Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-24

bought farm in Pennsylvania for S2,0OO
just before the petroleum excitement began.
He is said to be worth $2,500,OOO now.
The meanest man we have heard OF IS
that one at Northampton, Mass, VINO sued
his brother the other day for $50 Tor the
board of himself and wife during visit
which they paid him three years ago, when
first married.
"A farmer in Saratoga County, n. Y,
has lifted n barrel containing one hundred
and forty-five pounds of sugar with his
teet. after which he offered to bet SIS that
he could lift it with twenty eight pounds
more in it.
AT fashionable wedding at Norfolk,
| Va, last week, the bridal presents were
valued at $4,000. Among them were
50, 900 roll of greenbacks, two sets of dia-
monds, a camerS hair shawl and large guam
titles of silver plate.
The Independent, referring to the fall
in rents in Broadway and other large busl-
ness streets of New York, says the owner
of a second story, who last year received
| $4,000, but for the next asked $4,000, has
been glad TO take $4,000.
"A young lady has just drawn S93.16
from the Haverhill Savings Bank, being
the accumulation of a deposit of S12 which
was made in her favor thirty years ago, by
a lady, To purchase bridal dress on the
occasion of her marriage.
The La Crosse Republican affirms that
the steamers of DavidsOns Lightning
Line" between La Crosse and st. Paul, get
into St. Paul every day an hour or more
ahead of the cars, which leave Wnona at
the same time the boats leave!
A Boston paper says that the BARRIERS
in that city ore discussing the question
| whether il will be lawful to finish shaving
Il customer after midnight on Saturday
night. The half shaved individual would
await the decision with interest.
| The latest invention in the billiard line
is a table eight feet wide and fourteen feet
| long The size is immense, the proportions
| odd, yet the table has that peculiar merit
: usually expressed by the trite phrase" It's
as fair for one player as the other"
A man in Montgomery, Vermont lost
his wife by death on the 18th of March,
and ON the LIST of April married again.
After the notice of the marriage In the
local paper, he had the suggestive saying
appended: Demonstration is the thief
of time"
Dry goods dealers have for long
time used lay figures to display their
wares, but il was reserved for Boston
undertaken TO exhibit an imitation corpse
laid out in coffin as a means of showing
the skill and taste of the funeral uphol-
sterer.
The dry goods dealers at New York
have not all succeeded in their haste To be
rich during the last year, if their returns of
income be correct Henry b. Clafiin, whose
income In 1865 was half million, returns
| S25 profit from his business in 1865, and
another large house reports 50 cents.
"A cOuntryman sold an old stove in
/ Worcester, Mass, a short time since, and
on returning home learned that his
daughter had placed in the stove oven a
box containing $500, and all his deeds and
valuable papers. He returned to the city
in hot haste, and after considerable delay
and anxiety recovered his property.
The Buffalo Commercial tells the story
of a man from the country who called at
a hardware store in that city, and after
being shown a large assortment of scissors,
turned TO the clerk, remarking, my wife
is putty sick, and its bout an even thing
if she gets any better; guess I'll wait
and see if she gets well fore buy any
scissors.
-IGleneSs is the nursery of crime. 1t is
that prolific germ of which all rank and
poisonous vices are the fruits. 1t is the
source oi temptation. 1t is the field where
"the enemy tares while men Sleep" Could
we trace the history of large class of
vices, we should find that they originate
from the want of employment, and are
brought in to supply its place.
The Hickman (Ky) Courier tells a
story of lady who has slept almost con-
o+a II Co. h. L.
awakes regularly twice in every twenty
four hours and is perfectly conscious for
about ten or fifteen minutes, after which
she gradually falls to sleep again When
about twelve years old, she was attacked
bY chill, and since that time she has
sept as above stated.
Spanish Lake, situated two or three
miles above New Iberia, Louisiana, and
one hundred and fifty yards Fl ON the Teohe,
is fed by springs, and more than half its
surface is covered by floating turf, whose
roots are interviewer so closely that man
may walk on it, 1t looks like fiat prairie
to those who travel on its banks. AT all
seasons, except winter, it is as green as our
prairies in April. By cutting through this
| floating turf, fine fish in abundance may be
caught. In time this turf will cover the
whole Lake.
| 1t is reported on Wall street that a
novel enterprise is 10 be organized there,
with a capital of S1,000,0OO-a sort of
fostermother to embryo joint stock COM
panies. 1t is TO organize and put into
working order, and upon the market, so as
which need such held. For instance, a
mining property or mandatory which
needs capital for its development, would be
placed at fiXed price in the hands of this
bureau, which will undertake to procure a
responsible president anu board of direc-
tors, and then place the stock upon the
market. The attention of the bureau is it
is said, to be devoted principally to mines
The New York Gazette calls attention
to the immense advance of rents and real
estate in that city. Only last week we
heard of an instance where a gentleman,
owning an elegant house upon Fifth
avenue, vainly tried to sell il for $50, 900 In
1860. A few days ago he was offered for
it the modest sum of 100000, and would
not think of letting it go at that price Six
years ago the building that is now the
Union League Club house could be rented
for 80, 900 now it is i'm demand at $4,000.
Six years ago there were not ten men in
New York who could really afford to live
in house worth 100000; now there are
one hunureu AT least. DIX years ago
$4,000 was large rent for dry goods
store; now there are several that pay
$4,000. There must be limit to this
fnghtful advance in rents and real estate,
aud we think the end is near
Theodore Tilton has been looking into
New York by gas-light, and dares not tell
all that he saw. He says of what he did /:
ain company with several well known
public men, and under the guidance of the
police, we made tour, last Saturday night,
through the nethermost haunts of misery,
vice and crime in the city of New York.
This is an exploration which every man
connected with public affairs, either by