Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-09
clIFeIKss AND DRlpFNeS.
rstsceflareans Etessas.

April IS has been designated as fast
Gay in Michigan.
Texas has planted 1000 acres of the
castor bean.
Only 100000 out OF $4,000 coo acres
Of land in Michigan are improved.
There are bogus Macmillan Mexican
dollars in circulation in New York.
"A Burglar Insurance Company has
been started in New York.
During the four months ending last
Septt mber, Boston bathed S07, 201 people
gratis. -.-
An American EronautIc Society is to
be established shortly, as a branch of the
English one.
"A California Cbipaman Is doing a
profitable business in fattening rats
The Mormons expect to bring at least
lOOOO immigrants from Europe this
season.
twenty-five hundred gallons Of min
eral water are shipped from st. Adams,
W., weekly.
Indictments have been found at Rich
moHd, Va, against thirty revenue officers,
ior fraud.
Estimates of the amount required for
river ard harbor Improvements for 1s6S
are s4,012. 500.
1t is contemplated to reduce the force
Of the New York State militia to 10000
men. Its present number is $4,000.
jefferson Davis and wife have gone
to Canada, there 10 await the next call for
his trial.
The Maryland Legislature has passed
the law fixing ten hours as day s labor in
the factories In the State.
Tive large ships are loading at Norfolk,
Va, for Liverpool, being the first instance
of direct trace since the war.
The Msp land Penitentiary being
crowoed, Governor Swami recently par
dUned 80 Of the most deserving convlcls
-Pennsylvania has 542 lodges of Good
IeInplars with sn aggregate membership
of $1,000.
Twenty thousand Norwegians, Danes
and Swedes ere TO arrive In this country
this spring, whose destination will be
Chiefly 10 the West.
-Robinson, the circus rider, has been
sued IN Cincinnati by mother TO recover
possession of her children, boy and D
girl, who were being trained Tor the circus.
Mr.. Greeley says he could not be pro-
yOked into suing man for libel He
thinks libel sui.s 10 not pay TO either party.
This Is the verdict of common sense and
common experience.
"A Kentucky statute gives TO the widow
and minor children Of person Killed by
the careless, wanIon or malicious use of
deadly weapons, an action against the per-
son committing the killing.
From statistics carefully prepared
from authentic sources, and reliable as any
other pubic documents, it has been ascer-
tanned that the average cost of strong
drink iOr each man, woman, and child LII
the United states 10 ttcenty dollars.
The New York Erening Post says 1t is
a curious fact that the demand for children
Tor adoption is In advance of the supply.
The number OF persons without children
Of TIER own, who wish to have child TO
bring up, Is large and Increasing.
"A brilliant and lovely" young mar
Iied woman in New York, aged twenty
hve, now Sports her fourth husband, hav
Ing sought relief through the divorce
courts from copjugal unplessantnesses
three times since her first marriage, In
1861
There is little town in Vermont
where the people have considerable fun
with their fence viewers" One of the
officers weighs three hundred pounds,
another is SIX feet three inches tall, and
the third is extremely small. Ii Was re-
Gently voted that ali fences on which the
fat man could sit, which the tall man
couldn't straddie, nor the little one crawl
through, should be deemed legal fences.
People who receive circulars from
New York or elsewhere containing sam
pies of prints of which twelve yards Will
De sent for q dollar, or ten yards Tor eighty
i've cents, are advised TO suspect a swim
die. The address OF one concern issuing
such circulars was visited in New York
Inc Othsr day, and it was found that the
place was ia charge OF q boy, and that no
business was transacted there beyond re-
ceiyiDg letters, which usually numbered
iron thirty i've to fifty day.
The ratio of persons entitle1 to vote
TO the whole population in lows, as per
last census, is TO 493; the ratio OF actual
voters to population, l to 500; the ratio
OF persons between the ages of five and
twenty years Of age TO total popula-
ton, to 2.65; number OF colored peo
pie, Ais; number OF deaf and dumb, 56S /;
Dumber of blind, All; number Of insane,
644; number OF Foreigners net naturalized,
IL. 500; excess Of white males over ie.
males. 30 22l number of dwelling houses,
l55. 75S, for total population of 9J2. O40,
or an average Of Leariy six persons TO
dwelling.
"A lawsuit was recently brought by
the father of young lady against young
man who had Deen counting his (the faith
ers) Lucinda. The suit was brought To
recover FOR use of room, lights, fuel, meals,
etc, while the young man was courting
Lucinda at the house of the plaintiff. The
prosecution showed that defendant was at
his house from three TO five nights per
week that he usually remained until four
o'clock in the morning, and often times till
alter breakfast. The case attracted much
attention. The decision is one of inter.
est To all young men who are In the habit
OF slipping drops from the bewitching
cup OF bliss" until four O'Clock in the
morning, inasmuch as it allows them to
OF IL 5suits Tor damages. The Justice rem
dered verdict OF "no cause of action"
Foreign Gossip.
--Carlotta has sent Vic ora q lock Of
her hair. SEQ
Drumming out is abolished in the Brit
ish army. f-ie1
About thirty million newspapers pass
through the English mails every year.
KING Ludwig, of Bavaria, left for.
tune of eight and half million dollars