Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-03-21
News Of the Week Condensed.

Miss. Ada Sweet has been reap
pointed as pension agent at Chicago.
The Peabody Hotel at Memphis.
Tenn. was partially destroyed by
fire Sunday morning.
Persons in Washington, who seem
to know, predict the greatest In
dian war next summer that we ever
had.
President Hayes received tele-
gram Monday, announcing the release
of Gen. Anderson from prison, at New
Orleans.
1t is estimated that n persons
starve to death in England every
year, while 900 die annually from the
excess in eating.
Hon. A. G.. Porter took the oath OF
office and entered upon his duties as
Comptroller Of the Treasury, on
Tuesday of last week.
The President has refused to re-
nominate Harrison, of this State, as
a member of the Board of Directors
OF the Union Pacific Railway.
A bill is before Congress providing
for the abolition of all pension agen-
cies, and the payment Of pensions
directly by the Treasurer OF the
United States.
"A dispatch from Vienna, dated
March Goth, says that the dead lock
between Russia and England, with
regard to the treaty in the coming
Congress, is comblete.
A. Willard, managing editor of the
Chicago Post, died at the Palmer
House, Chicago, Sunday morning.
Mr.. Willard had been connected with
the Chicago press for about seven
years.
Bills have been Introduce in both
Houses Of Congress to locate the
new mint at indianapolis. Several
other places are working to get it,
and it is hard to guess which will
succeed.
The snow storm which began
March the 7th; was the heaviest ex.
perienced in the Black Hills country
since its settlement by white men.
All fears of scarsity OF water for
mining purposes in the Hills the COM
ing season are dispClled.
The Chancellor of Kentucky has
decided against the validity OF Utah
divorces. One OF the party asking
for a divorce was a former Chief
Justice of the APPELLATE Court OF Ken
lucky. A Circuit Court in Indiana
was the first to decide those divorces
illegal, and the courts OF other States
are generally following the precedent
established.
The jury in the case OF the City of
Chicago VS.. the bondsmen of ex- City
Treasurer David A. Gage, for defal-
cation, in 1874, returned a verdict for
the city, for the amount OF the origi-
nal deficiency, s5O7. 703, without inter-
est, and s1,OO0,OOO penalty. The
bondsmen are among the prominent
off in, A
new trial was entered by defendants.
The body of Albert Whitaker, who
mysteriously disappeared from Dun
kirk, Ind, fourteen years ago, and
who was supposed murdered. was
found Saturday, five miles northwest
OF Dunkirk, by Joseph Hudson, while
digging a ditch in a cranberry
marsh. One boot, the flesh OF one
hand, and enough Of his clothing
were left to identity the body. A
Coroner's inquest will be held.
The Paris correspondent of the
New York Tribune believes that the
political situation in France is more
complicated now than at any time
since the 10th OF May last year.
The union between the clergy, the
army, the Right" OF the Senate, and
the arti-Republican masses OF the
people indicates that mischief is
brewing. In the army violent Impe-
rialists have been placed in important
commands, and the soldiers have
been encouraged in feeling hostile
to the Republic. In the plot against
the government, IL there is such, the
army is expected to play an important
part.