Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-13
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENC
The East.

The East.
A fire g: Montpelier, Vt, last week, destroyed
S1l4000 worth of property.
The United States Hotel at Saratoga. y. V.
has been sold under foreclosure for $3.50. Co.,
Miss Ida Greeley eldest daughter of the late
Horace Greeley. was married in New York city,
last week, TO Col. Nicholas Smith, late of the
army.
Boston Las been raised 70 the dignity of a
metropolitan see in the Catholic Church. and
the title of Archbishop conferred upon Bishop
Williams, of that city. The ceremonies were
participated in by Cardinal McCloskey and the
Papal embassy.
-Four children were drowned in East river,
opposite New York, last week. by the capsizing
of scow.
A suit has been brought agains: the city of
Boston by the assignees in bankruptcy of the
estate of Mr.. Armstrong, whose store was
blown up to prevent the spread of the great
fire, to recover $4,000. the value of his stock
and unexpired lease. No one has been found
to acknowledge the responsibility for blowing
up the premises.
At an election of officers of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce recently, the ticket
headed by Hon. George Opdyke was defeated.
S. d. Babcock receiving 167 votes to 100 for
Opdyke. The annual dinner took place in the
evening. at which Hon. Fernando Wood made
the principal speech upon the future of the
metropolis. He spoke Of the necessity for
cilities, low tolls, quick transit, and diminished
taxation.
In the Tilton-Beecher trial. last week, the
court adjourned for three days, in order, it is
said, TO prevent Mrs. Woodruff giving in her
evidence. She hal been subpenaed by the
prosecution, but both sides feared her. and she
was not called. The trial viii probably end by
the middle of July.
Sturtevant, the fiend who some months ago
murdered two old men and their female house
keeper. at Plymouth, Mass, was hung on Fri
day, the 9TH inst.
In the Pennsylvania anthracite country the
awful reign OF idleness continues, and the
news from that region from day to day is
freighted with the horrors attendant upon sloth.
poverty, and passion. 1t is stated that the
owners of the larses. mines in the district have
deliberately flooded their property, thus adding
months 10 the period Of unproductiveness
which the scowing future procIainas.
The Vest.
killing frost visited various parts of the
Northwest on the I'd inst. doing considerable
damage to the wheat, and in some places en-
tirely killing the fruit buds.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, was visited by a SGO,O
confagration last week.
Two Of the robbers implicated in the robbery
of the train at Gad's Hill, TO-, last fall, have
been arrested. The ringleader escaped.
The concern started some weeks ago in In
dianapolis for the purpose of furnishing
ready-printed paper to weekly newspapers, and
known as the Indiana Newspaper Union, has
suspended.
John S. Coulter, an old Leayenworth (Kansas)
printer, recently committed suicide by taking
laudanum. He was Treasurer of the Typo
graphical Union, and for failure to properly
account for the moneys in his possession,
expelled from the Order, which so preyed upon
his mind that he concluded to emil his troubles
in death.
At game Of base bail in ST. Louis on Thurs
day last, between the White Stockings of Chi
cago, and the st. Louis club, the latter won by
score of 10 tot
During last winter notorious woman, named
Mollie Prescott, of st. Louis, hired the Temple
Hail. to deliver a lecture ON the .Social Evil
The owner of the hall, discovering her charac-
ter, refused the use of the premises and re-
funded the rent money. The woman brought
suit for 1000, and last week the court award
ed her SO and costs.
An act of heroic bravery was performed by
George H. Price, who had charge of the Adams
Express car which left Chicago ON the night of
the 9th inst, by the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne
railroad. Three masked robbers entered the
car near Lima, Ohio. The foremost
of the rufians pointed a pistol at
Prices head and demanded the keys
Of the safe. Almost at the same moment
he fired shot at the messengers head but the
latter had thrown up his left hand while reach
ing for his pistol with his right, and the bullet
struck him in the forearm, infiicting a small
wound and then, glancing, struck him in the
chin, also wounding him slightly in that spot.
The assailant repeated his demand for the keys.
and, not getting them, fred again before Price