The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-23

the year by fifteen hundred enlisted men
and seventeen hundred children. At
thirty-two posts there were no teachers.
camps have libraries with total of 45.-
7O9 volumes, being two and a half vol
umes to each enlisted man. In garrisons,
the number of books circulated per month
is 22,836, being an average of one and a
half volumes per man per month
A large number of papers and
periodicals are also received and placed in
the reading rooms, to which the average
daily attendance numbers 4,375. The re-
port recommends the passage by Congress
of bill authorizing the employment of
one hundred and fifty teachers, with the
rank and pay of commissary sergeants,
s34 per month, with allowance for rations,
room, etc. Mr.. Mullins Joins in the rec
ommendation of several officers that a
system of compulsory education be en-
forced among certain classes of men. In
Appealing for larger appropriations for
lights to be used in night schools, the
Chaplain says to furnish lights for the col
ored schools requires at least one-third
more burners than for others.
ABROAD.
LONDON printers struck on the 18th for
an advance in wages. Some of the leading
papers conceded the demand, while others
refuse the request and are working with
half force.
The German people will present Crown
Prince Frederick William and his consort,
Victoria, at their approaching silver we'd
ding, January 25, with complete set for
the dining-room, together with furniture
for the table and accessories. The whole
present will cost about half million
marks.
AT Brantford, Ontario, on the 14th, a
small horizontal boiler being tested ex-
ploded, and Charles and William Corbin,
aged thirteen and fifteen, were fatally
injured.
The Prussian Diet was opened on the
14th by speech from the Throne. The
Emperor says the relations of Germany
viction that the benefits of peace are as
| sured
On the 14th the Sultan had a levee to
celebrate the thirteen hundredth year of
| the Mahommedan Calendar, which, ac-
cording to the predictions of the sooth-
sayers, will give to the world a new
| Prophet of Islam.
KAvANAUeH, the hero of Lucknow, is dead.
A TELEGRAM from Panama dated the 9th
relates horr.bl deed perpetrated by
cannibal Indians. A young merchant
with some companions had established
themselves on the river Putumayo for the
purposes of trade, when they were set
upon by number of Gessntos Indians,
and the whole party killed and eaten.
Ar Dublin, Ireland, on the 10th, the
! jury in the trial of Patrick Joyce, for the
murder of the Joyce family, returned a
the prisoner to be hanged December 15
proximo.
ONE man was killed and several persons
were seriously injured in theater in Gros
Beckskerek, Austria, on the 10Th, during a
fire, which resulted in the partial destruc
ton of the theater.
DR.. GAM who represented the American
Socialists at the Hague Congress of Social
lists in 1881, has been sentenced to two
years imprisonment by the Court at Rot
terdam, for obtaining goods by fraudulent
advertisements.
DESPITE all contradictions, President
Grevy's health on the 10th was reported in
very critical condition, and political
circles are discussing his successor. Gam
beta, Gen. Chanzy, and Bresson are men,
toned in connection Herewith. Bresson
is the favorite of the Moderates.
THE roof of an old building in the City
of Mexico, fell en- the night of the 18th,
killing seven people.
NEWSPAPERS have been forbidden to maxi e
allusion regarding the construction of
military railroads or movement of troops
near the Russo-Turkish frontier.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed the Coun-
Gil buildings, schools and postoffice at
Groom, near Guimper, France. A teacher
and eight children perished in the flames
A DYNAMITE explosion in Wales on the
18th killed five persons and injured seven.
THE Austrian Consul at Naples, Italy,
committed suicide on the 18th, by blowing
out his brains.