Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-27

s1OO, 900 after all legacies, including that to
the Children's Aid Society, have been paid.
passed the Lower House of the Maine Legisla-
ture by q vote of "a to "a.
The West.
A SALT LAKE newspaper job Office is threat
ened with q suit f~olpulishing obscene itera-
ture, in having printed to order, in pamphlet
form, some of the sermons of Brigham Young.
The offensive matter, the Uerbdtinp language
of the Prophet, is incredibly vile.
THE Grand Jury at Jacksonville, Oregon,
has indicted a number of Capt. Jacks Modoc
warriors for murder.
The tribulation of the Mormon leaders, in
view of the possibility of decisive Congress
sional action against their peculiar institution.
is becoming daily more manifest, and their re-
moval from Utah is being seriously discussed.
1t is intimated that negotiations have been
renewed for the exclusive possession of one of
the Sandwich Islands.
A SALT LAKE dispatch states that agents of
the priesthood are circulating for signature a
petition to Congress for the appointment of q
commission to visit Utah and investigate the
matters at issue betweenthe Gentiles and Nor
mons. The object is understood solely to
stave OF legislation till better arrangements
can be made to defeat the Government effort
to enforce the laws. Mrs. E. J. Sutherland,
of French Grove, Ill, was recently choked to
death by a rabbit bone.
THE passenger train going west from Tolono,
H., on the Toledo, Wabash and Western rail-
road, encountered about a dozen illegal fare"
men bound for Sodorus, and upon the conduc-
tor and train-men undertaking to put them
OF, they drew their revolvers and virtually
took possession of the train. arriving at Sodo-
rus, a distance of A miles, in triumph. The
Central trains was arrested at Tolono, charged
with assault and battery, in forcing a man off
his train for refusing to pay full fare....A
general smallpox panic exists at LaSalle, Ill.
A young man was taken i'll at a public ball
there, the other day, and a few hours after
ward was in full eruption with the disease.
the circumstance, and many families left the
place.
The South.
A DREADFUL accident occurred recently at
Richmond, Va A temporary trestle-work
across two of the pillars of a bridge in process
of construction across the James river gave
way, precipitating q party of fifteen workmen
manning six being either drowned or killed.
Two hours before two other workmen were
drowned while attempting to reach the bridge
in a boat ....Tw companies of Chootaw In
dams recently went ON a hunt for horse
thieves, captured sixteen, and, after holding a
council of war, shot six of them
The steamboat Henry A. Jones, from Hous-
ton for Galveston, with a cargo of 442 bales of
cotton, was destroyed by fire on the morning
of February Is, in Galveston Bay. Twenty
one lives were lost; among them were the
captain, first and second clerks, first engineer,
cooper Tn survivors, twenty-seven innum-
Der, were taken to Galveston by the steamer
Henry Forbes.
A recently ran into. the draw
bridge across the Cumberland river at Clarks-
vile, Tenn, completely demolishing the struc-
ture.
Washington.
IT is announced that Minister Nelson is to
be recalled from Mexico. He win be substi-
tuted by Col. Foster, of Indiana. IA large
number of witnesses have arrived from Kansas
to testify in the Pomeroy case
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections have reported that the election of
Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, was invalid, but
they do not report in favor of expulsion, be-
1evlng that he was In some sense the victim of
sharpers. lit Is stated that President Grants
Southern tour will be of the greatest signif-
canoe to the people of that section. The
President c-ontemplates starting on the Goth of
March, and expects to be accompanied by
nearly ell of his Cabinet, besides many dis
tInguished OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, members of
Congress, and others. Richmond, Va, viii
be the first stopping place. 1t is the Presi-
dents purpose to make this the initial move
ment in his next Administration in his at
tempt to harmonic the people of the North
and South He viii look into the condition of
the South socially, and the local government
of the States to be visited. At Richmond and
other places along the inOof his visit prepare
tons are being made to give him an enthusi-
astic reception.
Foreign.
The flag of the new Spanish Republic is to
be violet, white and red....A union between
Spain and Portugal is seriously talked of....
Germany, it is said, will immediately recognize
fha Gnantuh .--H1s " O-z:-@-.I1 -
issue a decree a~bolishing all titles and, decora-
tions. THE Vienna Exposition building is
completed. and goods are arriving.
SPANISH items: A bill abolishing capital
punishment has been introduced in the Ma
tional Assembly. The Royal Guard has been
suppressed. The establishment of the Repub-
lc has been celebrated in Madrid by a grand
illumination ; the streets were rowded, but
there was no discord- Advices from the
provinces report tranquility everywhere, save
IN the districts disturbed by Carlists. 1t is
said that the army is opposed to the Republic,
and favors a monarchy, but is divided in it's
choice for a ruler between the Duke Mont
pensier and the ex-Queen Isabella. Among
the measures contemplated by the Ministry
are the separation of Church and State, and
the appointment of Judges for life. Minister
Sickles has formally congratulated President
Figueras on the establishment of the Republic.
and the dignity with which it was made.
Barcelona has hoisted the flag of the Republic.
The peasants Of Audalusia are clamoring for a
u4NAc1OA VI properly. OaLalOQ1an WOTk10gm0n
are demanding arms for the people, the re-
lease of military conscripts, municipal self
government. shorter hours of work, and higher
wages..-.News of the abdication of Amadeus
caused the most intense excitement in
Havana. Business was wholly suspended,
refusing to sell exchange. The
idea OF a Republic does not please the slave
holders Ia Paris telegram says France will
attempt to compel Spain to sell Cuba; and that
the United States had offered $50, 900, 600 francs,
payable IN two years, but Spain refused. "A
report comes from Berlin that Bismarrk's con-
tinued indisposition Is owing to q number of
poisoned letters he has received. He is SO
troubled with dizziness that he scarcely leaves
the house, and his wife, who always reads cor
~respondence witt him. is suffering from an mn
feebleness.
IT is stated that SO, 900, 600, the entire
amount of the new Erie railroad loan, was ne
gotiated in London in a single The
Portuguese Government organs officially deny
that there is any movement in that country
for the establishment of a Republic.
1t is rumored that some of the great Euro
pean powers have intimated to the Spanish
that they will oppose the forma-
ton of a Federal Republic. An explosion
occurred recently in q coal mine near Stafford
shire, England, by which thirty or forty miners
were killed.
General.
Word comes from Florida that the Govern !