Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-08

counterfeit money found in her possession.
She goes by the name of Madam Decrease,
and has two male accompliees who have not
been arrested.
The South.
A WILMINGTON IN. CO. dispatch says that
the Lowry gang is committing fresh out
RACES. Among the last attacked was a plan
| ter named O'Neil, whose daughter and wife
were seriously wounded.....General R. s.
Ewell died at his residence in Maury coun-
ty, Tenn, on Thursday morning, between 2
and 8 O'Clock. In giving directions touch
ing his tombstone, he laid particular stress
| upon the fact that he did not desire any
word to be employed in the inscription that
could reflect in any way upon the Govern
ment of the United States.
Ar T~ullahoma, Tenn, on Thursday, An
drew Martin, a quiet and respected citizen,
was shot and killed by Mat Darwin, a noto-
rious desperate, who escaped.
A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn, on Saturday,
destroyed property to the amount of $4,000
......A Raleigh special says the North Caro-
lima Legislature has authorized a reward of
SIC, 900 for the arrest of Henry B. Lowray,
and SIS 900 for each of his outlaws, or $500, 900
in all......A fire at st. Louis on Sunday
morning destroyed the works of the st. Louis
Brass and Hardware Manufacturing Com
pany, the commission house of M. D. Hett-
zlel Il Co., and the tobacco factory of Moran
& Powell. Total loss $1e0, 200; insurance,
$95, 200.
THE Congressional Investigating Commit
tee commenced its session on Monday at
New Orleans. The committee is besieged
by both parties, anxious to give their testi-
mony......A fire in Jefferson, Texas, on Mon
day, destroyed a square of buildings on the
south side of Dallas street, next to the
steamboat landing. The Office of the Jeffer-
son Times was also destroyed. Loss, $780,
900 insurance, $40 ,000.-..On Sunday morn
ing three prisoners escaped from the Gov
ington (Ky.) Jail, by means of a key taken
from the turnkey
SPEAKER CARTER of the Louisiana Legis-
lature testified before the Congressional In
vestigating Committee at New Orleans on
Tuesday that there were about forty news
papers in Louisiana living on State printing
patronage, which could not be supported
without it. He estimated the annual profits
of the New Orleans Republican, of which
Warmoth WINS one-third, at $500, 900 from
State patronage.....Gen. M. W. Ransom has
been elected United States Senator from
North Carolina. The Republicans generally
took no part in the election, claiming that
the Legislature has no right to elect a Sena-
tor at this time..-.The South Carolina House
Of Representatives has adopted joint resolu-
ion declaring the proposed reduction of
import duty on rice unwise, partial, and
disastrous also instructing Senators and re-
questing Representatives to use their inhu-
ence to secure the continuance of the
present duty.....The Grand Duke arrived at
Louisville on Tuesday.
THE Grand Duh and party visited the
Mammoth Cave on Thursday......The first
regular train of cars on the Cairo and Fulton
Railroad, Ark, went over the road to Little
Red River on Wednesday,.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has direct
ed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
purchase 81, GOO, 900 of bonds on the first,
third and fifth Thursdays of February, or
5000, 900 in all, and sell $1,000,o0 of gold
on the second and fourth Thursdays, or
$4,000, 900 in all.
Foreign.
lady FRANKLIN has offered a reward of
$4,000 for the recovery of the records of the
Erebus and Terror, supposed to nave
been deposited in King Williams Land......
A dispatch from Nice, France, reports a ter
rible railroad accident near that city. While
a train from James was crossing q bridge
over the Paglione river, the structure gave
way, and the cars were precipitated into the
water. Fourteen persons were killed and
wounded."..The Pope's advisers are urging
him to quit Rome.
THE steamer America, plying between
Buenos Ayres and Montivedeo, burned on
the night of Dec. %. A large number of
passengers were on board of whom 81 lost
their lives, being either burned to death OF
drowned.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Nice states tha
Minister Washburne gave a grand banquet
to General Sherman on the evening of his
departure for Italy-...The trustees of the
Peabody fund have let out 500 houses, with
planted grounds attached at Bristol, Eng
land, to small families, in accordance with
the directions of the late George Peabody.
A new religious journal has been established
at Rome, which will oppose tho dogma of
infallibility. Pere Hyacinthe is to be one
of the contributors.
ScHAMAcHI, a town of Asiatic Russia, has
been totally destroyed by an earthquake.
Many lives are reported lost......It is re-
ported that the ship Almora, of st. Johns,
N. B., was destroyed by fire at sea and that
all on board persisted.
GENERAL GLOSSY, the French Minister of
War, on Tuesday stated to the Assembly
that it was impossible at present to raise the
state of seige in Paris, because of the pres
ence in the republic of Bonapartists and
liberated Communists, who would lose no
opportunity to create disorder. The General
further stated that of the Communists cap
tuTcO ny Guo OONoIumenG, lS,ZZZ naQ Deen
liberated, 4,473 were sentenced to various
punishments, and 12,045 were still confined
in the hulks at the naval stations of the
country-..The American survey steamer
Bibb sailed from Havana on Monday to
make s~oundings between Yucatan and Cape
Catoche, for the proposed Mexico-Cuban
cable.
The boiler of the British steamship Anna
zon exploded at Bordeaux, France, on Tues
day, and two men were killed and several
injured......Eight thousand reinforcements
have sailed from Cadiz, Spain, for Cuba.
The German authorities have prohibited
the sale of French journals in Strasbourg
THE bark Manitoba went ashor on
Thursday off Penzance, England, and is a
total wreck. Four of her crew were lost......
Baron Ven Offenburg, late Consul General
at Bucharest, has been appointed Russian
Minister to the United States. The late
Minister, Catacazy, is attached to the Foreign
Office in st. Petersburg.
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