Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-10-06
Foreign Items.


The President of "a Republican Cluh at
Iaragona, spain, has been assassinated.
A new line of telegraph cable 10 be
laid between Ireland and Nova Scotia is
projected.
Three young men OF Brussels have
Just made the trip from that city to Paris
on velocipedes.
Seven grounds of divorce are allowed
IN China, the fourth OF which is taikative
ness in the woman.
There are over hundred vermicelli
factories IN Genoa, the product of which
comes mostly TO this country
King Victor Emmanuel and the DipIo-
matte body at Florence will go to Venice
to receive the Empress OF the French or
her way TO the East.
"A council of bishops of the Greek
Church at st. Petersburg, 10 be presided
over by the Emperor, is proposed in oppo-
sition TO the Ecumenical.
In England, when railway companies
sell tickets and the cars are full, excluded
passengers hire coaches and make the
company, 10y suit in couri. pay the bill.
The anvil chorus is 10 be sung al sgd
enham Crystal Palace by eight thousand
voices, with accompaniment of anvils. can
non and bells The idea is sneered at by
the London musical journals.
An early burlesqne by Mr.. Byron
''The Pilgrim of Love, has been reyiva..
at the London Strand Theater, aud is
mensely successful, although the iouin u
speak of il as one of the anther's weak ais
II ia founded on a tale i'm Iryings Alhesi
bra am
A defalcation has been discovered in
the National Exchange Bank of Prov
dence. Il. l., aud the cashier has been az
rested and held 10 hail The amount So
far discovered is about S25. 900. The sur
plus OF the bank will cover all probable de-
ficiency.
The London Revolutionary Con-. 8
pondence, said TO be edited by Karl Blind.
says in a recent article: 1.-The Empress L1-
genie is self-convieted abortionist -
Against any other decent woman We would
hesitate to prefer such a name, but against
the Empress Eugene we are at liberty to
say so much. We are III possession of sufii-
cient facts 10 substantiate the charge"
The German gentleman of the period
announces an addition to his family Ia this
fashion through the newspapers: Il have
the honor politely To announce to nv reia-
tions aud friends the happy delivery of nay
dear wife, Julia, maiden name SattmaIn,
of a healthy. strong boy. Cologne, Aug.
IL, 1869. Edward Fomn-"
A little daughter of George TurnbulI.
of the town of Troy, Ind, being sent into
the yard by her mother to gather chips ON
the evening of the 4th instant was bitten
by a rattlesnake, and died from the effects
on the following morning. The snakes
are said to be more numerous this season
than for several heretofore.
"A Puget's lSound paper says that in
Squawk Lake, at a point some four hun
dred yards from the shore, is forest oi
large FIR trees. standing upright. the tops
of which are mostly under water; hut a
few of them reach ont few feet. Ii is be-
lieved that n section of the country has. a.
q comparatively late date, sunk at thai
point, and so perfectly was the sinking az
complished that the trees retained their
standing position.
An ELoPEMENr SPOILED. An elopement
was spoiled in New York few days ago by
q harmless and amusing accident The
young lady was we'll known and lovely
blonde who had been driven 70 consent &c
o secret marriage by cruel and obdurafe
father. All the necessary arrangements
for the escape and wedding had been made.
and the evehtfnl evening had arrived. The
young lady found the promised ladder at
her chamber window. and her eager lover
at the bottom of it She put her delicate
foot upon the first rung of the ladder aud
prepared to descend, when her crinolne
caught upon the be-. handle in the wall
the household was alarmed, and a maid res
cued her mistress from her uncomfortable
situation