Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-04
NEWS MARY.

The East.
"Boss'' TWEED has been found guilty of all
the counts in the indictment against him, 2O4
in number. For the "a hours ending on the
evening of Nov. 19, there were three suicides
in Boston, two of which were occasioned by
ment Thomas Kinsella, the editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, has been sued by Thomas W.
Field, Superintendent of Public Instruction in
Brooklyn; for 30, 600 damages for debsuching
men are bewailing the most disastrous season
for many years. Twenty-four vessels and 152
lives have been lost. John p. Hale, SO long
identified with the anti-slavery cause of the
country, and SO prominently connected with
our political history, died, at Dover, N. H, on
the 18th inst, aged So.
THE Eureka and Boatmen's Insurance Com
panies of Pittsburgh lose $780, 900 by the
"irregularities' of Robert Finney, agent and
secretary of the institutions.
WILLIAM NJ. TWEED, the champion New York
thief, goes to BlackwelIs Island for twelve
years. This is a prison, or a kind of p~eniten-
tiary, to which the lowest and meanest crimi-
mails are sent. In addition, he was sentenced
to pay q fine of $12, $50. The first official
bank report in New York city since Sept. 20
was made on the 22d of November, and shows
a decrease of $50, 900, 900 in deposits, $50, 000,-
900 in loans, and 50, 4O00, 600 in legal tenders.
MRssRs. JAMES r. OsGooD d Co., the emil
menu DOBLOu puDuSuoTs, udf0 TSLlT6u lEOm IL
publishing business, and the Atlantic Monthly
and Ere1y Saturday will hereafter be issued
from New York by Hurd d Houghton. Our
Young Fouts has been purchased by Scribner
& Co., and will be merged into ST. Nicholas,
their new Juvenile magazine.
INaERsoLL, Harrington and Senator Genet,
confederates Of Boss Tweed in his gigantic
robberies, have been arrested at New York,
and will be tried for their crimes.
The West.
Col. JOIN W. YOUNG, the money-order
forger, who is now serving a term in the Hi
znois Penitentiary at Joliet, corroborates the
that the Captain-General of Cuba some time
ago made a proposition to him to betray into
the hands of the Spanish authorities not less
than 100 refugees, all of whom were to be
slaughtered, and thus strike terror to the
hearts of the revolutionists. Young pretended
to give his assent to the diabolical scheme, and
was to receive $4,000 for his part OF the
bloody transaction. Destructive prairie fires
are reported in Lancaster and adjoining
counties of Nebraska. The merchants of
Jacksonville, Ill, areimporting potatoes from
New York.
OVER 1000, 900 hogs have been received at
the Chicago stock yards since Sept. 1.-The
frat prize in the billiard tournament at Chicago
was captured by Mons. GARNER. the second
and third by Mons. Ubassy and Mons. Cyrine
Dion respectively. A decided French victory.
Northern California and Oregon experienced
a severe earthquake shock on Nov. 22....The
smallpox is making such fearful rayages in
Cleveland that the Board of Health has been
compelled to adopt special precautions to pre-
vent it's spread.
Hon. JAMES R. LOOMS, a member of the
Illinois Legislature from Gsllatin county, was
recently elected from a train on the Chicago
and Alton railroad, for refusing to pay his
fare. Mr.. Loomis rendered his Legislative
pass, but it was refused by the conductor.
Suit for heavy damages is to be brought
against the company by the honorable
member.
WALTER GRAYsoN, a cattle-dealer from the
Creek Nation, was recently robbed, in Kansas
City, of $50, 900.
Washington.
w. J. WILSON, Cashier of the Freedman's
mans Savings Bank, is 's irregular" in his ac-
counts to the extent of some 800, 900. Mr..
Wilson is a mulatto. The Treasury Depart
ment has unraveled the case of the Virginius,
and declares that she was an American vessel,
that her registry was regular, and that she
violated no international law. Twenty of
the best naval vessels will be ready for sea in
a month. The Secretary of the Interior has
the General Land Office that no more than
o~ne-quarter section can be entered by one in
dividual under the action of March 8, 1873, to
encourage the growth of timber. The Secre-
tdTY also a1nrmoQ the decision OF COMMISSION
er Drummond requiring parties to pay a fee of
SO for additional entry underline Soldiers
Homestead act of March 2, 1878, and requir-
ing parties making such additional entry to
appear in person at the local office, and make
the necessary application and affidavit. -.
Some interesting facts concerning the pro-
duction of tobacco and spirits in this country
in the fiscal year 1873 are given in the report
of the Internal Revenue Commissioner. In
all the forms of manufacture taxes were paid
on 116, 450, 934 pounds of tobacco, and on
1907, 134,646 cigars, cheroots, etc: In the
same year there were made GO, 236, 567 gallons
of spirits from other materials than fruit, and
fruits 2, 914, 800 gallons. The revenue receipts
for the year have been $114, 075, 456.
THE Minister of the Colonies reports from
Havana that the restoration of embargoed
property Of American citizens is being dill
gently proceeded with....A Washington dis
patch of the oath says "The Spanish ques-
ton is everywhere discussed with more calm
ness than last week, and the impression seems
to prevail, to a greater extent than here
tofore, that there will be no war be-
tween the United States and Spain. The
tone Of the Spanish Ministry continues friend
ly, and a disposition is manifested to act in all
matters Id controversy In such a way as will
preserve peace between the two nations
1.-THE Secretary of War has been making
preparations in a quiet but energetic way, get
ting the arsenals in shape for active service
and completely arming our Notifications foI
coast defenses. 1t is announced that the
Ordnance Department is prepared on very
short notice to fully equip any army that q
war with Spain might make necessary with
breech-loaders, artillery of all sorts, and am
munition in abundance. Secretary Richardson
has taken occasion again to assure the country
that the Treasury Department will be found
ready when called upon to furnish money to
carry on a war"
THE Patent Office last week issued a patent
to ex-President Johescn for a combination
plane.
PRESIDENT GRANT, in an interview the other
day with a prominent Western Congressman,
spoke most freely and unreservedly on the
subject of the Spanish complication. He re-
GREETED exceedingly that he was hampered by
the act of 1868, passed for the purpose OF
tying the hands of Andrew Johnson, and
nothing but the law in question prevented
him from taking prompt action and demand
ing the amplest reparation. The President
expressed himself in favor of free Cuba and
ultimate annexation The Secretary of the
Treasury announces that hereafter silver coin
will be paid only for the fractional parts of q
dollar, instead of i'll sums not exceeding IS.
Foreign.
THE capture of the ~Virginius and the
slaughter of her passengers was celebrated in