Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-27

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sons were bitten before the rabid animal
was killsd-some of them being shockingly
lacerated.
Judge Flippen, of Memphis, sentenced
three murderers to death on June Is.
The receipts from the Saengerfest con-
certs, at st. Louis, reached $4,000. The re-
ceipts for beer sold in the vicinity of the
hall were probably greatly in excess of this
| figure, as it is announced that one man
| alone, who employed AZ bar-keepers, sold
one million glasses, or $4,000 worth.
The Agricultural Department reports an
| increase in the cotton area in every South
ern State.
An approximate statement of receipts and
expenditures OF the National Saengerfest at
st. Louis is as follows: Subscription to the
building, $4,000; receipts from concerts,
picnic, etc., $4,000; total, $4,000. Ex-
pended on building, $4,000 music, 81 900;
entertainment of singers, SIS ,OoO incidental,
$4,000; total, $4,000.
Washington.
The negotiations in relation to the Wash
ington Treaty still hang fire, and it is i'm
possible to predict he final result.
Senator Harlan has bought g. half interest
in the Washington Chronicle, which, tele-
gram announces, I" is to be brought into
closer relations with the Administration"
And now comes the announcement that
our Government has made no imperative
demand on Spain for the release of DR..
Of cd 4 hut
that his release is daily expected.
The report of the House Committee on
Pacific Railroads shows the affairs of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company to be in
a sound and clear condition. There will be
in operation at the end of the year 517
miles of the main line. In addition to the
portion already completed: there is now un-
der contract 1,031 miles. Grading is pro-
crossing in Dakota and Washington Terri
tories. The company has plated and pre-
pared for market 1,578,S9O acres of its lands
III Minnesota and Washington Territory.
1t is the policy of the company to sell its
lands cheap to actual settlers.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed a commission, consisting of Gen. B.
R. Oowan, John L. Delano and J.W. Wham,
to visit the hostile Indian tribes demonstrate
ing against the Union Pacific railroad.
The War Department is reinforcing all the
Southern forts with the latest improved
ordnance, while the Navy Department is
accommodating large supplies at all the naval
stations on the Sou hern and Gulf coasts.
So says Washington telegram
The War Department has ordered all avail
hostile Indian tribes.
The smallpox is on the increase in Wash
ington.
The United States and Japan are negoiat-
ing new commercial treaty.
The internal receipts for the fiscal year up
to June Is were over $25 900 900.
The President and nearly all she Cabinet
officers attended the Boston Jubilee.
Foreign.
Canada has abolished the duty on tea and
coffee-except when it is imported from the
United States.
bill will shortly be introduced in the
German Parliament expelling all Jesuits
from Germany.
Kaiser William is ready to deliver his de-
cision on the San Juan boundary question as
soon as requested.
Under the treaty giving Germany control
of the Luxembourg railways, that power
STIMULATES that it will never use the roads
for the transportation of war munitions ex-
cept in time of peace.
The boat with which the Cam bridge crew
80 badly scooped the Atalantas has been
carefully laid away in the Crystal Palace.
London telegram announces that, so far
from the Persian famine being over, It is
even now worse than ever.
Theirs demeanor during the debate on
the French Army bill has greatly irritated
members of all parties IN the Assembly
Some of the deputies charge him openly
with all the arrogance of the first Ma
poleon-
If the New York Herald correspondent is
to be believed, the Gear of Russia was very
cool in his demeanor toward Lieut.. Fred
Grant, on the occasion of the latter's recent
visit to Moscow. The autocrat did rot shake
hands with the son of the American Presi-
dent. 1t is argued from this that Alexis
reception in Washington is not quite forgot
ten by the Gear.
There is now no longer any doubt but that
DR.. Livingstone still lives. But the great
traveller refuses to leave Africa until he has
explored some more.
The vicinity of Prague, in Bohemia, has
been visited by great food, involving an
appalling destruction of life and property.
Whole districts were inundated and villages
swept out of existence. Over 700 people are
reported drowned.
The cable announces the usual weekly
ministerial crisis in Spain.
The Austrian polar expedition has sailed
from Bremen.
Gen. Sherman was in Vienna on the 18th
inst.
The cholera has broken out in Southern
Russia.
Advices from Bagdad state that the Brit
ish mail steamship Cashmere was boarded
| by pirates at Bassorah. The buccaneers
killed and wounded a number of persons on
board, and carried off 43, 900 rufees.
A new Spanish Cabinet has been formed