Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East,

The East.
A LARGE and important meeting of promi-
nent New York merchants was held in that
city, last week, to discuss the question of
"chean transportation" The resolutions
adopted begin with the organization of an as
ISOLATION to be known as the New York Cheap
Transportation Association. After alludlng to
the rapid increase of the agricultural and manu-
featured produce of the country, the resolu-
tions set forth that the policy of the Govern
ment should be to protect the producing inter-
est and from corporations and mo
nopolies, which tend to subvert the rights of
the people. Double-track railways, exclusively
for freight, are pronounced absolutely neces-
sary, and reform in the management of rail-
ways is q demanded. The frequent and arbitrary
changes in freight rates are denounced and
uniform rates demanded. A resolution was
also adopted sympathizing with the producers
to obtain cheaper transportation. and
pledging hearty cooperation in all just
and reasonable efforts to that end......
TIL most remarkable sale of short-horn cattle
ever made in this country or Europe took
place at Utica, N. Y, on the 10th inst. The
prices paid were One hundred and
eleven head of cattle, comprising the cele-
brated New York Mills herd, the property of
the Hon. Samuel Campbell, were sold at auc-
ton for an aggregate sum of 1880, $50. The
Eighth Duchess of Geneva brought the start
ling price of $40. 600. The Tenth Duchess of
Geneva sold for S35, 000, and $50, 600 was given
for the First Duchess of Oneida. The average
price paid for ten of the Duchess tribe was
$21, 700 each. This herd was beyond question
the most valuable ever got together, and it's
sale attracted fancy stock-breeders from every
part of this country as well as from Europe. The
three highest prices were paid by Englishmen.
IAN important female witness in the Stokes
case has been arrested in New York. 1t is
claimed that she picked up and concealed the
pistol with which Fisk was trying to shoot
Stokes at the time the latter killed him IA
Butter and Cheese Exchange was formally
opened in New York city last week: The adj
mission fee is S25... William g.. Fargo has
been elected President of the SANTANA Bay
Company, vice Alden 3. ~Stockwell, resigned.
....The Warehouse and Security Company, of
New York, has collapsed. The assets of the
liabilities to 81, 500, 600. The Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railway owed the company
81, DOC, 600.
A DEsPIcABLE piece of vandalism was lately
perpetrated at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, by some
unknown miscreants. The vault containing
the remains of the late Chancellor Livingston
and others of his family was broken open, the
collins destroyed, the bones of the dead scat
tered about, and the silver handles and plates
of the collins stolen.
WILLIAM BR1NsTEAD and Benjamin F.
Welsh, members of the Board of Works of
Jersey City, charged with corruption in office,
have been tried and found guilty. The bal
loon in which Prof. Wise was to attempt an
aerial voyage across the Atlantic has col
lapsed, and with it the enterprise has suffered
a like fate. A New York dispatch of the 18th
thus tells why and now the project came to
naught: "An immense crowd visited the
Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, this afternoon,
to witness the departure of the big balloon for
Europe. The process of initiation commenced
at an early hour this morning asd continued
steadily until ten minutes past 4. when the
balloon suddenly swayed to the north, ripped
half way around, with a great tearing noise,
and fell fiat upon the ground. The immense
volume of gas which had been pumped into
it, nearly 400, 600 feet, escaped at the same
moment, nearly suffocating those who stood
on the inside. Inspector Polk, Mr.. Goodsel
and Police Commissioner Briggs had but the
instant before shifted their positions to the
eastward, and thus escaped being buried in
the netting and canvas. The crowd made a
general rush over the ropes. with the inten-
ton of tearing up the canvas into small pieces
and carrying them off as m~ementoes, but a
strong force of police On the ground charged
and drove them back. Mr.. Stiner, who had
would be all folly to attempt another iDfla-
ton, as the bag was not made of the proper
material. So the enterprise is abandoned for
the present"
KENYON, Cox & Co., heavy Wall street oper-
ators, have suspended. -. Vice-President vii
son is almost entirely restored to health. -.
Hon. John P. Hale is on his legs again IA
counterfeit of the new ffty-cent note is in
circulation, and is said to have made its ap-
pearance two days after the genuine was
issued. Prof. Wise publishes in the New
York papersa card defending his theory of an
easterly air current, and announcing his
readiness to start for Europe at any time in a
silk balloon. 1t is announced that
the Graph managers will Immediately have
a silk balloon, in which Prof.
will attempt the Atlantic voyage
1t is said sufficient evidence has been
found to secure the Indictment and conviction
of the ring that has been plundering Brooklyn.
THE Eclectic Life Insurance Company, of
New York, has collapsed. The earnings of
the Erie railroad from Jan. 1 to Aug. 81, 1872,
were S12, 167, 249; same time in 1873, 81, $685.
ISL decrease, 1881 .28S.
The West.
SATANTA and Big Tree have arrived at Fort
Sill. The meeting with their families is said
to have been quite affecting IA bold ATTEMPT
was recently ma Ee to rob Paymaster Brooks,
of the United States Army, nesr River Bend,
Col, while en- route to the camp of the Sixth
Cavalry to pay the troops. One of the robbers
was mortally wounded and the others put to
flight. Lieut.. Willmore and a Mrs. Roberts,
who were in the ambulance with Major Brooks,
were slightly wounded. The robber that was
shot is an ex-army officer-G. W. Graham
formerly a captain in the Tenth Cavalry.
A YOUNG man named Mills was literally
blown to atoms by an explosion of n~itro-glycer-
inc, at Negaunee, Mich, a few days ago..
At the celebration of Perry's victory, at Day
ton, Ohio, one of the 12-pounders with which
the veteran gnnners were firing a salue was
prematurely~ discharged. killing Peter Glenner,
late of the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Battery,
MORALLY wounding Elias Anderson, Thirty
second Ohio Volunteer Battery, and injuring
the hand of William Blair, gunner. Death
has just robbed Evansville, Ind, of her old
est citizen-Isaac Sluder, aged no. T
recent convention of pork-packers in Chi
cago was largely attended, delegates from
every part of the country being present. Their
ext meeting will be held in Louisville on the
9th of September next. The General Freight
Agents of Western railroads, at their conven-
ton in Cleveland, last week, adopted the fol-
lowing schedule of freight rates from the
points named to New York:
Cents.I Cents.
C eveland, O..---......35 Chicago, n....-.......50
Cincinnati, O..-.......45 Champaign, nI........6O
Columbus, o.. ....4 40 lDanville, SIS
Dayton, O..-.-...-...42i Decatur, nl............60
Toledo, O.-------..--.3T Jefinton, m...........68
Charlottesville, Ind. so lJacksonville, m........60
Jonesville, Ind. 80. IA NATION, Ii. ........... 60
Fort Wayne, Ind..-.--.45 Peoria, Il.-..-..-..-...55
Alton, Ill.,. SO lPekin, m..............55
Cairo, Hl...-...-. 80 Pavia, Il.........----6O
Hannibal, Mo. .........6 60 Quincy, n.............6 go
Ind sc, Rock Island. m..... 60