The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Itea.s fre,n the CapttaL.

Itesss fro1s h Capital.
The thirty.fourth call for the redemption
of $40 bonds of 1866, May and November,
has just been issued from the Treasury De-
partment. The call is for $40, 900, 900, as
follows: Coupon bonds, $50, No. COL to No.
600, both inclusive; 500, No. 2,5O1 to No.
$500, both inclusive; $500, No. 1901 to No.
5000, both inclusive; $1,000, No. 26,0O4 to
No. $3.50, both inclusive. Total coupons,
100000. Registered bonds, 500, No. 651
to No. 1,1o0, both inclusive; $500, No. 1,O51
to No. 1,400, both inclusive; 1900, No.
1901 TO No. $1,000, both inclusive; $500, No.
1851 to No. $500, both inclusive; $4,000,
No. 2,101 to No. 3,1O0, both inclusive; total
registered, $1,000, 600; aggregate, $4,000 0O.
The principal and annual interest on these
bends will be paid on December IL, after
which date interest will cease.
The Comptroller of the Currency does not
anticipate any further deposits of legal-ten-
ders to secure the bank circulation, and says
that it is probable that twenty odd millions
now held for this purpose will be with
drawn, and the new four and a half per
cents be deposited in their stead.
The appointment OF Frye as United States
Marshal of Kentucky, has been reconsid-
cred, and the commission given to Col. Thos.
E. Burns, of Marion County.
The West.
General Crook has been heard from, under
date of the I'd inst. he has followed the
trail to the Little Missouri, without finding
Indians The trail is found to split, show
ing that parties have diverged in several
directions. General Crook thinks that the
southern band may have moved backward
towards the mountains, and he is somewhat
apprehensive for his wagon train. 1t is ex-
pected that he will move in that direction
with his troops.
The navigation of the yellow Stone has
suddenly closed by the rapid falling of the
water, and the supplies for the new post,
instead Of being conveyed to their destina-
ton by steamer, must be hauled in wagons
from Fl Buford. The question Of SUBJ
s~istence for the troops who are to remain
has become 80 grave that all supplies bought
up for the active column must be devoted
to the use of the Cantonment, in order to
provide against the danger Of actual suffer-
ing. Consequently our small army has to
be sent home.
LieutenautGenerd Sheridan and Colonel
N. Sheridan, passed through Omaha, Neb.,
on the 18th of September, en- route to Fort
Laramie, where he is to meet General Crook,
and there arrange for a vigorous prosecu-
ton of the Indian war through the coming
winter, and the establishment OF a large
cantonment in the Powder River country,
etc. 7rr,-f t
The Chicago Times special correspondent
with Terry telegraphs under date of Fort
Buford, mouth Of the Yellowstone, the 8th,
via Bismarck, the 18th inst. The final break
ing up of Terry's command occurred yester-
day morning, and all the troops are now en-
iments of infantry, which will winter at the
mouth of Tongue River. The Montana
troops, numbering two hundred and fifty
infantryand one hundred and twenty horses,
including seventy infantry and the Second
Cavalry, under General Gibbon, left for
Fort Ellis with the wagon train and supplies
for eighty days. They will follow the old
Stanley trail. The route is teeming with
hostiles, and is four hundred and twenty
miles long.
ALos Angeles dispatch narrates a terri
BILE tale OF suffering on the Colorado desert.
Henry Smith, from st. Louis, with one com
panion and a pack train, left Yuma for
Los Angeles. They wandered four days In
the desert without water. Smith opened
the veins oil lis arm and drank blood,
which clotted in his throat. He then cut
his windpipe to remove it, and died a few
hours after. His companion reached the
station In the last stage OF exhaustion
The South.
While an excursion train was en- route
from BAYOU Sara to Laurel Hill, Louisiana,
the limb of a tree struck some men on the
ton of the box.car. George McKirn was
thrown under the wheels. and was horribly
mutilated and Instantly killed. A colored
how was hsdlv contused. Two or three others
There has been another serious outbreak
among the rice hands on the Combahee
River in son,b carol;na The laborers who
were at work have been attacked and Sc.
verelv beaten. Work is altogether stoned
and the rioters refuse to allow the rice al.
ready harvested to he sbipped to market,
Governor Chamberlain has dispatched q
snecial of;cer tn the scene of the trouble
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arrest and imprison the r~ingleaders.
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