Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-31
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The East.
liz the great college regatta on the Connec-
ticut river, at Springfield, Mass, on the 18th
inst, both the University and Freshman races
were won by Yale. The foot-race for the Ben
nett challenge cup WAS wen by Bowie, of
HcGin (Canada) University. He made two
miles in II minutes 1St seconds; The Court
of Inquiry into the loss of the steamer City of
Washington, sitting at Halifax, has censured
Capt. Phillips for "imprudenoe," and sus-
pended him for one year.
E. S. MILLS, President of the Brooklyn
Trust Company, who was recently drowned,
has been discovered to have been defaulter
to the amount of some $3.50, 900, and it is sur
missed that he committed suicide.
The losses of the Brooklyn Trust Company
by the dishonesty of its latePresident, Mr..
Mills, is now stated to be no less than $780,
600. That Mr.. Mills committed suicide seems
to be beyond doubt.
EX-Gov. Colby, of New Hampshire, is dead,
aged so years. He was the only Wing that
ever sat in the gubernatorial chair of that
State.
The Trustees of Plymouth Church are stated
to be awaiting only the return of Mr.. Reecher
and the leading members of his church from
their summer vacation to begin an investiga-
ton of the scandal connected with his name.
The inquiry, it is said, will be secret. Half
dozen heavy failures have occurred in the
tea trade OF New York, for sums rising from
$4,000 to 100000. The house of A A.
Low & Co. have also lost million dollars.
The total losses of the trade stated at
Sc, 900, 600. d. 1t is said that movement is on
foot in New York to remove all the Catholic
children from the public schools, avowedly to
cripple them. Similar movements are report
ed in Massachusetts, and Connecticut. The
irrepressible DIR. Mary Walker was arrested
for the twentieth time, in Baltimore, the other
day, for wearing male apparel, but was re-
leased.
Hon. JOHN P. HALE is dangerously i'll
A wrestling match for 50, 600 and the cham
pionship of the world, took place at Troy, n.
Z, the other day, between John Mcmahon of
Rutland, Vt, and Thomas Copeland, of
Canada, and was won by the Vermonter .
Glione, the Italian slave-driver of New Haven
has been held in "a, 900 bail to answer for his
treatment of four little italian boys whom he
held as slaves. They had been sold to him for
four years by their parents, who were to re-
celve $50 year. and were bound to pay all ex-
penses for medical attention, and were to for
felt all their earnings and $50 if the children
ran away. Glione was declared by the little
boys to have brutally maltreated them, and to
have instructed them to steal if they could not
otherwise obtain the daily sum he exacted
from them.
The West.
THE Chicago Tribune prints crop reports
from various points in Iowa, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Kansas and Illinois. Grain of all
kinds generally promise favorably. Corn.
which some time ago promised almost total
failure, has vastly improved under the favora-
bic weather of the last few weeks, and will
a OF lOoc
tons. Minnesota and Kansas promise an i'm
mense wheat yield. and crops of all kinds are
good. Mt Vernon. Ind, town of
3, 900 inhabitants on the Ohio river, has been
terribly scourged by cholera. The mortality
was frightful, business was most entirely sus-
pended, and the town fairly depopulated. :.
Under the new railroad rates, d. NJ. Haight,
dry goods and grocery dealer of OsweSo, Ill, |
finds it cheapest to send his butter, eggs etc.
to Chicago by team. He has, therefore put
two teams on the road between Oswego and
Chicago. distance of forty-six miles. In q
careful estimate made of a late trip by his two
teams he found that he had saved S21. -. Mrs |
Samuel Kesler, living near Richmond, Ind. |
the other day gave birth to ldSus nature
two males, united face to face by muscular
formation as wide as the bodies, extending
from the apex of the breast to the pit of the
abdomen. They were perfectly developed.
save a minor malformation on one, which
was minus an ear. They were born
dead, and will be preserved -.
The National Congress Of Workingmen closed
its session at Cleveland on the 18th inst, after
having adopted platform. The resolutions
set forth that unless the aggressions of aggre-
gated wealth are checked they will lead to the
pauperization and degradation of the toiling
masses; that system could be adopted that
would secure to the laborer the fruits of his
toll: that this object should only be attained
through union of labor and united efforts of
a 1T~yIra 1o1I 1rNxr
agency for the redress of wrongs. yet at this
hour the great consideration is the organiza-
ton and cooperation of the producing masses:
resolving to submit to the people of the
United States the objects sought to be &C
complished by the Industrial Congress: to
make knowledge a standpoint for indus
trial, social and moral worth, the true
standard of greatness; to secure to the toiler
an equitable share of the wealth which he
helps to create more leisure time and more
social advantages; demanding from the State
and National Governments the establishment
of bureaus of labor statistics, to arrive at the
true moral, educational, and financial condi-
ton eff the producing masses the reserving of
public lands for actual settlers; the adoption
of measures providing for the health and
safety of those engaged In mining and manu-
featuring pursuits; the substitution of arb-
tration for strikes when practicable; the prohi-
Dlt1on OF the importation of all servile races.
and the discontinuance of contracting convict
labor; the reduction to eight hours per day of
a days labor, and providing for national
circulating medium based on the faith and re-
sources of the nation, and issued directly to the
people.
The st. Paul Dispatch denounces the sale of
the Fort Smelling property as one of the big
gest swindles Of tie day. 1t claims that by
this transaction the Government has been
chiseled cut of $1,000. 000. . The system of
co-opeertive stores is being abandoned BY the
Iowa Changers. a reunion of the veterans
of the Mexican war is to be held at st. Louis
on the Sth of October next
The Des Moines Register of the 22d gives
the particulars of one of the boldest opera
tons by highwaymen ever executed in the
West. On the evening of the Dist of july
passenger train ON the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad was ditched by robbers
near Adair, Iowa, the express messenger
robbed and the engineer killed. The baudits
placed distractions on the track at sharp