Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-07-15
Breuitifs.
Miscellaneous Items.

cnar2e OF fraud.
Tom. Allen, the pugilist, receives a
benefit at the National Theatre at 81. Louis
on Saturday evening next
"A writer in the Atlantic MONTHLY Saws
that if we would abolish the inebriate we
must begin with his grandmother.
New Albany, Ind, will soon have plate
glass works, which have heretofore existed
IN this country only at Lenox, Mass.
The silver wedding of Bishop Morris
(the senior Bishop of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church of America), was celebrated
at Springfield, Ohio, June 25.
A drunken man in a fit of deIrium
tremens. jumped from the Suspension
bridge at Cincinnati, the other day, and was
drowned.
Fifth avenue houses in New York have
cashmere door mats now, and il is snppos-
ed that the next novelty will be cameIs hair
dish clouts.
The agents of the Cuban Junta have
bought an estate of 10 acres in Bergen
county, n. j., to be laid out in villas for
Cuban exiles.
The Confederate dead are being re-
moved from the Chickamauga battlefield
and re-interred in the Confederate ceme-
terry at Marietta, Gal1
"A travelling southerner lately offered n
present to the American Club at Breslau a
bust OF ex-President johnson, but the club
UNANIMOUSLY voted to decline the gift.
The Red Stockings on their return to
Cincinnati were presented with cham.
plon bat, 279 feet long and weighing / GOO
pounds, upon which were engraved the
names OF all the members of the club.
"A Kentucky distiller having noticed
that whisky is improved by sea voyage.
has put up treadmill in his warehouse
ana uses horse power to keep the whisky
In perpetual motion.
The rumor is current at Mempbis that
the counsel for Yerger, who killed Colonel
Crane at jackson, Miss, will applv 70
Chief Justice Chase for a writ of habeas
corpus.
Among the finest residences at New
| port are those of Chas. J. Petersen are The
Fhlladelnhia publisher. and Mrs. GEORGE
Francis Iraln-the latter built since last
year.
The Barkentine Western Bill sailed
from Humboldt for San Francisco in Janu-
airy, 1865, and has never been heard rom
until recently, when a portion of her hull
with the name painted on it was discover
ed on the northwestern coast of California
near Cape Perhoues.
Mrs. Kolb, who recently died in Madi.
son, Georgia, left an estate valued at near
SlOO,OOO, almost all of which is beaueath-
ed 10 the Ordinary OF the county, in trust,
ior the purpose of educating the poor Or
phan children of the county.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered
an immense tract of land covered with edi-
ole mushrooms of extraordinary size and
uenclous navor. One is spoken of which
was seven inches in diane er with stem
Two inches thick, and which weighed n
pound.
Notice has been served by the United
States officers on the owners of whisky
burned IN the warehouse of Gaines. Berry
a Co., In Frankfort KY, some time ago.
Tor the payment of the tax on said whisky.
Inc amount OF taxes demanded is about
sloo,ooO. An extensive lawsuit will result.
The New York postcfice always sends
to Europe much greater number of letters
than 1t receives from that part of the world.
For the month of May it sent away 42O, 553
letters, and received 391, ,062 The rule.
however, Is broken in single instance.
Ihe Italians sent home but A, $50 letters.
for 1888 brought over to them.
The malignity of the London Times
toward Senator Chandler is painfully ex4
hlblted In the fact of its utterly ignoring
his arrival on British soil in gorgeous
turnout Even the Court Journal main
tains provoking silence on the Michigan
Senator's presence in England
An old negro, applying for coffin, at
Evansville, Ind, lately, to bury his child,
aged three months, said that he was one
hundred and six years old, and his wife
twenty. He claimed to have known nearly
all the Revolutionary Generals, and to have
been at the battle of New Orleans.
On Sabbath evening, June 9Th, Christ
CIarch, New Orleans, was filled with a
congregation OF Cubans and Spaniards in
attendance upon the ceremonies of the
Episcopal Church, which were performed
in the Spanish language. With the excep-
ton OF the singing by the choir, the service
and sermon were given in Spanish.
"A physician of Platin, No., one DIR. A.
Hill, reports that the notorious desperate
and OUTLAW Sam Hildebrand, for whose
head a reward of S1O, 600 has been offered.
is dead He declares that the fellow died
from the effects of wound in his thigh, |
and that he attended him at the request of
some person to himself unknown.
There is peony plant in Wellfeet,
Mass, which was brought eighty years ago
from Plymouth Ponds to that place by the |
bride of Captain Daniel Mayo as memen-
to of her old home and beautifier of the !
new Since then it mas each year flourish |
ed, and IN the four score years has been
tended by mother and daughter.
The Hon. w. H Wadsworth, of Ken
lucky; Senator Norton of Indiana; Judge
Bingham, of Ohio, and Col Rumsey Wing, |
the Republican candidate for State Treasu
rer, are to speak in various parts of Ken
lucky. at the invitation of the Republican
State Central Committee.
"A few nights ago the inmates of the |
Jail at Jackson, Cape Glrardeau county,
Mo.,-eleven in number-broke out and |
made their escape. Some of the despera- |
docs removed the iron bars of the cell in |
which they We're confined, with file, and, |
having chloroformed the jailor, liberated |
the rest of their fellow prisoners. Two of |
the fugitives were in for murder.
"A noted Ohio horse-t thief, known as
Bill Wheeler, who had served fifteen years |
liz the Kentucky Penitentiary. and was
very desperate character, was shot and /
killed by party of men, in the vicinity of |
Quincy, KY, few days ago, who had |
cnaseC MIN from over the line In Ohio. He /
had been ordered to halt, but refused to do
so. and fired on his pursuers Hence his
death.
"A fortnight "go, at Napoleon, Ohio,
two boys named Cameron, aged nine and
sou teen, were sent to bed supl . less and
threatened with thrashing in the morn
ing. In the night they got up. walked five
miles to a railroad station. went to Chicago
thence to Baltimore and since leaving the
latter place the persons employed by Mr.
Cameron to find the boys met with no sue
cess. They can be heard of at different
points, but can not be caught. They seem
to have no definite object in view, but when
tram of cars drives up they get ON and
travel to the end of the line.
The Omaha Republican reports the ar
rival In that city, one day last week, of
Stub, "a boy of IA years, who has been
1ar