Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-19
blame on his boys. schonohin tells the same

blame on his boys Schonchln tells the Same
story.
THE total earnings of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway during the year ending
june /, 1873, were $12, III, GIG. 81, which ex-
ceeds the earnings of the previous year in the
sum of 81, 315. ass. So. The Mormons in Salt
Lake ore carrying on n fierce crusade against
the rum-sellers. b. George Edmunds, of Steu-
benviIle, Ohio, bought a 25-pound can of gum
powder and placed it il a cupboard. While
his four children, none over ten years of age,
found the can and set fire to 1t. The house
was blown to atoms, three of the children in
stantly killed, and the fourth injured beyond
the hope of recovery....A young man named
Bickes, at Decatur, III, quarreled with his
father while sitting at the supper-table, and
the head. He then fired a ball into his own
head. Whisky did it.
The South.
The New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad
was recently sold by the United States Mar
shall to K. J.. Gardner and Peter Butler, of
Massachusetts,, for 1861. 500, the purchasers
assuming a bonded Indebtedness of seven or
eight millions of dollars. I. King Cholera has
made his appearance in Nashville.
III cholera is on the increase in New Or
leans
Washington.
IT has been determined by a council of
Cabinet Ministers to refer the question as to
the disposition of the Modocs to the Attorney
General. The ground was taken that the
priority of offense would give the. Oregon au-
thorities Jurisdiction over these Offenders as
the murders of Lost river occurred previous
to the assassination of Gen. Candy, and the
subsequent hostility to the United States
troops....An analysis of the testimony taken
by Secretary Robson of the officers of the
Polaris crew seems to satisfy officials that
there is no evidence of the poisoning of Capt.
Hall, or of mutiny or heartless desertion on
the part of the crew....An enterprising indi-
vidual, writing to the Government from Tifin,
o, offers to pay $50, 600 for the privilege of
exhibiting Capt. Jack throughout the country
during sixty days. The President has taken
up his summer quarters at Long Branch. :.
Thomas Wright was hanged at Washington OF
tue 9Th inst.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL WILLIAMS, to whom was
referred the question as to the proper DISPOSE
ton of the Modocs, has decided that, as a
| condition of war existed between the United
States and this tribe, and as they murdered
persons who were under the projection of q
flag of truce, they are properly subject to the
disposition of a military court. Accordingly,
Capt. Jack and his felow-murderers will be
tried by a military commission /. g.. The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue writes that his
Office does not sanction the practice of cutting
forty and sixty-pound packages of plug tobacco
or exposed for sale in a half-box without hay
ing marks of the brand, the caution notice,
ana stamp winch the law requires, Is liable to
seizure and forfeiture, and should be seized.
1.-The Geneva award of S15, 800, 600 is to be
paid Sept. 14....The official examination OF
Capt. Tyson and party shows that no suspicion
of wrong attaches to any of them; that Capt.
Hall died a natural death, and received the
medical attention furnished the expedition
and that the separation of the survivors on
the ice-foe was purely accidental, they having
been placed there in good faith by the Captain
of the Polaris. The subsequent drifting from
them is attributable to the movements of the
ice, the storm and the darkness, and while
they think the Polaris did not make as great
an effort to save them as she might, they be-
Geve that there was no malicious intent to
abandon them.
THERE is said to be a movement in official
circles for the annexation of Gautemala to the
United States. ...The Chronicle says at
has leaked out that Capt. Buddingtnn was the
main cause of the failure of the Hall expedi-
ton, Shortly after the death of Capt. Hall,
when all the discipline of the ship became lax,
and each appeared to work on his own hook,
he became intoxicated, and with a pistol in his
hand drove the hoe-of-ice party from the ship,
giving them a quantity of provisions, and then
deliberately deserted them"
THE following are the receipts and expendi-
lures of the Government for the nine month
uding March 81, 1873: