Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13

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privilege, it now proposes to do away witt the
twin evil of mileage bill to that effect hav-
ing been prepared. A pension of $50 per
month has been granted by Congress to Mrs.
Robert G. Ward, daughter of the late President
circumstances. The House Committee on
Claims have reported a bill passing the awards
of claims allowed by the Commissioners ON
Southern Claims. The bill embraces 1900
names, and appropriates about 5000, 000.. -.
House Foreign Affairs Committee have
agreed to recommend the passage of the bill
Incorporating the American, China and Japan
Telegraph Company, with a capital OF
$40, 600, 600. E. Congress is being flooded with
petitions in opposition to the proposed repeal
of the Bankrupt act President Grant, nm
of Congress, will, in mpan with members
of the Cabinet, make an extended Southern
tour, visiting New Orleans Cvla
Raleigh, Columbia, Charleston, Mobile, and
other places.
Foreign.
A RUMoR comes by the cable that the differ
ences between Great Britain and Russia on the
Khivan question are increasing, and that the
Governments of France, Austria, Italy, Turkey,
Denmark and Sweden have determined to sup
port the British Government in its POSITION.
King Lunalilo has been unanimously elected
King of Hawaii by a popular vote. The
Tichborne claimant has entered into recog-
niZance in 60, 900 to answer to the Court of
Queens Bench on a charge of contempt, for
his speech at Brighton. ..Forty-two members
of the International Society were arrested the
other day in Paris. Pauline Lucca's petition
to the Emperor of Germany for a remittal of
the fine of Sc, 900 against her for breaking her
contract with the Berlin Opera House has been
rejected. "A numerously attended meeting of
slave owners and others was held at Havana
on the evening of the 28th ult. Several
speeches were made, in which many different
views of the slavery question were taken, and
propositions in favor of its abolition were adj
vocated. Several planters, hitherto considered
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preston to very liberal views, to the great
establishment of the audience.
RUSSIAN feeling is being wrought into a war
fever by stories of atrocious outrages COM
mitted by the Khivans upon their Russian
prisoners. Expeditions are being formed to
avenge these wrongs, and the excitement has
spread among the nobility, many of whom have
volunteered to accompany the army. .Glas-
gov is subscribing literally for a monument to
the poet Campbell. 1t is reported that Amer
lean bankers of London loaned Napoleon
5000, 900 to facilitate a coup he was meditating,
and that since his death the money has been
returned to them. News from DR.. Living
stone represents his health as much improved.
THE Queen of Spain has given birth to a
bouncing boy. Theirs refuses to accept the
constitutional project submitted to him by the
Committee of Thirty of the Assembly Over
100 Internationalists have been arrested in
Montmartre, q suburb of Paris. ..Ex-Empress
Carlotta, widow of Macmillan, is reported in a
dying condition at Dresden. Randolph
| Rogers, the American sculptor, has been MADE
a member of the Roman Academy of st. Luke,
the first citizen of the United States who has
received the honor. .Rustlchuk, a fortified
city of Bulgaria, has been the scene of a fierce
street riot, in which 13 Bulgarians and 10
Greeks were slaughtered.
IT was the Spanish steamer Murillo, as was
surmised from the first, that ran down the
Northfeet in the English Channel, the other
day. She was not damaged in the least by the
collision, and has arrived at Cadiz in perfect
condition. Lisbon was her real destination,
but as her officers and crew on landing there
would have been Immediately arrested under
the extradition law between Great Britain and
Portugal, she carried her cargo to a Spanish
port. This may enable her officers to escape
all punishment for an act of cold-blooded in
humanity equal to the worst of those that rem
dered infamous the Spanish buccaneers of 300
years ago....The Spanish Government has
will be taken to abolish slavery in Cuba until
the instruction in that island has been sup
pressed. There are, according to the recent
census returns, 269, 600 slaves in the island.
THE great Vienna Exposition building is
completed. Ar incipient revolution in Hayti
has been discovered and suppressed, and five
of the plotters executed. "A strike among the
engineers and fremen of the Portuguese rail-
ways has been ended by the interference of the
Government, and the striking workmen forced,
places....The British isles have been visited
by a storm of extraordinary violence. In Lon
don, snow fell to a great depth, and travel was
almost wholly suspended. The gale ragged with
great fury all around the English and Irish
coasts. Many wrecks have already been re-
ported, and there has been a fearful loss of
life, especially off TOrquay and around. the
Sicily Islands.
PRESIDENT THEIRS attended the sitting of
the COMMITTEES of Thirty, the other day, and
presented his views on the constitutional
project submitted to him. He agreed to &C
| want tho an1an1a If 0optoin onoaDlpoonfo which
he declared indispensable we're adopted. After
a searching criticism of the project in detail,
he urged the necessity of being free to address
the Assembly on questions of general policy
and concluded as follows: You humiliate
me I accept the humiliation, but 1 will not
become apolitical mannikin. L am only a little
me would be contemplate" ~. News comes
from San Domingo of a new movement of the
insurgents, which may prove serious to the in
FAINT colony of SANTANA Bay.
PRINCE LUNALILo has been inaugurated King
of the Sandwich Islands. Over Is, 600 IRON
workers in Wales are on a strike. .Lehree, a
town in India of 5000 inhabitants, has been
overwhelmed by an earthquake, and 500 people
killed. There has been another rise in the
price of coal in London. 1t is now selling for
SO shilling per ton. The British isles have
been experiencing intensely cold weather. One
hundred persons froze to- death in England
within two days.
IT is proposed to tunnel the Ohio and Missis-
sippi rivers near their junction, in order to
facilitate railway movements. A company for
that purpose has been formed, with q capital
of $40, 600, 600, and has applied to Congress for
an act of incorporation. . Preparations for the
celebration of the centennial anniversary of
American Independence at Philadelphia have
been intrusted to a committee of 800 leading
citizens. At a meeting OF this committee, the
other day, $189. 600 were subscribed, making
5000, 900 promised by Philadelphia for the cele-
bration. The City Council is asked to appro-
pirate 81, 900 from the city funds, and sub
scriptions are invited from every citizen of the
United States.
THERE is an increase in the public debt for
the month of January of s4O6, 243 :. .Aspinwall
was visited by a terrific hurricane on the 18th
ult., causing the destruction of nearly 81, OOO,-
600 worth of property.
THE sewing machine patents are about to ex-
pire, and, according to the New York Bulletin,
there is a formidable combination of intererts
to lobby their extension through Congress.
The royalty alone has yielded several million
dollars, which were divided among companies
whose patents cover the essential points of the
machine. These companies charge the Ameri-
can people one-half more for machines than
the rates at which precisely the same articles
are sold in Europe. The Bulletin tells that for
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