Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-24
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East,

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possess considerable value in connection with
q subject of great present interest. being a de-
tailed statement of the returns from 425 rail-
roads of the United States. These lines have
an aggregate length of nearly 10000 miles,
and cost over three billions of dollars. 1t is
shown that the total earnings of all the rail-
roads in the United States during the past
year were S11O, 600, 0O0, being more than the
receipts of the United States Treasury, and
the net earnings, $48, 600, 000, more than the
interest account of the Government. IA man
named King made a balloon ascension from
Morristown, VT, on the Fourth, and when
two miles up encountered a snow-storm,
which covered his balloon an inch thick, and
sent it down rapidly He descended in a for
est, where he wandered about for 48 hours
without food. He was finally discovered,
much exhausted from cold and hunger, but
otherwise uninjured -. Laura Keene Is dying
of consumption in New York.
The wrecked steamer City of Washington
has broken in two and gone to pieces. The
officers and crew were on board at tho time,
but escaped in boats. One of the passengers
of the Inflated vessel published in the New
York papers a five-column account OF the dis
aster, and Gays that it is due to the criminal
carelessness of the Captain, who rushed on
through the fog day after day at full speed,
although warned by passengers and subordl-
mates that he was going too far north. The
Canadian Government has ordered an inyesti-
cation into the matter. :. Frank il
probably the most cheerful-minded crImI-
1AdA llAbIuO vi q POIAbC1AtAebAJ "oA- oN N
ming his prison toys at Sing Sing,
he laughingly remarked Il have gained
seven pounds in clothes since L came here. 1
feel now like engaging in a baseball match
An officer in the army told me the other day
that the only difference between this suit and
the West Point uniform is, that III one tho
stripes are round about, and in the other they
are up-and-down. He whiled away the time
of the journey to prison by pleasant illusions
to events as they happened, and said of the
handouts which linked him to GDlem, the
& M - IT, aT1a-nhanrf arf nc
1 ever wore."... Tom Scott has gone to Eu-
rope to place the bonds of the Texas and
Pacific railroad, to settle the French claims
against the Ell Paso Company, and at the same
time to vindicate Gen. Fremont, the former
official representative of that company. -.
Utica BROKER, sister of Woodruff. and Clat1n,
died the other day in New York, from the
effects of long Indulgence in Intoxicating
liquors.
ALL the Union Pacific stock which was
tainted, directly or remotely, by the Credit
Mobilier, has been posted in the New York
Stock Exchange as no longer negotiable, OH
account of the Credit Mobilier suits now in
progress at Hartford. -. The dark mystery sur
rounding the murder of Charles Goodrich, n
wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, who was found
dead in his room ON the morning of the 22d of
March last, has at last been unraveled- He
was murdered by Minnie Waltham, alias Kate
Stoddard, who, strange to say, has been living
all the time within a few rods of the house
where the deed was committed, notwithstand-
ing the detectives have beeu prOfessed-
ly r~ansacking the whole country i'll
search of her: When arrested, she made full
confession of her guilt, and gave a
tial account of the killing, explaining many of
those curious features of the deed which gavo
some color to the theory that Goodrich had
suicide. Although moro than once
on the verge of starvation, the murderess had
kept sacred in her trunk the money and jewels
she took from her paramount Among these
articles was found the six-barreled revolver
wit, ruhioIr f1n rnur1ar xUoG Homo nT16 which
had, apparently, not been touched since.
Three of its barrels were still loaded; the 9TH
er three she had emptied into her lovers body.
The only plea she makes for herself is, that,
after living with her for a long time, he wished
to throw her of, and that she could not bear.
So she killed him for love-"
REBECcA w. -EAsTERBRooK, a ~well-known
authoress and contributor to Harper'S Mdga-
zine, is dead "A shocking tragedy was enact
ed recently at Harmony, Pa. A young man
and woman who were betrothed drove to the
hotel in the place and engaged q room.
Shortly after shots were heard in the room,
and on repairing thither it was discovered that
the man had shot the woman through the
head, inflicting a death wound, and then COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself =. The
steamer Tigress sailed from New York in
search of the Polaris survivors on Tuesday, tho
18th inst. Suit has been commenced
& Co., the lace Importers who are charged
with having defrauded the revenue.
1t ia charged that the steerage passengers by
the City of Washington received the most
shameful treatment at the hands of the Off
GERS of the steamer after the disaster. They
were left for five days on the beach without
any shelter were given such food as putrid
beef and q scant allowance of hard crackers !;
and, in addition, many of them were robbed
by the crew. The cabin passengers, officers
and crew, on the other hand, Jared sump-
%tuously.
GEN. AMOS PILLsBURY, appointment citizen of
Albany, N. Y, is dead Frank Walworth
has gone TO work as a clerk in the shoe de-
partment of Sing Sing Prison. Mrs. Walworth
and family have taken up thoir residence in
Sing Sing village, aud regularly attend Catho-
lie service in tho prison chapel. July IA was
the centennial anniversary of the first Metho-
dist Annual Conference in America, and the
event was celebrated by the Methodists at
Philadelphia, in the same building est. Georges
NJ. i. church, in which the first Annual
Conference was held Bishop James presided,
and the exercis es were of ali interesting
character.
ONE thousand Mormons from Europe az
rived at New York the other day. Another
large cargo will follow. Five of the six
students sent to this country by Japan two
years ago have boon recalled, and left New
York for home last week One theory sub
mitted by the officers of the City of Washing
ton, In the official investigation, to aceount
for the accident, is thed deviation of the COM
pass. One of them testified that he had
known the presence of a large installment of
sewing-machines in the cargo to give the COM
pass a serious misdirection The Court of
Errors of New Jersey has decided, by a vote
of 2 to 1, that the lease of the New Jer-
sey railroad to the Pennsylvania Cen
trail for 999 years cannot be con-
summated under the laws of that State....
The case of Lizzie Lloyd King, alias Kate
Stoddard, who is charged with the murder of
Charles w. Goodrich, of Brooklyn, continues
to attract a large share of public attention.
Crowds flock to the Jail to see her, but very
few succeed in doing so. She ID dumb on the
subject of the murder. She will not talk, ex-
cept to counsel, and for him she is writing a
full statement of her case, and her history
from her childhood up to the present time.
She is now 26 years of age was born in
Plymouth, Mass, and lived there until she
was Is years of age. Her fathers name is
Isaac King. He is still alive, and carries on
the trade of n mason. She has one sister,
named Augusta, married, and living at Wal
bridge, Mass. The family is in comfortable
circumstances Opinion is divided in regard
to her sanity, many believing her crazy, while
others contend that her insanity is all as
sumed.
FoUR Indian prisoners were recently shot
dead at Fort Hall, Idaho, while attempting to
escape from the guard The Joliet OlI.)
Conference has granted a license TO
Mrs. Jennie T. Willing to preach the Gospel.
---.Over $50 barns were demolished in one
county of Wisconsin by the storm on the 4th
of July. The women tax-Dayers of Ohio arc