Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-09

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and cheerful tone in produce and cotton. The
feeling in the West and South is one of safety
and security. In Chicago, prices of grain
have advanced, the September settlements
were made without difficulty. and the Board of
Trade has rescinded its resolution suspending
certain rules, thus re-establishing the transac-
tons OF members IN contracts and options on
the old footing. Everywhere throughout the
country there is the same evidence Of a resto-
ration of public confidence.
The East.
The Masonic fraternity of Philadelphia have
just dedicated with imposing ceremonies their
new temple, said to be the largest and finest
in the world.
A STATEMENT of assets and liabilities of the
firm of Jay Cooke & Co.. OF Philadelphia,
New York, and Washington, has been sub
mitted to their creditors. The following is
summary:
Liabilities. s7,sss,4O9.
Bills receivable, bank. insurance, and
other stocks, bends, and real estate 5 1857 $40
Loans to Northern Pacific Railroad Co.. 3,75OOOO
Stock of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. 100000
Loans to Northern Pacific RAILROAD Co.,
on bonds of company. 4,06S as
Second-mortgage railroad bonds, stocks,
etc----------- ------.-....-...-..-.- 1850, $50
The above exhibit of liabilities is exclusive
of 81, 70l, 40 loans of the firm which are fully
secured by good collaterals. The excess of
collaterals upon these loans has been estimated
and included in the assets. The firm expects
soon to submit proposition for settlement
with its creditors, which it believes will be
acceptable to the latter, although it will of
course require time in the conversion of its
assets. The city of Pittsburgh was thrown
into an immense state of excitement. the other
day. by the announcement that the Post
master, John H. Stewart, had proved de-
over in $50 900. The defalcation amounts to
about $4,000. The Government, it is said.
loses nothing.
A SERIOUS collision, resulting in the death
of three or four persons. occurred last week
on the New York Midland railroad. The acct
dent was occasioned by freight conductor,
whose watch was too slow Wouldn't it be
well for railway offic ais to see to it that their
employees have correct time-pieces This
rec xless slaughter of human life solely because
an engineer or conductor happens to carry
worthless watch Is becoming monotonous.
An examination of the affairs of the Pitts
burgh Postoffice shows that the office has
been conducted in a very loose and careless
manner. The bodies of Mrs. OMara and
her daughter were found dead on the railway
track near Montrose Station. Penn. last week
Suspicion points to the horrible fact that they
were murdered and placed there by Daniel
O'Mara, a son and brother of the deceased
Charles j. Riddle, one of the proprietors of
the Philadelphia AGE, is dead.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr. Commissioner
to the Vienna Exposition, has returned home,
and Boston dispatch says he will make re-
port to the Massachusetts, Legislature that
will astonish the public The whole number
of claims submitted to the American and Brit
ism Mixed Commission. which recently COM
pleted its labors at Newport, r. l., was 497,
the claimants making reclamation, in the ag-
gregate, OF the enormous sum of S95, 900 900.
Of these claims only Isl we're allowed the
gross sum of which awards reaches Il, 929. 1885,
Awards were only made against the United
States In cases were property was TAX IN, used
or appropriated by the authorities of the
United States. and in cases of the illegal i'm
prisonment of British subjects during the late
war. A highly important witness in the
Stokes case, whose testimony. it is said will
create great excitement, has just been arrested
IN New York, at the instance of the District
The West.
A BALLooSisT named John H. Boley met his
death in horrible manner at wapello, Iowa.
last week. His hot-air balloon caught fire as
it LETT the ground and carried him up uncon-
ecioUs of the flames above him, till at the
heighe of 500 feet the ropes that supported
the car on which he was performing some GYM
nastic feats burned away, and he fell to the
ground. His body was frightfully mangled.
the fall driving his legs into the hard ground
up to his knees. Isaiah Ditts has just been
arrested near Leavenworth Kansas for muir
der committed near Cairo, Ill, seventeen years
ago.
The Chicago Interstate Industrial Expo
sition is proving grand success. Notwith-
standing the opening occurred at the very
height of the financial panic, the send-off'
which it received exceeded the expectations of
its projectors. The average daily attendance
for the first week vas over 20, 900. :. The min
ing town OF Fair Flay, Col, has been almost
totally destroyed by fire. Rev. George
Randall, Episcopal Bishop of Colorado. New
Mexico and Wyoming, died recently in Dem
yer, aged 63.
JOSEPH II. FORE, who has created two or
three sensations in st. Louis by attempts on
the life of his wife, and by killing his father
in-law, caused an unusual rumpus in the
Criminal Court in that city, the other day,
while on trial for deadly assault u.on his
wife with Ratchet. Fore seized a large cut
glass ink-stand from the table and hurled it ct
his wife with great force The missile missed
its mark and struck an attorney square in the
knocking him senseless. Fore was immedi-
ately seized by the Marshal and others, and,
after struggle, during which nearly all his
clothes were torn on, he was taken from the
courtroom and order restored. The fiue of
. boiler in q saw-mill near Bridgeport Mich,
collapsed the other day. killing an old man,
and throwing horse 800 feet. Notwithstand-
ing the horse was not seriously injured, the
harness was torn from its body. Three suits
have been begun by the United States Gov
eminent against defaulting Collector Harper,
of the Springfield Qll.) District, and his Sc
curities on the three bonds fled by them when
he took the Office. The sum claimed in each
suit is S100, 900.
THE State of Illinois has just paid to the
city of Chicago 800, 900, being the last of the
principal of the canal-indemn;ty fund. There
is vet due the sum of 800, 900 for accrued in
serest, upon the payment of which the State
viii run and control its canal free from debt
or liens The Indiana State Exposition, at
has proved q brilliant success:
Willie Neff, aged II, was instantly killed
at Chillicothe, Ohio. the other day, BY being
struck in the stomach by the elbow of lad
with whom he was playing "A dispatch from
Portland, Oregon, says work on the Northern
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