Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-14

Maine has sos lodges of Good Tenn
plars, with 29,141 members-7,0 900 more
than a year ago.
Chaplin, Connecticut, has a popula-
ton of no, of whom seven per cent. are
seventy years of age.
The Ohio Legislature enacts that il
shall be Illegal to vote any other than a
ballot printed ON white paper.
Among 'hc gifts at recent wooden
wedding at the South End in Boston, was
fashionable bonnet made of shavings.
1t is now the fashion for gentlemen in
New York TO visit their young lady
friends in the afternoon instead of the
evening.
heid, Massachusetts,, growing between the
branches OF large tree twelve feet from
the ground
Professor Sweet, a "young Rhode
Islander" recently, on the Pawtucket
Riding Park, completed a walk of one
hundred miles in % hours.
In the Insane Hospital of Indiana
there are forty seven women who have
been made inmates through the brutal
conduct of drunken husbands. 81
HALF of the coffee consumed in the
United States comes from Brazil Rio, and
much Of the so-called La Guayra cofiecs
come from that Empire.
-Smugglers at San Francisco have been
doing good thing for themselves, bringing
in silks, opium, cigars and other articles,
inclosed in hollow logs, bored as if for
water pipes.
Fashionable young gentlemen have
adopted the fashion of wearing the ladies'
long kid gloves with four buttons for the
street
Any one who can give information to
Postmaster Osborn, of Rock Island, of the
present Whereabouts Of Mr.. 5. Crouch,
will confer IA lasting favor on relative
who is now very i'll, in Chicago.
s. G. Herring, the safe manufacturer,
has Il horse six years old, nineteen hands
high, and weighing one ton. 1t comes OF
Canadian stock, and is said TO be tie largest
horse in America.
The wife of Mr.. s. V. Woodbride, OF
Collinsvilie, Connecticut, has a peony
plant, now in a thrifty condition, which
belonged to her great grandmother, over
one hundred years ago.
"A wealthy gentleman who has been
for twenty years in the Hartford Insane
Retreat, has been in perfect mental health
for nearly twelve years, but makes it now
his voluntary abode.
in order to get clear of bis creditors,
Detroit man transferred all his property
to his wife. The latter has now died,
leaving will which leaves the poor man
pennilcss unless he marries his servant
girl.
"A young woman in Richmond, Va,
who rejected lover three or four years
ago, has received notice from the young
mans administrator that all his property,
amounted in value te about 100000, was
bequcathed to her.
"A certain aristocratic residence in
Madison avenue, New York, has carpet
on the drawing room, of velvet, Orna.
mented in the center with q large mono.
gram. IL cost $500 TO import.
On the 8th inst, band Of Indians
made an attack on the Union Pacific Rail.
road, Kansas Branch, about twenty miles
from Coyote They stopped freight
train, and burned three car loads of freight
and construction material, and tore down
the telegraph wires.
Ever since women left off wearing
bonnets, and substituted for them bit OF
paste-board, covered with some thin stuff
on the top of the head, and fastened under
the chin with ribbon or strip of lace, that
painful disease, neuralgia, il said TO have
prevailed among them to an extent never
known before.
--Roxbury, in Cheshire county, N. H.,
it is said, has no lawyer, doctor, clergyman
or pauper, among its two hundred and
sixty inhabitants, and for more than a
year no death has occurred i'm the town
What happy place that must be! Nc
sickness, no law suits, no need for religious
services.
Three Detroit youths, aged nine, ten
and twelve years, recently robbed a money
drawer of $50, purchased a supply of pro
visions and luxuries and took up theil
abode in dry goods box in back alley
where they remained all night feasting and
drinking. One of the boys was discovered
by his father the next evening, at the thea
ter, and confessed, duplicating his com.
panions, who were all placed under arrest
The Supreme Court, at Richmond
Virginia, has decided that where debts
were contracted in Confederate money
of money when the debt matured, and not
when contracted. Another decision given
by tine same court is that noteholders OF
the old banks of the State shall not have
preference in the division of the assets
but depositors and all creditors shall share
alike.
"A duel was fought on the 9th, near
Baltimore, between Colonel p. Y. Green,
of Maryland, and Daniel w. Wright, OF
Baltimore. Both parties were wounded
by the first shot, Green in the shoulder
and Wright in the leg, neither very serious
~. A second shot was insisted upon by
one of the parties, but objected to by his
second, and the affair ended after the first
shot, though no adjustment of the Difficult.
ty was had.
james NJ Grant, of Bridgeport, CT,
recently obtained divorce from his wife,
and the fact was made public i'm the col.
umns of the Bridgeport Farmer. The
next day Mrs Grant informed the public
through the columns of the same paper,
that the notice was the first she had heard
of the matter. Subsequently Mrs. Grant
received information from England that a
deceased relative had left her between
$4,000 and 100000, and Mr. Grant is said
TO he somewhat disguised at the turn
which affairs have taken, and is fruit.
lessly lamenting that he obtained that
divorce. .ls Ga
"A New York telegram announces that
Weston, the pedestrian, backed for So, 900
will walk from Bangor, Me-, to st. Paul
Mimi, and return to Buffalo. The wager
is So, 900 side, and the time one hundred
days. He is not to travel on Sundays
which are included in the one hundred
days. He starts about August 10, and will
be accompanied by six sworn judges. A
purse of $4,000 is also being raised to be
presented to Weston if he should accom-
plish the feat He will also have to walk
100 miles inside of twenty-three consecu-
and should he fail in doing this once, he
forfeits all claim to the 81, 500 purse, and
forf.its go OO0 for each event tn his. back.