The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-17
ITEMS.
GENERAL AND NEWS.

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Chicago is an Indian word, signifying a
great place.
There are $50 bibles, and 200 prison
ers in Sing Sing prison.
San Francisco has the credit of consum-
ing 50,000 cigars daily.
The Paris mint is capable of coming
POO twenty-frarc pieces in minute.
a Catholic priestinheri,s the copyrights
Of the Wandering Jew and the Mys-
teries'
The Western HeJrcw says there were
0,000 Jews 10 the federal armies during
the war.
The Quakers in England are estimated
at 16,0S3, and in the United States at
100000.
One of Dan Rice's circus horses, worth
81 LOCO, died at Bridgeport on Wednesday
of consumption.
Two hundred day is the average num-
Der Of visitors to Mount Washington, in
the White Mountains.
Laces were worn at the Rutherford Park
hotel ball which had been on exhibition at
the Paris exposition
Two ladies, OF the highest social posi-
tiou, were recently br;ckbattcd by some
radical negroes in Charleston.
Water is so scarce IN tho vicinity of
Fort Laramie That it is sometimes carried
100 miles, But whisky-that is differ
ent matter.
Joliet, Illinois, has SOS Inhabitants.
There are l88 families in the town Who
have no children. The highest number
Of children in enc family IS Il.
Kinglake sent the Ms. Of his Crincao
War to the publishers in the box used by
Wellington for the transmission of his dis
patches from Waterloo
A pig, with had feet on the top Of his
body and two well developed bodies oined
together at Tie iail. has recently fiilei in
an attempt to live longer than day or tive
in Virginia.
\ society fer the prevention of cruelty
to animals, has heen formed ia 3Iassachu-
setts. It's organ has now circulation ol
2o,Oo3 copies.
\ French paper mentions that gentle
man, whose cellar had been greatly infest-
ed with rats, found that they disappeared
very soon after he had placed cask Of pc
trolcum in the place.
John G. Calhoun, when law student
at Litchfell, used to write his name OF
the walls of his room. Recently severa
thicknesses Of paper hanging were tori
from the walls and his signature was found
in many places.
The United States marshal has levied
on the rolling stock of the Virginia
Tennessee railroad, in execution of debt:
due by the company on their coupons
amounting to $4,000. The running o
the road is not interfered with. -
A French journalist seriously suggest.
what he terms the propriety of mounting
the police Of Paris on velocipedes. They
will, he argues, enable the guardians O
the public morals to overtake any fleeing
thief without difficulty.
\ party Of negroes entered the house oi
Mr. Henry Duckctt, in Memphis, few
nights since, knocked him senseless with a
hoe, choked his wife into insensibilIty, II
fed The house Of all It's valuables and es
capped. 1t is believed that Mr. Ducket
viii die
At Lansing, Michigan, recently, a tight
rope performer stretched his rope across
the street, and attempted to walk it Will,
under the influence of liquor; but upon
his way across the second time, fell from
distance of forty feet, striking on hi
shoulder. Hs is now lying at the point o
death.
Vermont gives in her statistics one di
yorce to every two hundred and sixty-si,
marriages. In FIVE years there 563 di
vorccs, aud II 400 marrges. In Massa
chusetts, within the last FIVE years, there
has been one divorce to every forty-foul
marriages.
The editor cf a journal in small west
ern town bought five pounds of powdered
sugar. lie found that it was mixed Will
plaster, aud announced in his paper Tia,
next day, that if the grocer who had s,
shamelully cheated him did no. make i
right he would publish him. Before
o'clock 10 the morning he had deceive,
Eve packages of five pounds each. Their
were Just five grocers in the town.
Sncezing is another weapon brought in
to play il battle. A Russian savant claim