Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-02

| falling houses. Miles ct fencing were blown
down, and thousands of large fruit trees torn
up by the roots. The total loss is about
$1,000, mostly falling on persons of small
means.
In fight among party of Sicilians at
New Orleans on Saturday Joseph Angelo
was shot and instantly killed. During the
row custom inspector named Joseph S.
Souders was accidentally shot and has since
| died, and a y>ung boy named Edward
Nixon was slightly wounded.
Washington.
MAI. j. W. POWELL was before the House
Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday,
asking for an additional appropriation to
continue the exploration of the Colorado
river The committee after hearing state
ment relative to the value of these re-
searches, agreed to allow $4,000 for this
| summers work......Senators Chandler and
| Terry appeared before Secretary Boutwell,
on Tuesday thoroughly demoralized over
| the report that the Chicago Relief bill ad-
mitted manufactured lumber. such as doors,
| blinds, ETC., free of duty, and only excluded
| raw lumber. The Secretary informed them
that the question was without precedent,
but such was his opinion, that articles
which entered into buildings and were not
known as raw lumber could be admitted
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important one, he was willing to hear argu-
ment before finally deciding. So there is to
| be an argument..... Secretary Fish has in
structed our Consul at Bucharest to remon-
strate against the outrages committed on
Israelites in Roumania......OnS Saturday last,
the District Court rendered verdict of
$4,000 against the Ohio and Baltimore
Railroad Company, and in favor of James
Starkweather, of Romeo, Mich. This suit
was for damages for negligence on the
| part of the employees of the road, whereby
the wife of Mr.. Starkweather was killed,
| Nov. Is, 1868.
THE House Military Committee have
agreed to report in favor of an appropriation
for sinking artesian wells within the lin
its of the D. A. Russell reservation in Wyo-
ming territory. This experiment. is to be
tried with the view of developing the prac-
ticability of securing artificial irrigation by
this means for the barren land in that
country The House Committee on Public
Buildings have reported bills authorizing
the erection of public buildings in the fol-
lowing places and appropriating money for
the same: Philadelphia, 81 ,500,0 900; Nash
vile, Tenn, S15O,OOO; Memphis, 100000.
The following places are to furnish the site
Covington, KY, 100000; Montgomery,
Ala, $75 900; Austin, Tex, $l0O 900; Lynch
burgh, Va, $4,000; Dunkirk, N. Y,
$4,000.
AUTHENTIC information has been received
at Washington from St. Petersburg, to the
effect that Catacazy's Justification of him
self had been considered attentively in the
Council of the Empire. He is utterly dis
graced, and has left st. Petersburg for
Paris, with pension of 5000 rubles per an
mum. This pension is so settled that it will
be withdrawn if Catacazy makes any publ
{ cation, or gives new cause OF otfense......T The
House Committee on Appropriations has
voted to recommend $4,000 for the coast
survey, the entire amount asked for.
GEN. BANKS called on Secretary Fish on
Friday, in behalf of the Committee on For
eign Affairs, to inquire whether the depart
ment desired any action by Congress in regard
to Withdrawing the claims for indirect dam
ages. The Secretary informed General
Banks that neither the President any
member CT the Cabinet desired to have this
part of the case withdrawn, and, further
the Cabinet held that this Government
having once submitted these indirect claims
as part of its case to the Conference al
, Geneva, had no power to withdraw them
even if it wished to do So; but there Wa:
neither wish nor intention to recede from
the position, and no action on the part o
of Congress was desired by the department
. and, in the Secretary's opinion, could do NJ
good.
; THE President has nominated John Jay
Knox Comptroller of the Currency.
Foreign.
: A SHOEMAKER named Nichols, who resided
with his family on Maiden Hill, a suburb
of London, on Monday night murdered al
$ his children, four in number, and thel
committed suicide. 1t is not known wha
prompted the man to commit this terrible
!, act, though it il believed he was insane.
Theirs has written to King Amadeus declar
ing that no power, not excepting Italy, i
more interested than France in the con
: solidation of the dynastic institutions o
Spain.
E A SPECIAL from London, dated the 10th
a saws: "The arbitration at Geneva is at
complete .tandstill until the reply is re
!. ceived from Washington to the Englisl
q protest. The nature of the protest inspire
: little hope of the success of future negotia
| tions.". 1.-THE Court of the Queens Bench
. has granted a rule requiring the Attorne,
!, General, Sir John Duke Colerdge, to show
7 why the claimant of the Tichborne estate
: has not been admitted to ball. has
!, Reade, the we'll known author and drama
= tist has announced his intention to prose
! cute journals for libel which he al
= criticisms upon his play entitled Shelle
Shelley" band of marauders latel
entered the village of Mancha, Spain, an
1t seized 5000 reals belonging to the munich
IN pal funds. The commander of the ban
\ gave the town authorities a receipt for tn
money, to which he signed his name a
g commander in chief of the federal armie
N OF Don Carlos"
as THE first Japanese fair, under the dire
he ton of the Government, will take place
it the sacred city of Kiotto, on the 10th
d, April, lasting so days. Foreigners are a
st lowed to visit the city and suburbs for
IL period of 81 days, enabling them to sho
BY their manufa ctures. This is considered IL
y, virtual abandonment of their exclusive pc
icy, and one of the result from the visit
vo Iwakura to America. General Sherma
40 Colonel Audenreid, and Lieutenant Graz
have started from Constantinople for a to,
Gu through Russia.
% A TELEGRApHIc dispatch from Bombs
has been received at London, announcer
that the ship Maria, which left that port
March Is, for Liverpool, was wrecked, al
0t- thirty-fiye persons lost their lives ...In ii