Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-06

received at the Treasury Department. Several
prominent bankers of New York and Boston
were in the city and desired to be present.
claiming that the opening of the bids should
| be public but their request was denied.
| Firm bids to the amount of $4,000, COO have
been received, but it is believed if the Secre-
tary disposes of S50,000,0OD at home, he will
| be doing WE'LL German, French and Holland
investors stand ready to take the balance.
SECRETARY BRIsrow has succeeded in pla-
cling the new five per cent. loan through the
American agents of the Rothschilds and J.
and W. Selgman & Co. These parties made
| an absolute subscription for S45, 000 900,
coupled with the option of taking the re-
mainder of the loan at any time within six
months. The loan is taken at par, to be paid
| in coin or 500 bonds, the parties to receive
One-quarter of one per cent. commission
The Ecening Star prints very thin story rela-
tive to the existence of a race of albinos in
New Mexico, somewhere south of Santa Fe.
The story has been told before, but so little
credence was attached to it that no one ever
thought to explore the region in search of the
phenomenal creatures.
SECRETARY BRIsTow, in his negotiation of
the new fve-per-cent. loan, has taken meas
ures to prevent the lapse of interest on the
exchange of bonds, by which the syndicate
has heretofore reaped so large a profit.
Four hundred and seventy-five thousand five
| hundred dollars in national bank currency was
| received at the Treasury on the Goth of July,
for redemption, making the total receipts 49,
800, O39. The National Grange has COM
piled statistics showing the strength of
the oranges in the various States. 1t il
| estimated that the aggregate number of
| oranges is not much less than 90 600. On the
LIST day of June. Iowa bad the largest number
being 1894; Indiana had 1865; Missouri,
| ,929 Kansas, 1921 Illinois, 1,sS1. and Ken
lucky 1,101. The Cotton and Gulf States
alone had 4,065 oranges There are now
| oranges in all the States, and about so in the
Canadas.
General.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: Fred Doug
lass. in his paper, complains of outrages
against the negroes in the Southern States
He suggests, as q complete remedy for those
| oppressed in Statos having Democratic ma
jorities, emigration He advises the col
ored people to leave those States in which
they are minority, and go into those
States where thew have majority He
/ also takes up the case of Cadet Smith, and
SAYS Cadet Smith, who was the pioneer
colored cadet at West Point, was in the city
last week. His dismissal from West Point is
| disgrace to the nation. Had he been
allowed to enter the fourth class. he would
| have become a cadet officer. and white cadets
would, of necessity. have become his sub
| ordinates. Hence he was found deficient in
philosophy. We shall recur to this case
again.
a BOTTLE has been picnru up on the Florida
coast containing the following message:
STEAMSHIP CITY BosToN.-To all whom this
message may ccme: That I, the undersigned
passenger on this ship, write the following state
4 WAR flr. SrrrF mic 1a.x
12.30-Increasing.
1:2O-All hopes lost.
o'clock-Going do JOHN CAswELL,
London. Eng.
The steamer sailed from New York Jan. 25.
1870. and has not been definitely heard from
since.
Hon. JOHN JAY, has sailed from New York
for Liverpool, on his way back to Vienna.
THE st. Lout Democrat of July 20 has
special from Fort Union, n. NJ. which SAYS
"A band of fifty Kiowas and Comanche In
dams killed five men near the month of the
Ute creek, twenty miles south of Fort Bascom.
on the 2lst. No particulars of the affair have
been received"
Political.
THE farmers Of Lamine township Cooper
county. Mo-, have resolved that they shave
voters of our republic should rise above party
ties and select good men to fill the various
Offices Of county, State and nation" Hon.
Willis s. Reeves has declined to be a candi-
date for Congress in the Third District of
Kentucky. B. F. G. Brooks has been NOM
mated as the Workingmen's candidate for
Governor of Tennessee. Gov. Bagley, of
Michigan, has appointed James Mcmahon, of
Ann Arbor, and Willard NJ. Mcconnell, of
Pontiac. members of the State Board of
Charitable. Penal, Pauper and Reformatory
Institutions.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has declined
nomination to Congress from a Massachu-
sets district. The Democratic Congress-
ional Convention for the Eighth Indiana Dis
trict met in Terre Haute on the 23d of July
and nominated DR.. W. ]. Rice, Of Parke
county. u. d. Williams, of Knox county
Ind has been nominated for Congress- by the
Democrats in the Seventh Indiana District
80. The Republicans of the Eleventh Indiana
Congressional District have renominated Mr..
j. N. Tyner, present incumbent.
SENATOR MORTON. on account of continual
ill-health, will not fire the first big gun of the
campaign at the opers-house in Terre Haute,
Ind until the 3Oth.
HoN. GEORGE F. HoAR is said to be unde-
sirous of being nominated for Governor Of
Massachusetts,. Geo. A. c. Dodge. of Bur-
lington Iowa. has given notice that he is not,
and will not be, candidate for ongress.
Foreign.
In the French Assembly, on the 23d of July.
a motion for the dissolution of the Chamber,
supported by the signatures of 800 members,
was rejected by vote of $40 yeas to $40
nays. The Project OF Cuenca. Spain, an
nounces that 81 bodies of Republicans. muir
dered Ivy Carlists. have been found in house
in that town, mutiated 80 horribly as to be
unrecognizable. In the British House of
Commons, July %, Disraeli moved
for an annual grant to Prince
Leopold of $4,000. He eulogized the inter
lectaal aud scientific attachments of the
Prince, whose health. he said, prevented him
from adopting profession. Mr. Gladstone
seconded Mr.. Disraell's motion. and it was
adopted almost unanimously :. The London
Daily heacs reports that the Sublime Porte
has ordered 230 Krupp cannon for Turkey
The North German Gazette Gays in reference
to the recent outrages by the Csrlists " Ger
many, in behalf of outraged European civil
izofio, v,1f saak and find rnaaus ~ taacb ~.