Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-15

THERE are hundred publications IT,
Melbourne, Australia.
AN exchange tells us that political
prisoners in Russia receive nothing but
bread and water, except by the special
permission of the Emperor.
FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN, the German
novelist, has declined an offer to become
editor-in chief of German newspaper
published in st. Louis.
FRITZ REUTER-, the w-German
novelist, was recently offered a patent
of nobility by the Emperor William of
Germany, but declined it,
THE German feet, when the ships
actually commenced are completed, will
number sixty-two vessels fit for service,
and mount five hundred guns.
A VOLUNTEER at Wimbledon, shooting
for the Queens prize the other day,
made the remarkable score of five con.
secutive bul'seyes at 200 yards.
IT seems to have become matter for
notoriety that Baron Won Rhaden, hus-
band of Pauline Lucca, the Berlin can
tarice, has gambled away two hundred
dollars during the last seven years.
LOUIS ULBAcH, the Partisan journalist.
has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment for having written in his
newspaper, La CIoche, that " Rochefort's
condemnation did more honor to him
than to his judges"
A COMPANY has been formed in Eng
land, with capital of $500, 900, for re-
opening and working the silver mines
of Bolivia, particularly those of Potosi
and Caracoles, which are famous for
their wealth and apparent inexhasti-
b;lity.
RON in vast quantities and of excel
eat quality is found in British India.
The Indian Mail says that the steel now
wrought in Clutch may vie in beauty of
flush and excellence of temper with the
best productions of Sheffield and Glas-
gov; that iron was lately turned out
from rude furnace erected in the hills
near Simla, superior to that obtained
from Glasgow and Merthyr Tydvil at
seventy shillings English per ton. For
sixty miles along the base of the lower
Himalayas extends a rich iror-bearing
country, while the materials for smelt-
ing the ore lie close at hand in the slope
of hard timber. The iron. bearing tract
near Simla covers two hundred square
miles, and yi.lds malleable ore like
that of Sweden.
THE opposition of Bismarck which
has developed itself so bitterly toward
the Papal election, is explained by the
late advlces from Prussia. 1t is there
known that the Cardinals have already
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Cardinal Patrizzi. He was one of the
prime instigators of the Ecumenical
Council, and is personal enemy of
both Bismarck and Victor Emanuel. 1t
is said that his succession will prevent
the perfecting of the civil government
of Italy, while it would carry confusion
and discord into Germany. Bismarck's |
choice is Cardinal Hohenlohe, and the
conflict is likely to be serious one.
The Spanish correspondent of the
Pail Mall Gazette says that we, the Ameri-
cans, are anything but popular just now
with Spain. In one of the Mediter-
ranean ports, where several of our men
of-war chance to be lying, our officers
And he cites as significant fact that
none OF them go ashore except in full
uniform. The "Home Government"
has one way of viewing the disturbances
now going on in Cuba, and our soldiers
have another; indeed, they have been
heard to say that under certain favor
able conditions Cuba is bound to
beat"-which view of the subject can
not fail to be distasteful to the Cuban
hating 'Spaniards.