Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-22

New Jersey has literary curiosity,
the like of which, in all probability, no
other State or country on either side of the
Atlantic can boast, viz: a weekly news
paper, edited, published and printed by the
convicts in the State Prison at Trenton.
The name of this novel journal is The
Sunbeam, and has for its motto, Every
cloud has silver lining" Llc.4a4s v.ll
lin Kentucky lives a man, the head ofa
very respectable and intelligent family,
who, during one week in each month, about
the first quarter ofthe moon, imagines him
self a woman, dons the hoops and balmoral,
and sits in his parlor waiting for his beau
This strange conduct was first noticed In
him when he was about seventeen years of
age He is now fifty
1t is not "a mere newspaper story
that the outcry about the crawling CHG
mons IL spelling that particular branch of
business in New York. The Broadway
shops that deal in them have not had a
customer for days, and in more than one
case orders have been issued To stop the
manufacture of them The importation oi
the raw material also will probably, exhibit
a sudden falling off
AT recent term of the Ashland, Ohio.
Common Pleas, case was disposed of
where young man was plaintiff, and a
former sweetheart, defendant. He had,
while counting her, made her presents to
the value of about $1,000. She, however,
Tilted him, and married another. The jury
returned verdict for the amount he had
presented her, and six cents damages.
"A few minutes after school had been
dismissed, al Butler, Ind, the other day and
ere the pupils were out of hearing, the
ceiling joists, and principal rafters and
beams came down with terrible crash,
crushing nearly everything beneath. Full
fifty pupils had been in attendance daily,
and had it fallen when they were in the
room the result would have been frightful.
On Friday, the Sth inst, at Crestine,
a thief stole $500 from an old man who
seemed TO be DOING in one of the cars Of
the down trains from Cleveland, and then
started to run The old man Immediately
gave chase, and shot at the thief, hitting
him in the neck and in the back, and
bringing him down The rascal was taken
in charge by the police, and the old man
recovered his money. fess- 81
Judge RusSclls sentence Of New i ork
garroter to forty years imprisonment will
be remembered. Another sentence just is
sued by the judicial lips sends black-mailer
to prison ten years and imposes fine OF
$4,000 As the prisoner is said to be in a
shocking state Ofimpecuniosity, he likely
to be Jail bird for the rest of his life, un-
less some soft hearted Governor shall par
don him, which is not at all unlikely, as was
done in the case of the forty-year prisoner.
About nine months since, boy resid-
ing near Buffalo, n T., while amusing him.
self with pistol, accidentally discharged 1t,
and the ball entered his brain The boy
came TO his senses after while, and is alive,
through all attempts to extract the ball have
been unsuccessful, and will probably re-
suit i'm death He cannot speak, and the
ability to read is gone, but the accident re-
suited in increasing his power of the organ
of calculation, and he can now figure up
with marvellous celebrity very abstruse sums.
A correspondent, writing of Salt Lake
City, says This singular town covers an
area of about Line square miles-that is,
three miles each way. 1t is one of the most
beautifully laid out cities in the world.
The streets are very wide, with water run
ming through nearly every one of them
Every block is surrounded with beautiful
shade trees; and almost every house has its
neat little orchard of apple, peach, apricot,
and cherry trees In fact, the whole nine
square miles is almost one continuous
orchard"
The Roman Catholics of ST. Louis
contemplate the erection OF cathedral,
which, when finished, is to surpass the one
in course of erection in New York, which
was projected by Archbishop Hughes, as
far as that win surpass the present cathe-
dral at Philadelphia. The plot on which
the new cathedral is to be erected is over
four hundred feet long by one hundred and
| fifty feet wide, over G0,000 square feet
This will afford room for the largest church
edifice in the United States, and as large as
some of the celebrated cathedrals OF Eu'
rope. ~ rs
1T has been calculated by Rev. j. o
Means, of Roxbury, that the whole tonnage
ofthe world, from the smallest craft to the
| largest steamer, would be emp lOyed for
twenty years in removing to any reasonable
distance the body of snow that fell in the
great storm of January II. If it had fallen
upon Massachusetts alone, the State would
| have been buried twice "a deep as Bunker
| Hill Monument over its entire area, and i
il had fallen upon Roxbury, that. city would
have to mark its burial placewith monu
ment ten times the height of Mount Wash
ington. tf-fef aH Ed str
The New York Gazette says: 1--WE
were recently shown fac sinaile copy o.
the London Punch, reduced in size about
one third, printed from phototype by 8
new process By new application o.
photography, any book or paper can bt
| produced at rapid rate, the Punch being
| afforded for three cents a copy For illus
trated works it is invaluable A company
| has been formed and several acres of grounC
purchased in Brooklyn for the erection o
buildings. Messrs. Ticknor g. Fields hav,
interested themselves in the matter, and i
is understood they will make arrangement
for the publishing of some rare works by
this process.
Mr.. Britton of Ashburnham, Mass.
was killed ON the 18th ult, by the bursting
of circular saw. The man having charg'
| of the saw let it run ON an iron connected
with the carriage, causing it TO break ant
| fly into pieces. MIR. Britton was standing
twelve or fifteen feet from the saw. A piec
two feet or more long, weighing sixteel
pounds, struck him, making fearful woun,
| six or eight inches long in his thigh, pene
trating through from the fore to the bacl
side. The same piece also struck him OIL
his body above the thigh, causing interna
injuries. He was taken up senseless ant
carried to his house, where he lived onl,
about five hours, in terrible pain.
| Incidents and Accidents.
| "A good man in Utica gave one hun
dred and twelve children of the Orphan
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