Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-11-18
GENERAL ITEMS.
Miscellaneous.

"A three-quarter interest in the On
ondaga stone giant has been sold for
$50, 900.
In 1850 the live stock of Connecticut
was valued at S11. 3l1. .079, in 1868 at $1S,-
500, OH, and in 1869 at s24, 6S7. 14l.
"A fire at Iowa City, last Monday, caused
damage to the amount of $4,000. The in
surance does not cover more than one-half
the loss.
"A California paper thinks there is for
tune in milk weed that grows wild in that
country, the fibre of which is strong as Ma
nilla hemp, and fine as linen.
Parties in Chicago have purchased AZ,
600 acres Of timber land in Clarksburg and
Weston, in West Virginia for the purpose
of getting out lumber for the Western mar
ket.
Burglars entered house in Chicago on
Friday night last, after the family had re-
tired, and put the inmates under the infu-
ence of chloroform, and thsn stole every
thing of value in the house.
"A San Francisco barber, named Winn.
has invented ''shampooing helmet" 1t
fits close to the head and has no crown.
The suds are poured in, "sloshed about,
and then taken of by means of a tube.
One man in Portland, Me-, has put up
at his different establishments in that state,
this year, nearly two million cans of green
corn, berries and peaches. Six thousand
persons weie employed six weeks in can
ming.
There are nearly two hundred persons
in Chicago engaged in journalism or writ
ing for the press In some way, besides the
hundreds of professional men and others
who sometimes hear q voice saying to
them, "write."
A foreign writer cautions us that the
removal of the capital of Rome preceded
by but a short time the downfall of that
power, and that the desertion of Moscow
for st Petersburg. has not brought I'M.
mixed advantages for Russia.
An experiment on sweet potatoes from
North Cerolina shows that by powerful
presses 80 per cent. of their weight can be
obtained as juice, which contains 10k pei
cent of sugar. This amount could be in.
creased by careful cultivation.
There is a gold mine in Norwich CT,
on Wawecus Hill, which is worked by 6
company, which held its annual meeting OF
the 28th and elected officers. The mine
yields gold, silver and nickel, and some
rich ore has been taken out this year.
Prof. W. C. Kern, geologist of the Stat.
of North Carolina, prcmulgates the theory
that the Black Mountain of North Caroline
was the first dry land of the globe and the
Oldest spot of earth in the world. He pro
poses to erecta monument upon it to Adam,
Smallpox was communicated to thu
Sioux tribe of Indians by blanket which
was given to an Indian upon a steamboat
near Fort Benton, by q person who hai
been confined with smallpox. At lates
accounts the dreadful disease was makine
fearful havoc among the wild tribes.
A young lady while going to her we'd
ding, in Roundout, on Sunday, was thrown
from the carriage and broke her leg. /
was proposed to take her to physician
and have the limb set, but she refused, say
ing that she was going to be married first
And, as lsnal, she had her way.
The remains of an Indian were discov
cred recently ON West Fork creek, neal
BuIksville, Kentucky, by sore spertsmen
beneath large shelving rock near tn,
sum nit of cliff, IL nearly as good stat.
Of preservation, and apparently similarly
prepared as were the Ptolemies of ancien
Egypt.
The submarine cable between Sweder
and Finland is completed, securing com
munication With the whole Russian empire
Commercial relations between Sweden anC
Russia are rapidly increasing. The frs
shipment Of nails ever made from the for
mer to the latter country has been recent,
despatched from Gottenburg to Riga.
The Seneca tribe near Buffalo have jus
lost, by marriage TO a young pale face, thei
favorite adopted white daughter, of seven
teen, whose Indian name means ''blue SIX,
filled With music" The bride wore whit
lace and orange flowers. The civilized Ger
emony of ma;riuony was followed by cop
perry speeches and congratulations.
The assessments for all States and Ter
ritories we're found in round number
S16S. coo. 0G0. snd the collections reache,
| S17S. .450, 0co. In Illinois collections wer
less than assessments by 81, 600, 600. in In
diana by $780, 0o0, in Iowa by $1,000, il
Ohio by S2JC, 900, in Pennsylvania p Ia by S700
600, in Tennessee by $500. 900, in Wiscon
sin by s50,0O0 in Missouri by $1,000, O0(
The Great Eastern steamship. whe
she lett England 10 lay the French cabl
in America, had on board a company c
about. 450 Al told. The supplies though
necessary tor this company, Cor 81
weeks voyage, We're as follows: 100, 90
pounds Of meat, 90, 900 pounds of vsgets
bles, 10000 pounds OF bread. Is, ZOO eggs
and o7er 1000 dozen Of liquor of variou
kinds.
The city of Louisville is now almos
1 Sxu,> law - ot f1,o Of 4
war. Thousands of buildings have bee
erected. many of them very costly and ell,
CANT; the boundaries have been extende
until the municipal area is double its form
er size. The population has increased i
like proportion, while manufactures estal
lished many years ago, but never sttemp
ing competition with like manufactures
Cincinnati, are fourishing
Two colored men near Rolling Forl
Issaquena county, Mics, had difficult
which resulted in their attendance before
colored magistrate in the neighborhoo,
After u hearing, the justice decided th,
both men were in fault, and that eac
should pay fiIe Of $25 ard costs, makiI
s48 each. But both were unable to pa
The embarrassed squire fuaiiy hit upon
plan to get even with them. He put bo,
to Work on bis foTtv-acre cotton patch, al
they picked 4,600 pounds each to squa
| the bill.
The cultivation of cotton in the Ea
Indies, it is asserted, has become mo
popular among the natives, WHO have di
covered that it is more profitable to gre
J Gotten ct twenty cents q pound, than
; raise the millet grain for consumption
home. The cotton exported from India
J 1860 amounted in value to S27. SOC, 900; b
!, The crops for 1859, it is estimated, "
! ! bring 500, 749, l25. The East India cott'
is short staple and decidedly interior to th
5 grown in the United States; but great
care IN cultivation has been exercised, sl
Q more attention paid to packing the bal
q without the a6mixture of dirt.
There is belief in Mexico that VIII
4 | the Jesuits were driven out of that count
they buried in one of their principal c.
leges an immense amount of treasure. \
: rious unsuccessful efforts have been ma
to find it. Some years ago, a firm, CO.
posed OF one or two Americans and sol
Spaniards, was formed for the purpose
!. excavating on large scale. The mach
. cry was seized in one of the political re'
lutions and destroyed. A claim for Il
Q loss is to be brought before the Mexic