Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-17
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
persouaI and I.rserarv.

II IL ItpOTleu lnaL flOSa DOnIeur has
become insane
Mr.. BEEcHER doesn't go to Europe, but
Mr. Bierstadt does.
WILLIAM E. DODGE, of New York, has
given $4,000 to Williams College.
"COLoRADo" JEwETr has recently
married an heiress at Frankfort, Germany
A. t. STEWARDS losses by shoplifting
and other robberies are over $4,000 per
annum
JUSTICE JOHN REED, of POttsvillc, Pa,
has held his office for fifty-one consecutive
years.
EDWIN BooTH has ordered to be made
Richard the Third.
IT is said that George Wakeman will
follow up his GALAXY article by starting
class in conundrums for born wits.
OssIAN i. DODGE, the celebrated
vocalist and humorist, was married on
the 4th instant to Miss Fannie Pratt, Of
st. Paul.
THE young Marquis of Butte, who will
be one of the wealthiest men in the three
kingdoms, has become convert to the
Roman Catholic faith.
JOHN MoRRISsEy, NJ. c., does not APP
pear in the income returns of the Fifth
District of New York for 1866 He en-
countered Ben. Wood once too often.
SINCE Parepa Rosa has been hired to do
the singing in DR.. Tyng's church, in New
York, an exchange suggests that Edwin
Booth should be engaged to read the
service.
Hrs HOLINESS PIUs TX. has conferred
on John Murphy, of Baltimore, the dis
tinctIon of Printer to the Pope an
honor never before received by any one in
this country
BELINDA b ELMO is suing Daniel ID.
Kelly (bO;h of East Boston, because, hay
ing sued for her hand and won it, he re-
fused to take it, Damages S20,000-if tho
jury give it.
Mr. IRA ALDRIDGE, the black tragedan,
has been greatly admired in the French
provinces, and another actor of color,
called Morgan Smith, has been performing
successfully in the Welsh towns.
DIR. HYATT oMITH found the name of
Jenny Lind cut into the hard stone on
the top of the great Pyramid of Cheops.
He afterward learned that the inscrip-
ton was the work of the sOngstress' own
hand
THERE is a serious talk in Paris of a
marriage between Adah Isaacs Menken
and Alexander Dumas, l,ere. The lady was
to start for Vienna this month to fulfill an
engagement there
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, who has
just sailed for Europe was presented before
his departure with $50, 600 by his friends at
Boston, as a testimonial TO his services in
the anti-slavery cause
DIR. G. w. RoBACK, the well known
patent medicine manufacturer, died re-
Gently very suddenly of heart disease. He
was about sixty years old, and leaves for
tune of several hundred thousand dollars.
THOMAS MAST, who draws those remark
able categorical and Illustrative designs
which appear in Harper's Weekly, is only
twenty sever years of age. He is native
of Bavaria, ut came to this country when
he was TX y ars of age.
A FEW ,aonths since, Vanderbilt played
I" a corner" on Drew, costing the latter
nearly million of dollars. 1t is said that
Drew has now got Vanderbilt In a cor
ner," in such a fix that it will cost him
three millions of dollars.
OBITUARIES upon Congressman Mar
shall continue to reach him. and. as he is
preserving them, papers continuing 10 no
t1Ct Ills ucdtn VIII pltd>C SClI CODl
None Of the Washington papers have
found out that he is yet alive.
THE Noble County (Ohio) Republican
says that Old John Gray, the revolutionary
vetel an, who at the age of 1913 years was
granted a pension of $500 per annum by
Congress, has received his first semi annual
installment This is the first money he
has ever received from the Government
SIDNEY SMITH, good authority, says:
I'm composing, as general rule, run your
pen through every other word you have
written you have no idea what vigor 1t
same writer says: "All pleasantries should
be short. and for that matter, all GRANTEES,
too
JUST before Sidney Smith died he com
planned of great languor. a. feel so weak"
he said. "both in body and mind, that
l verify believe if a knife were put into
my hand | should not have strength
| or energy enough to stick it into dis
senter
Rev. JAMES BELcHER died few days
ago at Blackwells Island, in the Aims
house, of delirium tremens. Mr.. Belcher,
seven years ago, was the pastor Of the
Baldwin Place Baptist Church, Boston,
where he succeeded such men as DIR. Bald
win, Rev. j. ID. Knowles, and Rev. DR..
Stow
Ex GOVERNOR HAwLEY, of Connecticut,
has resumed the editorial chair and duties
in the new office of the Hartford Press and
| Courdnt, of both of which papers he is
now principal proprietor and responsible
manager. The Courdnt is the morning
paper, and is the largest journal in New
England and the Oldest in America, its first
number having appeared in 1894.
| BRIGHAM You've is turning his atten.
ton from matrimony to the vices Of drink
ing tea, coffee and whisky, and using to-
bacco. In recent exhortatiOn to the
saints, he tells them that if they would
dispense with these articles, and save the
money they cost, each would have enough
to buy aquarter-section when the Govern
ment opens land Office in Salt Lake City
RIsroRI was rich before coming to this
country. She owns No. 4S Boulevard
Malesherbes, a splendid pdlais, which wa:
completed before her leaving for America
at cost of 100000 francs She own.
also, a splendid paldis in Florence now oc
cupicd by the Russian ambassador. i
cost $500, 600 francs. All this property
was earned hy her. She owns, also, sew
cral splendid mansions in Rome.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is il
Brooklyn on brief visit. She intends to
make Florida her permanent home, havin:
bought property in that State. She ha
become member of the Episcopal Church
1t is scarcely violating the sanctity o
private affairs to state that Lie late
years of Mrs, Stoves life are cloudes
by deep sorrow for the tragic death o
her sons, but she sustains her Affections b,
genuine pity that finds vent in verse ant
J prose.
Miss MARGARETTA Fox, one Of tn
original Fox girls" of "Rocheste
knocking" notoriety, and more recent.
notorious in connection with the memory
of Dr. Kane, the Arctic explorer Ito whom
she claims to have been matrimonially en-
| gaged), has lately returned to Rochester
and intends to afford those who desire t
/ hoar Tho rarsaa rl bio coIlnds which for