The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-02-17

united states, are I0un0 70 De IN an emDar-
assed condition. One of the officers las had
different parties indorse notes unknown to
each other, to the amount of $50, 900 or
more. The officer cannot account for the
money. No cash account was taken, and
the bills are irregular.
Admiral S~trangham died February, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. aged se~yenty-eight.
Mrs. Thomassen, wife of the author of the
Bremerhaven dynamite disaster, and her
four children, have arrived in New York.
She expressed an unwillinguess to talk about
the cause Of her unpleasant prominence,
particularly in the presence of her children,
who are yet ignorant Of the whole affair.
She proposes to seek retirement in her own
home in the country.
Chief Justice White, in charging the
Grand Jury at Salt Lake, Utah, recently,
concerning ~polygamy, said: ave had bet
ter look it squarely in the face, distasteful as
it may be to some, and govern ourselves by
right, reason, and manly discretion in deal
ing with it Polygamy must be suppressed
in this Territory. Mormonism may survive,
and, relieved from it, would stand un-
shackled and free as every other creed or
mode of religious worship, shielded and pro-
tected by the Constitution of our common
country; but if Mormonism can not sever
itself from polygamy, it will be to it the
bridal of DEATH
James Parton, the author, having married
his st~epdaughter at Newburyport, Connecti-
cut, againstthe laws of the State, viii apply
to the Legislature for a special act sanction
ing the marriage. 1t is said he was not
his marriage.
Frank Gilman, engineer of the Illinois
Central at Cairo, was drowned in the Ohio
recently.
An unknown man, asleep on the track in
the Illinois Central yard at Cairo, was run
over and killed by a train.
The Minnesota House of Representatives
has rejected the bill ap~propriating $3.50 0
for the purpose of a Centennial display.
II. N. F. Lewis, editor of the Western Ru-
raj, has brought suit for trespass against
Milton George and Others, of Chicago, at
the instigation of whom he was recently
confined in the county Jail. He claims
$25, 900 damages.
Perrin Fl. Sumner has been arrested in
Brooklyn, charged with forgeries in Califor-
mia amounting to over 100000. He was an
official in the Baptist Church. The Rev.
Mr.. ParshaIl, pastor OF the church, learned
Of some of Summers transactions, and the
latter at once plotted to ruin him by ac-
casing him of adultery, which charge led to
Parshan's leaving his pulpit.
Moody and Sankey the great reyivalists,
find no falling off in their popularity in New
York city. They draw as large crowds there
as in Philadelphia or Brooklyn.
A letter has been received in New York
from the private secretary of the Crown
Prince of Prussia, in which he states that,
owing to personal matters, it viii be impos-
sible for the Prince to visit America at any
time this year.
The Legislative Council of Montana has
passed a resolution, II to 1, granting ST.
0 1000 to aid the construction OF the North
ern Pacific railroad west from Bismarck to
Shields River, the westermost tributary of
the Yellowstone.
The Lancaster (Paj county tobacco crop
for 1875 is selling at twenty cents for wrap
pers, ten cents for seconds and five cents for
filters. The leaf is of beautiful color, and
as fine as silk. Should the high prices now
being paid be maintained, the crop of the
county will sell for an aggregate of
ST. 00, 000.
Hon. Reverdy johnson, the statesman,
was found dead on the evening of February
10, in the grounds surrounding the Executive
mansion at Annapolis. Mr.. johnson was a
guest of Governor Carroll, and dined in the
afternoon with other gentlemen at the
Executive mansion. His body was at ONCE
removed into a basement room, and
physicians supmoned. DR.. William G..
Tuck was the first to arrive and
after examining the body pronounced
life extinct. There we're large wounds on
right side of forehead, two fractures of the
skull from the upper portion of the forehead
to the eyebrow, dislocation of finger of the
the left hand and cut ON hand, and cuts on
hands and legs, and bruises.
The Congregational Church in Andoyer
Theological Seminary voted, on Wednes-
day night, to invite Plymouth Church
to unite with them in an ecclesiastical eoun-
ell, for an investigation into the accusations
made against Henry Ward Beecher. This
vote expresses simply the church's sense of
the need of an examination, and of the in
furious influence of delay. The Importance
of the action is suggested by the fact that
this church is connected with the Oldest
Congregational theological Seminary, with
which has been connected more than one
third of the acting Congregational ministry,
and more than three thousand clergynen.
The Bank Of Commerce at New London
Connecticut, has been robbed of $21, 800.
The burglars had packed up in a box all the
bills and all the receivable securities Of the
bank, amounting to five hundred thousand
dollars or more, butleft them on the floor of
the vault, evidently in the hurry of depart
ure. The paying teller, who had the COM
bination of the outside lock, was unable to
operate it the day after the robbery, and the
services of experts were obtained. The ex-
perts succeeded in opening it at six p. m,
when the robbery was discovered. This
gave the burglars over twenty-four hours the
start.
The notorious outlaw and. robber, Bill
Smith, who recently escaped from the peni.
Tertiary at Nashville, Tenn, was captured
about three miles from that town, and
while resisting the arrest was shot dead
by a man named PEBBLES. Smith fred the
first shot. '
Charles McAllister and Patrick Manly
have been arrested near Mahoning City, Pa.
for a double murder in September last, Of
Thomas LANCER and William Uren, the for