Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-15
News of the Week Condensed.

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State convention, decided it inexpedient
to make nominations fer State officers.
The English Radicals of Southwark. it
is stated, propose to raise the question of
woman suffrage by nominating Miss
Helen Taylor for Parliament.
A convention is to be held in Memphis,
sometime during the month of November,
to consider the question of retaining the
low;ands of the Mississippi valley.
The woman suffragists gain a point in
New Hampshire. The bill allowing wo-
men to vote in school meetings has
passed both houses of the Legislature,
Secretary Sherman estimates that the |
amount of United States bonds now re-
naming abroad does not exceed two hun
dred millions.
The st. Louis Post alleges that there is
deficit amounting to nearly half mil |
lion dollars in the State Treasury of Mis-
souri,.
Edison has gone to the Yosemite val
ley. On his way back he will visit points
of interest in Nevada and try bis hand at
hunting grizzlies.
In the United States court at Charles
ton, Thursday, 13S illicit distillers plead
ed guilty, with the understanding that
judgment be suspended, and they no more
violate the law.
Estimates of the wheat crop in Michi
gan place the yield at 30,000,0Q0 bushels
Michigan thus takes rank among the
great wheat producing districts of the
country and the world,
The United States marshal has OBJ
tanned possession of the South Carolina
prisoners, arrested by State officers for
the murder of a revenue official, and there
has been no war after all.
There were ninety-five cases of yellow
fever reported at Grenada, Miss, Sunday,
and ten deaths occurred within twenty
four hours. The fever is spreading rap
idly, and is of very malignant type.
The Chicago boot and shoe manulact-
urers are considering the feasibility of
hiring 1,5OO Cinnamon, half skilled and
half green, which the Chinese Six Com
panies offer 20 furnish for three years at
70 cents per day.
In the North Carolina Legislature,
elected in 1876, there are 124 Democrats
and AS Republicans. At the recent cleo
ton the Democrats elected 81 members,
the Republicans so, and the Independents
0, with IA districts reported doubtful.
x-Secretary Bristow has been appoint
ed by the President as chief counsel for
the government in the South Carolina
cases. He will have entire charge of the
interests of the government, with power
TO select such assistants as he may prefer.
There Is strike or lockout at the shops
of the Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railroad,
at Milwaukee. Between three hundred
and fifty and four hundred men are idle in
consequence of the trouble. The difficult
ty is about proposed reduction of wages
Reports from the Wisconsin hop region
show that the crop is assailed by all the
evils which besct the hop crop, including
blight. lice, and rust No crop is antici-
pated, and no good grade of hops can be
produced from the Wisconsin crop so far
as present appearances indicate.
A dispatch from Bismark, Dakota Ter
ri.ory, says: The grasshoppers seem TO
} have left us, moving TO the southwest
they were not a very husky lot, but they
/ were numerous enough about the gardens
! The damage was not as large as the
frightened laud holders al first reported.
The products of Kansas this year are
something almost unheard of. The wheat
crop is especially fine, and at the present
time the Kansas Pacific Railroad is bring
ing to Kansas City over one hundred Cal
loads daily, all of which has been raised
on land adjacent to the Railroad. 1t grades
above the average.
When the latest mails left India. Mand
alay, the King of Burmah's capital was on
fire. The city is walled in, the streets are
narrow, and the houses crowded together
1t is quite probable, as his golden-footed
majesty is unprovided with fire engines
and brigades, that the. greater portion Of
o the city has been destroyed.
| The Rev. B. NJ Palmer, the eminent
: Presbyterian divine, of New Orleans, has
, given a rare illustration of self sacrifice
While away on his summer vacation, he
learned that the yellow fever had broker
3 out, aud he at once returned to the city tC
: give his personal efforts towards mitiga
! ting the horrors of the scourge.
l Commissioner Raum is very much graf
q flied at the situation in regard TO the il
: licit distilleries in the South, and has in
: formation that 500 will plead guilty il
t the United States Court in South Carroll
ma on Monday. Sentence will be suspen
ded in these cases so long as they do no
. violate the law, but in case of the frs
4 violation the extreme penalty of the law
d will be pronounced on them.
On Saturday afterno on two men en-
$ tered the exchange banking house o
8 Cain IL Co, at Anderson, Ind, and Will,
y the cashier was making change for one
o the other distracted $1,000. Both es
e capped. Two suspected men were arreste,
: on the Chicago train at Elmwood, twent,
). miles north, and were lodged in Jail a
Anderson. Two thousand dollars of tn
money was afterwards found in the ccme
terry at Elmwocd.
A terrible storm, with considerable los
. of life and great damage to property, is re
= ported in portions Of New York and othc
Eastern States last Friday. At Walling
Q ford, Conn, forty dwelling houses an,
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