Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-04

vile, Tenn, was entered on Wednesday
night by burglars. Michael Murphy, a
clerk, sleeping in the store, was stabbed to
death. The safe was subsequently blown
open and robbed of 5000, an6 the house
burned. Murphy's body was found in the
ruins, burned almost to a cinder... The
steamer Charmer struck rock while de-
scending the falls at Louisville on Thursday
morning and sunk. Loss $4,000; no in
surance......T The large distillery of George II.
Bearer, at Campbellville, KY, was destroyed
by fire on Monday morning. Loss $4,000 ;
insured for $4,000.
L. GALLEN, of Meade county, Kentucky,
was killed on Tuesday by a falling tree,
which blew down on him while at work in
his clearing Gen. David L. Stanton, Col
lector of the Fifth Maryland District, has
been arrested and deposed from his position,
charged with being defaulter in a sum
ranging from 5000 to $4,000.
GEORGE ScHwAB, aged IS, died while sitting
in chair in saloon at Louisville on
Wednesday. Old age and restitution is sup
posed to be the cause. 80
THE Baltimore Gazette has been sold to
VIM. II. Welsh, late proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Age, and Henry Taylor and VIM. H.
Carpenter, of Baltimore......A dispatch from
Wilmington, N. c., gives rumor that the
Lowery gang have shot the captured
Herald correspondent.....Slo Slough, the wife
murderer, committed suicide in jail at
Richmond, KY, Monday, by hanging him
self to the top bar of the door of his cell
with rope made from towel and two
pocket handkerchiefs.
TIE building and stock of the Washington
t. !, ,foo Ho,o o+H NJ,
stown, Md, by fire on Sunday morning
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000. The
Bourbon House and three stores at Paris
KY, were burned on Monday. Loss $40 900 !;
insurance $4,000.
Washington.
THE President on Tuesday signed the act
of Congress authorizing the survey and
marking of boundary between the territory
Of the United States and the possessions of
Great Britain, from Lake of the Woods to
the summit of the Rocky Mountains.
THE amount paid to unsuccessful contest
ants of seats for the last Congress was
Sis, OOO......A naval board of inquiry, of
which Commodore W. E. Leroy is President,
has been ordered to inquire into the case OF
Captain Egbert Thompson, who is charged
daigua by towing her through heavy ice and
injuring her sheathing.
THE Supreme Court has denied writ of
mandamus to compel the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay the Kentucky war claims.
1.-THE House Special Committee to investi-
gate the charges of Irregularities in the
Navy Department met on Tuesday evening
Mr.. Voorhees, declined serving on the com
mittee on account of business engagements.
Mr.. Bartlett, counsel for Dana, asked that
Admiral Porter be summoned. 1t was so
ordered. Adjourned.....Th The committee ap-
pointed to examine the accounts of tho
United States Treasury has reported that
!" the business of the Treasury ..as been well
conducted, and that the losses IN The aggre-
gate are very insignificant, as COZ pared with
the transactions Of the Office 1.-THE SEN
ate, in executive session on Monday, con-
frmed the nomination of Gov. Francis
Thomas, of Maryland, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
Foreign.
A VIENNA dispatch of Tuesday says: The
in the mines of the Rothchilds,
at Wittnawiiz, in Moravia, enraged at the
nom payment of their wages, attacked the
offices of the superintendent. Gaining en-
rance, they burst open the safe and appro-
Driated the contents. They then demolished
he building. The soldiers were called out
and fred on the rioters. Four were killed,
fifty wounded, and one hundred arrested |
Order has been restored. but the mines are
guarded by the military.
A SERIOUS confagration occurred at Dus-
'eldorf, Germany, on Wednesday. Among
,ther buildings, the famous Academy of Art
was burned, and many of the most valuable
were destroye ......A Russian I'M
Derial decree reopens Sebastopol as q COM
nercial and military harbor, with the forti-
ications restored.
THE London Morning Post of March 6,
reminds advisers of President Grant that
though the borders of Canada are defense |
less, so are these of the United States, and |
he annexation of Canada would cost the |
United States a long and bloody war, and |
after that the Canadians and late Southern |
-ebels would combine against the Union. |
Canada, it says, could at shorter notice, put |
n motion greater number of troops than |
he United States, while at the first signal Of !
war the English feet would cross the Allan
,ic and blockade the American ports, while |
he Union possesses no vessels to raise the |
blockade or return the compliment by seal |
ng up English ports......1t has been proved |
hat Marshal Bazaine dined with Prince |
Charles of Prussia shortly before |
he capitulation of Metz.
The famous race for the Liverpool grand
rational steeple-chase handicap, which was
un on Friday over the Aintree course, near
Liverpool, excited great interest, and was
Won by the chest nut mare Cassetite, the |
,eldings scarrington and Dispatch being |
second and third. During the |
ace the chestnut mare Primrose fell and
vas instantly killed......Gen. Brownlow, in
of a detachment of the Looshai
telegraphs on the 18th inst:
All the southern Howlongs, and fifteen
hiefs, have submitted, and many captives
lave been released. Twenty villages were
and our task is accomplished"
THERE is terrible suffering in the vicinity
f Tientsin, China, in the flooded district
dany ere dying of starvation daily.....A
uel was fought near Paris on Saturday be-
wesn Rogat, of the Pays newspaper, and
of the CorSaire. The latter was
rounded in the chest......The Prince and |
Princess of Wales are at Rome.
Proceedings in Congress.
In the Senate on the 10Th the bill for
he relief of the officers and crew of the
Searsarpe was passed. It directs the Score