The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-22
FACTS AND FIGURES,


men.
A LETTER was received at Sacramento.
Cal, the other daY, which left Paris only
eighteen days previous
THE Vermont Agricultural Society was
organized in 1860, with ninety five cor
porators. None are now living.
THE Daniel Webster farm and home.
stead, in Franklin, New Hampshire, has
| been sold for $500
MAINE has 1876 Congregational churches.
representing $4,000 population, contribu-
ting $40 900 for charitable purposes.
ADoLPHE THEIRS. it is said, has deter
mined to write history of the RevOlu-
ton of 1S4S. and of the Second Empire
THE Russian Railroad Gazette says that
Russia has already paid upward of 2O0,-
100000 roubles to American railroad con
tractors.
a PHILADELPHIA, travelling in South
America, has found at CartagO, State of
Canca, some of the prettiest women in
the world
THE authorities of France have recent
ly obtained indisputable proof that three
persons executed for murder in 1850 were
entirely innocent.
NJ RoCHEFoRT's father has written io
the Rapp& to say that his son, who was
in receipt of large income derived from
the sale of La Ldnterne, had left him in
distress.
THE increase of the number Of horses
in the United States since 1860 is estimated
at 100000, or % per cent The whole
number is said to be about 100000, valu-
ed AT S2666,000000.
A PECULIAR feature of the Fourth Of
July procession in San Francisco was q
procession OF. boys, more than ten years
of age, who were born in California since
the discovery of gold.
JOSEPH KERR, cabinet.m maker of Ian
caster, Pa, man of some 80 years of
age, has not had half an hours continu-
Gus sleep in years 0pistes of almost
inconceivable strength fail to have any
effect on him.
THE King of Sweden recently said to a
gentleman who complimented him ON his
efforts as poet and litterateur: Ny
dear sir, my merits as an author cannot
amount to great deal. | never vet r.
ceiyed altogether 500 for my litersry
productions
SOME citizens OF Savannah, Ga, who
bought lot of rubbish at an auction sale
of unclaimed express parcels" threaten
to bring suits against the suctiOneer, al
leging that the packages were never sent
by express but were packed up for swind-
ling purposes.
PETER CUMMINGS, OF TOnawanda,
who was drowned short time ago in the
Erie canal, aged about seventy years,
drove the first team that towed boat
oft ho NIL Of hn
Goth of October, 1926. He has driven on
the canal every year from that day until
he was drowned, making in all forty -four
seasons in succession.
A CONTRACT has been made in San Fran
cisco for the supply of 10000 Chinese Ia
borers, to be employed as plantation hands
in the State of Tennessee. 1t is under
stood that the passage of these labOrers
will be paid by their employers, and they
will be paid $40 per month. Another
force of $4,000 is being contracted for to
proceed to the State of Mississippi.
A BAND of wandering gipsies in the
State of Delaware have been detected in
attempts to kidnap handsome young girls.
The object is supposed To be ransom. 1t
is dodge resorted to by the robbers of
Italy and of Mexico, only they do not
confine their kidnapping operations to
children, but grab anybody whose friends
can raise money.
A NEW monthly paper, entitled the Di-
corce, is about TO be started ia Paris, with
the object of legalizing divorce. The
prospectus states that there are not fewer
than $4,000 separated men and women
living in France, that the Courts have at
the present moment ,533 demands for
separation, and that, moreover, the num-
Der of couples separated voluntarily is
immense.
A PITTSBURGH witness put on the
stand by defendant, who was having a
hearing for selling liquor on Sunday, tes-
titled that be had broken the bar open and
taken liquor and treated his friends; also,
that he had frequently got liquor on sun
day at the same place. DE was immedl-
ately arrested and placed under bail,
charged with violating the Sunday Liquor
law.
THE total value of the real and personal
property in the city and county OF New
York, for the year 1869, according To
recent official statement, is 1861 lOO,59I
against S9OS, ,436 327 in 1868, being an in
crease of S55, 5,664,270 The separate items
are as follows, in 1869: Real estate x6S4,-
140,76S, and personal estate, S2f9,9o9,o $50
in 1868. real estate, S623, 236, 300; personal
estate, 1886, ,199,772 Sd that the real es
tate has increased $6O,9O4,2l3. and the
personal estate has decreased S5,239,943.
Among the items of personal estate. the
bank shares are valued at $s4 .541 ia IN
1869, and $75 1913 ,0l9 in 1868, being de
crease in 1869 of $l,450,SS5.
AN American, some time ago, arrived
at the conclusion that leaves turn red at
the end of the season through the action
of an acil, and that the green color could
be restored by the action of an alkall.
The conclusion has been verified, the
London Athen9u1n now declares, by eX-
pertinent Autumnal leaves placed under
receiver with vapor of ammonia In
nearly every instance lost the red colcr
and renewed their green. In some, such
"a the sassafras, blackberry and maple, the
change was rapid, and could be watched
by the eye, while others, particularly GER
tain oaks, turned gradually brown, with
out showing any appearance of green.
The numerical strength of the Pres
byterian Church in the world is stated by
the Protestant ChurchnaGn as follows:
United States. .....30OoW
Great Britain. b.9uu-uW
Holland NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -2.uNOul
France ...-....-.................- $4,000
Swuzerahd $1,000 % ~
Austria and Russia. VJooe w
British and Dutch Colonies. s...--.--..---- @o~n
Total .............-...-....-..-- .if'"VV,"J
These fourteen millions constitute one
seventh of the entire Protestant popula-
ton of the globe But if to these are
added the fourteen millions of the United