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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
ArrnR,nnr affair is reported from the State

A TERRIBLE affair is reported from the State
of Vera Cruz, Mexico. quarrel between
the townsmen of Quimixtlan and Huascaleca
resulted in a fight in which seventeen per-
sons were killed. 1t is reported that the in
furiated Huascaleeans afterward went to
Ouimixtlan and began an indiscriminate mas
sacre, killing children and cutting off the
breasts of women.
IT would appear that the reports recently
telegraphed across the Atlantic to the effect
that the Ashantee war was over, and that the
British troops were on the hsmewsrd march.
were somewhat premature. London dis
patch announces that great battle has been
fought at Accroomba. between the Ashantees
and the force under Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley.
The engagement is said to have lasted a whole
day. and to have closed with no decided re-
suit The loss of the Brit IN troops is given
as nearly 300 including n ny officers. The
natives at one time entiI Giy surrounded the
British army, but were eventually driven off
after desperate fighting. The utmost anxiety
is felt in London for the safety of the army.
THE German exploring expedition in the
Lybian Desert, under Gerhard Rohlfs, the
well-known traveller, has reached the famous
oasis of Dachel, containing Il, 900 inhabitants.
Valuable geographical discoveries have been
made, and six maps of the country have been
taken.
A DISPATCH has been received at the Lon
don War Office from Sir Garnet Wolseley,
commanding the British forces in Ashantee,
dated Coomasie, Feb. 26, in which he states
that he had reached that city the day before,
after five days hard fighting, attended with
severe loss.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
Death of a Famous Detective.

Eli Devoe, who died recently at Mon
mouth, n. j., was one of the best
known of New York detectives. At the
commencement of the rebellion he en-
tered the service of the Government.
When Lincoln started to Washington
before his first Inauguration, Devoe and
Tom Lampson were sent to Baltimore
to investigate the rumor that the Presi-
dent would be assassinated in that city.
The work was difficult and dangerous,
and had to be prosecuted with the ut
most secrecy. They managed to mix
with the active secessionists, and finally
joined a secret society whose intent was
to kill Lincoln under the cover of a con-
certed mob. 1t had been arranged that
the President should be escorted
through the streets, and the murder
was to have been done while number
of the society attacked and disordered
the procession. Devoe and Lampson
got the details of the plot as members
of the society, and it was upon their in
formation that the expedient of hurry
ing Lincoln through on another train
was adopted. When the plot had failed
the society looked about for traitors in
oHcll luluot, huu tucy cOOu ledIutO lldt
Devoe and Lampson were not residents
of Baltimore. This was enough to
arouse their suspicious, and the detec-
tives found it necessary to quit SO sud-
denly that their baggage was left be-
hind. They went to Washington, and
were followed by gang of Baltimore
roughs, who infested their hotel, and
probably intended vengeance of some
kind. But here again detective work
thwarted any plan that may have been
concerted. Another detective, who
had gone to Washington as one of
the Baltimore gang, found a chance
to put Devoe and Lampson on their
guard.
Devoe remained in Government en-
ploy during the war, at times acting as
a spy within the rebel lines, and upon
the assassination of Lincoln was one of
the many detectives who were put at
work to hunt out those concerned in
the plot. He arrested Mrs. Surratt,
and while at her house detected Paine
in the guise of laborer The arrest
of Paine brought him large reward.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
BOrax for Colds.

A writer in the Medical Report cites
a'number of cases in which borax has
proved most effective remedy in GER
tain forms of colds. He states that in
sudden hoarseness or loss of voice in
public speakers or singers, from colds,
relief for an hour or SO, as by magic,
may be often obtained by slowly dis
solving, and partially swallowing, a
lump of borax the size of a garden pea,
or about three or four grains, held in
the mouth for ten minutes before speak
ing or singing. This produces a pro-
fuse secretion of saliva, or watering
of the mouth and throat-probably re-
storing the voice or tone to the dried
vocal cords, just as wetting" brings
back the missing notes to flute, when
it is too dry.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
Chang and Eng-Singular but Solemn
Compact.

Up to the year 1857, the twins lived
together quite tremendously, it is said,
when, owing to domestic quarrels, the
true cause of which never has trans
pired, dissolution of the firm of E. &
G. Bunker was agreed upon. Some
say it was fighting among the children,
others that it was jealousy of the wives
about the number of children they had
that caused the separation; but be that
as it may, Eng purchased an adjoining
plantation, upon which he built a
house, just one mile distant from the
old home, which now became the ex-
elusive property of Chang. In the di-
vision of the property the whole of the
original plantation fell to Chang, while
large majority of the slaves, being
movable property, became Eng's.
Hence it was that, when the result of
the war brought about the enancipa-
ton of the slaves, Eng found himself q
much poorer man than his brother,
though both of them were then very
well off.
Immediately upon the separation the
brothers made an agreement. which,
like the laws of the Modes and Persjans,
was unalterable, and which to their
very deaths was rigidly observed. This
was that every alternate three days were
reserved exclusively to each of the
brothers to do as he pleased. For in
stance, the three days that belonged to
Eng were spent at his house or any
where else that Eng might choose to
60. During that time Chang was
merely an appendage of Eng, having
neither the right to go anywhere that
Eng did not choose to 60, nor the power
to attend to any business whatever of
private nature of his own. In the same
way, when Changes three days came,
and they were punctual to moment,
they departed at once for his home,
where he assumed supreme control of
the actions and movements of both, and
Eng became the nonenity. So exact
were they with this rule that no event,
however eatinimportance, and no stress
of weather, no matter how severe, could
prevent them starting from the house
of one to the house of the other, when the
three days of either had expired. 1t is
related of them that this rule caused
one to leave his home just as the mar
riage of his daughter was about to take
place, and the other was prevented from
attending the funeral of a son by the
stringency of this singular compact.
They carried it out to the last, fo-
Changes final three days had expired on
the Thursday evening prior to their
deaths, and though it was very cold,
misty and severe weather, to Eng's
house he would go, in accordance with
the irrepealable law.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

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The quantity of distilled, fermented
and brewed liquors drank was sufficient
to fill a canal feet deep, IA feet wide,
and so miles long and if all the drink
ers could be placed in procession, five
abreast, they would make an army 40
miles long, and if those killed by the in
temperate use of spirituous liquors were
there also, we should see a suicide at
every five miles, and $50 funerals per
day; and if all the places where intOxi-
eating liquors are sold were placed in
rows, in direct line, they would make
street 100 miles long.
There were 100000 more persons en-
gagged in the liquor business in the
United States than in preaching the
gospel and school-teaching and from
the effects of intoxicating drinks,
1000 are annually sent to prisons,
10000 to drunkards' graves, and
200, 900 children are reduced to want.
The total number Of persons engaged in
the business is $50, of which Sc, 663
are employed in making and selling an
nually $3.50, 633 barrels of beer.
1t is estimated that the clergy of the
Uni ted States costs annually $4,000
600; the lawyers, criminals, prisons,
etc., 800, 1000, 900; and intoxicating IL
quors, as before said, 81, 474, 200, 600.
The State of Pennsylvania spent dur
ing the year 1870, for liquors of all
kinds, 1852, 1853, 1876 and for schools
and teaching. So, 1863, 729. She had en-
gagged in the liquor business, 7S, 800 per-
sons, Is, $40 school-teachers, and "a, 900
riminals-four-fifths of whom were
made so by strong drink.
The city of Philadelphia had 4,16O
drinking places, and spent for intoxicat-
ing drinks $50, OOO, 600 in one year. Chi
cago had $500 liquor saloons, and spent
for intoxicating liquors Sl4, 1000, 600.
Newark had S64 drinking saloons, and
spent for strong drinks 81 $780, 600.
The city of New York had 1000 IL
censed drinking saloons, which, if
placed in rows in direct lines, would
make street like Broadway thirteen
miles long. She spent for intoxicating
liquors $50, 900, 600 during the year
1870, and there were employed in the
business $4,000 persons. There were
65, 900 arrests for intoxication and dis
orderly conduct, and $4,000 persons
were in institutions under care of the
Commissioners of Public Charity.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
CONGRESS-.

FRIDAY, Feb. 20.-Sendte.- bill for the
equalization of the currency was again before the
Senate, motion to reconsider the vote of Thurs
day, by which the substitute of Cooper adopted
The motion was carried and the substitute rejected
The question then recurring on Merrimon's resou-
ton to instruct the Finance Committee to report
bill providing for an expansion of the National
Bank circulation to $4o0 ,000 it adopted by
vote of % to 2o- No other business of importance
was transacted.
House.-The day was devoted principally to the
consideration of private bills. The calling up of
bill authorizing the Washington and Point Lookout
railroad to extend its line through Washington city
produced a good deal of agitation and excitement
among members, the Pennsylvania members oppos-
ing it bitterly. The discussion carried on amid
great noise and confusion. The House adjourned
pending motion to table the bill.
SATURDAY, Feb. 2l.-Senate.-Not in session.
Honse.-Most of the day was devoted to the con-
sideration Of private bills, a number Of which we're
disposed Of. Banning presented petition to have
the anniversary Of Abraham Lincoln's birthday de-
clsrea public holiday. The bill authorizing the
Point Lookout Hallway to extend lis line through
Washington was discussed ut length. and finally re-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
Two Men Lost Their Lives Through
Fear

1t is well-known now that smallpox
existed for some weeks in a store on
Center street, and committed great raw
ages il the family circle of the store
keeper. Among the customers who
dealt at his store were two men, one
well-to-do storekeeper at Auburn, and
the other from Cressona. One day tine
Auburn man came to this store, bought
a stock of goods, and in going out no.
ticed that the doors and windows were
closed. He asked the reason of this
funeral appearance of things. "Why,"
said some one, "don't you know that
they have smallpox there" At this
intelligence the heart of the Auburn
man sank within him, he was at once
seized with pains, went home and died
of smallpox in three days. The fate,
of the Cressona man was almost exactly
similar. He entered the same store,
was informed of the existence of small
pox there, was dreadfully frightened,
and went home to die of smallpox
POttsUitIe Pa Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.
Progress of the Good Worl<-The COnta-
gion Spreading All Over the Country
The Large Cities Becoming Infected.

Progress of the Good Vork-The Conta-
gion Spreading All Over the Country
The Large Cities Becoming Infected.
The women's crusade against the dramshops
is spreading in all directions. The assaulting
party is firing regular broadsides of prayer
into the saloons, following them up with a
raking fire Of psalms, sung in long, short and
common meter, to suit the occasion, with a
few scattering shots in the way of exhortations
to the wicked gin-slingers to flee from the
wrath to come. The Geographic dispatches
and mail correspondence of the daily papers
give reports of the surprising manner in which
this singular warfare is extending. 1t has as
sumed proportions so formidable that it is no
longer a sensation and must now be discussed
if not as a revolution, at least as a terribly
earnest and an apparently effective crusade.
DR.. bio Lewis has abandoned the field in
Ohio and gone to New England to inaugurate
the great work in Worcester, Springfield and
Boston, but will return about the middle of
March to prosecute the war again in the West.
The prohibitionists in New York and Phia-
delphia are planning campaign, and in st.
Louis and other large cities active prepare
tions are going on for temperance revival
The crusade is being vigorously prosecuted
in the towns of Ohio with the greatest success
In Xenia a number of saloons have been clos
ed. and all others are expected to capitulate
before many days. A saloon-keeper in that
town. who had closed his doors against the
women and taken refuge in the cellar, emerged
from his subterranean retreat the ether day,
bearing in his hand white bag in token of
surrender. Each victory is made the occasion
of grand jubilee.
At Hilsboro. Ohio Judge Steele has dis
solved the injunction against the praying
ladies'.
G. W. Miller, proprietor of a saloon at Sa-
lem Ohio, has closed up his doors and emptied
all his liquors in the street.
In Dayton, preparations for an active war
on the rum-sellers are going forward.
At Terre Haute. Richmond. and other large
towns in Indiana, the temperance advocates
are marshalling their forces for vigorous
campaign.
An attempt to open the movement in Osh-
kosh, Wis, has met with poor success.
The war has invaded Omaha Neb.. and
prayer-meetings are being held in the saloons
of that city.
The contagion has even developed itself as
far west as Colorado, and singing and praying
bands at work in Denver, Golden City, and
other towns.
In indianapolis the women are organizing
for the good work.
1t is reported from Cleveland. Ohio, that
1900 women of that city are banded together,
and will begin a concerted praying raid on the
cohorts of King Alcohol in a few days. Three
thousand ladies in New York are said to be
banded together for a similar purpose.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

SAD CASE OF MATRIMONIAL IMPLICITLY.
"A young married man living near
Columbus, Wis, returned home a few
nights ago unexpectedly, and found
another young man sharing his wife's
bed. He returned the next morning
and took away his three-year-old boy,
leaving the miserable woman to the fate
into which she had fallen. A day or
two afterward the mo her was discovered
in an insane condition about one of the
outbuildings of neighbor, with the
shoes of her child in her hand, search
ing for him under the frantic delusion
that he was buried somewhere in the
snow. She is still a lunatic.-Ex-
change.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
STARTLING FIGURES.

The Liquor Business of the United States
Enormous Extent of the Trade-The
Money Invested and Men Engaged i'm 1t
"A Powerful Temperance Sermon.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post furnishes that journal
a detailed statement of the amount of
Intoxicating liquors used in the United
States. The exhibit is certainly most
startling one, few people having any
adequate conception of the enormous
extent of the business. He says that
he has obtained the figures from off cial
documents, and that he has presented
them in the following compact form, SO
that even the casual reader may see how
large, both absolutely and relatively,
the traffic in intoxicating liquors is in
the United States
Statistics showing the amount of money spent in the
United States for Intoxicating liquors during the
year 1870, as taken from official records:
Imported and domestic distilled and
spirituous liquors ....-.......... 81 344 600. 600
Brewed and fermented liquors. 123, OO0, 900
Imported wines. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000, 600
Domestic wines. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100000
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

CHICAGO manufactures employ over
100, 600 men, having an invested capital
of $50, 900, and turn out annually
1926, 900, 600 worth of products.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

IHeTe were I4O,U0U 1censed liquor sa-
saloons in the United States, each hav-
ing (estimatedD 40 daily customers,
making 100000 drinkers, who, it is
estimated, spent their money during
the year in the following proportions
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

Add to this, $9O,OOO,OOO, the cost of
litigations, crimes, prisons, ETC., caused
in part by intemperance, and we have
for single year the enormous sum of
81 ga 491 S65
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

too palpable to admit of denial. and Groes-
beck and Burnett both plead guilty, but hold
that they gave the money with the under
proper manner" Too thin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

no longer take an active part in Parliamentary
proceedings. The Pope has caused an urg-
ent request to be sent to all the Bishops to
visit Rome, he desires to see them before
he dies. f.. The instruction in Japan is be-
coming formidable. A Madrid dispatch an
nounces heavy lighting in Biscay, with severe
loss on both sides. The Carlists have evacu-
ated Pcrtugalite A Havana letter gives de-
tails of the recent disturbances in that city.
inklings OF which have reached US by tele-
graph. The rioters assembled in large num-
bers in front of the Captain-G Generals palace.
and demanded, with loud cries, a change of
the DEGREES regarding the draft. The civil
guards fired on the mob, killing five and
wounding large number. Volunteers were
then stationed at different points in the city,
to prevent further disorders, which fact doubt
less led to the absurd rumor, which came via
Key West, that the city had been taken pos
session Of by rebellious volunteers and
Jovellar expelled
THE latest reports from the famine in India
state that $50, 600 people are now suffering
from want of food, and that, but for the aid
of the British authorities, 500, 600 would starve
to death A treaty of peace has been signed
by Sir Garnet Wolsely and the King of Ash
antee =. London dispatch states that Sir
Michael Hicks Beach has been appointed
Chief Secretary for Ireland; Sir Henry Selwin
Ibbetson Under-Secretary for the Home De-
partment, and Sir Charles Adderly President
Of the Board of Trade. Sir John Pakington
has been elevated to the Peersge under the
title Of Baron Hamilton. :. The Queen, at the
Recommendation of Gladstone, has granted
pension of 81. 900 per annum to the children
OF DIR. Livingstone. Sir Bartle Frere is con-
vinced of the truth of the reported death of
the great traveller. The Cameron Expedition
will proceed to Ujiji, to obtain the documents
and property left by the Doctor.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1874-11-14
ID p0stayeni pOmniku
.5anu kEuSi

Central Parku, Novem Yorku
pise Josef Stolba N6rodnich Listech ma
sledovne:
Pred m6sici cetl jsem ameriekych Ii
stech1 ze americtf mash krajan6 pomysleji
ma TO, ably Central Parku byl inarod
mas zastoupen. Hodlaii pry darovati tam
sochu Husovu a zizkovu. Pfal bycl, ably
myslenka ia n.ezan k la, poslou&ila
by zaiist6 jmenu ceskemu velmi. Ne
bot media Sc upfiti, ze Americana nehledi
ma 6eske pfist6hovalce = jsou arci take
vyminky, o kterych neopomenu SC mini
ii, az promluvim sveho casu 0 krajaneeh
nasich Ameriee sifeji = tax iako ma,
rodnosti iine. Kdyby kraiane mas sochy
slavnych nasich pfedkii mGstu darovali,
byli by vefejne listy americk6 nuceny,
vysvetliti obecenstyu, j3z Mich ami poimu
nema, vyznam muzd tech V deiinach lid
stva pax by Americana zaiistG jinak
vSimali 81 ceskych svJch spoluobcand a
to tim vice kdyby pouzilo Sc pax slavno-
sti odhaleni soch tech k ddstoin6mu Wy
stoupeni krajand nasich u vefejnost, coz
az posavade pro pficiny, nichz promlu-
Wit snad naskytne Sc mi take iest6 prile
zitost, opomijeno bylo. Y nejnovdjsich
lstech ceskoalnerickychj jevi sc ndb6h k
velmi utescnemu ruchu zivote nasch
zamofskych bratfi. Pfal bych re srdce,
ably nezistalo pii pouhem nabehu, ably
skuteGn6 pocalo Sc pracoyati uPfimne k
tomu, pfiv6sti jmeno GeskG v Americe ku
cti. Darovani zminenych jiz soch do Cen
trail Parku mohlo by pax byt boden "a.
jiste ne ned6lezitym ruchu tom"
Mysl6nku tnto poiali tomto casopi
Sc projevili jsane neiprv6 my. snad Sc
nektefi ctenafove nasi upamatuii ma ella
mex, ntmz jsme o pfedmttu tom obsir-
ne poiednal. Avsak po hfichu, byl hlas
mas hlasem volajiciho na pousti. AmeriG
II Cechove, bojime Sc, pozbyvaji smyslu
pro v6ci tax uslechtil6, Vidime, ze Ma
rodni Jednota, kterG .isme my vytllli po-
staveni IIusova pomniku Central Parku
"a 1cel, pres vsecko rozpisoyani Sc nj
We ,sech zdcjsich 6oskych listech .iako
krasna bublinka Sc rozplynula, yidime ami
pro sepsani d4iin americkych Cechd spoil
kov6 6esti, pres vsecko vyzyvdni, pobize-
nj proseni temGf mic necini (dosud
.uvolili Sc pouzc ctyri spolkov6 k ptil-let-
MIN pfispevkdm, ac zde name ma neko
lik set .,narodnich," ,,vlasteneckych" a
,,vzdflavacich" spolkd) kratce yidime, &e
jiz nejsme k nicemu. Ci tim jest take Vi.
nen ten nestastny lonsky krach! -
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1874-11-14

Cd te DOLBY podnikali Islandane cast6i
vyplavy do Ameriky, a sice az do r.
l347, kdy Gernf NOR pres polovici oby-
vatelstva zachvatil, takze potom nebylo
pfllisne lidnatosti tedy pfieiny k steho-
vani Sc koonizovanik koncin vzdalenych.
V letsch 1477 navKtivil Kolumbus Island; !;
zde neispise poprve novem svGte slysef
a zde asi myslenku objeyeni Ameriky
pojal.
Aaron Goodrich podaya nam We yJtec-
mem spiso "A history of the Character
and Achievements Of the so-caled Christie
pher Columbus docela iiny obraz, nes
starsi deio-a zivotopisci, kteif n6m zna-
meniteho, uceneho, vtdeckJm zapalem
prodchnnt6ho vzorneho muze oslayuii
Ph.ezitostnt uyedeneho spisn nektere
dryvky podaIne.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1874-11-14
Cislo 63.

iei "a chftan, ijej skrtil, kdezto otec (starf
Egner) vidlicemi stale don bodal. V "a
pase poskrabal Ruferovi tvaf, ale to dlou
ho netrvalo, byl brzo mrtev.
Kdyz jsme Sc pfesvedcili, re neni vice
ma zivu. radili jsme Sc, co mrtvolou po-
citi. Nejprve zamysleli jsme hoditi il do
kade, ale Rufer pravil ,,Hodimeli il sem,
tu budeme hned vypatrani. Strcmc j
do pece, tam shofi ma popel nikdo Sc
mic nedovi." On otevfel, ma to chopili
mrtvolu "a hlavu, ia j wal pull a otec
ga nohy strcili jsme j do pece. ia
chtee mrtvolu dal do zadu strciti, wal
jsem sfarak co jsem mel silly jsem il
strkal, ale nemohl .jsem nj ami hnouti.
Rutei wal mne zelezo z ruky a posoup-
nul re ysi silly mrtvolu hodne do zadu
Ma to Sci umyl 81 ruce. Mdj otec ia
sli jsme do naseho dvorka, kde jsme 81 II
hydrantu (zvlastni cerpadlo) myli ruce.
Ia nami pa> fsel K er, nacez jsme
vslchni til do salonu vesli pitt chtei.
ale jelikoz pivo bylo vytocene, nepili jsme
niceho. Ruter pax odesel my otcem
jsme sli spat.
Celia udalost netrvala, nez 20 m nut.
Mluvilo Sc malo. Otec mdi, jenz byl
hrozn6 rozzufen. kfiGel, vraziv Schillingo-
vi vidlice do bficha: ,,Tu mas, ty zatra
---- platdajcky pse." Psi byli vsichni
odvazani, avsak my Sc jich bait nemuseli,
jelikoz isme byli znami." Ruter starry
Egner tvrdosijne zapirai.