Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-31
Foreign.

A PASSENGER train of ten cars on the East
ern railway ran off the track near Chelms-
ford, England, precipitated the coaches down
a high embankment and dashed them to
pieces. Three or four passengers were killed,
and about twenty seriously injured....The
exodus from Alsace and Lorraine is without
a parallel in modern times. Whole districts
are already depopulntod. Of the 5000 in
habitants of Otserman, an Alsatian town,
at the time of the surrender at Sedan, only
three persons remain. At Metz the able
bodied population is so reduced that only
seventeen are said TO be subject to military
duty remain, and the whole seventeen are
said to be unit for service. Eighteen thou
sand people left that city in the last two
weeks of September. So deep seated is the
hatred of Germen rule, and SO determined
are the people to escape it, that in instances
almost innumerable they have abandoned
their homes and, with what personal eff
fects could be swung on their shoulders
on a wa~lking-stick, have set out on foot
to quit the annexed territory. The move
ment seems to be on the increase, and unless
checked will leave both provinces desoIate,
to be populated and restored to prosperity,
if at all, by the Germans themselves ......A
Paris Communist has surrendered himself to
the authorities at Brussels, and confessed to
having been an accomplish of ~Trauppmann,
who murdered an entire family near Paris.
A TERRIBLE epidemic RACES among the
horses in Canada, seriously i~nterrupting the
business of the country. In the street-car
stables of Montreal more than 800 horses
are stricken with the disease, and the cars
have stopped running. Farmers are unable
to take their grain to market....Sir Roun-
dell Palmer has been appointed Lord Chan
cellor of E~ngland.....The postal treaty be-
tween France and the United States will
soon be signed.
RAILROAD accidents are becoming alarm
ingly frequent in England. The latest one
occurred near Sheffield the other day, by
which two persons were killed and several
injured.....Senator Sumner recently visited
Gambetta, and it is stated that the French
statesman was deeply impressed with the
interview."...Mr. A. B. Henderson, of Phil
adelphia, who accompanied his wife to Ha-
vana for the benefit of her health, has been
arrested by the Spanish authorities on some
trivial charge and thrown into a d. ngeon.
......A Madrid letter says it will require
$500, 900 to repair the damages to the
Escurial. The idea of e national subscrip-
ton was started, but King Amadeus has
knocked it on the head by insisting on de-
fraying the whole cost out of Lis own pri-
vate purse..-..1t is announced from Paris
that he Government has resolved to sup
port, in the approaching session of the As
sembly, a motion for the appointment of a
commission to investigate the acts of
Olivier and Palikao, preparatory to the i'm
peachment of the imperial ministers, on
charge of having provoked war with Prus-
STA.
The gallery of a circus in Sheffield, En-
gland, recently gave way while crowded with
spectators, and in the panic that ensued a
great number of people were injured, some
of whom, it is feared, will not recover....
There is much excitement in France over
the coming investigation concerning the war
with Germany. 1t is believed the fact will
be developed that the war was the result of
the rash and h ca dqfrnnR 1nnliou IF tho Cab II
net then in power...The Instruction at
Ferrol, Spain, has been suppressed, and the