Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-10

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was handed around. Mr.. Reed put an end e
the dispute by drawing pistol and shooting
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Washington.
The purchase of the Green Bay and NIissis.
sippi Canal Company by the Government has
been completed, and the property has beer
duly conveyed to the United States.
J. Milton Turner, prominent colored man
has instituted suit against the proprietors OF
the Arlington House, On the ground of having
been refused admission as boardec.
The Postofice Department has received in
formation that large number of counterfeit
postage stamps are in circulation.
The Postmaster General having been in
noyed by constant inquiries concerning the
proposed postal-card system, positively an
nounces that 40 postal card will be in order
until an appropriation is made by Congress,
and they have been regularly issued by the
Postofice Department.
An important question, arising out of the
money-order system, has recently been before
the Department of Justice, at Washington.
1t grew out of controversy between the re-
mitter and payee of a money order, the latter
demanding payment. of the sum and the
former forbidding it. The Attorney General
decides that, after the remitter of all order
has delivered to the payee, he cannot stop
payment of it, but the latter is entitled to
have the amount paid to him on proper
demand.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that certificates of naturalization
issued by the United States or State Courts
are exempt from stamp tax.
Another delegation of noble red men are on
visit to the capital. Among them are some
of the fercest chiefs that have harrassed the
settlers of the border conspicuous among
them Santanta and Lone Bear.
The President has returned to the White
House, and settled down TO business.
Tho Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York
to purchase 81, 900, 600 each Wednesday, and
to sell 81, 600, 900 gold each Thursday, during
October
In accordance with the recent act of Con-
gress, the stamp duty on all documents, ex-
sept bank checks, drafts or orders, expired
on Oct. 1. Ne stamps are now required on
any legal document whatever, or ON foreign
bills of exchange.
Foreign.
Santa Anna aspires to succeed Juarez as
President of Mexico.
Death is knocking at the palace-gate in
Europe. The death of the King OF Sweden
has just thrown the English Court into
The Princess Hohenlohe, half
sister of Queen Victoria, is dead, and the
King of Denmark lies very low.
The German authorities recently stopped
the transmission by telegraph of cipher
dispatch Of 500 words, signed by Napoleon.
The King of Abyssinia has sent messen-
ger to England with letters for the Queen,
asking for the intervention of Great Britain
against Egypt. 1t is said similar appeals
have been addressed to France, Russia and
Germany.
1t is announced that the French Govern
ment will shortly release about one-half of
the $4,000 Communists yet in confinement,
and that only those accused of assassination,
thieving and arson will be tried.
Gambetta is making speeches in France, in
which he advocates the dissolution of the Ma
tional Assembly.
The Sultan of Turkey has dispatched
to Egypt to present to the Viceroy
a frman sanctioning his title of Khedive and
making it hereditary.
1t is reported that an effort will be made by
the British Government to compel Msssrs.
Laird, contractors of the Confederate priYa-
teer Alabama, to pay portion of the damages
awarded to the United States
The bark Newcastle, from Liverpool for
Havana, has been wrecked, and thirty of the
crew lost.
Sir Sidney Waterlow has been elected Lord
Mayor of London.
Berlin letter states that during the recep-
ton Of the imperial party, in that city. eight
persons were suffocated and trampled to
death in one night, and fifteen more MORALLY
wounded.
The health of the ex-Empress Carlotta is
The Carlists are again becoming trouble
some in Spain.
President Theirs has received positive as
surances from the Emperor of Austria and
the Gear of Russia that neither would have
allowed themselves to be decoyed to Berlin
had anything inimical to France been oontem-
plated.
The Lord Chancellor of England Gord
Atherly) has resigned. Sir Rounded Palmer
is spoken of as his probable successor.
Victor Hugo has been nominated by the Re-
publicans of Anglers for member of the French
Assembly.
It is reported that Spain will submit to the
other European powers the question of the
justice of her claims against the United States
for damages by Cuban iibustering expedi-
ITEMS
For the first time since the occupation of
Rome by Victor Emanuel, the Pope has just
ventured beyond the sacred precincts of the
Vatican.
AT Canterbury, New Hampshire, lives
Lyman B. Foster, who was brought
home at the close of the war on a
lounge, from which he has not risen
since. He was wounded Ia the left
thigh, the ball remains there still. and