Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-22

the sentence of Woods, a ruthan negro to
have been hanged on Friday for the murder
of Lewis Schwartz, to life imprisonment.
The Grand Duke and party arrived at New
Orleans on Monday.
TIE South Carolina House of Representa-
tives on Monday, by vote of 20 to 9, adopted
resolution demanding the resignation of
Sawyer and Robertson, on account of their
opposition to Summers Civil Rights Amend
ments to the Amnesty biIl.-..Governor
Reed of Florida has been impeached. Mr..
Day, of Virginia, a Republican, has been
appointed Governor.
Mrs. ELIZABETH DAUGHERTY was acct
dentally shot and killed by her little grand
son at Paris, KY, on sunday".n.Capt.
James Beggs, of Covington, KY late Deputy
United States Marshal, has been arrested
and sent to Jail at Louisville, on account of
a deficit of about S., 900 in his accounts.
JOHN W. JENKINS, a prominent republican,
has been arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms
of the Virginia House of Representatives,
for refusing to testify in the effort to ascer-
tain tne character of certain lobby schemes.
Washington.
UP to the 5th inst, the sums awarded to
Americans by the joint United States and
Mexican Commission amounted to 1915, 900.
The amount claimed in the aggregate was
$11, 500 900. Awards to Mexicans amounted
to only $36, 900. The aggregate claimed was
$4,000, 000...-.Thomas x. Cree, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, has been appointed Secretary of
the Board of Indian Commissioners, Uicc
Vincent Collyer, resigned.
ANOTHER expedition under the command
of Commander Crossman, will soon be fitted
out by the Navy Department to survey the
Nicaragua route for an inter-oceanic canal.
MFRS. Admiral Dahlgren has laid a claim
before each House for the amount due from
the Government to her late husband for the
use of guns upon which he had a patent.
This claim was fully recognized by the Navy
Department., but previous to the AdmiraIs
death he had made no collections.....The
President has appointed Sayles j. Bowen,
ex-Mayor of Washington, Minister to Ecua-
dor.
THE location of the new government
buildings in Chicago was decided upon on
Monday. The square purchased is two
blocks south of the former position on Dear
born street. The other sides of the square
are Clark, Jackson and Adams. The price
agreed on is ST. ,250 900.
IT appears from official documents that
the number of steamers on the Atlantic
coast inspected in 1871 was 1,410. The
value of property destroyed by fire, explo-
sion, collision, and wreck, was 81 1924, 900 /;
lives lost, 3l9; number of steamers inspect
ed in water flowing into the Gulf of Mexico,
LOTT; property destroyed, $1,41s,O0O; lives
lost, sos. Number of steamers inspected
on the lakes, $40; property destroyed,
steamers inspected on the Pacific coast,
1870 lives lost, 2O6. No statement of proper
ty destroyed.
Foreign.
The steamer Colorado, which sailed from
Liverpool on Thursday for New York, when
swat o-Ezida of the Maroau moo rrn into Nth
great violence by the Arabian, inward
bound. The Colorado received severe dam
ages, and was run ashore to prevent her
sinking in deep water with al on board.
The Arabian, which was comparatively un-
injured, rescued all the passengers of the
Colorado except five in the steerage, who, it
is supposed, jumped overheard in the panic
which followed, and were lost. The pas
sengers were brought back to Liverpool......
A new company, which proposes to lay a
been registered in London. One OF the
features of its prospectus is a promise to
fix the tolls on dispatches at twenty shil-
lings per ten words.."..In the House of
moved a vote of thanks to Right Hon.
John Evelyn Dennison, the retiring
speaker of the House, and also a resolu-
ton recommending an elevation to the
peerage. Mr.. Disraeli, who was present,
seconded both motions, and they were car
ried by acclamatinn..... Minister Washburne
is about to return to the United States, on
temporary leave of absence. Secretary
Hoffman will act as charge d'G6aires during
his absence.
In the English House of Commons on
Friday, Right Honorable Henry Bouverie
Brand, the Ministerial candidate, was elect
edSpeaker without opposition......The Patrie
says the Committee of the National Assem-
bly,, which is investigating the facts con-
nected with the capitulation of the French
Notifications and armies during the recent
war, has obtained proof of Marshal Bazaine's
treachery to the Republic......The difficulty
about the Alabama claims is said to have
depressed American securities in European
markets.
A DISPATCH from Cork reports that a terri
BILE storm has prevailed for the past few days
on the southern coast of Ireland, and several
disasters, with serious loss of life, are re-
ported. Three vessels, whose names have
not been ascertained, foundered off BaIly-
cattan, a village twenty miles southeast of
Cork, and their crews persisted.
On the 9Th inst. Lord Mayo, Governor
General of India, was stabbed by a convict
at Port Blair, Andaman Islands, and
died soon. Upon receipt of the news in the
English House of Commons eulogies were
| pronounced by Mr.. Gladstone and Disraeli,
and by the Duke of Argyll in the House of
Lords, referring in terms of the highest
praise to the great public services of the de-
ceased.....Caleb Cushing, J. Bancroft Davis,
William M. Evarts and M. R. Waite have
arrived at Paris, and are in close consulta-
ton in regard to the business before the
Geneva Board of Arbitration. 90. Prayers
were offered on Sunday in all the churches
at Sheffield for the prevention of war be-
tween England and the United States......M
Rouher, formerly Minister of State under
Napoleon, has been elected to the French
Assembly from the Island of Corsica.
THE Right Hon. John Evelyn Dennison,
late Speaker of the House of Commons, is
gazetted as Viscount Ossington. He ap-
peared in the House of Lords on Tuesday
evening, and the oath having been admin
istered he took his seat as a Minis
ter Jay, of Austria, arrived at Rome on
Tuesday to meet Gen. Sherman, both of
whom were presented to Victor Emm snuel,
who gave them a cordial eception 18th
F~ranco-German Postal Convention has been
signed by the respective governments who
are parties thereto.....I II is rumored that an
interview between the Gear and Emperor of
Brazil has been arranged to take place at
Nice..-.Telegrams from Bombay announce
that the assassination of the Earl of Mayo
causes an intense excitement in India. In
Calcutta and Bombay, the murder was the
universal theme of conversation. All bust
ness was suspended....The Spanish govern
ment invites tenders for the constr ctien
and laying of a telegraph cable between