Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-10
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

York Tribune. ...H Hon. Augustus ScheH was
Fox, according to the simple form of the So
ciety of Friends. The eremony was very
impressive, and was witnessed by many promi-
ne1t citizens; including G9mmSdore vanderbilt ro
to stop attending public school in New York
by the taunts and insults of other scholars,
some of whom went so far as to draw pictures
of a gallows with a man suspended, on their
states, and to point them out to Fosters chill
dren as a representation of the death of their
father.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature has appropri-
ated 81, 600, 900 for the Centennial Celebration.
boss Tweed, profting by Caldwel's ex-
ample, has resigned his seat in the New York
Senate pending the investigation of this case.
Ex-senator James Dixon, of Connecticut,
is dead. 49,. Rear Admiral John 3. Montgomery
died recently at Carlisle, Pa.
BARNUM has risen from the ashes, and is
again on the road with a show two miles long.
IA New York Judge the other day offered to
admit George Francis Train in 81, 900 bail, but
the prisoner declined to furnish it:-.-The
total amount raised in Pennsylvania thus far
for the Centennial Celebration is 1887, 600.
....Ex-Congressman Roosevelt, in a lecture
at New York, the other day, on Corruption
during the past year, there were not more than
one-twentieth of them that the members knew
anything about. This he attributed to the bad
rules of the House. He spoke at length of
corrupt legislation, and said that the only
legitimate business done was just before the
close of the session.
A TRAIN on the Rensselaer, and Saragota
railroad was precipitated down an embank-
ment near Rutland, VT, last week. Two
persons were killed and a large number in
jured-
GOLD reached 11sI in New York, one day last
week, a higher premium than it has before
commanded since August, 1870. Charles NJ.
Barras, the author of the spectacular piece
called the BLACK Crook" met his death near
Stamford, Ct, recently, by jumping from a
train while it was in motion.
THE New York Eoening Post says George
William Curtis resigned his position on the
civil-service board because he regards several
important appointments recently made as a
virtual abandonment of civil-service reform.
The West.
EIaHTY-FIvE young doctors graduated at
Ann Arbor, Mich, the other day, twelve of
whom were ladies. Two female lawyers also
got their degrees....A youth named George
Warren, aged 16 years, a student at the mill
tary school at Fulton, Ill, committed suicide,
the other day, by blowing his brains out with
apistoi, because his father reprimanded him,
in thes presence of his classmates, for his
proffigacy apd extravaganza.
MIR. CAssERLY, of California, is the latest
Senator whose election is charged to have
been effected by bribery. His friends indig-
nantly deny the imputation.
A GREAT religious revival, under the direc-
ton of the Rev. E. p. Hammond, has been in
progress at Denver, Col. Several hundred
conversions have been made, including a large
number of gamblers, saloon-keepers, and
held in the jail, and nearly all the prisoners
are said to be under deep conviction. IA re-
cent fire at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
THOMAS WILSON, of Milwaukee, while eat
ing his dinner the other day, was choked to
death by a piece of meat, which lodged in his
throat. "A train on the Great Western rail-
road ran of the track near Detroit, last week
The s~leeping-car took fire and was destroyed,
two children being severely burned. Nearly
all the passengers were more orless bruised
THE Illinois Central railroad earned 80, 49,
S4S last year beyond it's expenses. . .CharlesG.
Mauro, a prominent criminal lawyer of st.
Louis, is dead. -Four men belonging to a
dered by Indians on the southwestern frontier
of Kansas. IA frightful accident occurred at
the Singer building, in Chicago, last week. A
scafolding upon which two men were at work
floor, a distance of ITO feet. Both were in
stantly killed.
1T Is reported that Candy is surrounding the
Modecs, and Will soon oblige them to surren-
der. Jacks force is So.
The South.
THE following pleasant little scene occurred
in the Arkansas Legislature the other day
Furbush (colored) called up a bill to create
Coolidge county. The Chair stated it needed
engrossing. Furbush-"Then, with1he con-
sent of the House, I will withdraw the Cd
id bill" Millen-"I move the language be
taken DOWN and the member expelled" Fur
bush-"I wish the whole Cd id Legis-
lature"- The Chair-'t Mr.. Furbush will come
to the bar of the House." Furbush-"I will
name used in connection with this Cd id
Legislature again.. .Lithgow & Co., stove
founders, and Mouldon d Co., marble dealers,
of Louisville, working together, have failed
county, KY, while out hunting, drank out of
a pool of water. They were shortly after taken
with commissions, and both died.
THOMAS SMITH Ccolored) was hanged at
Louisville on the 2Sth ult., for the murder of
Joseph Brsden, in May, 1871. On the same
day Charles Manley, also colored, suffered a
like penalty at A~lexandria, Va, for the muir
der of an old man named Moore, in July, 1872.
A RICH vein of lead and silver ore, with
gold dust mixed, was discovered recently on
the banks of the Arkansas river, at Little
Rock....A terrific hurricane, 100 yards in
width, recently swept over the town of Can
ton, Miss, destroying fifty houses, killing one
person, and injuring many more.
THE town of Franklin, Tenn, was recently
visited by a terrific tornado, which left hardly
a house unchanged.
Washington.
THE Senate adjourned sine die at 4 o'clock
p. m on Wednesday, March 26. The only
event of the session has been the Caldwell
case. =. Brisbane's projected pneumatic tube
turns out to be a failure, and he-fs beginning
to be looked upon as a fraud. All there is to
show for the $15, 900 appropriated by Congress
to enable Brisbane to lay an experimental tube
from the Capitol to the Government printing
Office is an ugly ditch that almost renders the
street impossible. He laid a sort of barrel
sewer of thin boards and then covered it up.
As might have been expected, the earth
crushed the boards, and the thing is a stupen-
dous failure. :. TIL United States Government
has had three silver services, consisting of two
wine coolers and punch bowl each, made as
presents to Counts Iturbide and Sclopis and
Viscount Staempfi for their impartia1ity and
firmness in the Geneva Arbitration. Each
service is inclosed in a box three feet wide and
five feet long, lined with green silk. The
boxes alone cost 81, 800. Ex-senator Cattell,
of New Jersey, has been appointed financial
agent of the Treasury Department to visit
Europe in connection with the new loan.
NEARLY all the Senators and REPRESENTATIVES. |