Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

THE firm of Thomas Perkins & Co., of New
York, has been bankrupted by its dishonest
clerks, who have for along time been speculat-
ing with the finds of the establishment and
lost heavily. They have made q full confess
sion. Booth, the tragedian. has joined the
grand army of bankrupts. His liabilities are
put down at S2O00O0.
THE Massachusetts Legislature has tabled,
by large vote, the resolutions relating to the
centennial celebration. Three prominent
Boston hotel-keepers were arrested aud taken
before q police court the other dsv. for viola
ton of the liquor law. One of them plead
guilty and escaped with $50 fine. The other
two plead not guilty. and were sentenced
each to three months imprisonment at hard
labor and fine of SIS. They have appealed
and will carry the case through the courts.
A L'appropriating 800, 900 for the GEN.
tennial celebration has passed the New Jersey
Senate.
A MAN named Guss, who has for some years
been in charge of the Soldiers Orphans Home
at Cassvi,ie, Pa, is charged with the most
beassly horrible practices toward the innocent
creatures placed under his care. 1t appears
that he has in the last six years debauched q
large number of young girls in the Home, in
many cases using force to accomplish his hell
ish ends. The wretch is under arrest.
Owing to the fact that the names of William
II. Tweed and Thomas C. Fields are on the
Commission to represent New York at the
Centennial Exhibition to be hold in Philadel-
phia, the Assembly of that State has abolished
the whole Commission. :. Charles Kingsley,
the English author, has arrived at New York.
The West.
THE ice crop in Indiana will prove total
failure this winter . The women of Southern
Ohio continue their crusade against the
whisky saloons. and are meeting with encour
aging success
ELIJAH SMITH, Richard Worthington and
Jesse Thatcher were recently killed near
Charlton. No., by the explosion of boiler in
q saw-mill.
Rev. FLORENCE MCCARTHY, a Baptist
preacher of the sensational school, and pastor
of ons Of the leading churches of Chicago,
having been locked ont of his church by the
Trustees for indecorous language in the pull
pit. is creating something of a sensation by
going about the city preaching in the streets,
IN saloons, billiard halls, etc.
The woman's whisky war in Ohio spreads
like wildfre, and is about breaking out in
Toledo, Columbus, and Wheeling. At Har-
mony, Clark county. the last saloon in the
place has been closed. The crusade has
reached Cambridge, Ind, and the women,
armed with prayer and hymn-books, are in
vading the saloons. Not a single drop of
spirits is left in the town of Hooking, Logan
county, Ohio. At Manchester, Clinton coun-
ty, the saloons have been prayed out. At
Poaneroy. the ladies. to the number of eighty,
make daily visits to the sixty saloons. but
not meeting with very great success. At
Syracuse they are also on the war-path. At
Ripley, nearly every saloon-keeper capitulated
after q weeks siege. At first It was the pre-
arranged plan that all saloons in that place
should shut the ladies out The weather was
stormy and cold, and, as the ladies sung and
prayed in the cold. public sentiment over
saloon-keepers, and they were glad to apollo
gize and open their doors. Van Pelt, the New
Vienna saloon-keeper. whose conversion re-
quired so many days of constant watching and
praying, has joined hands with the crusaders,
and is delivering telling lectures to his former
companions in inicu ity. .Advices from the
West report that evidence is daily accumulat-
ing that the Indians, being ill-treated on the
reservations, contemplate an uprising in the
spring. and are even now swarmng the
prairies prepared for war.
A DISPATCH from Cincinnati saws of the wo-
mems whisky war: 1.-The temperance move
ment receives fresh impetus from repeated
successes. In Washington C.. H., a man
named Passmore opened a new saloon last
week. Immediately the whole moral and re-
igious power of the town turned upon him.
Ladies prayed before the door all day and till
half-past 10 at night during the snow-storm.
At the business men's prayer meeting mes
sage from Passmore announced that he had
closed. An immense procession Immediately
marched to Beck, who had enjoined the wo-
men from using tabernacle in front of his
place. Those enjoined remained in church to
pray. Beck, on seeing theprocession, said he,
too, would STOP Only one remains. At
Manchester, all the saloons are closed. At
Logan. the ladies likewise celebrate a COM
plete victory. At Lancaster and Athens,
work is beginning. At Pomeroy a society has
been organized on the principle that there is
enough moral and religious power il the city
to exterminate the business of traficking in
intoxicating drink, and will resort to
law only when other means fail" -.
An Omaha dispatch says: The excitement
over the Indian news is becoming very great
There is no doubt that in consequence Of the
failure of agents to provide for them the In
dams are leaving their reservations for the
purpose of providing themselves at the ex-
pense of the settlers, herders and ranchmen."
DISPATCHES from the West are full of ac-
counts of Indian raids on the settlers in the
Laramie valley. Several soldiers and ranch
uen have been murdered. and large numbers
of stock driven off. The Indians claim to be
retaliating for raids made on them by whites,
and the impression is general along the from
tier that they have agreed upon general
war. Lieut. Robinson, Corporal Coleman,
and Acting Indian Agent Frank Appleton were
recently murdered near Fort Laramie, and
their bodies sheckingly mutilated. There is
great excitement all along the frontier. Gen.
Ord. it is stated, is doing all in his power to
meet the tn, eatened trouble.
THE Wisconsin Episcopal Diocesan Council
has adjourned after . protracted and some
what acrimonious session, being unable to
elect Bishop, DR.. DeKoven received ma
iority of the clerical delegates, but the laity
exercised their prerogative by vetoeing the
election by vote of 81 to is.
The South.
BRANCH E. Bruce, colored Senator-eleci
from Mississippi was for several years q
steamboat porter. :. Joseph W. Davis and W
b. McCotter were hung in Maryland on the
9Th of February-the former ct Westmoreland
the latter at Cambridge. The Trustees OF
the Cincinnati Southern railway have assigned
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