Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-19
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THE Bank of France has paid into the Treas
ury one-quarter of the sum due to Germany
ON account of the war indemnity. The report
that there had been successful negotiations to
accelerate the departure of the German troops
is not verified. Gen. Chanzy has been APP
eminent of Mexico has expelled nearly all the
foreign priests from the country. The con-
tract for building the North Shore railway,
between Quebec and Montreal, has been
awarded to a Chicago company. .Th Presi-
dent of Guatemala has issued a decree grant
ing religious liberty. The Matamoras POS
Pubticd, a Government organ, in an editorial
McKenzie's raid into Mexico as an set of ag-
gression upon o nation too weak to resist, and
intended as a pretext to seize more territory
exact immediate reparation. This article
concludes by saying that if this is not COM
piled with it viii be found that the Mexico of
to-day is not the Mexico of 1916. It is sup
posed that this article reflects the sentiments
of the Government, received from the City of
Mexico, by telegraph, and is put forward to
test the feeling of the people on the frontier
in Mexico. The Constituent Cortes has re-
placed the Provisional Government Of Spain
by the proclamation of the Federal Republic.
There were but two dissenting votes.
DIR. D.. II. WILLIAMS, h has just returned
to st. Louis from a two years residence in
Mexico, is of the opinion that the Mexican
Government will make no serious complaint
on account of Col. McKenzie's raid across the
Rio Grande. He apprehends, however, that
they will use it as a precedent, and pursue fu-
gitives on this side of the river, which will in
evitably lead to trouble, and eventually plunge
the frontier into war-a result that would be
hailed by many with pleasure, as it would lead
to the carving out of another fat slice of the
q sick man" on our southern border. The
Alexandra Palace, near London, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, SO, DOC, 900 insurance,
5000, 0O0. :. During the prevalence of a fire in
Dublin, on The 9Th inst, o large crowd, intent
on plumber, interfered with the firemen by
stoning them. The police charged the mob,
woundlng many. The Mayor of the city was
injured. Earl Russell has introduced in the
British House of Lords q bill for the better
government of Ireland, which aboiishes the
office of Lord-Lieutenat and provides that the
voice of eight jurors out of twelve will suffice
for a verdict ...France has Just completed
the payment of the first installment of the re-
naming milliard francs of war indemnity due
to Germany.
COUNT VoN ARMIN, the German Ambassador
to Paris, has been recalled, because he made
unnecessary calls upon President MacMahon.
Gambetta caused a tremendous sensa-
ton in the French Assembly, the other day,
reading a Ministerial circular addressed to
the projects of the Departmental, inquiring
into tho condition of the provincial press, and
suggesting the employment of subsidies and
such other means of ipfluence as can be secretly
brought to bear for it's control. The Minister
of the Interior admitted the authenticity,of the
circular, and accepted the responsibility for
the same. After a protracted scene of
and excitement, a motion support
ing the Government was carried by a vote of
389 yeas against 315 nays. The result shows
that the coalition of conservatives is still I'M
Reports of the proceedings of the
of Inquiry at Vienna, while they do not
the honesty of Gen. Van Buren,, show
his incapacity for the business placed in his
charge, and hence the Irregularities" which
led to his suspension