Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-09
grepities.
Miscellaneous Items.
Boston has two haunted houses.

| mfcCtlidueOuS items.
Boston has two haunted houses.
Cincinnati papers speak of Chicago as
the 'hand New York. -
Receipts from internal Revenue ON The
3Oth were 1897, 1000. fI
The manufacture of trowser buttons
mas enabled wife to appear at Saratoga
with $1,000 diamond.
The Boston and New York ladies al
Lake George are not on good terms, and
verbal fights are frequent. ft
-Lucille Western draws well in New
York, and Fisk calls her '.Erie preferred.
Has he put on her? f'-Ti
In Cincinnati peaches are selling nj
20 cents per bushel;i tomatoes 25 cents.
apples 4O cents; pears 30 cents, DC. How
will that do for low?
"A loaf of Indian bread has been found
III Indiana, buried in the ealth, and geolo.
gists are trying to ascertain its age. A thick
bark had grown over it.
New York city has made the liberal Offer
OF SIC, 600 for the Century plant Over 1G.
600 people went to see this plant while il
was on exhibition at Rochester.
Bishops of the Established Church in
England are, during the next two years, to
be allowed to retire upon e, 900 a year. OF
one-thlrd OF their present revenues
Daniel S. Curtis, a lawyer of Boston,
has been sentenced to two months in iail
| for tweaklng the nose OF Joseph NJ. Chur-
chill, banker in the same eminent city.
The cars on the White Mountain Rail.
road were delayed by snow on the TIA OF
August, and $50 people were compelled to
spend night on Mount Washington.
A letter from San Francisco says there
are few old Californians to be found who
have not been rich and poor again, at least
half dozen times. and most of them are
poor now.
Cornelius Kailiher, an invalid in New
York, following the advice of an old wom-
an, stepped ten cent paper of tobacco in
pint of ale, and drank the fluid. 1t kill
ed him within three hours.
One of the Georgia editors objects to
the proposed editorial convention in that
state. He says that the affair will only be a
big drunk, and ''we can get drunk mt home,
ON whisky that we are usened to-"
james Bessom, pedestrian, is to at
tempt tie feat of walking backward from
Portland to Boston, adistance of 10 miles.
IN eight days. on wager of 81, ,00O lie
proposed to start on the Goth of August.
"A Chicago paper says: The number
OF deaths IN this city for August will reach
about 800, rs we learn from an official
source. There is much sickness. and an
unusual number of deaths are occurring.
When in 1874, the Rev. DIR. Tefft. in
an address Mt the Indiana University, pre-
dlcted railroad across the continent, his
hearers, including the potent, grave and
reverend seniors laughed him to scorn.
Preliminary steps for founding a col
ored commercial or business college in
Washington have been taken, with pros
poets OF final success. 1t is proposed even
tually to extend the movement all over the
country.
Tho total receipts from theatres in
Chicago during July were as follows:
Woods Museum S6,27l; Mcvicker & Nv
ers So. I997 rs; Dearborn Theatre 50. $40. 45
All Of these places were open only part
Of the month.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was
tho largest wheat-producing state in the
Union. Now it is about twelfth On the
list The people have turned their atten-
ton to the development of that which is
hidden in the earth oil, coal and iron.
% "A convict in the Maryland Penitentiarv.
who has three years to serve, as a cattle
thief, has fallen heir to $4,000 bv the
Geath of a relative in Ohio, and some very
disinterested persons are endeavoring to
procure his pardon.
The question whether Barbara r'riet-
cnie was a myth or a real woman is to he
lnaily set at rest by the presentation TO
MIR. Whittier of cane male from beam
OF the house she lived in, by the citizens
of Fredericksburg.
S. J. Caven railroad agent at Green
River, Wyoming was shot and killed. few
days ago, by Z. Smith He was arrested.
The men were understood to be competi
tors for the affections ola married lady who
belonged to neither
Mr.. l.. Provost died at San Jose. Cal
on the 10th. Mr. Provost had been en-
gagged for the las: thirteen or fourteen
years In the business of silk culture, and.
IN fact, may be regarded as the founder OF
that important and promising branch Of in
dustry in California.
The Perry Monument Association pro-
poses grand meeting at Put-in-Bay, on
the 10th of September, the anniversary of
the battle of Lake Erie, the primary object
OF which Is to raise additional funds for
the monument. One of the survivors of
tho battle will deliver an Grafton.
Considerable excitement has been
caused among the people of Chicago by
the discovery that the walls Of the new
east wing of the court house in course of
erection, are in danger of tumbling down
from the careless and unworkmanlike man.
ner in which the work has been done.
Not less than 107 clergymon have
clergymen's cards from the st. Paul and
Pacific Railroad Company, emitting them
to ride on the road at half fare. They Give
these cards to only those who live ON the
line of the road. II appears that the towns
on this road are well supplied with preach
ers. -.s
The papers are calling to mind the al-
legged prediction of the famous sleeping
girl of Kentucky that, after the eclipse.
the sun would never again shine so hotly.
But as the girl did not die as related, and
predicted neither the eclipse nor the per-
manent weakness of the suns rays, it is
hardly worth while to discuss it.
"A man who owes bin in London can
now pay it in four hours by simply going to
Wall street and purchasing q document
known as "cable transfer" a device born
of the great Atlantic telegraph enterprise
whereby the equivalent of the money which
he gives in New York will be immediately
delivered to his creditor in London.
There is an old gentleman named Bar
rows living near Rockland Me-, who has cut
hay from one farnDwith his own hands for
sixty-six years, save one. He has. lived in
three towns, two counties and two States,
and has never moved from the farm on
which he was born. There are now living
in the house with him four generations.
The Albany Journal says: .we are
pleased to see that the attendance of Gen
erals at the Gettysburg reunion is small
and for the most part embraces names
least known. II all now living who took
part in the battle, were present, the alb
sentees would be still more conspicuousZ
the noble dead who fell in that or subse-
quent engagements.