Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-31
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

q decided Improvement in the pro-
duction of postal cards, although it is said the
contractors have not come fully up to their re-
hing day and night, and printing from 500, 600
to 1 ,000, 000 cards daily THE first bale of
cotton of this years crop was sold in New
York at SEC per pound. The cotton was grown
in Cameron county, Texas.
In the great college regatta on the oonnec-
ticut river, at Springfield, Mass, ON the 18th
inst, both the University and Freshman races
were won by Yale. The foot-race for the Ben
nett challenge cup was won by Bowie, of
McGil (Canada) University. He made two
miles in IL minutes 184 seconds. The Court
Washington, sitting at Halifax, has censured
Capt. Phillips for "imprudence," and sus-
pended him for one year.
E. s. MILLS, President of the Brooklyn
Trust Company, who was recently drowned,
has been discovered to have been a defaulter
to the amount of some $3.50, 600, and it is sur
missed that he committed suicide.
The losses of the Brooklyn Trust Company
by the dishonesty of its latePresident, Mr..
Mills, is now stated to be no less than $780,
900. That Mr.. Mills committed suicide seems
to be beyond doubt. :
Ex-Gov. COLBY, of New Hampshire, is dead,
aged 80 years. he was the only Wing that
ever sat in the gubernatorial chair of that
State.
THE Trustees of Plymouth Church are stated
to be awaiting only the return of Mr.. Reecher
and the leading members of his church from
their summer vacation to begin an investiga-
ton of the scandal connected with his name.
The inquiry, it is said, vii be secret. e. Half q
dozen heavy failures have occurred in the
tea trade of New York, for sums rising from
$3.50, 900 to $500, 900. The house of A. A.
Low & Co. have also lost a million dollars.
The total losses of the trade are stated at
Sc, 900, 600. 1t is said that a movement is on
foot in New York to remove all the Catholic
children from the public schools, avowedly to
cripple them. Similar movements are report
ed in Massachusetts, and Connecticut. II
irrepressible DIR. Mary Walker was arrested
for the twentieth time, in Baltimore, the other
day, for wearing male apparel, but was re-
leased.
The West.
TACOMA, in Washington Territory, has been
chosen by the Commissioners of the Northern
Pacific as the terminus of that road. . The
Industrial Congress of the United States, COM
posed of delegates from the various trades or
CARNATIONS, was in session in Cleveland last
week. Over 100 members were present, rep
resenting q constituency of 1850 working
men.....The State Temperance Union of Hi
fourteen delegates being present, the body adj
journed sine die, without transacting any
business. "A two-year-old child died in Dubu-
que, Iowa, the other day, from the bite of arat...
There is great scarcity of farm laborers in
Iowa. In the northern part of the State
farmers are unable to get help enough at 50
the number of 5000 or 1000, are concentrat-
ing on Powde river to dispute the further
progress of Stanley's Yellowstone expedition.
Two more Modocs-the last of Capt. Jacks
band-have been captured. +. Mormon circles
in Utah are greatly scandalized by the deser-
ton of Brigham Young by one of his wives.
She is his seventeenth wife, and has left him,
taking with her a large amount of furniture
and personal property. She has retained emil
nent counsel, and intends to sue for divorce
and generous alimony. The suit may be
expected to, give glimpses never before
revealed of the of Salt Lake City.
THE Chicago Tribune prints crop reports
from various points in Iowa, Wisconsin, Min
nesota,f Kansas, and Illinois. Grain of all
kinds generally promise. favorably. Corn,
which some time ago promised almost a total
failure, has vastly improved under the favOra-
BILE weather of the last few weeks, and will
yield at least an average crop in most sec
tons. Minnesota and Kansas promise an inn
mense wheat yield, and crops of all kinds are
reported good....Mt It.. Vernon, Ind, a town of
5000 inhabitants on the Ohio river, has been
terribly scourged by cholera. The mortality
was frightful, business was most entirely sus-
pended, and the town fairly d~epopulated. -.
Under the new railroad rates, D. M. Haight,
dry goods and grocery dealer of Oswego, H.,
finds it cheapest to send his butter, eggs, etc.,
to Chicago by team He has, therefore, put
EWO E66ul6 OH Inc IOhQ D6CW6on O6W6RO ana
Chicago, q distance of ~forty-six miles. In a
careful estimate made of a late trip by his two
teams he found thathe had saved $2I.... Mrs.
Samuel Kesler, living near Richmond, Ind,
the other day gave birth to a ldsus nature
two males, united face to face by a muscular
formation as wide as the bodies, extending
from the apex of the breast to the pit of the
abdomen. They were perfectly developed,
save a minor malformation on one, which
was minus an ear. They were born
dead. and will be preserved -.
its session at Cleveland on the 18th inst, after
having adopted a platform. The resolutions
set forth that unless the aggressions of aggre-
gated wealth are checked, they will lead to the
masses that a system could be adopted that
would secure to the laborer the fruits of his
toll; that this object should only be attained
through a union of labor and united efforts of
laborers recognizing in the ballot-box an
agency for the redress of wrongs, yet at this
hour the great consideration is the organiza-
ton and cooperation of the producing masses /;
resolving to submit to the people of the
United States the objects sought to be ac-
complished by the Industrial Congress to
make knowledge a standpoint for indus
trial, social and moral worth, the true
standard of greatness; to secure to the toiler
an equitable share of the wealth which he
to create, more leisure time, and more
social advantages !; demanding from the State
of bureaus of labor statistics, to arrive at the
true moral, educational, and financial condi-
tlon Ell the producing masses the re6erving of
public lands for actual settlers; the adoption
of measures providing for the health and
safety of those engaged in mining and manu-
featuring pursuits +; the substitution of arbi- |
tration for strikes when practicable the prohi-
bition of the importation of all servile races,
and the discontinuance of contracting convict
labor the reduction to eight hours per day of |
a days labor, and providing for a national
circulating medium based on the faith and re-
sources of the nation, and issued directly to the
THE st. Paul Dispatch d~enounces the sale of
the Fort Smelling property as one of the big
gest swindles of the day. 1t claims that by
this transaction the Government has been
out of 81, 900. 900. :. The system of
co-opeertive stores is being abandoned by the
Iowa Grangers.....A reunion of the veterans
of the Mexican war is to be held at st. Louis
on the 9Th of October next.
THE Des Moines Register of the 22d gives
the particulars of one of the boldest opera
lions by highwaymen ever executed in the
West. On the evening of the 21st of July a |
train on the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad was ditched by robbers
near Adair, Iowa, the express messenger
robbed and the engineer killed. The baudits
placed distinctions on the track at a sharp
curve. John Rafferty,, the engineer, saw the
distractions, and reversed the engine and ap-