Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

The New York Sun SAYS Wall street is be-
ing patrolled by larger number of detectives
than at any other time since the Gray forger-
les, which cost Wall street $50, 900. The ex-
listing stagnation of trade, causes a great
many men to be out of employment, and they
are ready for almost any deed of desperation.
-. The failure of Sutton d Co., of New York.
publishers of the AIdisls, an illustrated jour
nal Is announced. A dispatch from New
York states that Tweed is to have a new trial
at the next general term in October. . On
the 9th inst, fire in Philadelphia destroyed
the Columbia avenue mills. Loss S220
GOLDSMITH MAID beat her own time at
Buffalo on the 7th, making mile in 2:15I.
The West.
JUDGE BLoDGETT, OF the United States Cir
cult Cout, in session at Chicago, has decided
that an insurance company is not liable for
risks where the party holding the policy
com nits suicide, even though he (or she) be
insane at the time of the act
The number of lives lost by the burning Of
the steamer Pat Rogers on the Ohio river on
the 9th inst. is even greater than at first sup
posed. The number is now ascertained to be
Is. The July statement of the State Treas
urer of Illinois shows receipts for the month
to be $3.50, 76S.01, and disbursements for the
came period to be S254, 667. so A dispatch
from Springfield, H., reports that the wheat
crop in Sanganon county realizes the most
magnificent anticipations gentleman
who has travelled extensively in Kansas and
Missouri reports that the crops in some locali-
ties VII be almost an entire failure, ana that
old corn is now selling iii Southwestern Kan
sss for 81 % per bushel.
THE hardware firm of E. Buckley & Co..
Manistee, Mich, made an assignment on the
9Th inst. for the benefit OF creditors Ida
Buckley, an inmate of Roger Plants notorious
dance house. st. Louis, was killed ON the
morning of the 9Th inst. on the CLAYTON road
leading from st. Louis. The murderers are
still st large. George H. Richardson, city
editor of the Daily Courier, of East Saginaw.
Mich. committed suicide on the 7th He was
also special reporter for the Chicago Times
News from Omaha, Neb.. relative to the
Black Hills expedition, reports the men in
good condition and the Indians badly de-
moralized, q having died from wounds re-
ceived from Capt Bates command.
The Chicago Tribune of the 10th inst. saws:
reports Of the condition of the corn and
oats crops in nlincis Iowa and Kansas are
Published elsewhere, and reveal curious
difference by States. Corn and oats in Hi
nois viii be two-thirds and in Iowa a very
full crop. Four points in Kansas. widely
separated. report that corn in that State will
be total failure and oats from two-thirds To
one-hah the average yield These returns
are. perhaps. valuable as any that have vet
been published; the coincidence in those
from each State indicate that they are en-
tirely Trustworthy"
A NUMBER of prominent insurance compa-
MES have Withdrawn their agencies from Chi
cago, and viii hereafter write no more policies
on Chicago property. Information from
Fort Laramie says that the Sioux Indians
repor. that the Arapahoes and Cheyennes are
getting ready for war. Many Sioux will 90
with them should this be true. The military
are very active. but the movements are kept
as quiet as possible that tho Indians may not
be Informed thereof through renegade whites
and half-breeds- Right Rev. Henry ].
Whitehouse, Episcopal Bishop of Illinois.
died at his residence in Chicago. on the 10th
inst. in the I'D year of his age. His death
was caused by aparalytic stroke, superinduced
by oyerwork.
DISPATCH from Omaha says Spotted Tails
band refuses to move to the new reservation,
as proposed by Bishop Hare and other Com
missioners. and are very indignant and much
excited over it. 1t is probable force will
have to be used to make them move. A ter
rible outrage was recently perpetrated by In
dams in Colfax county, Neb. A company of
strolling Pawnees were camped near q farm
house. Two equaws searched the house for
food, and beat the farmers wife over the
head for Directing. The man came home
and, seeing his wife wounded. shot one of TIE
squaws- The other reported the fact and
twelve Indians came to the house, skinned the
farmer. cut his hands of and heart out in the
presence of his wife.
Tho South.
THE tow-boat Samuel Roberts blew up on
the 9TH inst, on Guyandotte West Virginia)
shoals, in the Ohio river Dudley Holland
tile watchnan was killed. and large number
including the Captain. clerk and engineer Sc
riously injured. :. Ernst Smith (colored). aged
Is years, who was convicted in MAY last on a
charge of rape, was hanged in Easton, Md, ON
Col. RICHARD Ten Brooke, the well-known
Horsepower, was shot and reported seriously
wounded at Gi1msn's Station, KY, recently.
by Walter Whitaker, lawyer of Louisville. 3
A SERIOUS collision between white and col
ored people at Austin. Tunica county, Miss.
is reported. Some weeks since one DIR. Smith.
a resident of austin had an affray with a
negro. and. drawing q pistol, fred at his an
tagonist, but missed him and killed a little
negro girl who was standing by, which exas-
perated the negroes 70 such an extent that
they collected a mob and took DIR. Smith to
the woods TO hang Llm which they would
have done but for the entreaties of Mai.
Woodson and the Doctors wife. Since that
time he has been 6 voluntary inmate of the
Jail. to prevent being mobbed, until last Fri
day week when some friends came and car
RED him to fernando. On leaving that place
the negroes collected in large numbers and
notified the Mayor that unless DIR. Smith was
brought back and put in jail they would burn
the town. A dispatch to the Memphis Appeal
dated Aug. IL, says; 1.-The negroes surround
ing Austin ON the south were charged this
morning by body of mounted whites, who
killed four or five aud captured twenty ne
groes. The blacks number 700, while the
whites have about 200 Both parties
expect reinforcements. At present i
the whites have the hest of the fight.
The negro hands the plantations oppo-
site here. on thu Arkansas side, are srming
and marching on Austin in large numbers
Another telegram of the same date says
In the fight at Austin last night eight ten
negroes were killed. Reinforcements are
coming in to the whites from the hills, and
the negroes are being reinforced from the
surrounding country. The whites have Austin
barricaded, and will probably be able to keep
the negroes on
The first bale of new cotton was received at
Memphis on the 18th of August from Senate