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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
Industrial.


New Jersey is planting more of her
otherwise worthless swamp lands in cram
berries.
"A newsdealer in Detroit sells every
week $4,000 copies of the New York
weekly papers.
The village of Cattaraugus is said to
be the largest butter and cheese market
on the line of the Erie Railway.
1t is estimated that the cost of i'm
proving the He'll Gate channel in New
York harbor will be $780,, 1888.
The prohibitionists of Boston have in
contemp' alton to build hotel, to be con-
Quoted upon the total abstinence plan.
There are forty four postoffices in Con-
necticut under the charge of women reg
ularly appointed as postmasters.
According to the Eeening Nail, the
wife of one of the New York miIlionaires
obtains bread for herself and children by
saving.
During the month of April nearly
5000 cattle were imported from Canada
to Buffalo, the duties on them footing up
$4,000.
Over two thousand acres of land on
the st. Louis river north of Lake Supe-
rior) have been taken by Eastern parties
this spring
The Omaha Republican announces
that block will be erected on Farnham
street, this summer, to be the most impos-
ing of any west of Chicago.
The man who now pays the largest
income tax in Newburyport, Mass, began
life by working in the Newburyport
Herald Office for two dollars and a half a
week.
I'm San Francisco, the servant girls are
said TO receive such high wages that
many Of them invest their savings in real
estate, and are the owners of valuable
town lots.
There is thrifty individual in Bloom
vile, Delaware county, n. Y, (name not
given), who charges his maid servant 1917
cents per month, for sitting in his pew in
church.
-Four gentlemen who invested $4,000
each in manufacturing enterprise in De-
troit, Mich, four years ago, have made
since that time over $780, their net
profit last year being upward of $4,000.
According to the american 4Agri-
cultulist, 1890, 0OO,06O pounds of ice have
been stored the past winter by only five
of the New York city ice companies
nearly o-thirds Of it by the old Knicker-
booker company alone.
"A Connecticut lady has devised form
Of manuscript paper best adapted to the
use of writing for journals and magazines,
and Springfield paper mandatory is
manufacturing it, of sizes best adapted to
the printer, with holes for tying in parts
or putting on the "hook," and each box
or half ream is accompanied with brief
and explicit instructions in the art of pre-
pairing copy for the press.
TO keep their workmen from drinking
and gambling saloons, Doty & McFarlan,
manufacturers, Brooklyn, some time since
furnished a room in their factory with
newspapers-daily, weekly and illustrated
and with means for games and amuse-
ments, lighted and warmed it, and gave its
free use to their employees, male and female,
about sixty in number. The experiment,
they say, has proved complete success.
The hands work more cheerfully : saloons
are forsaken for the reading-room no
blue Mondays disturb the operations of
the factory; and workmen and employers
are in good humor.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21

they only waste breath, and paper and ink,
if they imagine that their threats, or their
VOWS, or their oaths, meet with anything
but contempt from the more than million
of actual, positive, unconverted, and un-
deniable peace men in the West and the
border States South We are of that sort
ourself, precisely; and all around in this
valley for fifty miles there is scarcely any
other kind to be found; and in the State
of Ohio, especially, they number $4,000,
with nearly five years increase to be
added" ne.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPplNes.
Personal and Literarf.

Kit Carson's health is said to be failing.
Ole Bull will return in June to Eu-
rope.
Lucille Western sailed from New York
for California on the 9th
John G. Breckenridge and wife were
reported at Rome April /.
"A life Of the late Gov. Andrew is being
written by his private secretary.
"A. G. Browne, Jr., is writing biogra-
ply of President Johnson. it
The poems Of the late Darcy MCGEE
are being edited by AIrs. J, Sadlier, of New
York.
John Wise, the balloonist, has organ
lied an Erial Navigation Company at
Bethlehem, Pa.
Miss Belle Armstrong, Of Columbus,
Ohio, has made eighty words out of the
letters in "Oystcr," and won five dollars
thereby.
Mrs Jessie Benton Fremont has been
designated to unveil the statue of her
father, in St Louis, on the 9th
-Tupper has received letter from
DARCY MCGEE, which was written only a
few hours before his assassination.
The Executive Committee of the
Douglas Monument Association has decid-
ed to remove the remains of the late Sena-
tor Douglas from the ground where they
have reposed since 1861, to the mausoleum,
or tomb, on the Sd day of June next, the
anniversary of his death.
The mother of "Artemus Ward" de-
sires that the proposed monument be
placed over his grave at Waterford, Me-,
and not at Central Park, New York.
1t is proposed to call the triangles
which are inclosed in Washington after
the names of authors. Prescott, Irving,
Hawthorne, Motley, Bryant, Bancroft,
Halleck, Hildreth, Sigourney, are the
names mentioned.
L. f. Genoa, one of the imperial
guard of the late Emperor Macmillan,
was in Cleveland on the 10th inst. He
had been robbed in Cincinnati, and was
working his passage to Montreal, where he
has friends residing.
The Boston Transcript makes the
statement that Sir Morton Peto was fully
aware of his impending bankruptcy when
he visited this country. 1t says that the
truth is that he was power in the finan-
cial world, not on account of his property,
but on account of his debts His creditors
were interested in his success, and he was
sent over here by them TO shift, if possible,
his debts to American shoulders, or to get
up here an excitement as to the value OF
his American investments, which would
react on England, and enable his creditors
to negotiate his stocks and bonds in the
London market.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
The West.

Seth W. Payne, who is walking from
New York city to San Francisco, arrived
In Cheyenne on the 18th.
The Minnesota Republican State Con-
vention met on the 18th, and selected
delegates to the Chicago Convention, and
chose Presidential electors.
The General Methodist Conference, in
session in Chicago, on the nth, after a de-
bate of several days, adopted resolution
admitting Southern missionary delegates,
by vote of 211 to IA
Letters from Sweetwater, dated the 4th
of May, state that seven men have been
killed by the Indians at Whisky Pass, and
the general belief was that the Indians
would cause trouble there this summer.
The post-office at Fort Wayne Indiana,
was broken open on the night of the 18th,
and three through mails stolen, in which
there were about six thousand letters, con-
tanning money and drafts to large
amount, which Il is thought was the OBJ
ject of the robbery The pouches and let
tiers were found in lumber yard the next
morning, all torn open.
A Springfield, Ill, tele gram of the 18th,
says a very subtle and fatal disease is
raging among the cattle in that vicinity
Over one hundred head have fallen victims
to it within the last few days. 1t usually
carries off its victims in few hours with
out any premonitory warnings, and
although considerable skill has been
brought to bear upon it, it yields to no
remedy. Its name and nature had not yet
transpired.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
Miscellaneous.

The Texas Convention is to assemble
on the 1st of June. ~
-One of the three silver dollars coined
in 1904 was recently sold for $3.50. iai.f
The Philadelphia Press has decided
not to notice base ball games. unless it is
paid for it.
California miners prescribe exposure
to the sun as the cheapest and best hair
restorative"
The first negro divorce in Mississippi
was granted at the last term of Court for
Oktibbeha county.
A National Convention of Superin-
tendents of Junatic Asylums will be held
in Boston the first Tuesday in June.
There is a regular attendance of
$4,000 persons at the large Mormon
Tabernacle of Salt Lake City.
Pine earrings, breast-pins, ETC., ex-
quisitely carved, have been introduced
among the ton at New York city. a.
Mrs. Healy, a belligerent ,damsel- of
Pittsburgh, thrashed carpenter of that
place because he accused her of stealing
pane of glass.
Two parties are enjoying lawsuit in
New Hampshire, all about the top of
Mount Washington, which they both
claim to own. ~ 49,. 81 e a.s.t atHg
There lisa town called Atkinson in the
State of New Hampshire, which is one
hundred years old, and has had but one
house burned down in that time. ~ .
The natural bridge Of Virginia, one
hundred and sixty. Ave acres Of land, and
a hotel, were sold las. month for 50, 355, to
Colonel Mike Hartman, of Staunton- O.
Joe Coburn, who is TO fight McCoole
for the Shampio1shiP Of =. america. has
Of $4,000 not TO hight within the limits of
the State Of Ohio. 49, !. - 80 =
The election Of a Congressional dele
gate In Arizona viii take place on june 3.
John A Rush.>is the Democrntfc oandf-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
POLITICAL.

The first charter election of Og-
densburg, n. T., was carried by the Re.
publicans, on the 18th inst
% There are five papers published in
the Scandinavian language in the West,
and, with one exception, they are radical
Republican in their views.
a The municipal election in Provi-
dence, r. l., transpired on the 18th. The
entire Republican ticket was elected, the
candidate for Mayor receiving 46S ma
jority.
sS In the North Carolina Legislature
the Republicans have thirty-two of the
fifty Senator's, and sixty eight of the one
hundred and twenty-five Representatives
a majority of fourteen in each branch.
W An Augusta (Georgia) paper threat
ems the colored vo.ers of that city who
voted the Republican ticket, in the follow
ing wicked sentence: 1--WE must prove
to him that while he may exercise the bal
lot against our interest, we can and will
control the bread against him."
u During the rebellion regiment of
Arkansas men was marching one day knee
deep in mud, a part of them dragging a
heavy cannon. An officer riding by was
hailed by one Of them with the remark
"Wa'al, Colonel, I'll go through with you
this hitch, but if you ever have any more
Unions to break up, you may just bet yer
life amt thar
~ A correspondent Of the Boston Post
writes from New York that, if Pendleton
is nominated, "great many Democrats
will forget to vote" The Copperheads of
the West have already served notice on
Belmont & Co. that if he is not nominated
forgetfulness of the same sort will be
alarmingly prevalent when the voting day
comes. 1t is pretty quarrel as it stands |
u The Soldiers. and Sellers National
Convention which assembled in Chicago
on the 10Th, was largely attended. Major
General John A Logan was chosen per-
manent President, with the requisite num-
Der of Yice-Pcesidents and Secretaries.
Resolutions were adopted declaring for
Gen. Grant for President; and denuncia-
tory of Senators who voted, or may vote,
for the acquittal of President johnson ON
the impeachment charges. The proceed
ings were harmonious and enthusiastic.
AZ The editor of the Batesville (Ark.)
RepuNiean says of the Legislature of that
State, elected under the Reconstruction
act: "There is one remarkable feature per-
tanning to the present General Assembly
which is worthy Of particular note, viz;
There is not a member in either the Senate
or House of Representatives who cannot
ersts has osc'a name. in a plain, legibfe
hand! And we now assert, without fear
of successful contradiction because we
are prepared to prove ~, that it is the
first General Assembly ever convened in
Arkansas in which there were not mem
bers who could not write their own
names"
n In 1tply TO Cen Halpine's e Miles
O'Reilly y structures on Pendleton and the
Peace Democracy, and especially the Gen.
erals assertion that "there is such thing
as being too internally Democratic to be
wholesome" Vallandigham blows this
blast through his Democratic horn, the
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21


The funeral of Lord Brougham took
place at Cannes, on the 18th. ~
George Francis Train delivered an adj
dress at a public hall, in Manchester, on
the 18th. - =
A bill guaranteeing the right of trial by
jury passed the Lower House of the Reichs-
rath, Austria, on the 18th.
A London dispatch Of the 18th says
late dispatches from Japan state that the
civil war is being vigorously prosecuted
The Mikado's army had arrived near
Jeddc--
An Athens dispatch received in London
on the 18th states that the mountaineers
of Crete claim that they defeated AID drove
the Turks to the sea in the recent con-
fiicts.
A man named Duggan, saloon keeper,
and two accomplices, were arrested at
Montreal, on the 14th, charged with being
implicated in the plot for the assassina-
ton of McGee. +i
The Spanish Government has extended
till the 31st of December the decree allow
ing the Introduction, free Of DUTY, of &C.
reals into Spain and the Balearic Islands.
Straw and hay are also to je admitted on
the same terms.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
Impeachment.

The Court opened at IL o'clock ON the
10th. An order was adopted that the
House be notified that the Senate was sit
ting as Court Of Impeachment, after
which the order directing the reading of
the eleventh article first was agreed to
"a to 10. The article was then read, and
the question put to vote as to the guilt or
innocence of the accused as charged in the
article The vote was as follows:
GtRty-Anthony. Cameron. Cattell, Chandler.
Cole. Conkhng, CONFESS, Corbett, Cragin. Drake,
Edmands, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, How
ard. Howe. Morgan, Morrill, (Me.). Morrill, (Vt),
Mortol, Nye. Patterson On. H., Pomeroy. Ram
sey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer,
Upton, Wade, Wiley, Williams. Wilson, Yates
g.
Not Guilfy-Bayard, Buckalew. Davis, Dixon,
Doolttle. Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Hender-
son. Hendricks, johnson. McCreery. Norton.
Patterson (Tcnn.). Ross, Salisbury, Trumbull,
Van inkle, Vickers-19.
The Chief Justice announced the result,
stating that the President was acquitted
on the 18th article. A motion was made
to adjourn to the Goth, which the Chief
Justice decided not in order; decision ap-
pealed from and overruled-3O to "a. The
motion to adjourn to the Goth was then
adopted-32 to 81.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
The South.

The new Constitution of Mississippi
was signed, on the 18th, by the members of
the Convention.
Alaska dates to, April 20th report the
weather quite pleasant. The health of
Sitka was quite good. There were num-
Der of arrivals end departures, and bust
ness was quite brisk.
The Mississippi Democratic Convention
re-nominated Governor Humphrey; X.
Falconer, for Lieutenant Governor; c. E.
Hooper, Attorney General; G. K. Mar
shall, Superintendent of immigration.
Hon. w. w Holden, Governor elect of
North Carolina, has rendered the position
of Private Secretary on his Staff to Robert
Douglas, the Oldest son of the late Ste
phen A. Douglas, of Illinois.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21

IMMENSE SALEs.-The sales of the great
dry-goods house of Field, Letter g. Co.,
for the year ending May 1, reach the
large sum of $9,79s, 47O, which exceeds
that of any other house in Chicago over
two and quarter millions, and Is sur
passed in New York by only two houses.
III Is larger than any four housos In 81
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
The East.

The net proceeds of the fair in aid of
the Cretans, recently held in Boston, were
$4,000.
A cotton mill at Fall River, Mass, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 14th- Loss
on mill and contents about $4,000.
A. A. Kelly, the publisher of Ke'fys
WSszly, was arrested in New York, on tie
18th, on charge Of being the proprietor
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21

The number of inhabitants has doubled
within the past sixty-two years, and at
this rate will amount to one hundred and
fifty millions by the year 1900. The aver
age length Of life is thirty-two for men and
thirty-one for women. Russia has more
young persons under the age of twenty, in
proportion to her population, than any
country in Europe, and less between the
ages Of twenty and sixty.
The London Standard says of the re-
suits of the Clerkenwell outrage: By this
diabolical act six persons were killed out
right; six more died from its effects; five
more owe their deaths indirectlysto this
means; one young woman is in mad
house; forty mothers were prematurely
confined, and twenty of, their children
died; others of the children are dwarfed
and unhealthy; one mother is now q
raving maniac; one hundred and twenty
| persons were wounded; fifty went into
hospitals; fifteen are permanently injured,
besides 10000 worth of damage to person
and property. ~f-z~waFFr
An Abyssinian correspondent writes:
DAY after day chiefs come from far
distance to visit the white faces, many of
whom never saw white man before.
Women shrek with delight on beholding
such lovely forms clad in such strange, vet
rich costumes. Young girls are curious
| to feel the white skin of the Feringhees.
and continue to come unperceived near
soldier, and slyly touch him. Naked
urchins press forward timidly, and gaze
with serious little faces at the strange
forms of the invaders. Long boards and
smooth face. are the delight of the women,
who clap their hands with glee when they
catch glimpse of those men most favored
by the gods"
Voting in Greece is somewhat differ
ent from voting in America. The polling
places ere churches Thirty ballet boxes
are placed on the floor of the church, each
of them bearing the name of candidate.
| Upon one-half of the box, painted white,
is written yes" and on the other half.
painted black, is written NO" A clerk
attends the voter, with thirty bullets, and,
when opposite box, pronounces the name
of the candidate and hands the voter
bullet. Passing his arm up a funnel about
a foot in length, the voters hand arrive.
unseen at division in the box, and he
drops the ball to the right or left, Eyes"
or mo" as the case may be, and so on
throughout the whole thirty The system
is said to insure secresy and perfect order
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
Washington News.

Receipts from customs from May LIST to
9th inclusive were S3,769,84l.
Fractional currency issued for the week
ending May is, $436,500; destroyed,
$780,, roo; National Bank notes issued,
s1O7,320
Chief Justice Garter, on the 18th, refused
TO admit John h Srrratt to bail
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
Foreign Gossip.

France has Al ,525 idiots.
MIR. Jesse, the British naturalist, is
dead.
Egyptian pyramids.
England derives revenue of f36O, 900
for licenses of dogs.
Spain, with an army of 1000 men,
has $40 Generals.
Queen Victoria has more than thirty
tons of silver and gold plate
Russia has sixty-eight agricultural
schools and colleges, one of which has
5000 acres attached.
In the Paraguayan war it is calculated
that 10000 have been lost from wounds,
and 10000 from cholera.
AT recent memorial dinner i'm Eng
lanG, the health Of the memorialized de-
ceased was drank in ale 101 years Old
-Four young women are preparing for
the practice of medicine, at Zurich, in
Switzerland. Three Of them are English,
and one Swiss.
There is in Marylebone workhouse,
London, blind inmate over eighty years
old, who has spent seventy-two years of
his life in the institution.
The death of Theodore is questioned BY
the Boston Journal, since it was the Gus
tom of the King to send representatives of
himself into battle. rs aff
Only one hundred and forty-two mar
riages have occurred in England in five
years, in which one or the other of the
parties had been previously divorced.
The late Lord Brougham was married
in 1919, and had only one child, a
daughter, who died at the age of seven
teen. Lady Brougham died several years
since. vr|f
BY recent law, Judges in Canada
are empowered to order whipping instead
of imprisonment, in the case of boys I'M
der sixteen years of age found guilty of
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-21
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONvEN.
TION.

THE CALL AND LIST OF DELEGATES.
The undersigned, constituting the Ma
tional Committee designated by the Con-
vention held at Baltimore on the eth of
June, 1864, do appoint that a Convention
of the Union Republican party be held at
the city of Chicago, on "Wednesday, the
Goth day of May next, at IL o'clock M,
for the purpose of nominating candidates
for the offices of President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States.
Each State in the United States is au-
thorized to be represented in said Cen
vention by a number of delegates equal to
twice the number of Senators and Repre-
sentatives to which each State is entitled
in the National Congress.
We invite the cooperation of all citi-
zens who rejoice that our great civil war
has happily terminated in the discontinue
of rebellion; who would hold fast the
unity and integrity of the Republic, and
maintain its paramount right to defend to
the utmost its existence, whether imper-
illed by secret conspiracy or armed
force; of an economical administration of
the public expenditures; of the complete
extirpation of the principles and policy of
slavery, and Of the speedy reorganization
of those States whose governments were
destroyed by the rebellion, and the perma-
nent restoration to their proper practical
relations with the United States, in ac-
cordance with the true principles of re-
publican government.
MARCUS L. WARD, of New Jersey,
Chairman.
JNo. d. DEFFREEs, of Indiana, Scc'y.
J. b. Clark. n. H., 8. F. Hersey. Maine.
A. b. Gardner. VT. VIM. Clafiin, Mass.
S. A Purviance, Penn. J. s. Fowler. Tenn.
b. G.. Cook. Ill Marsh Giddings Mich
D. p. Stubs, Iowa. A. W. Campbell. W. Va.
H. c. Hoffman, Nd. ". b. Smithers, Del.
w. j. Corning, Va. W. A. Pile. Mo.
c. L. Robinson, Florida. s. Judd, Wisconsin.
Horace Greeley, v. Y. ii. ii. Starkweather, CT
b. II. Cowsn, Ohio. VIM Window. MINI.
n. Ednunds, Dakots. ID. II. Goodloc. ". c.
Thos. q. Turner, r. I. Sam'l Crawford Kansas
j. j. Bowen, Dist. Col j. p. Chaffee Colorado