Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-09


Ferguson Mine, in Mariposa, Cal, and VIM.
Oliver were drowned in the MERGED river
Saturday.
THE extensive Touring mill of Fletc her &
Judy, at Coatsville, ILL.,, was destroyed by
fire on April 25th. Loss on building and
contents $1s,OO0 partially insured......A
dispatch from Minneapolis, Mimi, April
29th, states that advices from Oakdale, on
the Northern Pacific railroad, on Saturday
evening last, announce the wholesale muir
der of family of man named Cook,
brother of Franklin Cook, of Minneapolis
The house was burned to the ground and
bones found in the ruins. The outrage is sup
posed to have been committed by Indians.
49,. The body of young Dane name Au-
gustus Gibson was found in the river at
Racine, Wis, on Sunday. Gibson had been
missing since the 18th of April, and is sup
posed to have been m ordered.
The South.
On the Baltimore and Ohio railway, on
Tuesday, the engine of the way freight train
going east when near Parkerbury, W. Va,
explod ed its boiler, instantly killing the en-
gineer, Milton Pal ker, and the fireman,
Daniel Nelson, and injuring a brakeman
Mike Eagan, 30 seriously as to cause his
death in few hours.
In the Circuit Court at Annapolis, Md, on
Wednesday, the case of Mrs Wharton,
charged with attempting to murder Mr.. Van
Ness by poison, was continued. Mrs. Whar-
| toms counsel stated that she was too i'll to
| undergo the excitement of new trial at
present, and the result will probably be a
postponement till the October term.
Hon. A. ]. WALKER, ex-Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Alabama, died at his
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aged So. He was an Eminent Commander
of the Knights Templar of that State
| BENNETT JONES, printer, was shot md in
stantly killed on Friday afternoon, at Mem
phis, Tenn, by DIR. William Demeron, form
erly of Campbell county, Kentucky. Al
| legged criminal intimacy between Jones and
Dameron's wife was the cause. Cameron
was committed to answer.
E. P. LODGE, in Bowling Green, KY, jail
on the charge of murder, on Sunday af-
ternoon, while temporarily in the hall of
the iail. was near the turnkey, when the
| latter opened the door of his cell, and in
stantly pushed the turnkey in, locked the
| door, and walked out of the prison. re
ward is offered for his recapture.
Washington.
| THE House Committee on Pacific Railroads
has agreed to an unanimous report in favor
of the Texas Pacific bill as it passed the
Senate The bill gives new grant, but
| puts the enterprise in such shape as to in
sure the prompt construction of the road.
THE Senate on Wednesday confirmed the
nomination of John Jay Knox as Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency.
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burg has been transferred to the care and
control of the Government, and superintend-
ents have been appointed by the Secretary
| of War to take charge of it. The remains
of Confederate dead inferred at Gettysburg
will be removed to Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond......The Senate Committee on
! Territories have about concluded the
consideration of a bill to prevent poly
gamy in the Territory of Utah.. ohm
Jay Knox, confirmed Wednesday by the
! Senate, took his official oath Thursday, and
enters on the duties of Comptroller of the
| Currency at once.
| News reached Washington on Monday
| that the late Tycoon of Japan has been in
vited by the present reigning Emperor to
come out of his late retirement, and has re-
| ceived an honorable appointment under
the Government, accompanied by highly
| complimentary title...... Among the Japan
csc now on their way to Washington is
Kotori, present Chief Min lister of Finance of
Japan.
| Foreign.
Hon. JOHN JAY, United States Minister to
Austria, and Count Andrassy, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, have exchanged ratifca-
tons of the trade mark convention recently
| negotiated between the United States and
| Austria......The claimant in the Itch borne
case has been admitted TO bail. He will pc
summoned soon to answer the charges of
perjury and forgery.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by King
Amadeus of Spain, declaring the provinces
of Navarro, Lerida ano Biscay in a state of
siege. It is stated that the Carlist t7nds in
| these provinces decline to risk engagements
with the Government forces in the open
field, but harass the troops sent against them
by marches, countermarches and ambus-
| cades. The number of revolutionists in Ma
varre is said to be 1000 we'll armed and
equipped......Mr. Langevan, Canadian Min
lister of Public Works, introduced resolutions
in the Dominion Parliament tina. the Gov
eminent should proceed immediately with
the improvement and enlargement of the
canals, and recommending the construction
of a canal capable of floating sea- going vef-
sells from the Gulf of st. Lawrence to the
| Bay of Fu1dy.
A THUSDER-sroRM of unusual violence
passed over the midland counties of England
on Thursday morning, doing great damage.
Houses were unroofed, churches injured, and
some lives reported lost.....The ATLANTA
boat-crew arrived at Liverpool on Wednes-
day. Members of the London club met the
Atalanta crew at Liverpool, and gave them
a warm greeting.....It is announced that
Don Carlos has crossed the frontier and is
now in Spain at the head of 10000 men.
Journals say perfect understanding exists
between the Carlists and Republicans. The
former are to draw the troops into the open
country and leave the towns defenseless
against the Republicans, who are to rise
against the Government on the LIST of May
in all parts of Spain. Only two of the Isa-
beliist generals have as yet Joined the in
surrection. The French legitimists hold
aloof from this last daring scheme of Don
Carlos..-..The eruption of Mount Vesuvius
has reached an unwonted pitch of grandeur
New cratcrs have formed, and streams oil
lava are pouring down the mountain side in
different directions.
A DISPATCH dated Naples, Italy, Friday af-
ternoon, says: "The eruption of Vesuvius
is increasino and becominp more sariouu