Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-18
NEWS SUM MARY.


author of the scandalous reports about Henry
Ward Beecher, has confessed to their falsity,
and the two have shakon hands and agreed to
bury the Ratchet. -. The device of the Penn
%sylvania Constitutional Convention for giving
Philadelphia a fair election has miscarried.
The election commission appointed by the
convention has been unanimously decided by
the Supreme Court to be in conflict with the
State laws, which the convention had no au-
thority to override.
THE Spanish war steamer Arapiles is de-
layed in the dry-dock in the Brooklyn navy
yard owing to the food-gates being out of
repair. A coal barge has also been sunk inn
mediately in front of the food-gates, which
will have to be removed before the gates can
be repaired.
The west.
The Western railroads are gradually return
ing to the free pass system. The Parliament
buildings of Manitoba, located at Fort Garry,
were destroyed by fire Dec. 4.
LARGE numbers of Mormon converts who
came from the old country and settled in
Utah last year are returning disappointed and
Disguised T h propeller City of Detroit
went down in Saginaw Bay on the night of the
4th inst. At last accounts nothing had been
heard of the passengers and crew, and it was
believed they had been lost.
The South.
A TERRIFIC and destructive tornado swept
over a portion of West Tennessee on the Sd
inst.
A PARTY of six desperadoes were recently
pursued by citizens of Sulphur Rock, Ark,
and four of the band killed.
Washington.
THE President has communicated to Con-
gress a letter from Buenaventura Baez, claim
ing to be President of the Republic of San
L.. GI4 IL r
ment take the Republic under its protection.
THE report of the Department of Agri-
culture for November ard December shows
that the average tobacco crop, in comparison
with last year, is 81. Afalling off of II, OOO. 600
bushels in potatoes is indicated. The hay
crop is 500, 900 tons less than last year.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 7th inst.
says of the Spanish complication: Whatever
may have been suggested heretofore as to the
programme, it can now be asserted that the
Virginius will be delivered to one of our naval
vessels within the next ten days at a Cuban
port in open day and the surviving passengers
and the crew will be transferred to q United
States ship at Santiago de Cuba in an equally
open manner. The vessels to perform this
service will soon be. if they have not already
been, designated by the Secretary of the
Navy."....1 1t is stated that the disposition of
the Geneva award promises to become the
subject of animated quarreling in Congress,
as soon as the House settles down to business.
A number of gentlemen have bills on the sub
ject, and it seems that no two of them can
agree as to what shall be done with the S15,-
COO, 900, which is regarded much in the nature
of a lucky windfa1l.
UNDER the title of GA bill to provide for
the permanent and cheap transportation of
passengers and freight between the cities of
New York and Chicago" Mr.. Logan, in the
Senate, and MIR. Farwell, in the House, have
petitioned Congress to grant a charter for an
airline railroad between the above cities. The
provisions of the charter are On behalf of
the corporators, a remission of duties on ma
terial used in its construction the company,
in consideration of which remission, agrees to
carry Government freight and passen-
gers at rates to DO fixed by Congress,
and all other freight at not more than II
cents per one hundred weight, and passengers
at29 cents per mile. 1t is reported that Presi-
dent Grant will take sides with Gen. Sickles
in his brush with the State Department. 800.
A Washington telegram of the 9Th says: "The
unofficial press reports continue to give a war
Like tone to news from Spain and Cuba. On
the other hand, Secretary Fish stated to-day
the confidence of the Government in the inten-
ton of the CASTELAR, Government to faithfully
carry ont the provisions of the protocol recent
ly agreed upon is undiminished, and that they
have strong reasons for believing that the Cas-
telar Government will be able to do so."....
The project to divide the State of Illinois into
three judicial districts will be earnestly pressed
upon the present Congress. Two bills for that
purpose have been introduced in the House.
THE Secretary of the Navy has addressed
a communication to the House of Representa-
tives asking for an extra appropriation of
$14, 600, 600 to meet the increased expenses of
his department for the current year.
The Postal Telegraph scheme has been in
troduced into the Senate in the shape of a bill
proposed by Senator Ramsey, providing for
the transmission of correspondence by tele-
graph 1t is said to be materially the same as
the Hubbard claims . Senator Morrilrs bill
for the resumption of specie payment au-
thorizes the negotiation of a loan of $780,
O00,O 0 gold bonds at 6 per cent. interest, the
proceeds to be used in redeeming United
States non-bearing-interest notes in gold
whom presented in sums of not less than 800,
the notes to be reissued at the discretion of
the Secretary of the Treasury in payment of
all Government dues except United States
bonds and the interest thereon. The bill also
repeats the limitation of national bank circu-
lation, and provides for S100, coo, 900
loan-certifcates, bearing 3.65 per
cent; interest, which may be held
of one-half taeir reserve required by law.
A Washington dispatch says: "Mark w. Della
hay, the United States Judge of Kansas, has
been preferred against him that he is a COM
mon drunkard. Crozier, the present pro tenn
pore Senator from Kansas, is indorsed to fill
the vacancy-"....A Washington. telegram of
the 10th inst. says: 1.-The President, in con-
versation to-day with a number of prominent
gentlemen, was at pains to express his entire
confidence in the speedy settlement of the
rgln1u case in a manner which would be
entirely satisfactory to our own PEOPLE and
highly honorable to both nations. Tie tenor
OF his remarks was that recent advices are
such as to lead to the opinion he had express
ed. He said, finally, quite emphatically, and
as if to sum up: Gentlemen, there Will be no
war; 1T is stated that the European mem
bers of the Syndicate have signifed their in
tention to withdraw if Jay Cooke & Co. con-
tinue to be members. 49,. There is the best of
authority and of reason, says a Washington
correspondent, for believing hat no essential
changes in the tariff will be made by Congress
this year. There is said to be no probability
that the duties on tea and coffee will be re-
stored this winter, although there is alleged to
be a strong movement to secure it.
Foreign.
MINISTER S~IcKLEs, it is announced, is about
to ~resign....A Havana Dispatch contradicts
the report that Cap~tain-General J~ovellar and
Burriel had resigned. The latter is again in
command at Santiago. There is a much better
feeling among the Spanish populace, and it is
believed no serious opposition will be inter
posed to the carrying out of the protocol. The
American Consulate at Havana is guarded by
troops. An Intellectual attempt had
been made to burn the Virginius.. -.
Capt. 8urmont, of the lost steamer Vile du
Hayre, is not placed in any better position
than at first by the later evidence concerning |
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