Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-18
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increased since the abolition of the frapking
privilege, and thinks that it will be s%elf-sus-
tanning by the close of the year....The Post
office Department has great trouble with the
contractors who supply the postal cards. They
have utterly failed to comply with the condi-
tons of their contract, and constantly furnish
cards below the standard. The contract calls
for paper that costs the makers Is cents a
pound, but they furnish paper that really costs
them but 16 cents a pound. 1t is said the mill
owners and contractors are in collision in the
fraud.
IT is stated that the attempt will be renewed
in the next Congress to repeal the Bankrupt
act, or to obtain such amendment to the same
as shall render it's operations more favorable
to commercial interests. There is considers
bic talk in some of the departments of asking
Congress to amend the law passed last session
a~bolishing the franking privilege, so that let
tors on public business, addressed to Govern
ment officials, may go through the mails with
out prepayment of postage...-A Washington
dispatch says: The police are looking for
the persons who mutilated the body of Beau
Hickman. When the undertaken went to the
potter's-field to remove the body to the Con-
gressional backgrounds, he found the legs
disjointed at the hips, the head severed from
the trunk and skinned, the viscera taken out
and removed, with the exception of the heart,
which was found in the bushes near by, wrap
ped in a newspaper. What could be gathered
was inferred in the cemetery"
THE Attorney-G General most emphatically
denies the published statement that the Gov
eminent has determined to abandon the prose-
cution of the Credit Mobilier suits The SUI
pervising Inspector of Steamboats, has hit
upon a plan for more effectually bringing TO
grief such owners of steam vessels as fail to
conform to the law for the protection of hui
man life. The plan is, without previous noti-
fication or warning, to send special agents of
the Bureau into the regular Inspection Dis
tricts, so that not only the steamboat com
panies shall be taken by SURPRISE, but the In
spectors also.
QUARrERMAsTER-GENERAL MEIGs opened
bids last week for furnishing tomhstohes for the
national cemeteries. There was a large attend
ance of bidders from different parts of the
country, and the bids ranged from $500, 600 to
81, 900. 600.
THE secret agents sent abroad by the Treas
ury Department, to test by experience the
immigrants received from the ocean
steamship companies, have returned from
Washington. They claim to have detected q
of serious abuses, and will recon-
mend to Congress, in December, the follow
changes:
Frst-The establishment of a treaty with En-
gland, Germany and France for the joint appoint
ment of n Government agent to travel on every
plying between the United States and
The agent to be known as such, and to act as media
Tor when necessary between the captain of the
ISccond-That the various lines of railway in this
country shall be compelled to run emigrant trains
IL hCNO sAAO1 AAO AO6onA eNH, AS "a 81 l
Third-That for every emigrant killed on a rail-
the company snail pay to the Government for
MS heirs the sum of 5000, and in case of manning,
proportionate sum.
THE SIS, 500, 900 awarded to our Government
1t Geneva, Switzerland, was paid into the
United States Treasury On the 9th inst, by
Fish, in one bond. The bond was
,killfully printed with a pen, being q fac
of a printed form. Upon being duly
executed, it was photographed, and then sent
% Secretary Fish, b is it's present GUS
odian. The certificate of deposit, retained
" the Secretary of the Treasury, will be
ramed and preserved among the archives of
he Government as a memorial of the amicable
ountries. Secretary Richardson invested the
money In 8 per cent. registered bonds, to await
urther action by Congress.
Foreign.
A FIGHT lately occurred on the Lima and
)royo railroad, in Peru, between Gillian and
laborers, in which many of the latter
7ere killed =. The Emperor of Germany has
rdered that the forts in Alsace and Lorraine
e rechristened in honor of the leading gener-
is of the conquering army. /
THURSDAY, the 4th inst, was the anniversary
f the proclamation of the French Republic
ut on account of the ban pronounced by the
iacMahon government, there was no observ-
nee of the day in Paris. AT Lucerne, in
IOhOr OA-4 III L hlOlb |
Tas waited upon by a lumber of his fellow
to whom he made a siseech
trongly advocating the preservation of re-
institutions. The total force of the
artists in Spain is put down at 40, 900. They
re arranging to establish a cannon factory at
'arragona.
The Pope is-again announced to be ill.,.
o stern was the repression by the French
of any attempt to celebrate the
anniversary of the establishment of the Re-
ublic, that American citizens in Paris we're
even permitted to make q complimentary
isplay of the United States flag on that day.
Nicolas Salmeron, President of the Repub-
c of Spain, and all the LENDERS of his Min
TRY, have resigned. i
MINISTER and Historian Motley is con-
alescent. Emilio CASTELAR, has been elected
of Spain. This young Republic,
nough only six months old. has had four ,
1lers during its existence. CASTELAR,, before
is election, demanded, as conditions upon ,
hich he would take the Office, that he. should
9 allowed to increase the army, purchase
10, 600 rifles, organize the militia, impose a {
loan, suspend the Constitutional guar
1tees, and be furnished with material and appli- !
ices sufficient to overcome both the Carlists l
Id the Intransigente insurgents. Tn Cortes I
Is granted him these conditions, and, there {
re, CASTELAR, takes upon himself the re-
possibility of crushing out the oppo- ,
ton to the Republic. It remains to be seen {
neither he is equal to the responsibility. s
no CuOlcId Il raging LII HUNGARY 1.-Two m6Q {
mt out from Madrid to assassinate Don Car S
8 have been executed. . On the last day of q
e Vienna Exposition, the fair was thrown {
YEN to the public, and was visited by 100,O 900 '
,ople .-..On the night of the 9th of Septem- c
II a square of buildings in Havana, Cuba, a
Town as the Plaza Yaper was reduced to v
hes. Fire broke out simultaneously in four q
rners of the square, and is supposed to =
We been the work of incendiaries. Loss T.
at over 49, 600, 900. 1t is reported d
at twenty lives were lost. The scenes around v
Q burning square were exciting and terrible. a
threw their children from balconies to n
We them from the flames. .
A REPORT comes from Shanghai that the =!
linese are planning a massacre of all the =
in the interior of the Empire. The =
which has infiamed them to this -
body design is the refusal of the French -
to some changes which the Chinese l.
wishes made in a treaty. :. Presi- p
MT CASTELAR, begins his administration of is
anish affairs with energy. He has decided r.
he Republican forces by calling .,
t $50, 900 of the regular army reserve and BY =
king a levy of 100000 men from the militia, g
with these accumulated resources intends b.
wipe the Carlists and Intransigentes out of %
lstence. San Domingo item: Col Rivas Al
emPted the life of Col. Luperon with a -
ord. Luperon evaded the blows, drew a "
oliver, and shot Riyas through the head. I'll
particulars of the great confiagra- w
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