Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-03-01
huysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton and
GENERAL.

huysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton and
Strong.
GENERAL.
RECENT deaths: Judge II. W. Williams. OF
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judge Rob
ert Flint, the Oldest member of the Fond du
Lac OWLS bar.
A HORRIBLE story of suffering. starvation and
cannibalism at sea is related in letter received
at Boston from Capt. Kane, of the schooner f.
E. Mcdonald. dated on the west coast OF AZ
rica. Capt Kane relates that on his outward
voyage from Boston he fell in with
the wreck If the British bark Marie.
having on board two survivors of the
crew of fourteen men, the others having
persisted from exposure and famine. The two
men were taken on board the schooner, but one
died within four hours. From the sole survivor
it was ascertained that the bark was bound from
Doboy, Ga, to Belfast, Ireland that she
sprung aleak in gale and filled with water so
IT was impossible to save any provisions or fresh
water. They soon began to die of starvation,
and as soon as one died the rest subsisted
upon the dead BODY, and so ON, until
only two were left The survivor, James Nc
Laughlin, belongs to Belfast, ireland, and says
that only small portions of the bodies could he
tattA. 4NO Ont was Dul tlt lipititut Ont
died the survivors cut the throat of deceased
and drank the blood, and then divided the heart
and brains. 1t was thirty-twO days from the
time of the disaster until the wreck was sighted,
and during all this time the crew had not a
drop of water or other food than the bodies of
their dead shipmates.
The whole Government machinery of Nova
Scotia has been wiped out of existence by the
discovery that the great seal of the province in
use was the one rendered worthless by the
Queens command nine years ago. 1t has been
therefore decided that all legislation, money
grants, marriage licenses, and in fact every
thing done by Government authority, since
1868, was null and void. Imperial legislation is
necessary to set the matter right, and the Hail.
fax people are naturally full Of excitement.
Gen. Andrew Denison, Postmaster at Balti-
more for eight years, was found dead in his
bed few mornings since. The notorious Gen.
Cortinas has been ARE ted at Matimoras. Mexico,
and placed in the military prison. Ii is believed
that he viii be cOurt-martialed and shot for not
obeying the order Of President Diaz to present
himself at the City of Mexico to answer for his
conduct on the frontier for the past ten months.
-. The Presidential election in Mexido has
resulted in the success Of Diaz.
WASHINGTON.
The Washington Capital of Sunday. Feb. Is,
contained fiery article upon the decision of
the Electoral Tribunal. in which the following
to power can ride in safety from the Executive
Mansion to the Capitol to be inaugurated, we
are fitted for the slavery that will follow the in
auguration. We do not believe the people Of
the United States are of this scrvile sort. We
do not believe that they are prepared
without blow, to part with their
hard-earned, blood-stained possessions. No
tice is now served on the citizens of LouiSi-
ana and South Carolina that they must care
for themselves. How soon lamp-posts will bear
fruit is for them to say. To the people of the
North and West notice Is given that bondhold-
ers and monopolies may fatten securely. That
a shrinkage Of values is now in order III there
Is law for fraud, there is reason for violence,
and to that we make our last appeal" The ap-
pearance Of this article was the subject of a
Cabinet meeting the following day. at which it
was determined to prosecute Don Piatt, the
editor Of the Capital for sedition, and libel
upon the President.
Two REAR ADMIRAIs in the United States
y-Goldsborough and Davis-died at
Washington last week.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that until Congress amends the Pacific Railroad
laws, or enacts further legislation, he has no
option but to apply the whole amount of the
earnings for mail transportation Of the several
Pacific railroads and their branches 10 the lqui-
dation of the interest account of these roads,
notwithstanding the Supreme Court
has decided that these roads are entitled To
one-haf of such earnings. =. In obedience to a
call from the Election Committee of the Sen
ate, the Secretary Of the State of Louisiana has
delivered to that committee the returns from
the twenty-five challenged parishes Of Louisi-
ana.
The President has nominated James A.
Williamson, OF Iowa, Commissioner of the Dis
trict of Columbia in place of James II. Ketchum,
resigned.
ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch says: Russia has
SOC, 900 men, or two-fifths Of the army, orga-
nized. About half are on the frontiers, ready
to begin operations; a CONSTANT mt
May instruction, have been sentenced each
to twenty years penal servitude. The same
dispatch also announces that Chevkel Pasha,
the author Of the Bulgarian atrocities, has been
appointed to the command Of a corps in the
Turkish army. The peace negotiations be-
tween Turkey, Seryia, and Montenegro are pro-
crossing favorably.
lively working in Persia to induce the Shah TO
join them in the event OF a war. The induce
ment offered is the possession of disputed from
tier territory. The Shah does not appear alto
gether averse to the plan. A cable dispatch
states that thirty vessels, many Of them with
their entire crews, were lost in the gale on the
English coast during the night Of Feb. 10,
EMPEROR WILLIAM, in opening the German
Parliament, the other day, expressed the opin-
ion that the peace Of Europe will not be broken
in of the "a
basing that opinion upon the belief that the
united demands of the powers upon Turkey for
guarantees Of reform will be complied with by
the Porte, and war thus averted- His Maj
esty, however, took occasion to add
the significant remark that his
Government will continue To exercis, it's in
fnence in behalf of the Christians i'm Turkey,
and of the preservation of the peace Of Europe,
but, "above all things, strengthening its own
good relations with the Governments allied or
otherwise friendly to it,. Turkey has or
dered large number Of reyolyers from the
United States.
ELECTION disturbances have broken out in
various districts in Servia, owing, it is said to
intrigues against Prince Milan. Troops have
been sent To the scenes of trouble Roumania
will disband her reserves at once, a. no danger
il apprehended from Russia, that power, even
in the event of war, desiring only the privilege
of passing its forces through the former state.
THREE ships, with all hands, are reported
lost at sultana, Spain. The Persian Minister
has communicated to the Sultan a dispatch
from the Shah explaining that the assemblages
Of troops on the Turkish frontiers are solely
meant to prevent the depredations Of nomadic
tribe. These assemblages have been ordered
to cease. 1t is stated in wel-informed circles
that the Gar will certainly await the powers
reply to Prince Gortschakoffs circular before
attacking Turkey.
THE ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL.