Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-09
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BY the terms of the bill introduced into the
Spanish Cortes for the emancipation of slavery
in Porto Rico, all slaves are to be free within
four months from the passage of the measure,
and their owners are to be remunerated for the
human properly thus confiscated.
The King of the Sandwich Islands died
Dec. IL.
The horse-disease, which has of late been
ravaging the United States with such havoc,
has now reached the West Indies and made
it's appearance recently in Havana. Core
spondents writing from that city state that the
mortality is much greater there than in the
United States, owing to the miserable stables,
even the wealthiest residents having but very
poorly ventilated places for the keeping of
horses.
The cable announces that hostilities have
commenced between Russia and Khiva, and
that 5000 Khivese troops are besieging the
Russian forts ON the Euerba river. Another
force of 10000 Khivese are depredating on the
Russian fisheries at the mouth of the Euerba
Diplomatic relations between the Swiss Gov
eminent and the Vatican have been broken off.
France will pay Germany 200, 100000 francs
of her war indemnity on the 18th of January
and will continue to pay the same amount I'M
til May next. +
During the counting of the votes for mu-
nicipal officers at Tampico, Mexico, recently, a
row occurred, resulting in the killing of five or
six persons.
T,a Sfa fo fha hos
resigned.
The Austrian, French, and Prussian newspa-
pers are engaged in a lively controversy over
the disclosures made by Duke de Grammont in
regard to the origin of the late war. The
Duke brings documentary evidence to support
/ the truth of his assertion that Austria promised
to assist France in case of war with Prussia.
He publishes an Austrian dispatch to the
French Government, in which pledge is
given in the following words ''Your cause is
ours. We will contribute to the success of the
| French arms"
The Prussian Government threatens with
immediate confscation all Catholic journals III
that country, if they publish the insulting
references to Germany in the recent Papal al
locution.
/ The Czarovitch of Russia has recovered from
his recent dangerous illness.
General.
/ Christmas week was unusually prolific OF
railroad smashups and the slaughter of human
life A train on the Buffalo, Cory and Pitts
burgh railroad was thrown down an embank.
ment.. The cars falling upside down, they i'm
mediately took fire, and, there being no means
of egress, twenty-one persons were literally
roasted to death. Many others were seriously
wounded. A train on the Indianapolis, Peru
and Chicago railroad was thrown from the
track by broken rail and twenty persons in
jured, of which at least three will die. A
similar accident occurred to passenger train
near Cincinnati, resulting in the death of sew
eral persons. At Newton, Kansas, train i'm
bedded in snow-drift was run into by freight
train, by which two lives were lost. BY an ac-
cident to the through train from Washington
to Philadelphia, near Baltimore. many persons
7 were injured, two of them fatally. Men and
animals were frozen to death on train
blocked up in Indiana by lack of water,
which had congeaied all along the line Of the
road. Still other trains were frozen up else
where, and steamers were damaged by the rise
of the water in, the Ohio river. Many cases Of
| death by exposure were reported, and from al
parts of the country come the Intelligence Of
nisfortunes, constituting altogether the mosi
unwelcome Christmas present within the mem
ory- of man.
i Joe Jefferson's oversight is permanently re.
stored
4 Minister Washburne has sailed for France.
A. h. Stephens has been made the hero of 9
! Southern novel. a. cssuyssg "a
The words g Founded by Horace Greeley,
| in black extended letter now appear per-nat