The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09


to sell a, 600, 600 in gold during the month OF
September as folioSs:' 81 ,000, 900 on the first,
third and fifth fhHfadatH each, and s5OGO0O
each on the second and fourth Thursdays.
There viii be another trial of the safe-burg-
larry case of Harrington and othcrs, new and
important evidence having been discovered.
The Treasury Department. has declined to
transfer any more gold to California. as II has
sent oil II can spare.
]. NJ. Thatcher, Commissioner of Patents,
has resigned.
The government has paid the ElGee cotton
claim, amounting to S266, 900.
The following is the statement of the public
debt for the month Just closed:
S;s Sss pei Ell sshs s, bSaas ssS
Total cofh bonds. ,7Os, ,s9s, 800
lssssfiHl money dcbt.......s las!s.40g -
Matured debt. .:......'.'. Iy6i,40
& oeTtiacates % of diciBi6sit::.. iiii;iiit: t;,aso,SGo
Fractional currency H,1T,0lS
Coin eorsirca:es. i7,els,5oO
Total without interest. aal,ssl,estt 20
Total debt. ~, ~
Cash In Treasury: ,.tes -, H.
CoH .l..a.......... ,1i7,2f3
SPECIAL dePcsiis cii: held 'iiit for re- ''9s
demption Of certificates j., .-7, r
of deposit. g., $4,000
Totai in Treasury ty....,............s 1lo,49s6s1
Debt less cash in the Treasury ...s2 125, 500 7s9
Decrease Decrease Sf snas s ssas S August
BGa,is lssfsd 10 the Pacific Railway
Companies, interest payable in lawful -,..
money: Principal outstanding. ....$ e4,69S512
Interest accrued and not yet paid. .646 235
Interest paid by the United States 2o, 202 607
Interest repaid by transportation of
Balance Of interest paid by Uniled
States: :.....s...s..........-... 2l,5s4, T6O
Tho Secretary of the Treasury is sanguine
that the Syndicate will take all the remaining
per cent?. by the 1st Of next November. In
case they do the negotiations Of the new AZ
per cents. viii be at once begun.
pc General q
The Chicago papefs publish detailed state
! hIeht in reference to the fast mail train to be
run between Chicago and New York. A train
will lesse Uhicagoat 8 q. m, arriving in New
York about II oelock at night of the next day.
There will also be another train leaving New
York at Ais a. H., OF the same day, arriving
in Chicago at $50 the following morning, max
| ing the trip in about twenty-six hours, a gain
Of fourteen honrs over the previous running
| time. IT.
! The suspension Of the Bank of California
was brought about by a fight between some of
the speculative managers and another set of
capitalists and mining speculators, who had
organized the Bank of Nevada, having cash
capital of five million dollars in gold. The sub
1 ject of the fight was in regard to some Of the
"big bonanza" mines which the Bank OF Cali
fornia people had secured control of some time
ago. when prices we're very much higher than
now. The well-known speculative operations
of the Bank OF California managers coupled
with the decline in mining Stocks so impaired
confidence i'm the bank that depositors began a
run on the bank which compelled it to stop pay
ment. Ralston, the President of the institu-
ton, has lost &C. 600, 900 in mining speculatons
! within a few months.
Tho assets OF the suspended Iank of Cali
fornia are less than $6,00O,000, while the lia-
bilities arc about t14,00O,O 900. No wonder the
amagniRcent" Ralston went and drowned him.
self. The affairs Of the bank have been put in
the hands OF an executive committee consist
ing of William Alvord and George H. Howard.
Adyices have been received at Washington
from prominent officers on the Rio Grande, to
the effect that cattle stealing and murders Of
4 peaceable American citizens are still perpe-
trated by Mexican marauders, and in all proba-
bility they will continue in spite Of Sio forces
/ our government can send there, unless they
can break up the bands Of assassins and thieves
4 ON either side of the river, and as far in the
interior of Mexico as may be found necessary
Our Canadian neghtors have not escaped
the effects Of the prevailing depression Of busi
ness, and numerous failures are announced IL
Montreal, Toronto and Quebec. A recent tele
gram from the first named city says fcurteer
dry goods firms had come tc an arrangement
with their creditors within week.
San Francisco telegram says it is probabl.
that the Bank of California will soon resume
business again. The stockholders of the insti
tuition represent upward of $3.50, ,000,0 900.
The explorations of Prof. Hsyden's survey
ing party in the far west, as detailed in his re
port to the Interior Department, show hoy
little even our best geographers know of tn
prominent features of the great territory lyini
, nearly due westward of Chicago. A cano
some 5000 feet deep, through which a might
river flowed, was discovered, and the remain
of an ancient civilization that were found ar
said to be truly remarkable. The records @
these surveys will no doubt prove highly intel
| ot,1x tn snianfiats br,fto q
3 large.
The reports of disasters on the great lake
: for tho present season show that they alread
3 outnumber the unusually disastrous season {
g 1874, and are largely in excess of the wrecl
reported ON the ocean.
{ Political.
The New York Liberal Republican State Co
vention will be held at Albany Sept. %.
The campaign in Ohio wakes warm.
; A dispatch from San Francisco, dated, Sep
1 8, SAYS: "The election returns come in vel
slowly, but it is sure that the Democrats ha,
; carried the State by plurality of nearly 90, 90
l. anda majority of about 10000. The city go
ernment is mainly Democratic.
It Foreign.
/ A Madrid dispatch announces that SEQ /
Urgel, which has for some weeks been in
y state of siege, has capitulated to the Alfonist
The garrison were made prisoners of war.
n Late advices from Tripol state that amp
h apology has been made for the insult offer,
to the American Consul, and the sloop-of-w
Il Hartford had left for home.
le The Herzegovinian difficulty with Turkey
If still the leading topic in European dispatche
ID The cable tells us that seven thousand womt
is and children have fled into Croatia for eafet
le while the insurgents have burned and sack
le two small towns. Turkey has pretty big j
ID on hand to subdue the turbulent spirits in th
st insignificant but almost impregnable mou
is tain region.
The cattle plague Is spreading in England.
Of San Domingo is in the throes of anoth
E. revolution. The reyolutionists have proclaim
le Baez President, but the leading cities remain
le loyal to their legitimate ruler, Gonzales.
,g The price of grain continues to decline in t
re European markets.
IN Mohammed Ali has been appointed col
4. mander-i chief of the Turkish forces in H,
as zegoyina and Bosnia. 70
at Six Of the Editors of the Zeitung newsI
is per printed at Frankfort, Germany, are
prison for refusing to disclose the authorsf
of certain articles. One of them, Leopold Sc
B. Ieman, is a member of the Prussian Parl
T. ment.
From cable adyices from the seat of war, t