The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-26

Both houses Of the Packard Legislature
met in joint caucus at eleven o'clock, April
Is. After considerable debate resolutions
esitions offered by the Nichols Legisla-
ture. The Nichols House now lacks four
of a quorum of Returning Board members,
the total number of Representatives being
one hundred and twenty. Though the pres
emit plan would seem to have failed, it may
be fairly stated that the Commission and
prominent leaders on both sides still enter
tain a hope that terms alike honorable to all
parties may yetbe agreed upon.
Aquorum Of both houses of the Nichols
Legislature, of member whose seats are
undisputed, were present April 10. Packard
cannot hold his people, although he is not
without able support. The breakup will be
general.
The commission have telegraphed the
without danger of disturbing the peace of
the city.
The Packard Legislature is rapidly dissolv.
ing. There are now sixty-fve or sixty-six
Returning Board member in the Nichols
House.
General Sherman Saturday morning, the
22d April, t~elegraphed the letter of the Sec
rotary of War, relative to the withdrawal of
the troops in New Orleans to General Sher.
the order executed as directed.
The Louisiana Commission closed their
labors on the 22d, and left New Orleans for
Washington.
Warmoth and several others gave in their
adhesion to the Nichols Legislature on the
sam day, and the Packard body is now
practically defunct.
h West.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says that
about one thousand Northern hostiles made
aformal surrender of their arms, ponies, etc,
to. Gen. Crook at that post. Their entry was
very dramatic. Encircling Spotted Tails
camp and discharging their guns in the air,
they called forth the whole force of that
Chief to greet them. After which, their
head Chief delivered q short speech before
Gen. Crook, indicating his desire for peace
by laying his rifle at the Generals feet
Among the chiefs ~surrendering are Zone
Who-Touches-the-C Clouds" and "Roman
Nose," whose villages were destroyed al
Slim Buttes last summer by Captain Mills
The general freight agents of the trunk
lines have fixed as a basis for rates on live
stock between Chicago and New York
forty-fve cents on hogs and fifty cents OF
other cattle, with q difference of two cent
in favor of Philad elphis, and three cents il
favor of Baltimore. The rates to othel
points are unchanged.
Chicago has for two weeks past been suf
fering from the effects of poisoned water
from the drainage of the city's winter &C
cumulation of filth, and among children
and infants there is an almost universe
sickness. Few deaths have resulted as yet
but it is feared that the poison, which battle
3 the efforts of the best physicians, vii
work deadly effects before it can be eradi
, Gated.
i, It is now ascertained beyond doubt tha
the grasshopper eggs in Kansas are unprc
a ductive. Careful experiments have bee
' made, and in addition, the weather of tn
past few days has been warm enough t
{ have Matched them by tie millions had tn
4 eggs been good; but not one of the pest
e can be found. Farmers are generally jubl
ant, and a big crop of everything is locke
for in Southeastern Kansas.
Eighty lodges of C~heyennes under Du
: Knife and Standing Elk nave surrendere
to General Crook at Camp Robinson
The village comprises about five hundre
. and fifty persons, eighty-iye of whom al