Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-28

leaving 300 miles of the road to the Missouri
river unfinished.
r. C. Mccormick has been elected Delegate
to Congress from Arizona Territory, without
opposition.
At Logansport, Ind, last week, Judge D. D.
| Dykeman shot and seriously wounded Mai
Will G. Moreau, late sponsor to Mr.. O'Conor
at the Louisville Convention, and now editor
of the Logansport Sun. The cause of the
| shooting was an alleged malicious article pub
lished in the Sun against Judge Dykeman,
during his absence. Moreau, it is said, was
expecting the attack, as two Colts revolvers
we're found on him, and he had besides coat
of mail over his body. The shot will not
prove fatal.
The smallpox is raging to an alarming ex-
tent in st. Louis, the deaths averaging, it is
said, from thirty to forty day. The disease
is confined to no particular class or locality.
There is not second-class hotel in the city
that has not had cases, and many of them are
full of it twelve cases are reported in one
hotel.
The Southern Minnesota railroad has been
forced into bankruptcy, and receiver sp-
pointed.
The epizeotic has almost entirely disap-
peared from Chicago, the street cars and
omnibuses are running, and the city is as
| lively with equines as ever, the streets ex-
hibiting as great number of horse-drawn
vehicles as at any time before the appearance
of the disease. Cincinnati and Milwaukee
report that they have it bad, nearly all their
| equines being Frustrated. In the former
city, at a fire the other day, the en-
! gines we're drawn by men. The Milwaukee
fire department has purchased six yoke of
oxen.
The Institute of Architects, in session at
Cincinnati last week. severely condemned the
Mansard roofs. and attributed the spread of
the Boston fire to these tinder-boxes
The late sudden cold snap worked great in
jury to the farmers and stock growers of Cen
trail and Northern Illinois. Most Of the wells
and springs being dry, and the brooks and
creeks being frozen over. farmers have been
compelled to sell their cattle and hogs on &C
count of their inability to get water Tor them.
1t has broken out in Salt Lake this time
not the epizootic, but the diamond fever. A
man named Berry arrived there last week with
large number of precious stones, pronounced
genuine by experienced lapidaries, which he
| says he picked up in Western Colorado. Quite
an excitement ensued, and company was
forthwith organized, which Berry promises to
pilot to the locality of the gittering pebbles.
A st. Paul dispatch says river men consider
the Mississippi river practically closed to
navigation. With the exception of 1857, this is
the shortest season of navigation in twenty
two years.
The notorious Mrs. Laura D. Fair has en-
tered the lecture field in California Her
| subject is Wolves in the Fold" The Pa
cifc slopers are highly indignant at the au-
dacity of the woman.
The Illinois Female College, at Jackson
vile, Ill, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
| $4,000; insurance, $50, 900.
The South.
Col. William NJ. Grosvenor, a prominent
leader and one of the original organizers of
| the Liberal movement. has assumed the edito-
| rial management of the St. Louis EUenirg Dis
patch.
|
Va, for the killing of Clark, editor of the
Manassas Gazette, while the latter was in jail
charged with the seduction and abduction of
FewelIs sister, girl of some sixteen years.
| has been acquitted, the jury being out only
| five minutes
| The horse distemper is prevailing in Louis
| vile, and street traffic is almost wholly sus-
| pended.
The Louisville (Ky.) Presbytery has rem
| dered verdict of guilty against the Rev.
| Gilbert II. Robertson, on charges of drunken
| ness, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and falsehood, and SEN
| fenced him to be deposed from the ministry and
| the privileges of the church until he shows
repentance fitting him for membership.
The business portion of Abbeyville, S. c.,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 900.
Gen. John. F. Sale, a leading criminal law
yer of Memphis, is dead.
The extensive pork packing establishment
| of John J. Roe & Co., of st. Louis, has been
burned. Loss over 100000
| Washington.
The forthcoming report of the Internal
Revenue Bureau will show an increase in the
taxes collected this year on spirits, tobacco
and malt liquors over the receipts last year.
The income tax yields nearly four millions
less than in 1871.
| Postmaster General Creswell will remain at
Elkton, Nd, until his annual report is pub
lished. He has taken force of clerks and
load of records with him. He says he is SO
bored with office-seekers and other callers
that he could not prepare his report in Wash
ington.
The President is busy on his annual mes
sage.
| John ID. Langston, the colored lawyer
called on President Grant the other day, and
assured him that the reports put forth IN Adj
ministration papers that he was a. candidate
for Cabinet position were without his knowl-
edge or consent, and that he did not desire it
to be understood that he was a candidate
| 1t is almost certain that Secretary Fish will
retire from the Cabinet on the 4th of March !;
| and it is quite equally as certain that Hon
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