Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-17

| toward securing recognition of the equality
of woman before the law in the State Consti-
tuition. Stanley's Yellowstone expedition re-
Gently encountered terrific wind and hail
storm near Fort Lincoln. Every wagon was
| overturned by the gale, and hail-stones of
fabulous size fell causing a stampede of
horses mules and men. No damage The
trial of the Modoc assassins before the mill
tary commission commenced at Fort Klamath
Oregon, on the 9Th of July.
The South.
A DISPATCH from Houston, Texas, says the
weather is more favorable to the crops, and
worms no longer appear in Texas. Two
thirds of the crop of cotton and cereals are
very fine.
| THE statement telegraphed from the South
that the cholera was raging in Alabama was
wholly false. 1t has appeared in but one or
! two towns Reports to the Agricultural
| Department at Washington from the cot
| ton regions indicate that the crop of that
staple this year will at least be equal to that
of last.
THE farmers are moving in the Old North
State. At meeting in Raleigh, the other
day, State Grange was organized. A pro-
ject is on foot at st. Louis for the consolidation
of all the steamboat lines of the lower Mis-
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stitute one OF the largest and most powerful
transportation companies in the world.
Washington.
THE Hon. VIM. B. Allison and other dis
tinguished citizens of Iowa have petitioned
the Acknowledgement to compel the Union
Pacific railroad to operate its road in connec-
ton with its branches as continuous line in
the manner required by acts of Congress. 1t
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the Union Pacific against the Kansas Pacific
and other branches in charging heavy local
freight and passenger rates on all business
from their branches, thus practically cutting
them off from the through traffic. The At
torney-General's decision will have an impor-
tant bearing upon the finances of the Union
Pacific. There is S7S 200, 600 in coin and
coin certificates in the Treasury. A Wash
lngton dispatch of the 4th says: The Govern
ment counsel have not yet decided what to do
to offset the combined movement of the Union
Pacific railroad for the purpose of defeating
the Credit Mobilier suit, and the matter re-
mains Ii very unpromising condition.
IT is authoritatiyely stated that neither the
President nor Secretary of the Interior will
interfere in behalf of the Modoc prisoners.
but that the finding of the court-martial will
be approved.
A DEFICIT of nearly one million dollars hay
ing been discovered in. the accounts of ex-
Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson,
who resigned his position in President Buchan-
an 8 Cabinet. IN 1861. to Join the rebellion an
examination has revealed the fact that the de-
falcatlon was committed by one of his clerks
49,. 1t is stated that the civil service rules. as
modified, are being strictly enforced in all the
departments. =. The committee appointed to
investigate the financial management of the
Howard University have submitted their re-
port, in which they completely exonerate Gen.
Howard from the charge of misrepresentation
of the funds of the institution. They say:
!" The recorded proceedings of the Board of
Trustees will show that no single dollar of
the university money was ever voted as
gratuity to Gen. Howard, nor any money at
any time, under any pretext, to which he was
not justly entitled. in consideration for valu-
able and indispensable services faithfully
rendered"
SPECIAL dispatch TO the Chicago Times
states that the President has rendered the
Chief Justiceship to Senator Conkling, but
that it is doubtful whether he will accent
Gen. Howard is declared by the Attorney Gen
eral to be responsible for all the losses sus-
tanned in the Freedmen's Bureau by the Gov
eminent through himself or any of the subor-
dlnates he appointed under the act of 1867
They may be prosecuted criminally for any
defalcations which happened not longer than
two years ago; and prosecuted civillv without
any limitation as to time. Gen. Howard and
any of his assistants who are army officers are
also subject to trial by court-martial. re-. The
Secretary of War has designated three officers
of the army to select site and examine plans
for the military prison at Rock Island Pres
ident Grant denies that he has any aspirations
for third term. Mrs. S. S. Farrell has been
appointed to succeed Jesse R. Grant as Post
master at Covington, Ky. The new postal
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plates having been completed. the work of
printing the new ffty-cent note will commence
in few days The new note will be a quarter
of an inch shorter and quarter of an inch
wider than the one now in circulation.
Foreign.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE has been interviewed
by a correspondent of the New York World
She predicts that France will speedily return
to Bonapartism, and that she will become the
conservator of European peace and order, and
the extirpator of all communistic and anti
Christian societies. France will again lead
the world, will restore the Pope to his old dig
nifty, and pulyeriZe Germany into insignificant
States. Another foreign steamer has been
wrecked near the baleful Sambro Light which
drew the Atlantic to its destruction, but there
Is, happily, no loss of life. The Inman
steamship City of Washington, from Liverpool
1Or new 1Ork, SLruck on NJull ROCK, 10 miles
west of Sambro, on Saturday, the 5th inst
There was a dense fog at the time All the
passengers and crew, with their baggage.
were landed safely. The ship will become a
total wreck. A duel was fought on Luxem-
bourg territory, on the 9TH inst, between NJ.
Ranc, member of the French Assembly and
Paul de Cassagnac, the famous fighting editor
of Paris, in which the latter was seriously
and the former slightly wounded
The New York Heralds dispatches con-
firm the arrival of Sir Samuel and Lady
Baker at Khartoum. on the Upper Nile. An
important geographical discovery is said to
have been made by Baker which will astound
the scientific world, it pretends that Lakes
Tanganyika and Albert Nyanza prove to be one
and the same water, and magnificent inland
sea 700 miles in length.
Col. MACKENZIE s invasion of Mexico in pur-
suit of the Kickapoos seems to have occasioned
even less excitement there than in this coun-
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