The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-01

istered, and two and a half millions coupon
bonds, interest to cease October %, next.
The President has appointed d. s. Rey-
nolds Honorary COMMISSIONS to the Paris
Exposition for Kentucky, and William C..
Mitchell, Receiver Of Public Moneys at Reed
City, Mich.
General
James Gordon Bennett has been IN com.
munication with the Navy Department re-
garding the Arctic explorations, and pro-
poses converting the yacht Dauntless into
a screw steamer, and sending her to the
North Pole by way-of S~pitzbergen, asking
only that the Navy Department furnish Off
GERS, men and provisions for the voyage.
The Jeanette, which Mr.. Bennett has fitted
out for the Arctic seas by way of Behring's
Straits, is now on her way to San Francisco.
Nose Kirkendall, aged twenty-five,
colored, was taken from the Jail at Harrison,
Ark, by a mob, a few nights since, and
hangedt to a tree. His alleged crime was an
attempted outrage on a white female.
The Reunion Ct Ohio Soldiers and Sailors
at Newark, on July %, the fourteenth an
niversary Of the death Of General McPher-
son, was very largely attended. Addresses
were made on the occasion by President
Hayes, General Sherman, General Keller,
Governor Bishop, General Devens and
others. Thu town was beautifully decorated,
and an imposing procession paraded the
streets.
The National Greenback party of Ohio
lately in session at Columbus, nominated
the following ticket: Fer Secretary of
State, Andrew Roy, Jackson County; Judge
of Supreme Court, Chilten A. White,
Brown County; Member Board of
Public Works, J. R. Falls, Lucas
County. The resolutions passed de-
nounce as crimes against the people, the
law making the greenback only a partial
legal tender, the act creating the national
banking scheme, the act changing currency
bonds into coin bonds, the act exempting
bonds from taxation, the act repeating the
income tax, the act demonetizing silver. the
act for issuing interest bearing bonds for
the purchase of silver bullion to be con-
verified into subsidiary coin, the act for the
forced resumption of specie payments, the
act for the indefinite increase Of the national
bank circulation and the enormous
contraction of the volEme of the circulatin
medium and recognize the financial legisla-
ton of the government, from the COM
mencement of the civil war, as the arbitrary
dictation of a syndicate of bankers and
usurers, with the single and settled purpose
of robbing the many to enrich the few. To
remedy and counteract the evils complained
of, the National resolutions demand that
the government shall issue a full legal
tender paper money, adequate in volume
for the employment of labor, the distribu-
ton Of its products, the requirements of
business, and for the payment of all interest
bearing bonds, as fast as redeemable; the
withdrawal and cancellation of all
bank notes designed to circulate as
currency; the n~on-exemption from taxa
ton of all private property; the
passage of a graduated income tax;
the unlimited coinage of gold and silver,
and the repeal of the specie resumption act;
all legalized m%onopolies abolished, and
their establishments the future prohibited.
The resolutions recognize the mutual de.
pendence of capital and labor; d~enounce
Communism and favor the establishment
of bureaus Of statistics, and the appoint.
ment of competent persons to report the
condition and wages ofthe working classes.
The conflict between the Mayor and the
Metropolitans, at East st. Louis, was re-
newed on the Esd Jnly. The conflict on
this occasion grew out of the efforts of a
railroad company to lay. a connecting track
to run trains across the city, which the
Mayor ordered to be stopped. Several Met
ropolitan officers and a little girl were
wounded. Governor Cullom ordered out
a company of Guards from Belleville, to
take charge of the town and keep the
peace.
At Waterford, Ont, not long since, 9
farmer named George Smith, living neal
Rockland, was murdered by his son, who
also beat his sister, it is supposed fatally
and then hung himself.
The National party of New York, in Con
vention on the Oath of July, nominated
State ticket, and passed resolutions favor
ing the payment of all debts, public ant
private, in greenbacks, and demanding tn,
repeal of the National bank Act, and tn
immediate calling in and payment of al
bonds in absolute paper money, witbou
regard to the time they may have to run OF
their face, and no further issue by the Gov
eminent of any bonds.
Peter Bresnaham, who was convicted las
May of the murder Of Michael Daulter, il
st. Lawrence County, New York, wa
hanged in Canton, New York, July 26. o.
the 18th of April last Bresnaham sho
Daulter at South Cotton, twenty-five mile
from Canton, and afterwards split his heai
open with al ak, the gun-shot wound no
being sufficient to cause death. Bresnahar
dragged the body into the woods near b
and searched Daulter's clothing, only fine
ing a few cents. The deed was committe
with the expectation Of finding u consider
able sum of money that the murdered ma
was said to possess. Bresnaham c~onfesse
to several murders besides the one he wa
convicted of.
At a picnic in Lewis County, Kentucky
Thursday, Thos. and VIM. B~lankenship we
stabbed to death by Daniel and Joseph Mo
gan. In the melee ten or fifteen person
were wounded. Daniel Morgan is undo
arrest. Joseph fed.
The South.