Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-05


connection or artery passing from one to the
other through the ligament that united them,
and believes there was no such vital connec-
ton through the hgament because he has at
| tended the twins when one was sick, and the
other in good health, and when there was as
much as 20 beats difference to the minute in
| their pulsations. The bodies, after being
embalmed. were placed in coffin, and en-
cased in large tin box, which was soldered
and made air-tight. ALI were then put in 6
large wooden box, packed in charcoal and
| made secure, and placed in the cellar OF the
house. 1t is reported that the bodies will be
disposed of at an enormous price to some
museum or medical college, or placed on ex-
hibition.
BIZ OK of ten buildings was recently burned
| in Helena. Ark Loss, $50, 900 to so, 600
Considerable excitement has been created in
Memphis over an order issued by the newly
elected Mayor and Police Board, discharglng
nearly all the old and experienced police OFF,
GERS and detectives, and appointing negroes in
their stead.
The town of Liberty, Casey county, Ky,
was the other day the scene of lively shoot
| ing ARRAY, in which Lew Napier was killed, and
several persons wounded. Thirty-five shots
were fired during the battle. The Legisla-
| ture of Georgia has indefinitely postponed a
vention.
Washington.
The Southern Pacific railroad wants the
Government to guarantee the interest on it's
five per cent. bonds for thirty years. In re-
turn for this Endorsement, which is likely to
be as much a mere matter of form as the
guarantee the Government gave the Union
Pacific. the Company promises the Treasury a
liberal per cent. on its gross earnings The
Executive mansion has been thoroughly reno
waited from top to bottom. =. The burden OF
the testimony given by officers of the regular
army before the House Military Committee with
regard to reduction of the army, has been uni
formly against such reduction. :. Washington
gaiety seems to have reached its highest point.
Every variety of entertainment and late hours
prevail in the gay aud fashionable world.
CALEB CUSHING is preparing to leave for
Madrid :. Lieut.. Fred Grant will shortly lead
to the altar Mis- Kittie daughter of Henry d.
Cooke JEFF Davis and Henry S. Foote have
recently been indulging in some very uncom-
pllmentary language toward each other
through the Washington papers, which. it is
thought, will lead to an affair Of honor"
APPOINTMENTS by the President: Edwin
VI. McCook of Colorado, to be Governor of
Colorado Territory; John W. Jenkins, of yir
ginia, to be Secretary of Colorado I. b.
Seabright, to be Surveyor-General of Colo
RADIO; Albert G. Colwell, of Ohio, to be Con-
sui at Anconia; S. @. Kenigs, Postmaster at
Kankakee, Ill. The House Banking and
Currency Committee have agreed to add a
clause to the bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury from and after July, 1874, to
issue monthly $4,000, 900 Treasury notes, to
be exchanged for outstanding legal tenders,
and to be redeemable in gold two years after
date.
THE House Committee on Indian Affairs
have nearly completed bill, which will be in
troduced at an early day, providing that here
after all Indian anuuities shall be paid in kind
rather than in money. A Washington dis
patch says: "The House Ways and Means
Committee are still unanimously disagreed on
nearly every measure of Importance that
comes before them. The statement is made
that no two members OF the committe coincide
on any one of the financial measures that
have been brought forward this session"
NOVEL claim has been presented to Con-
gress by one DR.. Zacharie, a chiropodist, who
alleges that he removed SAC, 600 worth of corns
from the aching feet of Union soldiers during
the late war. The testimony of q number of
Federal officers is adduced in support of the
claim. Every Congressman who suffers from
cOrnS Is expected 10 vote IOr IL.
Foreign.
THE Duke of Edinburgh, Queen victoria's |
second son, was married to the Grand Duchess |
Maria. daughter of the Gar at st. Peters |
burgh, on the 23d of January. The event was
the occasion of much rejoicing in England |
and Russia, the festivities lasting several days.
Another of the Pacific Mail Company's |
steamers has been lost-the Relief, en- route |
from Yokohama to Shanghai. "A Spanish |
gunboat boarded the American brig Margaret |
on Jan. 10, ten miles out from Havana, and |
attempted to search her. The Captainrefused |
to open his matches, and upon his arrival at |
Havana reported the circumstance to our |
Consul United States Admiral Scott was |
of it. and extorted an apology /
from the Spanish Admiral for the outrage =.
Mr.. Whalley, III. p, the champion of the Itch
borne claimant, has been sent to prison by |
Lord Chief-Justice Cockburn for contempt of |
court. The English Parliament has been |
by the Queen, and new election or
dered. Gladstone, in an address to his con- |
stituents announcing his candidacy for re-
election, gives as the reason for this measure, |
that since the defeat of the Government upon /
the Irish higher education question, by con-
current efforts of the leader of the opposition /
and Catholic prelacy in Ireland, the Govern |
ment has not been possessed of sufficient au- |
thority to carry out the great Legislative meas
ures. The Pope is again reported i'll.
ADvIcEs from Spain confirm the reported |
capture by the Carlists of Santander and Por-
tugalete. Adam Black, the well-known Edin
burgh publisher, died Jan. 25, aged 81.
THE chief stronghold of the Acheenese has
been captured by the Dutch. The po-
litical situation in Great Britain is grow
ing decidedly interesting. Disraeli has
issued an address to his constituents in Buck
inghamshire, asking for reelection to Parlia-
ment. The Queen held council at Osborne
on the 18th, and issued proclamation order
ing the dissolution of the present Parliament.
Writs of election for the new House of Com
mons were promulgated, and orders were also
sent to Edinburgh for the election of the
sixteen Peers representing Scotland in the
Upper House. Mr.. Lowe has issued an
address to his constituents, in which he up
holds the existing Education act, and replies
categorically to Disraeli's criticisms. He
shows how what was characterized as an "un-
energetic administration" had carried the
country through the crisis of European war
without compromising its dignity, or giving
offense to either party. :. Intelligence has |
been received in London of the death of Dr. |
Livingstone in the interior of Africa He died |
of dysentery while travelling from Lake Bembe |
to Unianiembe in June last His body has |