Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-05
AN Attica, N. Y. farmer who had re


fused forty five cents, sold all his large ac
emulation of butter in Buffalo, a few days
since, at twenty cents Present prospects
indicate still lower prices, rather than
higher.
The California Rorax Company ships
$500 lbs of bOrax and upwards every day,
at cost for all expenses of $50 ton. The
article is said to be worth $500 ton in
the European market, and 5000 in the
American.
"A mean thief has been detected in
Brooklyn. He has been in the habit Ct
visiting poor families as pretended agent
of the Young Mems Christian Association,
giving bogus orders for groceries, wood,
coal, etc, and then demanding seventy-five
cents for carriage.
1t is now proposed to open canal for
shipping through the St Clair flats, which
SO greatly obstructs navigation between
| the upper and lower lakes Such canal,
ample for all purposes, it is stated by Gen.
Cram, Of the Engineer Department, can be
opened for less than half million of dol
lars. ft.U
! The time occupied in trip from the
| Missouri river To Salt Lake City now is
only eight days. Three of them are occu-
pied in the trip from Omaha TO Denver,
and the remaining five from Denver to Salt
Lake. In this eight days travel there are
800 miles OF railroad and 900 miles of
stage
The New York Times says; We
have never known oranges To be more
superabundant than during the last month.
Being plentiful, they have also been cheap.
| The travelling street vendors have sold good
ones for twenty-five cents dozen, while
/ l,oi lleao
and the little ragamufin could obtain sat
lsfactory specimens for "a nickel penny
apiece.
in the Marion county (lllinois) Circuit
Court, jury has given a verdict of 5000
in favor of Nathan Ilorner, formerly a
merchant of Lebanon, H., and against the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, for
damages received by the plaintiff in being
put off the train on dark, stormy night
because he could not find his ticket 1t is
due to the company to say that the offend
ing conductor was promptly discharged.
1t is reported that Chinese lad who
has been for some time engaged in pho
tographic establishment in San Francisco,
has occupied his leisure in translating Web
ster's dictionary into Chinese. Probably
the effort is rather literary curiosity than
q literary event. But "a fact of real i'm
portance is that Wheaton's standard work
on international law Is about TO be placed
in the hands of the Chinese in their own
language.
| Competition in insurance grows more
lively every day A company has just
been started in Chicago, that offers heavy
inducements. IL will take small cigar
stocks at a minimum of four times their
value; and It presents, along with each
policy, barrel of shavings, n bottle of
| turpentine, and box of matches This
last-named feature lessons considerably the
| expenses of certain class of economical
dealers
The Rock Island CIll) Union is in
formed by gentleman from the lower end
of that county, that some apprehension is
felt lest disease, Familiarity known as the
mad itch" may become prevalent among
the cattle. Mr.. VIM Drury, of Buffalo
Prairie, lost two head by the disease with
in two days The cattle are attacked with
an intolerable itching, that they tear
their flesh in their agony, and continue
their scratching, plowiGg the ground. and
believing, until dea. h gives them relief
Mr.. Pitt Hoard, of Watertown, N. Y,
at n recent session of the Supreme Court,
brought case against T. +. Peck, drug
gist, of that place, for selling to his wife,
unbeknown to him, laudanum to the
amount of from four to sixteen ounces a
day Ii was shown that Mrs. Hoard used it
as beverage, thereby injuring her health.
The prosecution was conducted by Hon.
IL S. Hammond, defended by f. W. Hub
bard and 4. B Moore. A verdict of 500
damages in favor of the plaintiff was rem
dered
The Keol1uk Gate CITY vouches for the
following as having occurred in that city on
the 2lst: " A pig, evidently searching for
something with which to sustain life, came
across a mich COW, lying down, and nj
once concluded that he had found what
seemed to be good thing and at once
commenced drawing tactical food in the
most natural manner The COW at frs
tried to drive the pig away, but finally con
cluded that the pig fully understood TIT
: business, and did not offer any further OBJ
lection"
; An accident has brought tn light tn.
fact that many of the New Yogk ehurche
have been sold for Croton " alter taxes with
, out the consent Of their owners The off
. GERS of the Croton Board are very careful
| not to inform the property owners wheI
the water rents are delinquent, and to com
z ply with the forms of law, give notice o
the sale IN some obscure and unknown
, papers. After ten years, the period of re
j demption. the property thus fraudulent,
sold passes into the hands of the new pro
prietors.
The New Orleans 4 is.es relates 81
bookkeeper, who had served his employee
faithfully, was continually disappointed il
g his application for advancement, the en-
ployer telling him, Never mind, Eli men
. ton you in my will In the course @
. years, the bookkeeper meantime rendering
faithful services, the employer died, an
o the bookkeeper finding he had not bee
: mentioned in the will, he thereupo
brought suit. Witnesses testified his CLAN
was Just. and that these promises had bee
made. The consequence Was, he recoyere
= $4,000 of the estate.
-Bayard Taylor has an article in tn
April Adaatic on Travel in the Unite
;, States" in which he pitches into the raj
road companies and the restaurant keeper
for the recklessness, swindling, discomfor
and dyspepsia which destroy, impair, an
a make miserable the life and health of til
!. American people, whom he also berate
" with equal earnestness for their apathy o
these subjects. He refers to the fact tha
:, the success of the sleeping cars, and TIL
IS reputation and prosperity of eating house
a like those in Springfield, Mass, and Pougl
keepsie, demonstrate that Americans desil
e all accommodations, and will make thel
" profitable to those who furnish them.
N Mrs Lucia Gilbert Calhoun of the IT.
bune, being caught in rain storm the otl
d or day, entered a well known phrenologic
r establishment i'm Broadway to wait for
-e passing stage One of the attaches of Il
concern, thinking the lady from the coil
70 try, asked her if she wished to have h,
IA head examined. Il have no objection