The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-05
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.


General Grant.
SIX Russian vessels in New York harbor
have been transferred to American owners.
They were afraid of Turkish men-of-war.
THE Marblehead fire started, from a dog
fight in saloon. But the two-legged brutes,
and not the four-legged ones, were re-
sponsible. t.
A COMMITTEE of Jews appointed by some
of the leading Jewish houses of New York,
have visited Staten Island to find a suitable
site upon which to build large hotel.
EX-GOVERNOR TILDEN and Cyrus W.
Field, who had engaged passage for Europe
by the Bothnia, which sailed Wednesday,
July 4, decided to defer their voyage.
TOTAL amount of silver coin issued to
July 1, $33, 121 ,5S7, of which $11 ,9S1 $40 was
issued on account of currency obligations,
and $21 140,061 in redemption of fractional
currency. ... -- -.....-
JUDGE TAFT, of Cincinnati, has written a
letter declining to be a candidate for
Governor in Ohio, but there seems to be
strong disposition to nominate him notwith.
standing. -.
PRESIDENT HAYES had grand reception
at Providence, R. l., on the 2Sth of June.
The city was thronged. Speeches were
made by the President, General Burnside
and others r' .Ei.'. ."rI'
JACOB WHITzEL, life prisoner in the
Ohio Penitentiary, from Seneca County,
committed suicide, by hanging himself in
the cellar of the prison, the other morning.
Cause unknown, -.-,.., .....
A SPECIAL from Hickman, Kentucky,
states that Jarvis Anderson, who was sup
posed to belong to an extensive gang of
thieves, was taken out of the jail at that
place by mob and shot to death.
EIGHT hundred Mennonites recently ar
rived at Philadelphia from Russia, emil
grating to escape conscription, and left
for various points in Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri and Western Pennsylvania.
THE steamship Anchoria, which sailed
from New York lately, took out five
thousand two hundred and seventy packages
Of butter, the largest shipment ever made
to Great Britain from this country in one
vessel. Q " I-I ri'- !'
PRESIDENT HAYES andparty returned to
Washington Saturday evening, June 80, and
were transferred to their new quarters at
! the Soldiers Home, and some of the men,
bers of the Cabinet went out to the house
warming. :" F." 'i''''' 'E' A''
a THE officers of the Rockford Agricultural
Society, in Winnebago County, Illinois, the
| same who invited Jefferson Davis to deliver
an address there last year, have invited
Wade Hampton to dooso this year, and
| Wade has consented. 4
THE white whale at Cincinnati, after three
days ablution in her aquarium, died from
the effects of knife wound. Some fellow,
| Jealous of her success in popular esteem,
stabbed her in the head. Another whale
was Immediately sent for.
AT Cincinnati, recently, John Geartner
shot his wife with revolver, and attempted
| to kill himself in the same way, but was
prevented by an officer who reached the
place in time. Jealousy was the cause. The
wife died in a few minutes.
THE New York Tribune compositors struck
on June 30. The cause was q proposed re-
duction from forty-si1 to forty cents for
night work, and thirty-three for day work.
The eighty men left in a body. Extra men
had been engaged for Sunday night in antici-
patton of trouble, and enough of these were
secured to issue the paper on time.
THE commission examining the New Or
leans Custom House have arrived at practi-
cally the same result as that reached in the
New York Investigation. They will recon-
mend reduction of twenty-five per cent. in
the force of retainers, which, it is claimed,
will effect a saving of sixty thousand dollars
annually, and leave the Office in good work
ing condition. ..--..r 81. a.
AN investigation into the losses of sheep
during the last year shows that a total of
nearly 3,00O,O 600 sheep and lambs were de-
stroyed by dogs and wolves, and various
diseases, of an aggregate money value OF
nearly $S,0OO,O0O. The portion is the highest,
respectively, in North Carolina, Florida,
and Louisiana, and ranges from II per cent.
in the former State, to 8 7-10 in Nebraska.
The rate is highest in the South and lowest
in the States having dog laws.
THE Spanish Government assures Mr..
Evarts that Spain will make all honorable
amends for the seizure and detention of the
American schooner Rizpach and the i'm
prisonment of Capt Dunham, just as soon
as an investigation of the facts can be had,
and promises that it will spare no effort to
prevent repetition of similar outrages in
the future. Mr.. Evarts will hand in his bill
of damages against Spain when he receives
Capt. Dunhan's statement.i
THE story of the heroism of John Horn,
jr., of Detroit, is full of many chapters,
each the record of the saving of human
life. He is accredited with having saved
from drowning no less than one hundred
and thirty-One persons in and about the city
of his residence, where, we believe, he fol-
lows the avocatiOn of waterman. A few
days ago the citizens of Detroit presented
him with a gold watch and chain, valued al
$51S. ~ . -...
c. BRADLAUGH and Miss Annie Besant
arrested and tried for publishing pamphlet
alleged to be immoral, have been condemned
to six months imprisonment, to pay fine
of f200 each, and to enter into an engage
ment to behave well for two years. Pending
the argument of a technical point as to the
indictment, before the Court of Error, they
were released on their own recognizance, Oh
the promise of the defendants that they
would not continue to publish the work.
JOHN GEARTNER who murdered his wife
at Cincinnati on June % in a fit of jealousy
strangled himself next day in his cell in the
Jail. 1t appears he had torn some shred'
from the ticking of his cot, tied then
tightly around his neck, and made fast thu
ends to the grating of his window, the bot
tom of which is about two feet above tn,
bunk. He then lay down on his face, ant
the hanging apparatus was drawn so tight a
: to strangle him in few minutes. Whel
he was discovered his heart had ceased t.
beat.
A Mt. VERNON, Kentucky, special to tn
, Louisville COurier-JourRdL says: On mid
| night Saturday, June 80, nearly one hun
dred men attacked the house of Jane
! Bethurman, noted desperate. Bethurmal
!, would not surrender, and firing upon tn
! attacking party with his shotgun kille
= Charles Burton. Though some fiftN shot