The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-08
- Sixty-one new newspapers were

The recei pts of the Peace Jubilee
were nearly 81 ,0O0,G00.
Fred. Douglass has applied for tie
admission of his youngest son to the
Naval Academy.
Miss Fanny Yo&ng is Notary
Public in Kansas City.
Commodore Nuts other name is
Lewis Dinger.
The Nevada legislature has licens-
ed gambling.
-ShipbuiIding is active at San
Francisco.
Boston has shipped over so, 600
600 worth of boots and shoes in FIVE
months.
"A Baltimore lazy recently shot
mad dog on the street.
The scholarship Of Grants son at
West Point is very low.
In Oswego the people are called
together by brass band.
The French government requires
that the fronts of al buildings shall be
cleaned on and after the first Of Nav of
Of the present year and periodically af-
forwards.
Commodore Wand erbilt has taken
one entire floor in the new hoteI at
Niagara, Canada, for his family, during
the summer
General Smith, late governor of
Montana, intends to become Baptist
preacher.
Boutwell, forbade smoking in the
Treasury department. Delano did it,
and Boutwell, regulated him, but De-
ano still smokes and falls back on
Grant.
Mcclellan intends to make a tour
through Canada and the Northwest du-
ring the summer.
"A snow storm passed over the
town Of Lecco, Italy, on t. evening Of
June Is.
The latest fashion among the
London "nobs" is to carry poodle in
their arms under the flowers in their
respective button. holes.
Fashionable people in Europe
have tabooed railway travelling this
season, and are wandering over Eu-
rope in their private carriages.
-Cognac, the famous brandy town
of France, is said to be one of the
wealthiest places of its size in the
world.
A man III Georgia Is so fond Of
riding on horseback that he shoulder
cd saddle and walked sixteen miles
after horse for the pleasure of riding
him back.
A convention Of American Phi
oiogists is cal led to meet at Pouch.
keersie on the 9th of July, to contin-
ue for several days,
Since the Viceroy of Egypt's ar
rival in Paris he has received over six
hundred letters day from persons
requi ring assistance. The total amount
already asked for is over l 900, 000t
Requests for employment are more
modest, amounting to only nine hun
dred.
A San Francisco man has sued
another for $4,000 damages for enti-
cling away his wife, and OBTAINING her
against his utmost peaceful efforts,
whereby he has been deprived of her
society and assistance.
"A few days ago, white man, a
fisherman, residing on the Ogechee
canal, ten or twelve miles from Savan
nah, Georgia, sold his wife to another
fisherman for sixty punches of fish,
valued at fifty cents per bunch. The
wife was perfectly satisfied with the
trade, ard is now living with the pur-
chaser.
An English paper says it Is not
an uncommon thing in the country for
ladies travelling in frst-class railway
carriages to cut down and carry away
the silk curtains of the windows. for |
the purpose of making aprons of them.
So general did the practice become on
one line, that all new curtains were
made of a material that was not worth
stealing.
At West Pithole, Pa, on Thurs
last, Mrs. f. Smith and her child, 3
years of age, were burned to death.
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