Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-16
THE statement of the condition of the Union

The statement of the condition of the Union
National (Coolbaugh's) Bank, of Chicago Gin
liquidation), is Almost gratifying one to its
creditors. Their total assets are SO, 46S, 504. 81
liabilities, 50, 203, 2 500; excess of assets,
81, 255, IT'S. o.. Over SIG, 900, 900 in currency
was received Mt Chicago by express between
the 25th of September and the I'd of October.
1.-The new Michigan State House will be
one of the finest public edifices in the coun-
try. unsophisticated gentleman hailing
Sc, 900 i'll Chicago, last week, by two gam
blers The Chicago Board of Trade gave
81, 600 to the Shreveport sufferers THE
amount of bullion received at San Francisco
from the mines during the quarter was nearly
$40, 600, 900, and for the last nine months S24,-
900, COO.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette has been sold
at auction to Joseph A. Corby for S25, 600.
The Third National Bank of Chicago, which
suspended during the late financial unpleas-
antness, has resumed business. The sur
uvors of Capt. Jacks tribe have been sent to
Fort Russell, Wyoming Territory. .Ex-Con-
gresham John Law, of Evansville, Ind, is
dead, aged T7.....Mrs. Horton, of Van Vert,
O., the other day left her infant in a cradle
near the fireplace, and went out to witness a
circus procession. When she returned her
child was burned to a crisp.
The South.
The New Orleans Picayune estimates the
cotton crop at not less than 4, 600, 600 bales.
The first Ku-Klu trial before the North Caro-
lima State Courts has Just come off at Raleigh,
N. c., and resulted in the conviction of three
persuasive white and one colored-of muir
der in the first degree. They were sentenced
to be hung on the 18th of November. ...J. A.
Stephens, cashier of the st. Louis Mutual Life
Insurance Company, has decamped with Sc, 500
of the Institutions funds. The cotton crop
of the Rio Grande valley has been seriously
damaged by floods. The report, started by a
Mexican paper, that armed United States SOL
diers had made another raid into Mexico, is
untrue.
YELLOW FEVER is raging as badly as ever at
Shreveport, La, and Memphis, Tenn. At the
former place the scourge is abated, if at all,
only by the frightful d~epopulation it has
already caused. The citizens of Memphis
have Issued an appeal for aid, addressed to
the whole country, and begging for the coop
Grafton of the mayors of the various cities to
secure it. Money is most needed to buy food,
bury the dead, and shelter the orphans. The
dated by the overflow of a creek which runs
through the village. Twenty houses, includ-
ing the postoffice and several stores, together
with their contents, were swept away, and six
or eight persons drowned. "A horse ran
away with a street-car in st. Louis, last week,
and, collidiug with another car, killed one of
the passengers, and seriously injured four or
five others; Joseph H. Fore, of St. Louis
who some time ago murdered his brother-in-
law, who made three unsuccessful attempts to
kill his wife, and who the other day came near
numbering an attorney in court-has been
sentenced to ten years in the penltentiary.
The tobacco crop now being secured is the
best that has been raised in VirginiB for years
past. President Grant has ordered 5000
army rations for the suffering and starving
people of Shreveport. The De Soto Bank,
Memphis, has resumed.
TrYE oyoo Of fba yaIIow fovor OF NTop,pbis
are frightful to contemplate. A dispatch of
the 9th inst. says: The number of deaths in
the infected district Yesterday was SO great
that the undertakers were unable to bury the
bodies, and to-day in two or three instances
whole families were carried to the burying-
city are beyond description. Those not afflict-
ed are so demoraliZed that they can be of no
assistance to the sick, but seem chained to the
locality, and make no effort to get away.
The South was visited by the first frost of
the season on he 7th inst. During the
height of the yellow fever scare a number of
citizens of Little Rock, Ark, chartered sleep
ing-coaches on the railroads, in which they
slept, going out several miles on the railroad
in the evening, and returning next morning.
AN old Italian padrone, with fourteen
boys, who arrived at Little Rock a few ago,
was taken in charge by the Italians, his money
taken away from him and divided between the
anu ne was OrQereu TO leave the CITY,
The bagging factory of Richardson,
Henry d Co., of Louisville, has been burned.
Loss, $4,000.
Washington.
CHARLES WILLIAMS (colored) is to be hung
at Washington on the 14th of November for
the murder of Frank Cohn, a Virginia drover.
THE railroad lobbyists and land-grabbers
are organizing for the coming session of Con-
OraSS A WashinptOn cnrraanOndent StatpS
that Ben Holiday, the Oregon railroad mag
nate, has taken a house at the capital for the
session, in order to press the Endorsement of
his railroad bonds on which the interest was
repudiated last winter. The Northern Pacific
interest also boasts of its ability to get a Gov
ernment Endorsement on tho ground that its
bonds are SO we'll diffused, through the rom
stituencies, that enough members can be got
to vote for their relief. 1t is reported from
Washington that a majority of President
Grants Cabinet are in favor of restoring the
franking privilege to the departments. The
Postmaster-General will oppose the %restora-
tion, however, in his next annual report.
The Chicago ITibuue'S special Washington
correspondent gives some gossip about the
vacant Chief Justiceship. Senator Conkling
is said to desire that Judge Ward Hunt
should have it. Judge Pierrepont and Mr..
VIM. NJ. Evarts are also prominently men
toned, the only objection to the latter being
the fear that he will not keep the place for
any length of time. Buffers opposition to
Judge Hoar is thought to be sufficient to
defeat the latter's prospects, while Justice
Miller, of Ohio, and Senator Howe, of Wis
consin, arc reported as ahead in the race.
The President has declared he will call no
extra session of Congress. While he thinks
that the financial situation does not
demand an extra session, he still makes the
announcement that he Will put out the
$44, 600, 900 "reserve" as rapidly as is consist
emit with the Treasury's interest. FAINT,
Washington q Co., bankers, have resumed
business.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON says that the Gov
eminent will lose nothing by the suspension of
Clews & Co., in New York, or Clews, Habicht
& Co., in London also, that if Jay Cooke
& Co. pay 80 per cent. the Government will
be no loser by the failure of the First National
Bank. He thinks that the country will be
gratified to find in the public debt statement
that the reserve has not yet been touched,
though he reiterates his purpose of using it
whenever he judges it to be necessary. The
public debt statement for September shows a
of 81, 901, 467. The following are
the figures:
Six per cent. bonds. s., 235, 900, 200
Five per cent. bonds. 1885,, 800
Total coin 81, 1885, 67 500
Lawful money 14,6TS,00O
Matured debt Is. 756. 100
Legal tender notes. 5 6,079,7 42
Certificates of deposit. ..--.....-.... II ,25O,0OO
currency 46, 229, 391
Coin certificates. $685., 545