Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-03

Circuit Court at Raleigh, N. c., has unearthed
a multitude of frauds by Government officials
and others, aggregating, in the last four years,
over $3.50, 900. Forty-seven indictments have
been returned.
Mr.. RoDDY, of the village of Burlington,
near st. Louis, the other day killed two bur-
glars, and fatally wounded a third, while they
were attempting to rob his store.
Washington.
THERE is no truth in tho report that Score
tary Richardson is aboutto resign. Arrange
ments are being made at the Navy Department
to send out an expedition to several points on
the southern coasts of the Eastern Henri
sphere to make observations on the transit of
Venus next year, one of the most important
astronomical events of the century.
THE report of the Secretary of the Navy,
embodying the results of his investigation
into the cruise of the Polaris, has been pub
lished. 1t affords little or no information that
has not been collected by reporters and cor
respondents from the party on the ~ice-floe and
already given to the public. Secretary Robe
son has no doubt that Capt. Halls death was
due solely to natural causes, and that the
separation of the Polaris from the ice-floe was
the result of unavoidable circumstances. 800.
The Postmaster-General has directed that all
postal cards which cannot be delivered to the
person addressed shall be immediately re-
II W bAo "AAtC4 AbAANL SlAu1 o. hO
Secretary of War telegraphed to Gen. Sheri-
dan, the other day, that the Government has
decided not to return tho Kickapoo Indians
captured by Gen. Mackenzie.
THE revised rules projected by the new
Civil Service Commission have been examined
and approved by the Cabinet, and are now
made public. One of them declares that,
while it is not the purpose of the rules and
regulations either to restrict the power of re-
moval or to extend the tenure of service, such
power will not be exercised arbitrarily, and
therefore application must not be entertained
by any authority having the duty of nomina-
ton or appointment, for the removal of any
person in the civil service, nor will any per-
son be removed for the mere purpose of max
ing a place for any other person. The follow
ing are extracts from the rules:
The grouping heretofore made for the Executive
Department at Washington is modified by striking
tiers at 5000 q year." These places being below the
grade of clerkaiips of class 1, selections may be.
tIa BY the appointing power at discretion ere from
ty to give the preference to such as may be justly
regarded as having Tho highest claims to public
consideration by reason of the loss of support or
property, accustomed by the death or disability of
any person in defense of the Union in war or in
other public, service of the Government.
Applicants for; appointment, as cashiers of; Col
lectors of Customs, Cashiers of Assistant Treasurers,
cashiers of Postmasters, suporintendents of money
order divisions in postofices, and other custodians
of large sums Of public money for whose fidelity an
other officer has given official bonds, may be ap-
pointed at discretion; but this rule shall not apply
to any appointment to a position grouped below the
In cases of defalcation or embezzlement of the pub
Lie money, or other emergency calling for immediate
action, where the public service would be materially
injured unless the vacancy is promptly filled with
out resorting to the methods of election and appoint
ment prescribed by the existing regulations, Or
where a vacancy happens at a place remote and diff
ticult of access, and the methods prescribed for fill
ing it cannot be applied without causing a delay in
furious to the public service, the appointment may
be made at discretion but this rule shall not apply
to any place which is provided to be filed under the
rules of competitive examination.
For the purpose of bringing the examin ations for
civil service as near to the residences Of those de-
command of the President will warrant, a nd for
the further purpose of facilitating, as far as prac-
ticable, the making of selections for such service
aqually from the several portions of the Union,
while at the same time preserving the principle of
provided that the United States Shall be grouped
into five districts. The President will employ or
whose duty it shall be, subject to the supervision of
the Civil Service Commission, to promote uniformity
in preparing for, conducting, reporting, and grad
ing the examinations by said Boards at Washington,
and to prepare for, attend, supervise, and report
the examination herein provided to be held else
ton shall be held not more than twice in any one
year in the same district, except in Washington,
each department as frequently as the head of such
department., subject the approval of the President,
may direct and all Persons SO examined III wash
ington, wherever they may reside, shall be entered
on the record of persons eligible for appointment
qually as if examined lsewhere.
WASHINGTON dispatches announce that tho
President has about decided to appoint ex-
Attorney-General Hoar to the vacant Chief
Justiceship. tt Secretary of the Navy
went to New York last week to superintend the
fitting out of the steamer Tigress, which is to
in search of the missing Polaris The
War Department invites proposals for supply
ing $50, 900 head-stones for the graves of the
Union dead. The free delivery of letters
has been ordered at Peoria, Des Moines and
IT is stated that the suspended Commits
to the Vienna Exposition, Gen! Van
Buren, and others, will appeal to the next Con-
gress for an investigation of the case. The
Postof1ice Department has ordered the estab-
of 293 additional money-order offices
seven of which are in Ohio, eight in In
diana, thirty-three in Illinois, ten in Missouri,
twenty-five in Michigan, eleven in Wisconsin,
and sixteen in Iowa. This increases the total
number of money-order postoffices; to 5000.
The official report of the Agricultural
Bureau on the wheat crop shows a large in
crease of acreage over last year, with good
prospects for more than the average yield
acre. The report on cotton shows
the increase average of acreage over last
year nearly IL per cent. The present
of the crop stands as fol-
lows: Florida, 2 per cent. above the annual
average. All thee others fall below. viz. Viz
ginia and Alabama, z per cent. North Caro-
lima, Is; South Carolina, II; Georgia and
Louisiana, 6; Mississippi and Arkansas, 8;
Texas, IA; and Tennessee, 10. The acreage
cultivated viii fall considerably below that
The weather generally during the
week in May was favorable, and there was
u hopeful prospect that the condition of the
crop would rapidly improve. The worms and
caterpillars have made an early appearance at
various points, and are causing considerable
apprehension of destructive raVages. No esti-
mate of the crop is made.