Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-20

Little Cottonwood, Utah, on the 4th inst
carrying away floors, aggregating about fifty
feet. There were no lives lost..... Myriads
Of young grasshoppers have appeared in
Weber county, Utah.
THERE is great rejoicing among Chic river
steamboatmen over the reduction of the tolls
of the Louisville canal from fifty cents to
Eve eents..... Peoria, ILL.,, and Burlington
Iowa, were visited by terrific transforms on
the 18th inst.-the heaviest witnessed for
years.. The Sioux Indians are again on
the war path, and threaten to attack Fort
Berthold with 2,Oe0 braves......Seth Paine, a
well known Chicago philanthropist, is dead.
THE vicinity of Canton, ILL.,, was visited
night of the 9th inst...... Houses, barns,
fences, bridges, culverts, railroad tracks and
everything movable, were swept away by
the deluge, and a large amount of life stock
drowned...... Iowa City, Iowa, was visited by
severe tornado on the It'll inst..... James
H. Stuff, a student at Illinois College, Jack
sonville, was drowned on the It'll inst, while
bathing.
Work on the Northern Pacific railroad
goes bravely. on. The road is completed
across Minnesota, and the first locomotive
crossed the bridge into Dakota on the sth
lnst.....John Barclay, for the murder of
Charles Garner, will hang at Columb bus,
Ohio, Oct. 4......The motion OF Mrs. Fair, the
San FraE cisco murderess, for a change of
venue, has been overruled, and venire of
200 jurors has been ordered to try the case.
by the death of ex-Mayor Smith, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, Mrs. Hezekiah Clifford, of
Elgin, ILL.,, receives $50,O0e. She was the
first white woman who settled in Fox River
valley 49,. Another case of emotional in
sanity comes to us from San Francisco. j..
II. Mansfield met Mary Helm on the street,
and, because she persisted in her deter
mination not to marry him, shot the young
lady twice in the breast, and then served
himself the same way. Both will probably
die......The shoemakers of Cincinnati have
ended a successful strike, having obtained
an advance of 20 per cent. in their wages
The Buffalo printers have demanded an in
crease of wages. The other trades are ar
ranging to follow.
THE house of Michael Kenly, near MareR-
go, Ill, was burned on the night of
the Sth inst. Mrs. Kenly and four
children were burned to death. .....J Joseph
Fraw committed suicide at Cleveland on the
10th inst. Ira Lafriner, one of the oldest
ship-builders of Cleveland, is d.. The
wild man who has been frightening labor
ers on the Muscatine Western railroad, in
Iowa, was found dead in slough, last week.
He turned out to be mulatto, and is sup
posed to have been insane.
The South.
A FIRE in Pulaski, Tenn, on June 5, de-
stroyed 5000 worth of property James
Parker was killed, and several others in
jured, by the explosion of a locomotive
boiler, at Sanderson, Fla, on the 5th inst.
THE yellow fever has made its annual ap-
pearance at New Orleans, and the United
States troops have been removed. CONNER
cial circles are very much depressed, as it is
the general experience that an early advent
of the fever is indication of an extended
epidemic......Th employees of the Texas
Central railroad are on strike, and nearly
all the engines are disabled by the removal
of portions of the works......T The Tennessee
editors were in conclave at Nashville last
week, and had jelly good time.
ATLANTA, Ca, has opened cotton and
produce exchange....:. The Richmond street
car employees are on a strike...... VIM. T
Varble, Louisville Falls pilot, has been
mulcted in SIS 900 damages for the loss of a
steamer which he was steering over the
falls Elk President johnson has been
nominated for ongressman-at-large by the
Labor Reformers of Tennessee.
The committee to investigate the case of
DR.. Huston, of Baltimore, has declared him
innocent of the charges preferred against
him......Gov. Brown, of Missouri, has called
an extra session of the Legislature, to re-
district the State.
AT Newport, KY, on the 10th inst, Frank
Shields, aged II, killed John Shuester, aged
10, by stabbing him to the heartThe St.
Louis workingmen are about forming an
eight-hour league.
Washington.
THE Presidents proclamation, just issued
in accordance with the amnesty ACT, dis
misses all penal prosecutions against those
persons coming under its provisions, who, it
is alleged, held Office in viola ton of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States... Rumors that
Secretary Fish is about to resign are again
rife at the capital.
WASHINGTON dispatch announces that
the Spanish Government has notified its
Minister to this country that the only con-
dition upon which DR.. Houard can be imme-
diately released is that the United States ask
for 1t as favor, and not on the grounds
that he is a citizen of the United
States......An effort Is being made by the
State Department and the British Minister
to make some arrangement to save the treaty
of Washington. The President has signed
the Tax and Tariff bill......The President
has vetoed another bill granting relief for
property destroyed by Federal troops during
the war, on the same grounds as those in
the Best case, namely: that its payment
would invite the presentation of claims for
very large amounts, and that it is a matter
OF bounty rather than of right.
IT is stated that official information has
been received from London, giving the as
surance that the English Government ac-
cepts the supplemental rule to the Treaty of
Washington, as amended by the Senate. and
the Geneva Arbitration will now proceed to
consider the cases presented by the two
Governments......The Civil Rights and Ku-
klux bills were again defeated in the House,
on the 18th inst.
II is difficult to understand the precise
state of the negotiations affecting the Treaty
of Washington. The members of the Cabi-
net, although they are without official
assurances to that effect, consider that the
Treaty has been saved, and that England
understands, and is willing to accept, the
Supplemental Article as modified by the
Senate.