The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-06-25

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The personal property of Cincinnati
foots up S43, 100000.
Diamonds to the amount Of $50 900,
600 are owned by private persons i'll New
York.
Women are gradually working their
way into the watch making business in the
east.
The coachmakers in New York are
preparing to strike tor an advance upon
SIS day, the present wages.
The New York bricklayers ask 81 sc
and eight hours work per day. instead o.
SIS and ten hours, the present rates.
We are authorized to say that Gen
Grant will make no harrangues this sum.
mer. He will smoke his cigar, and Col
fax takes the stump.
-Thurlow Weed says that Greeley
while in the New York constitutional con-
vention, was SO profane and blasphemous
as to shock and disgust his fellow men,
bers. What! Greeley. the man of " NOR
al ideas"
The Prussians affect to believe that
certain important schemes have been dis,
covered in Silesia, which reveal the exis-
tence of plot to involve the lessee Eu.
ropean powers with France in war
against them.
A new variety of corn, the result OF
selecting seed, and of high culture, has
originated in Minnesota. The yield last
year was as high as one hundred and
thirty-seven bushels to the acre.
The last legislature of New Jersey
passed law providing that fathers and
husbands who desert, neglect, or refuse to
provide for their families, shall be adjuI 2
ed disorderly persons, and dealt with ac-
cordingly.
Quo of the leading women of tie
dem; m onde in Paris is beautiful mulat-
to girl from Savannah She is owned by
the rich Vicomte de Guezet, has house
of her own in the Rue d'Aiguille, four
servant, carrige, and box at the
theatre Italian.
John d. Wharton, the young man
who attempted suicide on Sunday, the 9TH
inst, in his room at the hotel, at Madison
BY shooting himself, died of the selfin-
flicted injuries on the evening Of the 18th,
about hali-past ten o'clock.
The city council of Muncie held a
called meeting on the oath inst, and made
an appropriation Of $4,000 to secure the
building of the junction railroad to that
point.
The Rev. Nathan Page, a venerable
old colored preacher, dedicated large
new billiard hall, in Columbus, last Tues
day. His text was from the third chapter
of Jeremiah, and is said to have been a
mastery effort.
There resides not far from Scottsville
in Floyd county, family named Derment,
consisting of father, mother and nineteen
children, seventeen boys and two girls.
There are in the family eight pairs of
twins, including the two girls and four
teen Of the boys,
Our exchanges report terrible wind,
rain, thunder and lightning storm
throughout this state, but more severe in
the northern part, on Monday night and
Tuesday morning, of last week. In South
Bend several houses wero struck by light
ming, and IN one of them, Mr.. DOnnelly.
wife and child were struck and thrown
some five or six feet into the yard, but
none of them we're killed. In Whitley
county the Columbia City Post says:
"The whole country is deluged with wa
ter; causing immense damage to the
growing crops The damage to the wheat
cannot fail to be very great. Most of it
being tall and heavy, the wind and rain
has broken it down and tangled it up SO
that it will prevent it from filling perfect
ly. The corn is also badly damaged by
being washed out, and flooded, in the low
ground. Other crops will suffer in like
manner.
The "rebellion did not begin at the
SOUTH" exclaims the New York Tribune.
Not began at the north when state leg
islatures commenced passing personal
liberty bill" to annuI law of congress.
dispatches from Washington to two
of the New York papers, state the position
of Mr.. johnson on the presidential ques-
ton as follows: 80.
First choice, Chase; second. Hancock
third, Hendricks; PendIeton he will not
support
The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Post states that Mr.. Pendle-
ton has written letter to friend, saying
that the moment any other candidate in
the convention receives single vote more
than himself. his name must be with
drawn.
A few Of the democratic journals are
very busy just now telling the democratic
national convention what it must ard what
it must not do. We mistrust that the
masses have not looked we'll
to their interests or they would have Sc
lccted these editors as delegates.