Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-09

Deen resumed.
ALL the prisoners confined in the Frankfort,
KY, jail recently escaped by cutting through
the roof Alexandria, Va, had a 800, 600
blaze ON New Years eve.
Washington.
II is said hat a scheme is on foot at the
capital to establish a National Bureau of
naturalization.
The President has signed the bill to reduce
the offices and expenses of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau, and the work of putting the new
law into practical operation will be commenced
at once.
IT is stated that the Government will decide
in favor of Council Bluffs as the terminus of
the Union Pacific railroad. 1t is believed
there is no hope for the admission of Colorado
gress 80. The Washington Republican says a
project will soon be brought forward in the
House for the annexation of San Domingo.
Gen. Francis A. Walker has resigned the Com
m~issionership of Indian Affairs.
Judge Macarthur, of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia, decides that dogs
are not property, but that at common law they
are simply nuisiances.
1t is rumored that Judge Settle, of North
Carolina, will succeed Mr.. Creswell as Postmas-
ter General.
A pamphlet is now in course of preparation,
| intended to be laid before members of Con-
gress, which reviews the workings of the tele-
graph lines, in the Territories and elsewhere,
constructed by the Government, ana when are
worked under Government control. The ami
mus of the document will tend to sustain the
project of bringing all the telegraphs OF the
country under the control of the National Gov
eminent
The Secretary of the Treasury has author
lied the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
buy 81, 900, 900 in bonds and sell $1,00O,0 900 in
coin each week during the month of January.
JUDGE McARrHUR, of the Supreme Court of
| the District of Columbia, decides that dogs are
not property, but that at common law they are
simply n~uisances. /. 1t is rumored that Judge
| Settle, of North Carolina, will succeed Mr..
Creswe1 as Postmaster General IA pamphlet
is now in course of preparation, intended to be
laid before members of Congress, which re-
views the workings of the telegraph lines, in
the Territories and elsewhere, constructed by
tha Government, and which are worked under
Government control. The animus of the doc
ument will tend to sustain the project OF brlng-
ing all the telegraphs of the country under the
control of the National Government. The
Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the
Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy ST.
000, 900 in bonds and sell $1,OOO;OOO IN com
each week during the month of January.
IT is positively announced that Secretary
Boutwell, will retire from the Treasury Depart
ment in February. Assistant Secretary Rich
ardson, Henry Clews and Gov. Morgan are
prominently mentioned as his successors. Fer
contra. it is announced with equal positive
ness that Mr.. Boutwell, will not resign In Feb
ruary. "You pays your money and takes your
CHOICE. Notwithstanding Secretary Bout
wells policy of disposing of two hundred mil
lions of the five per cent. funded loan bonds to
the Syndicate headed by Jay. Cooke d Co. has
met with much criticism, there is ample author
inv for Gauinn that the S6crataTv Int6nd8 to dis
pose of the remainder of the loan by the same
process, he believing that a higher price is OBJ
tanned for the bonds in this way than by Offer
ing them through a number OF Danks--..
Speaker Blaine's friends have made a pretty
thorough canvass of he next House of Repre-
sentatives, and say that he will be reelected
by over a two-thirds vote. Many Southern
members will give complimentary votes to
Horace Maynard.
THE receipts from the internal revenue dur
ing the present fiscal year to Jan. 1, are over
sixty-one millions. r.. Gen. Thomas o. Os-
borne, of Chicago, will be appointed a member
of the Commission to investigate the Mexican
depredations on the Rio Grande. IA Wash
ington dispatch says there will undoubtedly be
three vacancies in the Cabinet on the 4th of
State, Treasury, and Attorney
Generalship.
Foreign.
BY the terms of the bill introduced into the
Spanish Cortes for the emancipation of slavery
in Porto Rico, all slaves are to be free within
months from the passage of the measure,
and their owners are to be enumerated for the
human propert thus confiscated The King
of the Sandwich Islands died Dec. H..
The horse-disease, which has of late been
ravaging the United States with such havoc,
has now reached the West Indies, and made it's
appearance recently in Havana Correspon-
writing from that city state that the
mortality is much greater there than in the
States, owing to the miserable stables,
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poorly ventilated places for the keeping of
horses.
THE cable announces that hostilities have
between Russia and Khiva, and
that 6, 900 Khivese troops are besieging the Rus
sian forts on the Euerba river. Another force
of 10, 600 Khivese are depredating on the Rus
sian fisheries at the mouth of the Euerba...-.
Diplomatic relations between the Swiss Gov
ernment and the Vatican have been broken
off.
FRANCE will pay Germany 200, 000, 900 francs
If her war indemnity on the 18th of January,
md will continue to pay the same amount I'M
May next. During the counting of the
7otes for municipal officers at Tampico, Mexico,
recently, a row occurred, resulting in the kill
ster to the Papal Court has resigned. The
French, and Prussian newspapers are
engaged in a lively controversy over the dis
closures made by Duke de Grammont in re-
,ard to the origin of the late war. The Duke
brings documentary evidence to support the
ruth of his assertion that Austria promised to
France in case Of war with Prussia. He
an Austrian dispatch to the French
Government, in which a pledge is given in the
GLOWING words: FYour cause is ours. We
will contribute to the success of the French
THE Prussian Government threatens with
confiscation all Catholic journals in
hat country, if they publish the insulting
to Germany in the recent Papal al
The CZarovitch of Russia has re-
overed from his recent dangerous illness.
A RUMoR comes from London that a large
russian loan is about to be placed upon the
This information will tend to confirm
he belief that the Gear has determined to
an aggressive policy in Asia upon a
scale. The revenue receipts TO 7
treat Britain for the year ending Dec. 81 :
mounted to $7S, 600, 900. . Prosecutions have :
instituted in Germany against the Roman
journals which published the recent
iapal allocution. The excitement on this sub
sct is increasing throughout the empire. :
3 President of the Prussian Council of Minis i
srs. I
General. '
CHRISTMAS week was unusually prolific of T
ailroad smashups and the slaughter of human e
A train on the Buffalo, Cory and Pitts /