Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-30

JULY. religious, and tsmpexanee,S state
and nationa AZ snizatiqns are entitled TO
Send seven delegates.
A first case in litigation from Alaska
has recently been brought TO Washington
and committed to the care of Robert j.
Walker. 1t involves certain claims To land
in the city of Sitka.
,r The Buffalo Express says: The Nor
mon problem is solyed-Paris fashions are
finding foothold IN Ufah, aud every FL
der will be ruined in six months. Think
Of one man dressing twenty women.
The national debt was reduced the
other day TO the extent of 100000, which
amount was paid into. the n ew York Sub
Treasury. Nfhsvine SbeeW bequeathetlzto
the nation by the late Ralph 5. Fretz, of
San Francisco.
in a gambling saloon in Chicago, on
the night of the cath, a man named Joseph
Bruce was shot and killed ~ Theodore
Cameron. one OF the Saloon pfepyieters.
During the affray man named Patrick
Dulcy was mortaiIy wounded
"A bold robbery was lately committed
on the Hudson River Railroad The door
open, the patent brakes applied, and the
thief got off with considerable booty ere
any one knew why the train stopped.
East Canaan, n. H.. sent a man to
Jail three years ago, because he refused TO
pay tax of three dollars. After paying
800 for his three years support in Jail
they have concluded not to undertake TO
collect the claim and have released the de-
linquent.
Under the new State Constitution,
Louisiana Is To have 101 Representatives
and thirty-six Senators in its Legislature.
The Governor is To receive "A salary of So
1000 per annum. to hold Office four years,
and to be ineligible for the succeeding four
years.
T Spring. Gfoe, The cemetery g 6 ipdn-
natl, at present contains four hundred and
forty-twO acres, including "A recent pur-
chase of one hundred and thirty acres.
BY this acquisition it has become fifty
acres larger than any other cemetery in the
| United States.
u 1t is officially anasuuecd that since
! the opening of the New York State Inc
briate Asylum at Binghamton, there have
been applications for admission from 80
clergymen, $40 merchants, 226 physicians,
24O gentlemen, so judges, and 1900 rich
! An m nsrured etli,or of Hudson \.
v, saws that the ladies of that place are
opposed to improvements in the city. They
object TO have the street lamps placed in
front of their residences, for the reason
that under the full glare of them they can
not part with their beaux at night with a
! kiss.
| A circus and menagerie company,
travelling through Pennsylvania, not long
tsince, mystifed everybody in the various
| towns by negotiating with the boys for
all the cats said boys could get. After a
lwhile it leaked out that the cats were fed
to the lions. Cheaper and better than
| beef
7 Mr. Upton, of Withingham, VT, re-
Gently found a mammoth owl stealing his
hens, and fed to tile rescue of his poultry.
The owl showed fight, and would have
whipped Mr. Upton if he had not called
for assistance, which vanquished the bird.
The distance from tip to tip of wings was
five feet.
The Providence OR. H. Press urges
the municipal fauthorities to- filf1l the
pious duty, long delayed, of erecting a
monument to Roger Williams, and pro-
poses that the purchase of the cove lands
tfrom the State, by the city, shall tie condi-
toned with appropriation Of half the sum
toward this memorial 'snNO
= DR. B. A. Gould, of Cambridge, Mass,
wheis-new. emerged in pEsparing statistics
PET e4asa sSis is s AZ
er than that OF any, sother .eiYilized coun-
try, and, that the average height OF 1ndi-
ana, soldiers Is greater than that 1of the
soldiers from any other State of the Union.
| SOME time since q .petrified stump was
found in limestone quarry, in Kickapoo
! township, P cora Coz nlO ItT was a per
! feet stump, with the ak marks, the grain OF
the wsed the conb,or part pken by the
reSdiaf 6hape, as W se !lnoXn
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cool and unco1cerncd After DE Wa
! placed in the ssmurderefs ce:ssilhs4id to
a bystander; ~ Why didn't they. make i
M issagSSfke hd56 l& bHUf
--.A Mrs dGreer-@'U wealthy widUsv--has
been held for trial IN Chicago, Hon' tlis
charse OF committing an assault WITH ii
| tent to KIN on the person or Miss Com
stoclSIa Tpunk1adylpf tlatfity: 1t seems
the young lady was, on the ID Of April
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