Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

army in the field against the C~arlists, and that
he will at once enter upon an active and ag-
gressive campaign. There has been a serious
political riot at Tralee, Ireland. -. Railway
accidents are becoming alarmingly frequent in
England. Three occurred in one day recently.
49,. Amendments have been made in the Japan
criminal law by which many otfenses punish
able by death may be atoned for by lmprlson-
ment for life. The drought in several pro-
vinces of China is great, and threatens famine
and pestilence of the worst kind 49,. Che-ki-ang,
a curious barbarous custom, has been revived
at Shanghai on account of the expected famine.
Several men came before the authorities and
asked permission to pray to God that the
calamity be averted. If the prayer is not an
swered within a certain time. they will suffer
themselves to be burned alive. The applica-
tions were rejected. IA serious riot in the
Presidency of Madras, India, was suppressed
by the troops-not, however, before they had
killed eight of the rioters.
THE recent railway disaster in Spain was far
more serious than at first announced. Seven
teen passengers we're killed and seventy
wounded. Scarcely a person on the train es-
capped injury.....A slave ship was lately cap
tured in the Indian ocean upon which there
mad been horrible STEERING. Out of 800 slaves
taken on board, $50 had died of smallpox,
and the remaining so were FRUSTRATED with the
disease. . .Verdun has been evacuated by the
German troops, and there is great rejoicing
throughout France. subscriptions in Ha-
vana for the relief of the sufferers by the re-
CCIb doiOhd il1OuIlO ~NOO.OOO.
EIGHT persons were recently killed, and sew
eral injured, by a falling wall, in the town of
Stonehouse, Devonshire, England. "A num-
Der of emigrants who left England for Brazil
have returned, bringing doleful accounts of
their treatment. IA fire in Auckland, New
Zealand, lately burned forty-eight houses.
PRECISELY at half-past nine o'clock on Tues
day morning, Sept. 16, 1873, the last German
soldier stepped off French territory, and left
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German Army of Occupation for the first time
since the close of the Franco-Prussian war.
-...Seyenty vessels were destroyed in the
Black Sea, near the Bosphorus, by a terrible
storm, last week. The loss of life was appall-
ing. At one point on the coast, 265 dead
bodies have been brought to shore by the
waves. London (Sept. 16) telegram: "One
hundred tons of American bar iron sold at
Liverpool yesterday at IL pounds, 10 shilIings,
thus underselling the English market. -.
The Mark Lane Express (London) estimates
that England must import 1000, 600 quarters
of wheat this year. T. British press treat
with ~unsparing ridicule the failure of the
transatlantic balloon project. Another Sc
rious political riot has occurred at Tralee, Ire
land The Spanish Republican troops have
recommended the Commandment of Cartagena.
80. Victor Emanuel has gone on a visit to
Joseph of Austria. "A number of lives were
lost in the recent Havana confagration. The
pecuniary loss was about Sc, 600, 900.
Political.
The Republican State Convention of Mary
land, in session at Frederick, last week, NOM
mated Hon. Henry H. Goldsborough, of Tai
bot county, for Comptroller, and John F. Price,
of Hartford, for Clerk of the Court of Appeals.
1.-The Oregon Republicans have nominated
Hiram Smith for Congress.
DINeLEYis Rep.) majority for Governor of
Maine is about II, 600. The negroes in the
Indian Territory are moving for a Territorial
Government.
General.
"WHo burned Columbia ?' is a question on
the answer to which many million dollars
worth of cotton claims depend. The testi-
mony hitherto has been of a puzzling, con-
ficting nature, Gen. Wade Hampton swearing
positively that it was done by Northern troops,
and the Union soldiers and officers who were
witnesses before the Cotton-C Claims Commits
sion averring as positively that the cotton was
burning when they reached Columbia. Gen.
Sherman has just made public some additional
evidence in the case. 1t is the testimony of
an irregular detachment of the Seventeenth
Corps, who entered Columbia three-quarters
troops. They allege that they saw the Southern
soldiers setting fire to the bales of cotton
in the streets, and the testimony, says Gen.
Sherman, is conclusive enough to warrant him
in reiterating his former statement, that the
destruction of the cotton was the work of the
Southern army.
On the recent voyage to New York of the
steamship City of Brooklyn, a woman who was
a steerage passenger, insane from sickness,
threw her little boy, 4 years of age, overheard.
and then with her babe in her arms jumped
into the sea. She was rescued, but the chill
dren were drowned
FROM a report just issued, it appears that
the American Bible Society consists of 2,125
life directors and AZ, 900 life members. The
receipts of the last fiscal year were 1871, s31,
of which $1S, 789 remain unexpended. During
the fifty-seven years of its existence it has
published 90, 9S2, 212 volumes, in thirty-fiye
dialects and languages.