Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01

Jr,peE HAGEa, of San Francisco has been
elected to the short term in the United States
Senate from California. He takes Mr.. Cas-
serly's unexpired term, which runs till March
4, 1875.
THE Executive Committee of the Iowa
State Grange have completed contract at
Des Moines for the manufacture of 100 Wern-
or Haryesters. Over 200 delegates were
present at the recent session of the Nebraska
State Grange, and the utmost harmony and
good feeling prevailed. -. James Brainerd,
Secretary of the Wisconsin State Grange, has
iss1led instructions to the various Oranges
throughout the State for the annual meeting
at GAINESVILLE. Jan 20. All Masters of Oranges
and their wives are admitted as members. and
ast-Masters and their wives as honorary
members The State Grange will pay all hotel
bills of members entitled to vote. All the
hotels will board Changers at reduced rates.
THE State Grange of Minnesota, recently in
session at Minneapolis, was very largely at
tended. 300 of the 400 subordinate oranges in
the State being represented, and the delibera-
lions manifested stern determination on the
part of the delegates to do their utmost to de-
feat the monopolists. j. H. Denman was
elected State Agent for the ensuing year, and
Changers was recently held at Circleville, o.,
at which it was resolved to hereafter buy
groceries at Cincinnati at wholesale prices,
through an agent.
General.
IT is stated that the Virginius is to be taken
to Washington, where her status will be ex-
amined into.
The signs of peace are increased by an order
cutting off all extra work at the Charlestown
Navy Yard. 1t amounts to an official declara-
ton that there is no longer any danger of a
naval war with Spain. The lines of the At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company have
been bought by the Western Union Company.
The st. Louis Globe, paper that has
been persistently refused admission to sell
fish monopoly known as the Western Assoc
ciated Press, " has been detected in surreptl-
tiouslv obtaining possession of the telegraphic
dispatches belonging to the Association:
through the aid of telegraph operator, and
there is q howl of virtuous indignation among
the members of the aforesaid selfish mo-
nopoly.
THE remains of the late Judge Dent were
buried in Bellefortaine Cemetery, St. Louis.
ON the goth inst President Grant, son-in-law
of the deceased. accompanied the remains from
Washington.
THE opinion of Acknowledgement Williams
in the case of the steamer Virginius has been
published. The opinion is based manly on
the law of 1892 He decides, after full in
vestigation. that the papers of the Virglnlus
were procured by false swearing, and that tho
vessel was really the property OF certain Cu-
bans, who had purchased her for an illicit
traffic He decides, therefore, that the VIZ
ginius had no right as against the United
States to carry the American flag. He holds,
nevertheless, that while carrying this nag she
was as exempt from interference on the high
seas by foreign powers as if she had been
properly registered, on the ground that neither
Spain nor any other Government could assume
a Jurisdiction belonging exclusively to the
United States. This decision relieves Spain
from the obligation of saluting the American
flag. under the terms of the protocol. and 1t
makes it incumbent on the United States to
prosecute the virginius under the laws of this
country.
THE virginius prisoners, who were sur
rendered at Santiago de CUT, say that when
the officers from the Tornado boarded the
Virginius, one of them, in hauling down the
flag of the United States, tore 1t into ribbons
and trampled upon it, asserting, with an oath ;
.sThis is what / wanted" The transfer
steamer connecting Cairo and the Kentucky
shore made its first trip on the oath OF DE.
cember. This is the last link in the Mississippi
Central railroad, which makes through all
rail route from Chicago to New Orleans.