Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-19

harmed:
/ Illinois Central B and E, Lint
Thcmpson's, and the two belonging t.
Mum & Scott, the two owned by Ar
piour, Dole & Co., the Burlington, tn.
Old Iowa, and the Illinois River.
The total amount of grain destroyed il
the fire of the elevators burned is owe
16o,00O,00o bushels. The amount in
store in the remaining elevators is abou
10000, 900
THE COURT HOUSE TO BE REBUILT-CoN
DITIoN OF THE BANKS
The Supervisors of this county met to
day and unanimously passed resolution
to rebuild the Court House at once
As previously stated in these dispatch
es, every dollar of currency and bonds il
the vaults of the banks have been recov
cred. This, added to balances in New
York, leaves them an amount of casf
means equal to forty or fifty pei
cent. 1t is confidently believed that al
least fifty per cent of all the insurance in
volved in the fire will be promptly paid
This insures the collection of at leasi
seventy-five or eighty per cent. of theil
loans by banks
THE TRIBUNE ON THE SITUATION
The Tribune this morning, discussing
the visionary schemes proposed from all
quarters, says there is one way in which
the Government may do US substantial
benefit. The Government must have
public offices here, custom house, post
Office, court rooms, etc, and also bonded
warehouses. These are absolutely and
Immediately necessary. Let Congress
provide Tor these to be Of the most liberal
dimensions and ofthe best class. If Con
gress will appropriate one or two million
OF dollars to begin this work at once, and
order their construction 1t will do more
to restore confidence and stimulate private
enterprise than any unpracticable at
tenpts TO loan people money to back w
stockholders in insurance companies
The fact that Congress has voted five
millions of dollars to build the necessar
Government buildings would be the hes,
tidings to the unemployed laborers of the
city. There are eighty nine newspaper
establishments destroyed in the burnt
districts, embracing dailies and month
| lies.
PosToFFICE MATTERS
This afternoon Postmaster Eastman
addressed his clerks in body. He said
it was his grateful duty to thank them for
their perfect fidelity in time of calamity.
The postmaster General had promptly
telegraphed words of sympathy with the
Postoffice and the people, and also clothed
the Postmaster with requisite authority
and directions looking to the re establish-
ing Of the office
THE NICHOLSON PAVEMENT
A noticeable fact, and one ofimmense I'M
portance in the rebuilding of the city, is
the almost perfect condition in which the
fire has left the Nicholson pavement. The
damage is not so trifling as not to be
worthy of mention The sites of the
pavement on the North Side are almost
unscorched and perfectly free from debris,
and even in the South Division, where
both sides of the streets were lined with
lofty brick and stone buildings, there is
scarcely point where carriage may not
pass through the street Indeed, except
where the buildings were blown up or
partially blown, in the endeavor to stop
the flames, the ruins have almost invaria-
bly, fallen upon their own SITES Appoints
where the pavements were burned at all
the fire only charred the outside, and it is
question whether the process to which
they were subjected will not add to their
durability
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
Evidence is accommodating that the loss
of life is greater than we have ventured to
estimate, and the great number of persons
still searching for missing members of
families confirm the statement.
AFFECTING SCENES.
There are many of these missing at Re
lief Headquarters, at the Congregational
church, where affecting incidents are con-
stantly occurring.
A Swedish mother found there safe and
newly clothed her five little children. At
first she tainted dead away, and then re-
covering embraced her rescued darlings
with a fervor which belongs only to a
mother
Last evening a German father who was
able to speak only few words of broken
English, was donducthed to rooom
where he found his four children
He danced for JOY, and very tenderly lift
ing up the youngest, an infant, lying
asleep on lounge, he kissed it again and
again, and said "Komt home zu mutter,
then seeing it was wrapped in nice
blanket, he commenced to remove it. The
Superintendent told him he could keep it.
This generosity was more than he could
understand, and he insisted upon return
ing it. Similar scenes are of hourly oc-
currence, but, alas, many have searched
and will search in vain for their missing
loved ones. The general agents of the
Etna are, as before stated, adjusting and
paying losses.
THE FATE OF a MARAUDER.
On the way back spring wagon with
the booted foot of a man sticking out be-
hind is encountered. Inquiry reveals the
fact that the owner of the boots was found
shot through the brain, very probably by
one of Allen Pinkerton's police. in con-
formity with his printed order in bad Eng
fish and worse grammar, and was in tran
sit to the Morgue for Identification
REMAINS or A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
| A spring wagon was seen this forenoon
returning from the ruins bearing the
corpse of young woman, taken from the
lower room of brick residence, evidently
of the better class, which had escaped to.