Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11

LOOMS Michigan, Artillery, is confined at the
Soldiers Home, at Milwaukee, a mere wreck,
rapidly wasting away with softening of the
brain.
The Kiowas, Arrapahoes, and Apaches. in
Colorado and New Mexico, are reported as
being very uneasy, and fears are entertained
that these tribes will combine for an extensive
warfare on the frontier settlements. The
moral suasion policy is being applied to these
intractable savages. with, it is alleged, some
hope of a successful issue.
The South.
A fire at Lexington, Mo-, June 81, destroyed
six business houses in the center of the town.
Loss, $4,000
John L. Thomas, who came from Ireland
fifteen years ago, and began as day laborer,
is now the Potter Palmer of Sc. Louis, having
in course of construction twenty-nine buill-
ings, with future plans even more extensive.
Dan Smith, Early Eason and Johc White
are to be hung at Memphis on Aug.
Numerous arrests are being made through
out South Carolina of parties charged with
violation of the Enforcement act.
Two men Holzenbake and Ilovd were
hung at oglethorpe, Ga, June g. for the MUIR
der of Col. George W. Fish
The dwelling of Mr.. Querburn, near Pine
Bluff, Ark, Was burned last week Mr. Q. and
his daughter we're both burned to d ath.
report comes from Texas thai Gen. Nc
Kenzie, Lieut.. Smith, and eight men were sur
prised by sixty Indians and killed, recently.
between Fort Belknap and Jacksboro, Texas.
The report is discredited by the War Depart
ment at Washington.
Three boys were killed in New Orleans June
80, by stroke of lightning.
Washington.
The War Department has issued an order dis
continuing the Bureau of Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands.
| During performance at the METROPOLITAN
Theater, on the night of June 80, Charles
Brown, play actor, discharged musket
loaded, as he supposed, simply with powder,
/ but in which the iron ramrod had been care.
lessly left. The rod entered the head OF
Keegan, another actor, inf1icting a dangerous
wound.
Foreign
The London papers report terrific hurri-
cane and waterspout at Rustchuk, in Bulgaria.
which destroyed 500 houses, and sank two gun
boats, killing and injuring several persons.
Washington dispatch states that Spanish
war vessels have been instructed to seize and
sink the American steamers .yirginius and
Edgar Stewart, wherever found outside of
neutral ports
| The great strike of the London carpenters
and joiners still continued at last accounts. It
Is said over 10000 of them are idle, and they
have been joined by the masons and brick
layers. The men demand 81 hours instead of
5615 hours per week, and one shilling per day
additional. The London Times says that the
strike will result in England losing her present
advantages in industrial productions.
| 1t is said negotiations have been concluded
for the complete evacuation of France by the
German forces
Three hundred and thirty Mormon converts
sailed from Liverpool for New York on June 26.
Advices from Mexico state that the revolu-
tionists had captured Saltillo and were moving
on Camargo.
Havana letter states that the official paper
is furious over the escape of the steamer
Edgar Stuart, and holds the United States ac-
countabie for landing of arms for the Cubans.
Two cargoes of slaves were recently landed
on the Island of Cuba. one of which was for
the Colonel of the Spanish volunteers.
Members of the Right in the French Ma
tional Assembly failing to induce President
Theirs to abandon the several radical legisIa-
tive schemes proposed by him, have resolved
upon active opposition to the Government. 1t
is proposed, in the event of Theirs resigning.
to make Marshal Mcmahon his succ essor.
The resignation of Capt. Gen. Valmaseda,
of Cuba, has been accepted by the Spanish
Government.