Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-02-22

Independent treasury office. by transmitting to
the Treasurer of the United States certificate
stating that the sum of II, 600 has been placed
to his credit in the general account, will receive
direct from some mint of the United States free
of expense. like amount of subsidiary silver
coin. Winslow. indicted for the larceny of the
SD. 200 package from the Treasury Department.
has been sentenced To eighteen months inn
prisOnment in the Albany Penitentiary
Ii Is understood that the Army Board of
which Gen Schofield is President. has reported
new regulations for the army, the result of
of the War Department in Washington staff
officers to the General of the Army The
President last week approved the act of Con-
gress providing for deficiency in the appropri-
alton for public printing and binding. The bill
Ontains a provision that compositors in the
Government Printing Office shall hereafter re-
ceIve only 81 cents per 1000 ems for setting
type. This provision has caused considerable
excitement among those employed i'm the Gov
eminent Printing Office and Several delega-
tions waited upon the President urging him To
veto the bill.
\ WAsHINGroS dispatch to the Chicago Ti-ib-
u'e says: president Grant, in speaking Of
the political status of South Carolina and
Louisiana, said that the cases were extremely
dissimilar. and could hardly be treated under
one general line of action. In South Carolina
the contest had assumed such phase that the
whole army of the United States would be in
adequate To enforce the authority of Gov.
Chamberlain that the people of the State had
resolved to resort to violence. but adopted a
mode of resistance much more effective than
armed demonstration. They had refused to pay
their State taxes. and il would be useless to sell
their property. a no one would buy il. Unless
Chamberlain could compel the collection of taxes,
il would be utterly useless for him 10 expect To
m hls artbor1fy fnr lap,rtl -
This state of affairs must inevitably result in
the abandonment of all efforts by Chamberlain
to maintain himself in the exercise Of the guber-
material functions of South Carolina. In re-
gard to Louisiana the President will not under
take to decide as between Messrs. Packard and
Nichols
FOREIGN.
II Japan. great public interest has been ex-
cited, but no dangerous feeling, by the extraor-
binary measures of reduction Of taxation. The
amount of relief to land owners is SIC, 600, 900
per year. To meet this reduction expenditures
are cut down in every department. and great
number of minor officials dismissed
CAPTAIS-GENERAL CANPos, of Cuba, has in
ban instruction win be suppressed by May.
RUDOLF MEYER, of Berlin, editor of the
Socialist newspaper, has been sentenced to nine
months imprisonment for publishing a libel ON
Prince Bismarck, charging him with stock
jobbing. The Turkish army is reported to be
in a dreadful state on account of the INSULT
cheney of hospital accommodations.
the lack of medical supplies, etc Dysentery
and typhoid fever spreading rapidly 4.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil has Just paid
a visit to the Pope. Statistical returns Of the
product of the vines in France for the wear
1876 show that the vintage has fallen of ex-
aofl hal t,ff
was caused by the ravages of the phylloxera.
....A terrible explosion lately occurred in the
coal mime at Graiscessac, France, killing fifty
five miners.
GEN. CHASGARSIER,; who at one time during
the Franco-Prussian war commanded the main
French army, is dead. d. :. Germany has irrevoca-
lily determined to take no part in the arts Ex-
hibition. The news from Europe grows more
and more warlike. the Russians having concen-
trated about 100000 men and 42S guns at
kishene1, short distance from Odessa, and
only a few miles from the historic Pruth which
separates them from the Roumanians, with
whom treaty has recently been made that
will allow the Russian passage across Moldavia
and Wallachia TO the Danube. Austria will Of
fer no objection to her crossing the Danube on
the Servian frontier, which IAN be easily done,
and will so place her that she can turn the
Balkans and invade Turkey without being com
PEELED to overcome the tremendous natural OBJ
stacles Of the Danube and the Balkan passes
A LONDON dispatch of Feb. 10, says: 1.-The
man-of-war yalorous returned to Yarmouth Sun
day, after weeks search for the missing fisher
men, which was unsuccessful Twenty-Five
vessels and $50 hands given up as lost y
-. The announcement comes from Rome that
ii has been resolved that any Cardinal nv be
elected Pope ON the death of Plus TX, irrespec-
tive of nationality. This leaves the door open
10 the American Cardinal McClosky =. A cable
dispatch reports that Capt. Whitehill an engi-
neer in the Khedive's service, and fifty sol
diers, who were on an exploring expedition in
Abyssinia, have been massacred by the natives.