Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-10


and the receipts now average about $l,15O
per day.
The raising of the ships sunk in Sc
bastOpol harbor is proceeding slowly. The
masts and rigging have been removed, but
the hulls still remain six or seven fathOms
deep in the muddy bottom.
Brigham Young has a rival in the per-
son of the King of Siam, who has taken
one hundred and one savage women to rear
his dusky race of eighty-three, and is sew
penty-three years old himself
1t is a remarkable fact that just now
Liverpool is exporting wheat to New York,
and Chicago is selling and sending wheat
and corn TO the interior This is revers-
ing the order of things wonderfully.
"A regular bounty is paid by the Eng
| lish government for every authenticated
case of triple birth. The Court Journal
complains that they are getting too fire.
quent, and calls for an investigation.
The "newest thing out" comes from
Jamaica. 4 firm there prints at the head
of It's letter-paper: Excuses for non
pa yment of money due must be prepaid,
or postage will be charged to the account"
The reclaimed women in London, res
cued by the midnight movement" have
been provided for to the number of one
thousand three hundred and ten. A print
ing office is one of the means by which
they are furnished with employment.
There is now exhibiting at Redcar, a
small village in England, n cork model of
Lincoln cathedral, made by Lincolnshire
plowman, which contains the extraordina-
~ number of 1 500, 900 old cor<s, and occu-
pied ten and half years in building.
F Use ears of flesh color, made of India
rubber, have been invented in France,
for the use of ladies with large ears They
are used in front of the real ears, which
are drawn back and concealed under the
hair.
1t is reported that system of slavery
exists on the Society Islands, under the
auspices of the French Government, un-
equaled in barbarity by any former plan
tation system down South. The victims
are Chinese coolies and natives of the
Pacific Islands
-Abyssinia is said to be a beautiful
country, with abundant large rivers and
lakes, fertile soil, healthy climate, and
coal and iron deposits in great profusion.
The cotton plant and tree both grow read
lily, and tropical fruits ripen there in the
fullest perfection.
The Accidental Insurance Company of
London have refused to pay the policy of
Mr. Parkin Jeffcock, who met his death in
the endeavOr to save the lives OF his men at
the Oaks Colliery disaster, on the ground
that they did not insure against accident
voluntarily incurred.
The London Metropolitan under
ground railway is about five miles long,
and carried in 1866 21,273,104 passengers
without fatal accident Its receipts per
mile were considerably more than
those of the ten principal railways center
ing in London Plans are now in pro-
greSs to increase the lines to nearly thirty
SIN miles in the aggregate of underground
railway
"A French way of riding on horseback
is To make a pair of enormously large
wheels, and place carriage body over the
axle and shafts SO high that the horse can
travel under it and between the wheels
You will have most symmetrical turnout
such rs they use in Paris, a beautiful dis
solving view of driver, horse and carriage
in one, dcfying mans wit to tell where
either begins or ends, and lofty perch
where you can both see and be seen.
In compliance with the new Intcrna-
tiOnal Telegraphic convention, the admin
istration of Swedish telegraphs have Just
published in the French language report
on the organization of the national tele-
graphs. From that it is seen that the ex-
tent of the lines, which in 1853 was 20
kilometres, had in 1866 reached $3.50 In
1858 the number of messages was only S51,
while in 1866 they amounted to 41S.744;
namely, home messages, 26S, 12S, and for
- II. n.
had been equal to 933, 554 francs.
"A singular duel recently took place at
Berlin between journeyman silversmith
and another artisan. The arms selected
were bottle of sulphuric acid The ar
sangement was that whichever of the two
advcrsaries threw the lowest with dice
should swallow the contents of the fatal
vial Chance favored the silversmith, who
Immediately poured out u glass of liquor
and handed it To- his adversary, who unhes-
itaiingly drank oil the liquid, but, to the
aStonIshmont of his antagonist instead of
falling senseless, smackcd his lips and asked
for another glass The seconds had acted
upon the sensible idea of substituting ar
rack for the corrosive fluid. The affair
terminated in = reconciliation.
is it possible, one might ask, to combine
seems Ia be SO from an account sent home
by the English Consul at Biafra of the
Okrlka people. The natives eat human
flesh, but ave "sweet tempered in the ex-
| IRENE, although inguisitivc." The King is
described as a " round faced, good naturcd
man" deeply religious, and he consults his
gods before going To business. The Queen
spreads the table cloth with her own hands,
and serves out palm wine. In the "iuju
house " the visitors saw priest sitting in
the midst of human bones which he had
| picked clean but he was a jolly, commu-
| NEGATIVE epicurc, and discOursed with the
air of Brillat- Savarin, and about the tit
hits of the human body An admirable
dinner was spread for the pariy-witbout,
of course, the popular dish-and capital
quarters We're provided; indeed, except for
the sand flies, Consul Livingstone was
never lodged better The people are a
handsome, pleasant-looking breed of ne
groeS, and paint themselves in singular
manner with yellow and blue
Incidents and Accidents.