Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01

Maid, American Girl and Lucy. Fhe Maid won
in three straight heats. Time, 2:19, 2:1S, PIG.
The South.
The caterpillars and boll-worms are playing
havoc with the Alabama cotton fields.
freshet in the Alabama river and tributa-
ries recently destroyed over S2,0O0,O00 worth
of cotton and corn crops.
Judge Linton Stephens (brother of Alexan-
der H Stephens), for many years prominent
| in the politics of Georgia, is dead.
The first bale of cotton of the season was
re .eived at Galveston, Texas, July 16, and sold
foI SO cents pound, gold.
The War Department at Washington has de-
tails of the massacre of the Lee family at
| Clearford, 16 miles below Fort Griffin, Texas.
| The father mother, and little girl eight
years of age, were killed by arrows, then
scalped and the bodies left with the arrows
sticking in them. Mrs. Lees ears were cut
off. Cordelia, aged 10, Susannah, aged II,
and John Lee, aged &c. were taken prisoners.
Gen. Augur fears that more extensive opera
| tons will have to be taken against these In
dams before they will remain peaceable. Gen.
Sheridan, in communication to the War De-
partment, saws: I'VE can never stop the
wild Indians from numbering and stealing
until we punish them. If white man in this
| country commits murder we hang him. If he
steals horses we put him in thu penitentiary.
If an Indian commits these crimes we give
him better fare and more blankets. 1 think
may with reason say that under this policy the
civilization of the wild red man will pro gress
slowly"
William Lowry, one of the notorious Robin
son county On. Co. outlaws, was killed last
week by brother of Col. Wishart, who was
murdered by the gang some months since.
The completion of the Industrial Exposition
building at Louisville was celebrated by an
immense mass meeting in the building, on
July 20. The structure is the largest of the
kind in the country, covering an area of $4,000
square feet, and will be lighted by over 5000
gas jets.
The damage by the recent floods in Alabama
will reach s., 000 900. The rivers in the central
portion of the State were higher than ever be-
fore known, and many houses were swept
away.
St. Louis had two suicides on July 21-both
Germans Avent Hertzberg blew his brains
out and John J. Raster hung himself.
The troubles in Pope county, Ark, still con-
tinued at last accounts. The Governor has
dispatched arms to the seat of war for the pur-
pose of arming the militia.
A young woman committed suicide at Louis
ville July o. by leaping from the bridge into
the Ohio river.
Washington.
In the last three years the receipts of the
Postoffice Department have amounted to
ST., SIG, s46.SO. The loss by defalcations dur
ing the same time foots up $95, 900, or one
twentieth of one per cent.
Secretary Fish is represented as being very
much annoyed by the publication of Catacazy':
pamphlet.
Washington telegram states that the
claims fled at the British American
Claims Commission exceed $51,000,000
Of this amount it is estimated that between
one-fourth and one-ffth will be allowed, o.
dollar for dollar the amount that the Alabama
claimants are likely to realize.
The Secretary of the Treasury has advanced
to the Collector of Customs at Chicago the
sum of 81, 900 to pay for the site selected
for the new custom-house in that city.
1t is now announced that those new posta
cards will be ready for distribution in Septem
Der.
The distribution of the new series of distilled
spirit stamps commenced July p.
About twenty Indians, headed by Mr.. Spot
ted Tail. arrived at Washington the other day
for the purpose of Intervening the President
Among the rebel archives recently purchase
by the Government is the report of Jaco
! Thompson, Confederate agent in Canada dun
ing the rebellion. This report gives details o
the plots formed by rebel agents to burn North
ern cities and release rebel prisoners. with tn
names of the persons prominently connecte
Herewith.
; The Commission appointed for the surve
Of the Northwest boundary have left Washing
ton for the scene of their labors. The wor
: of the Commission will probably exten
through two years.
Foreign.
e The well-known American prima donna. Mis-
l. Clara Louise Kellogg, has achieved grea
j. triumph in London, in the opera of g Traviata,
e having been recalled five tim the first nigl
d of its representation. She was PERSONAL
e congratulated by the Prince of Wales. Th
n London journals pronounce her simply perfec
% The magazine of Fort Monarca, at Neuvat
d Island of Cuba, was struck by lightning r,
Gently, causing tremendous explosion, sha
If tering the fort and killing seven Spanish so
diers. A rifled cannon was blown $50 feet frol
N the embrasure.
The London Times, commenting on tt
10 Stokes trial, says: "At the bottom of VIII
ID we call this miscarriage CT justice is that il
IN difference the Americans feel for violel
r crimes, in which both murderer and victim al
10 rowdles.''
ne The man Cornwall. who kindly lent his a
,e sistance to the American detectives who a
g. Quoted DR.. Bratton from Canada soil, has bee
Is tried at London, Ont, found guilty, and SCI
fenced to three years in the Penitentiary.
Later advices from Alexandria, Egypt. gi
the particulars of the shooting ARRAY betwe.
ly Consul General Butler and the Khedive
10 American officers. Butler and Wadleigh we
MT dining at a Greek restaurant, where the
1g were also party of officers, Gems Loring 81