Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-26

war path, and that great Indian clvlllzer, Gen
Crook, is preparing to follow them. .Tht
cholera has made its appearance in Cincinnati
and Indianapolis.
The South.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy was recently
enacted in Gallatin county, N. G. job Hol
combe, impelled by the green-eyed monster
shot and killed his young and beautiful wife
firing three bullets into her body. The muir
derer then shot himself through the heart
falling on the dead body of his wife. Mai
Henry Ewing, the principal proprietor of the
st. Louis Times, died last week, at the age OF
31....W. I'll. Day, a young son of T. o. Day
one of the wealthiest citizens of st. Louis, has
been arrested for stealing a pair of bracelets
from a young lady. He is considered a con-
firmed h~eptomaniac, having been in the same
kind of trouble several times before. Joe
Duncan, colored, was hanged at Paris, KY,
the other day. The account states that "the
drop was sprung at l o'clock, and he fell, but
the rope proved too long. He was taken upon
the scaffold, and the rope being shortened,
he was hung again, this time successfully"
NAvAsoTA, Texas, was recently visited by a
5000, 600 fire....A youth in Alexandria, Va,
has declared his intention to start from
Bunker Hill on a tour through the Northern
States, carrying with him the Confederate
flag.
THERE were thirty-fve deaths from cholera
in Nashville on the 18th inst. The disease is
carrying it's rayages into the neighboring towns
of Tennessee. Three negro murderers of
New Iberia, La, were taken from the officers
by a mob of 1000 citizens and hanged to a
ernorship of Arkansas is going on in the courts
of Little Rock-Joseph Brooks against Elisha
Baxter. 1t is said Andy johnson will enter
the field for Governor of Tennessee at the
next election...-A regiment of volunteers is
to be raised in Texas for the purpose of resist
ing and furnishing the cattle-stealers who infest
the border ....A meeting of a joint committee
of native blacks and whites was held in New
Orleans, a few days ago, which adopted a
strong series of resolutions, pledging their
efforts to the preservation of the reciprocal
rights of the two races, and the maintenance
of peace and good will between them.
Washington.
GEN. SHERMAN stated to a correspondent,
the other day, that "there would be no diff
Guilty about disposing of the Modocs who are
under arrest. Those found guilty of murder
will be hanged or shot, and if it is proved that
there was an agreement for a general uprising
among the tribes others will receive some pun
ishment as a warning to Indians. He re-
marked, however, that it was a pity that the
guilty Medocs were not shot at first, and then
all this commission business and expense
would have been avoided. The Navy De-
partment will shortly dispatch a vessel in
search of the missing Polsris. Senator Sum
ner's condition has greatly improved of late,
and he is now on the high road to health.
A Washington dispatch says: The appropria-
ton for Government printing has been ex-
hausted, and, there being no fund from which
to draw, the business of the Government
printing Office has come to a standstill, and
most of the employees have been f~urloughed
until the list of July.
THE important discovery has just been made
that all the secret archives of the War Depart
ment, pertaining to what is known as the con-
fidential history of the late war, have been
Ru rvhnnn ~ rvhaD 41ar ~ 49, 3,
not known. Most of the documents were
fled and put away in boxes in 1865 and 1866,
and have not been referred to till recently,
they could not be found. The Buell.
court-martial records, it will be remembered,
in the same mysterious way sew
eral years ago. The commissioners appoint
ed by our Government to investigate the
depredations on the Rio Grande have finished
their labors, which have included the hearing
of 400 witnesses and the collection of 1,306
The commissioners represent the
amount of damages, direct and consequential,
to those who have suffered by these raids, at
between $50, 000, 900 and $50, OO0, 600.
WITH regard to Col. Mackenzie's raid into
Mexico while in pursuit of the Kickapoos,
Gen. Sheridan, in forwarding that officers re-
port of the affair to the War Department, says
does not believe that any boundary exists
sued. Both the United States and Mexico
should be glad to. throw open their territory to
Zach others troops for the punishment of
these sayages -. Brisbane's so-called pneu-
matte tube has proved a failure. The appro-
of SIS, 900 voted by Congress has
been expended, and there is nothing to show
for it. 1t is rumored that Secretary of the
Richardson will resign shortly.
Thus far, 46 Senators and Representatives
have declined to accept the back pay. Thu
sotal amount thus returned to the Treasury is
S192, 017....The Postmaster-General has Or
Tered the establishment of free delivery in
Columbus, o., Evansville, Ind, and Coving-
Ton, Ky.
Foreign.
KHIvAN news to May IL reports the junction
Of the two columns of the Russian force, and
lie defeat of the Khivans at Chalaot after q
fight, in which two Russian Colonies
we're killed; and at the Amur Daria river,
where 3, 500 Khivans were routed without the
of a single life by the Russians. /. 1t is
that the German Parliament will
adopt a resolution extending the provisions of
he Constitution to Alsace and Lorraine -.
The Spanish Cortes has at last succeeded in
'orming a Ministry, with Senior P y Margall at
is head. The armed factions which threat
med an outbreak in Madrid have dispersed,
md the excitement is subsiding... "A regiment
If Spanish troops near Valencia recently
nutinied and murdered their Lieutenant
IAN Englishman named Thomas
Fields, at Hamilton, Ontario, the other day,
murdered his wife and two children by chop
,ing them to pieces with an AK. Three
were drowned at Woodstock, New
Brunswick, last week, while trying to board a
steamer.
THE new Spanish Ministry is in sympathy
With the Federal Republican sentiment. Their
,olicy has been announced in the Cortes to be
n favor of the immediate separation of The
into Federal States. The army liz to
70 reduced to order, the Carlists are to be
promptly suppressed, and slavery is to be abol-
she'd. The French Governmet has decided
o transport Henri Rochefort to the penal
olony of New Caledonia. IA horrible murder
vas committed in Toronto, Canada, a few days |
A brute named Tim Murphy gagged his |
so as to stifie her cries, and then kicked
nd beat her brains out. Mailing up the door
f her room, he quietly went to his work, and
isplayed the utmost Indifference when ar |
ested.
SPANISH items: Nicolas Salmeron has been
lected President of the Cortes. The Govern
tent has announced that q separation of
and State is a part of its programme.
"A loan of 300, 900, 600 reals will be immedi-
negotiated "A Carlist victory is re-
orted from Biscay. Z. 1t is said that ex-Queen
is about to consult the Pope regarding
he prospects of the Bourbon family in Spain
-. CASTELAR, has prepared a political map of
pain dividing the country into thirteenS States,
accordance with the policy of the Margan
[inistry, who mean to- establish a Federal
A special commission of twenty
We is to be appointed to draft the Constitution
II this Republic, and its exchequer is to be
applied by a loan of about $40. 600, 900. -.
he death is announced of John Leander
often. the London publisher. He will be