Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

dead.
The following pleasant little scene occurred
in the Arkansas Legislature the other day.
Furbush (colored) called up bill to create
Coolidge county. The Chair stated it needed
engrossing Furbush-Then, with the con-
sent of the House, 1 will withdraw the Cd
id BILL" Millen-' l move the language be
takendown and the member expelled" Fur
BUSH" wish the whole Cd id Legis-
lature"- The CHAIR Mr.. Furbush will
come to the bar of the House." Furbush-
g will be glad to be expelled, and never want
my name used in connection with this Cd
id Legislature again"
Lithgow & Co., stove founders, and Mouldon
& Co., marble dealers, of Louisville, working
together, have failed for heavy amount.
Two boys in Spencer County, KY, while out
hunting, drank out of pool of water. They
were shortly after taken with commissions, and
both died.
Nearly all the Senators and Representatives
have left the capital, and the streets wear a
deserted aspect.
The Postmaster-Generalh has issued an order
that postmasters whose salary does not exceed
81 900 year may be permitted to hold local
offices.
Up to this time about three-fourths of the
members of the House and two-thirds of the
Senators have drawn the extra pay which they
voted themselves.
The President has set apart Mondays, We'd
nesdays and Thursdays, from II to 1 o'clock,
for receiving callers and there is ''no use
knocking at the door" at any other time than
that specified.
Thomas Smith (colored) was hanged at
Louisville en- the 28th ult., for the murder of
Joseph Braden, in May, 1871. On the same
day Charles Manley, also colored, suffered q
like penalty at Alexandria, Va, for the muir
der of an old man named Moore, in July, 1872
A rich vein of lead and silver ore, with gold
dust mixed, was discovered recently on the
banks of the Arkansas river, at Little Rock.
terrific hurricane 100 yards in width, re-
| Gently swept over the town of Canton, Miss.
destroying fifty houses, killing one person,
and injuring many more.
Washington.
A former Confederate General Senator John
B Gordon, of Georgia. presided over the
Senate the other day. during the temporary
absence of Vice-President Wilson.
Senator Bogy's case was dismissed by the
Senate, there being not testimony sufficient to
warrant an investigation.
Appointments by the President: George In
gals, Illinois, Agent for the Piute Indians
Southeastern Nevada. Reconsideration
R. Blackwell, Litehfeld, ILL.,; William S.
Utley, Racine, Wis. William S. Lasure, Grin
nell, Ia. Cyrus Hall, Shelbyville, Ill. Tindil
I Gol IL, ~
son, Cambridge City. Ind; Thomas B. Wood
Franklin, Ind; Charles H. Howard, Usage
Mission, KS; William W. Kenyon, Howell
Mich; Lemuel D. Willis, Grass Lake, Mich;
Frank White, Collector of Internal Revenue
Seventh District of Indiana; Alonzo B. Car
roll Collector of Internal Revenue, Second
District of Missouri ex-Gov. RIB. Hayes, As
sistant Treasurer at Cincinnati.
The Senate adjourned sine die at o'clock
p. m. on Wednesday, March &c. The only
event of the session has been the Caldwell
case.
Brisbane's projected pneumatic tube turns
out to be failure, and he is beginning to be
looked upon as fraud. ALI there is to show
for the $4,000 appropriated by Congress to
enable Brisbane to lay an experimental tube
from the Capitol to the Government printing
Office is an ugly ditch that almost renders the
street impossible. He laid a sort of barrel
sewer of thin boards and then covered it up.
As might have been expected. the earth
crushed the boards, and the thing is a stupen-
dous failure.
The United States Government has had
three silver services, consisting of two wine
coolers and punch bowl each made as presents
to Counts Iturbide and Sclopis and Viscount
Staempfi for their impartiality and firmness
in the Geneva Arbitration. Each service is
inclosed in box three feet wide and five
feet long, lined with green silk. The boxes
alone cost 81, 800.
Ex-senator Cattell, of New Jersey, has beer
appointed financial agent of the Treasury De
partment to visit Europe in connection will
the new loan.
The Third Auditor has audited and reported
to the Second Comptroller over 700 Southern
claims which have been awarded. Only abou
$50 now remain.
Allison Hayes and A. ]. Marteon convicted
of Ku-Klux outrages in South Carolina, hav
been pardoned by the President.
Cakes Anles has notified the Attorney-Gen
eral of the United States that the Credit Nc
bilier Company does not intend to surrends
its books to the Government, but will offe
them for inspection.
The amount of money which will be with
held from the Pacific Railroad Companies, i
accordance with the recent act of Congress
will reach from 100000 to 81 800, 900 al
nuaIy.
President Grant and family spent severe
DAYS in New York last week.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called i
the balance of the 8 per cent. certificates re
| naming unpaid, which will finally complet
the retirement of the whole of the $45, 000, 90
} of per cents as provided in the act of Jul
r. 1870, which authorizes the issue of $54
600, 900 in national bank notes.
George William Curtis has resigned his pc
sition as one of the Civil Service Commits
sioners.
Foreign.