The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-03-05

council is tie. Four of the six supervi-
sors arc republicans.
There were 5,77O,0OO gallons of oil
shipped from this country last month
Over 1000 buildings were put up in
Detroit last year.
in Cheyenne they "warn" an idler to
leave the place, and if he don't they hang
him.
Two young women in Cleaveland have
committed highway robberies. 1t is leap
year, you know.
Mr.. Fox, of the American theatre,
Philadelphia, makes weekly distribution
of bread to the poor.
In 1867 there were published in the
United States, LIB new books. Not
more than a tenth of the number paid
expenses of publishing, so far.
Dickens will sail for England, in April.
Governor Marshall, of Minnesota, ur-
ges the legislature of that state to submit
the question Of equal suffrage to the voters
for the third time.
The Minnesota legislature is passing
law leaving capital punishment for muir
der to the discretion Of the jury.
Rear-Admiral Henry X. Ioff has as
sumed command of the Atlantic squad
ron The frigate Wampanoag has been
selected rs his flagship
The three German dwarfs arc playing
in Philadelphia.
Boy II years old, great violinist in New
Orleans.
Tried to rob the city treasury vault in
New Orleans of $1,000, 600, but failed.
Lady 109 years old in Kickapoo.
No running Of street cars in Terre
Haute Sundays.
Burglary terrible in Indianapolis.
New Sl00 900 hotel in Kokomo.
Methodist revival at Tcrre Haute.
Great new piano factory at Indianapo-
lis.
The New Jersey legislature has adopted
resolutions to stand by the president.
Oswego, New York is INDUCING in a
temperance revival.
The wheat crop Of Southern Indiana
Looks very promising
The next state fair of Ohio will be
held at Cleveland.
An elm tree at Hampden, Ohio, weigh
ed sixty thousand pounds.
Matinees are being held 10 Washington
for the benefit of the poor.
Pennsylvania Avenue is to be re-payed.
The Westinghouse are delighted.
The canoes of Alaska are made Of the
hide of the sea-lion.
a large immigration is setting towards
Kossuth County, Iowa.
There arr 1900 children attending
the publ, schools of Utah.
Wild cats are killing large numbers of
sheep in Clarion county, Ohio.
Wild turkeys and ducks are reported
very large numbers tn Harrison county,
Ind.
Wood at Kansas City is fl we dollars
cord and hay eight dollars ton.
Artesian we'll at Ottowa gives $4,000
gals of water per day.
Four boys and girl at a birth III St.
Louis.
Crazy people in Bucks county, Pa, con-
fined in irclesS cells, ont. houses, &c, and
starved.
The japanese are drawing large audien-
ccs in Harrisburg.
Professor Butler, of Madison, Wis, is
now in Egypt, with very pleasant party,
of which Rev. Dr. Bellows is one.
The amonnt of wheat now in Minneso-
ia awaiting shipment is $4,000 bush
els.
The Virginia Convention is still engag
ed in discussing the suffrage question.
The Louisville Convention is still in diff
fculty about how to collect the taxes for
their pay"
The Georgia Convention instructed the
Judiciary committee TO report that state
senators shall be twenty-five, and state
representatives twcnty-one years OF age.
The South Carolina convention has
done nothing definite. A strike among
negroes on the wharves threatened serious
results. but General Burns, the new may |
or. appeared with file of soldiers and
dispersed the rioters, arresting the ring
leaders.
Charles Kcan, the actor, is to have
at Westminster Abbey.