The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-05
THE STATE.

at Jeffersonvilc are there "a for life. I"
-Spearing for frogs is the piscator-
ial amusement of someAot the Walton
ties of Fort Wayne.
There are four hundred convicts
now in the State Prison South, Of
whom sixteen are women.
The wool purchases in Waterloo
City this year amount to one hundred
and twenty thousand pounds.
Within the past year the Ohio
Falls Car Works, at Jacksonville,
have turned out over s700,00 worth
of work, and still have a number Of
large contracts op hand, with others
pending.
Mrs. Fish, of indianapolis, had a
wiudfall of $4,000 in gold the other
day, by the death of relative In Can
ada.
F. +. Jones, wealthy citizen Of
Liberty Mills. Indiana, dropped dead
at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, on
Saturday night of last week, &om
heart disease.
The Indianapolis Journal says the
days of the democracy are numbered.
We suppose the Good Being has num-
bered them, just as he has numbered
the sands Of the sea shore, and the
leaves of the forest.-New AUany
Ledger.
Lawrence Suite, at TT. Wayne,
was on trial few days ago, charged
with being the husband of five wives,
four OF whom were wooed and won IN
the short period af three weeks.
The Evansville Journal says the
chicken cholera is becoming serious
injury to poultry breeders. A lady
near that city has lost nearly one
hundred laying hens and two hundred
young chickens by it.
Martin county, Indiana, recently
had calf which possessed two heads.
two necks, one spine, two tails, five
feet and two lungs. Its owner valued
it at one thousand dollars, but it got
into pond On his farm land was drown
ed. Its skin and 'ur Is are preserved
The Lafayette Courier says that
a gentleman of Shelby township. in
Tirrecahoe county, having been invi :
ed by doting mither to q kiss baby"
extended the token of admiration to
herself. The husband proposed to kill
HIM, was finally content with having
him fined twenty dollars.
A ferocious SOW, near Newark,
Ohio, few evenings ago, seized a
child named Shoots, stripped its cloth
ing of, broke one of its arms in three
places, severely cut its face and was on
ly prevented from killing it by the in
terpos ition Of young woman who was
near at hand, and came to its re ,cue.
The Logansport Iharos says that
a young gentleman of that place has
sued barber for spoiiing his moustache
in trying to color it, and laid his dam
ages at $50 That is a stiff price even
for vigorous old moustache, and ex-
orbitant for young one that could be
extinguishcd by spoonful Of hair dye
A fortnight ago, at Danville, Indi-
lana, Many Weekly, driving a wagon
loaded with reaper through farm.
gate, noticed that something was
wrong about his horses heads, so be
got off the wagon and walked around
in front, when the horses suddenly
started to run away, and he trying to
hold them, was dragged some distance,
and final y becoming entangled land re-
leasing his hold, the wagon passed
over him, the wheels striking his head
and terribly mangling his skull. He
died the same night.
"A convention of editors and pub
fishers was held in the parlor Of the
Clinton House, Elkhart, Ind, on FRI
day, July %, 1869.
j. b. Stoll, Of the Ligonier Banner,
was chosen pres ident, and j. +. Rad
cliffe of the Waterloo City dir Line,
secretary.
The following preamble and resolu-
tons were adopted.
We the editors and publishers of the
10th Congressional District of Indi-
ana. in Convention assembled at Elk
tart, on this 23d day of July, 1869,
grateful for the princely inequalities
extended to us by the enterprisin g
ond varm-horted citizens tberoof do