The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-21

State Etems.
One hundred and forty six petitions have
thus far been filed in this state under the
bankrupt law.
An old woman of fifty has had youth
OF seventeen arrested in indianapolis last
week, on charge of bastardy.
The Evansville Cotton Mill has three
looms in operation.
A grocery store on the cooperative plan
Is to be started at Vincennes.
The State House of Refuge building at
Plainfeld, will be completed by the first of
December
Deer are plenty in the woods twenty
five miles southwest of Terre Haute, the
Journal says.
On Saturday night an even dozen of
houses were broken into and robbed at
Muncie, by gang Of thieves that iutests
that town.
MEMO Is CORRECT. This is the ex-
clamation of every juvenile one meets en-
the streets nowadays. We are getting
to be fast people. A keno bank has
been running at full blast in Boonville for
several days. BooncWc Democrat.
There is singular we'll on the farm of
Mr.. Bacon, abont three miles west of this
city. 1t is forty-seven and half feet
deep, with another about twenty feet from
it ten feet deep, and still another fifty feet
from it thirty-six feet deep The water
from this well, when first drawn, is very
cold, and has an exceedingly pleasant
taste, but after staining a few moments it
is impossible to drink it. Potatoes or
other vegetables boiled in it, insteod of
getting soft and eatable, remain hard and
tough, and do not seem to cook at all,
though heated through, while the outside
OF them soon become covered with shiny
substance, very much like grease. The
hands or face, washed in it, also become
covered with grease when soap is used.
What is stranger still, the stock at first
will not touch it, but afterwards get to
like it so well that they will drink no
other, not even when exceedingly thirsty.
---Lafdyette Journal.
AN IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-At the
present term of the circuit court in the
case of Fiddler Us Ke.ls, Judge Bicknell
decided that wife can only hold property
in her own right when derived from one
of these three sources gift, devise or de-
scent.
The case was one where the wife bor-
rowed money in Michigan, with which she
established millinery store, and from the
loan and its profits she bought real estate.
1t was claimed that the property was hers,
and not her husbands. Judge Bicknell
decides that the loan and its profits belong
to the husband. No subsequent transac-
ton can alter his rights in the premises,
and therefore such property is subject to
his debts just as any other.
This decision will effect complete rev.
olution in actions for the recovery of debts
incurred by the husband, in which the APP
parent ownership has been transferred to
the wife to avoid their payment. 1t is
certainly a move in the right direction,
making justice and right the rule rather
than the subterfuge of mere TECHNICAL
S'-'cc -1tOu"y AcuycT.
Articles of association have been filed
for railroad from Washington, Darian
county, to Merom, Sullivan county, with
a capital of 100000.
One day last week a young married man
of town, thinking that his wife was not
working in double harness just to suit him,
he, coward like, gave her severe whip
ping. The mother of the young lady
finding out that her daughter had been
whipped by her worst half, procured
good raw-hide, and proceeded to the place
where this puppy stayed, and waded into
his affection about forty or fifty lashes,
we'll laid on which made the young man
wish it wasn't him. Served him right,
VIXEN man gets so low-lived and coward
ly as to beat his wife, he ought to have
ten lashes for every one he gives his wife
Standard.
In the election suit from Huntington
county, tried in the Allen Common Pleas
Court. the jury found a verdict of eight
hundred dollars damages for the plaintiff.
The cause of the suit was the refusal by
township trustee of the vote of man
claiming to be qualified voter, on the
ground of his being deserter A motion
for new trial has been refused.
Complaints Of unnecessary cruelty are
being made against the teachers of the
Fourth Ward. A friend informs us that
his little boy came home day or two since,
with his shirt torn off, and the prints of
feminine fingers around his neck. The
little fellow complained that his wind had
been cut off.-IndionopoHs Herald.
Peter Daily got drunk at Lafayette.
drove his team into the canal, the wagon
vas upset, Peter spilled out into the water
where he yielded up the ghost