Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-13

News from DR.. Livingstone represents his
health as much improved.
The Queen of Spain has given birth to a
! bouncing boy. .-.-...
Theirs refuses to accept the constitutional
project submitted to him by the Committee of
Thirty of the Assembly.
| Over 100 Internationalists have been arrested
in Montmartre, a suburb of Paris.
Ex-Empress Carlotta, widow of Maximilian
is reported in dying condition at Dresden.
Randolph Rogers the American sculptor
has been made member of the Roman
Academy of St. Luke, the first citizen of the
United States who has received this honor.
Rustichuk, a fortified city of Bulgaria, has
been the scene of fierce street riot, in which
IS Bulgarians and 10 Greeks were slaughtered.
1t was the Spanish steamer Murillo as was
surmised from the first, that ran down the
Northfeet in the English Channel, the other
day. She WAS not damaged in the least by the
collision, and has arrived at Cadiz in perfect
condition. Lisbon was her real destination,
but as her officers and crew on landing there
would have been Immediately arrested under
the extradition law between Great Britain and
Portugal, she carried her cargo to Spanish
port. This may enable her officers to escape
all punishment Tor an act of cold-blooded in
humanity equal to the worst of those that rem
dered infamous the Spanish buccaneers of 800
years ago.
The Spanish Government has officially noti-
fed Minister Sickles that no steps will be
taken to abolish slavery in Cuba until the in
surrection in that island has been suppressed.
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turns, 269000 slaves in the island.
The great Vienna Exposition building is
completed.
An incipient revolution in Hayti has been
discovered and suppressed and five of the
plotters executed.
Astrike among the engineers and iremen of
the Portuguese railways has been ended by the
interference of the Government and the strik-
ing workmen forced, at the point of the bayo-
net, to resume their places.
The British isles have been visited by a
storm of extraordinary violence. In London,
snow fell to great depth, and travel was al
most wholly suspended. The gale ragged with
great fury all around the English and Irish
coasts. Many wrecks have already been re-
ported, and there has been fearful loss of
life, especially off Torquay and around the
Sicily Islands.
President Theirs attended the sitting of
the Committee of Thirty, the other day. and
presented his views on the constitutional pro-
ject submitted to him. He agreed to accept
the scheme if certain amendments which he
declared indispensable were adopted. After a
searching criticism of the project in detail,
he urged the necessity of being free to address
the Assembly on questions of general policy,
and concluded asefollows: You humiliate
me; accept humiliation, but will not be-
come political mannikin. I am only little
bourgeois, but the power your conditions leave
me would be contemplate
News comes from San Domingo of a new
movement of the insurgents, which may prove
serious to the infant colony of SANTANA Bay.
Prince Lunallo has been inaugurated King
of the Sandwich Islands.
Over $4,000 iron-workers in Wales are on a
strike
Lehree a town in India of 6, 900 inhabitants,
has been overwhelmed by an earthquake, and
500 people killed.
There has been another rise in the price of
coal in London. 1t is now selling for SO shil-
lings per ton.
The British isles have been experiencing in
tensely cold weather. One hundred persons
froze to death i'll England within two days.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee have
agreed to recommend the passage of the bill
incorporating the American China and Japan
Telegraph Company, with capital of
S10,000000.
Congress is being flooded with petitions in
opposition to the proposed repeal of the Bank
rupt act.
President Grant, Immediately after the close
of the present session of Congress, WILL in
company with members of the Cabinet, make
an extended Southern tour, visiting New Or
leans (via Richmond), Raleigh, Columbia,
Charleston, Mobile, and other places.
General.
1t is proposed to tunnel the Ohio and Missis-
sippi rivers near their junction. in order to
facilitate railway movements. A company for
that purpose has been formed, with capital
of SO, 600, and has applied to Congress for
an act of incorporation.
Preparations for the celebration of the GEN.
tennial anniversary of American Independence
at Philadelphia have been intrusted to COM
mittee of 500 leading citizens. At a meeting
of this committee, the other day, $3.50, 900
were subscribed, making $500, 900 promised by
Philadelphia for the celebration. The City
Council is asked to appropriate 81, 600, 900 from
the city funds, and subscriptions are invited
from every citizen of the United States.
There is an increase in the public debt for
the month of January of S406, 243.
Aspinwa1 was visited by terrific hurricane
on the 18th ult., causing the destruction of
nearly 81, 0OO, 900 worth of property.
The sewing machine patents are about to ex-
pire, and, according to the New York Bulletin,
there is formidable combination of interests
to lobby their extension through Congress.
| The royalty alone has yielded several million
dollars, which were divided among companies
, whose patents cover the essential points of
the machine. These companies charge the
American people one-half more for the ma
chimes than the rates at which precisely the
the same articles are sold in Europe. The
Bulletin tells that for series of years the
f public has paid from $50 to $50 apiece for ma