Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

cents per Dusnel OF gram Dy the carload, Dulk
freight, and Sc cents per barrel of flour from
Chicago or st. Louis to Jersey City. The
names of the proposed incorporators are left
blank.
THE President has nominated J. G. Bancroft
Davis Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen-
ipotentiary of the United States to the German
Empire The House Committee on Railroads
and Canals have made favorable report On
Representative Hawleys bill connecting tue
waters of Lake Michigan and the Illinois,
Mississippi and Rock rivers. The bill author
ICES and directs the Secretary Of War to lay
out and construct a canal from point at or
near Hennepin, by the most practicable and
convenient route, TO the Mississippi river,
with q branch canal or feeder from the Rock
river at the city of Dixon, connecting with the
main line of the canal near the town of Shelf
field. The total length of the canal Is lO2
miles. at an estimated cost OF little over
"a, Soc 900. The bill appropriate 81, O00, 900
toward its commencement.
General.
THE sessions of the American Institute of
Homeopathy commenced at Niagara Falls on
the 9th inst. DIR. Youlin, President of the
Institute. in his address, stated that France
has 1000 homeopathic practitioners, Ger
many 500, Great Britain 400. Italy 200 and the
United States nearly 5000.
Political.
| THE majority of Grover Oemocrat) over
Talman, for Governor of Oregon, is 400.
THE Republicans of the Twenty-second
District of Pennsylvania have renominated
Gen. James s. Regley for Congress. APP
polntments by the President: w. c. Whit
son. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- +n Tt,uf
| of the Supreme Court of Washington Terri
| tory: Charles H. Webb. United States Attor-
| new for the Western District of Wisconsin !:
| Franklin w. Oakley. United States Marshal
| for the Western District of Wisconsin Lu-
man Norton Judd, Register of the Land
| Office of Dakota
| THE Illinois Independent Convention as
sembled at Springfield ON the 10.h of June.
David Gore, of Macoupin county, was nomi-
mated for State Treasurer, and S. H. Etter. OF
| Mclean county. for Superintendent of Public
| instruction. What is known as the Decatur
| Platform was adopted with few slight
changes The State Reform Convention of
Indiana met at Indianapolis on Wednesday.
| the 10th inst, and nominated the
| following ticket: Secretary of State. Noyes
S. White, of Vigo county (Democrat) !;
| Auditor of State, Ebenezer Henderson, Of
Morgan county (Democra): Treasurer of
State. n. C. Bennett, of Steuben county,
| (Republican) Attorney General. James A. s.
Mitchell. Of Elkhart county (Democrat) !;
Judge of the Supreme Court, H. p. BIddle. Of
| Cass county (Republican); Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Clark Davis. of Henry
County Republican,. The Anti Monopo-
lists of Minnesota will hold their State Con-
vention at st. Paul, on the 23d of Septem-
ber The Independents of Kansas have
called nominating convention to be held
at Topeka on the 9Th of August.
Foreign.
MINERS who were lately engaged in strike
have been driven from .heir houses by the
proprietors of the Durham Eng.) collieries.
The French Assembly on the 18th inst
passed the General Electoral bill to its second
reading BY a majority of IS. This is practi-
cally the same bill upon which the DeBroglie
Cabinet was defeated. 1t DISTINGUISHES large
numbers of citizens, particularly those be-
tween the ages of 81 and %. and as the
younger men of France are inclined toward
republicanism, this is deemed blow at repub-
lican institutions. :. A cable telegram conveys
the highly important intelligence that "the
Duchess of Edinburgh's position at Court has
been settled. She is to be called Her Royal
Imperial or Imperial Royal Highness,' and is
| to rank next to the Princess of Wales except
when the Princess Royal, the Crown Princess
| of Prussia, happens to visit England =. The
Carlists are exceedingly active in Spain.
A LICENSING bill has passed the British
House of Commons by vote Of 161 to 1876.
1t fixes the hours for opening and closing sa-
| looms at o'clock in the morning and at 1920
at night in London: in towns having over
| 2, 500 population from o'clock in the morning
| to IL o'clock in the evening, and in towns with
| less number of people from o'clock in the
morning to 10 o'clock in the evening.
REVOLUTIONARY movement is probable in
Mexico. The Catholic Episcopate of Bo-
hemia has determined to resist the ecclesias-
teal laws; and has begun it's opposition by
making appointments to vacant ivings
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has is
sued decree authorizing the provinces now
occupied by his forces to elect members of the
| Council which is to personally attend him in
| Spain. The Left Center in the French As
sembly has adopted platform calling for a
| definite proclamation of a republic or disso-
luton of the Assembly. There are no hopes
of an alliance between the Right Center and
| the Left Center.
A PARIS telegram Of the 9th inst. says
"The feeling at Versailles is gloomy. The
proposal for dissolution of the Assembly
| hopes of securing in addition the signatures
of 1875 members forming the Left Center. A
motion for dissolution will be presented in
| the Chamber at the earliest opportunity. The
Left Center is determined to have a settle
/ ment Of the question of republic or dissolu-
ton before the August adjournment. ". All
the European powers have agreed to send
delegates to an International Conference in
Vienna, which is to consider measures to
prevent the spread of cholera
PARIS papers publish letter written by the
Bishop of Laranda giving particulars of the
massacre of Christians at Tong King, China.
He says that of eighty thousand Christians
in his mission ten Thousand were strangled,
burned and drowned, and that he himself
does not expect to escape martyrdom- The
report is not verified, although the Paris
papers credit the statements. The Duke of
Connaught prince Arthur) has taken his seat
as a member of the British House of Lords.
APARIs telegram states that while NJ. Gam
beta was waiting for the Versailles train he
was hustled and insulted by band of we'll
known Bonapartists. A collision between
the Republicans and Bonapartists is regarded
as imminent The French Assembly has
| fixed the age of voters at 81 years Reports
from the famine districts in India are be-
coming decidedly encouraging. Not only are
cases of actual starvation rare, but the num-