The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.

ANDREW JoHNsoN's property is valued
at SIS, 900
Cork trees are being successfully cul-
tivated in South Florida.
A NEW YORK policeman has resigned to
accept legacy of 100000
OF the 5000 Confederate dead buried at
Gettysburg, only 700 can be Identified.
THE salary of the Governor General of
the Dominion has been fixed at $22 900
year.
THE Good Templars of Maine intend to
run an independent GubernatOrial ticket
this year.
THE total of inc 1mes returned in Troy,
n. Y, is S3,540,7j4 increase of $685.
2SS over last year.
THE Charleston Is Co. Courier thinks
that the cotton crop of the South, this
year, will not exceed 100000 bales.
NEW YORK paper saws that the very
purest milk that can be obtained in that
city contains fully O1ethird water.
A GENTLEMAN of 3 Dston, who for over
thirty years, had been without the power
of smell, has suddenly recovered the
'aculty.
1T is stated that the number of German
newspapers publ shed in the United States
| 10 pNCl SoO, hoOOt bV III AUtin Dtln2 OdlllCS.
a DETECTIVE officer recently sued
country official in B lff4lo. for ten cents,
borrowed to buy beer The court gave
jud. ment, charging $270 costs.
TIE Presbyterian Board of Education,
durlng the year ending April 1, aided 334
sudents-of which 10S were theological,
119 collegiate and 107 academical
A VESSEL load of ice was recently
emptied into the Bay at Hamilton, Cana
da, because the price to be received would
not pay the cost of transportation.
THE English Government, considering
the African slave trade extinct, has with
drawn the squadron which it has main
tanned on that coast for many years.
IT is said that farmers made more clear
profit on sheep in the last four years, than
on any other stock, notwithstanding the
low price of wool and mutton.
MRS. CREEDoN, whose husband recently
died of hydrophobia, Ia Cincinnati, has
commenced suit against the owner of the
dog, laying her damages at s. 1000.
THE monument to Hum1oldt, in the
New York Central Park. will be a bronze
bust about four feet high, and will be
placed on stone column of height of
from ten to twelve feet
AT Irwintown, Pa, the other day,
daughter, 12 years old, of Jacob Bolin, a
miner, died from the effects Of drinking
some whisky which her father had left
In the house.
PIKE, with others, was engaged in a
New Jersey marsh speculation. He bought
out all his associates, and then announced
that he had found in the swamp peat
bed worth $20,000,0C0.
FROM 1853 to 1861 period of IA
years-there perished, in civilized warfare,
1,743 491 men. The cost Of the conflicts
in which they lost their lives was $685.
100000.
THERE are five weekly American papers
in Paris, chiefly supported by advertise
ments seeking the eyes of American trav-
elers, and there Is serious talk of establish
ing daily.
MRS EUNIcE NICHOLS died at Middle
ton, Mass, April %, aged 100 years and
days. On the Goth, being reminded that
it was her one hundredth birthday, she
said: ooh, that is too long to live in this
world"
A FEMALE Custom House officer at New
York recently examined portly and dig
nitied lady, who had just returned from
Europe, and found that $1,100 worth of
point lace had much to do With the grace
ful rOunding-out of her figure.
AN enterprising speculstor in Paris talks
| about starting mammoth printing
house, where he desires To print all the
daily newspapers published in the city.
He says by dong SD the dailies would re-
duce their expenses 10 per cent
A CASE exhibiting the arrest of develop
ment and growth in a child, arising from
the intemperance of parents, has recently
been reported by the London Pathological
Society The child, in this instance, was
five years old, but had the intellect OF an
infant OF nine months
In Sweden, since 1868, only seven per-
sons have been executed, sixty-one have
been condemned to capital punishment,
and 235 to penal servitude for life. No ex-
ecutions have taken place during the last
two years, though a number of persons
are lying in prison under sentence OF
death
1T resds singuiarly, in these days of steam,
that there are yet stage and pOst-horse
routes for the mail in some of the Oldest
sections of the country. Some 400 of these
medieval routes have lately been awarded
in the State of New York, and 55S in New
England.
THE st. Johnsburg Cdieionidn says
that there is a farmer in that vicinity who
has all his last years butter on hand
between one ana two tons-for which
he was offered last winter tiftv-two cents
per pound He asked fifty-fiv and
keeps his butter which will soon be ut
for agon-grease.
In London, a few weeks ago, An appren-
tice stayed out beyond closing time Some
fellow w-apprentices lowered sheets from a
third story window TO pull him mp, but
the sheetiDg gave way, when he reached
the second story, and be fell onto the
pavement, striking his head with great
violence against the hagstones, and died
an hour afterwards.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature passed
an act imposing penalty of $25 for the
killing of any insectiverous bird, half
OF this fine to be paid to the informer.
The birds that are .classed under the head
of insectiT Terous birds, are robins, martins,
swallows. blue birds, woodpecke-s, etc,
in fact all the various small birds generally
seen in that latitude.
A LITTLE girl at Lianfihsr gel-yr- Arth,
Wales, is said To have lived since the 10th
of October, 1867, without food. A COM
mittee was formed some time ago to in
uuire into the case, and three medical
men were requested To watch the girl.
This committee watched the girl cOntinu-
ously from March % TO April 8, and they
state that nothing whatever was given TO
her during that time
AT Mount Clemens, Mich, about years
ago, two sistersin-aw got into dispute
over baking they were engaged In, and