Ambassador 10 Vienna,
was recently married to Miss Jay, daughter
of Hon. John Jay, UnitedStates Minister
to Austria. s.
THE British Government has forbidden the
registration of Bradlaugh's journal for trans
mission abroad through the mails. Mr..
Bradlaugh protests against the act as a vio-
lation of the liberty of the press......The
damage to the Monastery and Palace of the
Escurial, near Madrid, by the recent fire,
will not exceed $125, 0e0..-..A proposition
has been introduced into the Spanish Cortes
for the abolition of slavery throughout the
dominions of Spain.....A Supreme Council
of War, charged with the organization and
administration of the army, has been ap-
pointed in France, consisting of Marshals
McMahon and Caurobert, Con. L'Admirault,
Due d'Aumale, Admiral de Ia Roncieville
and M. Oseune......The German Government
has notified France that all French citizens
entering German territory after Nov. 1 mus
be provided with passports.
THERE has been a further advance in the
price of coal in E~ngland.-...A Birmingham
(England) firm has contracted to furnish the
Prussian Government with $50, 200 rifles OF
an improved pattern.-....Another attempt
has been made on tho life of King Amadeus
of Spain. While walking in the Plaza del
Oriente, Madrid, two men, who were con-
cealed behind a statue, threw several stones
at him, crying at the time " Viva la Repub-
lic." The desperndoes took to flight immedi-
ately. They were pursued by a number OF
policemen. but escaped. The King was ua-
hurt.....News arrives from England of an
other terrible colliery disaster. An explosion
occurred in a mine at Merely, by which over
forty miners were killed......A number OF
gambling saloons in we'll known German
watering-places have been closed by order
of the Government.