The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03

MRS. COLT, widow OF the pistol man.
has $400, 900 income.
A FAMILY of garbage pickers in New
York report $4,000 in bank.
CALIFORNIA shipped $4,000, 900 worth
of wheat and -four last year.
AN English exchange heads its financial
column: "Other Peoples Money"
THE number of students at the Cont
mental Universities is estimated at $4,000.
THE New York Citizen has passed into
the exclusive control of r. B. Roosevelt.
The State of Massachusetts, paid $3.-
580,7S2 for educational purposes last year.
JOHN G. HEENAN, the pugilist, keeps q
liquor store on Union Square, New York.
A CLAIM against the Mexican govern
ment for $185, 900 was sold In New York
recently for sic.
DURING the year 1868 there were 1885,
156 births. and 4S0,677 deaths in England
and Wales.
Mr.. WHITING. of Springfield. Mass,
has nine sons. and the initials of all their
names are Fl. L. w.
JAMES WEBB, JR, one of the shoe
kings of Portland, Me, began business
five years ago on capital Of $3.50.
THE great Melbourne telescope. recent.
2ustralis, cost ssS, 600 'eS in gold d. V'''0f'''
RoCHEFoRT, the Lanterne man, it is
said, has secretly visited Paris nearly
every week since his first departure for
Belgium.
The editor of the willimsntic Conn
Sentintt is only fifteen years old, and
his only editorial assistant is q younger
brother.
THE receipts of the American Tract So
ciety of Boston for the past year were
$4,000 The publishing business pays
all expenses.
NASHUA, N Y, has $500 volumes in
its public library, and 1926 persons take
out books. AS yet only one book has
been lost, and that was destroyed in a
burning house.
The use of gas has been discontinued at
New London, Conn, being found too ex-
pensive, and the streets will hereafter be
lighted by kerosene.
A NAN in Newburyport, Mass, has ten
acres of land in onions. The ten acres
give eighty miles of onions, and in plant
ing, hoeing, wedding and gathering require
thousand miles travel.
In New York, the other day, Judge
Bowling discharged two men, captured
with carpet bags full of burglars tools, on
the ground that it was no Offense, legally,
to carry such implements in the day time
THE number of paupers receiving relief
in England and Wales at the close of jan
usry, 1869. was 20,977-being an in
crease Of 2 per cent on the number at the
corresponding period of 1868.
Col CHAFFIN, a Virginia dwarf, 43 years
old, twenty-five inches high and weighing
twenty i've pounds, is accompanied in his
exhibitions by his brother, who Is six feet
four inches high.
THERE is nothing like sticking to one
branch of business, however small. A
man has peddled popcorn on the Fitch
burg mass road, till he is worth upward
of one hundred thousand dollars. And
he still keeps at it.
THE school children of the Quaker
Citv have. by penny contribution, raised
sufficient money to psy for Q monument
to Washington, which is to be placed in
front of Independence Hall on the COM
ing Fourth of July.
THE dead body of an old negro was
found near New Orleans, the other day,
hanging by one foot in the crotch of a
mulberry tree. The old man had climbed
after fruit, slipped and stuck there, head
until he died.
THERE is a conductor ON the Fitchbarg
Railroad in Massachusetts, who always
carries in his mouth or about his person q
blossom, fresh and perfumed. The spir-
its told him that was the only condition by
which he could expect to meet his wife in
heaven
WITHIN mile of Elko, on the road to
White Pine, is large natural swimming
bath, where visitors can choose their tenn
perature, from tepid TO boiling. The
depth is said TO be very great, and some
say that at 200 feet ne bottom has been
found.
THE New England Agricultural Society
will hold its annual fair in Portland, Me,
from the 7th 10 the 10th of September
Fen thousand dollars are offered as regular
premiums, besides outside purses for
horses. The Maine State Society will ex-
hibit at the same time and place
THE New York Legislature, at its recent
session, passed an act which provides that
on the trial of indictments and in all
criminal proceedings, the defendant shall,
at his own request, be deemed q compe-
tent witness, but that his neglect or re-
fusal to testify shall not create any pre-
sum mption against him
SOME one has collected the items of ex-
pense for music in nine churches of
San Francis CO, and finds that it averages
$2,75J in gold-considersbly more than in
nine leading Congregational churches
of Boston. which average 1000 in cur
rency. Three Unitarian churches of Bos-
c-o~. q : nO0 n mn for unncsr
WHEN the Emperor Alexander the Sec
ond was in Paris in 1867, there were sd-
dressed to him so many begging letters
that they had to be sent every morning
on four small hand carts To the hotel
where he stopped. The Car is said TO
have wondered greatly at these manifesto
tlons of devotion and respect, all the let
tiers which were opened slluding in the
most pathetic terms TO his msgnarimity,
his humanity, &c.
AT the last meeting of the Manchester
(England) Literary and Philosophical DO
ciety, member reported the results Oh
number of microscopical examinations oI
street dust collected In June, July ana
August last, as also of the particles con-
tained in the rain water alter long
drouih. He found that, in every instance,
molecular activity was abundant, but the
animal life was very variable in amount,
on localities, attitudes: and
other conditions; the greatest number OF
moving organisms, as also the largest pro-
portion of vegetable matter, being IN dust
collected at height of five feet from the
earth, that is, about on level with
pedestrians mouth. At this height In
thoroughfares, where there are many
animals engaged in traffic, most OF the