Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-03-07

A million dollars has been placed
to the credit of the Philadelphia mint,
and 100000 to the credit of the Car
son City mint. The first Of the new
coin is to be sent to Washington, to
pay members of Congress.
A Pera correspondent of the Lon
don papers thinks that Turkey. by
giving up her hostile provinces, and
concentrating the faithful in territory
contiguous to Constantinople, will
create a new Ottoman power ten
times stronger than when it was
spread over vast, badly organized,
hostile territory.
The House has passed the Senate
bill amending the laws granting pen
sions to officers and soldiers of the
war Of 1912. 1t places on the pension
rolls the names Of such officers and
men as served fourteen days in the
war with Great Britain, and directs
that the names of those stricken from
the rolls for disloyalty shall be re-
stored, but allows no back pay.
The following is a statement of
United States currency outstanding
February q:
Old demand notes. .......-.--..-....-.s 62,ao2
Legal tenders, all issues .......... 45S,6ls,O24
One-year notes of 1S63 49, 245
Two-year notes of 1863. $4,000
Two-year coupon notes of 1863 .......- $3.50
Compound interest notes .............. 2S3, 40
Fractional currency, all dues ... 17,190,6s6
The Treasurer destroyed yesterday
$492. 400 in greenbacks on account of
$615,500 additional national bank
currency issued the present month,
leaving the outstanding legal-tender
circulation $34s,61S,O24.
The House Banking and Currency
Committee has decided to recommend
the insertion Of an additional provis-
ion in the bill for the substitution Of
treasury notes for national bank
notes. The new feature provides
that treasury notes shall be receiv-
able for one. third Of any one pay
ment of custom duties, the remaining
two.thirds to be paid in gold or the
new silver dollars. These treasury
notes are also to be made inter-
changeable with the per cent. bonds
at par.
Lord Napier. who Is to have COM
mand OF any expedition which
England may send out in case OF
war, is 6S years old, but is vigorous
and active, and a thorough soldier.
He has done some excellent service
in the field in India and Abyssinia,
and for his victory over King Theo-
dore, and his storming Of Magdala,
was raised to the peerage. He has
been governor OF Gibraltar for sew
eral years, and is one Of the best gov
errors that stronghold has ever had.
Sir Garnet Wolsely, who will be Lord
Napier's chief OF staff, is an Irishman
45 years old, and has seen service in
India, the Crimea, Canada and AZ
RIGA.
Thre is great excitement in Bloom
ington, ILL.,, over the re-arrest of
Dwight E. Wheaton, charged with
the murder OF James O'Neil, an en-.
gineer of the Chicago & Alton rail-
road, which occurred on the 9th Of
December last. He was arrested at
the time, but three days trial failed
to develop any evidence against him,
and he was discharged, the general
conviction being that he was inno-
cent. He was re-arrested on informa-
ton furnished by his wife, who says
he killed O'Neil, and intended to kill
four or five other persons when the
opportunity offered. Wheaton takes
the matter very coolly-denies that
he knows anything about the murder,
and pronounces his wife's statement
false. He has many friends in
Bloomington, who believe that the
whole story was concocted by his
wife, for the purpose OF securing the
reward offered for the conviction OF
the murderer OF O'Neil.
NEIGHBORING NOTES.