Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-10
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

The East.
PROF. PIERRE BLOT, the celebrated culinary
artist, died in New York last week. Henry
C. Bowen has sued the Brooklyn Eagle for
libel, laying damages at 800, 900.
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER preached at
the Twin Mountain House, n. H., on the SOth
ult-, to congregation of over 1000 persons.
His sermon was pronounced one of his most
successful efforts.
FRANK MoUIToN has addressed card to
the pupiic. through the New York papers, ex-
planning his reasons for appearing in Plymouth
Church TO hear the report of the Investigating
Committee, and protesting against the rough
manner in which he was treated by the con-
gregation- He winds up with the following
threat: 81 will add that the hearing, which
was last night denied to me in the place where
1 had the right to demand an6 expect it,
shall ask for from the public at large in few
days. The only delay in the publication will
arise from the preparation OF fac sin,ile copies
of letters and papers. / have sought for four
years, for the sake of the innocent children
of two families, to shield Mr. Beecher from
the exposure of his crime of adultery. but
Mr. Beecher. his committee, and his church
have united to compel me- for my own self
protection, to reveal him to the world, as shall
shortly DO, in still worse light than in which
he now stands 1t cost New York city the
enormous sam of $50 900, 600 to run it's mu-
nicipd government for the year ending Aug. 1.
The West.
LIEUT. GkS. SHERIDAN publishes general
order setting forth that parties such as are
organizing at Sioux City. Yankton, and else
where, with the view of visiting the Black
Hills country, will not be permitted to go IN
less by authority from the Secretary of the
Interior or Congress.
Gov. OsBoRSE, of Kansas has called an
extra session of the Legislature for the 18th
of September, to devise means for the relief
of sufferers from the grasshoppers.
A FRENcHMAS. named August Gardner,
while walking on the track of the Jefferson
vile, Madison i Indianapolis Railroad, near
Henryville. Ind on the night of the 29th ult
was attacked by three men. They took his
pocket-book and IS, and then tied him on the
track with rope, over a small culvert, and
left him. He succeeded in getting the ropes
that held his body united, but before he got
the rope that bound his left foot loosened an
approaching passenger train was upon him.
He in that desperate moment, threw his body
on the track. The train passed over and
severed his leg from the body. He was picked
up next morning by the conductor of passing
freight train and revived sufficiently to make
the above statement. He afterward relapsed
and died at o'clock q. m. There is no clew
to the perpetrators of the crime.
JUDGE BASIL HARRISON, the original of
Cooper's 50 Bee Hunter" died recently at his
home near Schooscraft Mich, aged lO4 years
and months. Dispatches from Dodge City
state that Capt. Thresher's surveying party
arrived there last week. Six of his men were
attacked by Indians OH the evening of Aug
%, while in camp on Crooked creek, and the
entire party killed. The names of the killed
are: o. L. Short, Truman Short, James
Shaw and son, John Kaehler and Henry Jones'
The family and relatives of the murdered men
reside in Leavelworth and Lawrence, Kan....
Dispatches from the Black Hills are to tine
effect that Clusters command had arrived at
Fort Abraham Lincoln, having marched about
1900 miles during the last sixty days. The
expedition has been eminently successful in
every particular having made valuable dis
coveries Of gold and other mineral deposits
incurred no annoyance from Indians, and suf-
fered the loss Of only four men by death
General Custer announces that, with replen-
ished supplies, his commsn is in good con-
dition to take the field.
Col. DAVID NORRIS, q wealthy and promi-
of age, was brutality murdered last week, in
Baxter county, bya young man named William
p Dickson. 1t appeared that Dickson bought
tract of land upon which Col. Norris held a
mortgage, and proceeded to cut of the tim
Der. Norris protested against this, and in
attempting to restrain Dickson was shot six
times. Dickson confessed and is now in jail
AT Cincinnati, q few days ago, Oliver Safer,
aged IS, son of Judge James Safer shot his
sister with shotgun because she remon-
strated with him about his hard drinking.
The young lady, it is feared, is MORALLY
wounded.
The South.
GOVERNOR Blown, of Tennessee, has is
sued instructions for the prompt suppression
of the disturbances in Gibson county, and
offered $500 reward for the murderers of
Julia Hayden. the colored school teacher of
Trousdale.
KILOGRAMS from San Antonio, ria Calves
tor Texas, report further trouble with the
Kiowa and CoIlanche Indians. On tr~ 23d
uIt. they attacked Gen. Davidson, and en-
deavored to obtain possession of the Wichita
Agency building, about forty miles from Fort
Sill, 1T. The Indians were repulsed, and ON
the following day renewed the attack only to
receive second defeat. At latest accounts
they were trying to rnturn to the agency.
A LARGE meeting OF citizens was he d last
week in Memr his to express the indignation
of the commun ity at the barbarous murder ef
the colored prisoners taken from the Trenton
(Tenn.) Jail. Speeches were made by Gov.
.arris, JEFF Davis, Gen. Forrest and others,
denouneing IL cowardly assassiuations, and
calling for the prompt punishment of the per-
petrators The people in the vicinity OF
Coushatta, La, recently experienced big
scare on account of threatened war of races
There was some little fighting, two blacks
and one white man being killed The ring