The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

bHN VI 04Aoo Lamp q dhu LIS DALI,
a school teacher, at st. Adams, in 1874.
The South.
A Charleston dispatch says that the pro-
gramme of the Liberian Exodus Association
is now completely arranged, and the Ealing
ship Aver, which is to convey the first in
stallment of colored emigrants, is expected
daily. She is already loaded with provis-
ions, agricultural implements, dry goods,
boots, shoes, etc., the property of persons
intending to take passage. There are thirty
thousand shares of stock at ten dollars a
share, and it is claimed that twenty-five
thousand people through the South have
that one hundred and sixty thousand are
enrolled to 60 when occasion offers. The
sailing vessel will be used as a means of
transportation until the company secure
funds enough to purchase a steamship, when
a regular line is to be established between
Charleston and Monrovia for carrying over
emigrants and bringing back produce.
Trustworthy advices from India state that
the Mohammedans are greatly excited
about the overthrow of Turkey. Serious
trouble is apprehended unless the Govern
ment takes some anti-Russian action
shortly. 1t is believed two hundred thous-
and Moslem volunteers to serve against
Russia could be raised without difficulty.
The London Standard reports that all
homeward-bound men-of.war have been
ordered to be detained at Malta, to
strengthen the fleet in Eastern waters.
A fete took place on the night of the 18th,
at Athens, in honor of General and Mrs.
Grant. The ruins of the ancient temples
and the Parthenon were illuminated.
The insurrect ion is very active in
Thessaly, Epirus and Crete. Fresh out
breaks in Macedonia are reported.
A supplementary telegram from Harrison
burg, Virginia, where Charlotte Harris,
colored, was hanged the other night on a
black jack tree, says it took five men to
bend the sapling down, which being accom-
plished, the rope suspended from the tree
was fastened to the woman's neck, and the
tree then allowed to go up again. The woman
was tossed in the air, and landed on the OPP
posite side of the tree. which was propped
up with a fence rail, and there left hanging.
This occurred Wednesday night. The body
was not cut down until the following Friday
afternoon.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
at Washington has received the following
telegram from Collector Brayton, at Column
bia, s. c.: Information is just received
from special Deputy Collector Hoffman that
on the 9th inst, three Illicit dist lers,
arrested by his force and committed to Jail
at the Pickens Courthouse by Commits
sioner Thornby, sere released by an armed
mob, supposed to be led by the outlaw Red
mond. The Shelf, who surrendered the
keys to save his life, refused to aid IN cap
turing the prisoners" Deputy Col
lector J%illison, at G~reenvilfe, tele-
graphs that he has advices that an armed
crowd surrounded the house of William
Gary, who aided the revenue officers in ar
resting the released distillers, for the pur.
pose of hanging him. When satisfied that
he was absent with the officers, the mob
started in pursuit, threatening to capture
Gary and drive the officers from that sec.
ton. The danger of the officers being over.
powered was imminent, as Redmond's gang
is organized and desperate. The Collector
has since reported hat he has called upon
the United States Marshal and District At
torney for assistance in capturing the res
cued distillers, and bringing the Jail break
ers to justice, and that he has arranged fol
the employment of a sufficient force, and
was about leaving to superintend opera
lions.
The execution of Brown Coble, the %coloret
minister murderer, took place at Winches
ter, Tennessee, in the presence of sever
thousand people, on March IA. At TIVE
o'clock he was placed on the scaffold. Afte
prayer and Scripture reading he made
speech forty-fve minutes long. The rop,
was cut at 2 :59, and he was left dangling il
mid air for half an hour. He died withou
a struggle The neck was broken by the fall
He was pronounced deadin seven minute:
He had few friends. There was no troubl
at all. He was considered a mean negro
On ccount of the sentence his wife wen
deranged, in which condition she has n
manned for eight months, but is PARTIAL
recovered. The crime for which Coble SUI
: fered death was the murder of Felix Gardne
(coloredl in Franklin County, June %, 1871
Anegro who grossly assaulted a chile
aged five years, causing its death, wa
lynched by a mob at Pensacola, Fla.
Sheriffs posse resisted the lynchers, KILN
one and %wounding five dangerously.
/, A report received from Pensacola state
! that within a radius of seventy-fve miles
= that place the public lands have been d
y nuded of more timber than in the san
= radius in any other locality in the Unite
: States. 1t is estimated that about sever
= tenths of the lumber shipped from Pens
cola is taken from the public domain, an
4 that 100000 could be recovered for IL
Government if the cases are properly pro
u cuted.
The execution of Gus. johnson, for IL
: murder of Daniel Afford, a co'ored man,
August, 1876, took place in Rome, Ca, {
the 18th of March. The case has attracts
!. a great deal of attention throughout tn
6 section, both on account of the despera
character of the condemned man, and b
- cause it is thought that this is the first i
oeaHCO III VIC uletOTy VI InlS OIaIe Vi v
= hanging of white man for the killing of
negro. Eight thousand people witness
the execution.
lie The West.
G. On Thursday, March 7, about midnighr
IL storm of snow and wind set in, covering t
entire country from Green River, Wyomir
'r to North Platte, Nebraska, distance of fl
70 hundred and fifty miles, and proved
be far the severest storm known since t
a. construction of the Union Pacific Railros
Of The storm continued without abateme
k until Sunday morning, making it impossit
n for persons to go out without almost certa
ID death. Since the storm subsidized, the bod
lie of a number Of persons have been fou.
lie who died from exposure. Two soldit
lie persisted between Fort Russell and Chi
t. enne, a distance of three miles. Four m
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