Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-09

sons except employees of their own or other
lines and making violation of this law mis-
demeanor. The shipments OF lumber from
the Saginaw river of Michigan to date are
491, les 900 feet, against 34S,OOO,OOO feet
for the same time last year.. The
Valley Iron Company, the heaviest nail
manufacturing firm in the Mahoning Valley of
Ohio, has suspended. Other firms, it is feared,
will have to follow. The Indians of Kansas
are again becoming troublesome. .Ex-Secretary
of the Interior Jacob d. Cox has heen elected
President of the Toledo, Wabash and Western
railroad. The United States Signal Station
ON the summit of Pixies Peak has been COM
pleted. An observer will remain there all winter
and important scientific disclosure are expected.
James Allen and Charles Edwards, of
Houghton, Mich. recently settled quarrel by
duel. posting themselves IN opposite corners
of a billiard-room. Three shots were fired.
Edwards was unframed, but his adversary re-
ceived bullet in his back and one in his
brain, from the effects of which he died..
The receipts of livestock at the Chicago
Stock Yards, for the month of September
were as follows: Receipts-Cattle, 1884
hogs, 239. SIP; sheep. 1874. Shipments
Cattle, A, 301 ; hogs. 191 ,241 sheep 1875.
California shipped to Great Britain, during
September COZ, 696 centals of wheat amount
ing to =, 2Se, $50. The Supreme Court of
Illinois has confirmed the constitutionality of
the new liquor law of the State.
The South.
THE yellow fever is ON the increase in Mem
phis. There were twenty-one deaths from the
disease on Thursday A New Orleans dis
patch says: ''Dr. Burns telegraphs as fol-
lows from Shreveport We arrived yesterday
and held meeting of physicians at night.
The disease is yellow fever, a true homegas-
trio pentilence. It's origin is still obscure, and
20 cha tor f1ol1 nf N
tween 80 and 60 per cent. About 400 deaths so
far. More than half the population have fled.
Every one is working brayely.
MONTGOMERY PARKER. a farmer of Fayette
county, KY. the other day quarreled with a
boy in his employ. discharged him, and then
followed and shot the lad down in the high
way, while begging for mercy. The miscreant
escaped. .Murfreesboro, Tenn, has just had
a $50, 600 blaze.
A FIRE recently burned two squares and a
half of buildings in BRENNAN. Texas. The
population of Shreveport La. has been fear
fully htinned out by the yellow fever pesti-
lence. The town has been compelled. through
the Howard Association, to make an appeal
for aid The Times of the LIST says: "We no
longer have funerals. The hearses. followed
by one or two carriages, dash through the
streets like a section of artillery in a battle.
seeking position. A few more are durmmed
up. the collins put into the hearse, and driven
rapidly to the cemetery. This is the case even
with the most prominent citizens"
The last rail on the Cairo, Arkansas and
Texas railroad has been laid, and through
trains now run from Cairo to Texarkana, on
the eastern border of Texas.
The New Orleans PicdyIne estimates the
cotton crop at not less than 1000, 900 bales. .
~ 81 l1of1 - h.
lima State Courts has Just come off at Raleigh.
\. c., and resulted in the conviction of three
white and one colored-of MIR
der in the first degree. They were sentenced
TO be hung on the 18th of November j. A.
cashier of the st. Louis Mutual Life
Insurance Company. has decamped with Sc, 500
Of the institutions funds. The cotton crop
Of the Rio Grande valley has been seriously
damaged by floods The report, started by a
iiers had made another raid into Mexico, is
untrue.
Washington.
THE September report of the Department of
Agriculture indicates that the yield Of maize
will be somewhat lower than that of last year.
In response to an inquiry whether per-
son who sells brandy peaches brandy cherries,
ETC., is liable to a special tax a liquor dealer,
he Commissioner of Internal Revenue replies
hat unless said articles are bona tide sold as
such, and contain only the necessary quantity
If brandy to preserve the fruit, the dealer
must pay special tax for selling brandy.
Two roughs who, while partially drunk. called
,ut to President Graut in a rude and bolster
BUS manner as he was riding to church with
his family last Sunday, were arrested and fined
IS for disorderly conduct.
Mrs. BELLA LOCKWOOD has been admitted
ot<~ ~
Of the District of Columbia The financial
troubles have caused large falling off of in
.ernal revenue receipts. :. The Comptroller of
he Currency states that he cannot legally APP
point a receiver for a national bank on account
Of refusals by national bank to pay money.
which gives certified checks in lieu therefor.
As is now the general practice in nearly all of
the large cities. A Washington dispatch
says printed circular VIII be sent to the
creditors of Jay Cooke q Co., stating the
terms of compromise which they have decided
to offer, and that nothing further will likely
be done until replies have have been received
from all the creditors. The official state
ment shows that the United States currency
Of all kinds outstanding at this date is S402,-
s23, 030.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON says that the Gov
will lose nothing by the suspension of
Clews & Co., in New York, or Clews, Habicht
x Co., in London; also, that if Jay Cooke
& Co. pay 80 per cent. the Government will
be no loser by the failure of the First National
Bank. He thinks that the country will be
gratified to find in the public deb. statement
that the reserve" has not yet been touched,
though he reiterates his purpose of using it
whenever he judges it to be necessary The
public debt statement for September shows q
reduction of 81. sol, 467. The following are
the figures:
Six per cent. bonds. 81 ,235 0OO 900
Five per cent. bonds. 4Ss So, 800
Total coin bonds. 81 ,723 So, 500
Lawful money debt. 14,67S.0O0
Matured debt. Is 756. 100
Legal tender notes.. 356,079,742
Certificates of deposit ........ l1,25O.OOO
Fractional currency 46, 229, 391
Coin certificates. Observation-Disclosures. 3,393, 545