Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-26
Political.

GFN. BUTLER Is preparing, ana Will shortly
introduce in the House, bill abolishing the
test or ron-clad oath. 1t will no doubt pass
both houses of Congress.
PHILADELPHIA has decided, by large majos-
ity. that her present Mayor, William S. Stokely,
is good enough for her Centennial Mayor. Mr..
Stokely is Republican. The Republicans have
| elected their Mayor in Easton, Pa. Reading,
Altoona, Allentown, Willismsport and Wilkes
barre elect Democratic Mayors, as well as SYRIA
cuse, n. I.
THE Republicans have elected their NUM-
cipal tickets in Pittsburgh, Allegheny City,
and Harrisburg, Pa. a large mass meeting
of citizens opposed to the Kellogg Govern
ment was held in New Orleans the other
day.
The Grange.
| THE National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry, after session at st. Louis of
nine days, has adjourned to meet at Charles
ton. s. c.. in February, 1875. The delibera-
| tons of the body have been mostly secret,
| but the decisions arrived at, so far as they
affect the public character of the Order.
| have been given to the press. most con-
| sentative spirit seems to have animated the
| delegates, and the work accomplished has
been in the main unobjectionable. The pro-
ceedings have been marked by harmony and
good feeling throughout. The National
| Grange, just before it's adjournment, excom-
municated the Boston Grange. 1t was de-
| cided to instruct all it's subordinate oranges to
| give the Boston intruders no fraternal recog-
milton whatever. The Boston Grange is to be
required to give up its dspensation and ritual.
| The plea of the Bostonians that they were
interested" in agricultural has not availe1
them. owing to Grand Master Adams cruel
Interpretation that their interest was the ''in-
terest of the hawk in the sparrow" Some
surprise is expressed that the body should adj
| journ without any utterance on the cheap
| TRANSPORTATION question. The subject was not
| introduced into the deliberations until the
| last hours of its proceedings, and it was
| then postponed until the next annual meet
| ing. on the ground that the recommendations
| of the Committee ON Transportation were too
| specific.
| THE first annual meeting of the Ohio State
| Grange was held at Xenia last week. Five
hundred and fifty delegates, all Masters of
oranges were present. The Secretary re-
| ported that $50 of the 600 oranges in the State
| had been organized since last April. The or
der is in most fiourishing condition through
out the State, and is rapidly growing.
THE Kansas State Grange was in session at
Topeka last week, 600 delegates being in at
tendance. The reports of the Executive Com
mittee, Business Agent, and officers show the
affairs of the order to be in an excellent con-
dition, and the financial interests to have been
economically managed. The order is increas
ing more rapidly than at any previous time.
The membership in the State numbers 80, 600.
The State Grange of Missouri, held at
Boonville, last week, was one of the largest
conventions that ever assembled in the State.
Delegates from over LOGO oranges were in at
tendance, representing membership largely
over 100, 900. The meeting was characterized
by the utmost harmony and good feeling
among the delegates.
The Tennessee State Grange has just had
an interesting and harmonious session at Gal
latan. Nearly 500 subordinate oranges were
represented, there being between 500 and 600
delegates present, many ladies being dele
gates.
General.
As result of the competition between the
several through lines of railway between New
York and Chicago, the rate per cent fpr hogs
has been reduced from 20 cents to 40 cents. -.
The bark Punchinello, from New York for
Bristol. was recently wrecked on the Irish
coast. Twelve of her crew persisted.
THE pork-worm, trichina spiralis, is again
getting into the muscles and heads of people
in different parts of the country, creating no
little CONSERVATION, and making business for
the undsrtakers. Several cases are reported
in Chicago and suburbs. and hog meat is a
drug in the markets of that city.
Foreign.
HAVANA advices report serious riotng in the
streets of the city on account of the dissatis-
faction of the people at the Spanish volunteers
being kept there instead of sending them to the
field Two encounters between the Spaniards
and Cubans are reported. in which the latter
were victorious. The cholera is raging in
Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
THE extensive establishment known as
Taylor's Pantechlacon and Carriage Reposi-
tory, in Belgravia, was recently destroyed by
fire. Loss about S15, 900. The deaths
of Cardinal Tarquini and Mrs. James An
thony Froude are announced by cable The
Gar of Russia will shortly pay visit to
Queen Victoria.
THE Gar of Russia, at dinner given in
honor of his royal visitors from Austria and
England the other evening. declared, in eff
feet, that Russia. England, Prussia and Aus
tria had entered into an alliance to preserve
1.-The peace of the world" The Emperor Cf
Austria subsequently Endorsed the declara-
ton. Ireland elects ffty-one Home Rulers
10 the new 1dT18meut. - uo eOutucdstcTH
portion of Europe has been experiencing Sc
! we're gales, and many disasters by land and
sea are reported.
KING LUNALILo, of the Sandwich Islands, is
dead 1t is announced from London that
DIR. Beke, the great English explorer, has
found the true Mount Sinai, in Arabia, at an
attitude of 5000 feet above the sea level. -.
The final result of the British Parliamentary
elections is summed up as follows: Conserva-
tives returned ISL Liberals and Home
Rulers, 302. OF these 466 were elected after
a contest. The total number of votes pelled
in the United Kingdom and Ireland was ., 500,-
600. Ireland returns Is Liberals, 80 Con-
servatives, and So Home-Rulers. Gladstone
has resigned, and Disraeli has been ordered
by the Queen to form a new Ministry.
Spanish accounts from Cuba give reports of
battle, in which 5000 Spaniards defeated and
put to fight, after eight hours fighting and a
loss of only 154 men, a column of 5000 pa
triots.
A LONDON telegram announces the death of
Sir Francis Petit Smith, the inventor of the
screw propeller. :. The delegate from Alsace
in the German Parliament made a speech in
that body the other day, violently assailipg
the Government for its outrageous act in forci-
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