The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-05

in The Southern part of Russia, inviting
the people to avail themselves of the COM
ing fetes on the occasion of the coronation
of the Car. to pillage the homes of the
mobiles and Jews. deputation of mobiles
has gone to st. Petersburg to ask Count
Tolstoi, Minister of the Interior, to provide
for the protection OF their property.
THE French Government announces a
change of policy in its relations to Mad
agascar, and that the new policy will be
milder than seemed possible when war ves-
sells were first sent out. The altered situa-
ton, as stated by the Government, is due
to the conciliatory disposition shown by
the native tribes with which the French
troops and sailors have come in contact.
French hostilities will, therefore, not be
directed against the tribes, but will be con-
fined to measures for chastising the Queen
and the counsellor by whom her course
was influenced.
A DISPATCH from Ottawa says that J. I.
Pratt, of Louisville, Secretary of the
Spirit and Wine Association of the United
States, with a party of influential Cana
dian capitalists, had interviews with the
Ministry, seeking such notifications of
the Canadian laws as would afford distillers
of the United States the privilege of i'm
porting bonded whiskies in packages less
than one hundred gallons. The Govern
ment will take the matter nder consider
alton.
IT is announced that John Brown, the
personal attendant of Queen Victoria, is
dead. A rumor is circulated that his
death was caused by Fenian poison, and, in
the absence of definite information as to
the circumstances Immediately attending
his death, the rumor has spread rapidly.
It had not been known even that Brown
was ill, but he was a man well on in his
years, extremely irritable, and his anxiety
personally on the Queens account was al
most mania, so that accidents to her were
almost enough to make him ill. The Queen
is said to severely feel the loss of the man
who had so effectively protected her on va
rious occasions.
AMERICAN artists in Paris are indignant
at the clause of the new tariff law concern
ing duties on pictures. The American
artists assembled in force few days ago
and adopted series of strong resolutions
protesting against the increase of duties on
the importation of foreign pictures, bu
more particularly on those of France, as a
most impolitic and ungrateful measure. 1t
was resolved that a petition, based on these
facts, and demanding the repeal of this
obnoxious clause should be presented to
Congress, and committee, composed OF
Messrs. Healy, Brigham, Sargent, Knight,
Stewart, Pearce and Bellanbaugh, was
named to prepare it.
A MAN has been arrested in London who
was carrying cunningly contrived explo-
sive machine containing nitro-glycerine.
LONDON Daily Ne,os correspondent at
Varna says that secret report has been
presented to the Sultan, in which is
charged that several of the Turkish Min
listers and high officials of the Government
had entered into an arrangement by which
they were to receive bribes in connection
with the collection of tobacco taxes. The
Ministers accused rendered their resigna-
tions, but the Sultan refused to accept
them. Much uneasiness exists in regard
to the matter.
VARIOUS brands of American lard which
are regularly imported into the Island of
Cuba, having been denounced as spurious,
the Government has ordered the Collectors
at all Custom-houses on the Island to re.
fuse admittance to four brands-Rosedale,
Irving, Peacock and Crown-until the
Academy of Science has reported upon
their quality.
The London police are in receipt of a
letter, purporting to emanate from Fenian
sources, threatening unless the men
charged with the Phoenix Park murders,
and now confined in the Kilmainham Jail
awaiting trial, are at once released, the
Central Telegraph Office in London will be
blown up.
ALL Montenegrin residents of Scutari
have left town on account of peremptory
order issued by their own Government.
Within the past few weeks there have been
many affrays along the Albanian borders,
accompanied in many cases, by murder.
AS precautionary measure, orders have
been issued that the passage which under.
lies the residence of Gladstone shall here.
after be closed at sunset.