Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-03-26
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
One thousand Indians still reside in
Massachusetts,.
Strawberries cost ten dollars per quart
in Washington City.
"A colony of one-wife Mormons are set
ting near Otter Tail Lake, in Minnesota.
The proposed National Charity Fair
will be held in New York early in the
summer. nrt
Counterfeit los on the Marine Ma
tional Bank, of New York city, are in cir
culation.
The Fenian organization in California
is said to be now on war footing, in funds,
arms and men.
-Pennsylvania prisons are so full that
in all of them it is the rule to confne three
or four convictsin each cell.
The Albany Journal states that Gov
ernor Fenton has finally decided to refuse
a pardon to young Ketchum.
-Barnum's giraffe is not dead, as has
been reported, but is living and recovering
from its injuries at the Veterinary Hospi-
tai on Twentieth street.
The Connecticut election takes place
on Monday, April G. The vote last year
was: for En- glish, Democrat, 1866; for
Hawley, Republican, 46.57S. Majority for
English, 9S7.
The two early New England books
which now command the highest price
somewhere in the vicinity of q thousand
dollars each-are the Bay Psalm Book,
164O, and Elliot's Indian Bible, 1863
=" Jennie June" says the bills for car
rage hire for some of the New York
young ladies who 60 to ball or party, or
reception every day or two, is often $50
per month, and she does not wonder that
pdter tdmilids wishes them married, or at
least engaged.
The Cleveland papers mention an
alarming prevalence Of insanity there.
The number of maniacs belonging to
Cleveland and Cuyahoga county, in the
asylum at Newburgh, the county Jail, and
known to be at home in the care of tleir
| friends, is reported at $780,
The Centerville (Md) Observer says
that this is the year for the temperance of
the seventeen-year locusts in that State
These insects made their first chronicled
appearance in Maryland in 1899, and re-
| turned every seventeen years after that
time. They last appeared in 1851.
The valuable sword presented to Com
modore Biddle by the Peruvian Govern
ment, which was stolen from the Patent
Office short time since, has been recov.
cred by detectives. The diamonds, five
or six in number, were removed by the
thief Two Of them have been recovered.
"A recent decision by Judge Treat, in
the United States District Court at St.
Louis, recognizes as valid the supposition
that the western boundary of Illinois is on
the west side of the Mississippi river, and
that the waters of that stream are wholly
within the State of Illinois
| The jury, at Cincinnati, in the libel
suit, brought by d.. w. Myers, claiming
$4,000 damages, against NJ. Halsted,. one
of the proprietors of the Commercial, failed
to agree, and were discharged. 1t is un-
derstood that the jury stood eight for the
defendant, two for one cent, damages, ard
one for q larger amount.
The new base ball rules for 1868 re-
quire that all balls used in a match must
be stamped with the size, weight, and
makers name, and if any other Is used the
game played will be "null and void" The
new ball is smaller and lighter than the
old one, being but nine inches in circum.
ference, and weighing five and quarter
ounces.
-Grasshoppers have made their appear
ance. The Des Moines Qowa) Register
says that they have already cone out of
the ground in the meadows around SAVIOR.
vile by brigade millions-the surface of
the ground literally crawling with the
young insects. The cold nights do not af-
feet them any more than to make them sort
of "limp" and stupid.
I'm Florida, near Ocola. there is a
| spring of water that covers more than an
| acre of ground and is thirty seven feet deep.
| a stream more than fifty feet wide flows
from it. The water is 30 clear that the
form and color of pebbles and leaves
on the bottom can be distinctly observed.
Steamboats, Of light draught can go up the
stream fed By this source alone, and a fleet
could lie at anchor in the spring itself.
An extra was circulated In Hous-
ton, Texas, on the morning of February
25, which had been surreptiou y issued
from the Telegraph Office during the pre-
vious night, with highly imaginative and
sensational headings, announcing the COM
mencement of civil war, the killing of Gen.
ersl Thomas, the captivity of ne Presi-
dent, Grant proclaimed dictator, men and
women killed and wounded, etc. In the
dead hours of the night it was gotten up
by printer named King.
"A report was published a short time
since that the wife of the magician, Ander-
son, had eloped with John Norris, the magi-
clans agent, and taken with Aer about
SO 500 of her husbands funds. 1t was
added that the abandoned magician had
killed his child and committed suicide.
This part of the stsry, the Meadville (Pa)
Republican ssys, was neat piece of sleight-
oil hand out of Anderson's usual line, but
quite as successful as any be practices in
his sale dio6olique. Its object was to en-
trap the fugitives, which it did. They,
reading the report of the murder and sui
eide, took the back track, and at Middle
ton, Ohio, were met by the injured hus-
band. The runaways, the report says,
were compelled to restore the plumber, and
then the foolish womsn-abandoned by
her paramour, who, having lost the funds,
seemed to have no further desire for her
company, and repudiated by her husband
was allowed to depart alone for her
former home. wut
Statistics of Insanity.