Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Greeley and wife has been completed. The
daughters will each have fortune of at
least 100000, after all legacies, including
that to the Children's Aid Society, have been
paid.
Resolutions in favor of woman suffrage have
passed the lower House of the Maine Legisla-
ture by a vote of "a to 81.
The Democrats Of Connecticut have nomi-
mated Charles R. Ingerson for Governor.
A New York dispatch says: "The ineal de-
scendants of Madame Jumel, the old mistress
of Aaron Burr, have reached the end of their
lawsuit for four millions worth of property on
Manhattan Island, and are left out in the cold.
The Nelson-Chase party, now in possession,
are triumphant, and quite overwhelmed their
lawyer, Chas. O'Conor, to-day with their
caresses and kisses. O'Conor will probably
pocket a consideration of several hundred
thousand dollars"
It is said Stokes lawyers have discovered
new evidence of startling character that will
assure his acquittal.
The Senate of Maine, by majority of one
IN a vote of twenty-nine, have decided that
cider, if not of the intoxicating sort, may be
sold and drunk within the State.
Three new indictments have been found
against BOSS" Tweed.
Father Tom Burke the eloquent Dominican
preacher, sailed from New York for Europe the
other day. Over 5000 people assembled at the
pier to bid him farewell.
A life insurance company exclusively femi-
nine is about to be organized in New York.
The West.
The passenger train going west from Tolono,
H., on the Toledo, Wabash and Western rail-
road, encountered about dozen illegal fare
men bound for Sodorus, and upon the conduc-
tor and train-men undertaking to put them off
they drew their revolvers and virtually took
possession of the train, arriving at Sodorus, a
distance of a miles, in triumph. The same
day a conductor on one of the Illinois Central
trains was arrested at Tolono, charged with
assault and battery, in forcing man off his
train for refusing to Pay full fare.
general smallpox panic exists at LaSa1e,
Ill. A young man was taken i'll at public ball
there, the other day and few hours after
ward was in full eruption with the disease.
The widest CONSERVATION was produced by
the circumstance, and many families left the
place.
Benson, the murderer of David Crockett, Jr.,
who was recently hung by mob in Utah, was
a son of the late Mormon Bishop Sharp, prom
inent in the priesthood, and an especial friend
of Brigham Young.
The Iowa Legislature, at its recent special
session, adopted railroad law limiting the
rates for passenger travel to 81 cents per mile
upon all roads where gross earnings exceed
$4,000 per mile per year. The Indiana Legis-
lature has likewise passed law regulating
passenger and freight charges. Passenger
fares are fixed at cents mile; for local
freights, within distances of 20 miles, not more
than 100 per cent. in excess of through freight
rates shall be charged; within distances of so
miles, not more than IS per cent, and for
greater distances not more than so per cent.
James Walker of Jacksonville, Ill, an old
man of so, recently wandered from home.
dead near the city. his clothes torn into shreds,
and his body almost devoured by hogs.
It is charged that the liquor dealers of In
diana raised $3.50, 900, to be spent on the Legis-
lature to defeat the stringent Temperance
Law which was passed last week One Senator
WAS offered 81, 600 to absent himself from the
vote. The Senate has ordered the facts to be
investigated.
The first cotton mill ever established in the
Northwest has just been opened in Jonesville
Mich. The occasion was celebrated by a bal
and banquet which was attended by 500 per
sons. The company has a capital of 100000
and is engaged in the manufacture of BROW
sheetings.
Letters from the north shore of Lake Supe
rior tell of the discovery of great tin-bearinI
region in the vicinity of Otter Head, midwa
between Sault Ste. Marie river and Thunde
bay.
The new Temperance law enacted by tn
Indiana Legislature is but step removed from
absolute prohibition. One of its provision
is, that any person desiring permit to SCI
intoxicating liquors must present petitio
signed by majority of the legal voters of tn
town in which he lives, or of the ward. il
which he resides, in case of city organize
ton.
The South.
A steamboat recently into the draw
bridge across the Cumberland river at Clarks
vile, Tenn, completely demolishing the stru'
ture. co =
The Pope county (Ark.) troubles hay
broken out afresh. A militia captain was Re
Gently shot and killed, and Sheriff Dodson an
party forthwith started off to Little Rocl
At Perry Station Dodson was shot and mo
tally wounded by some unknown assassi
while standing on the platform of the trail
The greatest excitement prevailed.
A great food has occurred in the Alaban
river. 70
Advices from Montgomery, Ala, annount
the arresr, by order of Judge Busted, of NJ
Parsons, Speaker of the House of Represent
tives, and lady Williams, colored memb
of that body, for violation of the Enforcemel
act IN refusing Mr.. Hunker, member of tt
House, the right to appeal.
The Memphians celebrated Mardi Gras ]
grand style.
The, steamer Glasgow was recently sunk
Red river Loss, $4,000.
sssbak Washington.
The Senate Committee on Privileges al
lo,,r tod hat hl oIacfiop