The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-30
MIScELLAhE 0US.


Grant is said to be talented man
at draw poker.
One undivided half of the trot-
ter Mountain Girl" has been sold. Will
the owner remove her?
Ben Wade has . cousin in Salt
Lake City who sells brooms He is the
most respectable one in the family.
jackson, Michigan, has a three
year-old girl weighing only seventeen
pounds.
Miss Jennie Rusk, the we'll known
Baltimore songstrsss, is at present in
Boston, making preparations for a wes-
tern concert tour.
The Boston Transcript says: A
venerable trio Of brothers were seen
yesterday, arm in arm, whose united
ages amounted to 254 years They were
John, Charles, and Lewis Tappan.
Miss Van Lew, the radical postmis-
tress at Richmond, is now in Boston on
her way to Newport and round general
| IL. She knows the duties of radical
oficeholder.
AT Walpole, New Hampshire, a
boy recently shot his grandmother. AS
it was an accident, and the first grand
mother he ever killed, he was acquitted
on promise not to follow up the amuse-
mcnt
1t may interest taxpayers to learn
that splendid billiard hall is being ad-
ded to the White House. A rectifying
establishment would be next, only that
is done by hand, superintended by oul
noble President.
There is big story going around
about hippopotamus in Bailey's circu.
getting loose in Indianapolis, and scar
ing people half to death. The story
reads well, but the animal is stuffed
one.
Prof. Agassiz often says thai
had it not been for his frmness in in
sisting that his father should give hin
three years more of study, he should to
day have been nothing but banker.
Mr.. Grant and family are making
a brief visit in Wash ington, and art
said to be much pleased with the novel
tics and works Of art in that remarkable
city.
In England, they have very sue
cessful preacher who was once a prize
fighter. The style in which some o
our local preachers hammer the pulpit
and strike out from the shoulder in theil
gestures, gives color to a suspicion that
they, too, may owe their early training
to the ring.
A carriage containing four ladie.
was precipitatcd over Precipice fifty
feet high, at niagara Falls, the Other
day. Two of the ladies were killed, The
other two badly crushed The gentle
man who accompanied them, together
with the driver of the team, saved them
selves by calamity Jumping from thu
carriage before the catastrophe.
last Friday night thiefo thievc:
freed an entrance into Huffman &
Nurpillat's store, but carried off only
SO far as ascertained, about seventy-fv,
cents in fractional currency and half ;
box of cigars. They FIRST tried to opcr
the front doors, but they not yielding
the next point of attack was on win
dow in. the rear of the store, which
they opened and entered. The freaucn
ey Of these petty robberies and store
breakings should warn our merchant
to be prepared to give the robbers :
warm reception whenever they attemp
to break in. A dose of buckshot woulG
be good. We learn that few night.
ago couple of thieves came very neal
receiving the contents of q shot gun
Some of these night providers will doubt
less ere long receive an uncomfortable
fire in the rear Hliinnan,ac Demo
crdt
A pedlar travelling over the country
in two-horse conveyance, and having
with him a lady whom he represents as
being his wife, secured nights lodg-
ing with wcll-to-do former in an adj
joining county, and when alb tut to leave
inquired the amount of his bill. The
farmer, warmhearted, generous and
hospitable gentleman, desired nothing,
and assured his guests tina. they were
entirely welcome; but the man insisted
upon paying, and declared he could not
think of asking any such accommodation
without pay. After some hesitation the
hardworking farmer was induced to
take small sum as remuneration. I'M
agine the surprise Of the latter when, .
few days after, he was arrested upon the
affidavit Of the pedlar, who was FEEDER
al spy in disguise, taken to indianapolis
and heavily fined for keeping an inn
without license This is one Of the beau
ties of the last Republican revenue law.
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