Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-07

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whom he had retained to conduct his defense.
The necessary security was given. and Mer-
riam was again released. Senator Ramsey, of
Minnesota, has started for Washington, to
urge the State Department to intercede in be-
half of the prisoners. The complaint and
afidavits in the case of Ann Eliza Webb,
seventeenth wife of Brigham Young, have
been filed in the Office of the Clerk of the
Court, at Salt Lake. The complainant
sues for 5000, 900 damages, alimony.
pending the suit, of $1,000 per
George Redwood, formerly Colonel of the
Louisiana Tigers" of rebel renown, has
been sentenced, at Detroit, to two years in
the Michigan State Prison for embezzlement.
At Rogersville, Ohio, during the trial of
a man calling himself "Jeff Davis, - for out
raging the person of a 9-year old girl, the
lights in the room were put out, the prisoner
was dragged out of doors, shot twice with re-
volvers, dragged by his heels two squares, and
hanged to a tree till he was dead. Iowa
grain and cattle dealers are sending their ship
ments eastward by way of st. Louis, instead
of Chicago, since the Inauguration of the Hi
nois railroad law. IA stage was stopped near
Grass Valley, Cal, on the night of the 9th
ult., by highwaymen, who blew open the Wells
& Fargo treasure-box and obtained $4,000.
THE Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad Com
pany have been ordered by United States
Judge Hopkins to cease their bridge-building
operations at La Crosse, Wis, until the suit
involving their right to do SO is decided.
Thu new census of Iowa shows the population
| of the State to be about 300, 000. Three
persons were fatally, and six seriously, injured
North Side Rolling Mills, on the 29th ult....
TIL damage by the recent fire in the Iowa
State Penitentiary, at Fort Madison, will reach
$50, 900. The State loses $40, 600, and the
contractors 800, 900.
The South.
BALTIMORE has been visited by a disastrous
confiagration, involving a loss of upward of
81, 900, 900. Ten blocks were burned over, en-
bracing the district bounded by Mulberry,
Liberty, Lexington and Howard streets. The
number of houses burned is stated at 100, con-
sisting almost wholly of dwellings and small
shops. The liabilities of H. J. Kimball, for
merly of New England, who failed some time
ago at Atlanta, GA, will amount to $5, DOC, 900
Louis Times has been purchased by George B.
Clarke and Charles A. Mantz for $50, DOC.
A TERRIBLE smash-up occurred on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad near Altamount, Md,
a few days ago, resulting in the death of
three persons and the ~wounding of three
others....A man named. Hall was recently
taken from his bed by a mob of negroes, in
Madison county, Tenn, and hung to a tree,
for an alleged outrage on an aged negress.
MEMPHIS has been agitated by a murder
that rivals in mystery and tragic interest the
Goodrich affair at Brooklyn. A man named
Frank Moore was shot and killed, at the hour
of midnight, in his own bedroom, within a
few feet of the bed on which his wife was
lying. His wife is believed to be the insti-
gator of the murder.
A CONVENTION met at Jackson, Tenn, last
last week, to consider the project of forming
a new State out of portions of Tennessee,
Mississippi and Kentucky. The representa-
ton is said to have been large, the enthusiasm
high, the purpose single and unanimous, and
the meeting harmonious.
Washington.
An abstract has just been finished showing
the condition of all national banks in the
country, from which il, appears that the total
resources of the 1, 1866 banks amount to
81, $50, SIT, $685. 6: liabilities, same. :. The
Postofice Department is now supplying the
small offices with postal-cards
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: "The ques-
ton of the fate of the Modoc murderers, lately
tried by a court martial in California, is at last
put to rest, b. semi-oficial authority, dis
patches announcing that the military commits
sion appointed to try them has awarded the
full penalty of the law, and, except in case of
Executive interference, the sentence of death
by shooting will be carried into effect as soon
as it shall have been approved by the Presi-
dent. All of those charged with the capital
offense have been found guilty. The sentiment
of the court martial was unanimous. There
are many facts in connection with this case of
interest to the public which will shortly be
divulged. It is thought, however, by army
officials of high rank that the findings of the
court will be promptly indorsed:".,:.
Yellowstone river in safety. The following
telegram from San Francisco is commended to
those who labor under the delusion that
slavery and the slave-block are things of the
past "Twenty-two Chinese females, brought
by steamer yesterday from Hong Kong, were
sold at public auction to-day in the Chinese
quarters; Young girls brought as high as
$3.50 each ,middle-aged and old women from
300 to 5000 each. Deaths in Chicago for
the week ending July 80, S52-a decrease of II
from the previous week. No sign of cholera
in the city.
Foreign.
The Carlists in Spain are reputed to have
80, 900 men under arms. Notwithstanding this,
President MacMahon refuses to accord them
the belligerent rights for which they have
sought formal recognition, and forbids Span
ish Republicans in France to send their
countrymen any aid. Nancy and Verdun are
now the only places in France held by the
Germans. The insurgents in the north of
San Domingo have defeated and routed the
forces of President Baez.
IT is said the minority party in the Spanish
Cortes propose to withdraw from that body
and proceed to Cartagena, now in possession
of the International, where they will estab-
lish a seperate government. Thus, with a
monarchy under Don Carlos, a republic under
Salmeron, and a commune at Cartagena, it
would seem that there will be governments
enough in Spain to satisfy all shades of politi-
cal opinion. Prince Frederick Charles, of
Germany, has rendered to Marshal Bazaine
evidence in his favor on his trial for the sur
render of Metz to the Prussian army. The
Marshal, however, declines to permit the evi-
dence to be introduced.
RUSSIA has made a treaty with the Khan of
Khiva by which his khanate is guaranteed: its
Independence upon the payment of a war in
demnity of z, 900, 900 roubles (about 81, 600,-
900 gold, pending which Russian troops will
remain in the country. Bhiva also engages to
follow the example of Russia in the abolition
of capital punishment, which has been I'M
known in that empire for a long time. . Will
liam II. Whalley, M. p, and a prominent
of the Tichborne claimant, is coming to-
the United States to solicit subscriptions to
enable the claimant to defray the expense in
CURED in his trial. . Fifty of the participants
in the Frankfort beer riots have been convict
ed and sentenced to various terms of impris-
The instruction of the Spanish
Tnternationals at Cartagena is becoming more
more formidable. It is reported that
Contreras, at the head of 6, 900 men, is march
ing on Madrid. President Salmeron has
called out 80, 900 reserve to be employed in
suppressing the rebellion. There is a further
report to the effect that the rebels threaten to
seize all the German vessels in the port at
Cartagena if the steamer Vigilante, which was
AIKEN from them by a Prussian frigate, is not
VICTOR EMANUEL disavows any hostility to
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