The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-04-12


GS-On Saturday, over 1000 acers of
timber on one of the Fishkill mountains,
n. Y, were destroyed by fire. The fire
is supposed to have been originated by
party out shooting on the previous day
1t was at one tire feared hat the village of
Mattewan would be destroyed, and the
alarm was given when the iiremen and
citizens succeeded in turning the flames
in another dire ion. Nearly two hundred
cords of word were destroyed. The fire
was seen for several miles.
G9- The Auburn. n. Y, Advertiser
notices another victim TO spiritualism-
The wife of weliknown gentleman in
that city recently became a 'medium.'-
Last week she began to exhibit symptoms
of insanity. Her condition is truly lamen-
table. and fears are entertained that her
mind is complete wreck. Her friends
intended to place her in the Utica asylum
at the earliest moment.
lon Thomas IT. Seymour first ran
for governor of Connecticut in 1859. lie
was defeated by Gov. Trumbull, Wing, by
5000 II iority He was subsequently ele-
cted i'll 100. by 500 majority. over Foster,
Wing In 1851, he again beat Foster by
l 400 =, 'jority, over the combined vote of
the W. : and Free Soil candidate.
EE The total number of deaths in New
York q last week was 4i6. During the
cores i~,nding weeks Of 1858, there were
446 an. 426 respectively.
Gr~'rom Sayers, the English champion,
has beer engaged By an en,erprising A
merican Spectator to give series of ex-
nbitos,5 in the principal cities in the Uni
ted States, Immediately after the fight with
Heenan. The engagement has been defin
tely settled, and will not be broken, what
ever the result Of the approaching contest
may be.
Henry Pritts. man Ga years of age,
has been convict ed of murder at Somerset,
Pa. and will doubtless be hung. He killed
a man named Weimer, so that he might
live with Weimer's wife unmoles,ed
Eg-Mr. G. f. Train. from the United
States, who is said to represent large
company in Liverpool, England is endeav
oripg to introduce the American system
of city railways into all the streets Of that
place.
Eg-The House bill. authorizing pub
fishers to print on the papers the date when
subscriptions expire, aud reducing the pos
tage on town and city drop letters to one
cent finally passed both Houses of Con-
! 0ress on the 28th ult
From statistics recently prepared, rela-
ting to The extent Of lunacy among the
negroes of the various state of the Union
it is stated that there is, in Louisiana,
fanatic out of 2,477 negroes; in South
Carolina. in 2. 999; In Massachusetts,, |
in IS; in Maine, in IA!
The Hartford (Conn.) Press congratu-
lates some OF lis coiored friends, that al
though they couldn't get into the hall
where ABE. Lincoln" was speaking,
they did hear DR.. Bassett's lecture on
Physiology, and see him take "ihe man
kin" in pieces. lis idea, no doubt, is
that they should begin to get used to
skinning," says the New Haven Register
~ | lie bIcdb w cottlI lttltlpa!- 0tn
pany are now engaged in erecting an iron
swing bridge over the famous Des. lard
ines Canal.
The National MteNigencer cautions the
public against man representing himself
as Judge }. b. Underwood, who has been
Collecting money for a year or TWO past, on
the false pretenss that it was for the Ladies'
Mount Vernon association. Underwood
has operated some in this state.
The meals for distinction among the
soldiers of the English army who served
in India during the late war. have been
struck. The diverse is a medallion of the
queen, and the reverse represents Britannia
seated on hon. extending a laurel leaf.
.ncircled by the scroll India, 1919
The ribbol consists of two broad red
stripes Oh white ground.
Congress has already taken the Initial nv
steps toward providing for the reception
and entertainment of the halt dozen jap
anese dignitaries and their two score Of
servants and interpreters. wlo are shortly
to arrive in this country AS an embassy from
tntI i'i Oh isi'"u oh'Pi'o'
Gx5- According to the act of congress
providing for taking the census i'll 1860,
no deputy will be allowed over twenty
thousand Inhabitants. Those who may be
appointed to the United States marshal will
be required to commence operations on the
first day Of June, and conclude their work
six weeks thereafter. This arrangement
will make small districts necessity.
The new Pemberton mill will, it is said
be completed about the LIST of July next
The building will be larger than the old
structure. which WAS so suddenly destroy
ed. Wooden pillars will be substituted
for the iron supports in the old mills
Nearly all the manufactures have as much
as they can do, to supply with sufficient
rapidity their articles of manufacture.
New Haven, Conn, that beautiful seat
Of wealth, learning. and refinement, gave
he Democracy, at the late election. a ma
iority of se0en hundred. In 1917. the
Democracy. for the first time, secured IA