Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21

Net single divorce has ever been
granted in South Carolina since its settle
ment. Fhe new Constitution, however,
contains a section providing for the legal
separation Of dissatisfied. husbands and
wives.
The Fenians are holding series of
State Conventions for the purpose of re-
organizing and to raise funds wherewith
10 carry out their projects A convention
will be held in every State.
"A disguised Virginia politician pub-
fishes the following card al this day
sever my connection with all political. or
carnations, and shall hereafter endeayor
to pay more attention TO my future saliva
ton" fFF
An eccentric and visionary gentleman
who had devised extravagant plans for ac-
quiring riches was released few DAYS ago
from the Maryland Insane Asylum by the
court, on the ground that such mental
alteration was not insanity.
"A soldier of the army has claimed a
young lady teacher of New York school
as his wife, to whom he was married in
1864, which marriage was kept secret
until the soldier was discharged. Now
she disavows him, says she was never mar
ried to anybody, and sues him for SANDER
"A young lady with blue CATERS, blue
dress, blue sacque, blue lace collar, blue
hat, blue feather, blue parasol, blue fan,
blue Kid gloves, blue stockings, blue eyes,
and turquoise bracelets, necklace, and ear
rings, attracted attention the other day on
one of the jersey City ferryboats.
"A new collecting" mania has broken
out among the young ladies. Albums are
made of cards with holes punched in them,
and in these holes are inserted the eyes of
the buttons which form the subject of the
new mania. One young lady i'm Portland
has already collected nine hundred and
ninety-nine varieties, and is in despair to
make up the thousand
The Brattleboro' Insane Asylum. in
Vermont, which has been for thirty-one
years under the care of DR.. w. ii. Rock
well, now has five hundred and ten in
mates, and its annual expenses are SIS, 500
The institution owns one thousand three
hundred and sixty acres of wood and pas
ture and improved farm lands, and feeds
| its fires with one thousand one hundred
| cords of wood annually. .u ..l..r
"A company of twelve was organized
at Weston, CT, last fall, for the destruction
| of all foxes which should come within
| speaking distance Twelve nails were
driven up in certain store, and the man
who failed to have fox skin on his nail
by the 1st of April was to stand the oys
tiers for the party. They all succeeded in
obtaining skin in season, but it is moi
entirely certain that all the foxes were
killed in Weston.
I'm California, recent rains in Yole
county exposed bones supposed to have
belonged to human beings If so, the
owner of them must have been of tina,
race of giants generally considered myth
cal, who lowered to the height of twenty
or thirty feet. If of quadruped, the
beast was larger than any now in exist
ence in the State. Some of the bones are
in good condition; others are much de-
cayed and broken, and one, about six inche.
in diameter and foot long, is almost en-
tirely pctrified As remains of race
now extinct, human or otherwise, they de
serve attention from scientific men. They
were found twenty feet beneath the earth,
surface