Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-06
NEWS OF HI WEEK.
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The East.
THE Hon. VIM. Cassidy, editor of the Albany
Euening Argus, and one of the famous Albany
Regency, is dead. The Pennsylvania Consti-
tutional Convention has decided that the State
elections shall be held on the Tuesday follow
ing the first Monday in November, and city
and township elections on the third Tuesday i'll
February.
FOSTER, the New York car-hook murderer, is
to be hanged March L.. Maine has produced
the latest meteorological novelty. At Water
vile and Wiscasset, in that State, the other
day, there was a severe snow-storm, accompa-
MED by thunder and lightning, the thermome-
ter marking at the time 8 degrees above zero,
or "a degrees below the freezing point. Bill
Dennis (colored) has been hung at Whining
ton, Del, for rape. The United States Grand
Jury, at Albany, has indicted Susan b. An
thony and fourteen others for illegal voting at
Rochester
THREE persons were swept from a bridge
over the Little Delaware river, near Hampden,
Del, and drowned, during the recent freshet.
THE smallpox is rapidly decreasing in Bos-
ton. The Cashier of the National Granite
State Bank, at Exeter, n. H., has absconded,
leaving a defalcation of 5000, 600. Pennsyl-
vania will give 81, 600, 900, and the city of Phil
adelphia $500, 900, to aid the Centennial cause.
The West.
SIX persons were drowned at Evansville,
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Ohio river i'll a skif 49, Hammond, the revival
list, is converting the Bloomington (Ill.) sim
ners.. The Grand Army of the Republic
meeting, at Dayton, last week, was SHINY at
tended. IA disease similar to the late cpl
zootic affiicts the Detroit horses.
THE e~pizootic is ravaging the Pacific coast.
THE Modoc Indians, flushed with their
recent victory, threaten a raid on the white
settlements.
THE Lake County Qnd.) Infrmary was
burned last week. Two insane women were
devoured in the flames. III is stated that
some LOO suits are about to be entered
against the Missouri Pacific and Atlantic
and Pacific railroads of Missouri, for unjust
discrimination in freight charges. These
suits involve over a million of dollars.
Laura D. Fair lectured at Sacramento, the
other night, in a lager-beer saloon, having been
unable to obtain any public hall. Her subject
was, evolves in the Fold" Finding nobody
paid to enter the cellar, she ordered the door
thrown open for a free lecture. The place was
Immediately filled. She then went on the
platform and delivered her lecture.
The Mayor of Detroit has been fined 5000
by the Recorder for violating the smallpox
ordinance.
CAPT. JACK, the Modoc Chief, recently at
tackled Col. Demands camp, and was repulsed.
The white settlers are greatly apprehensive of
raids by the savages, and many families are
leaving.
The South.
KENTUCKY is agitating the project of remov-
ing her State capital from Frankfort to Louis
vile. The people of Georgia, Aabama,
Florida, and other Southern States are serious
ly alarmed at the tide of emigration which has
set in from those States to Texas. In Texas
the computation is that the arrivals of settlers
from other States are equal to 5000 per day {:
this is during the present season, but in the
spring a greater number is expected
Washington.
THE Senate has refused to increase the sal
airy of Congressman to So, 900 a year....Sec-
rotary Boutwell, has sold the remaining $780,
900, 600 of the 5 per cent. bonds to a Syndicate
of American and foreign bankers on substan-
tally the same terms as to the preceding Syn
dictate. The House of Representatives has
directed the Poland Credit Mobilier
to inquire what members of Congress have
been interested in the Dubuque and Sioux City
railroad, and in the Central Pacific rail-
road, each of which received subsidies from
the Government. 1t is rumored that Vice
President Colfax will bring suit against Cakes
Ames for perjury. The House Uni on
Appropriations has agreed to allow nearly
90, 600, 600 for the continuation of the Court
House and Postoffice work in New York, 81
600, 900 for that at Chicago, and $1,000, 600 for
that at st. Louis Secretary Delano has ar
rioed at the capital, much improved in health.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: A caucus of
Southern Senators and members has agreed,
after a long and not very harmonious consulta-
ton, to unite in asking President Grant to
take Senator Pool, of North Carolina, into his
Cabinet to represent the South. ...The Senate
has confirmed the nomination of J.. G. Ban
croft Davis to be Assistant Secretary of State,
vice Charles Hale, resigned.
PRESIDENT GRANT is reported to have de-
clared that he expects no other change in his
Cabinet than the retirement of Secretary Bout
well. Senator Summer is still quite feeble.
His physician visits him twice a day, and in
jects morphine into his arm to enable him to
sleep....T Three large trunks full of documents
are part of the baggage b~roughtto Washington
by the members of the McEnery Returning
Board, summoned there to testify in the case
of the contestingS Senators from Louisiana. E.
The House has passed the bill relieving John
H. Regan, of Texas (ex-Confederate Post
master-General), of his political disabilities.
80. Postmaster-General Creswel has decided
to revoke his double-postage order, provided
the Acknowledgement will sustain him.
THE bill just passed Congress a~bolishing the
Thanking privilege makes a clean sweep of the
whole system after June next. Members are
not even allowed any stamps, as in England,
for official correspondence.
Foreign.
THE cable brings news of a terrible marine
disaster in the English Channel. The emigrant
ship Northfeet, from London for Australia, with
412 passengers, exclusive of her crew, collided
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waters edge. When the collision happened
a panic occurred on the Northfeet- The pas
sengers, who were asleep, rushed from their
berths to every portion of the ship where they
t~houghtthey might be safe, and utterly refused
to obey the orders of the captain. That officer,
as a last resort to enforce obedience to his com
mands, was compelled to fire upon the terror
stricken people. One of them was wounded.
1t is believed that if the passengers had obeyed
the orders of the captain, more of them would
have been saved. The Northfleet was lying at
anchor at the time the collision occurred. The
cargo consisted of railway IRON Three hun
bred and twenty-one persons were drowned,
including the captain of the Inflated vessel.
Only 81 persons are known to have been saved.
1t is believed that every other person who was
ON board has found a watery grave. No atten-
was paid by the steamship to the emigrant YES
sci after the collision, and she proceeded on her
course, leaving the sufferers to their fate. The
English Government has ordered a preliminary
Investigation into the disaster. ..The Spanish
Court goes into mourning nine days for the
death of Napoleon. The French Assembly
has passed a bill prescribing severe penalties
for drunkenness More arrests of Interna-
tionals have been made in France IA large
public meeting was recently held in Birming-
ham, England, to protest against the African