Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-16
News OF the Week Condensed

News OF the Week Condensed.
Snow storms in Iowa last Friday and
Saturday.
Considerable frost in the interior OF
New York Saturday morning.
The workingmen of San Francisco have
repudiated Kearney, the communist.
The House, Monday, passed bill max
ing small silver coins legal tender to the
amount of $50.
The Senate has passed bill abolishing
the pension agencies, and providing for
payments by drafts on the Treasury.
Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Prime
Minister. is said to be growing weaker in
consequence of a fresh attack of govt.
The bankrupt law, as amended, was
passed by the Senate Friday. 1t takes
effect Sept. 1, 1878, if the House concurs
The Russian officers lately arrived in
New York, say boldly that their business
is to purchase vessels to be used against
England in case of war.
Coy. Williams gave Greenley, who was
to have been hung last Friday at Indian.
apolis, for the murder of Ida Kersey, q
respite until tomorrow.
Professor Henry. of the Smithsonian
Institute, died Monday. He was eighty
years old, and was one of the most cele
brated scientists of the world.
The Peoria county, Ill, grand jury las
week found an indictment against WILDER
F. Story, of the Chicago Times, on thu
charge of libeling Ex-Congressman Whit
ing.
Catherine Z. Beecher, sister of Henry
Ward Beecher. died at Elmira, New York
Sunday. She was the Oldest member o
the Beecher family, and aged seventy
eight years at the tire other death.
Letters received in Washington tell o
terrible atrocities committed in Texas by
Mexicans under the garb Of Indians
Twenty-Five men and fifteen children wer,
butchered in the most inhuman manner
The Senate Committee on finance ha
agreed to take up next Tuesday the Hous,
bill proposing to forbid the further retire
ment of United States legal tender note
under the operations Of the resumption
act.
The marriage of Senator James Donald
Cameron to Miss Elizabeth Bancroft Sber
man, at Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday eve
ming, was witnessed by one Thousand
guests, including persons of distinction
from number of states.
An attempt was made to assassinate tn,
Emperor of Germany in Berlin, Saturday
afternoon. He was out driving and sew
eral shots from a revolver were fred a
him. lie was not hurt, and the person
who fired at him was arrested.
Latest dispatches from Europe indicat,
that the situation is getting more critical
The Turks refuse TO evacuate Ezeroun
and Batoum, and the Russians have rein
forced San Stefano. 1t seems doubtful
which side the Turks will help in case o.
war
Dispatches from the northern parts o.
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa, indicat,
that the frost of the past few nights ha'
materially injured vegetables and small
fruits. Peaches are almost entirely de
stroyed, and in few localities the whea
crop is injured.
Edmund Megy, the leader of the com
munists in New York City, who is sale
to have caused the death of Archbishop
D'Arboy, of Paris, was held to bail in tho
sum of $500, Wednesday of last week, HI
having threatened the life of Henry w
Marks, of the New York World.
The House Election Committee have de
cided that Small and Rainey, two coloreC
members OF Congress from South Caro-
lima, are not entitled to seats. on the
ground that white Democrats were intim
idated to such an extent by the coloreC
voters that they were afraid to go to tn,
polls.
The Senate Committee on education
and labor have agreed on bill appropri
ating the proceeds of all sales of public
lands after June 80, toward forming a ma
tional educational fund, the interest o.
which is to be distributed among the
States and territories In proportion Il
their population for the support of theil
common schools.
Ernest Whitehouse, who attempted &c
kill Deputy Sheriff Cleary. in Terre
Haute, in June, 1877, was captured in that
place Sunday, after a desperate struggle
with five officers, among whom wa:
Cleary, who was shot in the hand and
right thigh. Whitehouse is a noted des
perado, and there is general rejoicing in
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