Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

twins which she smothered and Sc xed up in a
blanket, and then threw into the river
The woman is under arrest and has made
confession.
number of fishing smacks were wrecked ON
the east shore of Lake Michigan, near st.
Joseph, during the gale of the 10Th ult, and
several lives were lost.
The Chicago Times prints extensive reports
as to the condition of the wheat crop in In
diana and Ohio. As a whole the prospect is
the reverse of encouraging. The extreme cold
weather and the long-contnued drought have
injured both the spring and winter wheat con-
siderably, and short crop-probably not more
than one-half the usual quantity-is expected.
In few localities farmers hope to harvest an
average crop.
The embryonic grasshopper is having a seri-
Gus time in Minnesota. Numerous reports are
received going to show that the severe winter,
though bearing hard on the sufferers from last
years devastations of the pest, has at the same
time proved great blessing in that it has so
frozen up the myriads of eggs deposited by the
insects that power to terminate has been lost.
The South.
All the Southern cities are taking sanitary
preventive measures against the yellow fever.
The postofice at Carizoo. Texas, was recently
robbed and plundered by Mexican marauders,
and DIR. Lowell the Postmaster, killed.
DIR. John Bull, proprietor and maker of we'll
known patent medicines, by which he had
amassed very large fortune, died suddenly at
e II.
brain, few days ago.
Memorial services over the graves of the Con-
federate dead were held throughout the South
on April 26.
Memphis telegram states that planters are
complaining greatly of the unprecedented de-
struction of mules, herses, and cattle by the
buffalo gnats. 1t is estimated that within the
past ten days 800, 900 worth of stock has been
killed by them within radius of 100 miles
from that city, and the consequence has been a
heavy advance in the price of mules and horses.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has been adj
vised of an extensive system of illicit distilling
in South Carolina. Five hundred gallons of
Illicit whisky are sold openly per day in one
district. These sales made in public from
covered wagons, occupied by desperadoes, who
shoot down government officers who approach
their places of concealment. Two Deputy Col
lectcrs were shot down last week while attempt
ing to make arrests.
The Common Council of Baltimore have
passed law prohibiting foftune-tellers from
plying their vocation in that city.
BY the burning of the residence of Mrs. Lucy
Bakewell at Shelbyville. KY. last week, the
valuable library of the great naturalist, Audu-
bon. was totally destroyed.
The Southern railroads are still engaged in
their war for Eastern travel and the rate from
New Orleans to New York is now S35-s15 less
thar former rates. The rates to Baltimore,
Washington and Philadelphia have been re-
droed similar amount.
Gov. Kellogg. of Louisiana, has commenced
suit against Charles Clinton. Auditor of the
State. and the securities III his special bond for
about 34750 900 withheld and unaccounted for
By him.
The city Of Nashville Tenn, was the other
day the scene of a most blood-curdling tragedy.
negro named Joe Reed shot and instantly
killed Policeman Robert Frazier, while in the
execution of his duty as an officer. The murd-
erer was arrested and taken to jail but SO in
censed were the citizens at the unprovoked
murder that they marched on the Jail and broke
into Reeds cell. He was seized. rope fastened
around his neck, and hgrried to the suspension
bridge, from which he was thrown. with the
intention of hanging, but the rope breaking,
he fell to the rocks beneath, ninety feet, and
from thence into the river. He was shot once
on the way and again at the bottom.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has made an
entiley new classification of the Collectors
Districts. They are arranged in seven divi-
sions. Alton, Quincy and st. Louis, of West
cru cities, are in the third division; Omaha,
waukee, and the Eastern lake ports are in the
sixth division.
The Washington people think that the visit
of the Papal ENJOYS here may have some con-
nection with the selection of suitable location
for the Holy See, and that if the Pope should
ever leave Italy he will locate in that city.
The Internal Revenue Bureau is making ar
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bond Of Frederick A. Sawyer, late Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, ex-United States
Senator, and formerly Collector of Internal
Revenue in South Carolina.
The Mexican raids into Texas was the sub
ject OF discussion at Cabinet meeting the
other day. No formal conclusion was reached.
but it is understood that note of protest will
soon be prepared and presented to the Mexican
government
The internal revenue receipts for the month
of April were 81, 022, 331; for the four months
since the LIST of January, $50, 4S5, 421; and for
the fiscal year to May 1, $50, 1851.
The customs receipts for the month of April
were, in round numbers, s13. 25O, 900 in coin
and s90, 0cO in currency. For the four months
since Jan. l. 1875 the receipts were $751; I43. $50
in coin and $751; O1 in currency. The total
customs receipts for the fiscal year to Nav
were, in round numbers, 1888, 725, 900.
Both houses of the Louisiana Legislature
have adjourned. In the Senate the resolution