The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-06
NEWS ITEMS.

The French Army Bill is having an un
favorable effect upon public sentiment in
France
Emperor Napoleon writes to Mayor
Heath, of New Orleans, to acknowledge
receipt of certain Photographic views Of
that city. The Emperor adds: "You
have partly retained our laws, our customs,
and our language, and 1 entertain hopes
that the links will be made stronger by
Commercial! intercourse.
Of all things it might be supposed that
rats would be safe from the depredations
of thieves, yet woman has just been ar
rested in Paris for stealing one. 1t be-
loDged to a street Snowman.
Only four hundred and forty shocks Of
earthquake have visited the island of ST
Thomas, since last November.
Gen. Marquee, nicknamed the mexican
Leopard has turned up in Cuba, under
the assumed Italian name of Leonicio Mar
chetti
The net profits of the Paris Exposition
were 100000.
There is talk of another Spanish insur-
rection, and 1000 American breech load
ing rifles are sent for by the Spanish
Minister of War with which to quell it.
Prussia thinks of establishing a penal
colony on the west coast of Africa.
Bismarck brown as a favorite fashionable
color, has been cast aside in Paris for the
Metternich green.
In late letter Charlotte Cushman is an
nounced as leaving Florence for Rome, to
make the latter city her permanent resi-
dence.
4 lady is announced to make her debut in
Paris who will appear masked. She will
sing one peice. All Paris is crazy to know
who she is. It's said it is Mrs. Lcrillard
Ronalds of New York, very wealthy and
and said to be Superior to any cantatrice
living.
Rev. Geo. w. Bush of the Central Ohio
Conference committed suicide, on Mon day
; last, by hanging himself
The trustees of the Peabody Education
al Fund, in session at Richmond, have vo-
ted considerable sum to that city to be
expended for charitabl lie purposes
Mrs. Hartigan, who had her legs cut off
by an Erie Railway locomotive in Jersey
City, few days since, has died from the
effects of her injuries.
tits said that the articles in the National
lntelligencer directed against Gen. Grant,
were dictated by Montgomery Blair
Fifteen hundred mississippi freedmen
want to go to Liberia. They find they
, can't live here without work.
The Cunard steamer Persia has been
! withdrawn from the line plying between
New York end England and sold 10 her
+ builders. Her captain says he has crossed
the Atlantic in her $50 times,
The German Emigration Society says
that 49, 29 Germans came to New York
last year
r The business in the locomotive shops OF
Paterson is slightly better; but at least a
thousand mechanics and laborers are idle
$ The committe of citizens are giving relief
to two hundred and two families.
They are hauling up the keepers of
6 bro!hels in Cincinnati, and faing them
$50 paid costs.
y The German element in ST Louis has
triumphed in opposition to the law prohib-
: iting the sale of lager beer on Sunday.
Theodore Tilton lectures in Richmond
on Friday night
There is 'iive panther" in Wander.
burg county.
: a Lafayette man, whose cellar and
wood pie have been pil!aged every night
e for some time, has charged every fourth
e stick with powder, and doSed every other
: can of fruit with arsenic. He invites his
friends to call.
A Madison horse has been sold for 81 ;.
: 500.
d The Indianapolis Journal says that at q
o meeting of pastors, Tuesday, the following
d reports of reyivals in some Of the Methodist
G Episcopal churches of that city were made
Ames church, 40 conversions and..54 acces
y sons'; Strange chapel g accessions /. lrini
u ty. 13 accessions Asbury, 80 accessions anc
IL 80 conversions German, 10 accessions :; We
5 ley C hapel, 81 accessions and a goodly mum
Der of conversions. There was no repOr
!, from Roberts Chapel nor from Third Street
!, y but they, too, are having refreshing seasons
1 In most of the churches meetings are still
going on, and from all appearances will long
: continue