Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-14

/ at Dresden, Ohio, aged SO years. -.
News comes from the Cherokee Nation that
| the members of that semi-civilized tribe are
having a bloody war among themselves. The
! trouble grew out of the recent election, in
which what is known as the Ross faction came
out ahead. 1t is the outgrowth of an old feud
| of years standing :. "A fire in the North Di-
vision of Chicago, on the 9th inst, destroyed
| $50, 600 worth Of property. Eight frame build
| ings were burned.
The South.
THE Marine Hospital, in New Orleans. which
originally cost the Government $780, 200, has
been sold at auction for $51, 900. The Texas
cattle fever prevails to an alarming extent in
| Northwestern Missouri.
! THE two murderers of old Mrs. Lampley-
| Nicholson and Hallahan-were hung at Balti-
more on the list inst. We learn from the tele-
graphic account of the execution that the
prisoners assembled the platform with steady
tread. both smiling" Hallahan spoke as fol-
| lows: Gentlemen and Brothers: 1 acknowl-
| edge that my sentence is just. l am perfectly
willing to give up my life for the crime I have
committed. There is nothing like Christianity
and brotherly love. die in the faith" Mich
olson next advanced and said: My punish
ment is just, and warn you all against love
of money and against evil companions.
commit my dear wife and precious children to
the hands of merciful God" The execution
was conducted in the most orderly manner.
-. A letter from Fort Black, Texas, says that
the forays of the Indians are increasing to an
alarming extent, and that scarcely dav passes
but the body of some isolated frontiersnlan is
found.
A DEsPICABLE piece of vandalism was perpe-
trated at Alexandria. Va, few days ago.
Some wretch entered the old Christ Church,
famous as the place where Washington wor-
tha ia
down, destroyed all the music, saturated the
cushions and prayer-books with OIL and re-
moved the silver-plate from Washingtons
pew, besides committing many other depreda-
tons.
A HUGE land fraud has just been unearthed
in New Orleans. Under the provisions of an
act struggled through the last Legislature of
Louisiana, some $500 acres of low lands be-
longing to the State and lying within the
limits of the city, worth several millions of
dollars, have been sold to private parties for
less than $1,000.
The caterpillar has made its appearance in
the Sea Islands, and the prospects are that
the Sea Island cotton crop will prove fail
ure. The Acknowledgement of Louisiana has
begun suit against ex-Gov Warmoth and Joe
Hernandez, his broker, to recover large
amount of money said to be illegally with
drawn from the State treasury.
Washington.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL WILLIAMS announces
that no more of the Ku-Klux suits now pend
ing in the United States are to be prosecuted
by the Government except in few unusually
heinous cases.
THE statement of the public debt for July
shows reduction of 1870, SIS. The follow
ing are the figures:
Six per cent. bonds. s. 2S1, 23S $50
Five per cent. bonds. Observation-Disclosures. AS, III, 400
Total coin bonds. 81, 726, 79s, 558
Lawful money debt. 14,67s,OOO
Matured debt Observation-Disclosures. 2O69l 40
Legal tender notes. 356,079,96T
Certificates OF deposit. Observation-Disclosures. 33.57O,0O0
Fractional currency observation-disclosures. 44,372, 400
Com certlhcates. 1881 800
Total without interest. 476, 1854, 284
Total debt. ..................s s., 239, OBJ, 1854
Totalinterest. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 81,457,115
Cash in the Treasury, coin..s sO,144,1s5
Special deposit held for the redemption ''-o'O0'
OF certificates of deposit, as prescribed
by Observation-Disclosures. ss,67O,OOO
Total in the Treasury. .........s 12303O, s75
Debt less cash in Treasury. 2,l47 ,164
Decrease during the month 37o5-s
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in lawful
money principal outstanding. ..... Ga 623. SO 90
Interest accrued and not yet paid 49,. 800. lit 90
interest PAID by United States. 20, al, 1856 90
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc. Apps, s53 90
Balance of interest paid by United
States ...--........... 1920, 1872 90
ALL claims presented to the Southern Claims
si4+
been numbered and registered. and their num-
Der is fornd to be %, 1885, and their aggregate
amount claimed to be something in excess of
$50, 600, 900. :. The Treasury Department has
directed the prosecution of all lake and river
passenger vessels that persist in carrying gun
powder, nitro-glycerine, or other powerful ex-
plosives
Foreign.
THE proposition to raise the allowance of
the Duke of Edinburgh to $125, 900 not only
provoked strenuous opposition in the British
Parliament, but the popular mind is consid-
erably stirre., up about it, and meetings have
been held in several towns to protest against
the " blarsted outrage. The horrors of the
massacre perpetrated by the Spanish insur-
gents at Alcoy have scarcely parallel in his
tory. correspondent, describing the awful
affair, saws: 1.-The women PLAYED copspicr-
during the Commune. Nothing which occur
red in Paris. even in the last frenzed agony
of desperation and baffled fury, at all
approaches this brutal massacre The de-
tenders of the Town Hall, after being sub
jected to other horrible insults and INJURIES
were stripped naked and held up from the bal
cony, in full view of the bowling mob below.
Their names were called out, one by one, and
the mob was asked whether it would have
them dead or alive. According to the answer,
either their heads were cut off and their mutt
lated bodies thrown down from the balcony,
or they were thrown down still alive, the mob
below trying to catch them, as they fell, on
bayonets and pixies, and everybody then rushed
to assist in dispatching what remnants of life
were left: or if too late for this, to further
mangle and disfgure the breathless bodies.
One of the principal and most respectable in
habitants was seized by the insurgents. and
after his clothes had been sprinkled with
petroleum he was set on fire and made to run,
while shots were taken at him. Other afro
cities scarcely less terrible are reported"
A LARGE number of Carlist conspirators have