Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-07-29
General News Items.

ihc hiileS ol Noiorauo We're never IN
more prosperous and hopeful condition
than now.
The exodus of beef cattle fron0.Nssf-
ern Texas tins spring Is estimated at not
less than quarter of a million head
"A Western man adyertises his wife
who has left his bed and board with a
gentleman named Decker
Tho flax factory at Dixon, ILL.,, turns
out an average of q Thousand yards Of cot
ton baiiing per day.
A United States detective was tried in
st. Louis few days ago for stealing dog.
He was acquitted.
The Now York Evening Mail iavors
the removal of the national capital to St
Louis.
-"The Day we used 10 Celebrate" is the
heading of the Charleston Courier'ss leader
ON the 9th.
San Francisco talks of big hotel. COY
eering two blocks connected at each story
by covered bridge.
The Alaska Times claims to furnish
the news To territory of greater size than
any other paper in the world.
A box containing $50. 900 in Indiana
state and Washington money-long since
worthless was found in tie Woods AT Dan
Vile, III.
The South Pacific Works at Franklin.
Mo, were destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day OF last week, involving loss OF SEQ
600.
A rattlesnake crawled up the trowsers'
leg ot n boy at play in Marshalltown, Iowa.
the other day, and bit him twice. whisky
and ammonia saved him.
Just five hundred pounds is the weight
OF man and wife who keep lager beer
saloon in Chicago, the man weighing 220
and the wife $50 pounds.
Chicago has been under the weather
so long that the papers are glad 10 be able
TO state that at hasn't rained for a quar-
ter of IN hour"
The contract for the construction of a
lock and dam on the Illinois river al Hen
~, has been let for s3G3, III, 10 Milford
Johnson, of New York.
Not long ago yonng married lady IN
Illinois was found dead III her bed. aud
Coroners jury rendered verdict of .died
OF commissions aided by tight-lacing."
"A young lady goes into ecsiac,es over
her new bonnet: 'sOh, the lovely little pan
cake the charming little mat IL makes
my head so level, and so very, very flat 70
The contract with Can1tell & Co, for
telegraph line between Mexico and I.otu-
ca, has been signed. Work on the railroad
from PuebIa to Mexico has been COM
menced.
Wells, Fargo & Co s coach going south,
from Virginia City, was robbed at Morens
Station, thirty miles from Virginia City
The treasure box, containing 81, 200 in gold,
Was stolen.
Pine apples are being cultivated in the
peninsula Of Florida with the greatest sue
cess. They are larger than those grown In
the West Indies, and fully equal TO them
in sweetness and flavor.
The strawberry growers of Delaware
shipped the present season from Breniord
Station, the principal ono on the Delaware
IL. H., 81, GOO quarts TO Now York aud 2, 740
to Philadelphia.
"A citizen of Belfast, Maine, who had
not seen his son for eight years, and sup
posed him dead, recognized him as one of
the acrobats in n circus which exhibited i'm
that city recently.
"A verdict of 50. 900 has been obtained
in Cincinnati against telegraph company
for rejection of a message desired to be
sent for trading purposes, in competition
with the company itself.
The value of skilled labor is aptly IL
Illustrated in the balance spring of a watch.
The finest watch springs are so light as to
number 1000 to the ounce, and that ounce
is valued at $1,000 in gold.
Tho United States have a capacity of
cotton production of 142 121, ,Sl4 bales.
which, at existing pricesin currency, would
be worth SD, ,2l2, 000, ,000-a sum which
staggers the imagination.
The Peoria Transcript saws: During
O rainstorm last week, five horses were
struck by lightning and killed while stand
ing under q tree in Ransteads hollow. Hal
lock township. A few days before COW
was killed by lightning in the same hollow.
There Is ON exhibition at Macon, Ga. n
stalk OF Persian clover, eight feet high and
half an inch thick at its base. IL grew at
the rate of four inches q day. The seed
was brought from the Paris Exposition in
1867. When dry il is as fragrant as the
Vanilla bean. 1t is perennial
"A Boston paper sars: 'sTbe sea serpent
counts from below are correct 1t was seen
ON the 4th inst. in the bay, sniling about,
with head erect. After displaying itself
for some time, it moved round i'm a circle
and disappeared. Its head was apparently
about the size of a barrel with a series OF
rings around IT." From The description
given We should think it was the serpent
of the STILL"