Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


The East.
An important verdict has just been rem
dered in the New York Marine Court in the
case of III. B. Clafin & Co. against the West
en- Union Telegraph Company. The amount
of money involved is not large, being but
$3i2. but the principle at issue was an inn
portant one. The plaintiffs sent the follow
ing dispatch to one of their statesmen travel
ing in the South Atlantic p. twelve ID,
twelve one-half off trade" In the
course of transmission the d was
changed to A, and, in consequence,
a yard which were cents higher at the time,
involving q loss to the firm Uf $500. On the
trial the telegraph company set up as de-
Tense that the dispatch being in cypher,
should have been repeated, under the con-
ditions on the company's blanks, and that the
salesman himself was Negligent in selling at
price lower than had been known for years.
Notwithstanding the defense, the verdict was
given agsinst the telegraph company.
The West.
The places of the union miners at Nelson
vile, Ohio, who have been on q strike for sew
eral weeks, are being supplied with negroes
from the South. Several hundred arrived last
week, and more are engaged. -. The police of
Salt Lake City the other day arrested a soldier
and confined him in Jail Gen. Morrow de-
manded his surrender, which being refused,
he proceeded to break open the Jail and re-
lease the man. A dispatch from Dubuque,
Iowa. SAYS: I'm ten or dozen counties west
OF Humboldt. and up the west branch of the
Des Moines river the country is full of To-
GUSTS They have already eaten the growing
crops on the grounds and left the fields as
barren as a board. Many of the homesteaders,
in despair of crop, have packed up and are
moving out of the country"
The troubles in the Hooking Valley (Ohio)
mines wore serious aspect on the 18th.
dispatch of that date says: lover 800 negroes
were brought here yesterday morning and
quartered at Longstretb's mines. During the
day the strikers have succeeded in persuading
about fifty negroes to desert and come over
to them. telling them they would furnish
money and send them home, and the negroes
believed all this. and are in the public square
tonight, where the union is holding meet
ing Several negroes havemade speeches. tell
ing the miners to hold out il they have to
wade through blood to secure their rights y
-. The new Chicago City Directory, just is
sued. contains Isl, 91S names. an increase Of
1856 over that of 1873 Making an estimate
on the entire population. with the ratio three
and one-half, which has always been consid-
cred fair and just, and by which the popula-
ton of Chicago has been arrived at during
the past five years, the result gives a grand
total of 531. 70S souls in the city of Chicago.
THE striking disturbances at Jacksonville,
Ohio, are ende1 and the colorei miners are
b1sily at WORK. "A strange freak of nature
of the Siamese-twins order was brought to
light in Chicago, a few days ago. A young
woman, who had been married little over
year, gave birth to q singular malformation,
being two girls of the natural size and per-
g. IL 1-,< al ,,.,$
grown together, from the breast-bone
to the lower part Of the abdomen.
The bodies were dead. :. .Des Moines, Iowa,
is excited over a brutal and mysterious muir
der. The victim was 8 man named johnson.
q coat-maker, aged 80 years, who was found
dead one morning. lying in gutter, face
downward. Near the. body was found an en-
velope containing piece of paper on which
was written; g This is the twenty-seventh
man we have killed and we will never be
taken alive" A San Francisco dispatch an
nounces the death in Arizona, on the 9th of
June. of Cochise, the famous Apache Indian
Chief.
The Chicago City Council has agreed to sell
the Lake Front property, about which there
has been good deal Of contention for some
time past The Sioux Indians have at last
commenced open hostilities. Adispatch from
Bismarck. u. T., dated June Is, Gays: -Four
hundred Sioux attacked Fort Berthold Indian
Agency. but were repulsed. Four Agency In
dians were killed Reinforcements were sent
at once from Fort Stevenson, and no further
danger Is anticipated"
GES. CUSTER telegraphs from Fort Lincoln,
under date Of June 16 that small party Of
Sioux appeared on the river bank opposite
Fort .Bsrthold Agency the day before at a
o'clock a. M, and commenced firing into the
village. The Indians from the Agency at
once crossed the river and were met by about
400 Sioux. A short fight toek place, in which
five Reese and one Gros yentres were killed,
and one Mandan mortally wounded :. The
notorious Younger brothers were recently
seen and recognized at Malta Bend, in Mis-
souri, Six union printers have been ar
rested at Burlington. Iowa, and held in bonds
of 5000 each, on charge Of hbel fer pub
fishing as - rats ' certain printers who do not
belong to the Union.
The South.
THE Southern Cotton Exchange has just
had an interesting and profitable two days
session at Atlanta, Ga The convention eff
fected permanent organization of National
Gotten Exchange, adopted plan for the com
pilation Of statistics, and made arrangements
Tor the issue of general crop reports by Gen.
trail Exchanges.
Gov. KELLOGG, of Louisiana, reports June
10 that fully one-third OF the State is still
under water from one to two feet deep; that
from 20, 600 to so, 900 people are now in desti-
tute circumstances; that much sickness al
ready prevails, and unless the people obtain
relief the suffering during the summer months
s-iil be almost beyond precedent"
Washington.
THE following is the vote Of the Senate
on the Compromise Currency bill: Yeas
Allison, Bogy, Carpenter, Clayton, Con-
over, Dorsey, Ferry (Mich-), Gilbert, Gold
thwaite, Harvey, Hitchcock, Howe, Ingalls,,
Johnston, Logan, McCreery, Merrimon,
Mitchell, Morton, Norwood, Oglesby, Patter-
son. Pease. Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Scott,
Sherman, Spencer. Upton, West, Wright-32
Ndys-Alcorn, Anthony, Bayard, Boutwell,,
Buckingham, Conkling. Edmunds, flanagan,
Frelinghuysen, Hager, Hamilton (Md.), Ham
ilton Texas, Hamlin, Jones, Morrill, Cle J,
Morrill, (vt.), Sargent, Schurz, Stephenson,
Stewart Stackton. Thurman. Xashburn-23.