Marshall County Republican., 1868-06-11
News Sum nm ary.

News Sum mary.
Indiana sent the tallest average of SOL
diers to the army.
-Four million emigsants have landed
in New York within twenty years.
Chicago will put down twenty miles
Of Nicholson pavement this summer.
The Mayor OF Brooklyn estimates the
expenses of that city next year at S3,l40,-
600.
There are but fifty three stoc ckholders
in the Union Pacific Railroad.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the
Saratoga County National Bank of Water
ford are circulating.
"A printing press has been established
in Siam under the auspices of the govern
ment. The printers are Englishmen.
Rev. John G. Lyon, founder of the
German Methodist Church in America,
died on the 22d, at Baltimore.
THE Revolution" is The title of new
weekly of sixteen pages, devoted to the
rights of women.
The trial of Jefferson Davis was again
deferred, according to the programme
heretofore arranged, till next October.
Mcclellan has written a letter favor
ing the nomination of Chase by the Dcmoc-
racy, and expressing desire that some
other man than himself should run.
The German Turner's of the Lockout
Mountain District, at their annual meeting
in Nashville, which closed .ast night, raii-
fed the Radical resolutions adopted by
the North American Turner Band at its
late meeting in Boston.
e. ID. Powell, negro, was shot and
fatally wounded in Memphis, on Saturday
night, by q desperate named Charles. Nc
Scnsncy, in a row about dogs.
The Germans of San Francisco have
received an acknowledgment of the re-
ceipt Of sc, ,0C0 in gold heretofore forwar-
ded to Berlin for the relief Of sufferers
1t is said that George Washington
presided over the FIRST anti slavery meeting
ever held in this country, in 1898.
Elder Knapp claims to have convert
ed 100 900 souls, and is sure he has bap
tised 5000 bodies.
The town of Kent, Newton county, is
to be changed in name 10 Kensland, upon
the sug question of Schuyler Colfax.
The Terre uaute Journal is franti-
cally mad at Hendricks. II says within
the past year he has not sent one hundred
public documents to that part OF the State.
The Atiica Ledger says gold aud
copper has been found in Warren county.
The Brazil furnaces are making 90 tons
of pig iron daily.
The lithograph stone found in Harri-
son county has been tested and meets al.
the requirements. Extensive preparations
are being made to quarry it.
-Germania Masonic Lodge, at South
Bend, has copy Of the original transla-
ton of the Bible by Martin Luther, printed
at Wittemburgh in l6i2--two hundred
and fifty-six years ago.
Gen. Buchanan ha, issued an orderde
claring the result of the election in Louis
lana. 1t announces that the State Govern
ment is provisional until the Fourteenth
Article shall have become part of the
Constitution of the United States. The
Legislature is not to assemble till the State
Constitution shall have been accepted by
Congress.
-Ex-president Buchanan died at bis
residence at wheatland, Lancaster county,
Pa, Monday. Mr.. Buchanan was born in
Franklin county, Pa, April 22, 1871, and
was consequently IN his seventy eighth
year at The time ofhis death. His death
was from no special malady, but simply
from old age.
Tho report in circulation 10 the effect
covered reading Fenian papers, few days
ago, was seized and logged and his con-
fincment rendered more irksome, Is denied
by the authorities of the penitentiary.
Great excitement existed at last ac-
counts, in Honduras and Nicarauga, on
account Of the renewal of British preten-
sions to the ownership Of Mosquito terri
tory. The United States Government was
expected to interfere to prevent such
claims.
Tho steamer Princess, from T.ondor,
with government freight for Fort Steven
son, was sunk in the Missouri River, about