Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-23
ing his (Hagan's) sister. The yellow fever
scourge is rapidly abating in Memphis.
WASHINGTON.

ing his CHagan's) sister. The yellow fever
scourge is rapidly abating in Memphis.
washington.
THE editorial room of the National Era
Erred Douglass paper) was the other day the
scene of a lively "milr' between Louis Doug
lass, managing editor of the paper, and a t
colored man named Greener, in which the son
of his father succeeded in putting a head on
the Greener. 1t is rumored that the affair
will end in a duel. Treasury officials say it
will be necessary t. issue SO, 600, 900 or 80, O00,-
600 of the S44, 600, 900 reserve, to meet the
current expenses of the Government for the
present month.
The usual quietness that pervades the ma
tional capital during the recess of Congress
was rudely broken on Saturday afternoon, the
10th inst. by a tirst-class sensation-the at
tempted assassination of ex-senator Pomeroy
at the hands of ex-Congressman Martin +.
Conway. Pomeroy, it seems, was walking up
one of the avenues, when he met Conway,
who, without a word of warning, drew a re-
volver and fired three shots in rapied success
sion at the corpulent ex-senator, one of which
took effect in the right breast, just below the
nipple. Hethen put up his pistol and started
to walk off, but was stopped by Mr.. Jerome
b. StlilsGn, a prominent Journalist, who
demanded of him an explanation of his muir
derous conduct. Conway simply replied, "He
has ruined myself and family" surrendered
his pistol to Stillson, and accompanied that
| gentleman to the station-house. Pomeroy,
who had fallen to the pavement, was
assisted to a carriage and driven to his resi-
dence, where an examination revealed the
gratifying fact that his wound was simply
an abrasion. The ball had passed through two
thicknesses of his coat, also his vest and
shirt. and its force was thereby so far spent
that it Produced no further damage than
merely breaking the skin, and scarcely bring
ing blood. One of the shots passed through
the ex-Senator's hat, closely grazing his head,
the other missing him entirely. Pomeroy says
he never had any controversy with Conway,
| and has not the IemOteSt idea of the cause of
the attack. Conway has not resided with his
wife for several years, she having left him on
account of his failure to support her. She
is a clerk in the Treasury Department, having
received the appointment on the recommends
ton of Pomeroy. Conway is a native of
Baltimore, and a printer by trade. He
studied law, emigrated to Kansas, and was
elected to Congress-, having served one
term. He was afterward appointed by
President johnson Consul to Marseillss,
but was removed by President Grant.
1t is evident that Conway is weak in both mind
and body, and was laboring under an attack
of temporary insanity at the time..-.1 1t is au-
thoritatively announced that Senator Conk-
ling will not accept the office of Chief Justice
if rendered him, but that he will retire from
public life at the end of his Senatorial term,
and devote himself to the practice of law.
A Washington dispatch says 1.-THE President
having been asked a question to-day in rela-
ton to the Chief Justiceship, replied that he
had consulted with no one as to a selection,
and repeated what he heretofore said, namely,
that in making a choice he would look to the
interests OF the country AT large, ana enu6aVCr
to make one which would be generally ac-
ceptable."
The President has issued a general amnesty
to all army deserters who return to duty before
January 1, 1874.
The members of the Evangelical Alliance
visited the capital ON the 14th inst, and
called on the President in a body. Rev. DIR.
Tiffany, in behalf of the delegates, addressed
the President, who, III response, spoke as fol-
lows ct affords me very great pleasure to
welcome this Alliance to the capital of this
great nation, which L feel is the freest of all
nations to work out the problem of your mis-
sion." The members of the Alliance were
then severally introduced. After the hand
shaking was gone through with, the Rev.
Nashrayan ~Sheshadra, of Bombay, delivered
a short speech, in which he expressed himself
as very much struck with what he had seen in
this country, and especially with the reception
the President had given him. The interview
was brought to a rather abrupt termination on
account of the President being compelled to
leave for Toledo, to attend the soldiers re-
union. The Secretary of the Treasury has
announced his determination to take no fur
Their action at present toward the replacement
of worn, mutilated and successfully counter
feited circulating notes of national banks.
Foreign.
IT is announced that Tom. Scott has nego-
tiased a loan of $40, 600, 900 in Europe for the
. TexasS Pacific railroad. Among the docu-
kments read at the trial of Bazaine is one show
fang that there were II, 900, 900 cartridges in
the arsenal of Metz, of which 1, 000, 600 had
been used when the place capitulated, and
that when Bazaine said he had no ammuni-
ton, sthe fact was he had no intention of fight
ing....A person claiming to be Arthur Orion
has arrived in London. -. The Spanish Carlists
claim a great victory over Gen. Moriones near
Pampeluna.
The West India Islands were recently visited
by a cyclone of unusual violence, which did
much damage to shipping. Among the YES
sells wrecked was the iron steamship Missouri,
from Liverpool for New Orleans, which broke
in two off the Bahamas. The passengers and
crew were saved. In the city of Havana many
houses were flooded and several persons
drowned, the sea breaking..n doors and washing
the furnitue away. The separation of Church
and State has been formally decreed by the
Mexican Congress. There are many Ameri-
cans in Vienna in a destitute condition., and
Minister Jay has written to Washington asking
that provision be made for sending them
home. Special elections to fill vacant seats
in the French Assembly have just taken place
have carried all of them by overwhelming ma
~jorities. -. There has been an immense OPEN
air demonstration at Cork i'll favor of Fenian
amnesty, home rule, and the rights of labor.
Twenty thousand people participated in the
proceedings, which are described as very dis
orderly.
THE report of the death of Nine. Won Bis
marck has been officially contradicted. The
lady has not even been i'll. 1.-The insurgent
vessels have been badly beaten in a naval en-
counter with the Spanish fleet off Cartagena.
The rebels fought desperately, but lacked dis
cipline. They lost thirteen killed and forty
seven wounded. ..Pere Hyacinthe has been
elected one of the three cures in Geneva by
the Old Catholics. IN. Ranc, a member of the
French Assembly, has been tried by a council
of war for his participation with the Com
munists, and sentenced to death. The man
who went to London claiming to be Arthur
orion has disappeared. b German Gov
eminent has ordered the expulsion of all emf
grafton agents from the Empire.
Political.
The New York Liberal Republican State Con-
~vention, which met at Elmira last week, reafirm-
ed the principles set forth in the Cincinnatiplat-
form last year, and nominated a full ticket for
State offices, as follows: Secretary of State,
Diedrich Willard Comptroller, Nelson K. Hop
kins Attorney General, Daniel Pratt Treas
urer, Thomas H. Raires Canal Commissioner
James Jackson Engineer. Sylvanus H. Sweet;
State Prison Inspector, NJ. K. Platt. In re-
gard to the Chief Justiceship, the Indianapolis
Journal (Republican) says: eve are enabled
to state, on private information of a trust