Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-09-08
CLIPPINGS.

fifty of his best hogs within few days by
this disease. AMI several others have lost
great numbers.
= Ebenezer S. Thompson, late Sheriff
of Lawrence county, last week went hun.
ting with his shot gnn Not knowing
whether it was loaled or not, he snapped
cap upon it, AMI it not going of he set il
down, lifted the hammer with his foo:
put his mouth to the muzzle to blow in it,
AMI then it went of fast enough, dischar-
ging the whole loal of shot into the roof
of his mouth. mangling and breaking il
horribly. The independent says he is We,
alive, but with 20 hope of recovery.
= Twelve thousand dollars have been
subscribed in Peru for the erection of a
Ora lei School. The Trustees gave notice
in the last RspuJi;caa..of a meeting of the
subscribers to elect officers, ami go to
work. Such sum for such purpose is
a credit 20 Peru.
= The South B,al Forum says that five
of the persons (they were sail to have been
! women in the account ofthc affair we saw J.
concerned in taring AMI feathering pros
titute in that place recently. have been ar
rested; anil he'll to bail in fifty dollars to
answer a charge Of public inlccency in the
( Common Pleas Court
! = Knox county Indiana, was the third
county organizcl in the North western
Territory. now embracing the States of
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Michigan. Wis
c .n,in an part of Minnesota. Her or
sallzation took place on the Slh Of Jan
uiry. ,159) Washington comfy. Ohio.
was the iirst cnuaty Organized within the
Territory { July 30, 1888. an Hamilton;
Ohio, the se.on1, (Jan- LIST. 1890
The ''big tunnel on the Gov ington
and Ohio R,lroa |. in Greenbrier County.
Va. is 1919 feet long an 70J feet be-
low the surface of the earth 1t i. 500
feet longer than tae Blue Ri.lye tunnel
The width is twenty seven feet to accom-
molate a double track. and the height is
twenty three feet.
= The West Troy Democrat says there
is bright intelligent little fellow in the
village who is unable T. hear with his
ears. When he wants to hear he opens
his month, ana can hear as dist inctlv as
any one.
= Professor Lathrop has notified Ithe
Secretary of the Board Of Trustees of the
Illiana University, at Bloomington, that
Ia, accepts the Presidency of the Faculty
Of that Institution to which position he
was recently elected 10y them.
= Pennsylvania, having sold its canals
an railroads. is reducing its State debt at
the rate of one million dollars year.
New York. holding on to her public works,
finds herself growing deeper and deeper
in debt. with decreased revenue aud
sad financial prospect ahead
= An Annoy correspondent OF the New
York Herald says, that the death of the
Emperor of China, Han Fung, was report
Tel.
= The Morning News, lately started in
X Chm mi, Virginia, as an independent
paper, has discarded its neutrality in po-
litical matters, al com,, olt in the inter-
est of the Opposition. 1t hoists tn. flag
of Hon. John NJ. Bolts, of that State, for
= Gov. Banks is to deliver the annual
address before the Michigan State Agricul-
tural Society, at their Fair the coming fall
= The New York Courier and Equircr
advocates the nomination OF Hon. William
Ii. Seward as the candidate of the Repub-
lican party for the next Presidency.
= 1t is said that Horace Man actually
aud positively worked himself to DEATH
He had so exhausted his physical system,
by continuous labor, that nothing could
restore the lost vigor and prevent dissolu-
ton.
= The Albany Statesm m thinks no
one will hereafter doubt the truth Of this
paradox:
"wherc ignorance is bliss--'tis folly to Be WISE"
= Ex-Presilcnt Pierce and family arriv-
ci Saturday. by the steamer America, at
Boston n1afa H.r sI
= Amos Kendall, General Jackson's
Postmaster General, recently completed
his 10th year. He lives in Washington
quite retired and comparatively unknown
-i;--- Col. Alexander Miller, the Clerk of
the Shelby Circuit Court an old and val
ned citizen of that county. died at his res
idence in Shelbyville yesterday morning
= Hon. Robt Wicklifcc, aged So years,
for a long time one of the most distin-
guishcd lawyers Of Kentucky, died a few
days ago at Lexington.
= The National Americans of Massa-
chusctts. have determined to call q State
Convention. for the nomination of inie-
pendent candidates. =.
- The Washington Consttufion, rc;oi-
ces over the anti ID ouglas charactetl of the
delegates to the indiana State Convention.
The indianapolis correspondent of the Cow
eminent organ styles the, Douglas men in
this State "a few noisy factionists. . 81
Winter Davis, ono of the best mea
in Congress. has been nominated for rec
lection from the Baltimore District.