The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-09
TIE STATE.


cd at Goshen on Wednesday night, April
l. ~s "a
The Goshen Democrat reports the at
Tendance at church, for the .frst time in
10! these many years. of number of
gentlemen of that place, and thinks the
millennium at hand.
"A recent enumeration Of the inhabit-
: ants of Goshen presents the following fig
uaes: Males. 1,GSl; females, 1868; total,
1889.
A democratic club organized at Co.
shen.
"A troupe of japanese acrobats and
juggle-s were to give an entertainment at
Peru last Saturday evening Little CAN
Right" and ''Daniel Webster" are mem
bers of the troupe.
The Peru Republican makes a favora-
bic report Of the wheat prospects in Mi
ami county.
Work is soon to be resumed on the
| Baptist church at Peru. The foundations
were LAID last fall. When completed, it
will be one Of the finest church edifces in
the state
The average attendance at the Peru
free schools is 4S0, being about 80 per
cent. of the number enrolled. Eight
teachers and one superintendent are en-
ployed at an average cost of S4,400.
The South Bend Register gets enthu-
siastic over the peat beds adjacent to that
village.
A new Methodist Episcopal church
has just been completed and dedicated at
Warsaw
"A gentleman writing over the sigma
ture of Fl. G. Canter, in the Winamac
Democrat, gives some good reasons for his
course in renouncing radicalism and en-
bracing democracy.
"A foot race at VaIparaiso-SlO lost
and won.
The Julius Cornet Band, of Grown
Point, have procured splendid band-wag-
on, and have gone crazy on the strength
of it.
The Valparaiso Republican, reports a
case which has just been decided in the
courts at that place, in which grandfath-
er, from Ohio, claimed the custody of a
child of six years, which had been raised
by its relatives, Mr.. and Mrs. Larue, in
Porter county. The court decided in ia
vor of the grandfather, who Immediately
took possession Of the boy. The child
screamed, the lady tainted, and the grand
father ran down Main street with his bur
den, pursued by an excited crowd The
old man took refuge in the Gould house.
and departed on the midnight train un-
molcsted.
"A man went to livery stable in
Huntington, the other day, procured a
steed, "travcled," and neither has since
been heard from.
The irate principal of public school
at Huntington writes long letter to the
Democrat, of that place, in which the
Father Of one of his pupils receives Sc
we're castigation. The father in questin re-
fused to write written excuse for his boy
for non attendance, the principal wrote
him a note, which the father had publish
ed, as he claimed, verIatim. The princi-
pal claims that a number of the words
were misspelled in the publication of his
note, which were all right in the original,
and accuses the parent of forgery" The
editor unkindly publishes the PRINCIPALS
letter precisely as written, spelling, pune
tuation, and all, and the resuls is not flat
tering.
AT Richmond, March %, the ami
versary of Richmond Commandery Kits.
Templar, No. s. resulted in one of the
most pleasant reunions of the season.
Three scoundrels have been arrested
at Brookston, by detectives, for taking up
rails on the Valley road, in order to throw
the cars from the track.
An attempt was recently made, by in
cendiaiies, to burn the Elliott house at
Richmond.
Burglars are operating in Fulton
county.
Wheat prospects are good in Fulton
county. .
The Laporte Herald G Union pub
fishes card signed by l26 prominent re-
publcans of that county, requesting w.
Ii. Salisbury to permit his name to be used
in connection with the office of county
treasurer This mark of esteem should
be very natterng to Hank. lie is an"A