Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho East.


more of the Tammany thieves, Ingersoll and
harrington, have been convicted of forgery.
The Hoosac tunnel was finished on
Thanksgiving Day. The sudden closing of
the Erie canal caused an advance in the price
of corn in New York of 10 cents wheat, to
cents oats, to cents and barley about
Is cents per bushel Over 500 boats are locked
upin the canal.
INGERsoIL and Harrington. confederates of
Tweed in the Tammany frauds, have been
sentenced to the Penitentiary, the former re-
ceiving five years and the latter eighteen
months.
WILLIAM NJ. TWEED is at last hid from public
view On Saturday, Nov %. he taken to
Blackwell's Island, arrayed in striped uniform,
his head shaved. and was consigned to felon's
cell Tweed was asked the usual questions by
the recording clerk, to which he answered that
he vas aged 60. occupation " statesman" no
igion-
The West.
Ex-SENAToR RICHARD YATES, of Illinois,
alt . Chris Rafferty,, of Chicago, has been
tried for the third time and again convicted
of murder IN the first degree.
THERE is great rush of gold-seekers tn the
new diggings in Southwestern Colorado.
SENATOR LOGAN, of Illinois, is said to have
lost almost his entire fortune by the failure of
the California and Texas Construction Com
pany.
FIRE in East st. Louis, last week, de-
stroyed S150,000 worth of property. =. The
house of George W. Elliottin. Tuscola county,
Mich, was burned on Thanksgiving Day, to-
gether with his wife and child.
IT was stated at the meeting of the State
Agricultural Society at st. Louis, the other
day, that the Patrons of Husbandry had made
comparatively more progress in Missouri than
In any other State. ], 100 Oranges having been
already formed. with a membership of 10000.
Chris Rafferty, will be hung at Waukegan
Dec. &c.
Tho South.
HARRoDsBURo. Ky, was recently the scene
of terrible shooting ARRAY between the male
members of two families named Thompson
and Davis in which three of the latter, father
and two sons were killed.
AT mass meeting of the farmers and Pat
rons of Husbandry at Atlanta. Ga, last week,
it was resolved to plant only one-third of their
crop next year in cotton, to favor cash pay
ments. and declare their right to control the
price OF cotton.
A STAYE Grange has been organized in Ala
bama. a portion of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad bridge across Red river, at Fulton,
Ark, has been washed away by freshet in
that stream.
Washington.
II is stated that strong effort will be made
by Congress to increase the tax on spirits and
tobacco.
SENATOR Ferry, of Michigan, has scheme
for the financial trouble, which he will pro-
pose to Congress. 1t is to issue $500 OOO 600
currency, and offer convertible bonds. exempt
from taxation. Secretary Robson is con-
vincedf from close examination of the survivors
of the Polaris that Capt. Hall came to his
death from purely natural causes. and that he
was treated skillfully and tenderly during his
Illness
THE name Of Acknowledgement Williams was
on the 1st inst. submitted to the Cabinet as
the appointee of the President to the vacant
Chief Justiceship on the Supreme Bench. The
Acknowledgement Is to be succeeded BY Col.
Bristow, of Kentucky.
THE public debt increased during November
80, OBS, SIC. . A Washington dispatch says /:
Senator Logan will urge immediate action on
his bill repeating the Bankrupt law. The bill
provides that the repeal shall take effect i'm
mediately upon its passage, and that all pend
ing cases shall be adjudicated by July next.
GEN. HOWARD having resigned the Presi-
dency of the Howard University. Prof. Lang
ston has been appointed its provisional Presi-
dent Pirchback has withdrawn his claim to
a seat in the House Congressman-at-Large
from Louisiana. and will go before the Senate
and claim seat in that body.
Foreign.
THE Rothschilds have negotiated Russian
loan of s75, 1000.
A LETTER from Havana says the people
there would refuse to allow any order from
Madrid to deliver mp the virginius, or make
other repar:stion for her seizure and execution
Of her crew. to be carried OFT . The butcher
Burriel has issued orders for the arrest of all
Cuban sympathizers on the island of Cuba. -.
A dispatch from Cartagena. Spain, dated Nov.
%. saws the bombardment of the place on that
day was most furious Many buildings had
been ret on fire by the shells, and several
hundred people killed -. The typhus fever
and smallpox are decimating the Carlist
army.
THE examination of witnesses in the Bazane
trial has been concluded. . The British troops
have again encountered and defeated the ASH
antees Gen. Manteuffel and Count
Goeter recently fought duel near Berlin in
which the latter was seriously wounded by
shot in the stomach.
IT is announced in London telegram that,
acting on the wish Of Piux X, the Cardinals
have selected Cardinal Pecci, Archbishop of
Perugia, as the next Pope. He is 63 years
old. The Tichborne is drawing to
close, all the evidence being in.
ARCHBISHOP LEDocHowsKI has again adj
dressed the German Emperor, refusing to
tender his resignation. and declaring that he
is resonpsible only to the Pope. The vir-
ginius has been equipped as Spanish war
vessel and sent out to cruise in search of fill
busters The controversy between the Ger
man and Spanish Governments regarding the
German vessels seized by the Spanish war
vessels in the PHILIPPINE Islands, continues to
increase in the seriousness of it's aspect. Ger
many is equipping war vessels for active
service.
Political.
The colored voters of Kentucky threaten to
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