Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

The lobby of the New Jersey House of Rep
resentatives was the scene of a disgraceful
row on the morning of the adjournment of the
Legislature. In a debate the day before a
member named Carse had called Che Hon.
James M. Scovill "a perjured man and "a
scoundrel," and when Mr.. Cole and John
Hood, members, met in the hall they engaged
in a war of words. Scovil came up, and, mix
ing in the quarrel, Cole called him ga liar, +"
and was immediately knocked down by Scovill.
The Speaker ordered all the doors to be closed,
but before it was done Carse rushed into the
fight. and Scovin knocked him down also, and
he was badly punished while he was down.
The Mayor of Trenton ~interposed, and pre-
vailed upon Scovin to leave the State-house,
and the fight ended. Coles face was much
~disfgured.
1t is proposed to take all the bodies of the
Atlantic victims to Halifax and bury them to-
gether in a public cemetery, and erect a monu-
ment over them. The City Council, on appli-
cation of the provincial government, has re-
solved to place a lot in the cemetery at the dis
posal of the friends of the dead. One hun
dred and seventy bodies have SO far been re-
covered.
Nixon, under sentence - death at New
York, is completely broken down, and the
prison officers say if he Toes not die of fright
he will have to be carried to the gallows. May
16 is the day set for his execution.
Henry Briceland, the murderer of o Al
bingham. has been sentenced to be hung at
Washington, Pa.
The Hon. Richard Yats s, of Illinois, e3-
United States Senator, ami recently appointed
a government director of the Union Pacific
Railroad, was arrested N Philadelphia, a few
nights since.
The New York Herald says Miss Nellie
Grant is engaged to Thomas Murphy, Jr.,
son of ex-Collector Murphy.
Alarge section of the city of New York was
plunged into darkness the other day, as the
result of the strike of the gas men.
A. T. Stewart, the New York dry goods
king, is seriously i'll with Bright's disease of
the kidneys.
Agassiz is in failing health.
President Grant was the guest of Senator
Cameron. during his visit to Harrisburg, last
week.
Two of the Italians taken from Wards
Island 10 supply the places VI meA VIM AoA'
the works of the New FORK Gas Company, last
week, preferred death to that kind of indus
try. and drowned themselves. Others clam
ored to be returned to the island, to await less
exhausting employment.
The New York East Conference has ap-
pointed a committee to make arrangements
in concurrence with committees in other Sec
tions of the country, for the proper celebra-
ton of the one hundredth anniversary of the
first Methodist Conference in America.
President GRANT was the guest of Senator
Cameron, during his visit to Harrisburg, last
week....Tw of the Italians taken from
Wards Island to supply the places of men who
left the works of the New York Gas Company.
last week, preferred death to that kind of In
dustry. and drowned themselves. Others
clamored to be returned to the island, to await
less exhausting employment. The New Yorl
East Conference has appointed a committee tc
make arrangements, in concurrence with COM
mittees in other sections of the country, fol
the proper celebration of the one hundredtE
anniversary of the first Methodist Conference
in America.