Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-10

1t is Iretty we'll settled that the Republic
ans will, as body, resist the attempt to re-
enact the law requiring Congress to meet on
the 4th of March.
The Inspector-General of the army, in his
annual report, says regulation is much
needed, inficting some punishment on SOL
diers who marry without proper permission.
Military posts are somewhat overrun with the
wives of enlisted men, and it is we'll known it
requires about "a much transportation to
move four laundresses as it does to move q
whole company of men.
Political.
Washington dispatch to the Chicago If-ib-
une says: Some of the Republican Con-
gressmen who have arrived have started
new political rumor. They state that the
ticket which is now favored by the President
for the succession in 1876 is For President,
Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, for Vice.
President, Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut
subject. Of course, to such modification as
future exigencies may demand.
General.
The international feature of the Centennial
Exhibition is doomed to failure. Not a single
respectable government will take hand in it
mcst daring case of abduction occurred
at Freemansburg, Pa, last week. The child
stealer entered the no 1se of one Allan Glass;
and took from a crib beside the bed occupied
by the father and mother their infant child.
The Superintendent of the Postal Railway
Service, in his annual report. recommends the
establishment of fast and exclusive mail
train between New York and Chicago, as there
appears to be q growing necessity for the
same, to run the distance in about twenty
four hours.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has just rendered an important decision, the
result of which will probably hasten the solu-
ton of the troublesome problem Of the tribal
relations of the Indians. Another result will
be to destroy some very valuable Pima timber
contracts in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and to
render considerable number of Indian tribes
almost entirely destitute. The decision In
question is to the effect that the Indian tribes
do not own the fee to the lands within their
respective reservations. being only tenants of
the United States, to whom alone the fee be-
longs. The decision also holds that the lin
Der and minerals are portion Of the realty,
and that the Indian tribes cannot sell the one
nor lease the other. The case csme up from
the reservation Of the Oneida Indians, near
Green Bay. in Wisconsin, where one or TIVE
Indians had disposed of a quantity Of pine
logs.
The iron manufacturers in Western Penn
sylvania and Northern Ohio have decided to
close their mills altogether until there is some
improvement in the market. The Eastern
manufacturers will still keep some furnaces in
blast, but they also have agreed to reduce pre-
duction very materially. Thousands of labor
ers in the shops and the mines will be thrown
out of employment by this action.
The prospect is that the proposed new re-
ciprocity treaty between the United States and
Canada will fail Of ratification. There is bitter
opposition to it on both sides of the line, and
even in Great Britain. where apprehensions
exist that Canada would impose differential
duties discriminating against England and in
favor of the United States.
Foreign.
The annual municipal elections were held
in France on Sunday, the 22d of November
The Republicans were we'll organized and
generally victorious throughout the country
The revolution in the Argentine Republi, Of
d, South America is ended.
1t is announced from Madrid that the Span
ish government has expressed willingness
to pay indemnity in the yirginius case to the
United States on the same basis as that Will
which Great Britain was satisfied for the out
rage perpetrated on her subjects.
Last weeks Mark Lane Express reports
general advance i'll the continental market
since the previous issue, of one shilling il
the price Of wheat.
Dispatches from Minister Cushing leave M
doubt of the truth of the report that the in
demnity demanded by our government from
Spain for outrages committed on American
citizens, is to be referred to the arbitration
provided by the Virginius protocol.
auckland and McGahan, correspondents o
the New York Times and Herald, have BEEF
arrested in Spain, and subjected to many in
dignitles.
Won Arnim is no longer kept under polio
surveillance by Herr Won Bismarck. Tn
former still keeps stiff upper lip. however
refusing to hand over the correspondence
Bismarck 80 much desires to possess.
bill has been introduced in the Italia
Parliament providing for grant Of $4,000
annually to Garibaldi.
frightful mountain disaster is reported a
the great Mount st. Bernard. Eleven person
were buried in snow, and it is supposed a
have persisted.
In response to toast at the annual bar
quet Of the cutters of Sheffield, England, Mir
lister Schenrk expressed the belief that Ell
gland and America could, united, withs.an
the whole world, if necessary.
The Paris Municipal Council has adopte
the plan proposed by the Project Of the Sein
for lottery loan Of "A, 0c0, 900 francs.
A Havana letter of Nov 81 gives discou
aging account of the financial condition of I'll
, island. which is daily becoming more hope