Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-18
COUNTY Republican
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

IT cost New lOrk SoZ, oUO,UU 10 run her city
government last year -. The Fashion stud
farm stables at Trenton, n. j., were burned
the other day. Nine valuable horses were
consumed, including two road-mares belonging
to President Grant. Total loss, $4,000.
NEW YORK telegram says that the amount
of bogus securities which the railroad bond
forgers expected to negotiate in this country
and Europe was q, 600 900, and that 8, 900, 900
are already on the New York market. Two of
the gang it is said, left for Europe some time
since. with large amount of forged bonds
which are reported to have already been dis
posed of in the English market A strange
tragedy has just been enacted at Williams
burgh, N. Y. A young lady called on another
whose school-mate and most intimate friend
she had been for years. This female there
upon murdered her, and, after keeping the
body in her bedroom for two days, set flre to
the building to destroy the evidence of her
guilt. 1t appears that the motive of the muir
deress was to obtain sum of money which
) she supposed her friend to have upon her
person The murder, and the singular cir
cumstances surrounding 1t, have produced a
profound sensation in Williamsburgh.
Titusville, Pa, was visited by go, 900 fire on
the 9TH inst.
A LARGE and important meeting of promi-
nent New York merchants was held in that
city, last week, to discuss the question of
" cheap transportation" The resolutions
adopted begin with the organization of an as
ISOLATION to be known as the New York Cheap
Transportation Association. After abiding to
the rapid increase of the agricultural and manu-
featured produce of the country, the resolu-
tons set forth that the policy of the Govern
ment should be to protect theproducing inter-
est and commerce from corporations and mo-
nopolies whichltend to subvert the rights of
the people. Double-track railways, exclusively
for freight are pronounced absolutely neces-
sary, and reform in the management of rail-
ways is demanded. The frequent and arbitrary
changes in freight rates are denounced and
uniform rates demanded. A resolution was
also adopted syIupathizing with the producers
and merchants of the West in their movement
to obtain cheaper transportation: and
and reasonable efforts to that end.
The most remarkable sale of short-horn cattle
ever made in this country or Europe took
place at Utica. N. Y, on the 10th inst. The
prices paid were enormous. One hundred and
eleven head of cattle, comprising the cele-
brated New York Mills herd, the property of
the Hon. Samuel Campbell, were sold at auc-
ton for an aggregate sum of $3.50, $50. The
Eighth Duchess of Geneva brought the start
ling price of $40 600. The Tenth Duchess of
Geneva sold for S35, 900, and $50, 600 was given
for the First Duchess of Oneida The average
price pdlu IOr ten OF the duchess LrlDe was
S21, 200 each This herd was beyond question
the most valuable ever got together. and its
sale attracted fancy stock-breeders from every
part of this country a. well as from Europe. The
three highest prices were paid by Englishmen.
49,. An important: female witness in the Stokes
case has been arrested in New York. Ii Is
claimed that she picked up and concealed the
pistol with which Fisk was trying to shoot
Stokes at the time the latter killed him. A
Butter and Cheese Exchange formally
opened in New York city last week. The adj
mission fee is S25.. William g. Fargo has
been elected President of the SANTANA Bay
Company, vice Alden B. Stockwell, resigned.
The Warehouse and Security Company. of
New York, has collapsed. The assets of the
company amount to about g, 500 900, and the
liabilities to q, SOC, 900. The Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railway owed the company
$1,000. 900.
The West.
Col. JOHN T. HARPER, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Eighth District of Illinois,
has resigned his position, leaving the ac-
counts of his Office at Springfield abou.
$4,000 short Archibald Duncan, of st.
Louis, last week murdered his wife by shoot
Ing her with a pistol, and then blew his own
brains out The Toledo. Wabash and West
ern road it now laying new steel rails the
whole length of their line, from Toledo to st.
= Louis They have just received from Metz,
France. the first steel rails ever brought ere
from that country The Union Pacific Rail-
road Company sold during the month of Au-
gust, 1873, q, 1873 65-100 acres of land, at an
average price of $500 10 per acre, amount
ing to S157,994. The sales averaged
SO 40 acres to each purchaser. Total sales to
Sept. /. 1873. 779, 518 22-100 acres. at an aver
age price of S4.45 per acre. amounting to
S3. 46S. 1877. The Kansas stallion, Snug
gler. has been sold to Col. Russell. of Milton
Mass. at price above $4,000.
PROF. MARsH's Yale exploring party has re-
turned to Fort Bridger, after an absence of
six weeks in the Uintah Mountains. The trip
was eminently successful, many important dis
made. Twelve months ago Peter kiel. liv-
ing in Chicago, was bitten by dog. and last
week was attacked with hydrophobia. and
died in the most horrible agony -. Twelve
men were recently suffocated in mine at
!, Suffer Creek, Cal.
] A woMAN's Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals is the latest Chicago insti-
tuition. The Fulton Elevator, in Chicago,
was burned last week. Loss. 500, 0O0..
The amount of the defalcation of Col. Har-
per, Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Eighth District of Illinois, is now fixed at
$110. 000. Half q million cattle we're driven
from Texas into Kansas during the past sea-
son. The st. Louis Democrat prints dis
patch from Sedalia, Mo-, which says: The
Iowa railroad-train robbers, who have
been fitting about in some of the western
counties of this State, are all together again
except Mccoy, and the detectives have infor-
nation that another bank robbery is being
planned by them, ard it will be carried out as
soon as Mccoy joins the gang. All the banks
in that part of the State are being closely
watched by special officers, and efforts are
constantly being made to capture these des-
peradoes."
CLOUD, the Philadelphia oarsman, bound
for New OrleaLs, passed Cairo on the Sth inst.
having been on. Sc days. He is confident of
winning the s5, 900. He is as hardy as a pine
knot, and as brown as a South American. The
skin on the back of his hands is almost as
tough as leather. John Irving, Of San
Francisco, the self-accused murderer of Ben
jarnin Nathan, of New York. insists the
truth Of his story, and is very indignant at the
press and the public for discrediting his
statements. A light frost-the first of the
season-in Northern and Central Illinois on
the night of Sept. z.