Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-11-03
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Miscellaneous Items.


ent in the Arctic seas.
Toledo will ship over 8, ,OOO, 600 slaves
to Philadelphia this year.
-Flogging has been abolished in the
Iowa penitentiary.
Father Hyacinthe attended a Jewish
Synagogue on Sunday.
The Omaha Republican saws thereis no
law for Furnishing adultery in that place.
The New Jersey cranberry crop this
year is valued at two and half millions.
-Sixty-two years ago, Oct. 9. the first
steamer was launched in the United
States.
1t is said that one hundred and twenty
one vessels were sunk or beached on The
coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
by the recent tidal wave.
"A New Bedford woman drew the dead
body of her Infant in its little carriage Il.
an undertaken, the other day, to have ii
measured for a coffin.
AT a recent fair in Boston 80. 600 PEI
sons were weighed, and their average
weight was 1873 pounds The heaviest man
balanced the scales at 370l pounds.
Over nine thousand males recently ap-
Piled, IN one week, to the New York Free
Labor Bureau for employment. For these
there were but 42S situations.
"A New York ieweler gives his opinion
that nine out of ten of the so-caled sets Of
diamonds worn by fashioDables are mere
paste, not worth shilling peck.
"A young boy at Richmond bet 1.-TWO
bits" that he could lay down on the track
bed and LET the train pass over him, and the
train did, though the boy was minus his
head and cash by the operation.
The assessed value of Chicago is s265.-
900, 600, and to meet current expenses will
reqaire. according to the estimate of the
Common Council, a tax of - mills on the
dollar.
j. W. Moore, who ATTEMPTED TO ravjsh
and afterwards murdered Mrs Jessie aIac-
Adams, at Greenville, ILL.,, on the 5th o1
July last was executed at that place on the
22d inst.
The plan for the State Department.
which was submitted some time ago TO the
Commission having that undertaking in
charge. has been approved by the Presi-
dent, Secretary Fish and the other mem
bers.
Prof. Hayden, who is prose cutting
geological survey OF New Mexico, is pleased
with the Spanish girls. He says that their
eyes are brighter than diamonds, their
voices sweeter than the sound of phono-
1.-THE, and they can make pumpkin pies al
most, if not quite, as good as the New Eng
land girls.
Arkansas objects TO the Introduction
of Chinese laborers, but declares its wish
TO be for intelligent, independent farmers
and mechanics. who will "promote the
Christian arts OF science, support and
maintain schools, churches, and become
landowners, heuseholders and taxpayers"
There is horse in Marshall. Missouri.
which has an unpleasant habit of going
crazy at intervals. Its insanity takes the
form of desire to visit the abedes of men
and smash their furniture. Its last freak
was to enter bed room and repose for
night on immaculate sheets.
One of those curious cases of present.
ment of which We so often hear has just
occurred in Atlanta, Georgia. A workman
In the railroad shops there persistently said
he had had a revelation that he should die
at twelve o'clock or Tuesday, the 18th inst.
and at his request fellow-workman prom
ised to toll the bell Of the works at that
hour. The day and the hour came. The
u:an dressed himself in his best. and lay
down upon his bed TO await the speedy
coming of that dread messenger The
solemn note of the bell was sounded. but
the man did not die.
A few nights since, as the night ex-
press on the New York Central road was
near Amsterdam, baby. who was looking
out of an open window. gave a spring. and
in an instant fell from its mothers arms to
the ground The affrighted mother, with
out thought of the danger, rushed to the
door. and leaped from the train. As soon
as possible the cars were stopped, and
backed to the spot where every one expect
ed to learn of the fatal injury of both moth
er and child. But, strange to say, neither
was hurt, except that the baby had slight
bruise on the side of the head. The moth
er stated that as she saw the child go out
of the window, her only thought was thai
she wanted the baby