Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

unsuccessful attempt has been made on the
life of Don Alfonso, brother of Don Carlos.
| The assassin was unceremoniously dispatched.
-. The Turkish troops IL Greece have at last
succeeded in capturing and killing the band of
brigands who we're implicated in the brutal
massacre at Marathon.
THE cable reports another railroad slaughter
ON the Great Northern line of England, near
Nottingham, by which several persons were
killed and large number wounded The
Spanish fleet has commenced the bombardment
of Cartagena. 1t is stated that the civil and
military authorities of the Communist admin
istration had quarreled, and that the respective
partisans had come to actual conflict, in
which a number of men were killed and
wounded. A letter from Japan says all the
deacons, ministers, etc., now in the employ of
the Government will be dismissed at the ex-
piration of their present contracts.
THE cholsra is raging in Hungary. The
American exhibitors at Vienna received 400 of
the $4,000 medals that were awarded. .
The Carlist insurgents in Spain, under Al
| fonso and Tristany, have been beaten and put
| to fight, and these two commanders wound |
| ed. The report is also confirmed that the |
| royalist army has been driven away from the |
vicinity of Berga, an important strategic J
| point, and that many bands of insurgents I,
| dispersed and driven into France. On the |
other hand. the Communist insurgents at |
Cartagena have scattered the Government |
fleet which was sent to lombard the city, and, |
provided with fresh supplies of ordnance and |
provisions and with reinforcements from Va
lencia, are prepared to hold out for any length |
Of time against the Government. Austin |
and George Bidwel, Edwin Noyes and George |
Mcdonnell, who perpetrated the heavy for
gcries ON the Bank of England have been |
tried at London, and all four of them SEN
fenced to penal seryitude for life, the highest |
punishment under the laws for their offense.
:. Emilio CASTELAR, has been elected Presi-
dent of the Spanish Cortes. :. The farmers
rebellion in Japan has been suppressed. The
insurgents were guilty of many barbarities,
and when close pressed, many of them COM
mitted hdri-kdyi. Carl Wilhelm, the COM
poser of the famous German war song 1.-The
Watch on the Rhine, " is dead.
The high price of breac causes an agitation
in the populous quarters of Paris, and it is APP
pretended that serious troubles may ensue.
A special meeting of the Cabinet Council has
members of the Assembly propose. as a remedy
for the evil, the suspension of discriminating
duties as to cereals. 1t is reported that
seventeen krupp guns have been sent from
Keil, for the Carlists.
Political.
SENATOR MORTON and Gov. Moves opened
the Ohio Republican campaign at Athens, on
the Odd of August. Senator Morton being
asked what he had done with his back-pay
said swell, can say l have not taken it,
and never expect to-" Mr.. Morton has been
compelled to recall all his appointments in
Ohio, owing to severe hoarseness.
THE Washington Daily Republican, of Aug.
81 contains four-column article in advocacy
of the reelection of President Grant to
third term. The article states that the idea is
as old as the Government itself, and has al
ways been a subject of difference and dspu-
tation that Washington was requested to
rln q third term: Thomas Jefferson the cam
onized Saint of the Democracy. was similarly
honored; so were Madison and Monroe.
The article concludes: If Gen. Grant
desires the Presidency for third term.
he can hsveit, for the people have learned
to trust the hand that has guided the
Ship of State safely through so many perils,
and they will keep him at the helm as long as
the exigencies of the State may need him.
His Willingness to serve the country makes
him available. Let Gen. Grant, then, be again
put before the people for reelection. The
people will confirm the choice of the nations
counselors. ben Butler made the OPEN
ing speech of his campaign at Worcester,
Mass, last week. in which he went for his
enemies in genuine Modoc fashion. He de-
Tended the salary grab and made a savage re-
ply to Judge Hoar's recent letter,
THE Republican State Convention of Wis
consin has placed in the political field the fol-
lowing persons for State officers: For Cover
nor G. c. Washburn; for Lieut. anant-Gover-
nor. Robert III. Baker, of Racine; ,'or Secretary
of State, Z. w. Young, of Sank; for Treasurer,
Col. o. c. Johnson; for Attorney General,
Judge l.. L. Frisbie. of Port Washington
State Superintendent. Robert Graham. of Osh-
kosh: Emigration Commissioner, George p.
Lindman. f. W. keyes was reelected Chair
man of the State Central Committee. Treas
urer Spinner has published a letter acknowl-
edging the receipt OF Senator Mortons back
pay John T. Bird. Congress man from New
Jersey. has returned to the U. s. Treasury his
back pay, including interest on a portion of
the amount accrued by investment.
General.
THE iron merchants in New York attribute
the lockout at Manchester, England, to the
fact that the high price of English iron and !
increased production in this country have rem ,
dered the American market almost wholly IN
dependent of Great Britain. American iron
is now being sent to Canada.
THE Board of Visitors to West Point report |
the Academy in a sound and good condition, {
and that it is fulfilling the purposes of its es-
taDlsumenJ III the most SATISFACTORY manner,
rejecting honor upon those who are charged |
with its administration. They recommend S
that more time be allowed for literary studies. :
The Board report that the outrageous practice :
OF hazing" has been almost entirely eradi-
Gated. The Toledo, Wabash and Western S
railroad has made material reduction on '
through freights to New York. First and {
second-class freights are lowered to As cents, I
and third and fourth-class to 36 cents per 100 !
pounds 80 cents will be charged for special
freight.
ANOTHER heavy reduction in the freight :,
rates from New York west has boon made. 9
The tariff from New York to Chicago, for in !
stance, is reduced from So cents to Is cents !
per 100 pounds; to Cleveland from As cents |,
to 26 cents to Cincinnati, from 20 to 81; to
st. Louis. from 81 to SIS; to Kansas City and !
st. Joseph, from 139 to 81. There has also
been a material reduction in passenger fares. c
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