Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
NEWS SUM MARY.
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TwEED's Broadway (New York; property,
consisting of five lots, has been sold under
foreclosure for s4S3, 600. Tweed paid 1925, 900
for it,. The New York Legislature has re-
fused to repeal the usury laws. IA citizen of
New York gave the United States in his will
half a million dollars toward the payment of
the national debt, but the courts of that State
have declaredth the bequest invalid. .Stokes'case
has been taken to the Court of Appeals on a
writ of error from the decision of the Supreme
Court refusing him a new trial "A prominent
member of the Boston Board of Brokers, a
young man So years old, b has hitherto
borne an unsullied NAME, has been arrested
for forgery. His method was to alter the
figures of stock-certificates, raising certificates
for one, two, and three shares, to one hun
dred, two hundred, and three hundred, re-
spectively- By these operations he las swim
died various parties out of $2O0,OOO: The
375, 900 penny postal-cards sent to the New
York Postoffice were sold in two days, and
another batch of 1000, 900 has been called
for by the Postmaster. Most of those which
have appeared in the mails bear advertise
ments.
LUIGI LUs1aNANI was hung at Morristown,
N. j., on the 18th inst, for the murder of his
wife; and ON the following day Michael Nixon
suffered a like penalty in New York city for
the killing of Charles Pfeifer. =. Rev. DIR. Ben
jamin T.. Paddock has been elected Episcopal
Bishop for the diocese of Massachusetts,.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, the editor of
Harper's Weekly, and late member of the Civil
Service Commission, is filling the pulpit of the
Unitarian Church at New Brighton, Staten
Island, during the absence of the regular pas
tor. The fifty-seyenth anniversary of the
American Bible Society was held in Philadel-
phia last week. From an address made by
Rev. DR.. Fellows, of Madison, Wis, it appears
that there are 5000 auxiliary bodies in the
United States that more than 80, 600, 900 of
Bibles have been distributed through the
agency of the society, and it is now sending
out daily 5000 Bibles; In the match game
DAILY and Cyrille Dion, for the championship
of America, the former won by 241 points.
Liquor is sold at S,4O3 places in New York
city. i. =. Charles Francis Adams in-judged ex-
altation of Mr.. Seward at the expense of
President Lincoln, in his recent eulegy, has
called forth another protest. Montgomery
Blair, who was Postmaster-General under Mr..
Lincoln, says that gross injustice has been
done Mr.. Lincoln by Mr.. Adams, and that
Secretary Welles shares the same opinion.
SERIOUS charges are made by New York mer-
chants and shippers against Consul-General
Archibald, and petitions have been sent to the
London Board of Trade asking his recall.
A negro barber named Jackson the other day
murdered his white mistress, in New York, by
beating her in a shocking manner with a club.
1t is said Hon. William M. Evarts, while
not seeking the Chief Justiceship, would
gladly accept if it should be rendered him.
There seems to be some feeling in the North
ern Presbyterian Assembly, in session at Balti-
more, against the Board of Publication of the
Church. Ne such charges of dishonesty and
fraud are preferred against it as have made
the Methodist Book Concern an object of at
tention. 1t is accused only of expanding the
church moneys and rendering no account
thereof. course which, it is urged with
plausibility, ne body of men, however respect
able, have q right to pursue.
OAKEs AMEs left large requests for educa-
tional purposes. IN eronaut named Donald
son recently made an ascension from Reading,
Pa, in a balloon made of brown paper, and
landed safely. Nearly eight thousand emil
grants arrived at New York from Europe in
ono day, recently. They were nearly all bound
for the West
AT New York, the other day, George Francis
Train was tried on the charge of publishing
obscene literature. The jury acquitted him
on the ground of insanity, and no sooner was
tho verdict pronounced than the presiding
Judge issued an order committing him to tho
insane asylum. Gov. Dix thinks that to in
clude beer and cider in prohibitory liquor laws
can have no other effect than to increase the
use of stronger drinks, and thereby swell the
very evils of intemperance which such legisla-
ton seeks to lessen. For this reason he has
vetoed the Local-Option bill lately passed by
the New York Legislature e. "A great struggle
is prevailing in Shamokin, Penn, for the pos
session of over 10, 600 acres of land in the
anthracite coal regions, valued at $40, 000, 600.
One party has burned three houses which the
other side had erected, and retaliation is now
Threatened.
The West.
MoDoC war items Gems. Davis and Gillem
had a narrow escape from drowning while
crossing Tule lake during a heavy storm.
Gen. Davis will not attack the Modocs in
their new stronghold until he receives rein
The troops are suffering from
want of water. The Modocs lost two braves
in the late fight. They entered the fight
stripped to their breech-clouts.
CHARLES MORTIMER, recently hung at Sacra-
mento, Cal, was the murderer of eight women.
Joseph O'Neil was hung at Mt. Carroll,
ILL.,, on Friday, the 10th, for the murder of
Hiram Rexford, AT Oskaloosa, Iowa, re-
Gently, a little two-year-old child was attacked
and frightfully mutilated by a rooster.
Eighteen buildings were destroyed by the re-
cent fire at Joliet, Ill. The loss is about
the other day fell across a "a inch circular saw
operating at full speed. The saw took off his
left arm and heel, sawed into his body, cutting
ran so yards, and fell dead.....A new railroad
imbroglio of a rather fierce description has
been started in Wisconsin by the refusal of the
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad Company to.
accept the st. Croix land-grant on the terms
of the recent act of the Legislature. The
reason assigned for the refusal is, that the
title of the State to the lands is in litigation.
from the lava beds state that the
Modocs are intrenched in the Crater Butte.
Capt. Hasbrouck is camped within watching
distance OF the enemy with a force OF 21O men,
where he awaits the arrival of Col. Mason. 1t
is intended that the two commands shall ANAL
gamate under Col Mason, and hold the Indi-
ans at bay until mortars are forwarded and a
scout is made ar0nARthe southern boundry of
the beds. At last accounts the Indians were
fortifying their present position, with tho
evident intention of giving battle the first OPP
~portunity.
Mrs. ELLEN LARSEN and her husband quar-
relied about some family matter, and the wife
ended the wrangle by knocking her liege down
with an iron poker and then stabbing him
with a dirk knife, from the effects of which he
died. All this in Chicago.
THE Yellowstone river has been found to be
navigable for a large part of its course. An
exploring expedition under Gen. George A.
Forsyth recently assembled the river in one of
the largest of the Upper Missouri m
MARY Jane Hart died at Troy, Ohio, last
week, at the age of ITO years. The Wabash
Elevator, at Toledo, was recently destroyed by
fire. Loss, $40, 900. +. :. Several hundred
Apaches have fed from the Camp Verde
Arizona) reservation, and gone on the war
path again.
ST. JOSEPH, No., is happy over the compile
ton of the new railroad bridge across the
Missouri river at that point. Gov. Booth, of
California. is raising n companv of sbarD-