Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-17

lost, and several narrow escapes took
place.
Jefferson Davis left Fortress Monroe on
the 11th and arrived in Richmond the
same afternoon for trial before Judge Tn
derwOod. Large numbers were present at
the landing of the boat, but there was no
demonstration,-nO cheering or kissing.
Davis was taken to the SpOltswo0d Hotel,
where he had private parlOrs, and received
about hundred of the prominent citizens
of Richmond during the evening. On the
18th he was brought before Judge Under
wood, and was admitted to bail in the sum
of $4,000 TO appear for trial at the No
vember term of court Horace Greeley,
Augustus Schell and John Minor Bolts are
among the names on his bond. There was
most hearty and forcible cheer whes the
Judge directed the Marshal to release the
prisoner, and for moment or two there
was great struggle on the part of those
anxious to extend congratulations. Davis
announces that he will visit New York i'm
medIately; from thence it is understood
he will go to Canada, where his children
are, unless he determines to have them
meet him in New York After seeing them
he will return to Mississippi. His friends
announce that he will live as quietly and
secluded as possible during the summer
and fall.
Hon. A. c. Hunt has been appointed
| Governor of Colorado.
A company of troops is reported to have
been defeated. and forty of their number
killed by the Indians, in Arizona,
The reported massacre of the crew of
the Steamboat Miner" on the Upper Mis-
souri,, proves to have been an unfounded
hoax.
Moses A. Hawks, who is charged with
having murdered his wife to get the insur-
ance on her life, has been indicted at 81.
Paul for murder in the first degree.
A most terrific boiler explosion occurred
on the 18th inst, on the steamer Lansing,
about ten miles above Rock Island Six
persons were killed outright, and six more
injured.
In st. Louis, on the Sth, the planks sup
porting derrick on the scaffold in front of
the Lindell Hotel, used in taking down the
walls of that building, broke and precipi-
tated four men from the fifth story to the
pavement, two of whom were instantly
killed.
The mystery of the disappearance OF
Robert A. Cook, who was stopping at the
Merchants Hotel, in Chicago, on the night
of its destruction by fire, has at last been
solved by the finding of his body among
the ruins on the 18th inst. He was about
80 years Of age, and had been for some
years a clerk in the employ of The Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad
Company, but was at the time Of his death
looking for employment. His family re-
sides at Joliet.
Twenty -four distilleries have been seized
in New York during the past three or
four days, for violations of the Internal
Revenue law.
Early on the morning of the 18th, thirty
five horses were sutfocated to death by
fire in the stable of J. r. Halsey, corner of
Broadway and Twenty-sixth street, New
York
A prize fight took place on the 9th, in
Bergen county, New jersey, between VIII
liam Kelley and John Grady. One hun
dred and eighteen rounds were fought in a
scientific manner, lasting three hours and
ten minutes, and both men were pummellod
shockingly, when a general fight ensued
among the spectators, and the referee with
drew, making the contest draw.
The Common Council of the city of
Philadelphia have recently enacted
measure which is eminently worthy of
adoption throughout the entire country
Councilman Stanton, at a late meeting, of
fered resolution providing that no child
should be admitted to the public schools of
that city without evidence of having been
vaccinated within seven years of the
date of application, which resolution was
adopted.