Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-06

British army for the financial year 1884
form a total of 500, 900, 900, which is a reduc
ton of 90, 600, 900 from those of the current
year. An incipient revolution has been sup
pressed in Guatemala. In the case of Prince
Napoleon against ex-Minister Lefranc, for lille
gal expulsion from France, the Court declared
its incompetency to try the case, and ordered
the plaintiff to pay the costs
MINISTER S1cKLEs has assured Senior Cas-
,telar that Uncle Sam will not trouble Spain
about Cuba for the present, as it is his Gu. $50
wish not to embarrass the infant Republic.
News comes from Smyrna of a dreadful and
singular calamity. A coffee-house on the
shore of the Gulf, much resorted to by the
Greeks, has been gradually undermined by the
action of the tides, and was suddenly swal-
lowed up by the waters the other day. The
loss of life was between 100 and 200 persons.
THE Spanish G6@e is getting fairly
ships of forty-eight provinces will be divided
equally among Radicals and Republicans, and
the Secretaries of Radical Governors are Re-
gubicans, and those of Republican Governors
Gently had q grand celebration, the city being
practically delivered into the hands of the
people. The Monarchical members of the
city government resigned, and their places
were filled by Republicans, who were fmme-
diately installed ALI political prisoners were
released. The statue of Washington has been
displaced from the facade of the Town Hall of
Barcelona. There is a rumor of a project for
putting a Hohenzollern on the throne. IA re-
port comes from London that the European
Governments are negotiating with a view of
jointly recognizing the Spanish Republic.
PRESIDENTS THEIRS AND FIGURRAs are On the
sick list Late advices from the capital of
the Spanish Republic inform us that the Car
list movement is increasing ; that a Ministerial
crisis is imminent that 80 Colonies and 40
Li~eutenant-C Colonies of Artillery in the regular
army have resigned that theidea of a Federal
Republic is gaining ground that the Govern
ment viii deal summaIily with revolutlonlsts /;
and that Portugal is arming in anticipation of
a Republican outbreak 49,. Minister WASH
burne gave q diplomatic dinner in Paris, the
other day, at which representatives Of the
-. Joseph Sheridan Lefann, the eminent
Irish writer, is dead. II Spanish Republic
is the source of serious alarm in Berlin. The
Emperor now regrets his false step in France,
and is sorry he did not re-establish Napoleon
or some other monarch He regards the
Spanish Republic as a consequence of the
French Republic, and is uncertain where this
desire for Republics will stop.
THE nomination of candidates for the Pro-
vincial House of Assembly, in Quebec, Canada,
was the occasion of a furious riot between the
Conservatives and adherents of the candidates
clubs were freely used About 5000 persons
took part in the riot, which lasted one hour
and a half. Two men were killed and many
wounded. 1t is expected that some of the
b44o va NLSs -AO ~ sO
down and the candidate of the National party
beaten.
RUSSIA is sending large achievements to
Khiva. 1t is said the Khivese will shortly sue
for peace. 1t is announced that an agree
ment has been made between Duke de Mont
pensier and the adherents of ex-Queen Isabella
to place Prince Alphonso Upon the throne oi
Spain-the ri to be Regent during the mi.
nority of Prince Alphonso, and the latter &c
marry the youngest daughter of the Duke.
Fires.
FEB. 21.-At Union Stock Yards, near Chi.
~cago-Leitch & Woolman's distillery, severa
cattle-pens, and $50 cattle were burned loss
$3.50, 900. 81. Petersburg, Pa. the main por.
ton of the town was swept away. Savannah,
Ga. eight buildings destroyed, and two fire
men killed by falling walls. Near st. Louis
Mo. the residence of President Grant, known
as the old Dent mansion, was burned.
Johnstown, N. Y; loss, $75, 900. q. Bridge.
burned loss, $50, 000.
FEB. 24.-In Washington, D. c.; loss
$40, OOO. ...C Camden, N. j., $25, 600. =. Mott
Haven, N. Y; 300, 600. =. Oshkosh, Wis,
$40, 600. Lewis Center, Ohio the Girls
Industrial Home was burned; loss, $50, 600
~....Logansport, Ind; $40, 900. Port Huron
Mich; $40,00
FEB. 25.-At Alexandria, Va; the Marshall
House, where Col Ellsworth met his death al
the outbreak of the war, was burned by an in.
cendiary. a.. =. .Listowen, Ontario; loss, $1S, 600
Montague, Mich; a hotel, five stores, an6
the Office of the Syndicate newspaper were
burned. Chicago, ILL.,; loss, $50, 000.