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

by iaw............... ............... 5o,s9o,0Oo
Total in Treasury ..............s 1ss, EOS, go
Debt less cash in Treasury 81, 154 $50, Oes
Decrease during month ........S 269OO47
Bonds issued to the PACING Railroad
| Companies, interest payable In lawful
money, principal outstanding. 64,623,5 So
| Interest accrued and not yet paid. 646, 235
Interest paid by United States. 22.3S6,6 9l
Interest repaid by transportation Of
Balance of interest paid by United
4 otatee. li,So2S4f
The new Homestead bill passed by Con-
gress contains some important features. 1t
provides, among other things, that whenever
lands granted to State for railroad purposes
or directly granted to railroad company are
| forfeited. they may be entered by settlers like
| any other part of the public domain The
| Committee Of Ways and Means have agreed
upon bill fixing the duty on imported still
wines at & gallon, in casks. This will add
| 81, 900, 600 to the Treasury. The President
has appointed the following Government Di-
rectors Of the Union Pacific railroad: James
+. Wilson, Iowa; j. H. Willard. Nebraska;
John c. S. Harrison, Indiana John A, lib
belts, Connecticut and Francis b. Brewer,
New York. The bill for the reorganization
of the army, as finally agreed upon by the
House Military Committee, makes a reduction
Of eight regiments in all.
THE House Committee on Railroads and
Canals unanimously agreed to report in favor
of the jetty system of opening the mouths of
the Mississippi river, as proposed by Capt
Eads, of st. Louis.
| WILLIAM E. DODGE, of the firm of Phelps,
Dodge h Co., New York, detailed to the Ways
and Means Committee, the other day, an ac-
count of the Seizure of the books of the firm
by jayne, the informer, last summer. For a
| technical differentiation of $1,000, a for
| fixture of 81, 700, 600 was declared. and COM
| promise of S277, 900 was paid. This covered
period of five years business aud total i'm
portation of 40, 000, 900. Mr.. Dodge in recit-
| ing the mental suffering of his firm, was COM
pletely overcome, as were, also, several other
merchants. The inquiry into the conduct Of
| the government of the District of Columbia
has at last commenced. A bill has been pre-
pared by the House Committee on Civil Ser
vice Reform designed to put an end to the
system of allowing perquisites to various OFF,
GERS OF the Government. 1t provides that all
compensation to public officers shall be by
| salaries alone.
Political.
THE report telegraphed from Washington
that the nomination of Simmons to be Collec-
tor of Boston had been rejected by the Senate
was premature. The nomination was ratified
/ by vote of 80 to 16.
A BILL has been introduced in the Ontario
Parliament which provides that in voting in
municipal elections and in elections creating
debts, the basis of suffrage shall be real prop
| erty. Each property owner is to have one
two, or more votes, and women who are prop
erty holders have the same electoral rights
men. 1t is claimed that Buffers victory in
the Boston Collectorship contest has vastly
| strengthened his chances for the Governor
ship of the Bay State. and bets are freely Of
fered in Washington that he will get the regu-
lar nomination next fall.
CONGRESSMAN and Mayor Pierce. of Bos-
ton, it is said, will be pitted against Butler in
the forthcoming gubernatorial campaign in
Massachusetts,.
The Grange.
ORANGES are being organized in Wisconsin
at the rate of sixteen per week. Indiana has
1, AGO granges-an average Of sixteen to each
county.
General.
THE recent accident on the Great Western
railway of Canada, near London. was one of
the most shocking and singular disasters that
has occurred on the rail for long time. A
passenger train, bowling along at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, caught fire in the for
train could be stopped the whole of the in
terror of the saloon was wrapped in flames,
and eight unfortunate beings were either
burned or sufYocated to death, four being
seriously burned. A number Of passengers
saved themselves by jumping from the win
dows.
GRAND three weeks naval drill of the
coast of Florida has just closed. Twenty
four men-of-war, including frigates and mont
tors. engaged in the maneuvers. The in
solent Spanards have been at it again. The
American bark Everett which arrived at New
York last week, reports that she was boarded
OF Havana and searched by Spanish soldiers.
Foreign.
The cholera continues to rage in Buenos
Ayers with undated violence The project
set on foot for a new Atlantic cable has been
abandoned.
The city of Panama was recently visited by
a disastrous confagration- The greater part
of the business center Of the town was burned,
involving loss of about 81 ,000, 900. The
famous Tichborne claimant, who has been
trying to pass himself on as the heir to the
title. estates ETC., of Sir Roger Tichborne in
England. has at last closed. The impostor
has. after q trial of $50 days. been found
guilty of perjury, and sentenced to fourteen
years penal servitude. The news from
Spain is that Serrano has been declared
President of the Republic, Gen. Zabala Pres;-
dent of the Council of Ministers, and that the
Spanish troops have suffered q severe defeat
near Bilboa The Chinese Government has
notified the foreign Ministers at Pekin that
it cannot guarantee the safety Of foreigners
at Tientsin.
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