Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-06-20

St. Petersburg has $4,000 inhabitants

The twelve railroads in New Jersey, sew
en- hundred miles in all, killed seventy nine
persons las, year. rernzf
A Connecticut doctor claims, that can
GERS can be cured by burning them with a
sun glass, tho heat Of the sun having a pc
culiar effect.
| The Buffalo Express is responsible for
the fOllowing:-"One of our printers, who
used TO ettype in the Tribune office, smiled
audibly Yesterday whensOmebody wonder
ed that Horace Greeley could he willing
to let his name go down to pOsterity atfiXcl
TO jeff. Davis bail bonds Horace knows,
he says, that posterity can't read the sig
nature
has opportunity appeared in Kansas,
which is death on grasshoppers."
A new dram,, by Charles A. Reade,
Esq. founded on Alfred Tennyson's poem
of "Dora, was to be produced at the Abel
phi Theater, London.
In the Cincinnati market two inspectors
have been newly appointed. In a few
hours the other day they gathered up a large
quantity of meat, poultry and fish, unfit to
be sold, and threw the whole into the Ohio
river.
Gold closed in New York Saturday at
1875
The Cabinet is said to he evenly divided
on the subject of General Sheridan's reno
ais in Louisiana.
W. r. Stone Chicago commission mer-
chant. has failcl for $4,000 Assets nom
in,lly $4,000. lie may pay forty cents
OF the dollar.
Two boys who played tru, from Sln-
| lav School in Chicago. on SUNDAY last,
and went brihiny in the river, were drowa-
ed.
The First Presbyterian Church ofChicago
has raised a quarter of million OF dollars,
for various purposes, within the past eleven
years
Eight two-story frame buildings were
burned on Harrison street. Chicago, on
Monday afternoon. Loss 100000.
The Washington City Council has organ
lied, appointing colorod reading clerk
and messenger. The Board OF Alderman
have an anii-Rcpublican majority. and ap
pointed all white men to fill the vacancies.
Two OF Governor Wells nephews, one
OF whom was formerly a Supreme Judge
by Wells appointment, murdered a prom
inent Unionist, and also wounded n sheriff,
who was trying to arrest them on Saturday
last.
The shoe trade at Lynn, Massachusetts,
is very dull.
1t is said tina, n number ofpoiticians are
i'm Washington for the purpose of sounding
General Grant on the Presidential question.
Ii Is also said that the General informed
these gentlemen that he did not desire the
nomination himself. bat would be glad 10
see it rendered 10 General Sherman.
Governor Wells has written letter to
the President, protesting against what he
calls Sheridan's usurpation. He has also
written Sheridan letter. in which Inc init
mates that Sheridan skulked on the occa-
sion of the July riots, and further that
Sheridan is malicious slanderer
Alfred King, of No. 80. East 10Th street,
New York, shot and killed his wife on
Friday evening, and then killed himself
Noe e was as i-ne for tie deed. BCtl
retired to bed rs usual, Friday evening,
and not making their appearance in the
morning, the servant girl entered their
room, and found both husband and wife
dead on the bed. \ pistol laid near with
three chambers discargcd.
A citizen of Park county. this State, re-
Gently found in his garden, within space
of about ten By fifteen feet, fifty eight gold
soyereigns. worth about 1885, at the pres
cnt price OF gold. The coins were found
| at a depth not to exceed three inches below
the surface Of the earth, and bear dates
| from 1919 to 1892.
The Marion (Grant county, Jouraot
states that Mrs. Emma Prickett, of that
I neighborhood, committed suicide on the
18th ult.. by shooting herself through the
heart with rifle ball. No reason for her
conduct is known.
| There are now seven turnpikes converg-
ing at Connersyile. A fen years ago there
were but two. The roads in Fayette coun-
ty have been greatly improved within the
last ten years.
4 number of citizens of Fayette county
have been summoned to appear before the
the United States District Court OF Indiana.
| ut Indianap Dlis, to- answer the charge OF
violating the revenue laws.
1 The cholera is reported to be very bad
| in South America.
| The first steamer from Fort Benton ar
| rived at Saint Joseph, Missouri, Friday
with five hundred thousand dollars in gold
| dust.
! 1t is stated that the Loyal League of
New York, made another attempt to expel
Horace Greeley last Friday night but fail
ed.
A former book keeper Of Sing Sing
Prison attempted to kill his wife and then
himself, last Friday.
Gerritt Smith has published long letter
! 10 prove that he would have been incon.is-
| lent if he had refused to sign JEFF. Davis
b0l.d. rn ~C E
| The residence of H. b. Clafllin, one of
the New York merchant princes, was
cleaned OUT Friday night by burglars.
Robert +. Mercer, one of the proprictors
OF the Nashville Press o,nd Times, died
on Tuesday night.
The Washington Chronicle says that it
knows that General Grant no matter what
his views were April l, endorses General
Sheridan for his removal of Governor
Wells.
| The statute Of Washington, taken from
Lexington, Va, during the war by General
Hunter, is to be re-inaugurated at an early
day. General Schofie!d has been invited to
be present.
| The colored people of New York con-
template holding mass meeting with a
view ofinfiuencing the Constitutional Con-
ventjon to strike out the property qualifica-
ton for voters.
Judge Abel, the rebel judge removed in
New Orleans by Sheridan, has written q
long letter to the President charging that
| Shcridan's acts are unconstitutional and
subyersiye of the liberty of the people.
The New York Herald money article