Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

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Schuchardt, 8. L. NJ. Barlow, G. K. Garrison,
Henry Clews, H. W. Grass. Burton N. Har-
rison, counsel for the company, says that hun
dreds of letters are received daily from parties
DESTROYS to emigrate to San oming The
City Council of Philadelphia has passed an
ordinance making an appropriation of $500, 900
for q, 000, 900 is pending in the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
ON Joe Pentland, the veteran circus clown,
died in New York last week, Of disease of the
brain.
STOKES is said to be growing demented, and
his hair is rapidly turning white. In New
York, the other day, William Barker, aged 16,
shot and killed John Schaeffer, aged TO-.
Ex-Gov. Geary died suddenly at Harrisburg,
Pa. on the 9Th While sitting at breakfast
with his family, and in the act of helping his
little son., his head fell suddenly back, and be-
fore his wife could get to his side he was dead.
1t Is supposed heart disease or apoplexy was
the cause.
NEAR Titusville, Pa, last week, a train vas
tumbled into the river by a broken rail, killing
three passengers and injuring some dozen
others.
THE Liberal Republicans of New Hampshire
have nominated Samuel R. Mason for Cover
nor.
The West.
On. Philips and q man named Hughes have
been arrested at Marvin, Iowa, for attempting
TO procure an abortion on the wife of the lat
ter, aged 16. The robbers who stole S15, 900
worth of jewelry from o New York man at the
fremont House, in Chicago, have been ar
rested in the latter city. Fred Douglass, who
visited ST. Paul to lecture last week, was de-
hotels, and was the guest of Hon. MILFORD L.
Wilson.
No LITTLE excitement has been produced at
Salt Lake by a report telegraphed there that
the President has determined to remove all
the troops from the Southern States, and sta
ton them in reasonable contiguity to Utah.
Mrs. Schunk, of Peoria, Ill, was recently
Peoria wife-murderer, was hung on Friday,
Feb. q. On the same day Leo Canman, the
Chicago mail-robber, was sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the Illinois Peniten-
tiary. Both made speeches protesting their
innocence.
HENRY W. BIeELow, an old, wealthy and re-
spected citizen of Chicago, committed suicide
recently by shooting himself through the
head.
the old wall of the Ferguson House, at Kansas
City, Mo....At Jefferson City, Mo-, the other
day, two loving colored brothers, Charles and
Joseph Clark, got into an alteration, which
was ended by Charles drawing his little butcher
knife and plunging it into ~Joseph's heart.
~ 0OO6 Nv 1oA11G 4OCC-DAJ - NA6haAAOO
committee made araid on q dance house and
ended the earthly career of two frontier des-
peradoes.
CoMMoDoRE ]. P. MoKNsrRY, o the navy,
died at Detroit last week, aged 66. Edmund
Troubridge, a leading Detroit merchant, is
dead..-.It is stated that an unusually large
plnoe IN q Ita R0ise 6ne %sn m Mith sis a wives sa ma4s
ried Q girl of 10 at Salt Lake, the other day.
Gen. Crook is vigorously prosecuting the war
against the Apaches in Arizona. He has killed
over 800 warriors since the opening of the
campaign He says he viii fight them till they
sue for peace.
The South.
TRAINS are now running regularly between
st. Louis and Little Rock, Ark, over the Cairo
and Fulton railroad.
TIE contemplated tour of the President
and his Cabinet through the South next
month is to be made the occasion, it is said,
of numerous demonstrations in the larger
cities.
Washington.
THE defeat of Senator Sherman's Specie
Payment bill in the Senate, the other day, was
altogether sudden and unexpected but it fully
confirms the general impression that there will
be no financial legislation this session The
Postmaster General has issued advertisements
for bids for the new penny postal cards. It is
the intention Of the department to have cards
ready for issue by the LIST of May. b POST
master General has already received orders for
new cards in such numbers as to lead him to
believe that 100, 600, 900 of them will be used
the first year.
C-oEGREss has removed the political disabili-
ties of Robert NJ. 7. Hunter, of Virginia.
The several Executive Departments of the
Government are making estimates for the
amount OF their postage for the next fiscal
year, when the law abolishing the franking
privilege takes effect. The estimate for the
= AnCE n
terror Department, 500, 600. The War, State,
Navy and Justice Departments it is estimated
win reach altogether 81, 500, 900. The success
Of the new loan is SO promising that Secretary
Boutwell, has issued q call for one hundred
millions of The $40 bonds of 1862, and will
shortly issue q like call for another equal
amount.
SENATOR SUMMERS health has improved SO
much within the last week or two that his
complete recovery is regarded as probable by
his friends. The bill reported by the House
the several departments Of the Government
provides that after March 4, 1878, salaries will
be fixed as follows: President, $50, 900; Vice
President, $4,000; Chief Justice, S10,500
net officers, $4,000 Speaker of the House,
SIC, 900; members of Congress, So 600 THE
President has pardoned two more of the Ku-
Washington adyices report that Speaker Blaine
VIII unquestionably be reelected in the event
Of Congress assembling on March 4.
IT is said but few members o~f,Congress favor
an extra session. 1t is said the President will
pardon nearly all the Ku-Klux prisoners in a
very short time. 1t is believed that Assistant
Richardson is the coming Secretary
of the Treasury. j. 1. It is rumored that Ministers |
Bancroft, Jay and Sickles are to be recalled
after the 4th of March.
Foreign.
THERE was a lively debate in the British
House of Lords on the motion for an address
to the Throne. in which a number of disguised
Lords relieved their minds on the Geneva
award. 1t is announced from Paris that a
compromise has been effected between Presi-
dent Theirs and the Committee of Thirty-the
latter agreeing to modify their project by ex-
tending the veto power to the Executive, and
according him the right to participate per-
sonally in the debates of the Chamber.
BILLS have been introduced in the British
House of Commons providing for the abolition
of capital punishment looking to the estab-
lishment of a protectorate over the Feejee
Islands providing that all treaties made be-
tween Great Britain and foreign powers must
receive the ratification of Parliament; legaliz-
ing marriage with a deceased wife's sister
providing for the purchase of the English rail-
ways by the Government and removing
electoral disabilities from women.