The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-10-01
NEWS ITEMS.

Whist is rapidly taking the place of
croquet at the watering places.
John Allen, 4" the ex.wickedest" man
is going into the lecturing business.
=" Mark Twain" is in Cleavelaud, and
they want to get lecture out of him.
The old Washington headquarters at
Stanford. Vermont, is being torn down.
Rob. Bret.le. shining light of the
English P. R., arrived at New York, on
Monday.
Miss Braddon, the celebrated Eng
lish novelist, is coming to New York IN
December.
The inventor of Planchette is said to
have cleared $4,000 already out of the
toy.
-Du Chaillu, the celebrated African
traveller, will lecture in New England this
winter.
1t is the fashion now to say that a
man little the worse for liquor is on
"Grecian bend"
Attorney General Evarts celebrated
his silver wedding at Windsor, VT, recent
ly.
Cornelius Vanderbilt can draw his
check for 81 100000 at any time. and get
it cashed, too.
The cadets at West Point say there
have been only four pretty girls at the
Point this summer.
-Kehoe, the Indian club inventor, de-
nies that he died of apoplexy, the other
day, as the papers reported.
Cora Pearl, the notorious Partisan
loretc, is coming TO this country.
The young prince imperial Of France
has a great taste and aptitude for music,
which his father steadily discourages
One of the Harper Brothers has not
been in the second story Of his establish
ment for fifteen years.
-Beecher Tilton, and Fred. Low Ohm
sted, patronize the Turkish baths regular
ly in New York.
Robert Browning has made but very
little money from his poems. He lives op
his priyate fortune
Two base ball clubs in Rochester, n,
Y, rejoice in the names of " Early Birds
and Unfortunate Worms"
John Hamilton committed suicide in
the Brooklyn City Park Tuesday evening,
10y taking laudanun
Col. j. N. Morris, of Quincy, Illinois,
lost $500 horse Wednesday-shot be-
cause of a broken leg.
The New York Mail says that the
fashion of exchanging photographs is en-
tirely done away with. Good.
Silver and golden ankets for ladies
to be worn outside the stockings, are about
coming into fashion.
-Gazzaniga, Roconi and Albites arc
soon to start singing college at New
York, on the European plan.
Miss Alice Placide, the we'll known
actress, has opened school Of dramatic
instruction in New Orleans.
The New York papers advertise ex-
hibitions of the salty coffin under the head
of" Amusements."
Edwin Booth has lately purchased
some " cloth Of gold for his new costume
of Richelieu, at S125 per yard
Elias Sudduth, Of Harrison county
Ohio, who is los years old, reads without
spectacles, and chops his own frewood.
Jay Cookies island seat on lake Erie
is now tenanted by about twenty clerical
guests, mostly Low-church Episcopallans
-Harpcrs and Ticknor & Fields are
each preparing separate editions OF the
poems of the late Charles G. Halpine
Miles O OReilly."
Mrs. j. b. Phillips, a leading lady in
the Richmond theatres for several years
before the war, dice lately at Paterson
New Jersey.
Nathaniel Wheeler, the sewing ma
chine man, is said to be candidate for
the next democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Connecticut.
The Chicago Sorosis is trying to start
weekly organ after the style of the Rer
olution. 1t has the money, and that is
the great point gained.
Mrs. Myra Brodwell, of Chicago
wife of Judge Brodwell, will begin on
October Sd, the publication of the Chicago
Legal Neacs.
"A correspondent writing from Sara
toga, says he never saw so much femal,
heaufv here in anv nrevioue caasop