Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-25
INTELLIGENCE.


AS the down morning express train on the
North railway was passing between Grafton and
Danbury, N. H.. one day last week, one of the
passengers, William l. Gordon, of Baton. VT,
shot himself in the head, dying instantly. He
was known to have been insane. On the same
rain passenger named Jesse Thayer, we'll
known merchant of Toronto, feeling faint at
the incident, went out ON the platform and fell
off. receiving fatal injuries.
According to a new law in Connecticut
prisoner may eject whether he will be tried by a
Judge and twelve jurymen or two Judges and
no jurymen.
Mr. Evarts bill. intended to permit Mrs. Til
ton to testify in the pending Beecher trial,
has been killed in the New York Legislature, the
Judiciary Committee having reported against 1t.
New York has decided that after Jan. 1, 1879
all obligations payable in that State must be
paid in gold,
The fishing schooner Sarah H. Greasy, of
Gloucester, left on halibut trip to the Grand
Bank upward of eleven weeks ago. and has
not since been heard FROM and in all probability
has been lost She had a crew of twelve men.
This makes the fourth vessel engaged in the
fishery from this port. lost in January, and Feb
ruary, with total loss of forty-tlree lives.
The Davis House. at Gloucester, Mass. has
been destroyed by FIRE. Much of the furniture
and personal effects of the boarders were burned,
and SO rapid was the spread of the flames that
the occupants of the building escaped with great
difficulty. Julia Kelley an employee, was taken
from the second story but was dead when
found or died soon after. The charred remains
of the bodies of Hector Skinner and c. Smith.
boarders, and Margaret Walton. an employee
were found in the ruins.
ASSAYS of the silver taken out of the mines at
Newburyport, Mass, prove it to be very. valu-
able, some of the ore yielding $4,000 to the ton.
The place is crowded with miners and capital
lists and when the snow is of excitement
equal to that of Washoe in its paimiest days
will be seen.
The devastation caused by the overflow of the
Susquehanna and sohuylkin rivers has been
general. The railroads have suffered greatly
by the interruption of travel caused by breaks
in their tracks, and by the demolition of bridges
and culverts, Factories of all descriptions have
lost heavily.
The Vest
The reports of gold in the Black Hills country
are vigorously denied by correspondent now
in The Hills.
Yankton has organized Black Hills trans
portation company.
A second woman's crusade has broken out In
Chicago.
A Chicago courtesan named Hannah Kelley.
who had been confined in the lookup for some
misdemeanor committed suicide by taking an
overdose of morphine. She left note in which
she stated that she had taken this step to
..beat Boyden (the Police Justice) out of fee. "
A powder explosion about five miles from
Cleveland last week gave that city very clear
idea of what good square earthquake is. The
conclusion WIS so great as to thoroughly alarm
the whole city, besides doing no inconsidersble
damage in the way of partial and complete de-
struction. Three men were killed.
The Illinois Senate has defeated a bill to re-
peal the existing license laws.
Anamendmet to the State Constitution of
Illinois has been offered in the Legislature
providing for the election Of Justices of the
Peace BIZ the people. taking from the Governor
tie power of appointing, as at present
Andrew Eener. tie leading spirit in the
Cincinnati tan-yari horror of last November, in