Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26

war path, and that great lndlan clvlilzer, Gen. |
Crook, is preparing to follow them. The
cholera has made it's appearance IN CINCINNATI
and Indianapolis.
THE Northern Pacific surveying party was
recently attacked near Fort Abraham Lincoln
by about $50 Sioux Indians. In the fight that
Indians were killed. The Iowa
SYNOD has resolved to exclude from
it's church all members of the Orders of Ma
sons. odd Fellows, Red Men, etc. While the
Modocs were being removed from the penin
sula, Tule Lake, to Fort Klamath, one of the
Indians known as Curly-headed Jack shot him.
self, and has since died.
The South.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy was recently
enacted in Gallatin county N. c.. John Hol
combe, impelled by the green-eYed monster,
shot and killed his young and beautiful wife,
firing three bullets into her body. The muir
derer then shot himself through the heart,
falling on the dead body of his wife. Maj
Henry Ewing the principal proprietor of the
st. Louis Times, died last week, at the age of
81 w. II. Day, young son of f. o. Day,
one of the wealthiest citizens of St. Louis, has
been arrested for stealing pair of bracelets
from young lady. He is considered con-
firmed kleptomanlac having been III the same
kind of trouble several times before. Joe
Duncan, colored, was hanged at Paris, KY,
the other day. The account states that the
drop was sprung at / o'clock, and he fell, but
the rope proved too long. He was taken upon
the scaffold, and the rope being shortened,
he WAS hung again, this time successfully"
NAvAsoTA Texas, was recently visited by
5000, 900 fire.. A youth in Alexandria, Va,
has declared his intention to start from
Bunker Hill on a tour through the Northern
States, carrying with him the Confederate
flag.
THERE were thirty-fve deaths from cholera
in Nashville on the 18th inst. The disease is
carrying it's ravsges into the neighboring towns
of Tennessee . Three negro murderers of
New Iberia, La, we're taken from the officers
by mob of 1000 citizens and hanged to
tree, few days ago. :. A contest for the Gov
ernorship of Arkansas is going on in the courts
of Little Rock-Joseph Brooks against Elisha
Baxter . 1t is said Andy Johnson will enter
the field for Governor of Tennessee at the
next election. "A regiment of volunteers is
to be raised in Texas for the purpose of resist
ing and furnishing the cattle stealers who infest
the border. "A meeting of joint committee
of native blacks and whites was held in New
Orleans, few days ago, which adopted a
strong series of resolutions, pledging their
efforts to the preservation of the reciprocal
rights of the two races, and the maintenance
of peace and good will between them.
Washington.
GEN. SHERMAN stated to a correspondent,
the other day, that =" there would be no diff
Guilty about disposing of the Modocs who are
under arrest. Those found guilty of murder
will be hanged or shot, and if it is proved that
there was an agreement for general uprising
among the tribes others will receive some pun
ishment as warning to Indians. He re-
marked, however, that it was a pity that the
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all this commission business and expense
would have been avoided. The Navy De-
partment will shortly dispatch vessel in
search of the missing Polaris. Senator Sum-
ner's condition has greatly improved of late
and he is now on the high road to health.
A Washington dispatch says: The appropria-
ton for Government printing has been ex-
hausted, and there being no fund from which
to draw, the business of the Government
printing Office has come to standstill, and
most of the employees have been furloughed
until the LIST of July.
THE important discovery has just been made
that all the secret archives of the War Depart
ment, pertaining to what is known as the con-
fidential history of the late war, have been
stolen. By whom or when they were taken is
not known. Most of the documents were
filed and put away in boxes in 1865 and 1866,
and have not been referred to till recently
when they could not be found. The Buell.
court-martial records, it will be remembered.
disappeared in the same mysterious way sew
| eral years ago. The commissioners appoint
| ed by our Government to investigate the
depredations on the Rio Gran6e have finished
| their labors, which have included the hearing
of 400 witnesses and the collection of 1,30C
| affidavits. The commissioners represent the
amount of damages. direct and consequential
to those who have suffered by these raids. al
between $50, coo and $50, 100000.
WITH regard to Col. Mackenzie's raid into
Mexico while in pursuit of the Kickapoos
Gen. Sheridan in forwarding that officers re
port of the affair to the War Department, say
he does not believe that any boundary exist
when such merciless banditti are being pur
sued Both the United States and Mexico
should be glad to throw open their territory tt
each others troops for the punishment O
these sayages. .Brisbane's so-called pneu
matte tube has proved a failure. The appro
priation of $4,000 voted by Congress ha
been expended, and there is nothing to shoy
for it 1t is rumored that Secretary of tn
Treasury Richardson will resign shortly. s.
Thus far, 46 Senators and Representative
have declined to accept the back pay. TIL
total amount thus returned to the Treasury
1892, OF. =. The Postmaster-General has OF
dered the establishment of free delivery i
Columbus, O., Evansville, Ind, and Coving
ton, KY.
THERE is no truth in the report that Secre
tary Richardson is about to resign. e. Arrange
ments are being made at the Navy Departmer
to send out an expedition to several points o
the southern coasts of the Eastern Hem
sphere to make observations on the transit {
j, Venus next year, one of the most importaI
astronomical events of the century.
| Foreign.
. The new Spanish Ministry is in sympath
t with the Federal Republican sentiment. The
policy has been announced in the Cortes to /
f in favor of the immediate separation of I'll
f country into Federal States. The army is
/ be reduced to order, the Carlists are to |
l.. promptly suppressed, and slavery is to be abe
a ished The French Governmet has decide
: to transport Henri Rochefort to the pen
colony of New Caledonia. "A horrible murd
was committed in Toronto, Canada, few da
! ago. brute named Tim Murphy gagged b
e wife SO as to stifie her cries, and then kickt
: and beat her brains out. Mailing up the do
of her room, he quietly went to his work, al
t displayed the utmost indifference when a
a rested.