Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-01
News of the Week Condensed.


All the powers except the porte have
ratified the treaty of Berlin.
Bassarabia will be formally surrendered
to the Russians in August.
There is a prospect of another famine
in Ireland through the failure of the po-
tato crop.
Eighty cases Of yellow fever and thirty
three deaths have occurred at New Or
leans.
General Grant is travelling in Norway,
and is everywhere received with the great
est enthusiasm.
1t is stated that Newgate prison, Lon
don, is to be abolished and the ground be
let for a building site.
Kearney, the communist agitator. ar
rived in Boston last Sunday. He left San
Francisco the previous Sunday.
The general freight agent Monday
raised the rate on fourth class freight from
Chicago to New York % cents per 1OC
pounds.
United States Minister Noyes sailed
Saturday from New York for France, in
the steamer "City of Richmond. Mr..
Noyes is accompanied by his son.
A case of yellow fever is reported at
Cincinnati The circumstances attending
tho caoa ara ,1aoul;ar and Tho caana n, ,be
hotel where it became known was one OF
panic.
Saturday night band of so-called regu-
lators, in Robertson county, KY, thirty
in number, visited the house of John
Dayton, respectable farmer, and killed
him, and also burned the house ofsthe
town marshall at Mount Olivet.
General Garfield was attacked By verti-
go while bathing In the surf at Atlantic
City, on Friday, and had narrow escape
from being drowned. He was rescued
from the water by Representative niscok
and Sergeant-at- Aams Rainey.
/ The South Carolina revenue officer who
killed Amos Ladd is to be taken out OF
custody on hGbeds corpus, and the Federal
court is to settle the matter according to
instructions by the President. Secretary
Evarts, and Attorney General Devens.
There was heavy rain in Chicago last
Thursday night Over four inches of wa
ter fell, and considerable damage was done
on account of flooded Easements. The rain
in Quincy was the heaviest ever known.
The damage to streets. il is supposed, will
amount to $4,000.
A pretended John b. Cough has been
lecturing in Missouri and Mississippi. He
is fluent speaker and satisfied the audi
ences. At first he avoided towns in which
Cough had lectured, but growing bold, he
went 10 one of Coughs old stands and
was exposed.
]. H. Mcvicker, for many years propri-
etor of McVicker's theatre in Chicago,
filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy,
Monday. Liabilities, $65000O, of this
amount 100000 is judgement againts
him as bondsman of David "A. Gage, ex.
city treasurer, who aefaulted in large
amount in 1874.
Last Monday night party Of masked
men forcibly took four negroes from the
Jail, at Monroe, Louisiana, and hung them.
They had been tried for numbering a
white man in an affray sometime since
and one of them sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life, and the others remanded for
a new trial
Parties from the Silver Lake Mennon-
lite settlement, forty miles north from
Yankton, Dakota Territory, bring intelli-
gence of a cloud burst in that region on
Monday, by which large portion of the
country was submerged and seven persons
drowned. The west branch of the Yer
million river, ordinarily about two rods