Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-14
Foreign.

is stated that a plan has been matured to es-
tablish a monarchy. 1t is a part of the scheme
that MacMahon shall serve as President only
six months longer, when he will resign and
resume of the army. The purpose
of this is to make it certain that the army can
be used to assist the Inauguration of the mon
archy.
THE proposition to raise the allowance of
the Duke of Edinburgh to $125, 900 not only
provoked strenuous opposition in the British
Parliament, but the popular mind is consid-
erably stirred up about it, and meetings have
been held in several towns to protest against
the "blarsted outrage. The horrors of the
gents at Alcoy have scarcely a parallel in his
tory. A correspondent, describing the awful
affair, says: THE women played a conspicu-
Gus part in the massacre, as they did in Paris
during the Nothing which occur
red in Paris. even in the last frenzied agony
of desperation and baf1ed fury, at all
approaches this brutal massacre. The de-
Tenders, of the Town Hall, after being sub
jected to other horrible insults and injuries,
were stripped naked and held up from the bal
cony, in full view of the bowling mol below.
Their names were called out, one by one, and
the mob was asked whether it would have
them dead or alive. According to the answer,
either their heads we're cut off and their mutt
lated bodies thrown down from the balcony,
or they were thrown down still alive, the mob
below trying to catch them, as they fell, on
bayonets and pixies, and everybody then rushed
to assist in dispatching what remnants of life
were left or, if too late for this, to further
mangle and disfgure the breathless bodies.
One of the principal and most respectable in
habitants WAS seized by the insurgents, and
after his clothes had been sprinkled with
petroleum he was set on fire and made to run,
while shots were taken at him. Other afro
cities scarcely less terrible are reported"
A LARGE number of Carlist conspirators have
been discovered in Havana. The French
towns of Nancy and Belfort have been evacu-
ated by the German troops.
A BILL providing for the separation of
Church and State has been introduced in the
Spanish Cortes. Twelve or fifteen persons
were killed, and many wounded, by a recent &C
cident on the Northwestern railway of England
MANY of the Jesuits expelled from Ger
many have found homes in, England and
Wales. 49,. King John, of Saxony, is afflicted
with dropsy....A rain-storm in Lima, South
America, recently caused damage to the
amount of half a million dollars The cities
of Valparaiso and Santiago, in South America,
were recently visited by a severe earthquake.
-. Forty Thousand slaves have been set free
by the Russians in Khiva. The entire Rus
sian loss in the campaign against Khiva was
81 killed and 80 wounded.
TURKEY has just negotiated a loan for $751;
900, 900, the bonds to bear six per cent. inter-
est. Paris is greatly agitated over a meeting
of the Count of Paris and the Count of Cham
bord at Vienna. which portends a union of the
forces aud plans of the Bourbons and Orlean-
lists in their monarchical movement. Vigi-
lance committees of the Left and extreme
Left of the Assembly hold daily sessions, and
are prepared to call the leading members of
their respective parties together when the
time comes to take action.
The British Parliament has been prorogued.
80. THEIRS don't think it possible for the Or
leanists and Bourbons to effect a fusion.
The Germans have evacuated Nancy, in
France. The German commander who seized
the Spanish insurgent gunboat Vigilante is to
be removed -. England, France and Germany
nave instructed their Representatives in Spain
to cooperate for the protection of foreigners,
even if force has to be employed. 1t is said
a movement is on foot in Jul in behalf OF
Don Carlos. IA City of Mexico dispatch an
nounces that the notorious Topic Chief, Loza-
do, has been captured and shot.