Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-05-27

Tho Typhoid fever prevails in central Alaba
ma, at the present time, in an epidemic form.
1t is stated that two hundred and thirty year.
ago S24 purchased the land now composing the
city and county of New York.
An order has been issued directing the French
imperial Positions to earrings. after the fash
ion of the ancient regime.
Hon Rufus Choate has accepted the invitation
of the Boston Democracy to deliver them an ora
ton on 4th of July.
According to ''Peterson's Counterfeit Detect
Or" no less than ninety eight new counterfeit bank
notes have made their appearance since the 1st OF
April.
One cause of the destruction of shade-trees
in cities is the escape of gas from the gas pipes
This is certain death to trees when it nvades theil
roots
The Supreme Court, now in session at Salem
Massachusetts,, has granted thirteen divorce'.-
The almost universal cause of these dissolutions i:
certainly sad commentary on Massachusetts, NOR
ais.
"A volume has recently been published, con-
tanning the names and partial history of the linea
descendants of David Brainerd, and his brother
John, including in all some ten thousand, who now
live or have lived in this country.
The lands lately coded by the Yankton 1ndi.
ans in Daeota embrace twelve millions of acres =
They lie south of the following line: Commencing
at Kampeska Lake; thence to tho mouth of the
Wamdushka, or Snake River; thence to the head
of East Medicine River; thence down said river to
the Missouri River.
MIR. ]. H. HOLSTER, wealthy and enterpris-
ing Licking county (Ohio) farmer, has started with
company of thirteen young men for the purpose
of driving ten thousand sheep from Missouri to
California. He expects to be year on the road
with the focks, and he pays the boys eight dollars
per month, and the aggregate expenses of the jour-
ney.
Ting RAILROAD DIsAsrER.-The New York
Tribune says:
'Several of the leading Directors are on the
ground at the scene Of the late disasters and we un
derstand settlements Of the claims of about one
half of those injured have already been made. 1t
is estimated that the entire loss by the disaster will
not exceed 100000, ami some parties place it as
low as $4,000"
"A writer in the Prairie Farmsr says that some,
and perhaps much of the sugar-cane seed distrib-
uted last spring in Illinois, that Of the true Chi
nese sugar cane, was bogus; and correspondent
writes to the New York Tribune to print word
of caution to persons who intend to plant this
spring, to obtain reliable seed-gct it from canes
that actually produced sugar, or at least syrup, last
season.
We learn from one of the delegates to the Old
School Presbyterian General Assembly, at New
Orleans, that he accompanied about one hundred
of the delegates from Cairo to New Orleans, and
as they ddnot think il proper, as Christian minis
tiers and elders to travel on the Sabbath, they paid
the officers of the steamer FIVE hundred dollars to
lay over during the day at Lake Providence, Lou
isiana.
1T Is estimated that the fisherman OF our
lakes receive s64O, 900 per annum for their fish,
There are twenty seven theaters in Paris,
twenty three in London, and ten in New York.
The damage to thc..sugar crop in Louisiana
by the Bell crevasse alone. is estimated at not less
than s3,00a.aoo