Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-06-03


speaks as follows of this gentleman:
We happen 70 know General Foley, and though
he is unettered men, he has quite as much bus
mess capacity anu good sense as most men are
blessed with, and as capable of doing more accur-
ate thinking than all the small fry who talk of him.
He is the very antipodes of our politics, but that
does not make us blind to his good sense, nor mag
nifty his illiteracy.
The contested election case in the House OF
Representatives, from the Dayton, Ohio district
has been decided in favor of vallandingham, dem.
against Campbell, rep.
The President has postponed the land sales in
Kansas until November, in order to give the SCAT
tiers time to raise money.
Swans Georgia Lottery has been discovered to
be illegal The grand jury in Georgia have found
a true bill against it, and the managers and own
ers have been arrested and indicted.
1t stated that the wife of the late Henry Her
bert was in Indianapolis, for the purpose of pro-
curing divorce, at the time her husband commit
ted suicidein New York.
Another violent hail storm has visited Freder-
icsburgh, Va, and vicinity. 1t is estimated that
the dam ge done by hail in that vicinity since the
18th Of May, will not fall much short of 100000.
Hail Columbia
HorE.-A sentiment exhibited in wag ola dogs
tail when waiting for a bone.
Why is hen on fence like cent? Because
she has head on one side and tail on the other.
The Rev. Father Quinn of Brooklyn, Tuesday,
called upon several large cotton houses down town,
and paid them, altogether, the sum of 81 ,25O--
He positively refused to explain why he paid them
the money. 1t is possible that some conscience
stricken Catholic had employed him to make this
restitution.
The opposition paperiEroan Ike man with the
cholc about the passage of the Kansas bill. Poor
fellows. Their occupation is gone, to be sure, but
they need not twist the conduts of their stomachs
into knots in the expressing of their agony. twill
require five or six bottles of Mrs. Kdders cordial
to straighten out the internal arrangements of the
N. Y. Tribune.-Boston Post a W
New INvENrIoN.-The latest invention is walk
ing cane rife, patented by G. f. Thomas and man
ufactured at lion, N. Y. Without the closest
scrutiny it cannot be discovered that it is gum
1t eactly resembles black ebony walking cane,
and is very little, if any, heavier The mechan-
ism of the lock is beautiful and is entirely hidden
The feyule on the end, which is easily unscrewed,
answers the purpose of charger. The bullet is
seventy five to the pound.
THE WRoNG DoUGLAs-ARREsr OF THE
LITTLE GIANT Information having reached Wash.
ington on Wednesday last, that o. Sennings Wise,
of Ri edmond, Virginia, and Mr. Douglas were
about to fight duel, officers were put on the track
and Mr.. Wise was captured. The officers proceed
ed to the Senate Chamber of the United States,
and biding their time, laid hold of the Senator
from Illinois, and it was not without good deal of
positive asseveration that he was not in the field.
The real party was Mr., Douglas, who represents
King William in the Virginia Senate, and mistake
evidently arose from the party implicated not be-
ing described with sufficient accuracy Washing
ton Star.
Subscribe for the Democrat;-Sl will pay for it.
Died at Heath, Mass, Mrs Sarah Marsh, aged
100 years. months and days. She was never
sick more than three months during her life. She
left posterity extending to the fifth generation,
and numbering about..two hundred lneal descend
ants. She had been professor of religion eighty
two years.
The Wisconsin Board of Education recently
resolved 'to erect building large enough to ac-
commodate FIVE hundred students three stories
high Pretty tall students-there ought to be
room enough to stow away considerable attic salt
in their upper story
1t viii require 81 45i ,634 to finish the New
Orleans Custom-house. $3.50
The great Mechanical Bakery in Philadelphia
is now baking about ten thousand loaves a Gay.
The number of converts to the doctrine of
Spritualism israpdly on the increase in the South,
says the Southern Sun.
During the first quarter of the current year,
only fifteen undred white persons were added to
the population of California by immigration.
The earnings of the Michigan Southern Rail
Road for the second week in May were $34,743,
against s47, 1863 last year.
"A monster piece Of gold has been taken from
the Australian mines, and is now exhibition a.
the officalrooms of the Crystal Palace. 1t is two
feet four inches in length, and ten inches at its
atits greatest u idth 1t weighs about one humid
red and forty-si pounds, and is pure gold.
The Republican papers ere passing panagyr-
les Oh the late Silas Wright. While Siias Wright
was alive these same editors villiied him beyond
measure-denounced him as a drunkard, brandy
soaker, bloat, &c.-Ne,o Albany Ledger.
Strawberries have made tlieir appearance at
Terre Haute, and sell readily at 81 so per gallon
TO give brihancy to the eyes, shut them carly
at night and open them early in the morning.
DIR. Adam Clarke says that.a hog was cursed
under tho old law, and never received blessing
under the new ba A3sf @
Queen Victoria completed her thirty ninth
year on the Oath of May. She is "a very nice wo-
man, and has saddled pretty big family on the
shoulders of her loyal subjects. as -
SUNDAY --One of the most beautiful express
ions of Longfelow is this--"Sunday is the COLDER
clasp that binds together the volume ofthe week
Professor Morse is abou- to receive from tbs
French Government four hundred thousand francs
or eighty thousand dollars, for the benefits his In
vention of the telegraph has conferred on France
SUGAR SPorIED.-The damage to the sugar
croY, of- n,,,o;apa kl.o Dali