Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-10-06
Breuities.
Miscellaneous Items.

Corn is twenty-five cents bnshel in
Texas. ""'' -
a Seward sails from S,n Francisco fo,
, Mexico on the 30th.
!, Immense beds of pypsum have bea,,
discovered in Union Co., Ill.
An Iowa parsoness on wedding occa.
slons doesn't kiss the bride, but the otbc,
one. "'A0'
/ boston can now boast of ten daily pa
pers, two of them publishing distinct morn.
ing and evening editions
"A mass meeting of those who are on
posed to excluding the Bible from schools
is to be held in Cincinnati soon.
An organ-grinder was killed on the
Erie road the other day. So organ-grinders
are not immortal, as some supposed.
All the girls of the Dominion are fall
ing In love with Prince Arthur. So they
wouid with jackass if he wore a sprig OF
royalty. f''e VI
There is said to be man IN Kentuckv
VINO mas no ears and no aural apertures
he can hear distinctly through his mouth
however.
The late tornado in Boston made sucb
serious work with the churches that Zion's
herald thinks 1t must have been a free re-
ligion wind. ~
The Italians of Chicago propose TO Gel
eDrate the next anniversary of the discoy
cry oil America by Columbus. on the 10Th
of October
"A child six years old was recently run
over IN Boston Don't whip ME. father
LII never do 70 again. were his last
words. ''''''
steam shovel capable of doing The
work OF one hundred men, has lust been
put III use on one of the Illinois railroads
ior the purpose OF loading cars with gravel
The new National Intelligencer has an
peared. Ii Is published on the co-opera.
tive plan. in the belief that a multitude of
owners Will secure a like number of rread
ers.
"A Boston chemist adyertises thus. The
gentleman who left his stomach for analv.
SIS, Will please call and get il together with
the results.
The product of a single grapevine of
the Seuppemong variety, In Jacksonville.
Florida, has been sold for one hundred and
ninety two dollars.
An ''old citizen" of South Bend. Ind.
says the swallows are flying unusually
high, which is sure SIGN that tbe winter
will set in early.
oh'oh IihIoor, MICH, on Lake Mich |
igan, one of the largest fruit shippinp
points in the valley of the Mississippi. had
no existence six years ago.
"A little girl twelve years Of age. named |
Mary Ann Wall, passed through Buffalo |
en- ronte for Marshall. having Travelled all !
the way from Kilkenny. Ireland, alone.
"A horse on a Chicago street ca- fell |
while drawing car at rapid rate, and |
the wheels passed over him, killing him in |
few moments.
The good must suffer for the evils of |
the wicked-sixty churches damaged by
the New England storm, and not even a |
single saloon nnroofed.
= 1t is thought that Hildebrand. the Mis-.
sourrl outlaw, has made good his escape |
from that state. as nothing has been seen /
or heard OF him for some time.
Some of the best men in England are
studying the inebriate asylums i'm America
with much interest. such institutions are
scarcely known in Great Britaiu.
There is boy in the Missouri Insane
asylum upon whom they can keep neither
clothes nor shoes He eats them all-leav-
ing the buttons and tacks on his plate, prob
ably like fish bones.
The Grand Jury of st. Clair county.
I'LL, have indicted Allen, Gallagher and Nc.
Coole for prize fighting. and there are
strong hopes that the accused will get a
term in the penitentiary.
Mrs Stowe got no more for her Byron
slander article than for her ordinary contri-
buttons to the Atlantic Monthly. That is
no more money, though she received a
great many more curses.
The Scientific American reports cure
OF lockjaw in the army, during the war. by
applying moist tobacco TO the pit of the
mans stomach. Every muscle was relaxed
by the consequent sickness.
"A Chicago paper says; "Toadyism
reached its depth in Chicago yesterday.
California laughs in her sleeve and with
one thumb upon the point of her nose.
gently gyrates her digtals and moves on.
The famous glen at Watkins, N. Y,
near the head of Seneca Lake, has been
purchased for twenty-five thousand dollars,
by +. IL. Parsons, Of Bradford county, Pa,
who proposes to improve it as popular
summer resort.
"A former Auditor of Dearborn county,
Ind, named Crosby, has Just entered the
State Penitentiary for forgery. Ii seems
that he was tried and sentenced on his own
confession, the act having been the result |
Of intemperance.
In Granville county, North Carolina,
the oldest inhabitant has never seen so
gloomy chance for not q fourth of q /
crop Will be made. One or two showers OF
late have improved the tobacco. Wheat
was good. Oats An average crop.
"A knife swallowing Snowman, near the
State Fair grounds, at Toledo, Ohio, on
Thursday evening, while attempting TO
conceal long knife in his throat and
mouth, was SO severely injured internally
that it was feared he would die.
"A letter was picked up in Omaha the
other day, from Cheyenne, closing with the
following words: ''fhere is nothing doing
here. and man is likely to starvs at any
time. The Grand Jury is in session, and |
everybody expects to be indicted"
A wealthy and beautiful yonng lady ip
Erie, Pa, recentlymarried an upeouth and
crippled shoemaker, who was already mar
ried and possessed of family of children
on the supposition that he WAS wealthy
and All agent of A. L. Stewart.
The rice crop of South Carolina ia be.
ing rapidly harvested and generally prom
ises well. Planters over much of the State
expect to plant freely of small grain, in or
der to lessen the injury arising from the
partial failure OF the sorn crop.
An ''old miner" at Avondale proposes
that hereafter all the miners give one days
pay every year toward the fund for the
benefit OF the widows and orphans. By
this means he says they raise SO, 600.
and for himself, he counts the first days
work done since the catastrophe sacred for
this purpose.
"A gentleman in Macon, Ga, predicts
that cotton will go down 10 fifteen cents
during the winter, and then rise To thirty
five in the spring, but the Telegraph, OF
that city, tells him that the crop is too short
and the demand too eager for such fiuctua-
tions.
"A Mr. Bowl. of Potosi, Missouri. few
days ago. took from the same limb of a
seeding apricot tree in his garden, perfect
specimens of both the peach and tie april
cot; probably the result of the pollen of i
the peach being transferred to the apricot
by honey bees.
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