Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26

viction for Ku-Klux offenses, where such is
asked for by their reputable neighbors.
Foreign.
In London six houses were blown down and
forty persons injured by the late gale.
Jules Favre and fourteen other moderate
Republicans, with niuety~two members of the
left Center, have given to the National AS
sembly their views of reforms needed to as
sure peace to France. They suggest the pro-
longation of Theirs term four years, the cleo
ton of Vice President, the partial renewal
of the Assembly yearly, the establishment of
the principle Of Ministerial responsibility, the
creation of a second Chamber, and the settle
ment Of the relations between the Executive
and Legislative Departments.
Gambetra, together with Louis Blanc and
the other French Radicals, has issued mani
festo, in which he demands that the National
Assembly be dissolved and new election
held in order to secure an Assembly free from
the factions that disable the present body, and
undivided in its support of Theirs and the
| Republic.
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| in the North Sea of the emigrant chip Frank
| lin, from Hamburg for San Francisco. Eighty
persons are known to have persisted.
| Paris and Versailles we're recently visited by
terrific gale, killing several persons and
causing great damage to property.
| meeting in support Of the Tichborne
claimant was held in London the other night,
at which the claimant and several of his adj
herents made speeches. There was much dis
order during the proceedings, and parties in
the audience who expressed disbelief in the
assertions of the alleged SIR Roger we're
roughly treated by his friends and hustled out
of the hall.
| The London papers publish letter from
Garibaldi, in which he says he joined France
in 1870 purely from devotion to democratic
principles, yet he feels pang of sorrow be-
cause he had to fight against these noble Ger
mans who in their progress toward truth are
struggling against the hydra of Jesuitism. He
confesses with shame that Italy is going back
to the Inquisitien.
News has been received at Berlin from Herr
Mauch, the German explorer of Africa. He
was on his way home.
Brazil aud the Argentine Republic have
brought their little differences TO an amicable
conclusion by peaceable negotiation, and the
prospect Of war, which at one time was SO
threatening, has entirely disappeared.
1t is reported that employees of all the En-
glish Railway Companies will strike on the I'd
of January.
1t is reported that Bismarck will resign the
Presidency of the Prussian Council, to devote
his entire time to his duties as Chancellor of
the German Empire.
| Minister Schenck has returned to London
after protracted visit in Southern Europe.
Viscountess Beaconsfeld, wife Of Right
Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, is dead.
The French National Assembly has had
long and exciting debate over the petitions for
the dissolution of that body. The discussion
is described as the most violent and acrinoni-
GUS that has ever taken place in the Assem-
bly,. 1t was decided, by vote of 400 to 201.
to reject the petitions. The conflict between
Theirs and the Assembly, it is believed, can
not last long, and that one or the other must
soon yield,
The London papers deny that Eliza Cook,
the wellknown poetess, is dead. She is in
the enjoyment Of excellent health.
large open air meeting at Stockton, En-
gland, in favor of Fenian amnesty, was
charged upon, the other day, by English and
Welsh, who carried off the Irish flags, tram
pied them in the mud, and broke up the
meeting.
Political.
The official vote of Michigan for President
has just been published, and foots up: Grant,
1873, 811; Greeley. 1850: others, Ais; ma
| jority for Grant, 0.166. The whole vote of
the State is 4, 049 less than in 1868.
John J. Patterson has been elected to sue
coed Sawyer as Senator from South Carolina.
The Hon. John ]. P. was arrested on charge
of bribery few hours after his election.
| ]. J. Patterson, the new Senator from South
Carolina, halls from Pennsylvania, and was
formerly editor of the Harrisburg Teleqraph.
Cameron's home organ.
The next House of Representatives will con-
sist of 292 members, an increase of As over
any previous Congress.
The war inaugurated in the House of Rep.
resentatives against the civil service rules last
week by Mr.. Snapp, of Illinois, is to be con-
tinued by other Republican members, most of
whom, it is said, severely denounce the 80
called reform.
| General.
The New York World is authority for the
statement that number of business men
have formed joint stock company for the
purchase of SANTANA Bay, in San Domingo.
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