The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-05-14


in the Indianapolis Sentinel.
"A thousand feet of the Vincennes
been washed away.
Work on the Pcninsular railroad has
been commenced one-half mile north of
Mishawaka.
Indianapolis boasts of second Stan
ton. The Sentinel says:
We understand that Mr. Macarthur, follow
ing the example of Stanton eats and sleeps
in the office the Board of Public Improve
ments, while some five or six policemen
guard the entrances to keep out Coburn.
The latter entleman is getting out writ of
quo warranto.
Last week, in Mount Vernon, Frederick
Rup ruptured his cerebelum by firing pis-
toll ball into it. Poverty was the cause.
For two Sundays they have had no
preaching in Corydon, Harrison county.
| "A newly married fool locked his wife
out of the bedroom one night last week,
WhereupOn the spirited creature smashed the
door with an axe, and went triumphantly to
the husband is certainly greater ASS than
Thompson's historic colt.
The Evansville Opera House is to be
completed by the first of August
The Lafayette City Council has been in
secret session over proposition to buy the
fifth street Methodist Church for a City Hall.
Price 5000.
"A big niger in the Winchester Jail sand
and ratified the bones while the other prison
ers sawed out.
Hugh Painter, an old farmer, was killeg
near Falkland last Saturday by the cars. Mr.
r. stepped from the main to the switch, and
was run over by portion of the cars which
were detached from the train and switche ed
| off.
The Kokom oTribune reports an unac-
colntable demand for pickles in that town
Fifteen cases Of small pox in Lafayette
The Richmond True Julian is locally ed
tied by lady.
In Vincennes, Eddie Rosmen, aged IA,
was killed by a runaway team.
| Lightning struck and partially demolish
ed the bridge over the Wabash at Clinton
| William Shireman, of KOsiusko county,
had three valuable horses killed by the tal
ling of a tree
Henry Clarke, the Salem murderer, re-
Gently made a desperate attempt to break Jail
at New Albany
Eleven hundred and seventeen dogs
taxed in Lake county.
Frank CULVER, Nayne county mon
grel, has been sentenced to the penitentiarv
for life for killing Henry Fossenkamper.
Kos Whelan, of the Cambridge Mirror,
has been elected Clerk of that city
A valuable warehouse at Log Lick
Switzerland county, burned by lightning last
Tuesday.
Frederick Copper, indicted for the muir
der of Eli Prickett, at Forbvlle, in October,
1866, was tried in the Delaware circuit court
last week, and acquitted.
Three Fort Wayne boys came to grief i'm
their first attept at highway robbery, and
now await trial under 800 bail.
The high water has broken the canal in
three places, one at Wea, another at Gran
vile, and the third at Covington all south
of this city, Lafayette Jour.
, "A sad ana fatal accident occurred near
Bridgeton, Parke county, on Thursday last
MIR. Gideon Crooks young man named
Clark, and third person whose name we
, did not learn, attempted to cross Big Racoon
in skiff. The stream was very high, and the
boat was drawn into chute and was driven
2 over a mill-dam. Crooks and Clark jumped
from the boat and were drowned, while the
other man chung to it, went over the dam,
and was saved.-[Terre Hautc Jour.
The pastor of the Catholic Church in
NseI,, II
delivered in his church on the following
Sunday, to carry to the Enterprise office fer
publication. The boy made a mistake and
carried the note to the tent of Stoves Varic-
ties, where it was read to the select audience
assembled. The mistake was much regret
ted
"A SANDER suit, wherein Mrs Annetta
Tracy was plaintiff, and Granville Beeier,
Ashel n. Wells, James Berkshire, Ferdinand
Papa, and Samuel Strecker were defendants,
was recently compromised in the FLOYD cir
cult court, the defendants making public re-
cantatiOn.
The heaviest alibi onsrccord is that Of Pc
sey county negro, charged with killing bay.
, He proved that he was in three different pla-
ces, five miles apart at the time of the kill
ling.
in the case of Noah Fairhurst of Widne r
10 vnshlp, against j. L. Walker, civil suit for
damages, the jury awarded damages in $1,000.
In October last, Walker MANNED Fairhurs.
dreadfully by cutting him with an AK, nearly
! severing the arm and portion of the left
shoulder and from the effects of which he is
still suffering. Walker absconded, but his
estate is perhaps sufficient to cover the DAM
ages.-lVincennes Sun.
In Richmond, a two hundred pound mig
ger fell from the second story of the Star
grocery, and lit on Mr.. Charles Plummer,
who was working in the room beneath. 1t
was soft thing for the darkey, put rather
rough on Mr. Plummcr, who was smashed all
of heap.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
Negro Suffrage i'm Missouri
The ST. Louis papers contain long adj
dress from Hon. &. ID. DRAKE, one of the radi
cal Uuited States Senators from Missouri, to
his constituents which is mainly confined to