Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-07
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPpINes.
Miscellaneous.
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"A mocking bird in New York speaks
.fty words
Only two executions in Vermont with
in forty years.
"A man in New Haven is said to have
committed suicide because his rent was
raised
An orphaned Boston heiress worth
100000 has lately married an Irish lad
whose good-looking face is his fortune.
I'm 1866 nine females over one hundred
years of age died in Massachusetts, They
had all been married and were widows.
"A swarm of bees left hive on Pine
street, Manchester, N. H., and took lodg-
ings in postoffice drop-letter box on one
of the city lamp-posts.
"A widow lady in Virginia buried all
her family jewelry and gold during the
war, forgot the place, and was unable TO
find it until a terrier dog dug it up few
days ago.
The Connecticut river froze over again
last month at Lancaster, n. H., after the
ice had once gone out, an occurrence I'M
known to the "oldest inhabitants"
"A man named Hillebrand attempted
suicide Ia Hanlon, in Columbus, Ohio.
He threw himself off stone staircase three
times, head first, and would have continued
the operation had he been able to reach the
top of the fight
I'm suit recently tried i'm New York,
it was discovered that one of the Jurors
could not understand word of English
The case had occupied nearly day, and the
neutrality-suspicious. was not discovered
till the close of the proceedings.
"A well twenty five feet deep at Marshall
Maine, has struck water which GIBBS and
flows like the ocean tides There is an
abundance of water twelve hours out of
twenty-four, appearing and disappearing
once in every period of that length.
"A Richmond paper says a gentleman
recently found gold Louis dor, valued at
about $14, and bearing date 1913, embed
ded in the shell of a York river oyster 1t
is supposed to have been lost overheard
from the French fleet during the siege of
Yorktown
AT Pond Hill, n ", little girl, eight
years of age, daughter of Levi Sanders
was recently brutally outraged and muir
dered. A young man named William
Henry Carswell has been arrested and
committed on the charge of being the per-
petrator of the fiendish crime
The Germans of New York are max
ing great preparations for the great Inter
national SchutZen Fest, which commences
there on the 25th of June next The .fete
will last for a couple of weeks, and will be-
of its kind, one Of the most imposing ever
witnessed on this side of the Atlantic.
w. c. Patten, of Liberty, O., placed a
quantity of cloverseed in an alright bin
last fall, and, to protect it from cold
weather, covered it with straw, the bin
standing in the field On opening il this
spring he found that melted snow had
gone into the seed, producing spontaneous
combustion, as the seed was scorched to a
crisp.
Two pedestrians in New York city are
pitted against each other to walk 1000
miles in 1000 hours, if they live long
enough, and if they survive that time,
they are TO keep on walking until one or
the other gives out The walking is done
in billiard room and around number
of billiard tables-a circuit of 40 times
making mile. The men are young Miles,
the champion of California and Australia,
and John Goulding. an English sport, and
formerly trainer of Tom Savers. They
entered on the journey April %.
Accounting to the prospectus, the New
York Baseball Tournament is to be held
at Niagara Falls, commencing June o, and
to be open to all clubs in the United States
and Canada. Fifteen hundred dollars will
be distributed i'm prizes, gold and silver
balls, etc, and the whole number of prizes
is more than two hundred. All the ar
Engagements seem to contemplate the most
liberal inducements TO the participation of
clubs; so that it is fair to presume that
the tournament will be one of unusual in
tercst to baseball players everywhere.
The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is
not without its story of love and romance
Some twenty years ago dashing Tennes-
see girl promised her mother that she
would not marry certain man on the
face ofthe earth"-said sutton being partic-
ularly Objectionable TO the old lady. So
there was quiet for some time But one
pleasant day the girl and her lover ran
away and went into the cave to spot
now called the !" Bridal Chamber" and in
the presence of a few witnesses were there
matrimonially united, about three hundred
and twenty-five feet below the "face of the
earth.'
"A statistical genius has been examin-
ing the exchange list of a prominent perio-
deal, and reports That it embraces 1851
names, which he groups into 256 families,
some large, and others quite small The
Journal family number 116 Gazette"
90; Republican" 10; " Democrat" 81
Herald" 67 Times Sc; Union" AS !;
Sentinel" AZ; 5" Press" 46; News" AZ ;
Register" 80; Courier" "a "Adver-
tiser," 81 " Era" %; :, ADVOCATE 81 /;
Record" 20; Banner "Chronicle, ("
Standard" Star" and Post" each 1G J;
Republic" 49,; Patriot, and "Indepen-
dent. each Is; Dispatch" Express"
and Signal, each IA 80 American, Ar
gus" and Telegraph" each ID; Mes
senger,". ~; Eagle" II; Commercial, >
and Zeitung," each 10. The remaining
21s families range numerically from 0 to 1.