Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-20

all reported to be selling slowly and at reduced
| prices The iewelry and book businesses have
suffered severely. Manufacturing of all kinds
is restricted here as in every part of the coun-
| try and the workingmen are proportionately
distressed.
Hon. WILLIAM McGALLIARD, member Of the
Illinois Legislature, recently committed sui
eide by shooting himself. Cause, unrequited
love A dispatch from Victoria, British Co
lumbia saws: 1.-The steamer California ar
rived tonight from Sitka, Alaska Territory,
and confirms the new and recent discovery of
rich gold fields in Cassian county. She
brought down twelve miners and $1,000 In
| dust The excitement is intense. One party
took out SI97 in eight hours rocking"
Capt. Brown, of the Fifth Cavalry, recently
went on q scout in the Tonic Basin country-, of
Arizona. and killed forty-six Apaches. The
reported arrest of two of the Iowa train rob-
bers in Kansas was a hoax. An ARRAY be-
tween soldiers and citizens in Bismarck, Mimi,
on the 18th inst. resulted in the killing of one
soldier and one citizen. :. The gale on the
night of Nov. IL was the most fearful ever ex-
perienced on Lake Michigan. Many vessels
were wrecked and number of lives lost.
The South.
ALL accounts from the South represent that
it is financially in better condition than at
any time since the wal. In Loanoke county.
Ark, near Little Rock, a few days ago, a
posse consisting of an officer and three men,
who were in search Of two negro hog-thieves,
were fired upon by party of colored men
who had espoused the cause of the thieves.
Three of the posse were instantly killed. and
the third mortally wounded: Gen William
J. Hardee, the well-known Confederate GEN
eral, died at Wytheville, Va; on the 9th Of
November.
THE business of the East Tennessee and Vir-
ginia railroad is seriously paralyzed by strike
of the engineers, fremen and brakemen. The
company has sued 200 of the strikers in the
courts of Knoxville, Tenn, for $1,000. 900
damages, and obtained an injunction restrict
isg them from obstructing the business of the
company.
A WACO (Texas) dispatch says the Indians
along the Texas frontier are worse than at any
time since the war; All of them are Off their
reservation. being headed by Big Tree, who
was lately pardoned out of the Penitentiary.
Over 1000 lately crossed the Wichita, and are
depredating on the settlers. =. r. III. L. Hun
ter of Virginia. has written letter. urging
the United States to loan $500. 900, 900 to the
South in per cent thirty-year bonds. for
which the planters are to pay per cent. and
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says that Mr. Lincoln advocated this plan.
The widow of the late Gen. Robert Z. Lee
died at Lexington. Va, OH the 9TH inst
Over 1000 operatives have been thrown out of
employment by the stoppage of mills and
factories around the Louisville Falls. The
yellow fever has entirely disappeared from the
South.
THE Acknowledgement and Deputy Marshal
of the Western District of Texas were assas-
sinated on the 25th of October by desperate
who had been convicted of murder and made
his escape from prison.
CICALLA, the dishonest Acting Mayor of
Memphis, has been unanimously expelled from
the Board of Aldermen. :. s. S. Mallory, ex-
United States Senator from Florida and
formerly Secretary of the Confederate States
Navy is dead.
washington.
Rev. Mr.. NEWMAN has forwarded to the
Treasury Department a highly interesting re-
port from Japan. Two of the most noticeable
features in it are the production of iron by the
Japanese which can be laid down in this
country at a much cheaper price than English
iron and the extent to which tobacco is cult
waited in Japan in place of rice as being more
profitable.
SECRETARY OF WAR BELKSAP, who is being
married almost daily by the correspondents,
denies that ne has any matrimonial intentions
for the present Gen. Alfred Torbert, of
Delaware, has been appointed Consul-General
at Paris. vice j: Meredith Reed, who goes to
Troy in place of Mr.. Francis, the present Greek
Minister.
IT is stated that the President will restate
in his message the propriety of free banking
law. Secretary of the Interior Delano will,
in his annual report, renew his recommended
ton for a census to be taken in 1875.
SECRETARY Fish has been interviewed on the
subject of the yirginius and the Spanish ex-
ecutions at Santiago de Cuba Mr.. Fish said
that his natural sympathies were with the
Cuban cause but that n his official position
he could not act as a champion of oppressed
humanity while unauthorized tilibusters were
using the United States ports to fit out expe-
ditions, contrary to law and treaty. He stig-
matizes the execution of Gen. Ryan and his
comrades as an inhuman and atrocious
slaughter, for which the Spanish volunteers,
and not the home Government, are to blame.
President Grant is credited with being in favor
of an active protest against the outrage.
The case of the yirginius was discussed at
a Cabinet meeting on the 18th inst. No de-
cision cen be reached with regard to it till full
official information has been received.
SENATOR MORTON is at the capital. He is
reported in good health, and infavor of green
back relief . Brisbane is again laying down
his pneumatic tube between the Capitol and
and the Government Printing Office.
Foreign.
PRINCE BISMARCK has laid before the Ger
man Federal Council a proposition from the
United States Government. inviting Germany
to participate in the Philadelphia Centennial.
and has recommended it's acceptance. The
apparently interminable Tichborne case has
secured fresh lease of life, an extension of
time having been granted upon motion of the
claimants counsel to November, 1874. A
vast amount of property has been destroyed
in st. Petersburg by the overfowing of the
river Neva.
NJ. BUFFET has been elected President of the
French Assembly. The rate of discount at
the Bank of England has been raised to nine
per cent. The rate has reached higher price
but twice before. in 1857 and 1868. There
has been a heavy decline of stocks in Loadon,
and symptoms of . panic are beginning to be
manifested.
The French Ministry resigned in body. the
other day, but President MacMahon refused
to accept their designations. The Carlists