Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The New York State superinten dent of
Public Instruction has decided against ex-
GLIDING children from public schools for re-
fusaI to read the Bible.
Three expeditions have left this country,
within few days, to succor the struggling
Cuban patriots.
In Allegheny City, Pa, on the 18th inst,
Ambrose Lynch fatally stabbed and killed
John Hatfield, aged 40 years, for criminal
intimacy with his (Lynch's) sister.
A man was knocked down and robbed by
two abandoned women, in Broadway, New
York, last week.
Paterson, N. j., has just had the fercest
tornado she ever experienced. A number
of buildings were demolished.
The seve nteenth international conven-
ten of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton was in session at Lowell, Mass, last
week. H. Thane Miller, of Cincinnati, pre-
sided.
Twenty-three Ku-Klux prisoners arrived
at Albany IN. " Penitentiary, last week,
from Charleston
New York telegram announces the
sad intelligence that Mr.. Joseph Jeffer-
son, the celebrated comedian, has become
suddenly blind. The constant glare of gas
and calcium lights is said to have produced
the painful afiiction. Mr.. jefferson is un-
der the care of the ablest oculists of the
metropolis, and hopes are INDUCED of his
ultimate recovery.
Hot weather in New York on the 18th;
thermometer 90.
The earthly remains of James Gordon
Bennett were deposited in their final res ting
place, in Greenwood Cemetery, New York,
on Thursday, the 18th inst. The funeral
ceremonies of the great journalist were very
imposing, many noted men appearing in the
eortege. The streets along the line of the
procession were lined with spectators, and
flags throughout the city were hung at half
mast.
Fred. Kramer and Richard D. Maxwell.
machinists, were crushed to death by an i'm
mense steel bed-plate, at Pittsburgh, on the
18th inst.
The Republicans of Maine have renom-
mated Hon. Sidney Perham for Governor.
Col. Forney and Col. Thos. A. Scott. the
railroad king, have gone on aseveral months
jaunt to Texas.
Emil Andre, Frenchman, shot and
killed his wife, in New York, on the 18th
inst.
Miss Tennie c. Clafin has been elected
Colonel of the Eighty-seventh regiment of
New York recruits (colored).
Beecher's church, New York, on the 18th
inst, Miss Margaret Richardson was fatally
burned by the explosion of kerosene lamp.
Thirty persons were poisoned at New
York boarding house, on the 18th inst, by
eating custard. One has died, and others
are in dangerous condition.
cambridge Wadleigh Republican is New
Hampshire's new United States Senator
vice James W. Patterson.
By the falling of new smske-stack in
process of erection, at West Conshocken,
Pa, on the 14th inst, six persons were killed
outright, and eight wounded.
Four cases of sun-stroke in New York on
the 14th inst.
An attempt was made to burn the Cuban
headquarters, in New York, on the 14:h
inst.
The steamship Rhein, which arrived at
the German Imperial Band, Herr Strauss,
Mme. Pescha Leutner Zen route for the Ju-
bilee), and the wife and daughter of Horace
Greeley.
New York and Brooklyn, and their sub
urbs, were visited by a fierce hurricane on
the evening of the 14th inst, doing con-
siderable damage to property. Many per-
sons were injured, and in Brooklyn three
were killed outright.
The citizens of East New York have been
annoyed by incendiafies to such an extent
that they formed vigilance committee,
and propose to deal summarily with these
dangerous fre-bugs.
La Grave, the swindling New York mer-
chant, carried away some 100000. Detec-
ives announce that he has fed to Europe.
The New York orangemen have deter
mined to parade on July II, fully armed for
any emergency.
The water in White Lake, Sullivan county
n. Y, near Port Jarvis, has receded several
feet the past few days, and is still rapidly
sinking. The lake is on the mountain topS
and has probably found a subterranean out
let.
By the explosion of Locomotive near
Hornellsville, N. Y, on June Is, two per-
sons were killed and one wounded.
The International Peace Jubilee, which
opened at Boston on Monday, June II, may
be set down as success. The telegraph in
forms us that the audience was immense and
enthusiastic, and the chorus, though gigantic,
proved perfectly manageable.
The notorious bank robber, Dutch Helm
rich, an inmate of Sing Sing, has become a
raving maniac.
Rev. q. B. rockingham, of New York,
has been Illuminating from his pulpit against
the striking laborers.
There is much tribulation in Pittsburgh.
produced by the announcement of fatal
case OF undoubted Asiatic cholera.
Tom Thumb has sailed for Europe. 1t is
announced that Thomas has salted down
100000. 49, .s
director of the st. Petersburg (Russia)
Prison Commission was in Pittsburgh, the