Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Ea st.


sulting in the death of four of the train
hands. and the serious injury of several others.
-. Thomas and Simeon Sturteyant and Mary
Buckley were murdered during the night, by
some unknown persons at their residence In
Halifax, Mass, last week.
ONE OF the most daring forgeries for stock
jobbing purposes was sprung upon the New
York Stock Exchange the other day. The
vice-President of the Exchange received let
tiers Importing to be signed by the presidents
OF the Toledo Wabash and Western raih DAD
and the Western Union Telegraph company,
informing the board that ten millions of new
stock of the first-named company and nine
millions of the latter haa been issued. The
letters were read to the Exchange, and as a
natural result. those stocks fell in price from
half of one per cent. to four per cent. in q
few moments. The panic was for short time
very great. Fortunately the news was con-
veyed to the headquarters of the companies,
where the letters were pronounced to be for
geries and the brokers Immediately Informed
OF the fact.
CHANG and Eng, the Siamese twins, are
shown by the autopsy which has been con-
cluded at Philadelphia to have been so vitality
united that death would surely have followed
any attempt to separate them during life.
The lungs, heart, pancreas, liver, spleen, and
ings were excellently developed, and differed
in no wise from those of ordinary mortals.
The lower portion of the ensiferm cartilage,
or bTeast-bone, in each, by doubling or bend
ing out made a long union, on which the
bodies hinge freely. This joint is somewhat
similar TO. but not so complicated as, that at
the elbow. The band at the smaller part has
a circumference of nine inches, and when
the link was stretched, and the twins were
placed as far apart possible, there was
q space of eight inches intervening. The
peritoneum, or membraneous lining of the
belly in each, was found to enter the band
and four pouches overlapped each other at
the centre of tie band. The most marked
feature here WIS the presence of two such
pouches from lile body of the large brother,
Chang. and the upper one shorter than the
lower, but eacl. tapping, one from above and
the other frorl below the single pouch of
Eng The astounding and curious fact was de-
veloped that a line passing down the centre
of the band would sever ali three of their pro-
longations, and open the peritonitial cavity of
each liver so that if the knife had been used
in life death would inevitably have resulted.
SUIT involving the neat little sum of
s6SS, 600 has just been decided at Providence,
r. l., after fifteen years litigation.
The West.
GEN. SHERIDAN is firmly convinced that a
general Indian outbreak is impending, and he
has communicated his view to Gen. Sherman,
who orders him to repress the threatened dis
turbance with all the force that he can collect
Every savage that is caught off his reserva-
ton is to be held accomplice in the muir
ders of Lieut.. Robinson and Agent Appleton.
49,. The indictment against ex-City Treasurer
Gage. of Chicago. for perjury, has been
quashed =. Rush r. Sloane, late President of
the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland rail-
road. has been arrested on seventeen charges
OF embezzlement- His stealings, it is alleged,
amount to over $50, 900.
CHICAGO packed !, 4S4. 900 hogs from Nov.
to Feb. Is, against ,236000 for the CORE
spending period last year. The wrestling
match at San Francisco between NJ. whalen,
of that city, and Maj. Mclaughlin. of Detroit,
for "A. 900 and the championship Of America,
was won by the latter. A whole family
named Thompson, living near the Stock
Yards, in Chicago, have been poisoned in
some mysterious manner. Three little
children are dead, and the mother and nurse
are in dangerous condition. The temper
ance war has broken out in Jacksonville,
Ind, and threatens to invade Louisville, just
across the river.
CouNr DE yERvIUs, of France, has pur-
chased 40, 900 acres of land in Newton county,
No., for the location of French colony.
THE Chicago brewers have decided to raise
the price of beer % per barrel, and the saloon
keepers threaten to import the beverage from
other cities if the raise is made.
The Supreme Court of New Mexico has de-
cided that the Pueblo Indians, Of which there
are some 10000 in the Territory, are citizens.
-. The Chicago Chrispins are on a strike.
A private letter from the Red Cloud Agency to
prominent army officer at Omaha says that
the employees there are in constant fear of
their lives, AID dare not show their heads out
of doors after dark.
The South.
AT Rutledge, Ga, a few nights ago, N. NJ.
Wood poisoned three of his children and then
shot himself. His wife had deserted him.
MARDI GRAs was celebrated with the usual
pomp throughout the Southern cities.
Property is taxed twenty times as much as
before the war in South Carolina.
LIEUT.-CoL. BUELL., with a small force of
cavalry, recently struck camp of Comanche
Indians on the northwestern frontier Of Texas,
killed ten Of them, and recaptured large
amount of stock
Washington.
THE cause of the present Indian outbreak
on the frontier, according to statements of
officers of the Indian Bureau, is the fact that
the Interior Department has been unable to
provide the Indians with their annual supplies,
owing to the inadequacy Of the Indian appro-
priation- The fund for tbs present fiscal year
Is entirely expended, and there is q deficiency
of 81 ZOO, 900. The Interior Department has
no means of relief until Congress shall make
additional appropriations.
SEVERAL important amendments to existing
laws have been agreed upon by the House
Committee on Judiciary. 1t is proposed
to allow criminals to testify in their own be-
half also, to amend the law prescribing pun
ishnent for mandaughter, so that in the dis
erection of the Judge court may sentence
persons convicted of manslaughter to twenty
years imprisonment, the limit being at pres
emit three years.
President GRANT has appointed the Court
of Inquiry to try Gen. Howard. Gen. Sher-
man is at its head, and associated with him
are Gems. Mcdowell, Pope, Meigs and Holt.
Maj. A B. Gardner is Advocated General.
The Court Martial will begin March 8.
GEx. GARFIELD, Of Ohio, made q short but