The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-18
EATON OHIO. THURSDAY. JANUARY Is. 1ss3


%; Western, II; Southern, 60; Middle, AZ;
Pacific, "a; Canada, IL; New York City,
20.
A SUIT has been instituted at Nashville,
Tenn, by order of the Solicitor Of the
United States Treasury, to recover 5000
conscience money which an unknown per-
son had sent to the Board of Publication
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
apparently to be remitted to the Govern
ment.
DR.. WILLIAM A. MCDONALD, of Lynn,
Massachusetts,, has brought suit claiming
$40, 600 damages against Rev. Patrick Strain,
of st. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, who
charged the physician was unskillful, and
advised people not to employ him.
Four men were found frozen to death
water on the 18th.
Ar Santa Rosa Fla, on the 18th, strang-
er and Joshua Gully quarreled about some
apples, and the stranger shot Gully dead.
RECEIPTS of National bank notes for re-
demption during the week ending the 18th,
were 81, las, 600; bonds held by the Treas
urer to secure National bank circulation,
$3.50, 432, $50; to secure public moneys in
National bank repositories, SIG 344, 900;
bonds deposited to secure circulation, dur
ing the week, o., ,0o3. 200; to secure circula-
tion Withdrawn during the week, 81, ,o4o 200:
National bank notes outstanding, $685.
2e2, 100.
By an error in the transmission OF the
Civil Service bill on the night 1t passed
the Senate, that clause was retained which
provided lin the original billy that promo
tions shall be from lower grades to higher
on the basis of merit and competition"
This clause was stricken out by the Sem
ate on motion of Mr.. Brown, in the pre-
ceding day. The bill as it passed the
House is identical with the bill which
| passed the Senate. The argumentative
preamble" Of the original bill, although
stricken out during the consideration OF
the measure in the Senate, enormously
prefaced the copy of the bill telegraphed
the newspapers
ABROAD.
ATERRrFro storm prevailed at Vera Cruz,
New MEXICO. on the 9th. the particulars of
| which have just been reported. The
| American steamer Jas. A. Gary, and the
schooner Theresa g., and Mexican
barque were a complete loss. The crews
were saved. The steamer had already dis.
charged. Roofs of the railroad warehouses
were carried away, doing much damage to
the goods. The works for the harbor i'm
provements we're completely destroyed.
Many lighters and small craft were
wrecked. The Mexican schooner Amadeta
is ashore near Anton Lizardo. The crew
was saved.
A CABLE dispatch from Berlin, on the
11th, contains the following in regard to
the flooded district: Throughout the
flooded districts of Hungary there will Ger.
tainly be a famine unless assistance is
prompt. The extento of flooded country in
the Middle Rhine districts, exclusive oil
tributaries of that river, is computed al
seven hundred square kilometres, or near.
ly half as large again as the Lake of Con.
stance. The King of Bavaria has given 6
second ten thousand marks for the relief
of his distressed subjects. A portion Of
the city of Gran, on the Danube, is food
ed. Eleven houses are demolished. The
entire village of Patahaza is washed away
by the foods. The requirements of refu.
gees arriving at Raab in large numbers, in
half-starved condition, can not possibly
be met at that place, although all are
doing their utmost for their relief Sol
diers are placed along the dykes to prevent
the people returning to their homes owe,
the dangerous ice. The repairing of the
dykes has been impossible since the frost
set in. The whole Rhine Valley is frozeI
over"
BRApLAUeH was defeated in his sui
against Erskine, Deputy Sergeant-at-Arm
of the House of Commons.
AURELE BARTHE, brilliant French-Ca
madam press writer, committed suicide a
Sherbrook, Quebec on the 11th.
THE parliamentary return reports tina
the depreciation in the value of crops il
Ireland for 1882, in consequence of the un
favorable harvest, aggregated f5, ,11s, ,16
compared with the favorable year 1881, ant
f2, .664 compared with the average ,
the preceding ten years.