Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-09-12

Penitentiary. at Auamosa, is to be of cut
stone, five stories high, $40 feet wide by 935
long, Enclosed by a wall % feet high and
6 feet thick.
THE reported Indian raid on the Govern
ment train between Carson City and Fort
Lyon turns out to be a canard The North
ern Pacific railroad engineering party, under
escort cf Gen. Stanley, at last advices had
reached the Yellowstone. They had en-
countered two parties Of hostile Indians,
with each of whom they had a slight brush,
both engagements resulting in the rout of
the red skins....A boiler in Scott's mill,
near Springfield, H., exploded the other
day, killing two of the proprietor's sons,
and severely ipjuring several others.
A SON of Isaac Estow, of Homer, Mich,
died the other day, after one days illness,
from the effects OF a rattlesnake bite re-
ceived a year ago, which never affected be-
fore.....Mrs. Kent, of Canton, Ohio, killed
her child, recently, and then destroyed her
own life by drowning.....The number of
deaths in Chicago for the week ending Sept.
l was 299-a decrease of SIS over the pre-
ceding week.
THE San Franciscans are beginning to
seriously doubt the genuineness of the re-
ported diamond discoveries in Arizona.
At Oshkosh, Wis, last week, an old man of
IS, named Stevenson, murdered his wife by
shooting, and then cut his own throat.
The South.
THERE is much suffering in Southwestern
Texas on account of the drought. Thou
sands of cattle are said to be dying on the
prairies for want of water.....The destruc-
ton eff cotton by the worms in Alabama is
almost complete, and fears are entertained of
universal bankruptcy among the planters.
In some sections the plants have been
thoroughly stripped of their foliage, and
left as bare as after a heavy frost.....Thc
testimony of Capt. Richard King, the lar
gest cattle raiser in Texas, before the Border
Commission at Brownsville, strengthens
that heretofore obtained, proving the Mex
lean officials guilty of gross neglect of duty,
and of completely in the outrages committed
on that frontier. He declares that the con-
tinued attempts on his life compel him to
maintain an armed force for the protection
of his life.
THE annual statement of the trade and
commerce of Memphis, Tenn, shows an
increale of so per cent. over last year. The
population is &C, 000......A young man named
Jewell visited the Jail at Brentville, Va, re-
Gently, and deliberately shot one James F.
Clark, confined on a charge of seducipg
Jewell's sister, a young girl of 16......Bhl
Lucas and Ned Harris (colored) were re-
Gently hanged at Columbia, s. c., for muir
der. Owing to the ropes being improperly
adjusted, the C .lprits struggled horribly for
ten minutes in their desperate efforts to free
themselves.
THE Pope county, Ark, troubles have
broken out with renewed violence. The
County Clerk and a Justice of the Peace have
been killed, and intense excitement pre-
walls. The Governor will probably place
the county under martial law."...Col. Blan-
ton Duncan, the chief manipulation of the
Louisville movement, had a set-to in the
Gait House,tin that city, the other day, with
DR.. J. NJ. Keller, a prominent Louisville
physician, infwhich the unterrifed Bourbon
leader came off second best. AS only natures
weapons were used, no serious damage w. s
done. Only a little blood-letting-nothing
more......Advic from Brownsville, Texas,
give a favorable report of the progress that
has been made by the Commission sent there
by our Government to invest gate the dep
relations of the Mexican m~arauders, and
the thief badgered people of that section ex-
press themselves highly gratifed with the
general results of the investigation. Claims
to the amount of So, 900, 900 are said to have
been proved on the part of the sufferers.
A D1ABoLIcAL plot of a gang of desperadoes
to throw the trains of the Richmond and
Fredericksburg (Va.) railroad from the track,
with a view to plumber, has been discovered
and frust rated, and some of the outlaws are
under arrest......1n some sections of Alabama
the cotton fields are so overrun by the cater
pillars that the worms can be ladled up in
handfuls, and it is said that unless the press
emit high prices are maintained the crop will
not pay the cost of producing.
THE Peoples Bank, of Nashville, Tenn,
has collapsed, with liabilities amounting to
800, 900. The assets are stated at $4,000.
Washington.
THE Interior Department recently sold at
auction all the unclaimed models in Its pos
session, application for patents for which
had been refused to the unlucky inventors.
The models were arrange into lots, and sold
all the way from SIS to $125 per lot.-.--.1t is
now annou iced that President Grant has
recousidered his determination to issue
pardons to certain parties confined in the
Albany Penitentiary as 4 until a
more thorough examination can be had in
their cases.
THE United States Marshal for the West
ern District of Kansas hes been directed by
the Department of Justice not to seize goods
in transit Tor points beyond the Indian Ter
ritory by railroad, unless he shall be fully
satisfied that they are centraband.
The railway postal service of the country
increased during the year ending June
80, 1872, 1857 miles. There were at that
time 54,47l miles of railroad mail service in
operation 1.-THE receipts from customs
rev. nue. during the II onth of August are
estimated at $25 900 ,O00-being the largest
amount ever received from that source in
any one month
JUDGE LEWIS DENT, brother-in-law to
Grant, made a raid on the Office
of the Capital newspaper the other day, and
assaulted the managing editor, Henry Reed,
a walking cane, inflicting a series of
painful wounds on the scalp of that gentle
man. The affair grew out of the publication
an article rejecting on the Dent family.
following is the public debt state
ment for August.
Six per cent. bonds-....s 81. 363.05 500
Five per cent. bonds. 44.567, 800
money debts 22.663 600
Matured debt....----- 6.I1U,6Io
Legal tender notes..--. 3,O06.0S6,152 ,
currency 42,Sl9 30l
Join certiicates".."--.- 1884, oU0
Total debt....... s2,262. IFS, $50
Total interest. 1851, ISL
in Treasury, coin.. T~3.91S,Sl7
ASH in Treasury, cur
- S4.s53.559
81 III. 1922, 02O
decrease during month, 10. 736,635
Sonds issued to Pacific
Railway Companies,
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