Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-24

i'll u few days. The new note will be a quarter
of an inch shorter and a quarter of an inch
wider than the one now in circulation.
LEADERS of the colored people of the Dis
trict of Columbia have put themselves on
record as opposed to the policy of mixed
schools. The statement il reiterated by
Washington correspondents that Roscoe Conk-
ling is the coming Chief Justice. -. Associated
Press telegram: "Tho internal revenue re-
ceipts for the year of about SIS. 000, 900 in eX-
cess of the estimates will enable the Internal
Revenue Bureau to make a good showing in
its next report to Congress, but the exhibit
ought really to be two per cent. less than it
is."-...The Bureau of Agriculture has given
orders for the purchase of 400 bushels of
CHILEAN wheat, andthe same quantity of French
wheat, for the purpose of meeting requests
from various parts of the country. The de-
mand for seeds has latterly been so great That
the treasury of the institution is exhausted.
MRS. DIR. MARY E.. WALKER has been ap-
pointed to a ~clerkship in Gen. Spinner's
Office. The Commissioner of Customs has
just prepared a report for the use of the
Secretary of the Treasury on the amounts of
customs frauds on the Government for the
fiscal year ending the 30th of last month.
These frauds represent cascs settled by the
department, and show to what an alarming
extent the system of swindlinS is carried on
The total amount of the frauds for the year
is 81, 432. 100, of which LILO, 900 is credited
to the port of New York. Taking into account
the fact that but a comparatively small pro-
portion of the frauds committed are discover
ed, the exhibit is truly a serious II e....Re-
ports of the condition of the national banks of
the country show them generally in good con-
dition, and disclose an easy money market.
Indian Commissioner Smith has started ON a
visit to the Western tribes of Indians.
Foreign.
FRANCE has just paid to Germany the sec
ond ~installment of $50, 600, 900 francs of the
last milliard of the war indemnity. There now
remains to be paid only so, 900, 900 francs, which
is due Sept. s, 1873. The Spanish Govern
ment has issued another manifesto declaring
that the rebellion must be crushed at once,
and, availing itself of the extraordinary powers
granted by the Cortes, avows a determination
TO keep all soldiers in service until the end of
the war, whether their terms of enlistment
have expired or not. An attempt was re-
Gently made to burn the Vienna Exposition
building How strangely this. reads, coming
from Spain, lately the land of chivalry and
punctilio "The Liutenant-Colonel of a regi-
ment stationed at Tarifa has been cashiered
for challenging Senior Campos to fight a duel"
THE Canadian Pacific railway scandal con-
tinues to agitate our northern neighbors. 1t
has transpired that Smith and McMullen, of
Chicago, obtained the contract for building
the road on the basis of a subsidy of $40, 000,-
600 gold, 500, 600, 900 of Dominion bonds in
dorsed by tho British Government, and 3d.
600, 900 acres of land.
BARON REUTERS contract with the Shah of
I0rSld rs likely U DTONC u ldlluIO dlIoT oil.
Reuter- spent over ST., 500, 600 in brides, loans
and guarantees to get his concession, but
jealous London financiers have beset the Shah
and about persuaded him to annul the con-
tract. TIL ministerial crisis i'll Italyis at last
terminated, Minghetti having succeeded, after
much difficulty, infoIminga Cabinet .Sadree
Fem, the Persian Foreign Minister, is Ill dis
grace, and will probably be dismissed and exc
cuted on his return to Teheran.
IT is again announced that Bismarck is about
to retire from King Williams Cabinet. The
cholera is spreading through Germany.
The news from Spain is exciting. There have
been two serious engagements between tho
Carlists and the Government troops, i'll ono of
which the former were successful, while i'll the
other a victory is claimed for the latter In
tho meantime tho Government has another
formidable difficulty to deal with in an demon
~stration by the Internationals who have taken
possession of the town of Alcoy, burned go
houses and committed other outrages. Bar
on Reuter- pronounces the report in regard to
his Persian contract entirely false....A mar
riage has finally been arranged between the
u of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess
Maria ~AleXandrowna, only daughter of the
Emperor of Russia: - 'Kelley, the Herald
correspondent, has been released at Madrid.
IA ~Constantinople dispatch says that the
statement that the Sultan had issued a frman
granting extraordinary powers and privileges
OF the Khedive of Egypt is discredited i'll di-
plomatic circles.
THERE was a tumultuous scene in the French
Assembly, the other day, the disorder becom-
ing SO great that the President was obliged to
suspend the sitting. = Spanish items: Five
Thousand peasants at Alpena nave joined the
Carlists, driven thereto by the excesses of the
Republicans-It is rumOred that the Inter
nationalists have risen in C~arthagena and made
themselves masters of the town-The re-
port of the International insurrection in Alcoy
is confirmed. The mob assassinated the
Mayor and Town Collector and dragged their
bodies through the streets-There is serious
trouble in Malaga. While a bull-fight was in
progress, the people of the city rose against
the municipality and assassinated several
Councillors-The abolition of slavery in
Cuba will be realized by a special law.
1t is stated that the Pope will soon bestow
Cardinal hats upon Archbishop Manning, of
England, and two American Archbishops...
Russia pursues the same policy of Cancellation
in Khiva as in the other Khanates of Turkestan
which she has overcome. The Khan of Khiva
has been restored to his throne. His place is
assured to him by tho support of the Russian
troops, and he is assisted i'll the work of adj
ministration by a council appointed by Gen.
By this treatment the Russians
have already obtained the abolition of slavery
in Khiva, and have thereby restored to the
Shah 10, 600 of his subjects enslaved by the
Khiyans. The "Sick Man of Turkey" OH
account of pressing business at home, is COM
PEELED to forego his contemplated visit to
Vienna.
THE Spanish Government has issued a de-
cree restoring to the Cuban inrurgents and
their sympathizers the estates confiscated by
the edicts of sequestration promulgated by
previous administrations -. MacMahon has
been interviewed by the irrepressible newspa-
per reporter, and forced to unbosom his views
of State policy. His policy has two cardinal
points-Italy and the army. France must not
allow the Pope to be expelled from his
dominions everything that can be done to
prevent hat shall be done. AS for the army,
therein lies the only hope for the future of
France.-..A curious story comes over the
cable of a plot to rob the Shah of his jewels
and his begemmed overcoat. The parties who
figure in this Newgate tale are an English
Colonel, u Jew diamond-broker an Armenian
money-1ender of Aleppo, and a tirst-class bur-
glar. The Shah was to be enticed into the
Coloners house to see his pretty daughter,
and then was to be relieved of his valuables.
Owing TO the presence of mind of a London
detective, the scheme failed There has
been a spirited debate in the English House
of Lords ON a proposition to appoint IL COM
mittee to devise legislation to check the tend
ency of the Church of England toward Catholi-
cism. The motion was rejected
The German Government has invested an
additional 50, 900, 900 in United States bonds,
making $12, 600, 900 in all The rinderpest
has become 80 destructive i'll Russia that Ger
many has forbidden all importations of cattle
from Russian ports....It is said Don Carlos
will soon re-enter Spain, and assume personal