Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-03-22
INDIANA ITEMS.

Destructive FIRE.-The las. Peru Republican
says: About one O'Clock las. Saturday morning,
the Magnolia Iouse-lately the Adams House
at the corner Of Second and Miami Streets,
discovered to be on fire. and the destructive ele-
ment had made considerable Roadway before the
alarm was sounded. The building wa, wholly Of
wood-thoroughly seasoned, and very combustble.
aud its destruction at the time the engine was on
the ground ready for action, was foregone
conclusion. Is impossible Re save il, and
the energies Of the firemen and citizens were d.
rectcd to the protection of adjoining buildings, and
successfully. No other building was injured
The Commissioners of kosiusko, Miami Fay
cite and several other counties in the State refused
at the late term to grant license to any more ap-
plicants to retail sprituous and malt liquors.
The LaPortc Herald says that J B Bcliord o!
hat city will not be candidate for Circuit, Pros.
ecutor, but that L. A. Cole will.
RELEASED. Logansport Journal otSatur-
day says: Mr.. Farley. late Treasurer Of Pulaski
county who has been confined in our Jail on a
charge of robbins the present Treasurer of that
county. was released last week. as the Grand
Jury failed to find an Indictment against him.
HIcu wArrRs--The same paper remarks that
the heavy rains Of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
have set the Wabash and Eel rivers upon a ram
page. They are higher than they have been for
several years. Considerable damage has,resulted
in that vicinity. Uhl and Cheneys race bank on
Eel river, is most Of it washed away. Thirty
feet of the dam above Forest Mills is gone, and a
portion of Richardson's new Paper Mill, on the
Wabash carried of.
! DnowsED-From the Journal We also learn
thata son of Michael Martin, aged about IA year.
while helping his father catch drift wood. or
"Wednesday the 18th, thrown into the river
by the giving way Of portion Of the abutment Of
the lower Eel river dam, and drowned.
MrRDErcus AssAULr.--On Tuesday, John Sprin
kle, returned soldier, met young German Car
penter named John Boehmer on Market street
between Fourth and Bridge, and asked him if hi
knew where James Henry lived. Boehmer re
piled that he did not. Sprinkle said to him, "you
are liar and drawing stone from under hi:
vest, struck Boehmer several blows, cutting hi:
head and arm severely. Boehmer dropped his
tools aud fled. Sprinkle then picked up hatche,
which Boehmer had dropped, and crossed over TO
John Kane's shoe shop, where several persons
: were standing, some oil whom laughed when BOeh
mer ran. Some words were passed. when Sprinkle
struck John Kane with the Ratchet upon the head
fracturing his skull, and iniictng wound which
seriously endangered kane's life. struggle en-
eued, in which several Pers ons were slightly woun
ded, and Sprinkle was very roughly handled
Sprinkle bound over in the sum o. 81 900 and
is now lying in jail suffering from his Wounds
Bad whiskey was at the bottom of the whole af
fair-Loeansporf Journal.
All the ,owlands between Evansville and Vim
cennes are completely inundated with water, ant
all the .mal! streams, creeks, &C., have over
flowed their banks. White and Wabash river:
are reported rising very fast, 1t is thought tina,
all the low lands along these rivers will be entire
ly oyerfowed
In the constrained absence OF officers Dodd
Bowles and Milligan, the Ordnance Bureau of the
X. G.. c.. was well and worthily represented il
the Convention of yesterday, by ID. w. Voorhees,
of twenty thousand-rife memory.-IEd. Jour.
18th.