Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-07-06
News Items.


The Store of A. A. White, at Turin, N.
Y, was robbed of $4,000 in bonds, on
morning.
General John A. Dix and Azariah c.
Flagg are the sole relicts of the Albany
Regency, since the death of Edwin Cros-
well.
The LaGrange Wnd.) County murderer,
Barnes, is still alive, but has not eaten
anything for several days, and is sinking
rapidly.
John J. Dickey, Superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad Telegraph, is
stopping few d1ys with his father, at
Ottawa, Ill.
The Virginia papers are talking about
a colored woman named Nash. who is the
mother of seventeen children, though only
% years old.
Judge Stanly has overruled Judge
Sawyer, of San Francisco, and decided
that keno-is an unlawful game, it being "a
game of chance"
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker has for
saken the platform for the pulpit, and
breaches acceptably in Hartford church
during the absence of the regular occu-
pant.
General Burnside addressed the mer-
chants of Cincinnati, on Change, on Ju-
ly LIST, in behalf of the Cincinnati & Cairo
Railroad. He wants subscription
to $3.50, 1000 to 100000.
1t is reported that the wheat crop at
Pembina, in the Red River country, is a
failure. Red River traders are buying
flour in st. Cloud, Mimi, for consump-
ton on Manitoba.
Saturday being Dominion Day, it was
kept as close holiday throughout Cana
da. The weather was splendid, and there
were races, picnics, excursions, &c, in all
tnc pIinCipdl cltlcS.
At Ladoga, last Saturday, son. about
is years old, of Daniel Higgings, had been
with pistol, shooting chick
ems, at a mark, etc, and, subsequently,
pointed it at his step-sister, aged about 3,
and fired, supposing it empty. But such
was not the case, and the shot struck the
little girl in the forehead, inflicting a
wound from which she died in an hour.
a correspondent writes to the Sullivan
Union that two little girls, daughters of
DR.. William a. Dowpey, of PatOka, were
sent to kindle fire in the kitchen-stove,
on the Goth ult. After the fire had been
started, the girls, desiring to hurry it up,
poured on coal oil from the can, as they
had seen the hired girl do. The fluid
throwing the flame and oil
over the girls, burning them so badly that
both died in few hours. Their ages
were Q and IL years.
Superintendent Morley, of the South
ern Express Company, states that, after a
weeks search, eight negroes who threw
the express safe off a train, near Mendian.
Miss, and then robbed it, were arrested,
and are now in the Warren, Miss. Jail.
All Of the $4,000 stolen was recovered,
except about 800. Some of the party
were arrested in Montgomery, others in
Mobile, and in the mountains of Ala
bama. They had regularly organized
band.
In New Orleans. a jury wholly COM
posed of blacks has tried and convicted
two men for the murder of Mrs. Sallinger.
This is the first instance of trial OF capt.
tai case by colored jury. No white men
who had not formed or expressed an opin-
ion, could be obtained, and the choice OF
the negroes was a dernir resort The
press had fully reported the particulars of
the crime, but as the negroes could not
read, they remained in blissful ignorance,
and were therefore available as jurors.
Louisiana planters appear to be well
satisfied with Chinese labor. They have
formed al immigration Company, with a
capital of $3.50, 900, and secured one thou
stand Chinese, selected from the agricul.
tural districts of China The Celestials
are to be paid IS month in gold, on con-
tracts running from eight to ten years
The planters say those they now employ
are claen, industrious, and neat workmen,
and live in perfect harmony with the ne
groes. 1t is not improbable that the
Southern States will eventually have a
large population of Chinese.
The late Indian council at Ocmulget
re affirmed the constitution of last year.
Nearly, If not all the tributes of the In
dian Territory were represented. The
were conducted with consid-
cradle ability, and the utmost harmony
prevailed. The Indians promised that
murderous raids on the whites should
cease. They appeared anxious to enjoy
the benefits of civilization; and though
entire security is not expected, the Red
skins will doubtless behave better under
q gov srnment of their own than they have
hitherto under our surveillance. The ex-
pertinent is at least worth making.
DIR. Kirk, the friend of DR. Livingstone,
says the licensed slave trade on the east
coast of Africa is in fourishing condi-
ton, under the regulations of the British
The Islands of Zanzibar and
Pemba, and various coast towns, are sup
piled with negro slaves, and two thousand
are annually furnished to the northern
Arabs, without license. In British
Guiana, the apprentice system, under gov
eminent regulations, is said to be much
more degrading and oppressive bondage
than the slaves of Brazil endure. In view
of these facts many will conclude that
England's colonial policy is dictated less
by principle than by motives of interest.
The FIJI islanders are at their old work
auain-killinc and eating each other