Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.


teenth annual session at Macon City.
Attendance immense.
AN effort will be made by members
of both Houses to adjourn the session
to-day. Vice President Colfax and
family have left Washington for their
home in the West.
The Secretary of the Interior has
appointed G. r. Marvin, of Ohio, Isaac
Fl. Wing, and M. Fl. McCord, of Wis
consin, to appraise the Menomonee In
dian lands near Green Bay, Wis. These
lands are to be sold, but not under the
appraisement.
THE Senate confirmed the following
nominations on the 18th: James III.
Baker, of Minnesota, Commissioner of
Pensions. Postmasters-S. h Shoe
maker, Dewitt, Iowa 81. r. Cowles,
Washington, Iowo; James Davidson,
Monticello, Iowa.
A WASHINGTON dispatch to the New
/ York Post SAYS: "The British High
Commissioners have received dispatch
es from their Government approving
the treaty recently made by the High
Commissioners for the settlement of the
Alabama claims question"
| The East.
A New YORK telegram says: The
downward tendency in rents and real
estate is very evident. Fewer transfers
of real estate have taken place during
the past month than during any simi-
lar period for several years, and the
actual number of such transfers has
been less than one half of the number
on record for the same month last year.
Rents are lower than at any time since
the war;"
HANNAH PERRY, of New York, sues
Henry Middlemass, of California, in
the United States District Court of
California, for 5000, for breach of
promise.
The New York Free Press, begun as
the organ of the Young Democracy.
eight months ago, has just gone up
also 100000.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has left Salt Lake
City on visit to the South.
MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, of New York,
has secured the control and presidency
of the Texas Pacific Railway Company
A TELEGRAM from Peoria, ILL.,. SAYS
fruit in that vicinity is not injured as
much rs supposed. The more tender
buds were killed, but cherries and most
apples are uniniured.
VEsINA & Co., auctioneers in San
Francisco, have failed. Their liabili-
ties are reported at $3.50, 600, and assets
under 100000. The indebtedness is
mostly in Eastern houses.
The south.
THE Mississippi river is reported
within two inches of the high water
mark of 1862 Uneasiness is felt at
New Orleans in regard to the levees.
THE colored people of the District
of Columbia on the 18th celebrated the
annivers Try of the emancipation of the
slave by mass meeting and procession.
As the procession, in the line of its
march, approached the executive man.
sion, the President came out and stood
upon the portico, and was loudly
cheered.
A FIRE at Bangor, Me-, on the 21st,
destroyed seven building.
A NEW hotel at La coma, N. H., vas
burned on the 21st. Loss $35, ,000--in-
surance $4,000.
A FIRE at Sedalia, No., on the 18th,
destroyed property belonging to j.. r.
Staley & Co., and others, valued from
sixty to seventy thousand dollars.
Obituary.
WM. III. SMITH, a well-known actor,
died in ST. Louis on the 21st.
GENERAL EDUMoNT, recently appoint
ed Governor of Idaho, died at Indian
apolis ON the 10th.
Crimes and Casualties.
TWELVE convicts have escaped from
the Nebraska State Prison, at Lincoln.
THE police of Chicago arrest parties
who play ball on the Sabbath, within
the city limits.
THE body of man supposed to have
been murdered was found two miles
west of Salt Lake City, on the 2lst.
TIMER named Lloyd c. Williams
was run over by street car in Chicago,
Thursday evening, and instantly killed
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD LAD, named James
Kelly, fell into privy vault at Chica-
go, on the 21st, and was suffocated to
death.
STANLEY, charged with the murder of
Patterson, at Ames, Iowa, last June,
has been found guilty of murder in the
first degree.
A GERMAN fifty years of age, named
Hans Gabriel, attempted to commit
suicide at Chicago, yesterday, by shoot
ing himself through the side and head.
At last accounts he was still alive.
A MUlsDERoUs affray between Jacob
A. Leist and his son Peter, aged IL,
took place on the 15t 1, four miles east
of Circleville. Ohio, IN which the son
cut his father in the back with an ak,
severins the spinal cord.
OK the 18th Deputy United States
Marshsls Burke and John Armstrong
attempted to arrest two illicit distillers
named Cimeroll, living near Sparta, in
White county, Tenn. They resisted,
disarmed the Marshals, and beat them
on the heads with their iron pivots, and
fracturing Armstrong; skull in three
and Burke's in two places. Neither is
expected to survive.
MARTIN CABRERA, ex-President of Mex
leo, is dead.
i GEN. SANCHEZ OCHoA has been ap-
pointed Minister to Washington from
Mexico
FIFTY-Two Mexican journals advocate
the re election of Juarez, forty favor
Diaz, and ten have pronounced for
Teieda.
MENoTrI GARIP ALDI has been elected
a member of the Commune. The cleo
tions were .fasco, but few persons
voting.
THE Germans have occupied st.
Queen-sur-Seine, two kilometres south
of st. Denis and seven kilometres from
Paris
A RUMoR is afoat that the represen-
tatives of the United States, England
and Italy are jointly urging the Paris
Commune to agree to a truce.
THREE hundred insurgents who inva-
ded the jurisdiction of Romedias from