Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-11-27
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

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The East.
THE bankruptcy proceedings against Jay
Cooke & Co. have been postponed to Nov. a.
THE trial of William M. Tweed is in pro-
yress at New York. A week was consumed in
selecting q jury....It is a very singular and a
zery deplorable spectacle, immigrants who
Just reached this country seeking to re-
turn to Europe. The officers of vessels leav-
ing New York for Germany are constantly be-
sieged with applications from this class to be
to work their passage back to the
old World. . There is q hot competition be-
tween the great dry goods houses of Claflin
and st art, Of New York, and both are selling
goods at prices lower than have heretofore
been reached since the war.
THE war steamer Kansas has sailed from
New York for Cuban waters, with sealed or
ders. Others will follow Immediately 1.-THE
suit of G. B. Lamar against Charles A. Dana,
to recover 800, 900 for illegal imprisonment
in 1865, while Dana was Assistant Secretary OF
War, has been decided at New York in favor
of the defendant.
The Philadelphia carpet-manufacturers are
beginning to suffer severely. Two have sus-
pended, and others have been sold out by the
Sheriff. ...A fire in Haverhill, Mass, on the
10th inst, destroyed $175,0o0 worth of
property.
ANOTHER suit has been begun against Jay
Cooke Il Co, to throw them into bankruptcy,
and a temporary injunction has been granted
to prevent them from parting with any of
their properly pending the sos decision 81 1.-the OF the
have resolvedto inaugurate an extensive sys-
tenn of street improvements under authority
of the city, to provide work for unemployed
men at the rate of 124 cents per Ed
ward K. Windship, broker, at No. "a Broad
street, New York, has disappeared, owing
about 800 creditors above $500, 00O. 49,. Cuban
bonde are being freely sold in Philadelphia at
Is cents on the dollar.
THE Union Trust Company, of Pittsburgh,
has suspended. The cashier is missing 49,.
The widow of the late Secretary Stanton died
last week at Philadelphia.
The West.
Hon. WILLIAM McGALLIARD, member of the
Illinois Legislature, recently committed sui
eide by shooting himself. Cause, unrequited
love....A dispatch from Victoria, British Co
lumbia, says: 1.-The steamer California ar
rived tonight from Sitka, Alaska Territory,
and confirms the new and recent discovery of
rich gold fields in Cassian county. She
brought down twelve miners and $15, 900 in
dust. The excitement is intense. One party
took out $197 in eight hours rocking" ~.
Capt. Brown, of the Fifth Cavalry, recently
went on q scout in the Tonic Basin country, of
Arizona, and killed f~orty-six Apaches. The
reported arrest of two of the Iowa train rob-
bers in Kansas was q hoax....An affray be-
tween soldiers and citizens in Bismarck, Mimi,
on the 18th inst, resulted in the killing of one
soldier and one citizen. The gale on the
night of Nov. IL was the most fearful ever ex-
perienced on Lake Michigan. Many vessels
were wrecked and a number of lives lost
The Chicago Times of the 18th inst. pub.
fishes advices from the principal manufactur.
ing points in Illinois and the contiguous States
from which it appears that the reduction OF
the business as a whole is less than 20 pei
cent. In some cases this ~shrinkage takes the
form of running" the establishments on less
time in others, in diminishing the number OF
employees. and in others, in the reduction OF
wages. 1t is q very fiattering exhibit as com.
pared with the condition of affairs in the East.
ern States, and affords a gratifying evidence
of the stability of manufacturing interests IL
the West. Col. Thomas A. Marshall, one OF
the most prominent mon of Illinois, died last
week at his home in Centralia. United
States Circuit Court, at Indianapolis, has de-
cided that railroads are answerable for dam.
ages sustained by persons riding ON free
passes, the same as other passengers.
The great four-mile race at San Francisco,
fer a purse of 800, 600, was won by the Cali
fornia horse Thad. Stevens. The remnant OF
the Modocs passed through Omaha last week,
en- route to the Indian Territory. Judge
McAllister has resigned his seat on the Illinois
Supreme Bench to accept the appointment OF
Corporation Counsel for the city of Chicago.
FRANK FISK, business agent for the Dayton
CO., Eoe1aing Herald, has disappeared for parts
unknown with a large amount of the concerns
funds.
THERE is much suffering among the home
steaders of Osceola county, Iowa. Twisted
hay and seed-grass is the only fuel that nine
tenths of the people have, while their food
and clothing are insufficient for the necessa-
ries OF hfe-..-A Arizona is now in Geographic
communication with the rest of the world -.
The All6n-H0QQn nriZa-f0ht az paniGo Nif-
Iowa, broke up in row during the third
round, and the referee decided the affair to be
a draw....The recent storm on the lakes was
very to shipping, and many dis.
Boston, Alaska and Java, and the schooners
Orient and Hamilton are among the vessels
wrecked The captain and crew Of the latter
drifted about in the lake thirty-three hours
without food, and were finally washed ashore
at South Haven, Mich, the whole party in q
senseless condition. Their sufferings are de-
scribed as terrible. IA fire in Buffalo, on the
18th inst, destroyed $500, 600 worth of prop
erty.
The south.
CIcALLA, the dishonest Acting Mayor OF
Memphis, has been unanimously expelled from
the Board of Aldermen....S s. Mallory. ex.
United States Senator from Florida, and
formerly Secretary of the Confederate States
Navy, is dead.
OAAOoAAo L tHucS u u OlSpaLcn IRON
Colfax, La, announcing the killing by the
citizens of seven out of nine negroes who
were implicated in the recent Grant parish
outrage. =
washington.
SENATOR MORTON is at the capital. He is
reported in good health, and infavor of green
back relief -. Brisbane is again laying down
his pneumatic tube between the Capitol and
and the Government Printing Office.
IT is minated that Secretary Richardson
viii recommend, in his forthcoming report,
that the $44, 600, 600 reserve be Iegalized and
brought into active service, and that, to obvi-
ate the inadequacy of therevenue to meet the
necessities of the Government, the duty on
coHee and tea be restored. IA. G.. Boston, a
partner IN the well-known banking house of
Riggs d. Co., committed suicide a few days ago.
1.-The Spanish outrage is the all-absorb-
ing topic in official and private circles at the
National Capital The Government is mani
Testing a determination to be prepared for
whatever comes out of the affair. Sounds OF
war are heard in our hitherto quiet navy
yards, and busy preparations are going for
ward to get vessels of war ready for sea. The
Secretary of War has issued orders to immedi-
ately put in repair the Florida forts.
INTERNAL revenue receipts for the fret hall
of November, $3.50, 1862. ...P ostmaster-Gen
eral Creswe1 has finished his report to the
next Congress. 1t is understood that he
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