The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-29
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,wo sons on each side, were engaged. Five Of
,he party were killed outright, while the sixth
md last had load of buckshot in his side.
which must cause death. 1t was an old family
feud.
E. G. johnson, revenue officer aud mem
Der of the Florida Legislature, was recently
shot dead by unknown assassins at distillery
near Fernandina, in that State.
Ex-CoDfederate Gen. Joseph Z. johnson has
been elected President of the Arkansas In
iustlial University.
E. NutSing & Co., stave nsnufacturers, of
have fall |. Liabilities, $780,
900 assets, S15O,OOO. f
Washington.
The Secretary of the interior has appointed
Member of Congress-elect N. z. Van Worries
of Ohio Judge I. c. Parker, of Missouri and
Indian-Iuspector Kemble, as Commission to
visit the Osages and examine into their con-
dition.
Gen. II. II. Wells succeeds Fisher as United
STATES Attorney for the District of Columbia.
The new State Department building has
been completed, and was occupied by Secretary
Fish last week.
The Postmastcr-General is in earnest in his
proceedings against mail contractors who fail
in their obligations. Suits have been COM
against the bondsmen of over forty
contractors who failed to comply with the terms
of their contracts.
President Grant paid flying visit to the Cap
ital on Wednesday, held a three hours cabinet
meeting, at which all the Ministers were pres
ent except Belknap, and returned to Long
Branch the same afternoon.
At q recent meeting of the Cabinet the Gu
ban question was discussed and it is authcri-
tatively announced that the United States will
no longer maintain strict neutrality, but
accede belligerent lights at least to the strug-
Cling patriots.
General.
Dispatches received from all parts of the
country, East, West, North and South, report
an unusually abundant harvest in corn, rye,
barley, oats and potatoes with fair yield OF
wheat, while the yield Of the grasses is said to
be enormous The failures. noted are in COM
paratively few and limited localities. A large
of the crop is already harvested.
The July returns to the Department of Agri-
culture show that the acreage in corn is about
s per cent. greater than last year. New En-
gland has reduced her acreage about II 4 per
cent, and the Pacific States about per cent.
All the great corn-growing regions have in
creased their acreage, the Middle States 2 per
cent, the South Atlantic States 8, the Gulf
States 10, inlard Southern States 12, States
moth of the Ohio T. States west of the Missis-
sippi IA. The condition OF the crop is below
tbe average in the New England, Middle and
South At antic States, the minimum condition,
80, being in Rhodo Island. Florida end Ala
bama are also below the average but the other
Gulf States and inland Southern States are
above, the maximum, 112, being in Mississippi.
All other States, except Missouri 103, are below
The average, minimum condition, 80, being in
Wisconsin.
Chewers of "the weed" will take comfort in
the announcement by the Department of Agri-
culture that the tobacco crop promises heavy
yield.
Political.
President Grant has made the following in
ternal revenue appointments Gaugers-
Thomas T. Davis, Seventh Indiana District;
Enoch Stillwell First Missouri District; John
W. Lane, Second Kentucky District; James Nc
Elroy, Seventeenth Pennsylvania District.
Storekeeper-Webster W. Castro Seventh In
diana District.
A call has been issued in Indiana for con-
vention to meet at Richmond, on August u, to
form new party sympathizing with the prin-
ciples of the Cleveland National Convention.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
has indefinitely postponed, by vote Of 102 to
SO, the proposition to give women the right
to vote in Presidential elections.
The Democratic State Convention of Mary
land, in session at Baltimore last week, nom-
mated John L. Carroll for Governor and Levin
Woodford for Comptroller of the Treasury.
Hon. L. @. G. Laman has been nominated fol-
Congress in Mississippi.
Foreign.
The Public Powers bill has passed the
French Assembly by vote of $50 yeas to sc
nays.
a bloody religious not recently occurred in
the city of San Migeul, in Salvador. A mob
attacked the Cadillac, and liberated some 20
persons. They then proceeded to assault the
small garrison killed Gems. Espinosa and Cas-
tro cut the former to pieces, and threw the
pieces at each other; split the skull Of Gen
Castro and threw him over q wall, where ht
was picked up by his mother, and died in three
days. The garrison were nearly all assassin
ated, and many prominent citizens killed
After this the fanatic mob set fire to some six
teen houses with kerosene. 1t fortunatel,
happened that H. B. NJ. ship Fantome was a
La Union. She landed her Marines which al
lowed a garrison there united with some troop
from Amapala, in Honduras. to march to til
relief of San Migeul, and put down the mob.
| Lady Franklin, the venerable widow of 81
John Franklin, is dead.
The American rifiemen BOW in England hav
succeeded in carrying off the st. Leger stake
at Wimbledon, beating picked marksmen fror
the entire kingdom of Great Britain. The ac
curacy of their aim at both the long and shol
range was a matter of astonishment to til
English.
A London firm that recently failed for se,
eral millions has got into trouble. Its men
bers have been arrested and sent to Newgat
for trial on the charge of obtaining about
million by false pretenses. English courts
not appear to treat big thieves with as muc
consideration as do American jurists.
Reports of the floods in England represer
the damage done as immense. In many SCI
tons not only the growing crops, but thos
crops already harvested have been destroyed
The returns of the aGriculturists there will |
exceedingly small, and the English people wi
have to depend to great extent upon IL
American markets fer a supply of breadstuff
Happily we are in condition to supply a
their wants, and there need be no suffering q
account of scarcity.
Alexander and William Collie, of a Londc
firm which recently suspended, have been a
raiGned, charged with putting afloat So 900, OF
of bogus paper on the market. The Londc
and Westminster Bank loses 81, 500, 900 by thei
fraudulent bills.
There was lively scene in the British Houl