Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-12

Total in the Treasury. 1885, 7Oo,5 SIS
Debt less cash in Treasury. 2,157, 47O,114
Decrease during the month. ......s 1,s45, 2ll
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies. interest payable in lawful
money, principal outstanding. 64,s2s,5 $40
Interest accrued and not vet paid - 323 III
Interest paid by United States. %, 1886, 69l
mails, ETC. ......................... 4,sOO,O55
Baiance Of interest paid by United
States. ....-.....-.. ................ li,ofooJo
THE Senate Military Committee has agreed
on a bill giving uniform bounty of $685. per
month to each and every officer and private
who served at any time. either in regular or
volunteer service, between April Is, 1861, and
April Is, 1867, bounty and payments already
made to be deducted, and the benefits of the
above provision to be extended also to widows
or other heirs of deceased soldiers.
GEN. HARVEY, who was one of the most
noted Indian fighters of his day, was before
the House Military Committee the other day,
and told them that the way to put an cad to
the Indian troubles is to treat them fairly. In
his experience he recalled only two instances
in which the savages had violated their treaty
obligations, and these h considered excusa-
BILE. Instead of making on the Indians,
Agents and the whisky-dealers.
IT has been decided by the House Military
Committee, in defiance of the recommends
tons of all the army officers, to permanently
reduce the army Some excitement was
caused in Washington. the other day, By the
arrest of drunken, half crazy man named
James G. Sypber. while attempting to ride
into the Executive mansion on horseback.
Il 1,a1 ov,1 Aa1 o<o1f
his person.
Foreign.
In the forty-eight boroughs in England in
which elections had been held up to the I'd
inst. twenty Liberals and twenty-eight Con-
servatives were returned to Parliament. This
is q conservative gain of one member. .Ad-
vices from Cape Coast Castle stare the Asian
tees have sued for peace. The death of the
Sultan CT Acheen is announced.
AT Lancashire, England. while a Liberal
meeting was in progress, the other day, in a
factory building, the floor gave way, precipi-
tating great mass of people to the story be-
low. Six were killed outright and many fatally
injurtd. In Alsace the French candidates
for the Reichstag have been elected by over
whelming majorities. The Cubans are prac-
ticing the lesson which the Spanish taught
them, of shooting prisoners of war. A Col
Montaner. who has made himself peculiarly
odious to Cubans by his brutalities to Cuban
prisoners, was recently captured by them. and
at once shot by order of Gen. Gomez. Some
Spanish prisoners taken near Puerto Principe
we're treated in the same manner.
A BERLIN dispatch states that Archbishop
Ledochowski has been arrested by order of
the German Government, and sent to Frank
fort-on-the-Oder, where he will be i'm
prisoned. The cholera has broken out in
Buenos Ayres.
ENGLAND can carry the broom in regard to
riotous elections. There is nothing in the po-
itical history of America that will compare
with the violence which has prevailed in con-
nection with the Parliamentary elections in
that country The dispatches from day to day
have been filed with accounts of riotous de-
monstrations, fighting. understanding etc.
In several instances the cid Of the military was
invoked to quell the disturbances. The re-
turns from the elections show large Conserva-
tive gains. Up to the 9Th inst. los Liberals
and 141 Conservatives had been returned.
The balance of parties in 20S other places re-
mains unchanged. The Conservatives gain
and the Liberals have ousted nine Conserva-
tives. The Conservative journals are jubilant
over the result. A doubtful rumor comes
from Berlin that Germany and France are on
the eve of another war.
A PARIS dispatch says: 1.-The French
Bishops announce their intention to resist any
attempt to muzzle them, and Plus TX. has
counselled them to " tight the good fight of
faith" even unto martyrdom. As corollary
to all this the Paris Boursn has been falling
frightfully for the past three days, spreading
CONSERVATION in financial circles" - The
Ashantee war is ended, and the British lion is
triumphant. The King Of the Ashantees has
delivered all the white prisoners to Sir Garnet
Wolseley, accepts the latters terms for the
cessation of hostilities, and agrees to pay the
Britishers indemnity of f200, 900. A
Madrid dispatch announces desperate battle
between the Republicans and Carlists near
Lerida, in which the latter were defeated with
heavy loss. Emperor William concluded his
speech on the opening of the German Parlia-
ment. the other day, with the assurance
that all the nations of Europe are resolved to
preserve the peace. Z. The famine in Bengal
is increasing. 1t is estimated that 150 900
natives are already severely distressed The
excitement over the English elections has
eliminated in several bloody fights. At Wit
tenham there q desperate conflict, in
which several persons were killed: At Wind
sor and Handy there were also bloody rows,
resulting in the death of three or four. At
Askeaton, in Limerick, three were killed and
q number wounded. Rioting has been general
all over the pottery districts of Staffordshire,
and many casualties are reported. At Tim
stake. Lington and Burelems the rioters seized
the ballot-boxes, which were recaptured by the
police after severe fighting.
Political.
THE New York Tribune, of the LIST inst, an
nounces in double-leaded editorial. that it
is in possession of startling documents grave
ly affecting high officials The paper states
that it is unwilling to give the alleged dis
closures publicity until their entire anthem
ITCHY established, the facts they allege will
bring disgrace and discredit on the American
people, and that thorough investigation
into their authenticity has been set on foot.
and will soon determine the matter. pending
which they are withheld. 1t is surmised that
the papers referred to. if the really exist,
have relation to the Pacific Mail subsidy
jobs.
THE Kansas Senatorial contest has been
ended by the election of ex-Gov. James M.
Harvey.
THE Democrats of Connecticut have re-
nominated unanimously the entire State ticket
of the last election, with Gov. Ingersoll at its
head. n. K Bruce (coloredD and H. R.
Peace have been chosen United States Sena-
tors from Mississippi-the former for the long