Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15

house within block of the public square al
Quincy, Ill, is the sensation. The occu-
pants deserted it pell-mell Monday night on
occount of dismal sounds and strange freaks
within its walls. Several intelligent men
! were among those who unceremoniously
hed..."Addison Birge, ex-me. Der of the
Legislature, was stabbed and killed by DR..
johnson at Platte City, Mo-, last Friday.
Mrs. Fair has been granted a new trial by
the Supreme Court of California, on the
| ground that the Court erred in not allowing
the counsel for the defense the closing argu-
ment, and permitting evidence of former
| bad character for chastity ..... Charles Kitz-
| Ter, employed in building the Newport and
Cincinnati bridge, fell from that structure
on Monday and was killed.
The South.
SPEAKER CARTER of the Louisiana Legis-
lature testified before the Congressional in
vestigating Committee at New Orleans on
Tuesday that there were about fifty news
papers in Louisiana living on State printing
patronage, which could not be supported
without it. He estimated the annual profits
OF the New Orleans Republican, of which
Warmoth owns over one-third, at $500, 900
from State patronage......G Gen. M. W. Ran
som has been elected United States Senator
from North Carolina. The Republicans gen
orally took no part in the election, claiming
that the Legislature has no right to elect a
Senator at this time......The South Carolina
House of Representatives has adopted Joint
resolutions declaring the proposed reduction
OF import duty on rice unwise, partial, and
disastrous; also instructing Senators and
requesting Representatives to use their infiu-
ence to secure the continuance of the pre-
sent duty......The Grand Duke arrived at
Louisville on Tuesday.
THE Grand Duke and party visited the
Mammoth Cave on Thursday The first
regular train of cars on the Cairo and Full
ten railroad, Ark, went over the road to
Little Red River on Wednesday.
NEAR Fayetteville, Ark, on Monday, two
young men named Jones and Burkam got
into dispute, which resulted in the killing
of the former by the latter. Burkam was
arrested, and in attempting to escape was
shot and killed by the officers James
Slough and his wife, old and respected citi-
zens OF Richmond, KY, became involved in
quarrel on Thursday, during which the
husband plunged clasp-knife into the
breast and abdomen of his wife fifteen or
twenty times. She only lived long enou h
to tell who was her murderer ~ Samuel
White (colored) was hanged at Charleston on
Friday for the murder of Fidea, last sum-
mer, while his accomplish, negro named
Baldwin, had his sentence committed by
Gov. Scott to imprisonment for life when I'M
der the gallows......Alexis and party arrived
at Memphis on Friday.
On Friday crowd of twenty-five masked
men went to the Jail in Richmond, KY,
where Slough, who murdered his wife on
Thursday, was confined, and overpowering
the sheriff took the keys of the Jail and pro-
ceeded to Stough's cell, marched him out a
short distance and hung him to tree. The
mob then quietly dispersed
A NEGRO named Nose Moore shot and
killed Zach Goldman, blacksmith, four
miles from Paris, KY, at noon on Saturday.
1.-THE fastest time ever made over
Southern railroad was accomplished on the
3lst ult. on the New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas road, from New Orleans to Mobile, the
occasion being the transportation of Col.
Thomas A. Scott, the Pennsylvania railroad
king, and party. The distance is I4O Is
miles, and the running time was hours and
81 minutes. Twenty miles of the distance
was made in 20 minutes. body of
Henry Atkinson, planter living near
Grenada, was found on last Friday, near
Horn Lake, Miss, concealed in the woods
with bullet hole in his head. No doubt
he was murdered by two men whom he had
employed to assist in driving stock, as his
pockets were riied......T The Supreme Court
of Louisiana has decided in the case of Sau-
vinet, the negro Civil Sheriff of the parish
OF Orleans, who was refused a drink in a
public saloon on account of his color, that
he is entitled to recover 81 900 damages.
Washir gton.
THE special House Committee to examine
the Treasury accounts have discovered
surplus of 81 900, goo which they have thus
far been unable to account for One of the
female clerks in the Postoffice Department
was married last week and there have since
been nearly one hundred applications for
the Vacancy. There are more than 500 ap-
phcations of other ladies on hand for the
first vacancy.
Foreign.
GEN. GLOSSY, the French Minister of War,
on Tuesday stated to the Assembly that it
was impossible at present to raise the state
OF seige IN Paris, because of the presence in
the Republic of Bonapartists and liberated
Communists, who would lose no opportunity
to create disorder. The General further
stated that of the Communists captured by
the Government, 1922 had been liberated,
4,473 were sentenced to various punish
ments, and 12,045 were still confined in the
1.-THE American survey steamer Bib
sailed from Havana on Monday, to make
soundings between Yucatan and Cape
Catoehe, for the proposed Mexico Cuba |
cable.
THE boiler of the British steamship Anna
zon exploded at Bordeaux, France, on Tues
day, and two men were killed and several
injured ....: Eight thousand reinforcements |
have sailed from Cadiz, Spain, for Cuba.
TIE German authorities have prohibited |
the sale of French journals in Strasbourg |
THE bark Manitoba went ashore on |
Thursday off Penzance, and is total wreck. |
Four of her crew were loat... Baron Won
ofenburg, late Consul General at bucharest. |
1as been appointed Russian Minister to the
United States. The late Minister Catacazy
s attached to the Foreign Office at st.
Petersburg.
The number of emigrants who sailed from
II II, fb a month - |