Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-18

was mOrtally w0undeC ana the others put 10
flight Lieut.. Willmore and Mrs. Roberts,
who were in the ambulance with Major Brooks
were slightly wounded. The robber that was
shot is an ex-army officer-G. W. Graham
formerly captain in the Tenth Cavalry.
The South.
SIXTEEN illicit whisky mills were recently
seized and destroyed in the Seventh Revenue
| District of North Carolina. Three negro
children were last week burned to death in a
cabin in Fayette county, Tenn. Australian
Kelley, the once noted prize-fghter, died re-
Gently at Fulton. Ark. :. Christian Roselius,
a prominent citizen and eminent jurist of
Louisiana, Is dead.
JUDGE I. CRAWFORD and District-Attorney
Artnrr H. Harris, of the Twelfth Judicial
| District of Louisiana, were assassinatcd re-
Gently, near Winnsboro, in Franklin parish,
while on their way to hold court at that place.
They were shot seven times. and their brains
blown out. The murderers are not known.
but it is thought that personal, and not politi-
! cal, differences led to the assassination, as
Crawford was a Radical and Harris Demo-
| oyst. -. The Louisville Ceuier-Jo,u7adl COM
menting on the Ku-klux outrages in the State,
proposes. if the Governor has not the means
or power at his command to equip company
| of men to proceed against the Ku-klux, that
the Cotrier-Journdl will pay the expenses
necessary to the organization of an efficient
company for the purpose.
BALTIMORE has been visited by another
disastrous fire, involving the destruction,
among other buildings, of the Holiday Street
Theater Loss. $40, 900. The ravages of
| the yellow fever at Shreveport, La. are de-
scribed as frightful.
Washington.
IT is stated that the attempt will be renewed
in the next Congress to repeal the Bankrupt
act, or to obtain such amendment to the same
as shall render its operations more favorable
| to commercial interests There is considera-
! BILE talk in some of the departments of asking
! Congress to amend the law passed last session
abolishing the Thanking privilege, so that let
| tiers on public business, addressed to Govern
ment officials, may go through the mails with
out prepayment of postage. A Washington
dispatch saws: 1.-The police are looking for
the persons who mutilated the body of Beau
Hickman. When the undertaken went to the
potter 's-field to remove the body to the Con-
gressional burial-grOunds. he found the legs
disjointed at the hips, the head severed from
the trunk and skinned, the viscera taken ont
and removed. with the exception of the heart,
| which was found in the bushes near by, wrap
ped in newspaper. What could be gathered
was inferred in the cemetery"
THE Acknowledgement most emphatically
denies the published statement that the Gov
eminent has determined to abandon the prose-
cution of the Credit Mobilier suits The Su-
pervising Inspector of Steamboats, has hit
upon plan for more effectually bringing 10
grief such owners of steam vessels fail to
conform to the law for the protection of hui
man life. The plan is, without previous noti-
fication or warning. to send special agents of
the Bureau into the regular Inspection Dis
tricts. SO that not only the steamboat COM
panies shall be taken by surprise. but the In
spectors also.
QUARTERMAsTER-GENERA MEIGS opened
bids last week for furnishing tombstones for the
national cemeteries. There was large attend
ance of bidders from different parts of the
country. and the bids ranged from $500, 900 to
81 200. 900.
THE secret agents sent abroad by the Treas
ury Department, to test by experience the
treatment immigrants received from the ocean
steamship companies, have returned from
Washington. They claim to have detected q
number of serious abuses, and will recon-
mend to Congress, in December, the follow
ing changes:
Firsf-The establishment of a treaty with En-
gland, Germany and France for the joint appoint
ment of Government agent to travel on every
Europe, and carrying 800 passengers and upward.
The agent to be known such, and to act media
tor when necessary between the captain Of the
steamer and the emigrants.
Sec0nd-ThaI the various lines of railway in this
country shall BE compelled to run emigrant trains
ON schedule time, like regular trains instead Of as
extras, as at present.
Third-That for every emigrant killed on rail-
way the company shall pay to the Government for
his heirs the sum of 5000 and i'll case of manning
proportionate sum.
81 ,JoI n
at Geneva, Switzerland, was paid into the
United States Treasury on the 9th inst, by
Secretary Fish. in one bond. The bond was
skillfully printed with a pen. being fac
smile Of printed form. Upon being duly
executed, it was photographed, and then sent
to Secretary Fish. who is its present Gus
todiau. The certificate of deposit, retained
by the Secretary of the Treasury, will be
framed and preserved among the archives of
the Government as memorial of the amicable
settlement of the difference between the two
countries Secretary Richardson invested the
money in 5 per cent. registered bonds, to await
further action by Congress.
Foreign.
THURSDAY, the 4th inst, was the anniversary
of the proclamation of the French Republic ;
but on account of the ban pronounced BIZ the
MacMahon government there was no observ-
ance of the day in Paris. At Lucerne, in
Switzerland. however, ex-President Theirs
was waited upon by number of his fellow
countrymen. to whom he made a speech
strongly advocating the preservation of re-
publican institutions. The total force of the
Carlists in Spain is put down at 40, 900. They
are arranging to establish cannon factory at
Tarragona-
THE Pope is again announced to be ill.,.
So stern was the repression by the French
Government of any attempt to celebrate the
anniversary of the establishment of the Re-
public, that American citizens in Paris were
not even permitted to make a complimentary
display of the United States flag on that day.
80. Nicolas Salmeron, President of the Repub-
lie of Spain, and all the members of his Min
Istry, have resigned.
| MINISTER and Historian Motley il con-
valescent. Emilio CASTELAR, has been elected
President of Spain. This young Republic,
though only six months old. has had four
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