Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
THE PAST WEEK.
EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.

EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.
A DISCOURAGED EDrToR.-W. F.
Conant, one of the editors of the Grand
Rapids (Mich-) -Erening Ne,0s, suddenly
disappeared the other day, leaving his
affairs in an unsettled condition"
whatever that means. He subsequently
wrote back to his partner that he was
discouraged" and kindly bequeathed
his interest in the Ecenirag Ne,cs to him.
A VIRGINIA HERoINE.-The other day
colored man went to the house of
negress in Fauquier county, Va, and
made murderous attack upon the latter's
children with hatchet, cutting and
slashing them terribly. The woman re-
sisted, and fought linn from the house to
straw rick near by. where it was ended
by her splitting his head open with an
az. and striking him dead at her feet.
The INCREASED TAx-The Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue rules that,
when cistern contains spirits produced
before and after midnight of the 81 of
March, the burden of proof rests on
the distiller TO show the precise quantity
distilled ON the 3D. Unless satisfactory
evidence be given TO the Collector of the
quantity so produced, the whole contents
must be stamped at ninety cents, and the
distiller left to his claim for refunder.
DEKovEN Recommendations has q
hard time IL getting an Episcopal Bishop.
The diocese some months ago chose Rev.
DIR. Seymour, but he was rejected by the
House of Deputies, who regarded him as
kind of hereto, whom it would be fatal
to the church to charge with the respon-
sibility of a diocese. Again the Diocesan
Convention met, and preference was ex-
pressed for the Rev James DeKoven, of
Racine wis College, and for thesecond
time has their choice been denied, the
Executive Committees OK the several
States having failed to confirm his cleo
tion.
MORE TROUBLE ON THE TEXAS BORDER.
The Mexican thieves are working up
another excitement In Texas, and inviting
a consideration of the expediency of ex-
tending our frontier beyond the Rio
Grande II is claimed that the noun
tains are the natural boundary between
the two countries, and that there never
will be an end of cattle-stealing raids
until they are made the barriers to transit
from the Mexican side. The advocates
of further annexation by purchase or con-
quest find In these murderous forays into
Texas fresh arguments for the scheme of
acquisition.
THE CHRISTOPHER SUFFERERs.-A
serious complication has arisen In the
matter of distributing supplies to the
grasshopper sufferers in Kansas. Under
the recent act of Congress, General Pope
commenced to make distributions to
county officers in bulk at the several
military posts in the State, and he is now
instructed that the rations must be issued
by military officers direct TO individuals.
This is practically impossible, as the
destitute are scattered over all TIE west
ern and southern portions of the State,
many of them hundred miles from a
military post.
THE BOUNTY BLL.-The President did
not, as has been stated, veto the bill for
the equalization of bounties, except in
Withholding his signature. He had,
however, prepared the draft of mes
sage, in pencil, but it was thrown aside
without being copied for transmission to
the House, where the bill originated.
The draft is as follows:
House bill No. is herewith returned
without my approval, for reasons:
-. l. That it appropriates from the treasury a
large sum of money ct time when the revenue
Ii insufficient for current wants
80 do not believe that any considerable pcr-
ton of the ex-soldiers who it is supposed, will
be beneficiaries of this appropriation. are APP
plicants for it. but rather that it would be a
measure for the relief of claim agents and mid
dlemen who intervene or would intervene to coll
lect on discount the bounties granted by it"
The YORK-PoNIERoY BRIBE MONEY
The famous seven thousand dolllr pack
age of greenbacks which figured SO
prominently IN the York Pomeroy ex-
posrre In Kansas, two years ago last
January, and which has since been a
constant bone of contention, has been
finally disposed of, the Acknowledgement
of Kansas having decided that the State
l1.l NJ, or fffln &c, tho ,,,ornor- nd