The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-14
PERsoNAL AND PoLITICAL

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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE State Department has received in
formation from Minister Lowell, of the re-
lease of Meany, arrested in Ireland under
the Repression Act.
In NEVADA the Republicans have nomi-
mated Enoch Strother for Governor.
THE South Carolina Greenbackers have
nominated D. H. McLane for Governor,
and R. D. White for Lieutenant Governor.
HANLAN has issued challenge to Court
ney, Ross and Lee to row three mile race
for $500 a side and the championship of
the world, the contest to be within three
weeks of the signing of the articles, two
weeks intervening between the races.
The Georgia State Central Committees
of the two wings of the Republican party
met at Atlanta on the 9th inst, and har-
monized, altering the State ticket to the
following: G. D. Forsyth for Congressman
at Large; s. A. Darnell, Attorney General;
w. A. Pledger, Secretary of State; Floyd
S. Nelson, Comptroller General: w. F..
Barnes, Treasurer. A. e. Buck was made
Chairman of the State Central Committee,
and W. A. Pledger Chairman of the Exec
utive Committee.
THE American Consul at Manila, (Mr. E.
G. Young, of New York, is the Consul
credited to the place, has died of cholera.
GENERAL SHERMAN has asked that Major
General John M. Schofield be ordered to
San Francisco to relieve Major General
tary Division of the Pacific, and that Gen
eral Mcdowell be ordered to his home in
New York, preparatory to his retirement
from active service in October next.
LATER dispatches state that the Republi-
can majority in Vermont is about 1884
The Democrats gain twenty-f members
in the House over 1880.
Hon. T. G. YoUNGLovE, Speaker of the
New York Assembly in 1867, is dead
The California Greenbackers have rlomi-
mated Thomas ]. McQuiddy for Governor.
A New York dispatch says the sharp
demand for Confederate bonds is chiefly
from Southern points. Orders to buy
come from Europe. 1t is said that foreign
capitalists absorbing the bonds will
make the employment of new capital in
the Southern States, conditional on the
States taking care of the bonds. The
method by which this can be done is Sc
cret, but the buying by European capital
lists is fixed fact.
JUDGE WYLIE charged the jury, on the
Sth, in the Star-route cases. They return
ed in the evening that they had agreed as
to one defendant. The Judge would moi
accept the report, and they were returned
to find verdict as to all the defendants.
LUTHER H. HUTCHINSON, Speaker of the
Maine House of Representatives, is dead.
THE Greenbackers of Colorado have nom.
mated George w. Way for Governor and
the remainder of State ticket.
N. @. PLACE, of Elmira, N Y, won the
fifty-mile bicycle race at New York City in
three hours. twenty-seven minutes and
eleven and three-fourth secends-thc
fastest time on record.
FOREIGN.
WoLsELEY has sent to England for more
troops. He wants 5000 more men at Alex
andria and 1000 at Ismailia.
AFTER a conference of three hours be.
tween Lord Dufferin and Said Pasha, the
been informally signed
THE defalcations of Hunter. the abscond
Notary of Montreal, are now known to
amount to over S220, ,000
FoxHALL, Bookmaker, Romeo and Wal
lenstein are accepted for the Czarovitch
stakes, October 10, at Newmarket, Eng
land, and Iroquois, Neried, Sachem, Aran
"a, Foxhall, Don Fulano, Bookmaker
| Romeo and Wallenstein are accepted fol
the Cambridgeshire stakes, October "a.
AN official report places the number o
agrarian outrages in Ireland during the
month of August at one hundred ant
sixty-five, including one murder, ten case
of intimidation, and eighty-three cases O.
sending threatening letters.
AN armistice has been concluded be
| tween the Greeks and Turks on the Thes
salian frontier, based OH the status quo ante
Negotiations for the definite settlement 0
the dispute in regard to the frontier arr
progressing satisfactorily.
| A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says a recen
speech of Gen. Drentelen, Governor o
Kieff, which accused the Jews of slander il
asserting that the authorities connived a
the anti-Semetic disorders, and advised
them to give to the country a little of tn
inordinate love they lavish on money, ha
caused much sensation. Gen. Drentelel
pointed out that many of the Jews hat
been obliged to return from America an,
4 were starving in Palestine, but that the.
were better off in Russia than anywher
else, if they only knew it.
A DISPATCH from Panama says that al
| earthquake on the morning of the 7th wa
| the severest ever felt on the Isthmus, ant
much property was damaged, but no live
lost.
NEWSPAPER men seem to fight all th
| duels in France. Says Paris dispatch
"Ten contributors of the Citoyls newspape
have challenged ten members of the stat
of lie Radical. A difficulty has arisen re
BILE that the contemplated ,duels will o
fought"
A PANAMA dispatch of September s
speaking of the earthquake on the isthmu
on the morning of the 9th, says: 9Th
| damage done by the earthquake turns ou
to be greater than at first thought. TIL
cathedral and many of the largest build
ings were badly injured. The loss in tn
city is estimated at several hundred thor
sand dollars. Several lives were los
There Is no communication with Aspir
wall, either by rail or telegraph, and man
bridges on the line of the road al
broken"
The cholera in Manila is not abatinj
On the 9Th inst. there were 40 deaths
the city and 279 deaths in the neighborin
villages.
ANOTHER shock of earthquake was fe
at Panama on the 9th inst. The peop
are panic-stricken. People are afraid I
sleep in their houses. Bridges of IL
Panama Railroad are out of line, an
travel is suspended. Interior towns al
reported badly damaged.
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
PoRT SAM, September6-General VOLS
ley has requested the presence of nav
brigade in the army in order that the nav
, may share the honor of the advance.
: compliance with this request a brigat
. consisting of four hundred blue jacket
l ten offio ers and battery of four Gatlir
guns will leave Port Said tomorrow fl
| Ismailia. An English train of 800 mul
r Uas attacked near RamSes TODAY bv Re