The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-21

Dougall. People were hanging on to spars
and other parts of the wreckage. Our
boat was full of water, and the sea was
constantly breaking over us. One of the
first to die was the cabin boy. Our num-
bers were reduced to seven, five of whom
died before reaching the beach. Captain
about midnight Thursday. The boat
finally stranded near Point Au Barrie,
about daylight Friday, with Miss
Morrison and myself the only ones
surviving. We went down the beach
in boat. to derrick, about
two miles distant, and laid on the beach
all night. About o'clock Saturday morn
ing an Indian came along, and 1 engaged
him to bring us to Parry Sound. He would
not bring the bodies. The steamer North
ern Belle, of the same line, which reached
here this morning, has been furnished
with ice, etc., and has left for the bodies.
There were probably about one hundred
persons on board the Asia.
The number of new cases of yellow
fever at Matamoras, Brownsville and Pen
sacola for the week ending September 16,
was 231; deaths, sixty.
Personal AND POLITICAL
/ Mrs. GARFIELD has purchased residence
in Cleveland, for $4,000.
The State Department has received in
formation from Minister Lowell, of the re-
lease of Meany, arrested in Ireland under
the Repression Act.
THE Administrationists carried sixty out
of seventy-two of the New York City dele
gates to the Saratoga Convention.
IT Is estimated that the next Maine Leg
islature will stand as follows: Senate-Re-
publicans 2s, Fusions 3; House-Republi-
cans 81, Fusions GA,
B. II. HILL, son of the late Georgia
Senator, has written to Governor Colquitt
declining the proposed proffer of the
office formerly held by his father.
SURGEON GENERAL WALES, of the navy,
and Surgeon Billings, of the army, will go
to Hot Springs, Arkansas, the latter part
of this month, to select site for the
Army and Navy Hospital, for which Con-
gress appropriated $1OO, 900 last session.
MAJOR BEN. BUTTERwoRTH has been nom
mated for Congress in the First Congress
sional District of Ohio, and Amor Smith,
jun, in the Second.
MILO II. BLANCHARD has been nominated
for Governor by the Delaware Green
hackers. Among other things the plat
form adopted demands the abolition of the
whipping-post.
IT Is reported in Washington that MISS
Burrill, Captain Howgate's female famil-
lar, has gone to meet the departed Captain
rnREIau
MILE. FEYGHINEs, Russian actress oi
considerable note, has created sensation
in Paris by shooting herself in the apart
ments of the Duke de Morny. 1t appears
the Duke was trying to get rid of the
woman, discovering which she shot her.
self in his presence.
DURING a storm the Laprairie Barracks
at Montreal, which originally cost the I'm
perial Government half a million dollars,
burned to the ground.
A CHILIAN correspondent writing to the
Panama Star and Hcrald, tells thelfollowing
story of Peruvian atrocities: when the
inhabitants of Tarma learned the Chilian
forces were about to leave, large majority
of the Peruvian families appealed to be al
lowed to accompany them in order to es
cape the depredations of their lawles.
countrymen. Just five hours after the
troops left immense hordes of guerrilla.
poured into Tarma. On it becoming known
| that all well-to-do and decent families hac
abandoned the town, the fury of the In
dians knew no bounds. Many As
sassinations followed, and among the vic
Tins were eight foreigners. In the mids
of the drunken orgies Tarma was reduced
to ruins with the object of burning thu
property of foreigners and ChilianizeC
Tarmanians All the town was burned
The cities of Jauja and Shuancays shared
the fate of Tarma. Four Chilian soldier.
and six fugitive Peruvians were frozen t,
death in the Cordilleras. At Conception
the Chilian garrison made noble defens
against hordes of Indians. When the am
mutton of the Chilians was exhausted tn
assailants secured paraffine and fired tn
barracks, burning some wounded soldiers
At this hour five friars from a neighborinI
convent appeared and, crucifx in hand
commenced to incite the Indians to reney
the attack. At 10 o'clock, of sew
enty-two Chilians composing the garri
son, only four, and two of then
wounded, remained to offer resistance
the others were either dead or dying. Th
| building was now ablaze in every direC
ton. Four women, wives of soldiers
| were eyewitnesses to their husbands
deaths. One of them was accompanied b
her son of five years, another by an infan
| who had come into the world at the com
/ mencement of the attack. After remoy
ing the wounded from the building the
went out into the square, hoping thei
/ lives would be spared. They had hardl
stepped out the building when they wer
set upon by the crowd of yelling an
drunken savages and horribly butct
cred. The fve-year-old boy had hi
throat cut from ear to ear, and was barbal
ously mutilated, and the body of the ne,
born child was found pierced with 81
lance wounds. Sub-Lieutenant Cruz an
the surviving soldiers were also surround
ed, and they fell Zone after another, bu
not until they had sold their lives dearly
When other Chilian troops arrived fe'
days afterward they found in the squar
and in the adjacent streets twenty-nine {
the enemy's dead. The wounded wer
double that number, and were carried o
10 Jne nlllS. Inc Cnlllan QeaQ were CO
lected and buried. The city was burned
and everybody implicated in the massacl
who could be found was summarily ex
cuted.
l. THE WAR IN EGYPT.
Il ZAeAzre, September 14.--9 p. m.-En
lish troops are now entering Cairo. Gel
eral Wolseley to-day, in reply to a dep,
dations of chiefs from Tel-el-Kebir, WI
asked that the country be spared the h
, initiation of further advance of Il
, British, said he would occupy Cairo t
| night; that in a few hours he woul
, dispatch the first train there with troop
| This has since been done. The Su
tan has telegraphed General VOLS
ley, offering congratulations on his splel
5 did victory, and requesting him, now tn
/ the neck of the rebellion is broken, to ste
r the march of his army into the interio
General Wolseley sent telegram in rep
t in which he referred the Sultan to Londc
/ for a response to his request ALI the en-