Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-01

vi oAchanSe OF DondS OF the State and pay
ment of interest thereon ...... The steamer
Importer sunk at Horse Head, below Van
Buren,, Ark, on Tuesday. She is total
loss. She had 1000 bales OF cotton en- route
to New Orleans.
A LARGE ire occurred on Thursday night
in the village of Abbeville Court House,
South Carolina. All the hotels and one side
of the business square were destroyed The
origin of the fire IS unknown....G George r.
Dennis was on Friday elected United States
Senator from Maryland to succeed Mr.. VIck-
ers..... The late Alexander Larman, of Balti-
more, left $4,000 to the various benevolent
Institutions Of that city....The Kentucky
Senate on Friday, by 90 yeas to Is navs.
voted to allow colored persons to testify in
| their coutrs.
The Union Pipe Foundry of Dennis. Long
q Co., at Louisville, Ky, was DESTROYED by
| fire on Sunday. Loss, $175 900 insurance.
s1o,OOO.....In Louisville, KY, on Saturday
morning, young man named Theodore
Thomas, in fit of insanity, shot Mrs.
Green and her two daughters Wilhelmina,
aged II, and Larmina, aged s. The two
former were shot in the stomach, and will
probably die. The latter, who is wounded
IN the hip, will recover. Thomas also at
| tempted to shoot brother-in- law, and then
put the pisto; to his own head and fred.
The bullet glanced, inficting painful but
not dangerous wound.
HARRISON Patrick, a noted Ku-Klux of
Estelle county, KY, engaged in the troubles
last summer, was captured on Friday and
taken to Louisville.
Washington.
THE resignation OF Vincent Collyer as Sec
rotary of the Board eff Indian Commissioners
has been accepted. The Territorial Dele
gates have united in a request to the Presi-
dent that hereafter, in making appoint
ments in the territories, he would select
from citizens of the same, as he does in case
OF the States...... Secretary Belknap, under a
Joint resolution of Congress, has set apart
l,o2l acres for military post at Fort Smell
ling, and has conveyed the remainder of the
military reservation to purchasers on prin-
clples of equity There are twenty-five ap-
phcants for position made vacant by the
resignation of a clerk in the Postoffice De-
partment on Monday last. The Postmaster
General has directed that the applicants be
submitted 10 competitive examination, and |
that the names of three who pass the best
examination be sent him from these he
VIII seitct one for the appointment.
The Directors of the American Colonies |
ton Society closed their annual meeting on |
Thursday. There are over 1000 names en- /
rolled for passage to Liberia.....In the |
American and Mexican Claims Comm ssion |
several American claims have been rejected |
upon 1t appearing that the injuries COM
planned OF were inflicted by the Macmillan
authorities, for whose acts the. Mexican Re-
public is not held liable.
The Comptroller of the Currency has de-
Ocean National Bank, New York, payable on
and after Goth inst on all approved claims
$3.50. Mr.. klmbalI, head of the tobscco diyis-
ION OF the Internal Revenue Department,
has prepared paper for the information Of
The Ways and Means Committee, estimating
he number of tobacco consumers in the
United States ct 100000, who each use IL
pounds and IA ounces of tobacco and 1877
aga annually. He says tax of "a cents
Der pound, the prohibition of the sale of
eat to consumers, and a thorough collection
i the taxes, would produce revenue of
5000, 900.
THE War Department has decided to
trengthen Fort Pulaski, below Savannah.
nd the forts in Charleston harbor. The
walls OF Pulaski Will be surrounded with
arth, and he latter will be the PRINCIPAL
Material used in restoring the works ar | ,
The amount refunded to the
tates for expenses in raising volunteers
rom 1861 to 1872 is 500, eco 900. The bal !
nee claimed on suspended accounts is !
5 100000
Foreign.
THE Channel Tunnel Company has been :
egistered in London as a legal corporation t
1.-The treaty for the session to great Britain
+ the Dutch possessions on the Guinea coast t
meets with violent opposition in Holland. |
'here 1t Is generally stigmatized as dis 3
onorable....The Telegraph Construction t
nd Maintenance Company of London have {
lgned contract for the laying OF an At. F
antlc telegraph cable to New York, direct Y
IA number OF ex-officers of the French g
rmy, at the Invitation of the JAPANESE
-oVernment, are about to proceed to Japan F
} instruct the native army in military tac- | G
cs...... Published statistics show that 90 OOO
left Germany last year, nearly all
DING to the United States. Il
The assassin of the Prussian soldier at I
uneville few days since was man :
AIMED Crelel. He has been arrested. and a
onfesses having committed the deed Tho n
o3TaeT de France says the Government is Il
ntertaining the idea of ceding the monopo- b
? tor the sale of tobacco to the RotbscbiIds | Il
nd several other bankers for period of d
ilrty years upon condition that they fur P
lsh sufficient funds to immediately nav off b
le German war indemnity. 1.-The Spanish b
[inistry have directed the Governors of Of
rovlnces to suppress the Internatienalists ia
thin their jurisdiction, but at the same
me not to interfere with the liberty Of
beech, and to take no notice of SmnIe il
of the principles of the liner P
atlonal Society, as the laws of Spain pro- c.
de no punishment for such utteranoes ~
he budget which has been submitted bv !.
lie Russian Minister of Finance to the | a
ouncil of the Empire shows that during the e.
art year the receipts have exceeded the ex- ~
,nditures 100000 roubles Indians from JI'
exico are burning ranches, killing settlers. -
Id running off stock from Texas, between =.
aredo and Eagle Pass, to their camps on -
e Mexican side of the Rio Grande. -
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in a car W
idge factory in Greenwich, England, on cl
-iday afternoon. The clothing of a larpe Gu
lmber of girls employed in the factory
ok fire, and they rushed shrieking through dt
e town into the surrounding marshes. In Ia
pes of quenching the flames. The factory si'
Is totally destroyed. Dispatches from M
ltavia report heavy foods in the island of q
va, which have done considerable damage 70
the crops......A telegram from Bombay OF
ports the loss of vessel off Surat with 0o
m