Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-18

gang plank to the ice, receiving such inju-
ries that she died on Friday evening. .....Ex-
Gov Matteson, of Illinois, was thrown from
sleigh at Springfield on Monday, receiving
probably fatal injuries......A few days since
the skeleton of Chinaman was found on
GOODYEAR creek, Sierra county, Nevada, the
head being suspended by two ropes attached
to tree, the rest lying on the ground. He
had been missing for about a year......C. G.
Ball, of Flint, Mich, discovered broken
rail on the Flint and Pere Marquette rail-
road, the other day, and stopped an ap-
preaching train. For this the company re-
warded him by granting him a perpetual
free pass..-..Mrs. Warren Thayer, of Clin-
ton, Wis, took cyanide of potassa in mis-
take for medicine, on Wednesday last, and
died in a few hours.
The South.
A SPECIAL from San Antonio, Texas, says
Col. Sawyer and Capt. Travis, just from the
frontier, report that ten men were killed by
Indians at Salt Crock on the 9th instr.
On the goth inst. three citizens of San An
tonic, named Their, Wagner, and Bsrchus,
were murdered near Hillsboro. They were
dro~ers returning home from Kansas with
the proceeds of their sales.......A fire at New
Orleans on Sunday night destroyed sixty
buildings. Loss estimated at 100000; in
surance, 100000.
A LITTLE girl of years, daughter of Will
ham David Cromwell, of Ohio county, KY,
was instantly killed by lightning in her ia
theirs house on Sunday. The electricity
came down the chimney. The fash struck
the left side of the head burning off the hair,
| and peeling the skin in crisps from many
| places on the face, neck, chest and lower
| limbs, leaving the flesh of a blush, livid
color. little dog lying at the girls feet
was killed by the same flash. The mother
and two other children we're knocked sense
| less by the shock The mantel over the fire
was torn in splinters, but the chimney was
uninjured.. In the United States Court at
Columbia, S. c., ten more prisoners from
| Spartansburg county pleaded guilty, and
told the story of their crimes in open court.
A fire in Somerset, Pulaski county, KY,
last Sunday, burned twelve of the best
| houses in the village, including the Court
House. Loss, $4,000.
A FRANKFoRr (Ky.) special says that a
band of fifteen or twenty Ku-Klux made a
raid upon some negroes nea- Bridgeport, in
that county, OF the night of the ID, whip
ping one and ordering others to leave the
| vicinity on pain of death. One farmer was
ordered to employ none but white laborers
It is the declared purpose of the outlaws tc
drive the negroes out of the country.
LIBBY GARRABRANDT, mistress of Bur
roughs, the brothel keeper whom the Pater-
son constable found dead in his chair, ha:
confessed that her dissolute lover Var
Wrinkle Bogert poisoned Burroughs. The
girls devotion to her lover had led her t.
take the risk of the gallows rather than ex
pose him, but when she clearly
saw his perfdy in actually striv
ing to fasten the crime upon her, she re
Tented and told the truth to thu
Mayor of Patterson. I'm the Wharton
murder trial at Annapolis, Md, on Monday
DR.. Harry L. Byrn testified that Genera
Ketchum died from natural causes, proba
bly, from cerebro-spinal meningitis. DIR
Peter GOODRICH testified his belief tina
Ketchum was not poisoned by tartar emetic
and DR.. John r. McClurg, of Westchester
Pa, testified that the death of Ketchum wa
the result of purely natural causes.
Washington.
TIE residence of the Russian Ministe
was entered by burglars on Tuesday night
and robbed of considerable amount of sill
yerware The Commissioner of Patent
has extended the patent of Henry Fisher
of Canton, O., for moving machines......Th
, Treasury Department has issued circula
| allowing towing boats and steamboats,, use
) exclusively in transporting freight upon tn
Mississippi and its tributaries, to carry
; standard pressure upon their boilers of on
hundred and fifty pounds to the square incl
: instead of one hundred and ten pounds, tn
: limit heretofore allowed.....The Unite
States Patent Office has commenced the pull
LEGATION of weekly official gazette, whic
will embrace all the various matters authel
lied to be published by Section 20 of the Ps
v tent act of 1870, with the exception
e specifications and drawings, which will cor
tinue to be published in separate form.
t THE Civil Service Commission reassen
I. bled on Thursday to perfect the il
e auguration Of the civil service reform rule
e The board seem to think these rules wei
r placed in force somewhat earlier than W;
n necessary. Members of Congress are mo
n nonplussed by the new order of things, ar
e grow very indignant when heads of depar
l. ments and bureaus refer them and all the
5, applications for appointments to the comp
,r titiye boards selected and to be selected
f, pass candidates for ofice......The Britit
case, as presented at the Geneva Conferenc
has been received at the State DEPARTING
from our agent at Geneva, Bancroft Dav
lie 1t makes five volumes, and does not read
a. though the positions assumed in the case
4. the United States had been learned by T.
British authorities in advance, as alleged.
IN GEN. BABcocK, of the Presidents staff, h
ed written letter to the Retrenchment. Coz
= mittee, asking that they make most rig
Il investigation into the charges made agar
:. him of participating in the profits of t
R. general-order business of the New Yo
Nv Custom House, and he takes the liberty
O.: suggest that the witnesses be examined e
clusively by the Democratic members
the committee......Dr. Ryland T. Brown,
o. agricultural chemist of Indianapolis, In
of has accepted the position of chemist of t
r. Agricultural Department rendered him
g Commissioner Watts.
he Foreign.
on AT the installation of the Conservati
Nv Mayor of Limerick, on Tuesday, tumul
n GUS mob alternately Missed at the name
w the Prince of Wales and cheered for hol
r. rule" ... The King Of Italy sent a spec
be ambassador to the Vatican or New Yea
at day to tender His Majesty's congratulate
let to the Holy Father. The ambassador "
er met by Cardinal Antonelli, and inform
en- that His Holiness was indisposed and unal
ID, to receive visits..... Dispatches from Algi'
re report that the French troops have won
IS, brilliant success over the rebel Oran. T
n rebel chieftains and $50 horsemen WI
es killed.
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