Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07

pleted and reported to the House by the Com
mittee on Commerce. Among the largest
items of appropriations in the bill are the fol-
lowing Harbor of refuge, Chicago, SIS, 900;
harbor of refuge, Calumet, Ill. S25, 900;
Michigan City, $50, 900; Grand Haven, $780,
| 0O0 st. Mary Falls canal, 5000. 900; hsrbor
of refuge, Lake Huron, $4,000; Toledo,
| $4,000: Cleveland. $4,000; Buffalo break
water. S75, 900; harbor of refuge. Oswego,
SIS, 900; Falls of st. Anthony, S50,OvO; Up
per Mississippi S25 900; Des Moines rapids
canal $4O0, 900 Rock Island rapids, $50. 900
Improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri ana
Arkansas rivers. 100000; removing Red
river raft, 1000; improving the mouth of
the Mississippi river. $3.50. 900; Mobile har
Dor. SIS, 1000; White river. above Jacksonport,
$50 600; Usage river. $4,000; Mississippi
between the mouths of the Ohio and Mis-
souri,, $500. 600; Ohio river, $50. 900; i'm
provement of the Great Kanawaha, $50, 900;
Upper Monongahela, $4,000; Tennessee
river above Chattanooga. S25 900. and below
Chattanooga, including Muscle shoals. $780,
900; Fox and Wisconsin rivers, $500, 900;
Duluth harbor SIC, 900. The total arpropris-
tions amount to four and half Millions being
million less than reported to the House last
| year.
Political.
| A CALL has been Issued by the Anti-Monop-
Moines on the oath of June next.
General.
THE completion of the great bridge at st.
Louis is promised by the Goth of May.
INQUIRY at the offices of the different steam
| ship lines, says New York telegram shows
that the aggregate number of travellers to Eu-
rope this season will probably be much less
than in 1878. This reduction is generally at
tributed to the effects of the late panic and
unsettled state of the currency. =. The
Federal Council of Internationals have
resolved to dissolve, the organization
States.
THE Odd-Fellows throughout the country
very generally observed April % as a holiday
in commemoration of the 55th anniversary
of the introduction of the order in the United
States.
The report that Senator Schurz will take
editorial charge of a German newspaper in
New York after the expiration of his term is
denied
CUMULATIVE evidence of the reckless haste
in which the officers and crew of the French
steamer L'Amerique saved their precious lives
at the expense IF the property confided to
the vessels mails, which were found drifting
in an open boat.
Foreign.
THE worst of the famine in India is now
over. A report has been presented in the
British House of Lords to the effect that the
crops for the coming season promise to be
abundant, and the present provisions against
famine are ample The British House of
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personal colloquy worthy of our own Congress.
Mr.. Smollet made fierce attack on Mr..
Gladstone, and moved that the suddenness of
the dissolution Of Parliament was deserving
of the censure of the House. In the course
of his remarks he denounced the ex-Premer
as trickster. The latter challenged Smollet
to repeat the epithet applied to him, and on
that gentlemans refusal to do so, denounced
him as lacking in decency and manliness The
commons. without e division, defeated the
motion of Mr.. Smollet.
The London papers freely comment upon
President Grants veto Of the currency bill.
The Times says: ITO British eyes the appar-
emily interminable imitation of currency is a
hazardous proceeding fraught with peril to
the prosperity and even to the unity of the
American Commonwealth but it is not denied
that no other country in the world could do
what America has hitherto done with it's
finances. 1t is law of the American nature
to expand and develop in every possible dlrec-
ton. :. Senior CASTELAR, has written letter in
which he declares himself in favor of Federal
Republic for Spain.
THE temperance crusade has reached En-
gland, making first appearance at Manchester.
There have been serious disorders in Poland,
growing out of the attempts to force the in
habitants to attach themselves to the Russian
national church. The priests of twenty-six
parishes in the Government of Siedlee were al
thrown into prison for refusing to obey the
general orders of the Russo Greek Church. In
many places the peasantry stoned the priests,
which led to collisions with the military. in
which large numbers of peasants were shot
down, and many soldiers killed and wounded.
| The prisons at Siedlee and other chief towns
are crowded with prisoners. Besides the
arrests which were made, the Inhabitants of
the troubled districts we're sentenced to be
beaten-the men with fifty blows and the
women with twenty-five. while children re-
ceived ten blows each. without distinction of
| age or sex. Some of the women, wins were
violent in their language, received as many as
| 100 blows. A London telegram says there is
a serious misunderstanding regarding the
rank and precedence of the Duchess of Edin-
burgh.
THE financial policy of the German Gov
eminent does not appear to be very great
failure, as the Finance Minister reports a sur
plus on hand for 1878 of 81, 600, 600 thalers
| A dispatch from the seat of war in Acheen
| says % In the battle of the 18th. 1000 ma
tiyes made general attack On the Dutch
positions They attempted to carry the works
at Kraton by assault and were driven back
with great slaughter"
THE farmers recently held a meeting at
Newmarket, England, to consider the present
difficulties with the laborers. Among the
speeches delivered, says the account, swas
one by Mr. Wood, native of England. but
now of Ohio, who offered to bring from that
State any number of persons who were willing
to work for II shillings week." The
Franco-American Postal Convention has been
signed by the French Government.