Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-17
Domestic Paragraphs.

cultured gentleman.
Domestic Paragraphs.
The Merchants Union Express Com
pany pay the Erie Railroad s350,000 a
year.
San Francisco averages about one
suicide day. Poison is the fayorite
means.
A 237 pound sturgeon was seined in
the Saugatuck river at Westport, Il. L., re-
Gently.
An iron hatchet was found near
Joliet, Illinois, one hundred and twenty
feet below the surface. How did it get
there?
"A Newburyport merchant last week
received telegram from Calcutta, which
bad only been two days and five hours on
its way, and cost him $500.
"A Frenchman remarked of gentle
man in company, in whom he could not
discover any other quality susceptible of
compliment, that he had :" a great talent for
silence"
Houses are so scarce in Hartford,
Conn, that people flock to them, when
deaths occur, even before a funeral, hoping
family may be broken up and lease OBJ
tanned.
Changes of fashion in dress within
year are said to make saving of from ten
to fourteen yards of silk in each pattern.
1t is supposed that the change will decrease
the revenue tax materially.
Travellers who take Mount Washing
ton in their summer touring are interested
in knowing that its ascent will be faclli-
tated by railroad, and that sumptuous
hotel is to be erected on its summit
Two negroes in Richmond were so de-
lighted at the idea of being able to ride in
the street cars, that they carried their
breakfast and dinner with them and re-
manned in one of the cars till night. One
of them proposed that they should go after
their beds.
Some of the banks in Boston have
been IN iie nuuiL Of ssshins roooiPto instead
of notes ior loans, by which large amounts
were say ii on stamps. In one instance a
two-cens stamp was used where the law re-
quired stamps amounting to two hundred
and fifty dollars.
"A new house is to he erected on Mount
HolyOke, of a peculiar form and construc-
ton. The structure is To be cylindrical in
! form, 100 feet in diameter, inclosing within
| its interior walls a court of 100 feet diam
eter. 1t is TO be four stories high, and each
| floor will contain twenty eight suites of
! rooms.
Calvin Barber and wife are wealthy
farmers residing in Norwich, Chenango
county, N. Y. This worthy couple are
the parents of % intelligent and healthy
children, portion of them grown up and
having families of their owni Seventeen
of the family are girls, and all of the
family meet once year at the old home
| stead
Two little travellers, boy and girl,
aged only SIX and eight years, who had
come alone all the way from Shasta, Cali
fornia, made their appearance at hotel in
Troy, few evenings since, where they
stayed over night,sn route for New Hamp-
shire. They seemed perfectly au fat, trav-
cling by steamer and railroad without as
sistance.
The Louisville ,Jou, nal says: ave
have been carrying on the Louisville Jour.
ma, between SO and 81 years. During all
thai time, we have known no man of bust
ness in the city to fail who advertised lib
orally. And we have known no one to
succeed in any considerable, if even in a
respectable degree, who didn't advertise
liberaIyT
One of the most notable social results
eff the war, has been the introduction of
horseback riding as popular exercise in
Boston and vicinity Before the war il was
almost impossible TO find saddle horse i'm
any of the livery stables, and hardly any
gentleman owned a saddle. To-day, in all
the suburban towns there are dozens OF
saddle horses, and they are used both by
ladies and gentlemen.
Judge Force, of the Common Pleas
Court, Cincinnati, has decided in case
involving inheritance, that marriage in
Ohio without statutory ceremony is legal
and binding 1t seems that James PaylOr
(6eceased) had lived with woman fifteen
years, and by her had seven children; but
holding that marriage was not sacred
thing, and that the ceremony of jumping
over a broomstick was as good as any,
the parties had never been formally mar
ried. The decision of Judge Force entities
the widow to dover, and the children to
inheritance sdi 81,
, With regard to the general distribu.
ton of the sexes, the census of 1860 shows
in all the United States an excess of about
| 730, 900 males. 1t is remarkable fact that
of 4,441 $50 slaves andfree colored persons
there were only S,342 more males than fe
[ males, or only about two in thousand
The large excess in California is partly
owing to the immigration from China, be
ing 33, 149 men to l ,764 women of Asiatit
birth OF course in the new States and
Territories women are scarce; Illinois has
: a male excess of $4,000; Michigan, 10000
Wisconsin, $4,000; Texas, $1,000. In tho
old States the preponderanee is the Other
way, Massachusetts leading off Tin 1860
with a female excess of S6,100, &c. 3 In
} Great Britain and Ireland, in population
of 100000, there is an excess Of S77, 0O(
| females X 81. tl rs .r.s p -.