Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-12-10

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The Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr, of N.
Y, lectured u Pixies Music Hall, Cincin
natl, last Wednesday evening, 10 one OF
the largest audiences the hall ever contain
ed. His subject was "John Bunyan."
Lorillard's Tobacco Mandatory, in
Philadelphia. is the largest in the werld.
The proprietors pay $1,000 revenue tax
and the same for labels month. =
"A lynx was recently killed in the subu-
rps of Terie Haute. We haven't heard
whether 1t was a candidate for United
States Senator, but presume from the
locality it was.
The San Francisco bulletin SAYS:
''More farms have been cut up and sold in
his State during the present year, prob
ably, than in any three previous years"
The venerable DR.. Tying, at The LAYING
ofihe corner stone of the Young Mems
Christian Association in New York. said
that when he began his ministry there was
not Sunday School known except the
little gatherings of Raikes in England, that
not missionary society had been formed
in the United States, ard steam and tele
graph had not been drean.ed of He was
closing his ministry under the brightness
of better day, when God was bestowing
on Christian young men apower for future
good, for future eminence, and future
blessing to the world.
A japanese New Testament, translat ed
and edited by the American Missionaries,
is now in course Of publication in Japan.
The English and Japanese are printed in
parallel columns, and in Roman type, an
arrangement which will facilitate The mas
terry of both languages, enabling the ma
tiyes 10 learn English, and foreigners
japanese. There is no sound in the Jap
anese tongue which corresponds to either
the letter Tor til. The former is expressed
by substituting r, and the latter by s.
Manuscript sermons at fifty cents apiece,
suitable for any denomination, ale i'd
vertised in Boston.
The French Finance Minister wants the
Emperor to save 1,0O0,0 GOO france per an
mum by abolisoing the six chief military
The Cornell Era is the title of an eighs
page weekly issued by the students of Co
nell University.
4 South Cornwall CD man recently
offered church, letter thirty years old to
. church, but the latter declined 20 receive |
I, considering the recommendation out
ed.
Midt Teton and Pennington, CT, are
truggling for the location of the State In |
lns.rlal SchoOi. A sixty-a acre farm is offer |
IS an idducemsnt.
Gas has been lately introduced IN the ca |
hedral at Bombay. The sparrows that
requent the place found the burners very
10 build their nests in, and /
when, for the first time, the gas was fully /
urned On, a number of the nests ignitcd.
md Their were several small conf'agrations
hat for e time looked dangerous
A daughter of George P. Pullman, the
he publisher. resides in Paris. aud has
made the NEST successful debut in me
licinc of al the female NJ. DIS of our
She is also writer of fine all
lily.
The mother Of Alexander Dumas, Jr.,
aid 10 be superior woman, died lately in
Paris. She was seamstress, living on
he same floor with Dumas, 1oerc, and
Wien he became enamored of her she was
hirly>fvc YEARS. old, while he was scarcc>
y twen.y five. Her son paid her the ki>
dest attention all her life, and always
.ept her pecuniarily comfortable.
Tweniy-seven thousand Feejcc Islander
ow profess Christianity. Thirty years
go they were men>eaters.
a. 4. Stewards new store covers ali
ere and a quarter, and not two acres and
half, as the New York reporters. had
la,ed.
\ Troy pig was recently oxhumed from
be ruins ef an elevator, which was de
tr0ycd by fire month ago, and his pig
hip irotted of at a lively pace. All he
lad to eat was wheat, for month.
The" Devils Dishfall" is the euphorsiou
tile applied to a section OF Danvers, Mass.
A poultry raiser in Australia has pen
If 10, 600 acres, in which lie keeps osti
iches, for their feathers. 9al
A night or two since, woman, said to
belong 10 the frail sis,erheor, arrived at
Whitehall. Ill. and Was stoned out OF the
,lacc BY dozen men. f
Colfax was almost too late for his we'd
ling. The Cleveland Pldiadenier says /
re arrived at that city on Tuesday morn
ng. and found it necessary 10 telegraph to
iirard, asking the train authorities OF the
Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad to hold the
rain until he reached that point. The
Wedding took place at Andover, Ashta5ula
County, on "Wednesday. ra
A band OF desperaioes aro prowling /
around Shclbyville,. Ind. committing
robberies. Their plan is to visit farm house |
call up the occupants, and, by threats,
extort money. One farmer was hung up 10y |
he neck three times few evenings since, !
because he refused to tell where his money
was concealed. Others have been threat ]
ened, There is talk of organizing vigil.
ance committee. l--.af
"PEgsoNALs,--A few days ago haries
Mason and lady, or Wallham; gave US a
call. They were on their way home after
being absent several weeks on a visit to
Indiana. IL had been IL years since they