Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-05
-On the 27tb q man his WIFI and child.

rem, while crossing the st. Lawrence river
at Cornwall, in sleigh, broke through the
ice, and were drowned
The Fayette Qnd) County Herold
| tells of a cat in that place that Matched out
a couple of chickens, by making her bed
III box In which some eggs were kept.
Hiram, Coon, convicted of the murder
of Mrs Larken in the town OF Petersburg
in October last, was executed at Troy on
the 22d. He made statement denying
his guilt.
"A man named Besselmen, confined in
jail at Centerville, Ind, for having attempt
ed to murder his wife, committed suicide
on Friday, the 10Th, by cutting his throat
with razor.
"A little girl, aged about four years,
named Bowers, an inmate of the Home
of the Friendless, in Springfield, ILL.,, was
burned TO ceath recently, by her clothes
taking fire.
An old man, named Earnest Gleih,
living in Huntington, Indiana, committed
suicide early last Sunday morning by hang
ing himself He had been drinking very
hard for some time previous Ia the act.
An incautious individual at Terre
Haute, Indiana, the other day, after smok
ing, put his pipe in his pocket with pack
age of powder. He was seen, shortly after,
looking good deal surprised, and inquir-
ing for his coat tail, and large piece of
his breaches.
"A man named William Plant, living at
kimmswick, Mo, was engaged to be mar
ried ON the Sth inst, but the night before
went into the woods and opened vein in
his arm to bleed himself to death. He
would have succeeded but for the cold,
Ia fol, LODI laa tod
it from flowing.
"A plaster manufacturer, of MOntpel
lier, France, named Lionnet, has just met
with his death while handling Il pistol
which he had taken from his secretary,
where il had been lying for long time in
a drawer. He appears TO have forgotten
that the arm was loaded, and in playing
with the trigger, the charge went off and
blew out his brains. NJ. Lionnet had only
been fortnight married
On the night of the 9th, two of the
river police at Cincinnati, heard cry from
some one in the stream. They procured Il
| skiff, and rowing to the middle of the river,
| fished out thief who had his pockets
| filled with false keys and bottle of chic
reform. He had been attempting 10 rob a
house on the river bank, became alarmed,
and, running the wrong way, fell into the
water, and tiOated Il considerable distance
before being rescued. He is now in Jail
The Waterloo On. " Observer says
that i'm Jerusalem, Yates county, recently,
while two boys were rehearsingthe tragedy
| of Lincoln and Booth for school exhibi-
ton, the pistol of the boy Booth unfortun-
ately had ball in it, which passed through
the check of the boy Lincoln (named Otto
White), flattening itself against a molar
without even breaking it. Lincoln spit out
the blood and ball together, with "cusses"
too numerous to mention at the terrified
Booth.
"A funny suit Is In progress at Cincin-
natl before the Superior Court. Not long
ago, W. 5. Merrell & Co, manufacturing
druggists of that city, instructed a cores
pondent in Kentucky to send them an in
definite amount of sassairas pith. The
man addressed hired large number of
| women and children and in short time
| had loaded three flat boats with sassafras
pith and delivered them to the aStonished
druggists in Cir cinnati. The latter refused
TO pay the bin Of nearly $4,000, and they
have accordingly been sued for the amount
"A young German in st. Louis visited
Justices office and stated that he wanted
to be married to lady by proxy. He had
| brought two witnesses to prove the lady IS
| willingness. He was informed that il
could not be done Arguing the case, he
said he had known such marriages to take
place in New Orleans. Failing To convince
the Justice of the propriety of such per
| Torrance. he went out and Teappeared
with d lady old enough to be his grand
mother and the feminine January was
united to the masculine May in about five
minutes. 1t seems that the old lady pos
sesses some property, and the young man
| none at all.
=" Professor Macallister, " wizard"
has had an amusing row" in Buffalo. 1t
seems that his partner takes the money,
and refuses To disbursc Macallister's dues
at Macallisters convenience. The other
night the wizard applied for money 10
serve his necessary. occasions, which was
denied him. Thereupon, the audience be
Ing assembled, the wizard" declined 10
call spirits from the Vastly deep until be
"saw his way" advising the people to fall
back on the cashier for their money
They evinced and avowed, instead a deter
mination to punch the " wizards" head and
thereby finally won upon him to go on
with the performance.
"A painful event has Just occurred a.
Murville (Moselle, France) The cure had
{ performed the funeral ceremony over the
body of Nine. Jean, who had died the
previous night at the age Of seventy-one
and the men had partially filled up the
grave, when all at once they heard dull
sound apparently arising from the coffin
They fetched at once the person who LIVED
, heard the same noise. The Mayor was
sent for and gave orders for the eXhuma
ton. The coffin was opened, and the body
E was found TO be warm, but no other sigI
, of life was to be perceived. A medical ex
animation fixed the moment of actual de
, cease ut the time at which the exhumatior
, was being made.
/, Last July, Mr. Jefferson Olmstead, o
Savannah, Ohio, missed hog weighing
! some 200 pounds, and nothing was seen o
heard of him until last week, when MI
Olmstead having occasion to take down
! straw stack on his place, his swineship wa
discovered underneath. There was n
, doubt, from the signs and the facts giver
that the hog had bee in the straw sine
! last July. He was probably asleep in tn
! straw when the stack was being mad,
which was the time the hog was missed
: and was covered up so completely an
!, closely that he could not escape III
weight was, when found, about sixt
{ pounds. The hog seemed to be as well q
> ever, save the falling off in weight
. The simplest life preserver we hay
: heard Of lately-and yet it may be non
II The less valuable for that's that of GU
ting bung in cask, big enough to adm
L mans body, weighing the opposite sid
|, with suspended ballast to keep it in pos
u ton, and lining the aperture with canvs
a sleeve having drawing string by which
e may be frightened around the waist of til
L occupant to exclude water. A supply
r provisions and fresh water inside the cas-
: will do no harm to craft or vOyager TIL