Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16

near the fireplace, and went out to witness a
circus procession. When she returned her
child was burned to crisp.
THE Union National Bank of st. Louis has
gone into liquidation, "A farmer named
William H. Brown. while eating his dinner at
a Fort WAYNE hotel, the other day, was choked
to death by piece of meat which lodged in
his throat The Constitutional Convention
of Michigan has declined to admit the ellgl-
bility of women to any public office whatever,
excluding them even from the school boards.
Wisconsin has 225 Oranges. A colored
man named Price has sued the school dlrec-
tors of a district in Morgan county. Ill, for
$40, 900 damages, because they refused to adj
NIT his children into the school. .Chicago's
death-roll for August was !, 423; for Septem-
Der, ZOOS.
The South.
YELLOW FEVER is raging as badly as ever at
Shreveport, La, and Memphis, Tenn. At the
former place the scourge is abated, if at all,
only by the frightful depopulation it has
already caused. The citizens of Memphis
have issued an appeal for aid, addressed to
the whole country, and begging for the co-op-
Grafton of the mayors of the various cities to
secure it. Money is most needed to buy food,
bury the dead, and shelter the orphans. :. The
town of Lampasas. Texas, was recently inun-
"
through the village. Twenty houses, includ-
ing the postoffice and several stores, together
with their contents, were swept away, and six
or eight persons drowned. =. A herse ran
away with street-car in st. Louis, last week,
and, colliding with another car, killed one of
the passengers, and seriously injured four or
five others. Joseph HI. Fore, of st. Louis
who some time ago murdered his brother-in-
law, who made three unsuccessful attempts to
kill his wife, and who the other day came near
numbering an attorney in court-has been
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
THE tobacco crop now being secured is the
best that has been raised in virginis for years
past. President Grant has ordered 5000
army rations for the suffering and starving
people Of Shreveport. The De Soto Bank,
Memphis, has resumed
THE ravages of the yellow fever at Memphis
are frightful to contemplate. A dispatch Of
the 9th inst. says The number of deaths in
the infected district yesterday was so great
that the undertakers were unable to bury the
bodies, and to-day in two or three instances
whole families were carried to the burying
ground at one load. Scenes in that part of the
city are beyond description. Those not affiict-
ed are so demoralized that they can be of no
assistance to the sick, but seem chained to the
locality, and make no effort to get away.
THE South was visited by the first frost of
the season on the 7th inst During the
height of the yellow fever scare a number of
citizens of Little Rock, Ark, chartered sleep
ing-coaches on the railroads, in which they
slept, going out several miles on the railroad
in the evening, and returning next morning.
:. An old Italian padrone, with fourteen
boys, who arrived at Little Rock a few ago.
was taken in charge by the Italians, his money
taken away from him and divided between the
children, and he was ordered to leave the city.
Henry & Co., of Louisville, has been burned.
Loss, $4,000.
washington.
CHARLES WILLIAMS (colored) is to b. hung
at Washington on the 18th of November for
the murder of Frank Cohn, Virginia drover.
The railroad lobbyists and and-grabbers
are organizing for the coming session of Con-
that Ben Holiday, the Oregon railroad mag
nate. has taken house at the capital for the
session. in order to press the Endorsement Of
his railroad bonds on which the interest was
repudiated last winter. The Northern Pacific
interest also boasts of its ability to get Gov
eminent Endorsement on the ground that its
bonds are 80 well diffused, through the con-
to vote for their relief. 1t is reported from
Washington that q majority of President
Grants Cabinet are in favor OF restoring the
Thanking privilege to the departments. The
Postmaster-General will oppose the restora-
ton, however, in his next annual report. -.
The Chicago Tribuse's special Washington
correspondent gives some gossip about the
vacant Chief Justiceship. Senator Conkling
is said to desire that Judge Ward Hunt
should have it. Judge Pierepont and Mr..
VIM. NJ. Evarts are also prominently men,
toned, the only objection to the latter being
the fear that he will not keep the place for
any length of time. Buffers opposition to
Judge Hoar is thought to be sufficient to
defeat the latters prospects, while Justice
Miller, Of Ohio, and Senator Howe, Of Wis
consin, are reported as ahead in the Iace....
The President has declared he will call no
extra session of Congress. While he thinks
that the financial situation does not
demand an extra session, he still makes the
announcement that he will put out the
S44, 600 900 reserve" as rapidly as is consist
ent with the Treasury's interest. FAINT,
Washington Il Co., bankers, have resumed
business.
THE Attorney General apprehends repeti-
ton of the Louisiana political troubles in
Mississippi . The Solicitor of the Treasury
adheres to his decision that unnaturalized
| foreigners cannot act as steamboat officers,
even as pilots or engineers. Declaration of
| intention to become citizens will not answer.
They must be fully naturalized A petition
in bankruptcy has been filed in Washington
against Jay Cooke & Co., by creditor, to the
amount Of about $40, 900.
MORTON, Rose & Co. have been appointed
fiscal agents of the State Depart ment in Eu-
rope "A reliable Washington correspondent
says: at seems to be agreed all around that
as soon as Congress meets innumerable meas
ures affecting the finances will be brought for
ward, including the project for free banking.
which came near going through last winter. "
Simon Cameron was at the capital last
week, and predicted that the coming session
of Congress will he chiefly occupied in discuss
| ing the repeal of the Salary bill and the fnan-
cial and cheap transportation questions.
COMMISSION has been appointed by the
Secretary of War for the erection of a
military prison at Rock Island, Ill. The
prison is to be kept exclusively for the cenfne-
ment of military offenders against the army
regulations and laws. :. Appointments by the
President Samuel l.. Glasgow, of Iowa, to
be Consul at Glasgow, and John A. Bridge
land, of Indiana to be Consul at Havre.
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