Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-14

| on Monday, and was drowned......On Sun
! day the stable of Col Hutchins, in Tippe-
canoe, Ind, was burned, together with two
horses and feed. Loss, $4,000; insured for
S., 900.
! The South.
LOUISVILLE has a sensation in the shape of
a corner in the whisky market. 1t appears
that the firm of S. T. Suit & Co. have bought
up ali the available stocks of old whistles
| in the United States, WHICH, of course, in
cludes about all in the world. Their pur-
chases in New York city alone amount to
over l,0O0,O00 and the aggregate reach
| about 100000. .s
| On Monday evening at CORTLAND Station,
on the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad,
the stores of Simpson & Hunt and NJ. G.
Hall & Co. were destroyed by fire. Loss
500, 900; insured for $15,000......The upper
stories of the buildings 164 and 166 Canal
street, New Orleans, burned on Thursday
morning. The buildings were occupied by
Wagner Meyer, Ernest Pragst, and Dol
haus's Commercial College. Loss estimated
at 100000.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE was very
seriously, perhaps fatally, injured by a fall
on Thursday at her home, at Mandarin,
Florida......A Richmond, Va, dispatch states
| that the tobacco business of the whole State,
as well as that of North Carolina, is at a
stand-still, awaiting Congressional action
upon that production. Over ten thousand
| negroes in Richmond alone are idle, and an
aggregate of over thirty thousand in the
| State are out of employment, and suffering.
| .....Charles Lieber, convicted of the murder
of Charles Gennawein at Louisville, Ky,
has been sentenced to be hung on the 18th
of May next.
| THE steamer Falls City was run into and
sunk by the steamer ]. W. Garrett on Fri
day night, at the mouth of the old canal at
Louisville. The passengers escaped, but
| the cargo, valued at $4,000, is a total loss.
! ......A terrific gale, accompanied with sleet
| and snow, prevailed at Norfolk, Va, on
Saturday. The high tides caused by the
gale covered many of the wharves with two
| feet of water. The telegraph lines on the
Norfolk side of the river were Frustrated by
the storm The steamer Sallie was sunk
on Saturday, near Swan Lake, Arkansas
river, to her boiler deck, and will probably
be a total loss. Buta small part of her cargo
was saved.
ANDREW J. JONES, late President of the
Western railroad of NORTH Carolina, charged
with the fraudulent use Of the bonds of the
company, and tried before the Superior
Court in Moore county, N. c., has been
convicted, and sentenced to pay fine of
| $I0,0 900, with one years Imprisonment in the
Penitentiary. He takes an appeal to the
| Supreme Court.
Washington.
| THE Japanese Embassy reached Washing
ipgton on Thursday afternoon. They will
occupy fifty rooms of the Arlington Hotel,
and two entire buildings on the opposite
| side of Vermont avenue.
| Stokes, of Tennessee, was sentenced on
Friday, and escaped with a fine of 1900
and costs. The fee he received for working
the fraudulent claims through Congress was
$40 900, and the real fraud upon the Govern
ment was between $50, 900 and 100000. The
evidence elected on the trial was univer
sally regarded in official circles as showing
| one of the blacklist cases of corruption which
! was ever brought to light in Washington
| Courts...... Gen. Howard has been charged
| to proceed to Arizona to report upon the
pending troubles with the Apache Indians,
and will start soon.
TIE Japanese embassy were presented to
the President on Monday, and compliment
tary speech was made by the japanese Min
lister, introducing the embassy, followed by
an address from Iwakura, and a response
by President Gram. Members of the Cab-
net were present, with all the army and
naval dignitaries in full uniform, together
with Vice-President Colfax, Speaker Blaine,
etc.
Foreign.
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS and suite arrived at
Havana on Tuesday,. The officers and
crew Of the American ship Andy were poi
soned recently while lying in the harbor OF
Hong Kong, and the principal officer died
from the effects of the poison. No clue
could be found to the murderer.
The German Government has notified the
French Minister of Finance that it will &C.
cept the anticipatory payment of 400 ,OOO, OOC
francs of the war indemnity with dis
count of per cent. NJ. Pouyer Quertier
will Immediately pay the amount, thereby
saving 20,000,0 900 francs.....Three more
French men-of-war have been fitted out to
cruise in the British Channel to guard the
coast against Bonapartist expeditions
Diplomatic authorities at Paris are conf
dent that England will finally admit the
competency of the Geneva Board Of Arbitra-
ton to consider indirect claima. 1t is
anticipated that the American reply will be
quite as conciliatory as Esrl Granville's
4
sian Minister to the United States, has
started from st. Petersburg for America .....
A Russian spy has been detected at Lem
berg, Austria, sketching the Notifications
and cond emned to years imprisonment.
On Thursday afternoon as Queen Victoria
had reached Buckingham Palace on her re.
turn from a drive, young man ran to the
side of the carriage and presented pistol
within foot of the Queens head. The
, Queen bent her head down to avoid the shot
but the pistol did not explode. The fellow
, in one hand held papers granting release tc
the Fenian prisoners, which he shouted tt
the Queen to sign, threatening her at the
,, same time with pistol. He was instantly
seized by the attendants and prevented from
doing further harm. 1t was then found thai
the pistol was unloaded, and that it was o
! such primitive construction that if it hac
! been loaded it probably could not have beer
|, discharged. The wou'd-be assassin was
taken to the nearest Police Station. He
! gives his name as O'Connor, and is about Is
or 20 years of age. His behavior in the sta
ton was wild and his language incoherent
He boosted that he tried 70 reach the Queer
on Tuesday, during the procession. 49,. The
Naples Purgato of Feb. 3 says fire can bt
seen from the crater of Vesuvius every
night. The movement appears at three dis
tinct points. Fears are entertained of {
serious outbreak.
THE directors of the Rhenish Musical Fes
+;vo1 ~ ha hold naxt amman Of DusaaIdorf