Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-15
The West.

The West.
The State Board of Agriculture, by a
vote of 10 to 4, decided to hold the next
Indiana State Fair at the City of Terra
Haute.
On the 18th, the Lower House Of the Mis-
souri, Legislature passed bill to amend
the Constitution so as to allow negroes TO
vote-ayes 20, noes &c.
Judge Lambert, of ST. Paul, has decided
to hold Hawkes. for trial on charge of muir
dering his wife. The prisoner was much
disappointed, as he was confident Of ac-
quittal
Samuel Bornpcrt, brute of East Des
Moines, Iowa, whipped his little nephew Of
six years almost to death, on the 18th, with
black-snake whip. he has been arrested
and his trial is now in progress
Some students at Athens Ohio, Uni
versity attempted, on the night Of the 18th,
to snake the faculty out of their quarters
"a prank that resulted in the expulsion
of five hitherto blameless students
The cold snap of the 18th and 18th, in
the Western and Northwestern States
proves to have been the coolest of the sea-
son, and it is feared will injure the fruit
crop in many localities.
The Convention of Wisconsin publish
ers called at Madison, on the 18Th to con-
slider the project of establishing paper
mill under their independent paper mo-
nopoly, is failure--only two or three at
tending.
A Mr. Edward O. Perry has brought a
suit against the proprietor of the Daily
Wisconsin newspaper, published in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, claiming $40, 00O
damages for an alleged libel published
| by the defendants sometime in January
| last.
On the night of the Sth, Michael Spar
young man about twenty years old, was
stabbed and killed in Chicago by an aban-
doned woman named Emma Humboldt
Mollie Trussellis not hanged, but her spirit
is evidently marching on.
The body of female, in an advanced
Stage Of decomposition, was found, on
| Tuesday night, the 18th, on sand-bar in
the river, opposite the town Of AtcLison,
Kansas 1t had been terribly mutilated by
dogs, the gathering of which round the
carcass LED to its discovery.
The Legislature of Wisconsin having
| refused TO grant permission for the con-
struction Of bridge across the Mississippi
at Winona, Mimi, the Legislature of Min
nesota has refused to grant permission for
the construction of bridge across the
river at La Crosse This is the rule of
lit for tat"
On Monday, the 10Th, three men attempt
cd to cross the Skunk river near Washing
ton. Iowa, in small skiff which was upset
by the Ice in the river One of tho men
was carried over a mill-da and drowned
another got out, but was so thoroughly
chilled that he dropped down dead while
walking home and the third, though res
cued from the water, is not expected to re-
cover.
The law fixing eight hours as legal
days work in the State of Illinois, provides
that on and after the first day of May, 1867,
eight hours of labor, between the rising
and setting Of the sun, in all mechanical
trades, arts and employments. and other
cases of labor and service by the day,
except in farm empioyments, shall consti.
tute and be legal days work, where there
is no special contract or agreement to the
contrary
The greatest flood that has been known
formany yearsi is causing great destruction
Of property along the Ohio and its tribu-
taries. The value of property destroyed
in East Tennessee is estimated at $4,000.
600. A dispatch from Cairo announces a
serious crevasse at Mound City onthe 18th,
in consequence of which the town was
being flooded with the superabundant
waters. Shawneetown and many other
points between Cairo and Cincinnati are
reported inundated
On the 10Th inst, two brothers, Jacob
and Johnston Barnock, of Larcoxie Mo,
said to he persons Of high standing and
fine education, had an encounter with pis-
tolls, by which one was killed and the other
wounded beyond hope of recovery. The
quarrel grew out Of an old feud, and when
they met, they emptied two revolvers each,
and then clinched and beat each other in
horrible manner with the butts of their
pistols They continued in this horrible
work until they fell apart from sheer ex-
haustion.
The East.
The Bankers and Merchants Gift
Enterprise in New York has been closed
up by the police and all the clerks put
under arrest.
The first number of the Co1ored Ken
tuckian, paper dated and published In
Louisville, By colored men, made its ap
pearance on the 9th.
A decision has just bceu given in the SUI
preme court of New York, that United
States Legal Tender notes are, in law,
money, and as such liable to taxation.