Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-12

TIE Boston School Board still refuses to
allow the women recently elected 20 take part
in its sessions, notwithstanding the decision
of the Supreme Court Of the State that they
are as much entitled to seats on the Board as
males.
The Eastern railroad freight sheds in Bos-
ton have been burned. Loss, $4,000.
The West.
CHRIsToPHER RAFFERTY,, who murdered
Policeman O'Meara IN Chicago, on the 5th of
August. 1872, suffered the extreme penalty of
the law at Waukegan, H., on Friday, the 9th
ult- Rafferty,, although poor laboring man,
a rough character, and, before the COM
mission of the crime for which he has suf-
fered an ignominous death. apparently
almost friendless, had enlisted the sympsthies
of a number of friends, who exerted almost
superhuman efforts and expended money with
out STINT to save his neck from the halter. He
was thrice tried and thrice sentenced to
death All attempts to secure fourth trial
having failed. Gov. Beveridge was besieged
by friends of the condemned criminal armed
with petitions and letters praying for q COM
mutation of the death sentence. They lab
ored in vain. The Governor sternly refused
to interfere, being fully convinced that Raj
ferty deserved death for the awful crime
which he committed under such atrocious cir
cumstances-
THE National Crop Reporter furnishes esti-
mates as to the local consumption Of the last
wheat crop, during the current crop year, in
the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota Ohio and Wisconsin, according to
which these States produced. in 1873. an ap-
proximate of l6s. 600, 900 bushels. The aver
age consumption is placed at 36@ per cent,
or an equivalent of 81 500, 900 bushels.
Senator Chandler has sued the Detroit Free
Press for libel, claiming S10O, 900 damages.
The alleged libel is in a dispatch from WASH
ington charging Mr.. Chandler with drunken
ness and disgraceful conduct in the Senate.
Rev. r. N. BARsITz, President Of the Amer
lean Bible Society, has sued the st. Louis
Democrat for libel, laying damages at $50, 900.
The Democrat charged that while guest at
hotel in that city he permitted q female
boarder to share his room with him. A num-
Der of Chicago saloon-keepers advertise their
business by hiring women to visit them, and
pray and sing after the manner of the Ohio
crusaders The annual report of the Chi
cago. Burlington and Quincy railroad has been
published. The gross earnings for the year
1873 were S11, 500, 600; net earnings, "a, 970,-
45S net earnings over every liability. $780,
OS2. So 10 1900 per cent. on the capital stock.
The capital stock now amounts to SO S97, 900,
road. $40, 429, 562.75.
Mr.. ROYAL Buck, Of Red Willow, Neb.,
writes letter denying that he has been killed.
by the Indians, as reported, and denouncing
the report of Indian depreciation in his section
as base fabrications says no sayages have
been seen or heard thereabouts for months,
and that all thee scares are gotten up to turn
emigration away.
t. IT,. he Inc Pan
fist pulpit orator and revivaiist, died recently
in Rockford, H., aged "a. .Ex-Lieut.-Gov
Morgan Bates. of Traverse City, Mich, is dead.
He was a veteran Journalist, and was fore
man Of the Ne,c Yorker, edited by Horace
Greeley, nearly. forty years ago.
THE annual report of the Chicago and Alton
railroad shows the gross receipts from traffic
to have been last year more than those of the
year before BY s341 215.O6 and the net re-
ceipts more by S242 1886. The latter show
an increase of nearly Is per cent. The gross
earnings for the year were 80, 49,, 54O.71-..-
There is no abatement in the temperance cru
SADIE in the West and Northwest. Praying and
singing bands of women continue to lay siege
to the run-holes in many of the towns of
Ohio, Indiana, and other States, with varying
success.
A FAMILY of thirteen persons at Grinnell,
Iowa. have been poisoned With trichina, caus-
ed by eating uncooked ham. Three have died
and all the others are suffering from the poi
son.
convention was recently held at Spring
field. H. to take action in favor of the building
of quadruple railway from Denver via Quincy
to Philadelphia, along the fortieth PARALLEL of
latitude. Speeches were made indorsing
the feasibility of the project, and an
Executive Committee of fifty was APP
pointed to prepare charter.
The Railroad Commissioner of Michigan, after
giving the subject an exhaustive examination
gives it as his opinion that it would be impos-
sible tc devise any measure for the regulation
of railway tariff that would be of just applica-
tior to ali the roads, and asks to be relieved
from the responsibility Of fixing rates of fare.
. The Red Cloud Agency, in the Sioux
country, is virtually besieged by the savages.
No real hostilities have been attempted yet.
but the Agency people are trembling for their
lives. daily expecting to be murdered, and
have sent q messenger to Gen. Ord, beseech-
ing for immediate succor.
The South.
A BILL has been introduced in the Missis-
sippi Legislature to regulate railroad fares,
and will, if passed, make q reduction from
12l to 4 cents. Lieut.. Turner. of the Tenth
Cavalry. recently encountered a band of hos
tile Indians on the Double Fork of the Bra
zoe. in Texas. and sent eleven of them to the
happy hunting grounds. The Galveston
(Texas) census, just completed, shows pop1-
lation of "a, $50, not including the floating
population,-an increase of over 10000 in
three years.
THE Mississippi Supreme Court, in the case
of Dickinson rs. Brown, involving the ques-
ton of the legality of the marriage between a
white man and a negro woman. has render ed
q decision in favor of the colored heirs. A
large amount of property was involved.
washington.
TIE Naval Appropriation bill, as passed by
Congress-, makes total appropriation of $1S,-
OOO. 900 for the the fiscal year beginning July
l. This is in addition to the 81, 00O, 900 de-
ficiency, already provided for on account of
the virginius difficulty.
THE House has passed bills granting PEN
sion of $50 month each to the widows Gems.
Meade and Candy and the mother of Gen. Nc
Pherson-
THE Supreme Court is again in session. after
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