The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-05-28

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Hon. w. S. Smith, prominent Law
yer of Ft. Wayne, died on the 22d inst.
The Hartford publishing houses have
sold more than s2,000,O00 worth Of war
books.
--Buchauan, the poet, calls Carlyle
works " the insincere brutalities of our
German Scotchman"
Mrs. Stonewall" Jackson has re.
ceived $3.50 from the sale Of the history
ofth life of her husband.
Dickens brought "Great Expect.-
tions" to America, and he will take
American Notes back with him.
-Thad. Stevens calls the president tho "off
spring of political assassination" Report
paints Thad's offspring in very dark colors.
"A darkey in the Mississippi convention
has been indicted for stealing warrants from
another colored member.
The chiefjustice is crushed to earth by
the fact that he net the ass Ashley after the
trial and Ashley cut him, But he will rise
{ again
Prentice says:
There are bu: few cases Of the skins Of
negroes turning white. but a great many in
stances of white men turning negroes"
Ten members of the Minnesota legisls-
tare are Vermonters. This partially ac-
counts for the fact that the Vermont state
prisons are always empty.
-Washburne's troubles mostly como
from grants. His first difficulty with Don
nelly was concerning land grants in Min
nesota, and his late fight was about his en-
deayors to land Grant IN the white house.
Indiana has l60 lodges Of Good Tenn
plars, with an aggregate membership Of
1911. According to population, thu
Hoosier state bears off the palm in the
north, and Kentucky is the banner state
of the south, having upwards of 100
lodges!
Articles cf agreement between the
pugilist, Fred. Bussey. of Chicago, AMI
Abe Hickey, the English bruiser, were
signed on the 2l.t inst, and the forfeit
money put in. The fight is for $500.
Bussey stalking $1,000 and Hickey 81 500
The fight is to be a catch weight, aud to
be fought on July 10, within 50 miles of
! st. Louis
The following is said to lie a sure test
of death: Produce blister on the fiu-
ger or toe, by means of candle held for
several seconds in contact therewith. If
the blister contains seriosity (the water Of
the blood) it is positive sign Of life: If.
on the contrary, the blister only contains
air or vapor, it is certain to be cadavre.
In other words, for dry blister, death;
for wet one, life.
When southern bullies insulted each
other, in times past, in congress. they went
quietly outside and squared accounts to tho
annoyance of nobody. Now, however.
When the fellows of grand moral ideas -
have falling out, they stand and blackguart
each other for hours fill the whole country
with the stencil of their noxious exhalations.
and, when exhausted of filth, confess public
| ly that they are both blackguards and liars
AT least one family is reduced TO abjec:
despair by the failure Of the impeachment.
Clerk Fofney is furious, Occasional Forney is
stark mad, Olivia tears her hair through
loaded columns, Jane Catherwayete Forney,
the loyal league laundress, and her numerous
offspring have no more foul linen to wash in
public and for pay, and even the "Old Con-
federate" Forney is deprived Of his monitory
position of Helot to the Spartan children Of
Forney proper.
Miss Knowles, beautiful intelligent,
amiable, and fascinating school teacher Of
New Albany was engaged to be married
to a Kokomo animal, whose name. unfor
tunately has been forgotten. The day wss
set, the cards printed, the guests invited.
the minister engaged, when, three days
before the time. letter came from the
bridegroom in which he broke of the en-
gagement The derelict party of the Grst
part is the owner Of property to the extent
of $4,000 Miss Knowles brought suit
against him in the Howard court. He
takes change Of venue to another county,
and pleads in extenuation OF his abomina-
bic conduct, that his affections are :Ercyc-
cably plighted to another. We think Miss
Knowles is lucky in getting rid OF the ass.
but he ought to be sweated profusely to
pay for the modification she has been CON-
PEELED to endure on account of his
fckleness.
The great breach of promise case has
come into court at Providence, wherc Mrs.
Della Nj. Ambro, widow of forty, sues
Thomas S. Hill, twice widower, aud six
ty years of age, for damages TO her re-
awakened affections to the amount of $780,
| 600. From the statement Of the plaintiff
it appears that Mr. Hill entered upon the
contract with great circumspec delib-
erately choosing her out of trio, upon
one of whom he had determined 10 place
his affections, and going so far as to have
her head examined phrenologically, to as
certain her disposition before committing
himself. She ayers that, before Mr.. Hills
attentions became marked, she supposed
that she could never regard any man with
tenderness, and continued in weeds OF
mourning. lavishing all her affection upon
her son. The defendants income for 1860,
Io.,,o-,~ ,roe c1o0 000 o,J eoon bor ho.x,