Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-09

This is regarded as experiment, on a small
scale. to familariZe Indians with self-gov-
eminent in the future Territorial Oiganiza-
ton. The Acknowledgement of Iowa has
given long opinion on the Railroad Tariff
law, in which he takes the position that the
State has the power to enforce the law ac-
cording to the intent of the Legislature :.
The farmers of Central Ohio have lately been
made the victims of sharp swindle. A firm
of confidence operators. whose headquarters
were at Springfield, represented themselves to
be the proprietors of a patent pillow possessing
rare and untold merit; and they managed to
appoint each farmer with whom they dealt an
agent and in the article of agreement consti-
tuting the agency was ingeniously inserted a
negotiable promissory note. The unsuspect-
ing Granger would sign the same, and in a
few months be would be sued by an innocent
purchaser of said note for the face of the
same. The swindlers have been arrested.
AS they will shift their operations to some
other field, farmers are warned to be on the
lookout.
THE Chicago Tribune of the Goth ult., prints
reports of the condition Of the crops along
the lines of the Michigan Southern and Chi
csgo and Northwestern railroads. The pros
poets for all grains in Indiana and Michigan
are excellent, but in Ohio wheat is represent
ed in bad condition. Fruits are doing remark
ably well.
THE United States Circuit Court at SPRING
field has granted the prayer of the Chicago
and Alton Railway Company to have the cases
brought against them by the State Board of
Railway and Warehouse Commissioners, for
| violation of the railway law, removed from the
courts of Illinois to the United States Su-
preme Court. 49,. Chicago has just completed
her second lake tunnel.
THE boiler in a lumber.mill at Carrolton,
Mich, exploded on the morning of the 3Oth
ult. with frightful effect, shattering the mill
| to atoms and instantly killing Joseph Judson.
Benz. Chapman, John Peck. George Wat
son and William Sinnet. Six others were
seriously injured. Pecuniary loss, S35. 900.
. Rev. DIR. Welles, of Red Wing. Mimi,
has finally accepted the Bishopric of Wis
consin, and will at once enter upon his du-
| ties.
The South.
A CHARLESTON 6. CO. dispatch says 'Gov.
Moses has pardoned three County Commits
sioners of Barnwell, lately convicted of cor
rrlption in Office and sentenced respectively to
three, nine and ten years in the penitentiary.
| The convicted officials. ON their way to prison.
boosted that Gov. Moses would not dare al
| low them to remain in the penitentiary one
month"
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evidently misrepresentation with regard to
the extent of the suffering from the flood in
the Mississippi valley. Letters have been re-
ceived from Gov. Ames, stating that the
whole amount expended for rations in Mis-
sissippi for the sufferers is but $40, 900, and
/ that no more is needed. A similar letter has
been received at the War Department. News
from Louisiana also shows that although there
has been great devastation, there is not a
great amount Of personal suffering. and the
production of the whole State will equal that
of last year"
HoS. JOSEPH H. SLoss, Member of Con-
gress from. the Tuscumbia (Ala.) District re-
Gently shot and killed man named Long for
assailing the character of his daughter.
THERE being disagreement between the
Judges who recently sat upon the case of the
Grant parish prisoners, the issue will have to
be taken to the Supreme Court of the United
| States. where the constitutionality of the
Ku-Klux law will be fully tested.
Washington.
IT is rumored that x-Postmaster-Genera
Creswel will be appointed Minister to
Austria.
SECRETARY BRIsT3w has refused to accept
|
rendered to him by personal friend for the
use of his wife. Eugene Hale has &C
cepted the appointments of Postmaster-Gen-
eral The Comptroller of the Currency
will Immediately CT | in the outstanding cur.
rency of the spended national banks,
| amounting to about 50, 000. 600, which viii be
given to applicants for charters from the
South and West under the provisions of the
new Currency law. This amount, the Comp
Ill
demands for the present. After the supply
is exhausted he will call in currency from
sections that have superabundaDce and
give it TO sections that are deficient in then
quota . Some 500 useless clerks have been
dismissed from the Departments since the adj
journment of Congress.
ALL the members of the Commission APP
pointed to manage District of Columbia af
fairs during the recess have accepted. ano
will immediately enter upon their duties
1t is again rumored that Secretary Fish viii
shortly retire from the Cabinet. MIR. Hale
the new Postmaster General. is the youngest
member of the Cabinet. being 49,. The
Comptroller of the Currency has issued a
circular calling upon all national banks tc
forward Immediately report, in the usua
form. of the condition of each bank as showr
by the books on Friday. June 26, 1874.
TUESDAY, June 80, was the end of the fsca
year in Washington, and the time set for The
curtailment of the clerical force in some Of
the departments. The heaviest discharge wa,
in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the
services of 375 female employees being dis
pensed with, leaving 1 200 persons still EN-
ployed in that bureau. The scene of dismiss
al was marked by sadness. Fourteen of those
discharged tainted when the announcement
was made to them, and physicians were called
to their assistance. Messrs. Blow, Denni-
son and Catell have entered upon their dutie,
as Commissioners for the temporary govern
ment of the District Of Columbia. The H.
ternal revenue receipts for the fiscal yea
ending June 80 we're Sl02. 365, SIT. -. Thu
President has taken up his summer residences
at Long Branch.
General.
THE international Convention of the Youns
Mems Christian Association was held at Day
ton Ohio, last week -. Telegraphic congratu
lations have passed between President Gran
and Dom Pedro. Emperor Of Brazil. upon thu
opening of communication by wire between
this country and that. and Europe.