Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-28
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

PORTIONS of New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey were visited by a destructive rain
storm on the 18th inst. Many miles of railroad
track were washed away, or SO covered with
land slides or floods as to be almost impassa-
BILE. Pittsburgh reports that SO violent a rain
throughout the country bridges, culverts, dams
and roadways have been destroyed, and a great
deal of private property devastated.
THERE is no truth in the report that a large
number of New York Custom-House officials
had been removed for fraudulent practices.
DISPATCHES from New York represent that a
conflict between gold spectators is be-
Iieved to be imminent that the gold clique is
manipulating the market for a currency lock-
and that a strong combination exists to
the experiences of the memorable
Black Friday. The bears have urgently petit
toned the President to interfere IA singular
conflict between Federal and State authority
is threatened in Massachusetts. 1t seems that
as soon as the part which the Federal Govern
ment performs with reference to the beer that
is manufactured in that State-which is to tax
it's completed, the State Government per-
forms its part-which is to destroy it.. The
manufacturers feel that there is something in
this which is not strictly equitable, and will
therefore appeal to the authorities at WASH
ington either to be protected against the State
c~onstabulary, or to be reimbursed as to taxes
paid on beer destroyed under the State law.
II ONOAAb Ahh OhAO VI eHO Ay VI
the Cumberland will be held in Pittsburgh on
the 18th and 18th of September.
A FARMERS GRANGE has been established in
Boston. d. The New York Sub-Treasury con-
tains moIe than $50, 600, 600 in gold coin, be-
sides $40, 900, 600 in gold bars; s4OO, 600 in
silver, and $2s, 600, 600 in currency.
The West.
IT is reported that cholera has broken out
in a terrible form in Williamson county, Ill,
on the Illinois Central railroad "A man be-
lieved to be old man Bender. the Kansas
butcher, passed through Dubuque the other
day.
JULIUS MEYER, Indian interpreter, returned
to Omaha, last week, from a visit to the Paw
nees. He found the whole tribe in great
grief, the warriors painted black. One of the
chiefs said that the Sioux had burned Pawnee
babes on fires made of buffalo carcasses that
the Pawnees would mourn till the full moon.
and that they will then go out to fight the Sioux,
and nobody, not even the Government, shall
prevent them. They are gathering their
friends, and say they can muster from 1000
to 1900 men....Col Cobb, member of Con-
gress from the Wyandotte District. Kansas.
has sued R. K. Taylor, of the Wyandotte
Gazette, for defamation of character, claiming
$40, 900 damages..-.The first bale of cotton
ever imported into Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ar
rived there last week, for the new knitting
factory which is now in operation there.
The Iowa State Board of Equalization has
completed the valuation of the State, which
is 1854, 1886, $50, including the railroad
valuation of $1S, S42, 988. This is an increase
in the valuation of SO, 149, 1876 over 1s71....
Col. A. b. Durfee and Mr.. T. G.. Morgan, two
old, wealthy and respected citizens of Atchison
port, a few days ago, which ended by the
former striking the latter on the head with a
notary seal, from the effects of which b. died
in a few hours :Paine's saw mill and steam
salt works of SAGINAW Mich 1aofroroJ
by fire last week. Loss about $50, 900 "A
new witness in the famous Tichborne case
turns up at Springfield, Ill. He was the real
Sir Rogers riding teacher and daily COM
panion when Sir Roger, then a young man. was
stationed with his regiment at Cain Barracks,
Ireland, and feels sure he can tell whether the
claimant is what he pretends to be. His name
is John Crowley, and he is a well-known vet
Urinary surgeon of Springfield, and is vouched
for as a man of high character and intelli-
gence.
QUINCY, ILL.,, has been greatly excited over
the arrest of several young men, sons of some
of it's best known citizens, on a charge that
they belonged to a regularly organized band
of burglars and counterfeiters. An investiga-
ton proved, however, that the police mistook
a little private club for a band of desperadoes,
and captured a lot of amateur actors and
negro minstrels. The arrests were made with
such unnecessary violence that the affair is
likely to result in trouble to the laundering
O0 O11OaSO LCUtCS-
which is nothing if not sensational-is labor
ing to get up a cholera excitement in that
city. Every other Chicago newspaper main
tains that there is no cholera in the city,.
As an indication of the strength and magni-
tude of the Grange movement in Indiana, the
Indianapolis Sentinel publishes a corrected list
of organizations and officers. There are 279
Oranges, 5 general deputies, and 43 county
deputies. Indiana now stands sixth in the
list of States. Large meetings ate being
held in various sections, which are at
tended by multitudes. The order is
rapidly growing in all directions. -.
The Farmers Harvest Home Picnic, at Clin-
ton, Ill, on the 14th inst, which was largely
attended, was addressed by Gov. Palmer and
Gen. j.; g. Black. Gov. Palmer took the
grouud that the Dartmouth College decision
is the law of the land, and cannot be upset
short of upsetting or amending the Constitu-
ton that railroad charters are contracts be-
tween corporaters and the State, and cannot
be amended in any material respect without
the consent of the corporators that railroad
companies are common carriers, and are sub
Ject to the obligations imposed by the common
law that the common law is ample in it's
powers to correct all abuses of railroads and
other carriers, if enforced and, finally, that
we have more laws on the statute-books, add
tIonal to the common law, than we can en-
force.
Col. BABCocK, of the Fifth Cavalry, reports
another fight with Tonic Apaches in Arizona,
in which fourteen of the "noble" red men
were sent to the "happy hunting-grounds.'
AT Tucson, Arizona, on Aug. 8, Pedro
Negras and wife, pawnbrokers, were muir
dered. Three men who were implicated in
the murder were arrested. but were subse-
quently taken from the Jail and hung by a
mob....A man named Mahaffey met a terrible
death in Seward county, Neb., recently. In
attempting to run after his son through a
herd of cattle, ne was attacked by several of
the animals and literally torn and crushed to
pieces. After he cattle were driven away
pieces of the flesh were picked up near the
body, to be carried away in a bucket.
A STAGE was recently stopped by highway
men two miles from San Francisco, who rob-
bed the passengers of "a, 900, rifed Wells,
Fargo q Co.'s treasure box, and destroyed the
mail, papers, etc....A letter from the Yellow
stone expedition says a stir was created by the
arrest of Gen. Custer by Gen. Stanley, and
that Custer marched in the rear of his COM
mand one whole day before he was released.
Clusters men denounced his arrest as an act
of tyranny. Gen. Stanley also caused the de-
struction of all the liquors in the camp of the
infantry sutler, the latter losing six barrels,
and the cavalry sutler seven....A policeman
named Christian Jacobs was murdered in Chi
cago, the other night, by a burglar whom he
was attempting to arrest. "A horrible tragedy
was recently perpetrated at Twin Spfing, Linn
county, Kansas. A man named Keller killed
his wife, her sister, and his two children,
piled their bodies on the floor, covered them
with straw, and then set fire to the heap.
When discovered there was evidence that the