Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-07
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

Y, the other day, between John McMahon, of
Rutland, VT, and Thomas Copeland, of
Canada, and was won by the V~ermonter...
Glione, the Italian slave-driver of New Haven,
has been held in $4,000 bail to answer for his
treatment of four little italian boys whom he
held as slaves. They had been sold to him for
four years by their parents, who were to re-
ceive $40 a year, and were bound to pay all ex-
penses for medical attention, and were to for
felt all their earnings and $50 if the children
ran away. Glione was declared by the little
boys to have brutally maltreated them, and to
have instructed them tosteal if they could not
otherwise obtain the daily sum he exacted
from them.
THE Warden of Sing Sing Prison Indignantly
denies the stories that Frank Walworth re-
ceived special favors at his hands. He receives
the same fare and treatment as other ~convicts,
IA report comes from New York that one
of the most powerful combinations ever form
ed in Wall street, headed by the notorious
Jay Gould, has been organized for the pur-
pose of bulling the gold market. The capital
represented by its member is estimated at
over $780, 900, 600, and they propose to put
gold above 25. They assert that the Treasury
Department, being short of gold, will be pow
erless to interfere. 1t is asserted, on the con-
trary, that Secretary Richardson, on being in
formed of the schemes of the clique, said if
they imagined the Treasury was not able to
protect itself, they would find themselves
sadly mistaken.
THE story concerning the great Wall street
go1d-bull clique is denied IA meeting of
prominent Massachusetts Republicans opposed
to the nomination of Ben Butler for Governor,
was held in Boston the other day. Judge
Hoar, Congressman Dawes, and other men of
note, were present, and pledged themselves to
do all in their power to defeat the aspirations
of the Essex statesman"
The two guano dealers in New York city are
charged with selling an article SO adulterated
as to contain only 8 or 6 per cent. of ammonia,
the most valuable element of that fertilizer,
and about 60 per cent. of other matter, mainly
earth, and unknown in genuine guano: They
are said to have succeeded in ~swindling the
farmers into buying their spurious stuff by
counterfeiting the trademark of the Peruvian
Government and %refilling old bags which bore
the real braud. Suits have been brought
against them by the agents of the Peruvian
Government, who ask for an injunction to
stop the fraud, and claim heavy damages.
A New YoRK telegram says The managers
of trunk lines to the West have made the fol-
lowing reductions in freight charges on first
class merchandise, which includes dry goods,
boots and shoes, clothing, ETC.: From New
York to Chicago. per cwt;, 75c: formerly 81;
formerly 92c st. Louis, SIC, formerly $1:2S;
Louisville, sec, formerly $1.23; Memphis,
$1.35, formerly $1.62. The following are the
rates from Lake Erie ports westward To
Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, 45c; to Chica-
go, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, sic.
SEVERAL young and accomplished Russian
women, who were driven from Zurich by order
of the Gear, while pursuing their medical
studies, have arrived at New York nearly PEN
niless.
WHEN the officers went to the New York
Tombs, the other day, to escort Yves Allen, a
noted desperate, to his future quarters at
Auburn State Prison, he quietly told them he
preferred the Tombs fare to that of Auburn,
and significantly pointed to a can of nitro
glycerine lying beside him.. AT last accounts
Yves still occupied his little cell unmolested
= Nearly 200, 900 immigrants have arrived at
New York since the LIST of January.
The West.
THE A-pportionment Committee in the Ohio
Constitutional Convention has reported in
favor of adopting the cumulative system of
voting at elections In that State, as now prac-
ticed in Illinois. .-.AH the parties engaged in
the kidnapping of Lord Gordon have been
committed for trial by the Manitoban court.
IA horrible tragedy was recently enacted at
Pleasant Hill, Neb. A German named Scholtz
beheaded his sister with an ak, and then end
ed his own life by cutting his throat The
Texas cattle fever is spreading in North Mis-
souri,. Over 200 head of native cattle have
died of it in one county-Caldwen The
g~rasshoppers are ravaging the grain fields of
Nebraska. Eight convicts escaped from the
Missouri P~enitentiary last week.. One was
r~ecaptured and another shot. "A balloonist
at Princeton, Ill, the other day, made an
ascension to the clouds head downward, on a
single trapeze- The local paper p~ronounces it
Z" the most daredevil sight ever Witnessed"
THE Kickapoo Indians are to be removed
from Mexico to Kansas, under the auspices of
the Indian Commissioners l.. Three persons
were killed near Knightstown, Ind, a few
days ago by the bursting of a thrashing ma
chine -. The m interests of st. Louis
have forwarded to Washington aremonstrance
against the further construction of the bridge
rnOW hain0 hrilt aarOGa thn MiGSiSoiDni riuor- ~
that city, On the ground that if it is finished
according to the original plan it will be a great
to navigation: - Minnesota agri-
authorities calculate that the wheat
crop of the State will yield a surplus of 3d.
0o0, 600 bushels for export. The st. Paul
Dispatch correspondent describes the closing
scenes in the Manitoban court, in the case of
the Gordon kidnappers, as very exciting. The
prosecuting officer, Clark, inveighed bitterly
against the prisoners, the b~lackguards in
brown cloth who Allotted them, and the news
paper correspondents. Cornish, his assistant,
vulgarly abused neutrality-suspicious. including
our COURTS, which he declared are influenced by
brides. Finally, he threatened the Judge with
popular vengeance if he dared to admit the
to bail; The Judge would not allow
to threaten him, but would perform
his duty without reference to the counsel's
"Then," said Cornish, sit is your
duty to refuse bail. You dare not do other
JudgeI shall do as I think prop
or, without dictation from you. Cornish-Of
course you will, but still I don't think you will
dare to do this. Here Judge Betourney inter-
fered and re~primanded Cornish, saying he was
contempt on the Court by the manner
Of his address to Judge McKeagney, notwith-
standing which, Cornish, who was evidently
intoxicated, was allowed to continue some
time longer in the same strain. MIR. Royal
attempted to- speak again for the prison
but was denied permission by
he Attorney-General, and an exchange of
Gngry words followed. Just as the Judge was |
eaving the bench, Clark took from his mouth
spit-ball that he was chewing, and threw it
INTO Royals face, with the remark, You are
! dirty puppy" TIL latter, wiping his face,
'aid he thanked the General. After
wards the latter apologized to Royal, saying
of court, a hand-bill, of which
he town: Right or wrong! Can the law
'e enforced To-day application for bail was
made for the k~idnappers. MI. Cornish urges
lpon the court that granting bail was only
,utting a price upon the crime of kidnapping.
The argument has closed. The presiding
McKeagney, was driven home by
wilson, of Minneapolis. This may mean
lothing, but We shall see. Canadians! be on
he alert for the result /! God save the Queen! ~
iordon has openly expressed an opinion that
would be safer for the prisoners to be kept
confinement than liberated on bail.
The resources and liabilities of the Illinois
ationai banks are the same-$41,1 16, 461. 6S...
ling Cholera slew 176 Cincinnatians during
is sojourn in that city, a period of SO days.
-. Nearly all the railroads ceDteriDp at ST