Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-17

a place containing about 1000 inhabitant
deaths have occurred to the extent of twenty
seven in one day.
A DISPATCH from Houston, Texas, says tn
weather is more favorable to the crops, ant
worms no longer appear in Texas. Two
thirds of the crop of cotton and cereals ar,
very fine.
THE statement telegraphed from the Soutf
that the cholera was raging in Alabama wa.
wholly false. 1t has appeared in but one o.
two owns. Reports to the Agriculture
Department at Washington from the cot
ton regions indicate that the crop of that
staple this year will at least be equal to that
of last.
Washington.
Up to the 4th of July, about 81, 900, 600 post
al-cards had been issued by the Postofice De-
partment, and more than twice that number
had been ordered. The Government has
procured an injunction forbidding the Direct
ors of the Union Pacific railroad to pay either
principal or interest on the securities which are
held by those concerned in the Credit Mobilier.
Preparations to print the new National
Bank currency, authorized by Congress, have
already commenced. Gov. Davis, of Texas,
had a conference with the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, the other day, at which it was
decided not to release the imprisoned chiefs
Satanic and Big Tree.
The Hon. VIM. B. Allison and other dis
tinguished citizens Of Iowa have petitioned
the Acknowledgement to compel the Union
Pacific railroad to operate it's road in connec-
ton with its branches as a continuous line in
the manner required by acts of Congress. 1t
appears an unjust discrimination is made by
the Union Pacific against the Kansas Pacific
and other branches in charging heavy local
freight and passenger rates on all business
from their branches, thus practically cutting
than off from tho fhrnunh fro ~ Frhn AZ
torney-General's decision viii have an impor-
tant bearing upon the finances of the Union
Pacific. =. There is 1913, 900, 900 in coin and
coin certificates in the Treasury IA Wash
ington dispatch of the 4th says: The Govern
ment counsel have not yet decided what to do
to offset the combined movement of the Union
the Credit Mobilier suit, and the matter re-
mains IN a very unpromising condition.
IT is authoritatively stated that neither the
President nor Secretary of the Interior will
interfere in behalf of the Modoc prisoners,
but that the finding of the court-martial will
be approved.
A DEFICIT of nearly one million dollars hay
ing been discovered in the accounts of ex-
Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson,
who resigned his position in President Buchan-
ans Cabinet, in 1861, to join the rebellion, an
examination has revealed the fact that the de-
falcation was committed by one of his clerks.
1t is stated that the civil service rules, as
modified, are being strictly enforced L in all the
The committee appointed to
investigate the financial management of the
Howard University have submitted their re-
port, in which they completely exonerate Gen.
Howard from the charge of misappropriation
of the funds of the institution. They say
"The recorded proceedings of the Board of
Trustees will show that no single dollar of
the university money was ever. voted as a
gratuity to Gen. Howard, nor any money at
any time, under any pretext, to which he was
not justly entitled, in consideration for valu-
able and Indispensable services faithfully
rendered"
Foreign.
In consequence of the passage of the bill
abolishing constitutional guarantees, the Irrec-
oncilable Deputies have withdrawn from the
quiet in Madrid. The new Constitution of
Spain provides that the President of the Re-
public must have been born in Spanish terri
tory and be 25 years of age. The country is
divided into Cantons like the Swiss Republic.
The Assembly of each Canton is to elect four
Senators, and Deputies are to be chosen by
universal suffrage. Cuba and Porto Rico are
to be assimilated with the Cantons of Spain.
THE Canada Pacific Railway Investigation
have adjourned their sittiEgs till
Aug. 13....The New York Herald has been
convicted of libel in a Paris court, and fined
1000 francs The anniversary of the indie
pendence of the United States was duly cele-
brated in London by a banquet at Willis
rooms, at which all the prominent Americans
here were present. The day was similarly OBJ
served at Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other lead
ing cities of the Continent, the American Min
listers presiding at nearly all the celebrations.
THE Shah of Persia arrived in Paris on the
9TH inst, and had a warm reception. He visits
Italy next....A Havana telegram says that
several hundred Migrants recently sent to work
on the trocha have deserted and Joined the
insurgents II is officially announced from
st. Petersburg that the Khan of Khiva and all
his Ministers, who fled from the capital upon
the approach of the Russian troops, nave re-
turned and submitted to Gen. Kaufman, be-
seeching his clemency, and imploring his
mercifu1 consideration. The General, pending
his disposition of their cases, has placed them
under guard.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENIE has been interviewed
by a correspondent of the New York World.
She predicts that France will speedily return
to Bonapartism, and that she will become the
conservation of European peace and order, and
the extirpator of all communistic and anti
Christian societies. France will again lead
the world, will restore the Pope to his old dig
nifty, and pulverize Germany into insignificant
States. Another foreign steamer has been
wrecked near theb aleful Sambro Light, which
drew the Atlantic to its destruction, but there
is, happily, no loss of life. The Inman
steamship City of Washington, from Liverpool
for New York, struck on Gull Rock, 20 miles
west of Sambro, on Saturday, the 9Th inst.
There was a dense fog at the time. All the
passengers and crew, with their baggage,
were landed safely. The ship will become a
total wreck "A duel was fought on Luxem-
bourg territory, on the 7th inst, between M.
Ranc, a member of the French Assembly, and
Paul de ~Cassagnac, the famous fighting editor
of Paris, in which the latter was seriously
and the former slightly wounded.
The New York HerdLd'S dispatches con-
firm the arrival of Sir Samuel and Lady
Baker at Khartoum, on the Upper Nile. An
important geographical discovery is said to
have been made by Baker which will astound
the scientific world, as it pretends that Lakes
Tanganyika and Albert Nyanza prove to be one
and the same water, and a magnificent inland
sea 700 miles in length.
Col. MACKENZIE 8 invasion of Mexico in pur-
suit of the Kickapoos seems to have occasioned
even less excitement there than in this coun-
The newspapers of the city of Mexico
to the matter only to chronicle the alb
sence of any feeling on the subject among the
Tru bills have been found
against George Bidwell, Austin Bidwell, George
Mcdonnell and Edwin Noyes, the Bank of
forgers, and they will be tried at the
Old Bailey in August. d. Eighteen Norwegians,
belonging to the German Arctic Navigation
Company's service, who were left on one of
the Spitzbergen group of islands, were found
dead by the party which went to their relief.
Carlos has ordered the arrest of the
Cure of Santa Cruz.
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