Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-04

the 18th he was attacked by ABOUT SUU INDIANS
on the banks of the Yellowstone river, who
opened a brisk fire. After the fighting had
been going on some time, Gen. Custer ordered
a charge, which was CALAMITY executed, the
redskins fleeing before the impetuous onset.
They were pursued some eight miles, and
badly scattered. The battle is described as q
fierce one. Gen. Custer and Adjt. Ketcham
had their horses shot under them. Lieut..
Braden was badly shot in the thigh. Private
futile, Gen. Clusters orderly, was killed, and
twenty of the soldiers were slightly wounded.
The Indians loss is estimated by Gen. Custer
at forty killed and wounded. The Indians
were well armed with heavy rifles, and had
abundant ammunition. Some were dressed in
clothes procured at the Agency. These In
dams were mainly ~Uncapapas, opposed to be
under the command of Sitting Bull, and are
supposed to have received their supplies from
Fort Peck. The expedition is now on the
homeward march, and will reach Fort Rice
about the LIST of October. One of the attor-
neys of the Chicago and Alton railroad ar
rived at Springfield, the other day, and paid
to the representatives of each of the men who
were killed in the late disaster the sum of
So, 900. The prompt manner in which this
matter has been settled is worthy of common
dation. The extensive brewery of Valentine
Blatz, in Milwaukee, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500, 600.
THE assessed valuation of all the property
in Illinois exclusive of railroads) is 81, 1885,
100, 6s4....At San Jose, Cal, the other day,
a young Chinaman shot Miss Alice Dubois
three times because she refused to marry him.
Alice's steel corsets turned the bullets and
saved her life. The maddened Celestial then
blew his OWE brains out.
The South.
In st. Landry parish, La, on Aug. 20, two
men quarreled at a ball, and met in an open
field to settle the matter by a fist-ight. They
were accompanied by a crowd of about one
hundred persons. After the fist-fight, a gem
eral row, growing out of an old feud, broke
out between the members of two families,
in which pistols and knives were freely used.
Augustin Guilleroy killed Carroll ~B1ackman;
Dreux Guilleroy killed Alexander Vidren, and
Aristide Ortega killed Dreux Guilleroy. After
being shot down, Blackman fired three shots
at Augustin Guilleroy, who is between IS and
70 years old, mortally woundlng him.
Baltimore american celebrated its one hum
dredth birthday on the Goth of August.
SERIOUS political troubles are reported from
Perry county, Ark. Satanic and Big Tree
have been taken out of the Texas Penitentiary
and sent under guard to Fort Sill, where a
conference is to be held between the Kiowas
and Comanches, and Secretary Delano and
Gov. Davis
THE first bale of cotton received at Mem
phis this season was sold for thirty-fve cents
a pound. Memphis experienced an earth
quake shock on the 22d of August. "A col
ored family, consisting of mother and four
children, were burned to death in an old
shanty in which they we're living, in the sub
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and James West, both colored, were hung at
Baltimore on the 22d of Augustine former
for rape, and the latter for murder.
THE steamer George G. Wolf blew up on the
Mississippi river, twelve miles above Helena,
on the 2d of August. Twelve persons were
killed outright, and fifteen wounded. The
Wolf was from Shreveport, bound for st.
Louis. The spot where she blew up is known
to river men as the GRAVEYARD, " being the
same place where the Pennsylvania and st.
Nicholas blew up, and the 7. L. McGill was
burned . Judge Colvin, of the st. Louis
Court of Criminal Correction, in a test case
brought before his court, has decided that the
so-called "Social Evil" ordinance of that city
is unconstitutional, and hat the General AS
sembly had no power to grant to the city tho
right to license prostitution. The case will be
appealed to the Supreme Court.
Washington.
The investigation into the Wawasset disas-
ter on the Potomac clearly proves incompe-
tency and neglect on the part of the captain
of the vessel "A Washington dispatch of
the Goth says: 1t is very evident that the
country newspapers intend to attempt to Sc
cure some modification of the Postal law rel !
tive to the free exchange of newspapers. The
Ppstofice Department is constantly in receipt
of letters from country publishers, asking if
there is no possible construction of the law
which would permit the exchanges to go free.
uniform reply is, that all free mail matter
is abolished. The representations are that
the operations of the law are ruinous to
country publishers. Many officials are of
the opinion that some substitute for the
franking privilege will be adopted by the next
Congress.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says the proceed
ings of the Military Commission have been
sent to the Secretary of War by Judge Advo-
cate General Holt, he having completed his
review, and it is understood that he approved
the findings of the court. 7 h Secretary of
NJ .-- ~ -
where an officer recommends the advertising
of any official matter, he must suggest only
the names of newspapers that, from their loca-
ton or circulation, are apt to do the greatest
service to the department.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL Holt, in reply
to the petitions against the execution of the
on the ground that their trial by a
court was not constitutional, has de-
cided that Indians not taxed are not citizens
of the United States, and are amenable to no
ury clerks fought a duel the other day about a
female clerk. Weapons, cavalry swords.
Neither was seriously injured. The Signal
officers claim hat the predictions of
pro liabilities for the first year were verified in
sixty-nine cases out of a hundred, and
their accuracy may be expected to increase
with increasing experience. The point is
with reference to the recent regulations
of the treaty with the Grow Indians, that the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs has overlooked
a section in a recent law which prohibits the
recognition of an Indian tribe as a treaty-mak-
ing power.
VERY positive information has been received
at Washington to the effect that, nowith-
standing the official denial on the part of that
the Grand Duke of Hesse con-
tInues to pardon criminals upon the condition
they shall emigrate to the United States
IA Washington telegram says The Inte-
Department has information that force
be necessary to remove the Winnebagoes
from Wisconsin to the reservation assigned
them in Kansas. If they refuse to go, it is
understood that troops will be ordered from
Smelling, to compel their departure.
THE State authorities of California have
asked that the Modocs who are charged with
grave offenses committed prior to their cap
ture, other than those sentenced to be
be delivered to them. The Wash
Chronicle publishes a communication
from Judge Advocate General Holt, denying
the oft-repeated assertion that he wilfully
the recommendation to mercy for
Mrs. Surratt offered by the military commits
sion which tried her and the other Liucoln
conspirators. Gen. Holt contends that Presi-
dent johnson received the whole of the rec
ords, and that his refusal to act on the recon-
mendation of the court, and to see the daugh-1
ter of Mrs. Surratt when she applied at the
White House for an audience, was simply his
own irresponsible act, uncont1 oiled and I'M
prejudiced by others.