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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

AN OUTRAGEOUS AFFAIR.-A most shame
iul and outrageous affair took place on
board the steamer Lady Grace on Satlr-
day night last, while she was returning
from the prize fight below Pattsmouth.
The captain, during the up trip, requested
the man who chartered the boat to advance
him part payment. The fellow said he
had no money. Some of the crowd took
the matter in hand and concluded they had
been grossly insulted. The notorious
Grasshopper Sam led the crowd and at
once raised a muss. They attacked the
captain and pounded him numerically.
From this on the scene presented, for half
an hour, was worse than pandemonium it
self. The crowd, led by two women-the
only females on board-began pulling down
the stateroom doors, kicking in the panels.
smashing windows, tearing up bed and
bedding, jerking off cabin ornaments, Jam
ing holes IN the roof, demolishing furniture,
and in fact destroying everything they
could lay their hands on. Drunken oaths.
fierce yells, hooting, howling, drinking,
obscenity and blasphemy only formed an
accompaniment to the demoniac scene
Ev erything portable was pitched irto the
river. After damaging everything within
reach, the furious mob again searched out
the captain, and this second time tore his
clothing nearly off, knocked him down,
stamped and kicked him until life was
nearly extinct. Tom RUSSELL the man ar
rested several weeks since for stabbinp n
man named Donnell. has been captured as
one of the principals. .'Grasshopper Sam, :"
a most notorious character, and Dan Leary,
two other leaders, have both jumped the
town, no doubt haveing heard that war
rants were also issued for their arrest
Omaha ReDubLican.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
The --latest Dodge.

A very ingenious trick, by which gang of
swindlers are making money by mutilatino
national bank-nOtcs of the denomination of
i've dollars, has recently come to our no.
tice. The dodge consists of making ten
oilis ont of nine, and is so managed that
there Is but one pasting to each of the
manufactured notes. The nine whole bills
are taken, and from the right of the first
one-tenth is sliced off; from the right of
the second two-tenths; from the right of
the third three-tenths, and SO on to num-
Der nine from which nine-tenths are taken
from the right, or what amounts to the
same thing. one-tenth from the left. Num-
Der one Is passed as it Is, with tenth gone
from the right; the one-tenth taken from
number one ispasted to the residue ofnum-
Der two, from which two-tenths had been
taken; these two-tenths are made to answer
the place of the three-tenths taken from
number three, and so on through. Thus
nine-ive-dollar notes are completely, leav-
ng the ori ginal number nine, with a tenth
gone from the left, as tenth note.
1t viii be seen that but a tenth is gone
from each bill, and in different place on
every one, and little ingenious pastinp
makes the loss imperceptible to ordinary
observers. tits certain that large numbers
of these mutilated bills have been circu-
lated in this city, and our readers will do
well to look out for them. The rogues
who have carried out the fraud were cum
ming in selecting the denominations thew
did. Larger bills would have been more
closely scrutiniZed, and smaller ones would
not have been so remunerative. A similar
thing was done by parties in Williamsville,
several years ago, with fifty dollar notes of
the International bank of this city, but that
cheat was not so cleverly managed as this,
and was soon detected. The department
will not redeem bill which bears evidence
on its face that it has been tampered with.
and We advise our friends to scrutinize their
five-dollar notes closely.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

SPEED OF A RAILROAD TRAIN.-The spe-
cial Chicago Express, which left New York
Friday, at IL a. m, made extraordinary
time between Syracuse and Rochester, as
will be seen by the statement below. The
locomotive was Nc. 103, and the train con-
sisted of three passenger coaches and a
baggage car. On leaving Syracuse the
train was 19 minutes late, owing to hot
journal, and did not get off until 8:O4, in
stead of 7:45. Jordan, IL miles from Sy-
racuse, was passed in 81 minutes: Clyde, 38
miles from Syracuse, was reached in A
minutes, where stoppage of IL minutes
was made to cool the journal. Leaving
Clyde at o o'clock, Newark. so miles from
Syracuse, was passed at 9:14. fifty-eight
minutes running time; Palmyra, So miles
from Syracuse, was reached in 66 minutes
running time; and Rochester, 81 miles
from Syracuse, was gained in just "a mir
utes ON time. The engineer was James
Wood, who once made the run from Roch-
ester to Syracuse in 100 minutes-6 min
utes more than the time given above.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
sUFFOCATED BY CHARCOAL.
Strange and Melanchol Case at Ba-
tavfa, N. Y.---Two Persons Found
Dead I'm a Chamber.
From the Buffalo Express, Sd.

From the Buffalo Express, Sd.
painful excitement was created in Ba-
tavia, Wednesday morning by the discovery
of double visitation of death in the house
of Mr.. William Hatch, an old and much
respected citizen of the village. The bod
les of MIR. Hatch and his niece, maiden
lady who resided with him, were found
together, In room which was filed with
the fatal carbonic acid gas generated by
burning charcoal, life being entirely extinct
IN both. An examination showed that the
charcoal had been used in small stove to
warm the room during the night, which was
sharply cold, it will be remembered, and
that in some manner, by accident or neg
lect, the draught of the stove had been SO
obstructed that the deadly gas escaped into
the closely shut chamber.
MIR. Hatch, who was a bachelor, well ad-
vanced IN years, has been suffering of late
from distressing complaint. 1t is sup.
posed that during the night he needed at
tendance, and called up his niece, who was
fourd dressed and lying on the sofa in the
room, Mr.. Hatch himself sitting i'm chair.
Both had probably fallen asleep. and were
overpowered in that insensible state by the
suffocating vapor
As MIR. Hatch was gentleman of supe-
rior intelligence and well informed. it is
not to be supposed that he was ignorant of
the precautions necessary in using char
coal. Some singular accident or inadvert-
ance must have caused the dreadful result
although we hare not learned that its ex-
planation has been found. The suspicion
OF voluntary death is not entertained a
moment bythose knowing the gentleman,
who is represented to have been a man of
much eheerfulness Of disposition. wsll-to-
do in the world, and of undoubtedly sound
mind. As we have said, he was highly
esteemed in Batavia, as was the unfortunate
lady who became his companion in death,
and the melancholy strange affair has occa-
stoned deeply sad feeling in the village.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
A Terrible Case Of HydrophobIa.

The following paragraph appears in the
French papers:
On the Sd inst. one Jean Lombard. 18
years of sge, farm laborer at Shampfor-
guiel, near Chalons, was attacked by hy-
and attempted to bite several
persons, and succeeded in biting dog. He
inen went home TO his friends at Sassenay.
Informstion was given to the police. On
II cir arrival they found Lombard at the
door OF his fathers house. He was foaming
st the mouth, and inspired such
error that no one dared 90 near
him. The presence of the police
having reassured the father and a
few neighbors, they coaxed him into
room, locked it, and carefully barred all the
issues. Lombard, however, made no at
tempt to escn pc asked for some white wine,
which was let down to him through the
roof One of his friends having offered to
60 and attend him, be replied, "You had
better not; 1 shall bite you" He died at
3 o'clock in the morning, after night of
torture. Feeling he was dying, he reques-
ted the cure to be sent to him. The cure
came, and administered the consultations of
religion through hole in the window.
Lombard had been bitten six months ago,
but had not had the wound cauterizei.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
PerilOus Ride Down the Side of n
Mountain.

The Berlin correspondent of the London
Daily News, writing on the 10Th of August,
says:
Several members of the Berlin veloci-
Pede Club have lately been stayine at
warmbrunn, near the foot of the Schnee-
koppe, which is the loftiest peak of the
Giant Mountains. and A, $50 feet above the
level OF the sea. The summit consists of
very sharp cone, about 600 feet high, and
is assembled by steep and rugged zigzag.
Herr LANCER, who enjoys a great reputa-
ton for his skill in riding the iron horse,
sent up his machine without the knowledge
OF his friends, and then ascended the
mountain in company with three other
gentlemen. As soon as he had reached the
top, and before his friends are able to in
terfere, he vaults into the saddle and rolls
down the first portion of the zigzag.
cat the first turning he and his machine
tumbled over; but, nothing daunted, he
mounts again and turns down the second
portion, coming to similar grief at the end
OF it. Here his friends overtake him and
oppose his apparently suicidal intentions
with such good effect that at last he prom
ises to walk as far as the Riesenbaude. Mt
the foot of the cone. Here, however, he
mounts again, and rushes off at perfectly
break neck pace. The little brake applied
to one of the wheels had hardly any effect,
and the machine few over stones, water
channels and bushes, so that he probably
spent as much time in the air as on terra
frma. He afterwards effectually jammed
the hind wheel with piece of wood, and
then things went ON better In this man.
ner he reached Seydorf at the foot of
Schneekoppe, in an hour and half. o dis
tance which requires six hours, or rather
more on horseback. Here LANCER had
three more falls in the course of his expe-
dition, and at one or two particularly steep
places he was obliged to dismount His
friends, who followed in his track, never
expected to see him alive again; but, new
ertheless, he reached his destination with
out any other damage to himself or his
machine than breaking one spoke of the
hind wheel. Some other members of the
Berlin Club went from the Josephinehutte
to Warmbrunn, distance of eleven Eng
llsh miles, IN forty seven minutes. The
first six miles and q half, which is all down
hill was done intwenty ty-three minutes
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
A Case OF Wonderful generosity.

Inc Duke OF St Albans, who has here
toiore been best known as the boon COM
panion OF that bad young man, the Prince
OF Wales, has suddenly become famous in
quite different way. Recently the living
OF Redhouse fell vacant. 1t was worth
sl,5OO year, quite nice thing for some
poor clerical cadet Tho living is in the
DUKES gift, but instead of pitchforking in
some family hanger-on, as is the usual Gus
tom, he wrote one of the principal parish
toners to the effect that he would appoint
any clergyman the laity might choose. The
fast Duke could not have ventured on apv
one act more startling than this of CIV
ing the people the choice of
their minister. The parishioners of Red
bourne immediately held public meeting,
declared the Duke an ornament to his class.
or words TO that effect, and unanimously
voted that the permission to elect On in
cumDent OF their own choice is privilege
rare and Unparalleled, and merits their
warmest thanks" These Britons. who we
know never can be slaves, have so long been
used to accepting thespiritual guides which
the aristocracy provides for them, that they
fall down in ecstatic admiration of the GEN
eroslty that allows them any choice in the
matter which most nearly concerns their
souls. What we claim as a right. they con-
slder an unparalleled privilege" But the
Duke has made a bad precedent for the
dealers in the cure of souls in the Estab-
lished Church.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
poetry.
lin QUIET DAYS.

The dying year grows strangely mild:
Nowin ths hazy autumn weather
Ny heart n Ike happy child,
And life and I, friends recopciled
Go over the hills together.
Ny peaceful days run sweet and still
As waters slipping over sand
Seeking the shadows Of free will
Go gather tenderer lights than fill
Days over lavish hand.
The summer wood with music rings
The singers IL a troubled breast;
am no more the bird that sings.
But that which broods with folded wings
Upon its quiet nest.
- Oh, fairest month of all the yearl
Oh, sweetest days in hfei they melt:
Within, without, is autumn cheer,
September there. September here,
So tranquil and so sweet
Oft have I watched all night with grief.
All night with joy, and which is best
All both were sharp, and both were brief,
Ny heart was like wnd-blown leaf.
give them both for rest
Fair Quiet, close TO Joy allied.
But flowing shadier walks 10 keep,
By day is ever at my side;
And all night long with me abide
Peace and her sister Sleep.
-oAsL SPENCER, IN Harpr's Magazine for Sep
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
Genteel Smuggling.
From the New York Times

The following extracts of letters received
by one of the largest of our commercial
houses, OF the dates respectively of July ii
and Aug. 10, give the particulars of new
mode of getting on in the world. which has
been developed among our country people
by foreign travel:
'Here is new feature in trade in Paris
that has Just sprung up. B. Il Co. began
II during the Exhibition, and now thereare
many others, men who are on certain terms
with the manufacturers in Paris, take two
or three rooms i'll the most frequented ho-
tells, keep there samples of finest goods.
and dog every American that arrives, tow
ing them to their rooms, and taking their
orders and selling at just the manufactur-
ers prices. They sell quantities of goods
(rich goods) in this way. A manufacturer
of opera glasses has delivered each dav
since the 1st of May this year, to one of
these middlemen, articles of the value of
300 francs. chainmaker averaged five
chains day, and as many of large link
neck laces of new pattern right along
Watches and all sorts of jewelry, rich fancy
goods, bronzes and chimney sets are sold
In quantities, not to speak of silks and laces
by the tens of thousands of francs daily.-
All this to American travellers, and. of
course, the goods go over freel These
agents, too, are not strangers to us and
our customers end countryfolks. For in
stance, one was formerly clerk of two of
your large firms, and came over here two
or three times rs their buyer; he is mount
ed at the Grand Hotel.
Another is C-s, former AGENT here
and Is nice man, extensively acquainted
all round. The goods being the best, and
the prices really low, they can. and do. sell
a great many. Their profit is simply the
wholesale dealers or manufacturers' dis
count, say ten TO fifteen per cent, and as
the amounts are large and all cash. and
they being at very small expense. they
make ten to fifteen thousand francs n week.
assure You it is hurting our trade very
much. Our countrymen are supplvin1
themselves, especially in articles of high
cost, and tie business is growing. Of
course, we cannot blame either the sellers
or purchasers, but it upsets regular bust
ness /"
Letter Of August 16:
1--WE are sure that you in New York are
little aware of the number of Americans
now aboard. and all purchasing largely. not
rs formerly, but in quantities, the richest
articles sold In Europe. 1t is no transient
affair, but has become a business. Our folks
come over literally on shopping excur
SION. Of course, as the goods go over free,
It pays. Watches come in for one of the
chief articles, and the number is very LARGE.
Indian shawls, lace in all shapes, are also
taken over in cart loads"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

. 5PHoroGRAPHIc SEALS "A photographer
Freiberg has made seals and stamps with
the portraits of his customers A thin layer
of gelatin, sensitized with bi-chromate of
potash, is exposed to the action of light un-
der photograph positive. by which the
parts acted on are rendered insoluble in
water. The .gelatine, film is immersed in
water, and the parts not acted upon by light
swell up, and we obtain q picture in relief of
which plaster cast can be taken. A gal
vanic plastic copy being taken of the cast,
we have metallic fac-simile of the photo
graph, which can be employed as seal.
This process suggebls method of obtaining
perfect likenesses OF persons in metallic
checks, for the use of the printer, and also
an admirable way of. illustrating scientific
books, Y -''''eS - ''ts.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

1T Is ESTIMATED that the wheat crop in
Ohio this year will amount to about thirty
millions of bushels, or about double what
it was last year. Corn will be about one
third OF crop, or about thirty millions of
bushels. The heaviest corn crop ever
grown in the state measured ninety
millions of bushels. The oats crop is
double what it was last year, and the hay
crop is excellent, and reaches the market in
first rate order. Potatoes are uniformly
good, although it is feared that the present
dry weather will injure the late crop little.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

A GOOD story is told in Paris of son of
M. Bixio. This eminent man was for a
short time incarcerated in the fortress of
Vincennes, after the coupdaa. His wife,
accompanied by one of her sons, went to
see him. They dined together in his
chamber. The son was extremely sad and
taciturn during tho dinner, and at last at
tracted his fathers attention. "why, NV
dear boy, what is the matter with you ?''
Nothing, father" replied the lad of ii.
Nonsense; can see something is the
matter with You. Come, tell me what it
is" The boy blubbered: "Why, ra, am
so disappointed made sure of seeing
you in dungeon, chained to the wall, and
you amt"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

EFFE4 OF THE SALE OF PROPERTY N
ITALY.-We hear accounts from Sicily of
the former church property which was sold
by auction to private individuals. The
houses belonging to the converts were in
q dilapidated state, but have now been
either thoroughly repaired or pulled down
and rebuilt. The tilling of the convent
farms was in backward state, being car
ried on in the most primitive manner and
with the rudest implements: but the new
owners are devoting their attention to i'm
provement in the culture of the soil, which
ie naturally rich and fertile. In Messina
and in the communes of the province, sew
eral day and night schools are open The
latter are well attended, and many of the
children of the peasantry can now read and
write.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

'FREsH As MAIDENs BLUSH" is the pure
peachy Complexion which follows the use of
Hagan's Magnolia Balm. 1t is the True
Secret Of Beauty. Fashionable Ladies in
Society understand this.
The Magnolia Balm changes the rustic
Country Girl into City Belle more rapidly
than any other one thing.
Redness, Sunburn, Tan, Freckles, Blotches
and ali effects of the Summer Sun disappear
where it is used, and genial, cultivated,
fresh expression is obtained which rivals the
Bloom Of Youth Beauty is possible to all
store, and insist on getting the Magnolia
Balm.s
Use nothing but Lyons Katharion TO Dress
the Hair.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

PRINCE ALFRED of England rivals his
elder brother, the Prince of Wales, in de-
praved tastes and low debauchery. The
latest folly reported of him took place at
Honolulu, where, at his particular request,
disgraceful and obscene dance. called the
'hula-hula," was performed. To this no
white people, aside from the officers of the
Princes ship, but many half-cast ladies
married to Europeans. without their hus-
bands, were invited. The English resi-
dents were so disgusted with the transac-
ton that they lowered the British flag to
give expression to their feelings. A little
more of this sort of thing will end in SET
ting all the Princes adrift to shift for them
selves. E te
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
Personal Items.

Vanderbilt was born May 27, 1874.
Charlotte Cushman is reported iii al
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Archbishop Kendrick. of st. Louis. il
in Quebec, on his way to Rome.
Don Carlos has embarked at Guipuscoa
for England. He has abandoned for the
present the attempt to provoke rising in
Spain, and viii wait for more favorable
opportunity.
Hon. Henry Wilson's history of the
rise and fall of slavery in the United States
Is to be comprised in three volumes, and
the first, it is expected, will be ready before
the meeting of Congress.
MIR. Bonner has offered S1OO 600 for
any horse that can equal the time of Dex-
ter. very safe offer. The horse can't be
found, and if he could he would be worth
the money.
1t Is well known that Alexander Dumas
is mulatto, but it may be news to some
OF our readers that his father, Gen. Dumas.
man of color and n native of the then
French colony OF St. Domingo, was cener-
al-in-chief of the armies of the Republic
IN 1874, and the intimate friend of Hoche.
kleber and Marceau.
One day I'm the first week in huoust
the boldest player at Baden-Baden. n Rms.
sian lady of high rank, after a hard fought
battle of three hours duration, retired n
loser OF nearly hundred thousand francs.
The interest excited by this encounter was
intense. Almost all other plav was sus-
pended, and triple row of spectators sur
rounded the table, breathlessly watching
the result of each coun.
A year or two back Dore was i'm LON
don, and was invited to attend dinner of
the Newspaper Press Fund. He went
there ne knew nobody, apparently nobody
knew him; the seats seemed to be all flied:
he was too modest to announce himself and
so he wandered along the table hopelesslv.
ana, hndlng no seat, was quietly retreating
when at last some one recognized him
from having seen his photograph, and
promptly came to his relief, and found him
a place at the head of the table.
-Meissonnier, a wellknown wrestlera and
athlete, of Avignon, has just died from the
effects OF n cold caught in performing
benevolent act. He found child weenino
on the bank Of the river, to whom he was n
stranger, because she could not cross. and
said to her, ''Take heart, little one. I'll
serve as ferry for you" Swinging her ON
his shoulder he carried her over. On re-
turning to the bank whence he started, he
shpped and was thoroughly submersed. A
coid, wnlcn led to virulent fever, was the
result. As his end approached, Meissonnier
literally struggled with the malady, and his
last words were, ''Oh, Death. if you were
man what short work I'd make of you."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

Between the mouth of the Willamette
river and Astoria, Oregon. there are twenty
five salmon fisheries, employing over two
hundred men. Over million pounds Of
salmon have been put up in tin cans, which
sell at the rate of nine dollars per forty
eight pounds. About two thousand bar
rels have also been put up.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15

WHILE party of workmen were engaged
in excavating cellar at Thorn Grove, N.
j., at the depth of about five feet they
struck an iron vessel, which, upon examin-
ton, was found TO contain large amount
of specie. The laborer who first made the
discovery proceeded to appropriate the
proceeds, when others coming up, disputed
his ri ght to do SO, and insisted on divi-
sion, whereupon fight ensued. Two col
ored laborers were beaten to such an ex-
tent that their recovery is considered very
doubtful. The money is ancient coin, some
pieces dating as far back as 1716."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-15
Death OF Senator Fessenden.

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. S.-Senator Fes-
senden died at $50 this forenoon. He was
sensible until the hour of death, and had
passed comfortable night until 8 o'clock.
Physicians were in attendance, and did ev-
erything to relieve his sufferings, which
otherwise would have been great at the
lose.