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

:. A Paris dispatch states that since the late
elections many wavering Deputies have de-
clared in favor of the Republic. .Adyices
from Pekin state that thirty-seven Chinese
villages were recently swept away by the over
flow of the river Yang-1ino, causing an i'm
mense destruction of human and animal life.
Political.
The election for member of the District
of Columbia House of Delegates resulted in
the election of two Democrats and twenty
Republicans. James w. Nesmith Dem. has
been elected to Congress from Oregon by a
majority of about 1000. Negotiations for
the union of the New York Tammany and
Apollo Hall Democracy have fallen through.
THE Democrats of the Sixth Congressional
District of New York have nominated the Hon.
S. S. Cox for Congress.
General.
WILLIAM ORION has been reelected Presi-
dent of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany "A meeting of gentlemen interested in
building railroad from Chicago to Charles
ton, S. O., was sold in the first-named city the
other day. and an organization effected, with
ex-Gov. Beriah Magoffin as President. 1t is
said they mean business. A. b. Nettleton,
Trustees Agent of the Northern Pacific rail-
road, is out in long letter, i'll which he says
that the road has substantial business basis,
and that it's securities have permanent value.
One sentence of Netteton's letter is specially
worthy of notice. 1t is: "It is my emphatic
belief that every department of the companys
service is managed with clear hands, with
rigid economy, aud with good judgment"
ToRoNro dispatch states that intelligence
A. Macdonald is to be deprived of the rank of
Privy Counselor to the Queen, and that he will
be defeated on the meeting of Parliament.
The Evangelical Alliance. after brief ses-
sion of one week, at New York has dissolved.
Notwithstanding the outward harmonious
aspect of it's deliberations, it is apparent there
we're troubles under the surface which may
yet tend to much acrimonious ecclesiastical
wrangling on technical points. One OF these
troubles has already de.e,oped itself in the
form of a protest, signed 10y seventy of the
foreign delegates, against The attitude of the
Alliance toward the Roman Catholics and
Bishop Tozer. recently missionary Bishop
in Central Africa, addresses a letter to
Bishop Potter, Of New York. inveighing
against the Dean of Canterbury for partaking
of communion with Congregationalists Presby-
terians, and others outside of the pale of the
Church of England the Bishops principal
distress being, the example of the Dean will
induce many people In England of the Estab-
lished Church to stray away into the fold of
the Roman Catholic Church. >. The Mexican
Congress has made number of radical re-
forms, which have been formally decreed, and
among them the separation of Church and
State freedom of religious opinion recogni-
ton of marriage as civil contract dispos-
session of the property of religious institu-
tons, and the suppression of monastic orders.
In view of ecclesiastical opposition to some of
these measures, the Jesuits have been ordered
to leave the country.
THE st. Louis Times processes to have got
the Northern States of Mexico. The whole
story sounds apocryphal. A brief outline of
the project is thus given: The Texas Pacific
railroad is being constructed from both ter
mini, and work will finish about the middle of
the route somewhere near Ell Paso, Texas.
Some $1,000 laborers will be engaged on the
route, and when the work is completed they
will be discharged in country in which it will
be impossible for them to obtain employment:
and as such men are generally imProvident and
without money, they will be glad to accept
anything that may oiier These men are to be
organized into a grand fiibustering army
under the direction of a society which is al
ready formed furnished with arms. and thew
will then march over the Northern States of
Mexico and raise the flag OF independence in !
each of them. The next step will |
be annexation by vote of the peo-
pie, the case with Texas |
-. Some time ago Grange of the Patrons of |
Husbandry was organized in Boston. composed |
of grain and commission merchants. Many |
Patrons seriously protested against the aimis- |
sion of grain spectators into the order. main
tanning that such course would be disastrous |
to its interests. and demanded that the Boston /
Grange should cease to exist. In Difference /
to these complaints. Grand Master Dudley W. |
Adams some time ago revoked its charter, and |
directed the surrender of its books and |
papers; but the Boston Grange refuses to
obey the Grand Masters mandate, and will |
appeal the question to the National |
Grange.
PRESIDENT GRANT has issued his annual |
proclamation, appointing Thursday, November
q, as day of National Thanksgiving Only |
AZ out of los youths. who were recently ex-
amined for admission to the Naval Academy, |
we're qualified. In June last A out of 75 |
qualified.
SENATOR SUMNER, yielding to the advice of
his friends, has renounced the lecture-ield for
the present season.