Marshall County Republican., 1872-10-31

| no less tnan nineteen persons, including three
| husbands.
| The railway between Yokohama and Yeddo,
Japan, has been formally thrown open to the
public by the Mikado.
| Prince Frederick Henry Albert, the third
and youngest brother of the Emperor William
of Prussia, died recently in Berlin. at the age
of 60 years.
The Internationals are preparing for great
| demonstration in Hyde Park, London. on the
| 30th of November.
The German army of occupation are evacu.
atlng the Department of the Upper Marne, in
France.
1t is authoritatively announced that the
| Pope will remain in Rome.
Under the new tax levy in Cuba. tax OF
| $24 is imposed upon each slave in the island,
| which will produce revenue of $1,000, 900.
Quite a sensation has been created in Paris
by the discovery that two thousand bombs
| had been sent to the city with some revolu-
tionary design. The bombs, or grenades, are
| similar to those that Orsini threw from a
house-top at the Emperor Napoleon in 1858,
| and the suspicion is that they are to be used
for like purpose, with Theirs substituted for
Napoleon.
The Republicans of the Department of the
Gironde, in France, have adopted the "Amer-
lean system" of nominating candidates, and
recently held a convention to name candi-
date for the National Assembly. This is the
first instance of the kind in Europe,
passenger train of ten cars on the East
ern railway ran off the track near Chelmsford,
England, precipitated the coaches down a
high embankment and dashed them to pieces.
Three or four passengers were killed, and
about twenty seriously injured
The exodus from Alsace and Lorraine is
without parallel in modern times. Whole
districts are already depopulated. Of the
5000 inhabitants of Otserman, an Alsatian
town, at the time of the surrender at Sedvn,
only three persons remain. At Metz the
able-bodied population is so reduced that
only seventeen men subject to military duty
remain, and that whole seventeen are said to
be unit for service. Eighteen thousand
people left the city in the last two weeks of
September. So deep seated is the hatred of
German rule. and so determined are the peo-
pie to escape it, thai in instances almost in
Vulnerable they have abandoned their homes
and. with what personal effects that could be
swung on their shoulders on a walking-stick,
have set out on foot to quit the annexed
territory. The movement seems en- the in
crease, and unless checked will leave both
provinces desolate, to be populated and re-
stored to prosperity, if at all, by the Germans
themselves
A Paris Communist has surrendered him
self to the authorities at Brussels, and con-
fessed to having been an accomplice of
Trauppmann, who murdered an entire family
near Paris.
A terrible epidemic pages among the horses
in Canada, seriously lnterrupting the business
of the country. In the street-car stables of
Montreal more than 300 horses are stricken
with the disease, and the cars have stopped
running. Farmers are unable to take their
grain to market.
Sir Roundell Palmer has been appointed
Lord Chancellor of England.
The postal treaty between France and the
United States will soon be signed.
Railroad accidents are becoming alarmingly
frequent in England. The latest one occurred
near Sheffield the other day, by which two
persons we're killed and several injured.
Senator Sumner recently visited Gambetta.
and it is stated that the French statesman was
deeply impressed with the interview.
MIR. a. B. Henderson, of Philadelphia, who
accompanied his wife to Havana for the bene-
fit of her health, has been arrested by the
Spanish authorities ON some trivial charge
and thrown into dungeon.
Madrid letter says it will require 5000 OOO
to repair the damage to the Escurial. The
idea of national subscription was started,
but King Amadeus has knocked it on the
head by insisting on defraying the whole
cost out of his own private purse.
1t is announced from Paris that the Govern
ment has resolved to support, in the ap-
preaching session of the Assembly, motion
for the appointment of commission to in
yestigate the acts of Olivier and Palikao, pre-
palatory to the impeachment of the I'M
perial Ministers, on charge of having provoked
war with Prussia.
The gallery of a circus in Sheffield, En-
gland, recently gave way while crowded with
spectators, and in the panic that ensued
great number of people were injured, some of
whom it is feared. will not recover.
There is much excitement in France over
the coming Investigation concerning the war
with Germany. 1t is believed the fact will be
developed that the war was the result of the
rash and headstrong Policy of the Cabinet
then in power.
The insurrection at Ferrol, Spain, has been
and the insurgents have scattered
to the mountains.
D'Aubigne, the historian of the Reforma-
ten, died recently at Geneva, aged 73.