Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
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authors, and great deal more point.
LONDON is to have new daily morning
paper, Liberal in politics, and called 1he
Latest Neacs
1T Is reported that Barney Williams has
secured, for $35, 900, lease ofthe Broadway
Theatre for three years.
THE Hon. Michael Przybylowize, of the
Kansas Legislature, has had his name
changed to Murphy.
ARTEMUs WARD bequeaths his library
to the best boy in the school of his native
village, Waterford, Maine.
HAWTHORNE once said, after speaking of
the great Mississippi Valley, After all, we
Yankees are but the fringe OF the garment
of the West"
BLANCHE MARRYATT. whom we take to
be the daughter OF the marine novelist, Is
about to publish novel entitled, Briars
and Thorns-"
ARTEMUs WARD had large seal ring
which, he used quantity to say, he wore
only during the forenoon, as it fatigued him
to carry it all day.
THEODORE CLAY, son of Henry Clay,
has for over thirty years been an inmate of
the lunatic asylum ct Lexington, KY. He
became insane from disappointed affection.
A CANDIDATE for County Treasurer in
California has published a card pledging
himself, in case he is elect, d, to pay $1,000
in gold coin for the benefit of the school
fund.
ONLY three daily newspapers now sur
vive, of nine published in Boston in 1943.
OF twenty eight magazines, three also re-
main. OF thirty-five weeklies, all but
twelve are gone.
4 COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF
THE BIBLE" based upon the Bible Die
tionary of Dr. Smith, is in course of pre-
paration, and will shortly he brought out
by the Appletons.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be an oppo-
ser of capital punishment. There is a ru
NOR prevalent in London that she has de-
clared her intention to exercise her
prerogative of clemency in future, and thus
prevent any executions from taking place
BAssoN-HIERRE, French Ambassador to
Spain, was telling Henri Quotre how he en-
tered Madrid. al was mounted on the
smallest mule in the world" All" said
Henri, "what an amusing sight-the big
gest ass on the smallest mule !" 81 was
your maiesty's representative" was the re-
ply.
THE number of papers now published
recalls to mind the cd anecdote in regard
to Franklin's mother-in law, who objected
to her daughter marrying printer be-
cause there were two newspapers in this
country, and she did not see how Benjamin
was to make a living. There are now
1000
GENERAL JOHNSTON SAYS the victory of
Bull Run saved the Confederacy, which
was all it could reasonably have been ex-
pected TO do Most of the rebel troops re-
garded it as deciding the whole question
and ending the war, and thousands of them
left the army and weDt home. The Union
army, he says, was "less disorganized by
defeat than the Confederate army by its
triumph"
A BROOKLYN paper closes notice of the
criticism which Miss Kellogg received at
her last appearance in Boston, as follows /:
"When she comes 10 Der own loyal Brook
lyn, bless her little heart, she shall do just
as she plesses. She shall throw cakes at
the orchestra, and laugh in all the serious
tableax, if she wants to. and sing Be-
ware" in the Barber" and Wearing
of the Green" in Faust if inclined"
DEACON DAVID WHITNEY died in West
minister, Mass, March %, aged ninety nine
years, seven months and nine days He
was born, and always lived in the same
house, and on the same farm, where his
father settled in 1752. He has enjoyed a
life of uninterrupted health, having never
had occasion to cal medical attendance
since he was ten yea-s old, till his last ILL.,
ness He was able to perform light work
till within two or three years of his death,
and his mind continued active till the last.
WHEN Prince Achille Murat resided in
Florida (lS47) where he often engaged in
hunting, il is said that nothing "swims
the water, flies the air, crawls or walks the
earth, but that he served up on his table
Alligator steaks, frog shins, boiled owls
and roasted crows are found palatabie /;
but there is one animal that the Prince
don't like The buzzard is one too
many for him He SAYS, Il try him fried,
1 try him roasted, try him stewed and
make soup of him, but the buzzard is not
goot I have no prejudice against him, but
l cook him every way and then no like
him."
THERE is now living in the southeast
portion of Camden, Lorraine county, Ohio,
Miss Polly Haskins, who is one hundred
and fifteen years Of age having been born
in July. 1852. She was seventeen years
old at the commencement of the Revolt.
tionary war. When the British feet landed
at New Bedford, Conn, she and her pa
rents were obliged to quit their home =
she travelling on foot, and carving a
feather bed twenty miles the first day
They could see the smoke of their dwelling
as the work of devastation, BY the British
went on. She is now of sane mind, and
hearty.
Nor long since, an American artis
wrote to Mr.. Rusl1in for advice upon the
subject of art. The eminent English critic
who doubtless has had ten readers in tht
Northern States for one in any other par
of the world, replied in manner that sc
verely tries our confidence in his jugmen
and sincerity. The barbarous manner IL
which the people Of the North, he wrote
had conducted the war upon the southern
people and their patriarchial institutions
had utterly destroyed his interest in Ameri
can art. True art, in fact, could not -four
ish among a people so depraved and he
therefore, advised his friend to abandon
all effort to read the true path in art, ant
to conine himself to painting such picture
as were suited to the degraded taste of thu
Northern Americans. s
IL its issue of the 9th ult, The Ma
ton published the following notice respect
ing Fanny Ferns first literary success
Fifteen or sixteen years ago, 'Artemu
Ward Mrs. Partington, and Mile
O'Reilly' were laboring together in ON
Office, each in his degree, working on Tn
Carpet Bag, not very comic paper, whicl
was then trying hard to live, and was pub
lished in Boston. We may be mistaken
but we think Fanny Fern was first sue
cessful In the columns of the same journal
This statement is corrected by Fanny Ferr
in the following characteristic letter
To the Editor of the Nation:
SrR Fanny Fern first article was " rii