Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-09
News Of the Week Condensed.

News OF the Week Condensed.
The Freeport, Ill, wooden mills were
destroyed by fire Monday. Loss, $50, 900
The proposed reduction of the tax on
tobacco was defeated in the House Mon
day.
The small pox is raging in London a:
an epidemic. $50 cases were reported
Monday.
The President has approved the act pro-
hibiting the coinage of twenty cent silver
pieces.
An engine exploded at Memphis. Ten.
nessee, Monday morning, killing two per-
sons and wounding several others.
Peoria, Illinois, has loaded a barge with
thirty thousand bushels of rye, and is go.
ing to transport it by water to Europe.
An itemized statement of the loss of the
great mill explosion at Minneapolis, places
it at $s24, 0O0 All of the mills are TO be
rebuilt
The South Chicago wooden mills stu
ated at Hyde Park, and employing about
$50 hands, were burned Saturday evening
Loss about $1500O0.
w. S. O'Brien, of the great firm OF
Flood & O'Brien, died at San Francisco
Thursday. He was supposed to be worth
fifteen or twanfv millionc
Rumors are afloat of contemplated
raid on Canada by the Irish, in case of a
war between England and Russia, but the
rumors cannot be traced To any definite
source.
The President has appointed Ex-Gov-
ernor Packard, of Louisiana, Consul TO
Liverpool. The Office is worth about
$12,0 900 year. Washington correspon-
dents think he will accept.
A Berlin correspondent states that Rus
STA has sent communication to London
and Vienna, specifying the concessions
she is willing to grant, and again express
ing her willingness to enter into special
negotiations.
Three hundred thousand foreigners are
in attendance on the exhibition at Paris.
The price of provisions has advanced
from thirty to one hundred per cent. Nut
ton chops are now selling at 81 cents
per pound.
John Morrissey died at Saratoga. n. ",
Wednesday evening, May 1, 1878. He
was considered one of the most successful
gamblers in the world, and was thought
to be worth several hundred thousand dol
lars. but it is now said he died poor.
Thursday the Senate amended the house
bankrupt repeal bill by fixing the date OF
repeal January 1, 1879, and then recon-
mitted it to the judiciary committee. 1t is
said the committee will report a new bill
which will be more acceptable to the Sen
ate. 1t will retain the provision fixing
the date of taking effect January L.
There is a threatened revolution in Tur-
key. A conspiracy is said 10 exist at Con-
stantinople, having for its object the over
throw of Sultan Abdel Hamid, and the
accession of Murad. 1t is said that one
day last week was actually fixed for the at
tempt, but the fecr Of Russian interference
caused change In the plans.
The latest European dispatches indicate
peaceable solution of the differences be-
tween England and Russia. A st. Peters
burg correspondent has reason to believe
that questions of the very highest import
ance will be practically decided in the
course of next week. Meanwhile the pub
lie desire for peaceable solution is in
creasing.
The House committee on education and
labor decided, Monday, to recommend the
passage of bill restricting Chinese emf
grafton. The bill provides that the mas
ter of any vessel, who shall bring more
than fifteen Chinese passengers within
the jurisdiction of the United States on
any one voyage. shall be subject to fine
of 500 for each passenger exceeding fif-
teen, and also to imprisonment for six
months.
The New York Times prints eleven col
'umns of letters and dispatches from points
distributed over twenty-nine States and
one Territory, relating to the condition
and prospect Of the crops. Nearly every
individual observer was selected because