Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28

by the cars in La Sale, Ill.,, and amputated
on Friday evening, came to town to see her
unfortunate son on Saturday morning, and
on seeing him Immediately swooned and
died.
In the matter of the difference between
the proprietors of the Missouri Democrat
Judge MadilI on Monday appointed VIM.
Mckee, one of the firm, receiver, and or
dered sale of the establishment....Ge George
Thompson, night yard-master of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad, at Sedalia
Mo-, was killed On Monday morning while
switching train......At Mackinac, on the
7th inst, the mercury stood at twenty de-
grees below zero. The ice in the harbor is
twenty-four inches thick, and no conjecture
can be formed as to when the straits will
open.
The South.
THE Kentucky State Republican Conven-
ton met at Louisville on Wednesday.
About 800 delegates were present, one-fourth
of whom were colored. The delegates were
instructed fer Grant and Harlan......A new
afternoon paper, styled the Register, has
appeared at Memphis. 1t is edited by F. A.
Taylor, late editor of the Appeal. Judge
Busted, of the United States District Court
of Alabama, sitting in bankruptcy, on We'd
nesday granted on order for the sale of the
AlabamS and Chattanooga railroad, subject
to every lien of the State of Alabama for in
dorsements of the bonds of said railroad,
and for all interest paid by the State on the
Endorsed bonds. The sale is ordered for the
I'D of April by the assignees.
A YOUNG man named Henry Kiebause was
brutality murdered at Knowlton's Landing,
Ark, on the 18th inst, by John Hyde, a
rival, who literally chopped him to pieces
with an ak, and then threw the body in the
river. Hyde, on being arrested, confessed
the deed.
j. G. BIsHeFF, keeper of saloon in the
eastern part of Louisville, shot himself on
Sunday night with shotgun, placing the
muzzle in his mouth and touching the trig-
ger with a cane. The cause is supposed to
be temporary insanity, from heart disease.
......John S. Washington, for thirty five
years marine reporter of the New Orleans
PicGyune, is dead.
DR.. GosHoRN, Postmaster at Dyersburg,
Tenn, has absconded with nearly $4,000 in
Government funds. Sam Russell, son of
the proprietor of the hotel at Paris, Tenn,
accidentally shot himself on Saturday while
hunting, causing death in few hours.
Foreign.
IT is stated that the French Government
is negotiating with the Government at Ber-
lin, with view of anticipating the full
payment of the war indemnity, thereby
securing the comp lete evacuation of France
by the Germans "a meeting of the share
holders of the SueZ canal was held in Paris
on Tuesday. President Lesseps made a re-
port, in which he stated that the direction
of the company has no intention of selling
the canal to any government; that the traffic
over the canal is largely increasing, and that
the receipts during the months of January
and February Of the present year amounted
to 2,577,000 francs....A number of promi-
nent Russians are negotiating with the
Polish refugees in France for their return to
their native country. These negotiations
look to a reconciliation between the Car
and the disaffected Poles, a general amnes-
ty, and the appointment of the Grand Duke
Alexis to be the Viceroy of Poland.....The
Russian feet, with the Grand Duke Alexis
on board, sailed on Tuesday from Havana
for Rio de Janeiro.
ACCORDING to advices received at Paris
from Spain, crisis is at hand. King Am
adeus is concentrating his army around Ma
drid, disarming the National guard, and
preparing to defend his throne......The Lon
don Times says that the election of the new
Board of Erie Directors, and the elevation of
General Dix to the Presidency, will restore
confidence to the American enterprise, and
consequently result in an increase of the re-
sources of the country......The new English
iron-clad ram Rupert was launched on Tues
day from the government dock yard at
Chatham. from Rio Janeiro state
that a tremendous landslide occurred on
the line of the Paulo railroad. An inclined
plane, miles in extent, moved from its
foundations, and buried the road, for long
distance, under earth and rocks. 1t was be-
ieved that it would take two months work
to restore the road to working order.
FIVE new English war vessels have been
launched during the past two weeks......A
telegram from Gibraltar reports a distressing
disaster in that harbor, whereby a number
of people bel 1nging to the royal navy lost
their lives. A boat belonging to the British
steam frigate Ariadne, at anchor off the
town, while going from the vessel to the
shore, capsized, and eleven persons were
drowned, including two ofice-s......It is re-
ported that Theirs on Wednesday gave final
notice to England of the remuneration by
France of the commercial treaty between
the two nations...... Posen, the apothecary
who was suspected of contemplating a muir
oSIOQs dttdCk Oh DlsmarchJ mas D66u re-
leased.
THE Archbishop of Cologne has formally exss
CON municated Profs. ilgers, Knoodt, Teggen,
and Rush, oi the University of Bonn, for their
rejection of the dogma of Papal infallibility.
......It is reported that the Swiss engineers
Naaff, Riggenbach and Zschokke are about
to construct a railroad to the summit of
Mount Vesuvius, similar to that at Mount
Washington.
PENSION of $1,000 has been granted to
Lady Mayo, and 100000 has beer settled on
her children by the British Governmental.
The assassin of the Earl of Mayo has been
executed at Calcutta. He made confession
and declared that the death of the Viceroy
was not the result of conspiracy, as he
alone designed and carried out the murder
He also said that he intended to kill Gen.
Stewart, who accompanied the Earl of Mayo
on his tour of inspection to Fort Blain, and
was only prevented from fully executing his
purpose by the promptness of his arrest
after attacking the Viceroy.
Proceedings in Congress.