The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-03-23

@~o-0ILt . o-SACa tue D1l 70 pro-
vide for the purchase of material and for
The continuation of work on the building
for the Oustom-house and Post-ofice at 81.
Louis; also, the actautho-izing the purchase
of additional grounds for a Custom-house at
Nashville.
The South.
George Norris, aged seventeen, shot and
killed a desperate named Tom Leon, at
Pacific Place, Arkansas, a few days since, to
prevent his numbering Sam Hardwick, an
invalid Morris surrendered himself, and
was tried and acquitted
A special from Jackson, Mississippi, to
the Memphis avalanche says that in the
Court Of Impeachment, March II, Governor
Ames appeared by counsel, Thomas ].
Durant, and Eve days were granted for him
to answer. Lieutenant-Governo Davis has
resigned, and Governor Ames will appoint
his successor. Ex-Auditor Musgroye is a
popular candidate among the Republicans.
Warner, Of Pearl river notoriety, is also an
aspirant- Cardoza, Superintendent Of Pub
lie Education, will also resign.
The West.
A dispatch from Corvalles, Oregon, says
that a iumber-laden schooner, name I'M
known, went ashore, bottom up, lately, near
Cape Foulweather. One body was washed
ashore. The rest are supposed to have been
lost.
A Mrs Lewis johnson, of Neosho, No..
travelling, with her six children, to Des
Moines, Iowa, attempted to commit suicide
in the depot at Omaha, a few days ago,
while waiting for the eastward bound train.
She cut her throat badly with a pocket
knife, seyering the artery. She may pos
sibly recover. 1t is the old story-a drunken
husband, who beat her and drove the family
away. She has relatives near Des Moines.
The Northern Kansas Conference, Bishop
Peck presiding, held q session in Lawrence,
Kansas, March Is. The attendance was
large. Rev. R E. Chalk, Of Armstrong, q
member of the conference, stepping from
the train, slipped and fell under the trucks
of the rear car, killing him instantly. He
was a prominent citizen of Armstrong, Kan
sas, and leaves a family.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that on the
evening Of March Is, Mr.. Fielding came
into Fort Fetterman from the camp at old
Fort Reno, having left there on the night Of
the 18th. He brought letters, ETC., from the
men Of the command. On the 9TH General
Crook left the main camp at Fort Reno,
taking a pack train and fifteen days rations
for cavalry, and struck out after the Indians
known to be north of that place, since
which date nothing has been heard from
him. On the way to Reno the command
was attacked several times by the Indians
One man, a herder, was wounded, but is vel
alive. An infantryman was also wounded.
No other casualties.
Fire RECORD
A Ere at Caledonia, 0at., destroyed the
Caledonia FIGURING Mills, owned by Nc
Quarrie, ShorbRn & Munroe. The mills
contained s0,e00 bushels of grain. The totaI
loss is $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
At shout three O'Clock on the morning Of
March II, the 0pera-House at Springfield
Illinois, was discovered to be on fire. i
had evidently been burning some time
before it became known, as the interior o.
the building was in flames when the steam
ers arrived. The building was erected soms
AN1 I|uAo 4Io . y Cuot VI 81OQt ElOO,UoUs AIT
was owned by Jacob Bum. Il was totally
destroyed, and there was no insurance. Til,
occupants Of the store-rooms on the frs
floor lost nearly everything.
General.
Accounts Of a tornado which passed ovel
a part of northwestern Missouri, Friday
March 10, says that the little town of Sho
sukey, in Monroe county, was entirely de
stroyed. Two persons were killed an,
~twenty-one wounded, some of them serious
ly. At Rensselaer,, a station on the Missouri
Kansas and Texas Railroad, two children
were carried away by the storm and hay'
not yet been found. The wife and child o
Allen johnson, residing four miles from
Hannibal, were instantly killed. The de
struction of houses, barns outbuiIdings
stock, fences, grain etc, has been very great
The tornado was about two hundred yard
wide and bounded along the earth like
rubber ball.
The failure of the First National Bank o
Duluth turns out to be a bad one. The
bank owes $4,000 10 depositors, aud $5s,0 O'
tohoIders Of drafts, ETC., for which it ha
little to show in the way of available assets
The failure occasions the greatest distress
among the people and business men of Du
luth, all Of whom are i'll able to stand thei
loss at this particular time.
Professor j. Lawrence Smith, of Louis
Vile, who has analysed the specimens o
flesh that fell in Bath county, KY, is of tn
opinion that they are the spawn of frogs
transported from ponds by currents Of all
He ssys a similar shower occurred in Ire
land, in 1875.
1t is now believed that fourteen person
were burned in the Almshouse FIRE, at Nor
wich, Connecticut, on Sunday night, Marc
IL. Most of them were old people fron
sixty to seventy years Of age. Seven bodie
were taken from the ruins next day, burne,
to q cinder and -unrecognizable. Five in
mates were injured by jumping from wiz
dovs, two Of them fatally. The entire nun
Der of inmates was fifty-four.
Daniel Drew, of New York, has fled
petition in bankruptcy. Daniel Drew
liable upon the indorsementnote of the Drer
Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jei
sey, in the sum of SCI, 900, and also ON tn
Endorsement note to the Seminary at Midi
ton, Connecticut, in $1,000 600. These tw
notes are unsecured. His other insecure
liabilities amount to between $780, 600 an
100000. The amount of all liabilitie
secured and unsecured, is about 81, 10000
In the Mississippi Senate, by a vote {
thirty-four to four, Governor Davis has bee
found guilty of charges made in the articI
OF impeachment.
Two of the leading coal and iron con
panies' collieries near Pottsville, Pa, ha,
resumed work.
Joseph sooy, jun, the deiaulting New Je
sey State Treasurer, has been sentenced
the State Prison for three years.
Election items from Maine inform us tn
W. B. Hayford, Republican, was elect,
Mayor of Bangor, by s25 majority. La
year the democrats had 1874 plurality.
Biddeford, Burnham, Democrat, was elect
Mayor by 40 majority. Last year the Del
ocratic majority was 15s. Augusta elects
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