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

CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Personal and Literary.
RossIsI is 20 and gay and happy and
musical as ever. III
n p WILLIS, it is said, was, for years be-
fore his death, firm believer in spiritual
ism.
GARIBALDI, having sent his sons to Crete,
promises now to go himself and take up
arms
Mr.. Dickens gets gro about $3.50 in
gold), night, for reading his last Christ
mas story.
1T IS said tina: the Bankrupt bill will cost
A T. Stewart over $l.000.O0O, chiefly in
bad Southern debts.
CARLOTTA is reported perfectly sane,
and expressing satisfaction at her husbands
intention to stick to his throne.
THE Right Way, organ o the Impartial
Suffrage League, published by Major
George l.. Stearns, of Medford, Mass, has
died.
II is believed that Governor Brownlow
cannot live much longer. His present
nervous disorder grows more and more
threatening
HENRY PRoBAsco, wealthy hardware
merchant Of Cincinnati, gives that city Il
bronze fountain which cost at Munich 800,
600 in gold. a
The artist Ruggles. whose cabinet pic
lures have become known a. the RuggleS'
gems, died in Brooklyn, on Sunday morn
ing, aged about fifty years.
THE name of Queen Victorias book is
announced" Leaves from My Journal in
the Highlands" 1t will be funny to see
how the English reviewers treat 1T.
SAMUEL WASHINGTON, formerly of Cul
pepper county. Virginia, and grandson of
General Washington's brother, Samuel
died at Delhi, Ohio, recently aged eighty
one
WE regret having fallen into an mad
vertence which may have misled some
readers We gave the name of the new
Tycoon as SlatthaSsi, 1t should have been
Slotsbashi
THE will of Colonel O'Fallon, of St
Louis involving property worth from
$6,O00,000 to $4,000. 900, has been set aside.
He gave his children only life estate, and
left his property to grandchild.
We are glad to announce that the physi
clans attending DIR. Holland, who has been
dangerously i'll at Brooklyn, N. Y, regards
the crisis of his sickness as past, and now
confidently look for his recovery.
THE death of J. D. B. De Bow is denied
in note from r. G. Bramwell, who says:
i think it my duty to contradict the state
ment The editor is now living, and full of
statistical energy His brother, Franklin
De Bow, died in New York, few days
ago"
RAPHAEL SEMMEs has assumed editorial
charge of the Memphis Bulletin In his
salutatory he suggests that the only way by
which the South can benefit herself, or be
of any service 10 the country, Is to attend
to her industrial interests, and let politics
alone
IT is said of Commodore Vanderbilt that
he can draw offhand a bank check to a
larger amount than any other capitalist in
the country Last Saturday he deposited
a check fora million dollars in the Mechan-
les Bank, as purchase money for st. Johns
Park
THE President of the National Bank of
Bellows Falls, VT, is Nathaniel Fullerton,
ESQ.,, of Chester, who will be ninety-two
years of age if he lives till next September,
and his signature to the bills is still clear
and bold. He has been President of this
bank for thirty years
Col. CoLT's family have issued gor-
geous book of four hundred pages, COM
memorating him and comprising descrip-
ton of his seat, Armsmear" The book
was mainly prepared by Prof Butler, of
the Wisconsin University, and copy is to
be sent TO the Paris Exposition
CAPTAIN ID. III. MCBRIDE, of the steamer
Detroit, of the Milwaukee and Detroit
Railroad Line, has crossed Lake Michigan,
in that boat, Just tarenty tlco hundred times
(2,200), running across the track Of an i'm
mense feet of vessels, and never had a col
listen Luck may have something to do
with it, but care and attention great deal
more.
WHITFIELD's habits were singularly nice
and cleanly, upon the principle that every
thing abOuta minister should be "spotless.
He was known to saw that he could not die
easy if his gloves were out of place. He
had the gentlemanly love of order which
required his table to be elegantly spread II
only a loaf OF his favoritc dish a cow heel
were TO be set upon it
UNDER the title of "Another Historical
Fable Exploded" the New York Evening
Post records the renewed discussion, by an
English writer. of the questSh whether
such a man as Vim. Tell ever existed The
Post seems to be persuaded that this new
writer, Mr. S. Darling Gould, has success
fully executed the task ofdisproof, and that
VIM Tell may be dismissed to the region
of historical fable.
IT Is announced concerning the new
woDan's paper which is to be established
in New York, that two female phono-
graphic reporters from London have beer
imported to 90 the city affairs The eli
torial staff is to consist of Mrs. Ann
Stephens, Mrs Calhoun, Mrs. Croly, hrs
Parton, and Mrs. Terhune Miss Olive
Logan will be the dramatic critic, andsMis
Anna Dickinson foreign correspondent
Mrs. POLLY AsHFIELD, venerable la
DIV Of Built county, KY, has living prog
eny numbering two hundred and thirty
three souls. Mrs. Ashfield Is very aged
not far from, if not quite, Zone hundred
but possesses excellent health and activity
for one of her age She was a woman
grown and married at the time of St Clair
defeat, and gave food and drink to the sol
diers as they passed her house.
a DISPATCH received from Petersburg
Va, on Monday, announced the arrival o
Rev. George T. Williams at Annapolis
Md, in condition Of hopeless insanity
The Petersburg Index states that this re
suit has been apprehended for some tim,
by his friends, but they have determined
not to enter the plea of insanity at his tria
In New York, on the charge of picking
lady's pocket in Broadway stage, but t.
rest the case, as before, solely on its merits
Domestic Paragraphs.
The number of Indians in the Unite
States at present is 5S5,I74
A butcher in Wheeling, during tn
past thirty-three years, has made $50 mile
of sausage