Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-03-19
News Items.

tried upon the New York canals.
is announced that a company ha
been formed in Syracuse to build
steam tug and apply it to a new plal
for towing on the Erie Canal. TIL,
tug is to tow canal beats in trains
1t is claimed that the new method
will reduce by one half the cost O
freighting and the length of time
between Buffalo and New York.
Richard Bullymore, Buffalo porl
dealer. recently called his men into
his Office, and having read over
statement of his business for the pas
year, first deducted ten per cent for
the capital invested, and then divi
ded the balance Of the profits be
tween himself and twenty-five O
those who had been longest in hi,
employment. The sum divided
amounted in the aggregate to :
months salary for each.
The safe in J. III. Wilson's DRUG
store, at Mishawaka, Ind, was bro
ken open, on Friday morning last
and $1,000 taken therefrom-S1 300
of which belonged to Mr.. Whitson
and the balance to other parties
The safe was of the Herring patent
and was broken open with railroad
pick and cold chisels. So silently
was the work done that a man, who
slept in an adjoining room, was no,
awakened. The robbers have not
yet been discovered.
A curious point has arisen under
the assumed probability that negroes
will be elected to Congress from
some Of the Southern States. The
point is, when does a negro, or col
orcd man, become 4 citizen ? This
date must determine his admissibilty
as a Representative or Senator.
The constitution requires that, to be
member of the House, the person
shall have been for seven years, and
to be Senator for nine years citi-
zen of the United States.
A great sale of real estate took
place in New York on Tuesday.
The amount of property sold was
nearly S1,500,OOO. Among the lots
sold were several on Fifty ninth
street, adjoining the Central Park.
A lot on tie southwest corner of
Sixth. avenue and Fifty ninth street,
% by 100 feet 5 inches, brought the
enormous sum of $4,000. The
whole estate to which this lot belong
ed. comprising some acres, was of
fered in 1S4S for Sc, 500.
Forrest, Of Fort Pillow notoriety,
is insuring lives in Memphis.
Some years ago, Mr.. Miller,
cashier of bank at Jackson, Ten
nessee, was murdered and the bank
robbed of $4,000 in gold and 81, 500
in paper money. The murder and
occurred after night, and
the murderer escaped. The affair
remained involved in mystery until
Walker. who was lynched last week
in Maury County, in the same State,
was captured. Just before he was
hanged, he confessed the murder and
and stated that he was only
eighteen years of age when he per-
petrated the crime.
The Memphis Avalanche Of the
18th says: We have taken some
pains to ascertain the prospects of
the wheat crop in Middle Tennessee
and North Mississippi. All accounts
are highly encouraging except from
very low, narshy land in the bot
toms. The apprehension that the
wheat crop was injured by the Sc
verify of the winter. is now general
ly conceded to be ill-grounded
There is every reason to believe that
an excellent crop will be harvested,
and rs a much greater breadth of
land was sown than ever before, the
yield will undoubtedly be unprecen-
dentedly large. 1t is probable that
abundance will he raised to supply
the local demand.
The President has telegraphed
General Hancock to come to Wash
ington, ard some solicitude is felt
by the alarmists lest the Pre- sident
contemplates forcible coup d'efat
1t is said that the President has
announced his intention of taking
the stump to appeal to the people if
the Senate should convict him.
Rev. Mr.. Tyng, Jr., received his
public reprimand Sunday in the
Church Of TRANSPORTATION in New
York. The reprimand was pronoun-
ced by Bishop Potter in the presence
Of an immense audience. Mr.. Tying
received the infection with the ut
most apparent composure.
On Friday last two Germans, one
named Kinney, and the other un-
known, hired a man named Marsh to