Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY.


Mr.. Jenck's bankrupt bill has been defeated In
the House, by vote OF 50 against 49,
merchant tailor Of ST. Paul doing business on
Third street, who a church momber in good
standing, AMI Sabbath School superintendent,
eloped, day or so ago, with the white wife OF a
negro.
If, as is often alleged, the Fenian scheme is on
ly to catch greenbacks, it is a very success
full one. The Irish farmers in the neighborhood of
Chicago actually selling their live stock in Or
der to contribute to the cause.
The boiler Of Davies seam mill, six miles
from Mitchell, Ind, exploded Thursday morning,
SilliHg two men and wounding two others serious |
ly. Everything contiguous to the mill was laid n
ruins.
The gallows was cheated Of its own in Philadel- |
pha Thursday, by the death of Christian Berger,
who was condemned to be executed for the murder
Of Miss Anna Watts. He was founi dead in his
cell, and it is thought that he died Of appoPlcxy.
The people Of Olmsted Falls, near Cleaveland,
were startled day or two since by the evidences
OF murderous struggle in a disreputable house,
where blood stains were found, and woman and
man and s 100 were mystcriously missing. After
search, the body of the wom,n, Mira. Colvin, has
been found, bearing the marks Of brutal cruelty,
the head being laid open with The mis-
sing man Is also believed to have been murder
| Ell, ana TWO meE nafneu C0lViu (Hu5Oailu Oh Ile
womlu>, and Miller, are in custody.
The large oil refinery of Bilell, Lyon & Co.. at
Newark. New Jersey, was destroyed BY fire Thurs.
day. Mr.. Lyon was taken from the ruins burn ed
to char, and lady was seriously injured by an
explosion.
The Sandusky Register refers to new gold discOv
cries in Richand county, Ohio, where mining COM
panies have fallen excitedly at work. and eager
spectators carrying round fake gold aud black
sand in phials.
The Toronto Globe of the 26th. with serious
pride. re crs to the largest oil flow in the world,
shown in the extraordinary yield of the Hendrick 4
we'll in the township Of Dawn. The Oil Springs
Board Of Trade tested the we'll and found it to
yield 70Ia barrels of 80 gallons in one hour.
Cholera has made its appearance at Key West.
General SLOVENIAN has Sc mt troops to Savannah,
| Tennessee, to put down the lawless despcradoes
who nfest the neghborhOod Of the river.
Fourteen Italians were w Wednesday arrested
at Nashville for using counterfeit postal currency
They cloaked their operations under prc.ence OF
apple vending.
During the first week of the past month, over
1000 persons left Ireland for America.
From the news contained in a Trenton dispatch
it would seem that Mr.. Scovillc is the renegade
+. A recent report of the revenue commissioner
shows that five times rs many packages of goods
were imported into New York during the first six
weeks of 1866 as in tho sumo period last year. In
order to prevent panic, the commissioner recon-
mends au increas, Of duties on imports.
William Pierrie, for twenty years commercial ed
itor OF the Philadelphia North American an I'd United
States Gazette, died in that city Sunday.
IN -r
tructive fire known on Oil Creek is raging on
the Egbert and Story farms. The town OF Petro-
leum center is in great danger.
Every Union m IN but ene in the Wisconsin As
senbly, voted Saturday to instruct their Senator
to vote for the civil rights bill, orer the veto o
tho President.
The New York Board of Health have found a
knave of a fellow in Hudson City who has beer
sending large quantity of"pure country milk" L
the Gothamites. concocted after the fol ing de
liciOus recipe: Three parts of water to part
of milk, to which added starch sufficient to Civ,
the mixture proper consistency. and grease enough
to produce the proper oleaginousness, with small
portion of roasted sugar for the purpose Of giving
it a yellowsh or creamy color.
Senator Wright, of New Jersey, is still confined
TO his room, and his recovery is very doubtful.
+ A settled plan ia developing among the Missouri
: Copperheads to Systematically oppose all attempt,
the part Of any person to teach the colored PEG
/ pie.
The two great oil pipes from Ptholc to Titus
vile, distanSe Of nine and quarter miles. Will
fall OF three hundred and eleven feet, have com
Q menced delivery, with capacity of two thousand
barrels day.
A private letter from Central Texas informs
the New York Erening Post, of the 10 b
that the freedmen throughout the States are doing
well. They will make, if the season is good. OIL,
I hundred thousand more bales OF cotton than wer,
). ever produced before in single crop. The freed
men thinking of sending of their mum
Der on to Washington, to act as their agent, bu
their plans are not yet matured.