Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17
Foreign.


THE committee of b French Assembly,
appointed to report on the column of the Place
vendome, has decided to re-erect the monu-
ment as it stood when it was destroyed, and to
record by two inscriptions the date of its de-
molition and that of it's reconstruction. The
work will be carried on SO as to terminate at
the time of. the total evacuation of French
territory. .. Salvini, the great italian TRACE
dian, will visit the United States this summer.
GEORGE B1DwEL1, alleged t. be implicated
in the Bank of England frau, has been ar
rested in Edinburgh. The arrest was effected
just as he was about taking his departure for
America. Bidwel made strenuous efforts to
escape, and was only secured Ter a sharp
chase over a number of garden wallis 1t Is
announced that the trial of Marshal BaEaine
by court-martial will shortly be commenced.
1.-The Carlists are reported to have shot 60
prisoners at Berga:.:.Ihe DUKE OF Aumaie
Academy. On taking his seat he made an adj
dress, quiet in tone and free from political
illusions, but closing with an eloqueDtsappeal;
the last words of which were "Poor France /!
Let her pick up her broken sword, labor, and
take heart. Japanese items :s1ournalism
is making rapid progress in. Japa1a.sAgeneral
system of of CONSUMPTION has been adopted
All Japanese subjects of the age of 90 serve
three years in the army or naYy.-phe religious
censor prohibits Seppoism, teaching that this
world is a land of dreams, and death a sleep,
from which the soul awakens in Paradise
The question of opening Japan to all foreign
ers hinges on condition that they will submit
to native laws. One system based on the code
Napoleon was rejected by the Mikado. The
great temple of Monzeki, at Yedo, will be re-
built under the superintendent of a foreign
architect, according to European ideas.
NJ. LOUIS JOSEPH BUFFET has been elected
President of the French Assembly, in place of
NJ. Grevy, resigned. The Pope has recovered
from his recent illness-
REVOLUTIONARY agents from Spain are &C
lively at work in Portugal....A Madrid letter
says the reports of popular disturbances and
military insubordination in the new republic
are greatly exaggerated. The report is con-
frmed that the Carlists put to death q num-
Der of Republican soldiers captured at Berga
81 of. them were heartlessly bayonetted.. -.
The cause of the Cuban patriots continues to
look up. News from Havana through Span
ish sources confirms the reported capture of
the fortified city and seaport of Manzanillo,
and says an immense loss of booty in money
and munitions of war fell into the hands OF
the Cubans, who sacked the town..-.An ex-
plosion of fre-damp in a coal mine near Aber-
tillery, M~onmouthshire, England, caused the
death of five miners and wounded many
others.
The exhibitors at Vienna will be divided
into groups according to the character of the
contributions. Each group will have a Presi
dent and two Vice-Presidents The carpenters
are at work on the American building. In the
department of art a fine display is promised
England sends paintings valued in the aggre.
gate at 80, 000, 600. France will contribute 500
paintings and Italy 800 statues !. IT Prince
of Wales has just been installed, at London
as Grand Commander of the Order of Knights
Templar. -. .Spurgeon has been offered $50, 00(
to deliver so lectures in the United States
.Menotti Garibaldi has arrived at Barcelona
and offered the Republicans his services agains
the Carlists.