Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-15

tleman fell dead while leading prayer
meeting.
-MIains has an Assemblyman who
stands six feet and seven inches high in his
stockings.
"A disease known as the mango has
broken out am png the cattle in Fayette
county, Iowa.
Green oats four feet high, and potatoes
as big as goose egg, are recorded In san
Jose, CAL, Jan. II.
=" Yankee Doodle" is an old Spanish
air. Some Yankee stole it and foisted it
upon us as original.
"A sausage, seventy-ive .eet long, and
weighing fifty-one pounds, is on exhibition
at Lancaster, Penn.
"A shawl factory to cost half million
dollars is being built at Burlington, VT, by
Seth Hunt, of New York.
"A colored woman, who had been twice
married, just died in Richmond, Virginia,
leavin thlrty-five children.
Twenty million letters passed through
the Boston Office last year, and S1O,131
was received for box rents
Mrs Jennie Nash, of Maryland,
logged her defamer, Babcock, one day, and
married her lover, Bachelor, the next,
The Baltimore City Council proposes
TO insure each of the firemen for two thoil-
sand dollars against death by accident.
The Springfield Armory ia giving
steady employment to 1 900 men, and no re-
duction of the force is probable at present.
There are three boats outside of the
regular packet line that intend to run reg
ularly in the Illinois ri yer trade, this sea-
son.
The homestead of Sam Houston, in
Houston, Texas, which he built himself
twenty-five years ago, has just been torn
down
There are FIVE hundred incurable insane
persons in the Indiana State Institution be-
sides those supported by friends in private
asylums.
-Panthers, grizzlies, wild cats, cayotes,
coons, foxes, eagles and weasels annoy the
people and poultry of Tehama county, Cali
fornia.
"A man in Jackson, Mississippi, gave
his intended money to buy her outfit, and
the following morning she married his
brother.
A youth in Wheeling. West Virginia,
took laudanum to cure love sickness. 1t
proved effectual, and he was buried the
next day.
The Columbia Is. c. Phenir came out
in mourning on the anniversary OF Sher-
mans entrance int that city, and It's de-
struction by fire.
"A New York widow "Ducklow
put two thousand dollars in coupon
bonds under her carpet for safety, and
had them stolen.
Mr. A Pope Of at Indianapolis, on
Saturday evening last, from hydrophobia,
resulting from the bite OF mad dog more
than ten weeks ago
AT a recent wedding in New York the
brides presents, consisting of silver, jew
elry, India shaw Is and laces, were estimated
to have cost 100000.
Owing to the number Of mad dogs,
Indianapolis Is having hydrophobic panic,
and the Mayor has ordered general
slaughter of the CANNES.
To terminate dogs suffering man
in ST Louis struck it over the head with a
revolver, W hich discharged ball into his
own body, killing him instantly.
A negro made his appearance in East
Machias. Me, the other day, and was quite
a curiosity to the young people, many of
whom never saw colorcd man before.
in Hartford, the other day, young
man, for hugging and kissing a couple OF
young girls, after they had told him it was
against their principles, was fined at the
police court S22 80.
Two gentlemen discovered and re-
moved a pile of rails from the railway
track, three miles west of jefferson, Iowa,
which had been placed there in revenge for
the destruction of a pig.
Sally Abbot, of Franklin, Me, seventy
years old and an invalid for many years fell
| into an open fireplace recently, while the
| family were absent, and was so badly burned
| that she died soon after.
--Meddlesome mice maliciousiy munched
lot of FRACTIONAL matches In the law Office
| of Gresham s Butler, in New Albany,
setting fire to the building and running a
law library worth $1,000.
| 1T has been calculated that in Britain
a salmon represents value equivalent to
that Of good-sized sheep, without i'm
posing on any one the trouble of housing
and feeding.
The Memphis Daily Ar1ldncte, Of the
23d inst, under the significant caption o.
Hell hath no fury like woman scorned,
describes Gaming received by one Of 1T
editors at the hands of lady.
"A manufacturer in New York city il
filing an order for two thousand thimble:
at eighteen cents per dozen, for the mana
ger of gift enterprise. mo blanks
Every ticket draws present"
The Galveston Cicgian says that tn,
camels in Texas have been found to answe
completely the purpose for which the,
were intended, but yet are dying out fron
the want OF care to perpetuate them.
The old Stuyvesant pear tree, at tn
corner of Third avenue and Thirteenth
street, New York city, planted by Gov
Stuyvesant two hundred years ago, Ina
been run against by wagon and destroyed
An implement for digging post hole
has been invented. 1t acts like common
spade, but when it is driven into the eartl
a movement of the handle doubles up tn,
blade at right angles so as to withdraw tn
dirt easily.
"A man in Stone Creek township, Ohio
received such blow from his wife few
days ago that he fell senseless to the floor
Another woman in the same place, quarrel
ing with her husband, crammed hot pc
tato down his throat
Very few people who invade Green
wood Cemetery ever dream that the battl
of Long Island was fought within its in
closure. Such is the fact, however, for Of
the 26th of August, 1875, the conflict rage
on those very grounds.
, An ingenious if not practical perso
! lately applied f r a patent on al invention
| designed to render spirits palpable to tn
! senses. by means of some fancied attenus
! ton of light and air in a closed room. TIL
commissioner couldn't see it.
"A man died in Annapolis, three day
e ago, of hydrophobia. He was bitten by
4 dog three months ago. and for three day
! preceding his death, the mere sight
! water, or any other liquid, would thro'
E him into violent spasms
4 There is case of courtship in Ea.