Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

barrels decrease from May, 523 barrels daily
stock on hand, July l, 976, 1854 decrease of
9,76S barrels. Shipments in June, 49,241
barrels.
The trial of VIM. NJ. Tweed commenced at
New York on July 16.
Stokes, Fisks slayer, will not be bailed. His
next trial viii probably take place in Saratog&
county, N. L, In September.
Gratz Brown. who was attacked by cholera
norbus at New York, the other day, is again
ON his legs.
DR.. Lanahan is to be made Presiding Elder
of the Washington District Baltimore Con-
ference).
The West Point Board of Visitors have made
their annualreport. They animadvert severely
upon the manner in which the affairs of the
institution have been conducted and find fault
with the management of the cadets and their
department. The Board advise that more
milk be used in the diet of the coming heroes.
The great racers Longfellow and Harry
Bassett had another meeting at Saratoga on
the 10Th of July, and old John Harper's pride
is again humbled. The course was ~ miles,
and was won by Bassett by a length, in $3.50
the fastest time ever made in America. While
running the last mile, Longfellow twisted the
shoe of his right fore foot, cutting the leg
badly. large amount of money was won and
lost on the race, the New York sports being
badly scooped.
Mrs. Ffedericks, a wealthy and respected
lady of Hackensack, N. j.. drowned herself
last week, from grief over the loss of a
brother.
The official trial of the road steamer on the
Erie canal, on July IT, proved complete sue
cess The engine drew three loaded boats at
double the speed of boats drawn by horses.
A Saratoga dispatch of July IS says: I
paid a visit to Harpers stables early this
morning, and there stood the wreck of Long
Branch racing greatness, in an undignifed
attitude, on three legs. He is gone forever.
The wound in his heel is nothing compared to
the breaking of tendon-a middle one, too !;
and Ito use the precise language of his train
er, Hid He will never more than walk-run
he couldn't"
There are nineteen prisoners in New York
city on the charge of murder, one of whom is
under sentence-Foster, the car-hook muir
derer.
Albert S. Dusenbury, New York lawyer,
committed suicide, July 10, by shooting KIM
self
The effects of the defunct New York Stand
ard were sold at auction in New York, July
10, and brought 81, 900.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
purpose erecting building on Broadway and
Dey streets, New York, to cost 81, 500, 900.
Two trains collided on the Central road, near
Pittsford, N. Y, on the 10Th of July, by which
three persons were killed three mortally
wounded and several seriously injured. Among
the killed was Mr. E. B. Smith, well-known
bookseller of Detroit, and one of the leading
business men of that city.
Ex-Congressman Thatcher, the oldest gradu-
ate of Harvard and the oldest Mason of the
United States, died at Bangor, Me-, July 10,
aged &C.
The large paper mill of J. B. Sheffield at
Saugerties, n. Y, was destroyed by fire July
10. Loss, $500, GOO; insurance. S105, 000
At meeting of the directors of the Atlantic
and Pacific railroad, in New York, July 10.
lease was effected of the Missouri Pacific ant
its branches. giving to the former compan.
some 500 additional miles of road.
Three young ladies' were drowned Will,
bathing in pond at Millbury, Mass, OIL
July 20.
Excavation on vanderbilt's great New Yorl
underground railroad will begin in September
and it's completion is promised within tw
years.
Two Sing Sing convicts attempted to escap
from prison last week by slowing themselve
away in garbage barrels. They forced them
selves through the filth and covered them
selves up. When the driver stopped at tn
dumping grounds to unload, one of the prison
ers leaped out of his barrel, pushed the terri
fed driver off his seat, and whipped the hors
into run. The convict was too much excite
to notice which way he had headed, and befor
he was aware of it he was almost in the prise
yard again. The other convict rose up to pee
out, and both of the culprits were seized an
marched back to their cells in sad plight.
There was a slight frost in some parts {
New York State on the night of July %.
An effort is 70 be made to Iiberate Stokes O
bail.
Josephine Mansfield, the artful siren WI
infatuated Jim Fisk, and ultimately compasse
the death of that erratic gentleman, went
Saratoga the other day to testify in the Bs
nard impeachment case. She was treated
an outcast. being refused admission to Il
hotels, and when she took her seat in I'll
courtroom a number of ladies who had a
sembled to witness the judicial proceeding
Immediately left.
The West.
A shooting affray at Henryyille, Ind, Ju
Is, between Thomas and Samuel Knowla1
(uncle and nephew, resulted in the instal
killing of the former and the mortal woundi1
of the latter.
Col. VIM. 7. Phillips, a prominent citizt
of Kansas, has mysteriously disappeared.
Rich cinnabar mines have been discovers
in Oregon.
johnson & Jones' soap and candle man
factory, at Milwaukee, was burned July Il
Loss, $751;
Sedalia, Mo-, Rising Sun, Ind, and Piqu
Ohio, each had 1900 worth of fire on July |
The man who started out to navigate Il
Mississippi from its source to its mouth in
canoe became tired of the job, and abandon,
his little craft at Peoria. H., on the 18th ms
The wheat crop, of Southern Minnesota
the largest ever known, and the quality exec