The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

Chinese shoemakers.
Grant, though small, is man of
commanding presents.
"A two-year-old dog trial has lately
been revived in Goshen.
A Tennessee youth of twenty-five
confesses to eight murders.
-Louisiana is registering Chinese voo-
tiers, and Sambo is indignant.
"A temperance party has been or
ganized in Marshall County, Iowa.
A little girl died in Goshen
from the effects Of swallowing penny.
Fifteen couples were married in
Floyd county during the month of Au-
gust.
Fourteen out Of twenty appoint
ments in Charleston Custom-house are
niggers.
An Iowa clergyman breaches three
times on Sunday, and runs farm on
week days.
On last Friday John Rauch, of
Evanston, cut stalk of corn with thir-
teen ears on it.
"A Convict in the Maryland peni-
Tertiary has fallen heir to $50, 900 and
wants to get out.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road is to build bridge across the
Mississippi at McGregor.
columbus, O., newsboys smoked
pieces of tin, and sold them to verdant
Buckeyes to see the eclipse.
Stark county, Indiana is running
over with prairie chickens, and there
are two sportsmen to every bird.
R. j. Chestnutwood, Esq, of
South Bend, has been appointed collect
or of the ninth collection district.
-Budd Carter, the Tennessee outlaw,
was formerly one of Brownlow's militia,
which accounts for his supreme cussed-
ness.
Mr.. Cyrus Heffern fell dead, at
Salem, ON Monday afternoon. The cor
oner's jury returned verdict Of heart
disease
A woman died recently in Trenton,
Michigan, in giving birth to her 31st
child, the oldest one of which being but
20 years of age.
Cows arc used for saving the grass
on the Charlottesville College Campus,
said COWS being, of course, the property
of certain Profs
A burglar escaped from the Tombs
in New York, on Wednesday night, by
crawling through hole six and half
inches wide and ten feet long.
A squaw, III years old, sells big
catfish in the streets of Sioux City
Iowa, and takes her regular benzine
She is the mother Of thirty-five chill
drcn. as far as heard from.
The wife of petty justice in
Odessa grossly insulted coachman
who had her arrested and brought be-
fore her own husband for trial. The
just Judge fined her fifty rublcs.
MIR. Robert Catlin, of Raccoon
township, Parke county, produced, from
one pound of seed, 295 pounds ofEarly
Rose potatocs-eight potatoes weighing
16 pounds Can any one beat this?
The Eutaw, Alabama, graveyard
is said to be doing ''frst rate business
The mortality among the blacks of all
ages is without precedent in the past
history of the race in our midst"
Eight hundred and twenty-six tons
of Lake Superior iron ore were shipped
to the several Indiana rolling mills from
Michigan City last week, over the Louis
vile, New Albany and Chicago railroad.
Joshua Britton, of Newport, last
year, after cutting crop of wheat SOW
ed the same ground to buckwheat, and
this year a volunteer crop Of wheat
yielding eighteen bushels to the acre
was harvested.
Mrs. Col. Sloan, of Richland Co.,
Ohio, has an old time relic-a powder
horn-which was carried in the Revo-
lutionary war by her grandfather and
through the war of 1872 by her father.
John Smelling, of Jasper county,
who has been deaf as an adder for near
ly twenty years, was suddenly cured by
an accidental fall of twenty feet from
hay NOW. He broke an arm, but found
his hearing as good as the best, and is
satisfied with the result.
The question of annexing western
Florida to Alabama, is to be voted on
by the people of Florida on the I'd Of
November, according to the Governors
proclamation. There arc eight coun-
ties in western Florida, and they COM
prise the best cotton and sugar lands in
the State.