Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.


widows of Revolutionary soldiers.
+ The new ocean steamer Oceanic, OF
the White Star Line, is second in size
to the Great Eastern.
THE peach, apricot, and cherry trees
III the orchards around Alton were In
bloom this spring fully one month earli-
er than last year.
No fat men are to be taken by Cap
tain Hall In his Arctic expedition, they
being less capable than lean ones OF
standing the intense cold.
THE Legislature of Michigan has ap
propriated $4,000 for temporary
building for the use of the State Off
GERS, and $4,000 for the erection of
a new State capitol
The West.
! PUBLIC temperance meetings will
hereafter be held every Sabbath after
noon in Farwell Hall, Chicago.
THE White Stockings, of Chicago, de.
feated the Lone Stars, of New Orleans,
IN a game of base ball at the latter city,
on the 26th, by score of nine to six
Ir is stated that the impeachment tri-
! al of Gov. Butler, of Nebraska, will
result in his conviction. The vote, il
is said, will stand nine for conviction
and four for acquittal.
A JURY in the circuit court at Wheat
on, Illinois, two or three days ago, rem.
dered a verdict against the Chicago
City Railway Company and one of its
conductors for So, 900, in favor of JAS
r. Henry, who was elected from one
of the company's cars by the conductor,
On the Goth of December, 1869, under
circumstances which, it is alleged, Sc
riously injured his health.
The East
The New York Canal Board has or
dered the tolls of last year to be col
lected this season.
SIX stores and the post Office at Sing
Sing, N. T., were destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth. Loss S75,
The loss by fire i'm Philadelphia last
year amounted to 1858, ,07S, while the
insurance did not exceed IS, $50, 9S5.
ADvIcEs from Upper Androscoggin
and its tributaries, in Maine, report the
snow three feet in depth and the wealth
er excellent for timbering purposes.
A PHOTOGRAPHER i'm Waterbury,
Conn, is selling pictures of the burn
ing High School in that city, taken at
midnight while the flames were at their
highest.
A LIVE elephant now takes part in
the play at the Erie Opera house. IN
New York but it isn't the first elephant
the Fisk management have had on
their hands III that place.
WALT WHITMAN writes that ne can
hardly doubt his death after reading
the obituaries in New York papers, but
as he has not yet been officially inform
ed of his demise, he prefers for the
time to consider himself alive
The South.
THERE was heavy frost in Virginia
on the 2sth, which, it is feared, has
destroyed the fruit crop.
CROCODILE custard is said to be a
favorite beverage of New Orleans ne
groes. 1t is composed of st. Croix
rum, sweet oil, and peppermint.
Crime.
HANRATTY, on trial for the murder of
policeman Hausen, In Chicago, has
been acquitted.
The wife of Mervin r. Brewer, gen.
tleman well-known in the political and
commercial circles of New York, COM
mitted suicide on the 25th, by taking
poison.
The body of young woman was
found in Fox river, three miles below
Aurora, ILL.,, on the 25th. 1t showed
several cuts with a knife, had cloth
tied over the face, and was enshrouded
with a fine chemisette.
The Vigilantes of Virginia City at an
early hour Saturday morning took from
jail n gambler named Arthur Perkins,
who had shot one William Smith in
cold blood, some twenty days previous,
and hung him in an unoccupied house.
The affair caused intense excitement.
OK the 18th instant, a young man
named Williams, while chopping wood
near Marshall, Clark co. H., was over
powered by three men, who searched
his pockets, and finding no money, pro-
ceeded to mutilate him in O horrible
manner. Williams is not expected to
live. One of his assailants is under
arrest.
FORESTER, the supposed murderer of
Nathan, has been seen in Memphis, and
st. Louis detectives are after him, but
have as yet failed TO discover his where
abouts. Before leaving Memphis, he is
rep rted to have said that If pardon
could be procured for the twelve years
he is wanted in the Illinois penitentia-
ry, he would deliver himself up and
stand trial for the Nathan murder.
Casualties.
Truckee, California, on the Pacific
Railroad, was destroyed by fire on the
29th. Several women and children
lost their lives.
A SON of Prof. Nelson, while per-
forming upon the trapese at Niblo's
Garden, on the evening of the 2Sth,
fell a distance of thirty feet, breaking
his collar bone and sustaining other
injuries.
THE body of Edward Fitzpatrick,
cashier for Eugene Kelly & Co., bank
ers in New York, was found in East
River on the 2Sth. Deceased had been
missing six weeks, aud is supposed to
have been accidentally drowned. -
In the township of Redford, fourteen
miles from Detroit, on the morning of
the 2Sth, the hotel of a man named
Schultz was destroyed by fire, and Mr.
and Mrs. Schultz burned to death.
Their children, three in number, es-
capped in their night clothes.
SOME careless printers in the upper
stories of the building on Lake street,
Chicago, occupied below by Messrs.
Giles Bros, left their hydrant open on
Saturday night, by means of which
the building was flooded, and damage
to the extent of some $4,000 was done
to the firm mentioned.
:. - ~ $50 Obituary. -...
TwENTY-sEvEN of Brigham Young's
mother's-in-law have died since 1865.
JAS. G. BoLLEs, at one time, Presi-
dent Of the Hartford Fire Insurance
Company, died in Hartford on the 29th,
r.