Marshall County Republican., 1878-03-21
General News.

T California refuses to permit womer
e to practice law.
. Peach trees are in bloom in the
Southern States.
Snow is five and half feet deep at
/, Rocky Bar, Idaho.
In Cuba the rebellion ends, after a
+ nine years struggle, in the emanoipa-
= ton of the slav, S.
3 There is a paper in Kentucky, the
: Mt. Sterling Ne'cs, that favors sending
, women to Congress.
The President has signed the bill
allowing a pension to all soldiers and
sailors of the war of 1912. and it is
now law.
Stanley says he saw chief in AZ
rica who had three wives, and it only
cost him three cents a year to dress
each OF them in the height of African
fashion.
The United States Senate Commit
tee on Territories recommended the
adoption of bill creating the Black
Hill country into a separate Terri
tory, to be called the Territory OF
Lincoln.
Up to this time the crop intelli-
gence from this State and all parts OF
the west. was never more favorable.
Wheat promises an abundant harvest,
and fruit OF all kinds is uniniured.
or course these things may undergo
a change, but the above is the out
look at present.
The record OF navigation on the
Upper Mississippi runs back to 1874.
and in all the intervening years it
has never been open so early in the
spring as now. On the 9Th inst. the
ice had entirely disappeared from
Lake Pepin, and the river was open
from st. Paul to the gulf
General Sheridan, having discov-
cred that the license granted to ply
sicians. in Indian Territory. has been
abused, and made the cloak for pro-
miscuous sale OF liquors to the In
dians, has revoked the license OF
every man authorized to sell liquors
on the prescription OF physician.
The authorities in Jamaica are es-
tablishing free schools wherein chill
dren. regardless of age, are to be edu-
Gated. When the slaves were manu-
mitted many years ago, no provision
was made for their education, and re-
suits were not as satisfactory as an
ticipated. The authorities have just
realized where the trouble was.
A new Church has been organized
in Brooklyn, n. T., which allows no
article OF faith but the Holy Scrip
lures, without note or comment. The
preacher is not to be allowed stated
salary, being considered unworthy to
preach unless he can trust Christ for
his pay. The selling or renting of
church seats is counted sin against
God
A sister of Geade was sometime
since discharged from the Interior
Department by Secretary Schurz.
She was sixty five years old, and the |
Secretary claimed was not compe- |
tent. Secretary McCrary has given
her clerkship in the War Depart
ment, and she is doing the work FORM
erly formerly done by a man, and do
ing it well.
An Ohio court has just granted a
mans petition for divorce from his
wife on the ground of her habitual
drunkenness, the intoxication arising
from the excessive use OF morphine.
The court held that it makes no diff
ference in law whether the intoxica-
ton proceeds from the use of strong
drink or from narcotics. This is
probably the first case OF the kind on
record.
There are now in the Massachu-
setts Women's Prison $50 female con-
victs, the ages ranging from sixteen
TO sixty eight years. In the nursery
attached there are forty-three tabies.
forteen of whom were born In the
prison. The convicts are guarded,
controlled, and managed by women,
and as reformatory institution it is
making good record.
A newspaper man has explored
Sour Lake, in Texas. 1t is circular,
boiling pond filled with water sour as
crab apple, and surrounded by wells
that send up various notifications of
the lake water, mixed with fair
quantity of gas. The correspondent
thinks that that il chemist ranked
as high as a tobacco squirting cow
boy in Texas, Sour Lake might be
utilized.
The committee on civil-service re-
form have concluded the investiga-
tion into the alleged Irregularities of
Doorkeeper Polk. and will prepare
their report in few days, which it is
will recommend his dis
missal. Polk is charged with having
placed men on the rolls without au-
thority OF law, making it necessary to
$4,000 to pay them, and
with having placed able bodied con-
federates on the soldiers rolls.
King Humbert opened the italian I
Parliament at Rome, March z, and I