Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

QleQ At the ripe aye Oi lOEly years.
The New Hampshire Patriot presents
citizens reform ticket for Concord, with
Charles 81. Proctor, colored barber, for
Mayor.
The Chicago Cattle Yards have $50
acres floored with plank. There are pens
for $4,000 cattle, 10000 sheep, and 10000
hogs. The cost is $2,000,000.
"A cake was given to a Baptist festival
i'll Burlington, to be given by vote, at ten
cents each, to the handsomest lady in the
crowd A "colored lady got it.
AT a dinner party gwen last week by
a wealthy New Yorker, the walters were
dressed in scarlet coats, knee breeches, silk
stockings and powdered wigs, the old Eng
lish fashion.
The students of the Wisconsin State
University have passed resolution highly
complimentary to Prof Reed, who has left
the institution to take the Presidency of
the Missouri University.
"A Cincinnati firm has obtained the ex-
elusive right of taking views in the Mani
moth Cave of Kentucky for five years.
The pictures are to be taken by the use of
powerful retlectors and the magnesium
light
I'VE have often heard of an old lady
who said she had often noticed that if she
lived through the month of March she
lived through the rest of the year" We
coincide with the old lady if March, 1867,
is selected as specimen.
The Martinsburg (Va.) NeSo Era says
that one day last week, Mr. Thornton Hen
shaw, residing short distance from that
town killed fifteen foxes, and it wasn't
good day for foxes, either. He discovered
hole, and dug them out
A merchant of Providence, Rhode
Island, has occupied the same store on
Weybosset street for forty-nine years--a
case unparalleled except by the Brewster
Brothers, of Washington, who have occu-
pied their store on Washington street for
half century.
Galveston physicians publish SEIZED
ule of fees in the local papers. A diagno-
SIS is put down at ten dollars; an opinion
involving question of law, twenty five to
a hundred dollars, and treatment of yellow
fever or small pox, from fifty to two hun
dred dollars.
Has anybody nickel penny of 1858?
The Washington Star says there's an active
search for them, and that they are con-
sidered worth twenty-five cents each, be-
cause they have been almost wholly with
drawn from circulation, and will be very
valuable byand-by in completing collec-
tons.
-"Sing-song ware is the fanciful name
given to the deliberately designed and high
ly colsred Chinese ware which is coming
so generally into fashion Just now por-
celaiD from China is becoming very fash
ionablc in New York Dinner sets cost
from 800 to $1,000, and contain, perhaps
some $50 pieces.
Illinois furnishes New York city with
more live stock than all the other States
combined. During 1866 the total number
of cattle was POS, SS2 OF this number,
165,2S7 were received from Illinois, alone
The aggregate value of all this live stock
was $50, 223, 1921 ard of the shipments
from the State of Illinois was $1S,372,
302.62.
The trial of a new railroad constructor,
on the Central Pacific, in California, has
proved complete success. The machine
levels the track, lays the ties, deposits the
rails, and nails them in their places II is
estimated that with complement of twen-
ty men il will do as much work III day as
two hundred men without the aid of the
constructor.
The latest culinary novelty is alpha
bette soup. Instead of the usual cylindric
and star shaped morsels of maccaroni which
have heretofore given body to our broth,
the letters of the alphabet have been SUBJ
stituted. As these letters of paste preserve
their forms in passing through the pot,
their appearance in the plate is capital, to
say nothing of their whimsicality.
1oooI cro,f1ar,,, 1f Norr V1rI- -r,-o.
us this fact Not long ago certain Judge
of one of the Police courts in that city
was absolutely supported on his seat while
he passed sentence upon man who was
then sober, but who had committed some
mlsdemeanor while in a state of intoxica-
ton. The Judge was not in feeble health
80 that he required support. He was not
faint He was simply drunk! COmments
are unnecessary.
The New York EUening Gazette says that
in many families this season dancing has
been discarded. In its place more elegant
and intellectual diversions have been given,
and with great success Fine readings and
Rotations, ending in some cases with de-
licious ,suppers, the whole entertainment
being over by midnight, have been the
novelty, Such entertainments threaten to
for season or two.
The grasshopper invasion of Kansas
and western Missouri, last fall, will be re
membered. The ST. Joseph (Mo.) Herald
now says.the farmers in that vicinity are
living in dread of return, or rather re-
currence of the invasion They are dis
pirited, dare not trade, incur any expense
or act tpon the idea that they are this fall
to reap the reward of their spring labors
This fear actually has very depressing in
fluence upon business.
The proprletors of the Boston 7rGcde1
are coming coppers on the principle Of
"heads l win, tails You lose" They also
own the Saturday Erening Gazette, and
while advertising the Trareler as "the only
prohibitory law paper in Boston" ant
seeking special patronage of the friends o
| temperance, they are running the Gazett
as an earnest anti-prohibition and pro
license journal, and tickling the liquor
sellers with its denunciations and sarcasm
of the prohibitionists-
Eighteen young ladies who, FIVE year
ago, organized 1t Milford, Connecticut
what they called Chapter of Revela
tion," whose meetings should occur ever
! five years, at which each member shoule
relate the most prominent events in he
life, held their first reunion on Tuesday
did the promised revealing" and dranl
one another's health in bottle Of win
which had been sealed in the society's or
| ganization. Two of the number had die
and five married since their organization
! "A son of W. W. Danehower, of Wash
ington, D. G., claim agent, formerly resi-
dent of Chicago, has been detected stealing
money letters, coming to his father II
had returned one letter to the writer, in
dorsed: do you think so much none
would carry safe? Try a small order. A