The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-05

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There has been small steal in the Treasury
Department-only thousand dollars-but it
occurred among the girls who are engaged in
counting the packages cent for redemption by
the banks, and has consequently created good
deal of fiutter.
Avery, the indicted Chief Clerk of the Tres
ury Department, has been dismissed.
James Gillfllan succeeds Avery as Chief
Clerk of the Treasury Department.
The late defalcation in the Treasury Depart
ment, attributed to theft by some of the female
employees, has been found to be mistake, and
the missing 81, 900 turns up all right.
Additional reports have been received by the
War Department from prominent army officers
complaining of gross frauds upon Indians by
their agents.
Avery, late Chief Clerk of the Treasury Dc
partment was arrested at Washington the other
day, and required to give bail for his appear
ance before the st. Louis Criminal Court.
Tho Comptroller of the Currency has ad-
yised the Secretary of the Treasury of the issue
of 1,27O, $50 additional national bank circula-
ton, for the month ending July 2s, 80 per cent.
of which IL to be retired in legal tender notes,
making the whole amount of legal tender notes
retired since the passage of the act of Jan. IA,
1875, $7,244, S92.
Bishop Ames declines to serve on the Sioux
Indian Commission.
General.
A cable telegram announces the stranding,
on the English coast, of the steamer Abbots-
ford of the American line, Philadelphia. All
the passengers and portion of the cargo were
saved.
1t is now highly probable that stop will be
put to the cattle-stealing operations of Mexi-
can bandits. The United States government
has purchased the steamer Planter, which
draws only four feet Of water, and is arming
and manning her for service on the Rio
Grande. Other steamers of a similar char
acter will be purchased and fitted out for the
same purpose.
Four millions of silver, it is stated by a
Washington telegram, will be coined at the
several mints before the close of August, and
the Treasury Department promises that hard
money shall shortly take the place of bank notes
and greenbacks.
A London telegram announces the death, at
the age of G4 years, of Isaac NJ. Singer, the in
ventor of the Singer sewing machine.
The Postmaster-General has decided to put
on a fast mail train between Chicago and New
York. 1t is the intention to make the run be-
tween the two cities in twenty-four hours,
gain of twelve hours over the present time.
The excitement occasioned by the failure of
Duncan, Sherman & Co., has been succeeded
by quiet feeling, and there is no reason to
expect other important suspensions on their
account.
Political.
The Republican State Convention of Min
nesota was held at st. Paul ON the 2Sth ult.
John S. Pillsbury was nominated for Governor
and ]. 3. Wakefield for acknowledgements.
The financial plank of the platform reads {:
'sThat on the present questions of the day we
favor that policy of finance which shall steadily
keep in view return to specie payments"
Foreign.
| Count Dzembeck his mother and chamber
maid, have been arrested at Landeck in the
district of Breslau, charged with being con-
cerned in conspiracy to assassnate Prince
Frederick William.
The loss by the floods in the south of France
is officially stated at 15,OO0,00O.
Meetings are being held in England to in
dorse the course of Plimsoll, tho agitator, in
denouncing the government.
And now comes the news of the failure of the
crops in many districts of Portugal, caused by
drought. The cattle are dying of hunger, and
famine is threatened.
The reported plot to assassinate the Grown
Prince of Germany was hoax.
The English ship Stuart, bound from London
to Bombay, has been lost at sea. Thirty-eight
of the crew persisted.
One hundred and fifty-sx out of the 162 cot
ton mills in Oldham, England, are closed OF
account of strike of the operatives. and in
Ashton fifty mills arc closed and 5000 opera
tives idle.
The Russian wheat crop promises good av.
erage.
Grants cotton-mills at Glasgow, Scotland
were recently destroyed by fire. The loss il
g, 500, 900.
Thirty-one cotton-mills have closed at Dun
dee, Scotland, and Il, 900 persons are out of EN-
ployment.
Reports from Canada are to the effect tina
the crop prospects are favorable. Fall whea
is below the average, while spring wheat is bet
ter than usual. Oats, barley, and potatoe
promises an abudant yield.
Dispatches from London and Liverpool re
port that there has been no appreciable etfe
on the general market in those cities occasione
by the failure of Duncan, Sherman & Co.
Mr.. Plimsoll having read an apology in til
English Parliament for his previous unjust re
marks, he was discharged without reprimand.
Large meetings of workingmen have bee
held in England to protest against the propose
grant of e142,0OO to defray the expenses {
: the Prince of Wales visit to India.
In Switzerland the Gothard tunnel workme1
| numbering 1900, united in a strike and rotor
4 proceedings. The government troops disperse
Y them, after killing two and woundng mar
g more.
A large body of Carlist troops has been con
pletely invested at the Spanish town of SEQ
o Urgel, and must eventually surrender.
GOLD IN ILLINOIS.