Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-26

the care of Greeley's grave, which has been
reported recently as in neglected condition.
The panic caused decrease of S24, 965, $50
in customs, and 81, S15, SO in internal rev.
enue receipts last year.
1t il announced thst there is probability
Of the tax on whisky and tobacco being III
creased or diminished.
The total taxable valuation of the State of
Massachusetts, exclusive of personal property
and deposits in savings institutions, is
1881 ,6Ol, 1854 gain of Sos, III, IT'S over last
year.
The Episcopal Convention to elect sue
ceesor to the detecting Assistant Bishop Cum
Minis. of Kentucky, met at Louisville last
week. The choice fell upon DR.. Thomas W.
Dudley, OF Baltimore. His election is re-
garded as a victory for the Low Church party
in Kentucky.
next year.
An offer of S35, 600 year for the lease of
the lines, etc., of the Franklin Telegraph
Company has been made by Boston capital
lists interested in the line. This offer is be-
cause Of the effort made recently in stock
Telegraph Company, who own a controlling
interest. to lease the property to themselves
for $4,000.
The japanese government is reported to
have bought $4,000 pounds of saltpetre in
the New York market.
A boy very much resembling Charley Ross
has been found in Barboursville, W. Va. A
small-hearted. benevolently- disposed gentle
man has the child in keeping, and will return
him to his afflicted parents for $4,000.
Foreign.
The London Times special from Calcutta
announces that the viceroy, Lord Northbrook,
has ordered the suspension of formal pro-
ceedings against the person supposed to be
Mana Sahib until more mature consideration
can be had of the case.
The authorities OF Seville have offered a
reward Of so, 600 for the recovery of Murillo's
great painting Of st. Anthony which was
stolen from the cathedral in that city.
special dispatch from Vienna announces
that information has been received from Con.
stantinople that orders have baen received by
near the Servian and Montenegrin frontiers,
and that the Governors of JANA and Prier-
send in Albania, have been ordered to or
ganize the Mohammedan inhabitants of the
province.
Two Irish members of Parliament have
fought a duel, and one was severely wounded.
Dr. Kenealy. the Tichborne claimants coun-
sci, in letter excusing his no l-attendance at
meeting of the bar announces that he has
heen disbarred by the benchers at Gray's Inn.
The Russian government has resolved to
introGuce system of compulsory elementary
education. A trial is to be made at st. Pc
tersburg of the Berlin system.
Count Won Arnim has been again arrested.
1t is reported that the Count had previously
received copy Of his indictment, and the
only charge brought against him is for the
suppression Of official documents.
Strange rumors are circulating in st. Peters
burg of socialistic conspiracy, in which the
conspirators made an unsuccessful attempt to
murder the Gear, and that number of ar
rests have been made in consequence in
Moscow.
The Pail Nal Gazette says Prussia has de-
clined the proposal made by Russia for the
revision of the boundary line between the two
| countries.
The city OF London was recently thrown
into state of intense and painful excitement
occasioned by a rumor OF the sudden death al
Balmoral Castle of Queen Victoria. After
diligent search it was ascertained that the
story was started in low tap-room, and had
no foundation.
During the retreat of the Carlists from
Irun, between fifty and sixty men Of the BIS.
cay battalion were frozen to death in the
snow. A telegram from Paris says the i'm
preston there, in circles favorable to Dor
Carlos, is that his cause is utterly ruined and
his situation hopeless.
Count Won Beust, the Austro-Hungarar
Minister at London, has been recalled tc
Vienna, to be reinstated as Premier.
Brothers Moody and Sankey, of Chicago
hove arrived in London from Ireland, where
they met with great success. They are hold.
ing meetings in Agricultural Hall.
One of the greatest disasters Of the world's
history came upon China on the 26th of last
September. On that day a typhoon swept
over the country surrounding the cities OF
Hong Kong and Macao, destroying 1000 per-
sons at the former and over 10000 at the
latter place. The loss to property was beyond
| immediate computation. The people were
unable to bury the decaying bodies with
safety to their own lives, and tar was poured
over the corpses after heaping them
and the whole burned. A tidal wave and
earthquake accompanied the typhoon. wreck
ing nearly all the shipping on the coast.
Bodies were washed ashore for many days
afterward.
| Advices from the Crimea state that the
drought continues and causes much uneasi
ness. No rain has fallen Cor a considerable
period. the agricultural prospects of the pre-
sent season are very depressing and unless
rain comes soon crops will be ruined.
The Council General of the Seine has re-
jected proposition recommending the Ma
| tional Assembly to pass bill granting an
| amnesty for political offenses.