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

THE Louisiana and Missouri River
extending from Jefferson City
to Louisiana, No., was recently sold I'M
der the Sheriff's hammer for $3.50.
THE silver inkstanl which supplied
with ink the pens of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, will be
placed on exhibition in Independence
Hall, at the Centennial. 1t is now in
the possession of Gov. Hartranft, of
Pennsylvania.
GREAT preparations are making by
the people of Boston and vicinity to
q" celebrate the one hundredth ami
versary of the Battle of Bunker Hill ON
City Council has voted to appropriate
$50, 900 for the occasion.
Oshkosh, Wis, has been singularly
unfortunate in regard to confiagrations.
No longer ago than July, 1874, that city
suffered the destruction of 600 houses,
with loss of about $500, 900, and now
another fire has swept away nearly the
entire business part of the town, involv-
ing loss of some s2,Oo0,O 900.
The appointment of Judge Pierrepont
to succeed Acknowledgement Williams
gives New York two places IN the Cabi-
net, and may cause some of the politi-
clans to grJmble. The example has a
precedent, however, in the present adj
ministration, when tie President had
judges Hoar and Boutwell, in his Cabi-
net. from Massachusetts,.
MEssRs. SHACK-NAsTY JIM, Scar-Faced
Charley, and other distinguished Modoc
gentlemen have returned to their homes
at Baxter Springs, Fan, after an extern
sive tour of the country. They were at
tached TO the troupe of Col. Meacham
and Capt. Apologize, but as the show
proved financial failure, the troupe has
been disbanded and the savages relegated
to the obscllrity of the Western wilds.
So-E portions of the middle and..north-
e-n section of Iowa are infested with
illicit distillers, some of whom do land
office business. One of them was re-
Gently arrested in Delaware county. He
had & pretty little still built In the shape
of q kettle, which he kept upon the
stove. but which had the capacity of
turning oct red-eye at the rate of five
gallons day.
The investigation of the management
OF the Michigan State Penitentiary has
concluded. The committee reports that
the punishments have been oftentimes
unnecessarily severe, being often, also,
inflicted in anger, They apparently re-
gard some change necessary for the we'll
being of the convicts, but make no
recommendations, leaving the Legisla-
ture to act upon the facts presented with
out bias.
Mr.. HENRY G. Bowen has published
q card IN which he virtually defies either
Beecher or Tilton to call him as a wit
ness. He says that he would, if called,
make some very serious statements af-
fecting some of the parties interested in
the trial. He does not state who his
evidence would hit. He charges that
there has been vast amount of perjury
and lying, but he is discreetly silent as
to the guilty parties.
PRoF. TAYLOR, of the Agricultural
Bureau, advises the Western farmers to
get rid of the grasshoppers by eating
them They are largely consumed IN
the East, and the Indians of our plains
fad them excellent eating. Gen. Sher-
man has tried them, and says they are by
no means to be despised. There is
Scripture precedent for putting the pests
to this use. John the Baptist lived on
them, with the addition of little honey.
PRESIDENT GRANT, it is said, does not
anticipate any trouble with Mexico ON
account of the border outrages, but
thinks that the matter can be arranged
by means of diplomatic
protest and the detail of troops to CO.
operate with the Texas authorities in
the Greaser incursions. |
THERE'S manifested in Washington dis +
position to discourage ali expectation. of (
, war with Mexico.
Cows. SMITH, of Georgia, and Porter,
Of Tennessee. are engaged in q little
gnhe of tit-for-tat that is scarcely worthy
Of school-boys. Some time ago the
no..o.-~<,~ ~ofxxoo1 ~ <x,,ox,{ a /