The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26


EXPENDITURES.
Civil and miscellaneous ............S II, ,070, ,702
War department
Navy department. .........-... zl's9l,ozo
Indians and pensions. ns.......-..-...... 37.s4OSI3
Interest on public debt. 1O3,O93,544
Total ordinary expenditures. ......s274, Cos 1892
The Postofice Department will ask tho next
Congress to devise law fixing some other
standard for Postmasters' salaries.
Postal cards to the number Of 14,298,000
were issued during the month of July.
The bursted Freedman's Bank will pay 20 per
cent. in a few months.
The Treasury Department is hurrying for
ward the preparations necessary to the resump-
ton Of specie payment. 1t is estimated that
debt to $3.50, 100000.
Corie V. Fischer colored school teacher
of Mississippi has brought suit in the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia
against the Pullman. Palace Car Company,
claiming $1,000 damages for refusal to allow
her to travel in palace car from Cincinnati to
Washington.
The South.
Friday Aug. Is, was busy day for hangmen
were three executions, viz: John c. Webb, at
Knoxville, for murder, robbery, and rape
W. II. Berry, at Rogersville, for the murder of
his wife and Ananias Honeycutt, at Tazewell,
for the murder of his foster-father. All three
Of the hangings were conducted in the old
fashioned way Of mounting the criminal on a
wagon and then driving the vehicle from under
him. At least 10000 people witnessed the three
executions. All of the culprits protested their
innocence, but the evidence against them was
conclusive. Thomas Withers, negro boy. was
hung at Lynchburg on the same day for the
murder of white girl. The criminal died
hard. He succeeded three times in raising his
feet to the edge of the trap, and drew himself
up, but as often did the Sheriff push them off.
The railroads running between Nashville and
Louisville are carrying passengers at fifty cents
head, the result of lively competition.
The steamer Hugh Martin, plying between
London and Knoxville, on the Tennessee river,
recently exploded her boiler, completely wreck
ing the boat. -Four persons were killed and
| ten wounded.
L. T. Copeland, who short time since pub
lished some statements in the Chicago Times
defamatory of ex-President Johnson's good
name and religious belief, was tarred and
feathered at Knoxville by indignant friends of
the deceased.
There has recently been great excitement in
Burke, jefferson and Washington counties,
Ga, over an apprehended negro outbreak. A
letter purporting to be from the Secretary of
some unknown negro organization was found
in Washington county, ordering massacre of
the whites ON the Goth of August. The order
stated that Rivers, colored militia General of
South Carolina, would be present and direct the
movement. The order said Kill every white
man and take every gun you can get. Have
all your companies ready. Kill with axes,
hoes and pitchforks, and get gunpowder and
shot as you kill" Another letter giving
substantially the same instructions was found
in Jefferson county. The whites, apprehend-
ing danger, telegraphed to Macon for ammuni-
ton, which was promptly furnished, and every
preparation made for the apprehended attack.
large number of negroes charged with being
implicated in the movement were arrested and
lodged in jail. For time the greatest excite
ment prevailed, and it was feared the whites
would take the imprisoned blacks from jail and
lynch them. At last accounts affairs were
quieting down, and no serious trouble was ap-
pretended. 1t is charged by the whites that
the whole trouble was caused by few worth
less, turbulent designing negroes, who live
upon the credulity of the colored people.
General.
The experiment of shipping peaches from
the East to the West has resulted dsastrously
, to the forwarders, on account of the higl
freight rates. The only parties who made
, money by the operation were the railroad com
, panies.
Railroad fares between the East and Wes
have been advanced, and are nearly as high a
they were before the late war between th,
: trunk lines.
: Political.
Complete official returns of the election TO
u governor in Kentucky give McCreery a majorit
|. of 36, 1879 over Harlan, Republican. The vot
y for McCreery il about 1000 less than the ma
jority of Leslie in 1871. The House will STAN
u 80 Democrats to 10 Republicans.
u Senator Morton has gone TO Maine to tax
an active part in the campaign in that State
S His health, it is said, is completely restored.
10 The Governor of Tennessee has appointe
y D. NJ. Key, lawyer of Chattanooga, to Fl
Andrew Johnson's unexpired term in the Unite
I'll States Senate.
re Foreign.
rs Hans Harmon, of Fort Wayne, Ind, was re
Gently slain in duel at the University Of BreF
r, lsu, Germany.