Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-16

arrived with sticks and bludgeons, and escorted
the speaker and his wife to their hotel. IA
dispatch from Chiselhnrst, England, OF Jan.
Q, says: 1.-The announcement that the eI-
Emperor Napoleon is worse creates much
alarm among the adherents of the family. HIS
sufferings are acute, but his strength ana en-
durance great."....I 1t is said that NJ. Riviere
will soon present his final report of the pre-
liminary Investigation in the case of Marshal
Bazaine to the French Assembly. The conclu-
sions arrived at by the investigating
are decidedly unfavorable to the Marshal. His
trial has, for political reasons, been postponed
until the German troops have completely evac-
uated French territory. T Vienna Post
contradicts the report that the Austrian Gov
eminent is about to dispense with the services
of Count Won Beust. TIL pioneer Protestant
Church of Rome has just been consecrated in
that city. Seven American clergymen took
part in the ceremonies.
General.
BY the 4th of March the army will be clothed
in their new uniform, which is very like IL at
of the Prussian army....A New York Court
has decided that the United States cannot tax
the salaries of State Judges. .
HAVING compelled Jay Gould to disgorge
$4,000, 600 of its stolen property, the Erie
Railroad Directory have now tackled Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, who, it is claimed, owes the
northern division of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad, connecting st. Louis with Little Rock,
Ark, was laid Jan. 3. The southern division,
extending to the Red river and making connec-
ton with the system of roads running to the
Gulf of Mexico, will be completed during the
year 1873....P. 7. Barnum was robbed of a
thousand dollar diamond pin on the cars be-
tween Richmond and New York. Another in
stallment of destitute Italian emigrants ar
rived at New York the other day. They claim
that they were unable to subsist in their own
country.
HEAVY snow-storms prevailed in Kansas and
Missouri on the Sd, and il Kentucky and
Tennessee On the 4th, being the heaviest
snow-falls known in those regions for many
years.
A BILL to deal with murderous insanity has
been brought before the Legislature of Ohio.
It is similar to the bills prepared for the New
York and Illinois Legislatures, in providing for
the imprisonment of persons who escape con-
viction for murder on the plea of insanity.
Gen. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, informs
Congress that 90, 8S7, 1852 has 80 far been spent
on the canal around the Falls OF the ONO, and
49, 1884, 200 on that around the Des Moines Rap
ids. The ship canal talked of to connect the
mississippi above the Delta with the deep
waters of the Gulf will cost 81, SOC, 0O0....
Senator B~uckingham's bill, introduced into the
United States Senate last week, adds another
to the countless schemes for improving our
currency. He proposes that banking be made
free that no interest be allowed on deposits ;
that banks may make United States bonds q
part of their reserves, and may redeem their
notes in coin, legal tenders, or National Bank
notes. The bill further provides for the recip-
rocal convertibility of bonds and ~greenbacks.
THE international pigeon-shooting match be-
tween Ira E. Payne, of New York, and James
Ward, of Toronto, came OFF at Buffalo last
week, and. was won by Paine by three birds, he
killing 43 out of 50....A horrible story of suf-
fering at sea comes to us by way of New Or
leans. Mr. Saville, first officer of the wrecked
ship Golden Head, arrived in that city last
week from Rio. The vessel was wrecked on
fourteen of the crew spent forty-eight days in
two open boats in the Straits of Magellan.
They were compelled, to save themselves from
starvation, to devour the bodies of five of their
companions who died from privation and ex-
nOaI1ra