The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-24

An American fishing boat has picked up and
brought into st. Johns, N. B., nine of the crew
and three of the passengers of the lost steam
ship Vicksburg.
Several oil tanks and two or three warehouses
belonging to Lockhart & Frew and Graft, Ben
nett & Co., just outside the city of Pittsburgh,
were destroyed by fire last week. About $50, 600
barrels of oil were consumed. Total loss,
s4OO, 900.
The Grasshoppers have forsaken Western
Missouri, and are taking their fight northward.
Tom Mcclellan, notorious desperate, made
famous by the tragic end of his counsel, Hon..
C. L. Vallandigham, who lost his life in explain
ing some points in the trial of Mcclellan for the
murder ofa man named Myers, was assassin
ated in his saloon at Hamilton, Ohio, at u
o'clock last Monday night.
Recent fires: The business portion OF New
field, N. Y, with loss of $50, 900; J. P.
Mpp's carriage factory, New York, loss $780,
900; at Barrasois, Cape Breton, destroying five
houses and sweeping everything between there
and Green Cove, distance of nine miles, and
burning the latter place.
Advices from the Rio Grande frontier indi-
cate that affairs are becoming desperate in that
region. A band of Cortina's cattle thieves who
were caught raiding on the Texas side were at
tackled and twelve of them killed. This en-
ragged Cortina, who is Mayor of Matamoras, and
has fully 5000 men at his command. Hethreat-
citizens of Brownsville are preparing for hos
tlities, which seem imminent.
The war between the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania railroads is ended, the two COM
panies having compromised their difficulties.
The factory of the Ancaster (Ont) Knitting
Company was burned last week. Loss, $3.50, 900;
partially insured. Two hundred persons are
thrown out of employment.
POLITICAL.
The California Republican State Convention
met at Sacramento, on the 18th, and nominated
the following ticket: Governor, T. G. Phelps;
Lieutenant Governor, Joseph NJ. Cavis; Secre-
tary of State, o. H. Hallett; Comptroller, j. j.
Green; Surveyor, r. E. Gardner; Treasurer,
William Beckman; Attorney-General, E. D.
Sawyer; Clerk of Supreme Court, Grant ]. Tag
gart; Superintendent of Public instruction,
Ezra C. Carr. Theplatform adopted recognizes
the career of President Grant, accepts the let
ter of the President as a final settlement of the
third-term question; declares that the Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments
10 the Constitution should be maintained; con-
denim that portion of the Southern people who
intimidate colored voters; demands economy
and honesty in the administration of State and
county governm ents; and that the State and its
common schools be kept free from ecclesiasti-
cal or secular control declaration of war upon
the railroad companies which deny and resist
the right of State regulation and control of fares
and tolls, and a pledge that the Republican
members of the Legislature will vote for fair
and reasonable reduction in this direction.
The Maine Republicans have nominated Gen.
Selden Connor for Governor.
The Democratic State Convention of Ohio, at
Columbus, last week, was one of the largest
ever held. The following ticket was put in the
field: Governor, William Allen, of Ross Lieu
tenant Governor, Samuel T. C. Treyon, of
Hamilton; Supreme Judge Thomas Q. Ash
burn, of Clermont; Auditor, E. NJ. Greene. of
Shelby Treasurer, John Schreiner, of Meigs !;
Attorney General, Thomas E. Powell, of Della
ware member of the Board of Public Works,
II. Z. Geghan, of Erie.