Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-10-22
NEWS ITEMS.

surface, when taken up In balloon, will
weigh only three pounds and half at the
| altitude of three miles.
The stock of pork at New York ON the
LIST inst. was 16, bbls., and the stock
of beef, 5,S6S bbls. At the same time last
year, the stock was 1901 bbls pork and
l4,43S bbls. beef.
Great numbers of operatives were dis
charged from the foundcries and other cstab-
lishrnents in ST. Louis on Saturday last in
consequence Of the arrangement in money
affairs.
The ubiquitous savage Billy Bowleys
and his warriors. late adviccs state, have
taken refuge on an island in the South of
the Florida Everglades. Troops are in
pursuit with the hop, of catching him this
time.
The notes ofthe Tippecanoc Bank are sell
ing in Indianapolis at 80 cents.
The population of Milwaukee, according
to census just completed, numbers A.
$40. In 1850 it numbered only 20,06l
Wheat is selling at tho towns on the
uppef Mississippi at so to 65 cents per
bushels.
Ohio is the greatest woolgrowins state
in tn, Union. Six million OF dollars
worth has been RAISED there this year.
Tn, Governor AMI council of Now
Hampshire have appointe Thursday. No
vember 36th, for Thanksgiving day in that
State
Tho amount of specie in III, United
states is estimated at about $500 900,
900.
Colonel Benton is rapidly improving,
and hopes in few days to be able to leave
his room. lie is reduced from corpulency
to mere skeleton.
The President of the Unitel States, it is
said, has presented Captain Johnson. ofthe
Nor segian bark Ellen, who saved 10 of
the pass ,ngers an crew Of the II fatcl Cen
tral America, with a masaili eat gold
pocket chronomcter.
The Democrats have swept the State Of
Mississippi by large majority; clecting
Melville, Governor and an entire Dem
ocrasic delegation to Congress. This is a
gain of one member.
The Manchester american says there are
three thousand laborers in tint city that
are either entirely out of work or employ
ell only half the time in the mills. The
British cotton spinners though, are quite
busy-spinning for the U. s. markets.
The Americans, fifty in number, with
the Rev. DR.. Bairi at their heal, seem to be
taking the lead at the great Evangelical
Congress at Berlin. Tn, Congress, from
its size, an tn, distinguished names en-
rollcl on its list of delegates, has an male
impression in Prussia, AMI will b, unlu,s-
tonably productive of cool.
Mr. j. r. Baird of vinccnes, Inl. has
sent to the Scientific American specimen
Of his daughters workwomrnst;p--a most
skillfuI AMI ingenious piece of ladies' work
1t consists in four stockings, knitted at one
operation on only four ncllcs. The stock
ings are one inside the other, but each dis
tinct and separate.
Tho Great Eastern" which was to
have been launched on the 9th of October,
it is now reported by the English pa
pcrs, will be launched on the ID of No
ycmbcr.
The Synod of Indiana, embracing the
territory south of indianapolis, with fifty
three Presbyterian ministers and one hun
,lred and forty -four churches, was in scs-
sion at Evansville during the first of the
week past.
In the middle and Southern part of this
State severe drought has prevailed this
fall.
James NJ. Cuts, father-in- law to Stephen
y. Douglass, has been appointed Second
Comptroller, Notwithstanding the notori-
Gus fact that he (Cutts) is Know Nothing
Oh! Shamocracy!
a Washington dispatch Of the 18th says:
sTho United States Treasury has suspcn-
ded--the redemption of stocks. in sonsc-
quencc of the fac. that the current revenue
is but one-fou.th the amount of the cur
rent expenditures; the surplus has been
reduced to 50. 600, 900 since the LIST of Au-
gust"
The Auditor of the State Of Indiana gives
the public notice that the circ ulating notes
of the Bank of the Capitol will be re-
deemed at his Office, in indianapolis, at par,
in current funds.
The number of failures reported in last
weeks Independent is one hundred and
sixty-scven.
Winslow, Lanier Il Co., brokers, have
suspended. They only owe balances to
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