Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-30
NEWS SUM BINARY.
The East

NEWS SURE NARY.
The East.
SIR LAhBroS LoRRAISE has declined public
reception at the hands of the New York city
authorities, with thanks for the compliment.
A BILL has been introduced in the New
York State Assembly to incorporate an incre-
nation society, for burning the dead, with a
capital of $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA reports genuine of
cremation. A physician. whose son died.
erected furnace in the cellar of his house
and reduced the body to ashes.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch gives the particu-
lars of a terrible riot in the Honesdale mining
district of Pennsylvania. A body of striking
miners attacked party of Swedes who re-
fused to join the Workngmen's League Pts
tolls. knives. clubs and stones were used with
terrible effect. About % Swedes were seri-
ously injured. some of them fatally and sew
eral of the rioters were fearfully bruised
The West.
THE fruit crop has not been materially dam
aged by the recent cold snap in Southern Hi
nois The next Wisconsin State Fair will be
held at Oshkosh, Sept. %.
THE National Crop Reporter publishes de-
auctions from the estimates of its correspond
ents in relation to the probable area which
will be seeded this spring in wheat, corn and
oats, in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Minneso.a, Missouri, Ohio and Wis
consin The following is al abstract Of the
information furnished: The area seeded in
spring wheat last year in the States named is
placed at 800, 900 acres, upon which there is
an estimated increase this year of per cent.
making the estimated area this year 7.502. 900
acres. The estimated area planted in corn In
1878 in the above eight States was 20.300, 900
acres the estimated increase this spring Is
8 4-10 per cent, which would make the total
area nearly %, 900, 600 acres. In oats. the area
sown last year was 1872, 600 acres in the States
named, and the probable increase this year is
estimated at 2-1O per cent, which makes
total area amounting to 7,514. 900 acres.
A Milwaukee paper publishes an interview
with the Hon. Alexander Mitchell, President
of the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad, In
which he says, in respect to the law passed
BY the last Legislature of Wisconsin. that the
road cannet run under it. He further says
that the company viii first test the constitu-
tionalty of the act in the courts, and, if
beaten there, will take off all its trains.
NEARLY all the business part of the town of
Ishpeming, Mich, has been burned. Loss
cendiaries-
TIE Chicago Ecening Journal has just COM
pleted its thirtieth year. In all these years
it has never had occasion to defend libel
suit. Detroit Mich statistics: Number
of manufactures in the city. 4O2-the largest
number in single branches being. cigars,
breweries, iron and furniture capital en-
ployed. SIS, $40, 900 j; value of annual products,
s2S. so, 900; number of employees, ia. Cos; an
nual amount paid in wages, 81 3l, 49,. A
Salt Lake (Utah) dispatch saws: ..Od man
Bender. now in Jail here, has been identified
through photographs of him sent to Kansas
and VIII De taken there. The young man ar
rested as his son has been released. he prov
ing to be deserter from the army"
THE Temperance excitement in Oshkosh,
Wis, rose to few II bet a few nights ago. The
Common Council met to decide the question
of license or no incense, and at the same time
the ladies of the Temperance Union held
meeting to pray for the Common Council.
While the ladies were praying, someone cut
the gas main, leaving the room in total dark
ness The Common Council listened to a
speech by Mrs. Henry Lines on the pa. of the
ladies, and q long argument of Aid. Doe
against licenses The question finally passed.
by vote of IL for licenses and z against.
The orders for the abatement of saloons de-
clared nuisances in Des Moines, Ia, have
Sheriff is ordered to abate the nuisance by
Guiding the person from carrying On the busi-
ness found to be a nuisance, and, if necessary,
In order to abate the nuisance, the Sheriff is
further ordered to lock up said building and
keep il locsed =. Track-laying on the Des
Moines and Minnesota narrow-gauge railroad
Is going forward at the rate of one
mile per day. The managers expect to
have the road completed to Ames, Iowa, by the
4th of July. Six hundred tons of iron are
now ca route, and arrangements have been
made for the purchase of another passenger
engine. to cost SO, 900. The Iowa Seed
Commissioners have bought, at St. Paul,
1900 bushels of potatoes and 1000 bushels of
corn for the Northwestern settlers. As the
State appropriation is limited to seed, many
settlers will need aid in other ways to carry
them through the harvest.
The South.
4 RALEIGH (N. Co. telegram Of April 19
says: "A private dispatch received in this
city this evening from Western Carolina re-
ports severe and heavy rumblings in Bald and
Stone mountains Thursday last. The
trembling of the earth was heard more than
100 miles from the mountains. The shocks
more severe than before and it is firmly
believed by scientists that an eruption IS i'm
minent-"
ADvIcEs from New Orleans state that the
whole OF that portion OF Louisiana extending
from Monroe to the mouth of the Red river is
under water, and that 10, 900 people in that
district will soon be on the verge of starva-
ton Large numbers of negroes from the
overlooked district are focking to New Or
leans Gov. Kellogg has issued a proclama-
ton to officials and citizens of the overlooked
districts assuring them that the State Gov
eminent has done and is doing all that its
resources allow to alleviate the sufferings of
those who have been reduced to restitution
by the disastrous floods ST. Louis papers
state that the robbers who rified the San An
tonic Texas) stage are James III. Reed. c. FL.
Carter, aud John H. Nelson, al from VerRon
county, No. A strong posse is in pursuit of
them
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch states that the
whole Amte valley is under water. The river
generally has bank of twelve to fifteen feet
but now the water is over four feet deep over
the banks. and has washed away houses. inn
plements. ETC. The inhabitants have fed to
the highlands, where they now abide in des-
sfn<o Columbia Mi1la at