Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-13
NEWS OF H WEEK.
The East.

East
THE Democrats of the Second Congressional
District of Connecticut have nominated ex-
Gov. James E. English for Congress....I 1t is
rumored that Alden B. Stockwen, President of
the Pacific Mail Company, and for several
years one of the heaviest and boldest operators
on the New York Stock Exchange, has failed
to meet his contracts, and that his failure is
inevitable.
THE celebrated Jumel will case will be car
ried into the United States Supreme Court.
The widow of James Fisk, Jr., has sued the
Credit Mobilier for 10000 shares of its stock.
THE Supply sailed from New York for
Trieste, the otherday, having on board a cargo
of every variety of American products and ma
chinery for the Vienna Exposition. The Guard
is now being loaded at Brooklyn, and viii sail
In o few days. No American locomotives, bill
lard tables or light carriages will be sent to the
Exposition. America will appear to the great
eet advantage in the department of fine arts.
A COMMITTEE Of the Constitutional Commis-
sion of New York charged with the duty of
investigating the city, county and town debts
in the State have reported that these local
debts reach the enormous sum of $214, 000, 600,
exclusive Of the State debt proper.
THE New York Senate, by a vote of z to Is
has refused to declare the seat of Boss Tweed
vacant. The Committee on Female Suf-
frage in the Massachusetts House of Repre-
49, IN VI mill
to women the right to vote and hold office -.
The first number of the new Illustrated daily
paper, the Graphic, was issued in New York
on the 9th inst, and O large edition was sold.
1t is believed the enterprise will prove q sue
cese...-.A brutal prize-fght at Golfers Station,
w. Va, the other day, between the bruisers
Hlcken and Campbell, was broken up in a row,
after ~ rounds had been fought. Several
pistol-shots were fired, but unfortunately none
OF b hrutes were hit by the flying balls.
The waa%
J. B. Mccormick, a member of the cele-
brated reaper manufacturing firm, died at Day
ton, Ohio, recently, aged S3....A singular ac-
'Moines, Iowa, last week. A miners drill, four
feet long and an inch in diameter, fell from
the mouth Of the shaft and struck Benjamin
Couch, 128 feet below, in the back at the right
through his body came out near the rectum.
The drill made q terrible wound, but it was
Withdrawn by q fellow workman at COUGHS re-
quest. Medical aid was summoned at once,
and the sufferer will probably recover. =. The
notorious Buffalo Bill" was arrested, re-
Gently, at Usage, Kansas, for demonstrating
At the time OF his arrest he was lecturing on
Life on the Plains"
SIX women have just received their diplomas
as graduates of the woman's Hospital Medi-
cal College, of C~hicago....A new line of ten
frst-classp ropellers is to be engaged this year
in the lake traffic between Montreal and Chi
The lower house of the Kansas Legis-
lature resolves that Pomeroy is unworthy the
confidence and respect of the people of the
State. George L. wedgewood, the rascally
school superintendent of La Sale county, ILL.,,
was arrested at Quincy, the other day. Raj
ferty, the Chicago murderer, who has been
twice tried and sentenced to death. has OBJ
tanned a supersedeGs, and viii probably be
granted q new trial. The troops in Arizona
have had two more encounters with the dusky
Apaches, in which twenty-five of the latter
were sent to their "happy hunting grounds. :"
Only one soldier was killed
ADvIcEs from Arizona report Gen. Cronk's
army in excellent condition. Crook considers
the backbone of the Indian war broken, but
has no faith in Cochise's promises to keep the
peace.
THE Chicago, Alton and st. Louis railroad
has brought suit for $10,o 600 damages against
some of the persons who detained its trains in
the attempt to ride for the legal fare of three
cents ..Advices from Oregon report that
there is q prospect of the peace negotiations
termination -. Capt. Oscar c.. Pratt, a we'll
known Journalist, recently committed suicide
at Omaha.
The South.
ALEXANDER 81. STEPHENS has been elected to
Congress from the Eighth District of Georgia
without opposition. -. Members of the Legis.
lature of South Carolina, and other citizens OF
that State, have signed . memorial to the
United States Senate charging Senator Patter-
SON with bribery, and p~etitioning that he be re-
fused his seat.
G. W. LOWELL, Postmaster at New Orleans,
is a defaulter to the extent of about $40, 600.
He was arrested and bailed in $40. 600.
SEVERAL hundred families have beer rem
dered homeless and much suffering caused by
the recent destructive co~nfagration in New
H. -l:I 49, nnn
The Mayor of the city has sent forth an appeal
for add. Gen. w. l.. Mcmillan has been
elected United States Senator from Louisiana,
for the long term, by the McEnery Legislature.
TIE election in Arkansas has resulted in the
ratification of the constitutional amendment
doing away with Acknowledgement.
Washington.
The President has sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate Charles Stephan, Col
lector of Internal Revenue, Twelfth Illinois
District. observation-disclosures Wilson, Mar
shall, Mo-; David A. Ryers, Kit Carson, Col.
The aggregate of appropriations, by the
time all the appropriation bills shall have been
passed, viii probably be $3.50. 900, 000. Ought
the United States to build a first-class double
track railroad, from the Atlantic TO the Mis-
sissippi or Missouri, for the purpose of cheap
ening freights and fares? The Senate has
directed the Committee on transportation to
answer this question.
THE action of the Senate on the louisiana
muddle leaves the question in precisely the
same condition it was before the Committee
on Elections made their report. The House
Committee on Appropriations have considered
the Senate amendments to the Postofice Ap-
preparation bill, and agreed to non-concur in
the amendment forbidding the transmission of
all free matter, so far as the same affects ex-
changes among newspapers
Mr.. INGALLS,. "Old Pom'sn successor is
described as the youngest looking man in the
Senate.-..The following is the public deb
statement for February:
64 per cent- ,z4o. 7OO
rive per cent. bonds 1857 800
Total coin 81 ass. SIS. 600
Lawful money debt 15, 988, OOC
4atureo aeDt: S,o9S,2a
Legal tenoer $50, O84, 800
Cert1ncates OF deposit. 81, TIC, 00C
Fracuonai currency 1922, Toe
Com certlncetes- 24,O24,9SC
Total without interest. ...........$ ass, 1T, 1856
Total debt. s, 226, o65 ,62s
Total interest 90 eIe n