Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-22

~ woman in Maroa, ON the Central
Railroad, south of Clinton, ILL.,. recently
sold her hair for two dollars, to purchase
set ofbrass jewelry. 'e-' i'
Z -Onward Opposition to- Presbyterian
ism HendricksOn is the name of the son of
a Hard-shell Baptist preacher in West Ely,
Marion county. Missouri N
"A railroad conductor once accosted
Lola MOnteZ thus: Madam, you cannot
smoke in the cars" "But you see can,
said Lola, "for I'm doing it," ~ q
Israel Putnam's monument Is safely
locked up in storehouse in Brooklyn,
Conn, because visitors to his grave would
persist in chipping it for mementoes.
The National Temperance Society in
New York distributesyearl 1,70O,OO0pages
of tracts, $4,000 packages OF books, and
over $4,000 single copies of temperance
serials
"A gift enterprise firm has disappeared
from Wcsterley, X. l., with one hundred
thousand dollars, forwarded b. deluded peo-
pie in anticipation ola valuable distribution
of prizes.
There were 3,5oS lost children brought
to the Department for Lost Children in
New York city from November, 1865, to
March |, 1867, 275 of whom were unclaimed
, by parents OF friends.
The bridge over Walnut creek, forty
miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa, broke
down last Wednesday, under the weight of
stage coach passing over it, and two of
the horses were drowned.
Tho sayings of Artemus Ward that
will be longest remembered are that &C.
Washington never slopt over. and that " IL
would have been ten dollars in jeff. Davis
pocket if he had never been born. 80
The last specimen of T. t. Barnum's
elasticity comes to us in the shape of an
invention, patented by him. whereby an
india rubber band is applied 10 the tight
ening of pants, vests, and drawers
Coal oil light is said to to be greatly
| Improved by adding to the oil one-fourth
| its weight of common salt. 1t makes the
light more brilliant and clear, keeps the
wick clean, and prevents smoking.
The New York Erening Gazette says
some of the larger business establishments
in that city have recently put up telegraph
lines within their buildings, in order to
economic time in conveying messages to
and fro. 5000 f
"A sharp old gentleman travelling out
West got a seat beside his wife in a
crowded car, by requesting the young man
who sat by her to please watch that
woman while he went into another car, as
she had fits" l''- 10
A man living in Grant county, KY,
who had not yet reached three score and
ten years has now living fifty-four children
His name is Chalk" Jim Webster. He
regrets very much that he did not marry
early in life
The opera is given in Brooklyn, New
York, on the "off nights" of Plymouth
Church, showing that Beechers church is a
serious competitor with the theatre. and
showing too, that both houses rank as
| places of amusement
The sale of St Johns Park, in New
York. to the Hudson River Railroad, for
| 81, 100000, has been completed; $4OO, 600
| of the amount goes to Trinity Church, and
the remainder TO the owners Of the prop
serty fronting the park.
Congress, Just before its adjournment,
appropriated $4,000 for dredge or snag
| boat on the Wisconsin river. Its opera
lions alone will ensure steam navigation
from Portage City to Prairie du Chen dur
ing stages of high water. lola
AT a large fashionable reception in
| New York the other evening the flowers
used for the adjournment Of the rooms and for
the guests cost over seventeen hundred dol
lars, by which the general expenditure of
the occasion may be estimated
Joshua Soule, ID, the venerable
senior Bishop OF the Methodist Church
South, died at Nashville, Tenn. on the 9th
inst, at the ripe age of eighty six years.
He was born in Bristol Maine, in 1871, and
entered the ministry in 1873.
The Avery Island 0ouisiana) salt
Il
| The mine is inexhaustible, and the material
pure as crystal, containing ninety nine per
cent of pure salt 1t has working COM
pany with capital of 81. 100000. 80
| The London Engineer does not think
| the Atlantic cables will be serviceable
| much longer. 1t saws: How long the At
lantic cables will last before an accident
occurs is matter of some speculation
We shall be astonished if two years pass
| without an interruption"
The liquordealerso of Montezuma, Iowa,
have proposed to the Good Templars that,
upon the receipt oftwenty-fve dollars each.
they will bind themselves to sell no more
beer, or other intoxicating liquors, for the
term of one year. The proposition, 1t Is
said, has been formally accepted
| AT the late town meeting in Nan
-
and seventy five people over seventy years
old, seventy-fiye who were over eighty, and
nine who were over ninety. Nantucket
must be the place where people live till
they dry up and are blown away.
/ A woman named Weiss attired herself
in mans apparel, Tuesday, in Newark, N.
j., and undertook TO thrash Mrs Miller,
when Mr.. Weiss, her husband, came along,
and, discovering man beating woman,
interfered and gave his wife sound whip
ping before he discovered who she was.
Lincoln University, located at Lincoln,
Logan county, ILL.,, has been in operation
for only five months, and already numbers
over one hundred and thirty students in
attendance. 1t is under the charge of five
Synods Of the Cumberland Presby terrain
Church. The conversion was laid Sept.
IA, 1885
The Savannah Missouri Era says
Everybody in this State wants a railroad
by his door. Out of the thirty or forty
4 Missouri papers with which we exchange
we do not think we have opened hall
dozen this week but what the first article
in the editorial column was headed Rail
. road Meeting"
1T is reported that diamond of inn.
! mense value was founG in Tippecanoe
river, near Monticello, Ind, on Monday
The value of the precious stone was first
: estimated at $3.50, 700. Subsequent inves
tigation reduced il to 5000, and latel
and more scientific observation places the
figures at $16,30O. b r.8 fs
The Kendall County (nl.) Record says
"On Sunday night, some imp of Satan IL
5 the shape Of man, went into the orchard
of DIR. j. A. Cook IN the town of Fox, an(
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