Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-23

to extend Government aid so that extensive
bitches canals and water-courses may be con-
structed in the several States and Territories
where irrigation is resorted to for the cultiya-
ton of cereals fruits and vegetables. A
war party of 200 Sioux lately attacked the Pom
cas- Agency, IS miles.west of Sioux City. A Sc
we're battle ensusd, in which number of In
dams on both sides were slain
The South.
THE warehouse OF Lowry & MCGEE, at Full
ton. Ark, has been burned. Loss 10000;
no insurance.
A PROMINENT citizen of New Orleans, who
has for years paid close attention to the sub
ject of cotton, estimates the current cotton
crop at about 1900, 900 bales. The Louis
Vile Exposition closed last week. 1t has
proved financial success.
A HORRIBLE outrage was recently perpe-
trated near Boydsville in West Tennessee.
Eighteen armed.men went to the house of a
citizen, and took a negro girl out into the
woods, and each in turn outraged her person.
The people with whom the girl was living
were powerless to prevent the outrage, and
were compelled to listen to the agonizing
shrieks of the helpless creature. Her body was
found soon after the beasts had left most hor-
ribly mangled and life extinct Il. Il. NJ. Rich
ards, proprietor of Nashville theater was
shot and instantly killed a few days ago, by
James Hagan, a railroad engineer. for seduc-
ing his (Hagans) sister. The yellow fever
scourSe is rapidly abating in Memphis.
DALLAS, Texas, was recently visited by
$50, 900 fire.
Washington.
THE usual quietness that pervades the ma
tional capital during the recess of Congress
was rudely broken on Saturday afternoon, the
10th inst. by first-class sensation-the at
tempted assassination of ex-senator Pomeroy
at the hands of ex-Congressman Martin F.
Conway. Pomeroy. it seems, was walking up
one of the avenues. when he met Conway,
who. without a word of warning, drew re-
volver and fired three shots in rapied success
sion at the corpulent ex-senator, one of which
took effect in the right breast. Just below the
nipple. Hethen put up his pistol and started
TO walk off, but was stopped by Mr.. Jerome
b. Stillson, a prominent journalist, who
demanded of him an explanation of his muir
derous conduct Conway simply replied. /" He
has ruined myself and family" surrendered
his pistol to Stillson, and accompanied that
gentleman to the station-house. Pomeroy
who had fallen to the pavement. was
assisted to carriage and driven to his resi-
dence. where an examination revealed the
gratifying fact that his wound was simply
an abrasion. The ball had passed through two
thicknesses of his coat, also his vest and
shirt. and its force was thereby so far spent
that it produced no further damage than
merely breaking the skin. and scarcely bring
ing blood. One of the shots passed through
the ex-Senators hat, closely grazing his head
the other missing him entirely. Pomeroy says
he never had any controversy with Conway,
and has not the remotest idea of the cause of
the attack. Conway has not resided with his
wife for several years, she having left him on
account of his failure to support her. She
Is clerk in the Treasury Department, having
received the appointment on the recommends
ton of Pomeroy. Conway is a native of
Baltimore, and printer by trade. He
studied law, emigrated to Kansas, and was
elected to Congress, having served one
term. He was afterward appointed by
President Johnson Consul to Marseillss,
but was removed by President Grant.
1t is evident that Conway is weak in both mind
and body, and was laboring under an attack
of temporary insanity at the time. 1t is au-
thoritatively announced that Senator Conk-
ling will not accept the Office of Chief Justice
if rendered him, but that he will retire from
public life at the end of his Senatorial term,
and devote himself to the practice of law.
A Washington dispatch SAYS: The President
having been asked a question to-day in rela-
ton to the Chief Justiceship. replied that he
had consulted with no one as to selection,
and repeated what he heretofore said, namely,
that in making choice he would look TO the
interests of the country at large, and endeaver
to make one which would be generally ac-
ceptable.'
THE members of the Evangelical Alliance
visited the capital on the 14th inst, and
called on the President in body. Rev. Dr.
Tiffany, in behalf of the delegates, addressed
the President. who. in response, spoke as fol-
lows: 1t affords me very great pleasure to
welcome this Alliance to tine capital of this
great nation, which 1 feel is the freest of all
nations to work out the problem of your mis-
sion." The members of the Alliance were
then severally introduced. After the hand
shaking was gone through with, the Rev.
Sheshadra, of Bombay. delivered
a short speech. in which he expressed himself
as very much struck with what he had seen in
this country. and especially with the reception
the President had given him. The interview
was brought to a rather abrupt termination on
account of the President being compelled to |
leave for Toledo, to attend the soldiers re-
union. The Secretary of the Treasury has
announced his determination to take no fur |
Their action at present toward the replacement
of worn, mutilated and successfully counter
feited circulating notes of national banks.
MARTIN F. CONWAY who attempted to assas-
sinate Pomeroy, has been bailed. Conway.
it is said, has been for some time slave to
opium, and it is generally corceded that he was
insane when he assaulted Pome- |
roy A very singular phenomenon was pre-
scented by the result of the election in Wash |
ington, last week. One of the questions in
volved in the contest was that of mixed |
schools. In a city where the majority of the !
voters we're colored. one would expect that the |
decision of this issue would be in the affirma- |
tive but the contrary was the fact. 1t is even !
true that where colored man who was in |
favor of mixed schools ran against white |
man, the latter was elected in almost every in |
stance.
Foreign.
The West India Islands were recently visited |
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