Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-11-13

gold in the country ID get doWn at Sloo,ooo,-
600 of silver, $4,000, 600. During the month
of October last the gold coinage Appropriated
ga, 600, 900, and since April last the coinage
has maint ained a steady increase.
Hon. s. s. Cox, of New York, will, upon the
assembling of Congress, introduce the follow
ing: Whereas, owing to the condition of the
country at present, and the critical aspect Of
financial affairs, and as a bill passed during
the last session of this body for the increase
of the salaries of the members, after due oper-
alton, has been found to be inimical to the
best interests of the people, be it resolved that
said bill for the increase of salaries is hereby
rsscinded."
Foreign.
OFFICIAL vote for Governor of Ohio Allen,
214, 525; Noyes, 21S, III Stewart, 1O,O81 Col
Inns, 9,971....Hon N. P. Banks is a candidate
for the Massachusetts, State Senate. It is
believed Butler has the inside track for the
United States Senate from Massachusetts,.
LONDON has just experienced one of those
dense fogs for which that city has become
proverbial. For two days travel and business
were almost wholly suspended, and many &C
cidents occurred in the streets. The Vienna
Bourse has experienced another monetary
panic. IA Berlin dispatch announces that
Prince ismarck has been reappointed Presi-
dent of the Russian Ministry, with the under
standing that his restoration to the post car
ries with it the control of the whole Cabinet,
an authority he demanded previous to his
resignation. The Count de Chambord has
written a letter in which he refuses to accede
to every reasonable demand of his allies with
respect to the flag. This manifesto is regard
ed as fatal to his aspirations, and the French
Republicans are jubilant, while the Monarch
lists are co~rrespondingly Respondent.
IT is stated that in consequence of the posi-
ton assumed by the Count de Chambord, all
hope of the restoration of the French mon
..ol- go laa, oI.-J0-al fo-3la
SIR WILLIAM Bov1LL, Lord Chief Justice of
the London Court of Common Pleas, is dead.
THE French Monarchists, Disguised with
the contumacy of Count de Chambord, as dis
closed in his recent letter, turned their atten-
ton to the Orleans Princes, and a scheme was
discussed and well matured to declare the
monarchy and make Prince de Joinville Lieu
tenant-General of the Kingdom. But the
Orleans Princes declined any preferment of
break faith with the Bourbons. The failure
of this scheme relegated the reactionists to
their former plan of .prolonging the term
now added a project to prolong. the
authority of the Assembly, and it is
even proposed to prohibit the holding of
The Carlists in Spain have met with several
serious reverses recently, and are terribly de-
moralized. The Emperor of Austria has
conferred the Imperial Order of Francis
the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine
Company, of New York. The Vienna Expo
sition closed on the Cd inst. Financially it has
proved a sad failure 49, Prince Bismarck has
resolved to summon the Catholic bishops who
| refuse to comply with the Government meas
ures in relation to ecclesiastics to tender their
designations.
The total number of admissions to the
Vienna Exhibition from the opening to the
closing day was 1880, OCO. Another serious
accident is reported on the Midland railroad of
England, by which twenty persons were badly
injured.
PARIS dispatch states that the party of the
Left in the Assembly will demand, as a condi-
ton of the prolongation of MacMahon's term,
a defnitive recognition of the Republic.
Meanwhile the Bonapartists, who have hereto
fore acted with the Republicans, will make no
alliance, either with the Right or the Left, but
act by themselves. Eight persons were re-
Gently killed, and a number injured, by an
explosion in a fireworks factory at Lambeth,
England.
Political.
JAMES CoNNoR, the well-known type-found-
Or, has been elected Sheriff Of New York on
the Tammany ticket. Hon. s. s. Cox, of
| New York, has been elected to Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of James
Brooks. The Tammany Democrats carried
New York city. at the he recent election
~ " GOV oNSS
ton in Chicago resulted in the triumph of the
peoples party" by a majority of about
II, O00-the so-called peoples party" being q
| coalition of the Germans and Irish pledged to
the repeal of the Sunday laws, and the throw
ing open of whisky saloons on Sunday.
General.
The baseball championship question is now
settled, and the Boston Red Stockings will fly
the whip pennant another year.
REPORTS from a very considerable portion of
the country, relative to the crops, indicate, as
compared with last year, a loss of 26 per cent.
in corn, a gain of 81 per cent. in wheat, a loss
of 9 per cent. in oats, z per cent. in hay, and
Al per cent. in the pork product. There is,
however, a very considerable increase In the
planted acreage of winter wheat. III Di-
rector of the United States Mint at Philadel-
phia has written a letter explaining the policy
of the Government in issuing silver coin. He
says the proceeding is profitable to the Gov
eminent at the present prices of gold and
silver, and that it is not a scheme for the re-
sumption of specie payment, but simply
a compliance with the mint laws.....
Tom Scott has returned from Europe, and has
been interviewed. He states that he had sue
ceeded in negotiating bonds of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Company in the sum of $4,000
900 before the outbreak of the panic. He was
less successful with the securities of the Texas
Pacific, but raised enough money to continue
the work on the road. He says that the panic
has substantially stopped the sale of American
railroad securities but predicts that the stop
page will be only temporary.
IT is altogether a new feature that working
men should go from this country to Europe in
search of employment: but it is positively
stated that 800 mechanics in Paterson, N. j.,
have bought tickets fer this purpose.
No little excitement was created in the Can
adian Parliament at Ottawa, the other day, by
the revelations of a member of the Opposition
party, who rose in his seat and stated that an
agent of the Ministry had offered him a bride
of S., 900 and a frst-class official position if he
would support the Government.
The California and Texas Construction
Company, which has the contract for building
the Texas Pacific loa1 from the western
boundary of Texas to San Diego, Cal, having
failed to meet it's obligations, 5 90, 900 of its
paper went to protest at Philadelphia the
ether day. The total liabilities of the road are
about 81, O0o, 900. The Texas Pacific is one of
the Tom Scott roads.
THE Wisconsin Methodist Conference
has Just concluded the trial of Presiding
Elder White, of that State, on a charge