The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-11-05
EEENES.

letters day.
The deaths in New York during the
week were $50.
The total number of registry in New
York is los, 800.
The registry at Brooklyn, UP to Fri
day night, was 1881.
Cabinet makers charge high for cof-
fus, Because they are never returned
for repair.
The New York Tribune has on hand
obituaries with biographies of prominent
living men.
! A flock of ants, 10 miles in width,
recently swept across Shasta valley, SIS
; kiyou county, Cal.
The engine "Pennsylvania" on the
Reading road, is the largest in the United
States. 1t weighs A tons.
&C. G. Gunther, father of exMayor
Gunther, one of the Oldest merchants of
New YORK, died on Frlda3 last.
The horse, John Stewart. trotted
twenty miles on Friday last, at the River
Side Park, in SO minutes and 23f sec.
onds.
One ofthe Philadelphia engine COM
panies pats clean paper collar and a
purple nacktle so the neck of its pet poo
die every morning.
The immense fire in the forests of
Washington territory is said to travel at
the rate of FIVE miles an hour. The houses
of many settlers have been destroyed.
The Substantial business men" of
Laramie keep Sunday. They don't do
business on that day, but just go around
hunting up suspicious characters, and
hanging them to telegraph poles.
"A clergyman, who believes in amuss-
meuts if properly conducted, says it is
curious to note how many people attend a
circus, "only because they want to please
the children ;" but still more curious to
observe that in many instances it takes two
or three ablebodied men. with as many wo-
men, to look after one little boy or girl.
In Schuyler county, Missouri, two
young democratic brothers, who had served
three years in the union army and against
whom not, suspicion Of disloyaIty could
rest, were not allowed to register, because
their father was confederate sympathizer!
Such is the way union soldiers are disfrau-
chised in Missouri by radicals.
A white woman, in Alexandria, Va,
had cOlored girl arrested the other day
for abusing her daughter The mayor dis
charged the accused, and assessed the
cost Of tho tn both partiesl The dis
tinguished magistrate evidently believes
in the legal if not social equality of the
two races.
1t is we'll known that physicians gen
orally look with distrust upon all prepare
tons known as patent medicines, and ad-
minister to patients their own prescriptions.
but we have known several reliable and
experienced practitioners who prescribe
Or. Heckelfs vegetable ague cure for
malarious diseases, in preference to any
thing they can give, thus recognizing its
superior merits. For sale by all druggists.
There is scarcely trace of soda In
the so called saltwater. The fact has
been distinctly stated at recent meeting
OF the British Pharmaceutical society
When the beverage Was manufactured
lew years since, it contained four or five
grains of soda The popular opinion was
that by some accident soap had found its
way amongst the other constituents. Soda
water with fifteen grains Of soda in it
would be anything but healthful.
The latest railroad scheme is thus
described: The scheme is the application
OF the postage system to passengers 1t is
the contrivance of one Raphael Random,
letter shall be dispatc he'd to any point for
three ,enny: six penny or shilling stamr,
as a third seco.d, or irst class train shall
be preferred. The inventor produces
statistics to show that this marvellous
cheapness, in view Of the immense inc" ease
of travel, may be realized. What is ad-
ded to the expense Of transportation by
the weight of a passenger compared with
that of letter, is saved in the cost of de-
livery, the passenger delivering himself.
| In Middlctown, VT, is single to
mato plant ten feet high and elgh IN
breadth, which had upo;. 1T one bushel of
fruit, some of them weis Mtg pound each,
and all of them CT large size. They are
called the "perfect tomato" are thick