Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The East.
A MATCH game of billiards has been ar
ranged between Cooke, the English champion,
and Rudolphe, the French expert. The game
is to be the three-ball carom, for $4,000, and
will be played in New York in about fort
night.
IT is reported that the New York Herald
Philadelphia Ledger, and Baltimore sun are
about to organize an associated pass in OPP
position to the New York concern. Julius
L. Mendelssohn, who claimed to be a son of
the great musical composer of that name was
convicted in New York, of forgery, on the
18th inst, and sentenced to FIVE years i'm
prisonment in the state Prison. He commit
ted suicide on the following day.
Gov. DIX has refused to remove Mayor
Havemeyer. -. The Maine election has re-
suited in favor Of the Republicans by the
usual msjority-about $4,000.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Brooklyn to
Western paper states that there are good
reasons for expecting split in Plymouth
Church Indications to this effect are al
gregstion not satisfied with the report of the
committee on the present attitude of Beecher
and the church. They say that Beecher can
not properly resume his ministration at the
time announced, the first Sunday in October,
so long the new charges against him re-
main unanswered and the Grim. con. suit is
undecided.
Miss EDNA DEAN PROCTOR has instituted
two libel suits, laying damages at 100000 in
o0h Z n
the other against the New York Daily
Graphic. Miss Proctor is q lady of about
forty-eight years, of considerable literary tai
ents. and for many years was governess in
the family of Henry G. Bowen. Some years
ago she published a small volume entitled
:. Lite-Thoughts of Henry Ward Beecher,"
from the sales of which she realized several
thousand dollars :. p T. Barnum was mar
ried, last week. to the daughter of John Fisk,
of Southwick, England =. Bullard the Boyls-
ton Mass bank-robber, has been captured
and made confession He SAYS that Glover
who was convicted accessory before the
fact and sent to the penitentiary for twelve
years. was entirely innocent Glover has al
ready served four years.
The West.
The average of the personal property per
capita in the State Of Illinois is ascertained to
be s1O5.03, and Of all property 1886 per capita.
The county having the largest average is Ogle,
which has s191.77 of personal property, and
s70O.90 Of all kinds per capita. The lowest
average is Pulaski county which has s2727
personal, and Jackson county which has but
TAO all kinds of property. Cook county
Gncluding Chicago has slO7. Is personal prop
ertyper capita, and s449.sS all kinds Of proper
ty- Prof. Winchell, State Geologist of Min
nesota, who accompanied the Custer expedi-
ton to the Black Hills, has made az official
report, in which. after mentioning the fact
that gypsum, variegated marble and other
minerals were found in the hills, says: "There
may be found also other products of the
granite rocks. Indeed, the miners that &C.
companied the expedition report the finding
of gold and silver in some of the gulches in
the southeastern portion''of the hills though
saw none of The gold, nor did see any OF
the auriferous quartz. have taken the gold
reports with q large grain Of allowance
Prof Donaldson, who also accompanied the
winchell on the gold question.
GEN. CusTER's final official report to Gen
Terry recapitulates his former statements
and takes strong ground in favor of the i'm
mediate opening of the Black Hills, for mill
tary reasons. He indorses the report Of
gold discoveries, and suggests further ex-
plorations next season. The Indians il
Nebraska are numbering the defenselesi
settlers in the western part of the State, ant
burning their houses, and running of tn,
stock
In the Supreme Court Of Wisconsin tn,
Injunction case brought by the Attorney
Genera and Railroad Commiss oners to com
pei the Chicago and Northwestern and Chi
cago. Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway Com
panies to comply with the provisions of tn,
Potter law. the court has allowed the in
junction. but the Milwaukee and Prairie d.
Chen division is excepted. President Keep
of the Northwestern, has been interviews
by q reporter, and makes the following state
ment: sin anticipation Of the rendering o
the present decision the service of the roat
has been greatly reduced of late. In tn
shops the workmen now employed put in bu
nine hours each day and work five days in tn
week. Those now employed are retained Il
do such repairing as is absolutely necessary
We are not putting up any new rolling stock
and are making no improvements, and will no
do 90 until our position is better defined b.
the Supreme Court of the United States
We viii also be obliged to reduce the mum
Ter of trains. and their speed, in proportion
tn the reduction in rates. This action is no
taken in spirit of opposition. or to punisl
ANYBODY. but simply to make the earnings o
the line cover the running expenses. Thi
decision will put an end to all improvement
and stop the building Of any more roads In tn
State, for long period at least. Should tn
decision be sustained by the United State
Supreme Court, it is possible that all the road
in the State will be operated to some extent
Int it would not be like the operation o
live property. with some hopes OF returns
"a has been the case in the past
The Indians in the Southwest are becoming
troublesome. A Topeka speci.. relates tw
recant cases of murder and scalping perpe
trated by them, eight persons being killed an