Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27

railways in the State.
An effort will be made for another confer
ence with Capt. Jack, the Modoc chief, though
there is little hope of o peaceful settlement.
The epizootic is raging Throughout Arizona,
and stage travel and the mails are much de-
layed.
D. A. Mahoney, editor of the Dubuque Tele-
graph. has sued the city of Dubuque for
$4,000 damages sustained by fall on the
slippery pavement which resulted in broken
arm.
A new peace commission has been organized
to treat with the Modoc Indians, Capt Jack
having expressed desire to have another
conference.
The South.
The loss by the burglarizing of the Falls
City Tobacco Bank, of Louisville, turns out to
have been much larger than was at first sup
posed. All the Jeffersonville railroad bonds,
the Short Line railroad bonds, and the New
Albany city bonds missing, amounting,
probably, to over 100000.
The last rail on the Texas Central railroad,
connecting it with the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road, at Denison, Texas, has been laid,
and there is now 1nbroken railway connection
between New York and Galveston. 4H
J. s. Hopkins, of Baltimore, has given
g, 900, 600 for the erection and maintenance of
an orphans' hospital in that city.
The Louisville bank robbery grows in mag
nitude daily. 1t is now believed that the
amount of bonds taken is between two and
three hundred thousand dollars, mostly rail-
road, canal, and Government bonds.
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father in Hardin county, KY, by striking him
with shovel.
The Annual Conference of the Methodist
Church has found the Rev. DIR. Huston, of
Baltimore, guilty of the crime charged against
him, and decreed his expulsion. The matter
will be appealed to the General Conference
| Robert E. Lee, Jr., son of the late Gen. Lee,
is the prospective Democratic candidate for
Governor Of Virginia.
The Falls City Tobacco Bank robbery, at
Louisville, foots up $500 The bank offers
reward of $50, 600 for the return of the bonds,
or Is per cent. of the amount returned and
no questions asked also, offers a reward of
$500 each for the capture of the burglars.
The Memphis and Little Rock railroad was
recently sold at auction for $4,000.
Washington.
The President is suffering from severe cold
contracted by exposure ON Inauguration day.
The President has appointed George NJ.
Derby, son OF Lieut.. Derby ("John Phoenix
to a cadetship at West Point.
The President has appointed Rev. Edward
Payson Smith, of New York, to be Commits
sioIer of Indian Affairs.
Washington correspondent says: ''The
country has been generally misinformed in re-
lation to Congressional legislation with regard
to the postal laws this session. The Farms
worth bill, reducing letter postage to cents,
aud providing for the prepayment of postage
on mail matter, passed the House, but failed
IN the Senate. There was an amendment to
the Postofioe Appropriation bill, which re-
peals all existing acts with regard to free mail
matter. This, of course, includes exchanges
between newspapers and free postage on pa
pers circulated in the counties where they are
published The Law takes effect on the let of
July"
The statement that the Attorney General
had decided that the eastern terminus of the
! Union Pacific railroad is at Council Bluffs in
| stead of at Omaha, seems to be prema-
ture, as he still has the matter under con-
sideration.
The President has designated for appoint
ment as Cadet Midshipman-at-Large Frank
Croekey, of Iowa, son of the late Brig Gen.
NJ. G. Crockey, formerly of DesMoines.
Among the recent appointments of POST
masters are the following Arther D. Downs.
Wyandotte, Kan; Simon Melz, Hayes City,
Kan; Frederick D. Richter, Council Grove,
Kan. IL. B. Baldwin, Elgin, ILL.,; Gustavus A.
PfraRgle; Aurora, H.; William C. Stewart.
Marengo, Ill; John j. Karnew Fort Wayne,
Ind; John B. Tyer, Wabash, Ind; H. H. Red
ington, Elyria, O.; Thomas ". Golfer, Coshoc
ton, O.; III. B. Clark, Newark, O.; Henry Ste
yenson, Greenville, O.
The report that David Blakely, of the POSI-.
Pension Agent at Chicago, is to be removed, is
authoritatively denied
The President has sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate; George w. French,
: Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court Of Dakota;
J. P. Kidder, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Dakota; Henry KING, Postmaster at
| Topeka, Kan; Collectors of Internal Revenue
Lewis Weitzel, for the First Ohio District :;
John W. Ross for the Fifth Indiana District :;
Col. E. Mutt, for the Fifth Iowa District.
The President will visit st. Louis in April.
The President has pardoned two more Ku-
Klu1 out of the Albany Penitentiary
| Over five tons of WORKOUT plates for stamp
ing bank-notes were recently destroyed by
melting at the navy yard at Washington, by
order of the Secretary of the Treasury
Tbs books and records of the Credit Mobilier
! Company have been confscated and turned
over to the Attorney-General of the United
States, to be used by him in the suits au-
thorized by the Credit Mobilier act against
sundry Individuals in behalf of the Union
Pacific Pacific Railroad Company.
Rev. Edward Payson Smith has been con-
| firmed as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Judge Richardson succeeds Mr.. Boutwell, as
Secretary of the Treasury.
Appointments by the President: Postmas-
ters-J. R. Jackson Union City, Ind; D. w.
Worries, New Albany, Ind; William A. Howell,