The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-21

| WAL, d Wnlte man, dead, and was tnen pursued
by the Sheriff and hemmed up in back room
Of grocery store and shot by the Sheriff and
assistant some fifteen or twenty times and NOR
tally wounded.
The colored people of Georgia held conven-
ton at Augusta last week, and appointed an
Emigration Bureau to gather information of
the best localities inside the State of Georgia
for negroes in the late insurrectionary counties
to emigrate to. Anaddress was adopted stating
that the negroes are not given their rights in
Georgia, colored men are not allowed to sit on
juries, and do not receive the protection of the
courts.
Judge Robert ]. Mckinney, for many years
one of the Judges Of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee, and one of the most eminent jurists
in that State, is dead.
Advices from Friar's Point, Miss, report no
more lighting, but everything unsettled, and
the agricultural interest paralyzed. The ne
groes there threaten to hang Brown, the Sher-
i'll, and Smith, the candidate for Chancery
Clerk. if they return, for having caused the
disturbance. Reports from other parts of the
State show great decentralization among the Ia
borers, and great danger of large portion of
the cotton crop being lost for want of hands to
pick it.
An indiscriminste shooting occurred one day
last week in the streets of Grenda, Miss, be-
tween Sheriff Franck and his son on the one
side, and State Senator Price and his son-in-
law on the other, during which some fifteen
shots were fired, but no one was hurt. ALI the
parties were Republicans, but belonged to diff
ferent factions.
frightful suicide occurred at Baltimore a
few days ago. An unknown young man threw
himself from the top of the Washington mon
unent to the ground below, distance of
$50 feet. OF course he was instantly killed,
being crushed to shapeless mass of flesh and
bones.
,tto+aiSSp5 aiSpstfh from Washington says: "The
from Mississippi. Gov. Ames is averse to
arming the citizens of the State for their own
protection, for the reason that it would pro-
duce great excitment. Everything is report:
ed quiet"
Three colored men were attacked in the
streets of New Orleans by unknown white as
sassins, few nights ago, one killed outright,
another mortally wounded, and the third
slightly injured. The affair caused great ex-
citement. Citizens assembled on the streets
to denounce the great wrong, and in the after
noon an immense mass meeting was held at
the Court House, when the stores were closed,
that all might participate. Resolutions were
adopted disclaiming all responsibility for the
deed, and loudly calling for the prosecution
and punishment of the assassins.
John Gair and his sister-in-law, Catherine
Matthews, both colored, were hung by mob
in East Feliciana parish, La, last week. They
were at the time under arrest for murder and
had confessed the crime.
Reports of the condition of the Southern
cotton crops ae very discouraging. Rain
and rust are playing havoc with the great
staple.
Washington.
The books of the Treasury Department show
that for the fifteen months ending September
80, there have been withdrawn $40, ,0O0,0 900 in
United States bonds, and deposited with the
Treasurer to secure national bank circulation.
In lieu of these bonds ninety per cent, or a
total of S18 600, 900 in national bank currency
has been retired.
Indian Commissioner Smith has resigned.
Another party of vagrant redskins, belong
ing to the Chippewa tribe, visited Washington
last week, for the purpose of laying their griev-
ances before the President. They claim that
they have been badly swindled by agents and
traders.
The Catholic leaders of Washington, with
Mrs. Gen. Sherman at their head, are organiz-
ing permanent Indian Catholic missionary
association. Missionary workers are to be sent
among all the Indian tribes, to WOO the gentle
savage into laying down the tomahawk and
scalping implement, and otherwise emitting
himself to a life membership in the mother
church.
Attorney General Harris. ex-senator Pease,
and United States Attorney Wells, of Missis
sippi, visited Washington last week, and had
lengthy consultation with Attorney Genera
Pierrepont in regard to the condition of af
fairs in their State. They made serious
charges against Gov. Ares. and assured the
Attorney-General that any departure from the
policy of the administration already indicated
by the Attorney-General would be disastrous
to the interests of the State, and especially
would its best citizens deplore the sending Of
troops.
The United States Supreme Court commenced
its October term ON the 18th inst, all of the
Justices being present except Miller.
A Washington dispatch says: although thii
government has repeatedly and emphatically
expressed its desire to the Spanish government
, for the termination of the insurrection in Cuba
and rendered its cod offices to produce an ac
commodation between the contending parties
, it has never gone to the extent of the lat,
transatlantic story, by automatically threaten
J ing to acknowledge the rights of the Cubans il
case hostilities be not closed before the 1st O.
? January next"
General
Two Canadian prop ellers-the st. Ludle,
: and the Bristol-were burned to the water
l edge at Hamilton, on Lake Ontario, on til,
L night of the 7th inst. They were valued al
3 $40, ZOO each.
I The Pennsylvania railroad is now carrying
passengers by its fast mail trains between tn
9 East and West. 1t is understood that all tn
d other trunk lines will go and do likewise.
, The President of the Huntington (W. Va.
Bank has fully identified the man recently cap
tured in Fentress county, Tenn, as one of tn
|, gang who robbed that banks safes some tim
g ago. He had in his possession S4,9O0 of tn
Q stolen money.
: Sunday, Oct. 10, was the seventh anniver
sary of the proclamation of independence il
n the Island of Cuba. The day was appropri
: ately observed by the Cuban residents of the
s city of New York.
+ A deep-laid and well-concerted plot to 70
= the Bank of British North America, of MOI
d treal, by means of false letters of credit, hs
70 been frustrated and six of the swindlers al
rested. The bank lost 50, 700 at Halifax, wheI
3, the plot was not known.
D A section of one of the big trees of Cal
70 fornia arrived at st. Louis the other day, e