Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-11-22
NEWS ITEMS.

The mortality and sufferingin India from
famine have been frightful.
The Exchange Bank at Muncie, Indiana
was robbed Sunday night, of twelve thous-
and dollars in currency and six thousand
dollars in bonds. The robbers escaped.
The Republican majority in Missouri is
in the neighborhood of thirty thousand
Hon. Hirman V. Wilson, United States
District Judge of the Northern District
of Ohio, died Sunday evening, November
18th, of consumption.
A Late Washington dispatch says r. NJ. T.
Hunter, of Virginia, arrived there yesterday
II is understood that he is looking after
his pardon. His, with some hundred and
fifty other applications of prominent men
who figured in the rebellion, are hung up
and likely to be for some time.
The new Captain General of Cuba is mi
mical to the African slave trade and seem:
determined to suppress it.
The National Cemetery at Fredricks-
burg, Va, isabout completed. The graves
will number 1900.
A Leavenworth dispatch SAYS that five
| tive by the Kerow Indians. were delivered
to the commanding officer at Fort Larned
recently.
Southern men in Washington are said to
he expecting new amnesty proclamation
from the President. which will make nc
exceptions, and embrace the release of jeff
Davis.
The officicial vote of Delaware, for Gov.
crnor, gives Salisbury. Democrat, I.2I2m
iority. Nicholson, Democratic Congress
man. has $50 majority.
The Navy Department has received adj
vices from the Gulf Squadron, showing
that the great salt works at Turks Island.
have been wholly destroyed by a severe
storm.
Official returns of the late election in
New York will. il is thought, increase Fen
tons majority to $4,000. Senator Harris.
Governor Fenton and Horace Greeley are
the most prominent Republican candidates
for United States Senator.
4 Washington dispatch says that those
who are best informed on the subject of
our Mexican relations, are Of the opinion
that the present negotiations will end in
the United States establishing a protector
ate over the Mexican territory.
The clerk of the ST. Louis County Court
has issued to Frank Blair certificate of
election 10 the State Legislature. His com
petitor, Colonel Branscombe. will contest
his right to the seat. and it is thought will
succeed.
The President has informed the Mssis-
sipi delegation that he cannot grant their
prayer for the release of jeff Davis al pres
ent. Nevertheless. the delegates were as
sured that the arch traitor should BE- sun
piled with every possible comfort.
Judge Barton has rendered a decision
in the habeas corpus case at Baltimore
growing but of the arrest and commitment
OF Governor SwanG's Commissioners The
decision says the arrest was understandable
and sustains the action of the Governor
The Government now holds lightweight
millions of dollars in gold, deducting
the amount remaining unpaid of the No
yember interest.
The President has information. not very
reliable that the Fenians are projecting an
other invasion of Canada.
J. NJ. Norihcuit, prominent merchant
OF Decatur, Illinois, hung himself the
18th, in fit ofinSanity, caused by financial
General Geo III. Thomas and the rebel
General lloOd-the victor and the van
luished-dined together on the nth at the
Louisville Hotel.
Last week one thousand stand of arms
were stolen from the armory in Washing |
on City. This exploit was performed |
while the guards were on duty.
The complexion of the Missouri Legisla-
ure is as follows: Senate. Republicans ~; |
Democrats :. House. Republicans 81: Dem
'crats 80. The majority on joint ballot
rill be G6.
II is estimated that twenty-five hundred
hangcs in Postmasters in the Northern
nd Western States have occurred since
he first of July.
At the Toronto trials, on the nth. two
prisoners, Daniel Whelan and John Quinn,
we're both found guilty, and sentenced to
,e hung on the 18th of December.
An unknown woman committed suicide
n Chicago, on the nth. by placing herself
IN a railway track. The arrangement sue
.eied. A train passing shortly after ran
,ver the unfortunate women, who was lit
rally torn into fragments.
The Society of the Army of the Tennes-
zee met on the l4th, at Mozart Hall, Gin
'innati, pursuant to previous announce
nent. General Rawlings was elected Pres
dent. There was large attendance and
.reat cordially prevailed.
Matters at Baltimore arc rapidly assum-
ne their wonted condition of quiet and |
,rder. and the old commissioners and their
all manifest disposition to
lcpuiesce is the decision of Judge Bartol.
There are n number of candidates for
he vacancy in the .Judgeship of the Uni
ed States District Court for Northern Ohio,
accustomed by the death of Judge Wilson.
Among the number of applicants are
J. Dickman, +. T. R.ckus, Sher-
ock J. Andrews and others.
Rev. DR. jerks. the wcll-known clergy
nan, died in Boston on the Lth, at the adj
Ianced age of eighty-eight years. He
graduated at Harvard University 1891, and
IF the class in which he graduated there is
low hut one surviving member, lion. Hor-
ice Binney, of Philadelphia.