Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-11
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

Harrington, have been convicted of forgery.
THE Hoosac tunnel was finished on
Thanksgiving Day. The sudden closing of
the Erie canal caused an advance in the price
of corn in New York of 10 cents wheat, 6 to
8 cents oats, 5 to 8 cents and barley about
Is cents per bushel. Over 500 boats are locked
up in the canal.
INeERsoLL and Harrington. confederates of
Tweed in the Tammany frauds, have been
sentenced to the Penitentiary, the former re-
ceiving five years and the latter eighteen
months
WILLIAM M. TWEED is at last hid from public
view. On Saturday, Nov. 90, he was taken to
BlackwelI's Island, arrayed in striped uniform,
his head shaved, and was consigned to a felon's
cell. Tweed was asked the usual questions by
the recording clerk, to which he answered that
he was aged 60, occupation a :" statesman" no
religion.
The West.
EX-SENATOR RICHARD YATES, of Illinois,
died suddenly at st. Louis on the 9th
att. Chris. Rafferty,, of Chicago, has been
tried for the third time, and again convicted
of murder in the first degree.
THERE is a great rush of gold-seekers tn the
new diggings in Southwestern Colorado.
Shareholders, of Illinois, is said to have
lost almost his entire fortune by the failure of
the California and Texas Construction Com
pany.
A FIRE in East st. Louis, last week, de-
stroyed $3.50, 900 worth of property. The
house of George w. Elliottin, Tuscola county,
Mich, was burned on Thanksgiving Day, to-
gether with his wife and child.
IT was stated at the meeting of the State
Agricultural Society at st. Louis, the other
day, hat the Patrons of Husbandry had made
comparatively more progress in Missouri than
in any other State, /, 100 Oranges having been
already formed, with a membership of 10000.
Chris Rafferty, will be hung at Waukegan
Dec. 26.
The South.
H-ARRoDsBURa, KY, was recently the scene
of a terrible shooting ARRAY between the male
members of two families named Thompson
and Davis. in which three of the latter, father
and two sons, were killed.
AT a mass meeting of the farmers and Pat
rons of Husbandry at Atlanta. Ga, last week,
it was resolved to plant only one-third of their
crop next year in cotton, to favor cash pay
ments, and declare their right to control the
price of cotton.
A STATE Grange has been organized in Ala
bama. IA portion of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad bridge across Red river, at Fulton,
Ark, has been washed away by a freshet in
that stream
Washington.
IT is stated that a strong effort will be made
by Congress to increase the tax on spirits and
tobacco.
SENATOR Ferry, of Michigan, has a scheme
for the financial trouble, which he will pro-
pose to Congress. 1t is to issue $500, 100000
currency, and offer convertible bonds, exempt
from taxation. -. Secretary Robson is con-
WINGED from a close examination of the survivors
of the Polaris that Capt. Hall came to his
death from purely natural causes, and that he
was treated skillfully and tenderly during his
illness.
The name of Attorney General Williams was
on the LIST inst. submitted to the Cabinet as
the appointee of the President to the vacant
Chief Justiceship on the Supreme Bench. The
Acknowledgement is to be succeeded by Col.
Bristow, of Kentucky.
THE public debt increased during November
$9,02s, 576....A Washington dispatch says {:
Senator Logan will urge immediate action on
his bill repeating the Bankrupt law. The bill
provides that the repeal shall take effect i'm
mediately upon its passage, and that all pend
ing cases shall be adjudicated by July 1 next.
GEN. HOWARD having resigned the Presi-
dency of the Howard University, Prof. Lang
ston has been appointed its provisional Presi-
dent. &. .Pinchback has withdrawn his claim to
a seat in the House as Congressman-at-Large
from Louisiana, and will go before the Senate
and claim a seat IN that body
Foreign.
1AE QOIlSCulIuS nave uSSOIldIcO u puSSldu
loan of $75, 900, 900.
A LETTER from Havana says the people
there would refuse to allow any order from
Madrid to deliver up the Virginius, or make
other PREPARATION for her seizure and execution
of her crew, to be carried out The butcher
Burriel has issued orders for the arrest of all
Cuban sympathizers on the island of Cuba.
A dispatch from Cartagena, Spain, dated Nov.
%, says the bombardment of the place on that
day was most furious. Many buildings had
been set on fire by the shells, and several
hundred people killed T. typhus fever
and smallpox are decimating the Carlist
army.
The examination of witnesses in the Bazaine
trial has been concluded. TIL British troops
have again encountered and defeated the Ash
antees. -. Gen. Manteuffel and Count
Goeber recently fought a duel near Berlin, in
which the latter was seriously wounded BY a
shot in the stomach.
IT is announced in a London telegram that,
acting on the wish Of Piux TX, the Cardinals
have selected Cardinal Pecci, Archbishop of
Perugia, as the next Pope. He is So years
old....The Tichborne case is drawing to a
close, all the evidence being in.
ARCHBISHOP L-EDocHowsK1 has again ad-
dressed the German Emperor, refusing to
tender his resignation, and declaring that he
is resonp sible only to the Pope....The Vir-
ginius has been equipped as a Spanish war
vessel and sent out to cruise in search of fill
busters. O.. . The controversy between the Ger
man and Spanish Governments regarding the
German vessels seized by the Spanish war
vessels in the PHILIPPINE Islands, continues to
increase in the seriousness of it's aspect. Ger
many is equipping war vessels for active
service.
Political.
The colored voters of Kentucky threaten to
leave the Republican party if they are not ac-
corded a more equal division of the offices.
Hon. EUGENE CAssERLY has resigned his
seat in the United States Senate.
General.
The Government has been defeated in the
Credit-Mobilier suits broughtat Hartford. The
question of jurisdiction is decided in its ia
vor, but the Court sustains the demurrer made
to the bill presented by the Government. The
ground on which the demurrer is sustained is
that there was no trust in behalf of the Gov.
eminent which has been disregarded, and that
the damage it has suffered is too remote tC
afford ground for action at law. An appeal tc
the Supreme Court is projected.
THE Credit Mobilier suits are to be appealed
to the Supreme Court.
BISHOP CUMMINs' schism has resulted in