Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

NEWS OE The WEEA.
The East.
The contested Greeley will case came up
again in court at West Chester, N. Y, the
ether day. Miss Ida Greeley presented her
deed giving her sister Gabrielle half the
estate, and Mr.. Greeley's brother Nathan
and his three sisters presented their quit
claim on any bequests. And yet no satisiac-
tory conclusion was reached. The contest
anita express q determination to push the
proceedings to the end. A number of wit
nesses were examined, among them Mr..
Thomas N. Rocker, foreman of the Tribune
composing room, who testified that
for some days prior to his death....;
Cyrus w. Field, of New York, has purchased
SIS, 600, 900 worth of stock in the New York,
Newfoundland and London Telegraph Com
pany, thus securing a controlling interest in
the line.....The Rhode Island Medical So
ciety lave just admitted Miss Anita E. Tying
to membsrship-the frat female member ever
admitted. Nj. England, of the New York
Sun, has abandoned his purpose of raising a
fund for a Greeley statute, and offers a re-
turn of the money to the subscribers.""..A
Washington dispatch of the 18th says:
After a consultation to-day, between Mr..
Orion and Mr.. Colfax it was decided that the
latter would not take the editorship of the
Tribune The understanding tonight is that
the position will be offered to George William
Curtis"
A COMPROMISE has been effected between
the Erie Railway Company and Jay Gould
by the payment of $4,000, 900, for which
amount suit had been brought. All suits
against Gould are Withdrawn by the COM
Pany--..Pr0f. Tyndall's room at the Bre-
WORT House, New York, was entered the
other night by bur glars, who relieved the
distinguished scientist of a purse containing
$500 in gold......The Boston Board of Alder
men have accepted the Legislative act en-
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amount of $40, 100000
GEORGE Francis TRAIN was arrested the
other day in New York, and locked up, on
the charge of publishing obscene literature.
......George F. Putnam, the well-know New
York publisher, and founder of Putnann's
Magazine, is dead.....The Boston Board of
Aldermen have refused to grant a license to
Woodruff and Clahin to lecture in that city.
COCOA New York dispatch says the " --latest
report in regard to the Zri6uae is, that Mr..
Orion has rendered the chief editorshin to
the Hon. James G.. Blaine, Speaker of the
House of Representatives. 1t is said that
Mr.. Blaine was Mr.. orton's first choice, and
that the negotiations will Mr.. Colfax were
due to Mr.. Sinclair. Mr.. Blaine has the
proposition under AUTOMATICALLY the
recount of the vote of Boston, which was
made on account of the marked discrepancies
in the returns of the late election, Mayor
CASTOR loses the Mayoralty, which is given
to Mr.. Henry L. Pierce. In one of the wards
a mistake of 500 votes was discovered.
WILLIAM ORION, after considerable nego-
~tiation, has resold Whitelaw Reid SO shares
out of the 100 constituting the capital stock of
the Tribune Association, for a large advance
en- the price at which he purchased it.
orion retains one share....Dr. Talmage's
Tabernacle, in Brooklyn, one of the largest
and most costly churches in the country, has
been destroyed by fire.
GEORGE CArL1N, tho celebrated Indian
painter and traveller, died recently in Jersey
City, aged 1s."...Further proceedings in the
Greeley will case have by general consent
been postponed till Jan. 13, before which
time the counsel in the interest eff tee Misses
Greeley is expected to effect an adjustment
with the managers of the Childrens' Aid So
eiety, who now appear to be the only con-
testants of the will.
The West.
Tx some portions of Utah a day of fasting
and prayer has been. set epart on which the
Mormons will unite in petitioning the
Almighty to prevent the spread of the small
pox....Blinn & Arson, the Cairo (Ill.) mer-
chants alleged to have been robbed q short
time ago of $4,000, have been arrested on a
charge of neutrality-suspicious. Turner, Re-
ceiver OF the Land Office at Grand Island,
Nebraska, killed himself recently by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun.....The boiler
of q portable saw mill exploded at Morrow
town, Ohio, the other day, instantly killing
three persons and badly injuring several
others.
THERE has been considerable excitement
at Springfield, ILL.,, on account of the strike
of laborers, to the number of 500. employed
in the GOAL mines in that vicinity, who de-
manded an increase of pay from four to FIVE
cents per bushel.
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the erection of a vast cotton factory. It is
said the cotton crop of California the coming
year will be at least SOC, 900 pounds....De-
troit has been compelled to secure a second
pest house, owing to the great number of
cases of smallpox at that place.....Mrs.
Maloy, of Davenport, Iowa, has recovered
$,8,o75 damages from one Maloney, for the
killing OF her husband.
1t is stated that Gen. Crook has adopted
the policy of enlisting friendly Indians to
fight the warlike Apaches in Arizona. He
Slams that, if not interfered with in this
course, he will make the campaign short
Minnesota for 1872 is $4,000, 200 bushels,
or an average of IT'S bushels to the acre......
Extensive coal fields have been discovered
near San Diego, Cal.
PORTLAND, Oregon, was recently visited by
q destructive confagration. Loss estimated
at $35O,0o0--"The epiEootic has reached
Manitoba, on its westward travels..-.The
annual report of the Ohio Commissions of
Railroads shows that the earnings of the
railways of that State for freight and pas
senger traffic during the past year were $34,-
257 ,79o. The expenses, which include i'm |
provements of road beds, increase of rolling
stock, depot buildings, new iron, ETC., are set
down at So, 500, 739, leaving a net profit of
$40, f55, 060, being over eight per cent. of the
cost of construction, as reported by the COM
panies themselves, which, for 3,787 miles of
road in the State, is returned at 1922 ,000y |
000......E. G. Eastman, a prominent Chicago
banker, recently committed suicide by tax
ing arsenic.
The South.
ST.. Louis felicitates herself on having re-
covered from the epizootic.
FIFTEEN hundred and thir:y-one buildings
have been erected in st. Louis during the
past year, at a cost of $5,6s4,0oO. Of these
buildings only SO are irame.-.Judge Orr, of
South Carolina, accepts the Russian mission, |
and will sail for Europe in January.
GEN. AMBROSE R. WR1eHr, editor of the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, and member
elect to Congress from the Eighth Georgia |