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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

The Columbia City Post comes to
US in flying colors this week. En-
larged to nine columns, printed on new
type and new cylinder press, 1.-THE Post
compares favorably with any weekly
paper in the state. Whatsoever Brown
doeth is " done Brown"
LA PORTE Strengthening lively.
80. Picnic at the Indian. Mounds on
Saturday :. La Porte mocha MICS seek
ing employment in South Bend -.
New Touring mill. Common Pleas
Court In session Gentlemen gone to
Boston to attend the Peace Festival.
80. The Marshal refuses to be dog
killer. La Porte co. has 81 physi-
clans, 26 attorneys, 96 retail dealers
(not including liquor sellers) and IS
manufacturers. So says the Union l.
Herald. :. ."Festive cnss" on q lark.
-. Baptist festival netted s32 90.
1865 children In La Porte county emit
tied to..the beni6ts of public school. >.
Theiving at premium. Hon. Gar
land Rose, formerly citizen of La Porte
U. S. Marshal for this state under Lin
coin, and postmaster at Indianapolis
under johnson, died in Washington
City on the 9TH inst :. :. Man killed by
tie falling Of tree.
INDIANAPOLIS: Gov. Baker is ill.
....Aglta.ing the big hotel question.
-. Threatening letters sent to the
mayor in reference to the enforcement
of the Sunday laws. .Brevet Major
General Hill to command the arsenal.
$3.50 to be given as prizes to the
most expert Observation-Disclosures
at the state fair IA poet in the Sen.
tinel offers prize to the person who
will furnish a word to rhyme with
noble" In order to quiet the poets
mind, we respectfully hand in the card
of our young friend, Thomas J. Goble
and shall expect to receive the prize by
return mail The Sunday law ex-
element continues undated Straw
berries 123 cents per quart. Chick
en- with four legs. Thirteen families,
near the rolling mills, boast of having,
in the aggregate, 100 children. 30
persons immersed in the First Baptis.
church, on the 9th. :. E.. State conven.
ton of spiri,ualists On the 18th. 80.
MISREPRESENTATION playing out. 80.
Medical college admits females :. The
Sentinel calls marriage licenses moose
papers" IA henrery in operation
last week, in the shape of a woman's
rights convention. All the old 'uns
male and female, were in attendance
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17
CHURCH ITEMS.
BY THE REV. FIR. SIEGLACK.

CATHoL.CITY IN ENGLAND-The
London Tablet says:
The population of Great Britain had
increased in 1861 to 20,0b6, 900, being
40 the rate of little over 26 per cent,
annually; the increase since 1861
up to this year is at about the same rate
By comparing the statistics given in
the Catholic Directory of 1919 with
those of the present year has an increase
of over ninety per ceat. in the number
of clergy and churches, chapels. sta
tions etc. The numbers are as follows
1S49, clergy, S97; churches, etc. 696.
1869, clergy $3.50, churches etc. l 1929
Besides these, there are about five
times as many monasterics and converts
now as there were twenty years ago.
So that it is no exaggeration to calcu-
late that the catholic population is
doubling itself in twenty years.
Should the present. proportion of in
crease continue, and taking the number
of catholics at p millions, the whole
population would in 1889 be about %
millions, of whom five millions, that is
one-ffth of the entire population of the
country, would be Catholics. But there
are SYMPTOMS of a far more rapid increase
than this.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

the road crosses the Lodge Pole Greek
just east of Cheyenne, and places where
the road had been torn up for a dis
lance of over half a mile. You will
notice the section hands here at work
on the road have their muskets with
them all the time, to be used in case
of emergency. No hostile demonstra-
tons have been made here since last
spring when Gustav gave them such a
chastising in the Washita Mountains
We pas Antelope, Pine Bluff, and Hills
dale, (named in honor of Chief Engi-
neer Hillsdale of the Lodge Pole divis-
iou who was killed here in 1867 by In
dians, while surveying.) West of
Hillsdale the scenery becomes grand.
The road follows the canons as cending
the mountains, is very crooked and
gets up fine best way it can. In ascend
ing the mountains the road runs
through what is called Cheyenne Pass.
The temperature here becomes cold
er and you find an overcoat and good
FIRE to be very agreeable; midway be-
tween Sidney and Cheyenne VIC pass
the boundary line between Nebraska
and Wyoming Territory, 1t is marked
by a simple post upheld by stones.
Four states have now been anhi!ated
and l expect to be in the land OF the
Mormons by this time tomorrow.
Yours Truly,
ORLANDO M. PACKARD.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17
THE STATE.

Scarlet fever in Ft. Wayne.
Two "social evils" in Columbia
City.
The Terre Haute Police force costs
$4,000 per year.
The Goshen post Office was robbed
Of SIS, all in nickel.
In all Vermillion county there are
but two liquor saloons.
The Delphi papers are heavy on
Grail roads" just now
The town Of Sullivan has liquor
license law-s100 per annum.
The immortal philosopher, ~.
N" has turned up a. Logansport.
Knox county draws S14, 556 33
from the school fund. johnson coun-
ty, 81 ,514 IS.
"A doctor, an Evansvillain, has
vaccinated over 1,400 persons within
the past four months.
"A daughter of Hon. A. p. Edger-
ton, of Fl. Wayne, was recently mar.
ried TO a gentleman from New York.
The New Albany loom works
premise to be among the most impor-
tant Of the manufactures of that city.
Miss Rarpold, of Brazil, dropped
dead. on Thursday of last week, while
laughing at the capers of a dog Heart
disease.
The sheriff of Elkhart county re-
Gently fell among Phillistines, in Chi
cago, and was relieved of valuable pa
pers amounting 20 81, 800 besides 800
worth of clothing.
The children will be sorry to hear
that the little girl who rode SO nicely
in Forepaugh's circus, fell from her
horse the other day, at Crown Point
and fractured an arm.
The Goshen Democrat says:
SAT the exhibition of the hook and
ladder company on Tuesday evening
about an hour previous to the meeting
of the council, Mr.. John W. Egbert
performed feat. which for daring, and
seeming recklessn0ss of life and limb,
beat anything witnessed by our citizens
for many a day. He slowly climbed
the ladder CATER it was firmly braced
against the walD from the bottom to
the top and down again, without harm
ing hair of his head. and amid the
huzEss Of large and admiriug crowd -
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17
For TIE DBMocRAr
An OVERLAND TRIP TO OREGON.
DALLEs CRY. OREGON, !
Nav 9th. 1869. {


In my last believe left you at the
city of North Platte. Werleit North
Platte at II, a. NJ, Wednesday, April
14th, and were soon whirling along the
banks Of the South Platte again. II
miles west We strike O'Fallon's bluffs
that skirt the river on the southern side
all the way from her: to Julesburgh,
they arc very steep and in many places
almost perpendicular. On the north
side of the river, the prairie slopes al
most down to the waters edge. The
Platte is very beautiful here and most
Of tho way from here to Julesburgh it
averages almost mile wide, aud very
ahallow. numerous sand bars are seen,
and small islands covered with cotton
wood and willow, which gives the river
q very beautiful appearance. The
country now becomes more broken and
billy and no soil is found west of North
Platte good for farming purposes. We
saw numerous herds of deer and ante
lopes TO day. also prairie wolves The
prairie here is thickly studded with
prairie dogmounds, which give it the
appearance of being ploughed. We
saw no bufaloes On the whole route,
but thousands Of their skulls lie bleach
ing on the plains west of North Platte,
Civilization has driven them farther
north. This is the case with all other
kinds of game. 1 was told by men who
had travelled this route before, that
game Of every kind was but now occa.
sionally seen. Ten miles east of Aka.
Ii we saw large herd of antelope graz
ing about one half mile from the track
they ran along by US for about tive
miles nearly keeping up with the cars
All the passengers who had muskets Of
pistols came. out and fired at them
This was truly sight not often to b,
seen. The train rafting along at tn
rate of 80 miles an hour over the prai
RE, with band of antelope. along sid
Of us almost keeping pace with Us, an
the platforms covered with groups O
excited passengers shooting and crying
out "there he goes" ego it old fel
lows" "shoot that one, "pop him" &
DC. Twas outside myself but as wa
not much Son the shoot" ] did lot XII
many. None were killed l believe, q
the distance was too great to take goo,
aim. TWAS truly sight calculate,
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

THE Right Rev. Bishop Luers of
Fort Wayne, purchased last autumn
in our neighboring town, Rochester,
three fine lots for church property.
The commencement of a new catholic
church WILSON take place Prominent
Americans non-catholics have literally
contributed already for this purpose,
and promised further aid His Lsrd :
ship lectured in Roc hester in the cquct-
house frequently before large audience
on principal catholic points, having
dipersed prejudices which are against
US, and gained the sympathy and high
estimation for the catholic church
among Rochester's citizens. He like
wise bought last autumn the largest
hotel in Fort Wayne (Rockill House,
for SIS, 900, containing 105 rooms for
hospital with dining room 20 by 80
to be used henceforth for a chapel.
The sisters of mercy under the name
"Poor maidens of Christ" who recently
emigrated from Germany, have already
taken possession of the building and
opened their charitable sphere Of &C
ton in taking motherly care over the
poor sick since the 1st Of May.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17
CHURCH ITEMS.
BY TIE REV. WIN, LUSK, JR.

THEADoRE A. LEMON NJ. D. former
ly of this place, died at his residence in
Detroit, Mich, on the 9th of May
AT that time passed away one, who,
from long residence in this place, and
many bright and beautiful traits of
character, is remembered with affection.
He had his weaknesses, and who of us
has none? ''Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone." We leave his
failures to be remembered with chris
tian charity, and avoided by vivid
knowledge of their character and con-
sequences He was the son of T. d.
and G. B. Lemon, and at the time of
his death was thirty.nine years Of age.
He was favored with all the blessings
of an excellent and lovely christian
nome. In early life he was baptized
in the Christian Faith and thus made
a member of the Church, His youth
full days were full of promise, and he
grew up exemplifying the most lovely
and valuable qualities of character, and
surrounded by many and warm friends.
He was thoroughly educated, being a
graduate of Wabash college. He chose
the medical profession. and as a physi-
clan, he poss essed the ability to stand
high aad make his life grand success.
He came to this place in the year 1851.
His life here is familiar to all. There
are few in this place, or in the county
unacquainted with DR.. Lemon. There
are few who have not received from
him some kindness, and many will ne
yer forget his valuable professional
services. He was confirmed in the
Church July 3, 1865. The privileges
of the Church are for all for whom
Christ died, and "He tasted death for
every man.' These privileges the de-
ceased loved, and held to with won
derful tenacity. One year ago last
March his health completely failed,
and in the following June he gave up
his business in this place, and in the
following September went to Detroit,
Mich. Lately he was gradually i'm
proving up to the Monday evening be.
fore his death. He was preparing to
enter into business again, and walked
to and from his boarding house, dis.
lance of one mile, three times day
and gave every promise of restored
health and bright and useful man.
hood. lie died unexpectedly from a
hereditary disease. His wife was with
him from the middle of the day pre-
vious to his death, but did know of hi.
sickness before her arrival as she was viz.
iting friends and kilograms tailed t(
reach her. He suffered gre atty, bu
his last hours were calm, peaceful
thoughtful aud hopeful! He leaves ar
estimable wife and bright and prom
Using young son. They will remain a
Detroit. While we drop a tear il
memory of the failures in his life, w
will not forget the beautiful in hi,
character, or the hours of pleasant fel
lowship in days of brightness and day
of darkness. We extend our sympath,
. to the home that death has invaded
and remembering the vacant place il
our own associations in this world, W
silently recall the thought that
1.-THE mildest herald by our fate allotted
, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand
To lead us with gentle hapd
q Into the land OF the great Departed
Into the silent land"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17
NOTICE..

With this number We assume the
editorial and business management OF
THE DEMOCRAT, during the Temporal
~ absence of the editor. Having
made formal bow to the patrons OF
THE DEMOCRAT in times past, We do
not think it necessary to repeat the op-
GRAFTON at this time, but viii. merely
state that whatever, in the manage
ment of the paper, is deserving OF
praise is to credited to US; while that
which is deserving Of blame is to be
scored to VANS account. With this
understanding We subscribe ourself,
eheerfully, etc., j. MCDONALD.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

IT has not been customary for the
Anglican Church to report membership.
The plao is now being generally adopt
ed, and the result shows membership
in the United States Of nearly two mil
lions, and at present a rapid increase.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

Ok LARK-we understand that q gay and fes-
ment was in this city last Saturday, on regular
bender" He was conspicuous particularly when
ladies were to be found, and made himself espec-
ially offensive to them. His conduct was said TO
be rude and insolent in the extreme. He doubtless
will again visit this place soon and should he con-
duct himselfas on last Saturday. he will have fur
fS s, tnion { Herald. -' " .
The readers of the LaPorte papers
have of late been treated to nauseating
doses of fulsome fattery of the citizens
of that place. Webster's dictionary
has been ransacked for elegant and
polished phrases with which to set
forth the beauty of LaPorte feminiEity
and the gallantry of the sterner sex OF
that altogether lovely city. After be-
ing convinced that all that is grand,
and noble in human nature finds home
in the persons of the denizeDs of La
Porte, the reader is suddenly let down
from the height of enthusiastic admit
ration Of the beautiful and the brave,
by the announcement that "gay and
festive cuss" was in the city on "reg-
ular bender" and made himself "espe-
cially offensive" to the ladies, toward
whom his conduct was "rude and inso-
lent in the extreme;" and the only pun.
ishment which this insulter of ladies
in public received, was, that she will
have further attention paid to him
should he return. Itwoul6 be pleas
ure to know that the belaboring which
this festive cuss received at the hands
of outraged humanity of LaPorte, had
proved fatal. We fear though. that be
is SO full of the devil, and SO reckless
OF his own personal safety, that a repe-
tition Of the punishment will be neces-
sary to thoroughly squelch him. He
should be taught that if he insults
respectable ladies on sixty or seventy
occasions, the gallantry Of LaPorte
will probably pay further attention to
him.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

A New York paper announces that
A. Z. Stewart has become convert to
the Roman catholic religion and has
given large donation to the Sisters Of
Charity. He is now in open. commu
MON with the church
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17

"A new Masonic Hall has just been
completed at Goshen, at a cost of 49,.
600. II is to be dedicated on Saint
Johns day. =
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-13
THE ELECTIONS YESTERDAY.

General elections were held yesterday
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In Ohio the
for Governor were Hayes
Republican, and present incumbent),
aud Pendleton (Dsmocrat). In Pennsyl-
rania, Geary Republican, and present
incumbout), and Packer (~Democrat).
Our dispatches, which are up to nine
o'clock this morning, indicate that
Pennsylvania has gone for the Repub-
lieans by from eight to ten thousand
majority for Governor, and a Republic
can majority in the Legislature-largsr
than it was last year. The returns from
Ohio are not sufficiently full to show
definitely which party carried it; but
the chances cannot be otherwise than in
favor of the Republicans-as the DEM
ocrats could not possibly have overcome
the immense Republican majority OF
last year. Pendleton, the Democratic
candidate in Ohio, was an original
sccessionist, persisted in keeping the
Confederate side politically all through
the var and is now in favor of virtual
reputation of the national debt by an
overwhelming increase Of currency, and
paying the interest and principal Of the
debt in that sort Of money, which he
seeks to make worthless by an unlim-
tied issue.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-13
A NEW BATTERY.

We were yesterday shown by a friend
a new style of battery for crushing rock,
which seems to look like a frat rate in-
vention. 1t is called the Hotchkiss =
Gardner Battery, and is manufactured
in New York. The draft before US rep
resents o battery Of six stamps, and to
understand it, a person must imagine,
instead Of the straight cam shafts, cams
and tappets, in ordinary use, six pis-
tons, side by side, working on a crank
shaft, exactly like the shaft of an en-
CINE, except that for each piston there
is a corresponding bend in the shaft, so
that the picture looks a little like the
drawings of the old sea serpent in the
spelling books of twenty years ago.
The power is applied to a pulley, the
same as in the ordinary battery. with a
balance wheel on the other end of the
shaft. There is an air chamber in the
top Of the stamp, by which, it is claimed,
the force of the blow is increased, and
also that the compressed air helps to
lift the stamp. The pistons are packed
with leather-cut; packing. This is a
rough sketch of the. machine. 1t is
claimed that this machine, driven by a
6fteen-horse power engine, will easily
acquire a speed Of 200 blows per minute
for each stamp, and that n now run
ming in the East strikes $50 strokes per
minute. On the hard copper ore of the
East, the machine reduces forty tons
per day. Our best batteries here strike
but from 80 to s6'strokes per stamp per
minute. If this battery more than
doubles the work Of au ordinary one,
and is, as is claimed, no more liable to
accident than the ordinary battery, its
advantages are at once apparent. We
understand that one or two of these
machines are already on tho way to
White Pine, and that Mr.. George Alex.
ander, of.this place, is the agent for
the Pacific Coast for both the battery
and that wonderful machine, the Patent
Rock Drill. These drills We will try
and describe at another time. When
the batteries come we hope some of our
mill men will give them a thorough
test, and report their performance
Inland Empire.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-13

MEDICAL OrISIoSs.-The recent find
ing Of q Court Martial held upon q sur
geou of the United States Navy, is based
upon the principle that q line officer is
a better judge than a medical officer
whether q sailor on the sick list is re-
stored to sufficient health for the per-
Torrance of his duties. The charge
against the surgeon was treating with
contempt his superior officer, 10 dissent
ing from an order to take a seaman off
the sick list, and the sentence Of the
Court was suspension from rank on fur
Tough pay for two years, and a public
reprimand, to be read at every naval
station and en- board every vessel in
commission. The Secretary Of the Navy
has, however, RENTED the sentence, SO
far as the suspension Of rank on fur
Tough pay is concerned. The Secretary,
in the conflict Of opinion as to the rela-
tive position of the respective classes Of
officers, has taken the part Of the officer
who navigatcs and fights the ship, and
virtually asserts that a surgeon, who
has thoroughly studied diseases and
their proper treatment, is not compe-
tent, after long years of practice and
experience, to decide whether a patient
is restored to health or not. The Sec
say, that the disobedience Of
complained of VAS the result of
a mistake of judgment in regard to pro-
fessional rights and duties, rather than
of q deliberate intention of wrong, and
therefore mitigated the sentence. This
decision, which is to the effect that the
orders Of the Captain on medical sub
iec,s are supreme, involves an absurdity
hat in the ordinary transactions OF life
would at once be condemned.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-13

Two MORE LocoNorivSs.-The Carson
appeal says that mechanics are at work
putting new tires on the locomotives
+" Carson" and Virginia. at Reno,
belonging to the Virginia and Truekee
Railroad Company, and which came
from the East a few days ago, over the
Pacific Railroad. 1t is the intention to
bring them over to Carson as they
stand, without taking them apart. The
appeal says they each weigh t~hirty-fve
tons, and it expresses doubt whether the
bridge at Reno would bear such n heavy
weight. We hope those having charge
Of these locomotives will see to the
strength Of the bridge. A sad aud de-
plorable accident might happeu.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-13

PICKED UP THE WRoyG CUSTOMER
About two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
q man named Thomas Gray, apparently
full of whisky and luminosity toward
Cinnamon, seized hold of the queue of
one of this class who passed him on
Sansome street, and began to vent his
spite against the race by beating this
individual member. John (the report
ers did not inquire his other name) bore
the beating patiently for a few moments,
when he turned upon his assailant, and
drawing q knife, cut him upon the left
cheek, infic,ing a wound which ex-
teudsd from APPOINT just below tho eye
to the corner of the mouth. The Chi
naman made his escape rs soon as pos
sible, while tho wounded man was taken
to the City and County Hospital by an
officer of the Harbor Police. Quite a
crowd collected at tho scene of the diff
6culty, but there was little sympathy
expressed for the wounded man, the
general verdict seeming to be that it
"served him rights. +. Alta Of yes
terday.