Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-08-13

ists......Salnave still held his own in Pon !
an Prince, and is said to be gaining ground
in the interior.
We learn that forty or fifty head of cat
tie have died within short time past, in
the vicinity of Franccsville, with disease
that battles remedy. Some think that the
stock dying were infected by contact with
Mexican cattle, a lot of which were lately
brought into that ncighborhood. The SIM
gular fatality attending all that take the
plague has alarmed stock owners, who
have yet been unable 20 correctly define
the disease
A man named Forsyth was st,lng TO.
death by bees few days ago, in Masking
um county. He and another named Tolan
were driving some horses through yard,
close 10 some beehives, and the bees
swarmed out upon the horses Forsythe
fought them off with brushes, when they
came at him, attacking him on all sides
and singing him furiously. After finally
driving them away, with the help of his
companion, he lay down upon the house
for water, which Tolan proceeded 20
fetch, but, on returning from the well, he
found Forsythe dead. He was a large
and fleshy man.
Gen. Candy takes command at Wash
ington nc yt week.
Western cattle are just now down in the
Eastern market.
The Florida Legislature adjourned on
Thursday night.
A vessel with yellow fever on board is
in quarantine at Boston.
Mary Aim Schultz took a prize for rifle
shooting at Philadelphia on Thursday.
Her name should have complimentary
change by adding '.well;" for it seems that
Mary Ann Schultz well.
General Flcury has issued circular
calling for the purchase of additional sup
plies of horses for the army.
n Montreal dispatch says that Mederlc
Lanchot has organized new association
for the independence of Canada.
Minister Bullingame and the Chinese
Embassy will arrive in Boston on the 2Gih.
They will be escorted into the city by the
First Brigade, and will he received by
Governor Bullock and Mayor Schurtliff
A grand banquet will be given in their
honor on the evening of the Dist by the
merchants of this city.
The annual convention OF the ST. Johns
Baptist Societies of the United States,
which last year was held in Troy, is this
year to be held in Springfield, Massachu-
sets, on the 18th and 10th ofOciober.
Accounts from Rome represent a num-
Der of descrtiOns of the foreign volunteers
from the papal service.
Five thousand Havana cigars were sciz-
cd by the United States Marshal, yester-
day, in New York, for non-paymen, of du-
ties.
Secretary Scholicld has issued an order
by which several clerks in the Quarter
master Generals Office were dismissed.
Til cholera has entirely disappeared
from Havana.
\ public meeting in behalf of the suffer
ers by the late flood III Maryland, was held
last evenining at Washington.
The Italian Government has agreed TO
pay that portion of the debt of the former
Papal provinces which is held in France.
and look TO those provinces for reimburse
mcnt
4 Paris letter says that France, Bclgi-
um and Holland have arranged for Mill
airy and Commercial Convention, and will
probably be joined hy Sweden, Norway
and Denmark.
The contracts arc completed for laying
the French Atlantic Cable next year
-Four ships will accompany the Great
Eastern.
Nearly all the Catholic churches Of
Montreal have been robbed of gas fixtures,
piping, &c.
The Cretans, il is stated, have sent Il re-
quest for help TO Queen Victoria.
Numerous burglaries have been COM
mi.ted in Columbus recently.
\ strike of the jourreymen bakers in
Vienna was threatedcd on the 3Uih.
The Emperor Napoleon has established
his court for the season at Fontainbleau.
The worm is doing great injury TO The
crop in in South Carolina and Florida.
Three thieves hailing from Cincinnati arc
in Jail at Columbus for robbing merchants