Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-21

telegraph wires were cut, and all the
roads barricaded. The houses OF all the
farmers who would not join the insurTectlon
were burned, and the dwellings OF rich men
and the banks robbed. The insurgents are
said to number at least $50. 600. The cause OF
the revolt is that the Government has re-
quired the taxes of the farmers to be paid In
money instead of produce. together with the
probable failure of the rice crop...:-A Lon
don dispatch says The report that Mr.
Motley's illness was the result of an apoplec-
tic stroke is incorrect. He was suffering from
a very severe attack of neuralgia, but is now
much better and expects soon to be COM
pletely restored. 1t is denied that Prince
Arthur is betrothed to Princess Thyria, of
Denmark.
THE insurgents in Spain are rapidly losing
ground. Valencia has Internationally sur
rendered, and the submission Of Cartagena is
expected to follow Immediately. The Vors-
Ldndt Zeitung, of Vienna, reports that Count
de hambo has accepted the throne of
France, a formal tender Of which was recently
made him by a deputation of Legitimists.. :
Henri Rochefort has been sent, with other
convicts, to the penal colony of New Caledo-
MIA large rice mill at ~Stepney, a suburb
of London, has been burned. The loss is
$5, 900, 900.
DOUBTFUL report has reached New York
to the effect that Gen. Portfolio, at the head of
5000 men, had captured C%ienfuegos and pro-
claimed Don Carlos King of Spain....It is
reported from London that the Great Eastern
has SuCC6Gu0u III ItCOhCIIDB Jig LOpb SobAO VI
1865.
THE passage of the bill by the Spanish
Cortes for the emancipation of slavery in
Porto Rico is said to have been effected
through the instrumentality of Minister
Sickles. 1t is even understood that it was
plainly intimated in the Cortes that, unless
Spain now, in this hour of her extremity,
should keep her faith with the United States,
it might be considered that the day Of free
Cuba has arrived. So says a well-informed
Washington correspondent. Many stran-
gers are leaving Vienna, and the number of
visitors to the Exposition decreases daily.
A REWARD of merit has been awarded at
Vienna to the specimens of American periodi-
cal literature in the Department of Instruc-
ton. Ia desperate fight took place recently
on the Curragh of Kildare, between two Irish
regiments. Several were killed and many Sc
verely wounded.
Political.
THE Democracy of Ohio, in convention at
| Columbus last week, nominated a full ticket
for State offices, as follows:
For Goyernor-wm. Allen, of Ross.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Burns, Of Rich
land.
Hamilton; short term, Charles 81. Scribner, Of
Lucas.
Treasurer-Geo. weimer, of Summit,
Comptroller-J.K 4. Newcomer, OF Marion.
Schenck, of Mercer.
BEN BUTLER has written an elaborate and
aggressive defense of the salary bill. He
insists that the law was unjust, not because
the salaries were raised, but because they were
not raised high enough, and that President
Grant ought to receive S275, 900 a year to place
him on an equality with Washington. The
Conservatives of Virginia have nominated
Gen. James L. Kemper for Governor. He
was a General in the Southern army, and per-
sonally is one of the most popular men in the
State IA proposition has been submitted in
the Ohio Constitutional Convention providing
that any officia, who shall receive unlawful
fees or brides shall be liable to fine and i'm
| -prisonment in the Penitentiary. TT Adj
ministration at Washington will give it's sup
port to Col. Hughes for Governor of Virginia.
THE recently-elected General Assembly of
Kentucky will be composed as follows: Sem
ate, 50 Democrats and 6 Republicans House
of Representatives, 81 Democrats and 10 Re-
publicans. Republicans gain two in the Sem
ate, and Democrats one in the House.
THE Democrats of Maine have nominated
Joseph Titcomb for Governor, and adopted the
resolutions Of the Ohio Democracy as their
platform. . The Maryland Democratic State
Convention assembled at Baltimore last week,
and renominated Levi N Woolford for Comp
troller. Resolutions were adopted affirming
adhesion to Democratic principles, opposing
monopolies and special legislation. d~enouncing
the salary bill, ETC., etc.