Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-10-24
INDIANA ITEMS

reports greater breadth Of wheat sown
this fall than last, but thinks that there will
not be enough for home consumption.
Farmers are preparing to sow spring wheat
when the season arrives. The weather has
been very favorable for ploughing.
Albert Holt was sentenced last week by
tho Miami Circuit Court to the penitenti-
airy for two years, for horse stealing.
IRoN ORE.-Mr. j. p. Withcrow, agent
of the indianapolis Manufacturing and
Mining Company. Brazil Ind, was in our
town last week, and offers to pay So per
ton of 2,2i0 lbs for each and every one
hundred tons of pure bog ore, dcliveren on
board the cars at this station. There are
almost endless deposits OF iron ore in the
prairies in this county, and if our citizens
will promptly take hold of this matter and
commence work. it will prove TO DC an i'm
mense source of profit to our town and
county IN the event Of receiving assur-
ance that the work of getting out ore in
large quantities will be commenced, = side
track will be built on this road at the point
most accessible TO the ore IFinnendc
Democrat.
The Yearly Meeting of the Dunkcrs OF
Indiana was hold week before last near
Ladoga. The attendance was very large.
No political resolutions wero passed at the
meetings.
- ShimlTack, for horse Sealing, and
John Acker, for grand larceny, were sen
fenced last week, by the Iaporte Common
Pleas Court, to the PenTten,iary-the for
mer for three and the latter for two years.
A lady in Laporte left her baby in its car
Tisge on the sidewalk in front OF store,
and during h.r absence the little passenger
got TO Growing and springing in The seat,
whercupoE the wagon started down thein-
clincd planks, until it ran sheer off The
boards and capsized into the gutter, under
the feet of Colonel Shannons horse, which
was hitched near by. The horse There
upon took fright, kicked fine little wagon
to pieces, tore loose from his fsstenings,
and ran up street with the bury. Strange
to say, the babe was taken out of the wreck
of its carriage totally unhurt.
The Laporte County Agricultural Fair
last week was very successful. The receipts
the first day amounted to about 1925 on
Thursday they Appropriated $500.
A man, whose name We did not learn,
got on the train Tuesday evening at Wanna
tab to come NORTH Having no money to
pay his fare, the conductor put him off.
After trudging on foot awhile toward West
vile, il appears that he sat down on the
track and fell asleep. This night train com
ing along, ran on him, the cow-catcher
knocking him from the rail with terrible
blow. His ribs were fractured, and the
physicians fear that he has received mortal
injuries internally .-Ldportc Herald.
ID. X. Pettibone, Independent RepublI-
can. was not elected Clerk OF Lake County,
as first reported. Mr.. w. w. Cheshire,
the Republican nominee, wa. elected by
small majority.
Isaac Reed, of Harrison Township, Pu-
laski County, killed a catamount Measuring
four feet eleven inches from tip to tip and
two feet high.
LEFT HoME.-A son OF Nathaniel Mar
tin, living one mile cast of this city, named
John, left home on Monday, September 30,
since which time he has not been heard
from. He is about eighteen years old and
of unsound mind. Information concerning
him can be left at this office, and will be
gladly received by his parents. South
Bend Register
A gas company has been formed at Peru,
and invested with the privilege of using the
streets and alleys of that city for. thirty
years for laying down ga, pipes, etc.
The corn crop in Fayette County was
not so much damaged by the 6routh as was
expected, but still does not come up 10 the
average. The Connersville Times thinks
that the short crop of corn and hay in that
section will cause large numbers of cattle
to bs thrown upon the market soon. We
suppose that fat cattle will sell at high fg-
ures during the coming winter.
The franchise Of the Milton and Water
loo Turnpike will he sold at Connersville
on the I'd proximo. William c. Forrey is
the receiver of the road.
There were fouy hundred and twenty
prisoners confined in the Southern Penitan-
tiary at Jacksonville, on the i5th-four
hundred and seven males and thirteen fe-
males. All females sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary in Indiana, are sent TO the Jeffcr-
sonville prison. The health of the prison =
srs is reported excellent, and the sanitary
and police regulations of the prison arc
good.
The Fish Law has been decided uncon-
stitutional by Judge Eckels, in the Virgo
Circuit Court. Wait, fishermen, for the
Supreme Court of the State to decide the
question.
General Lewis Wallace and his wife have
been lately devoting themselves TO litera-
turc The November number of Harper'e
Magazine is to contain an article written by
each the lady writing the 80 Confession oil
Weak minded Woman" giving her very
interesting adventures in trying to get q
poem published, and the General write.
and illustrates an article on the Mexican
silver mines, which he preemptsd year o.
50 ago in Northern Mexico, but which hi
has not been able, as yet, to work.
The New Albany Ledger remarks
"We doubt il any legislative religious
body ever assembled in this State, coult
show more men OF finer personal and intel
lsctual appearance, than the New Schoo
Presbyterian Synod that has just closed it
sessions in this CITY,"
THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING A DEN
ocRAr.-We give it up. 1t does ;
man some good to be q Democrat