Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-07
and coffee, and to advise no change in the tax

on whisky.
The Arkansas Investigating Committee ha
nearly concluded its labors, and the indica-
tions are that Representatives Poland and
Ward. of Illinois, will report in favor Of
Brooks, while other members. of the commit
tee will support the validity of the present
State government. So says Washington
dispatch.
The internal revenue receipts for Deem
Der we're about So 600, 900, being more than
a million over the corresponding month last
year.
Extensive changes in the Custom-Houss
Department are contemplated by Secretary
Bristow.
The owners Of the Wilson patent on sew
ing machines have powerful lobby in Wash
ington working for an extension Of the patent
for term of years.
IT lie announced from Washington that the
President does not intend to abandon the
Civil Service Reform.
Four hundred men and women have been
discharged from the Engraving and Printing
Bureau of the United States Treasury.
in consequence of large part of the work of
the bureau having been transferred to New
York.
The President, on the Goth ult., ordered
Gen. Sheridan to New Orleans, with instruc-
tons to take immediate command there in case
of emergency.
Political.
Lewis E. Parsons has been nominated for
United States District Judge of Alabama, vice
Richard Busted.
Mr.. Schurz denies that he has refused to
accept q return to the Senate from the Democ-
racy of Missouri, and denies that he expects
to be appointed Minister to Russia
Pinchback threatens, if be is not admitted
to a seat in the Senate, to return to Louisiana
and join hands with the White Leaguers-
Appointments by the President: II. G. Hol-
lister, Chief-Justice Of the Supreme Court of
Idaho John Clark Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Idaho; Levi Hubbell,
United States Attorney, Eastern District of
Wisconsin.
Congressman William D. Kelley denies that
he contemplates leaving the Republican party
Col. John Thompson, Republican, has been
elected to Congress in the Twenty-third dis
trict of Pennsylvania, to fill the unexpired
term Of Hon. E. McJuzkip, recently elected
to the bench.
Senators Schurz and Fenton say they voted
for the Finance bill not because they liked it's
provisions, but to strengthen the Republican
party throughout the country.
Every Republican Senator present voted
for Mr.. Carpenter for President pro tenn OF
the Senate. The Democrats supported Mr..
Thurman.
A New Orleans dispatch announces that the
Conservative Committee appointed to witness
the compiling Of the returns by the Returning
Board have withdrew from the Board and en-
tered a protest against its meetings. The
| committee certify that Mencure, Conserva-
tive, is elected State Treasurer, thst four
Conservatives and two Republicans are elected
to Congress, and II Conservatives and 81 Re
pubEcans to the Legislature.
General.
The loss Of the bark Amisy, from Phila-
delphia to Antwerp ia announced. Only
two Of the crew of twenty were saved.
Rev. J. NJ. Cooms, . Presbyterian minister
of Washington, committed suicide on Sun
dsy, Dec. 2S, while his congregation we're
waiting for him. He had been detected in
stealing books from q store, and could not
brook the threatened exposure. For some
time he had exhibited symptoms Of insanity.
Foreign.
John Bull has officially notified Brother
Jonathan Of his acceptance of the invitation
to participate in the Centennial.
Germany has ordered two men-of-war to
remain at Santander, Spain, and demand sat
isfaction Of the Carlists for their recent at
tack upon the German brig Gustave.
It turns out that the secret documents
which have gotten Won Arnim into 80 much
trouble related to the Papal election.
Two more railway collisions in England, re-
sulting in the death and injury Of several
persons.
HER Britannia Majesty's ship Basilisk has
Just returned to England after commission
Of nearly four years, and brings word that q
large archipelago of islands has been discov-
cred in the neighborhood of New Guinea, and
that two mountains in this region, each about
II, 900 feet high, have been named Mount
Gladstone and Mount Disraeli Twenty
miners were killed by a colliery explosion in
North Stafordshire, England, on the oath Of
December On the same day an express
train flew the track in Oxfordshire, and wa:
precipitated into canal, by which sixteer
} passengers were drowned and many wounded
The Giand Duke Nicholas, nephew of the
} Emperor of Russia, who was associated will
the diamond scandal Of few months ago
has been declared insane and placed Lade
the guardianship of his father, the Crane
Duke Consta ntine. "A telegram from Ma
, deira announces the burning Of the British
emigrant ship Cospatrick, while on her trip t.
: New York, Nov. II. Only three Of the GREY
3 escaped, and 465 lives are estimated to hav
been lost.
Capt.-Gen. Concha has issued orders t
3 officers commanding the Spanish troops il
D Cuba to act leniently toward captured or sur
rendered insurgents, but to execute all incen
Q diaries and filibusters who may be taken.
= FATAL ARRAY.
An Ex-Governor and an Editor Engag