The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-10-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

900 men.
ONE-QUARTER Of the houses on the
island of Malta are hotels.
THE six Methodist branches in England
have 642,S22 members.
\ FIRM in Lcipsic lately celebrated the
completion of their five thousandth piano.
IL Leicestershire there is a lunatic who
has been kept in chains for sixty years.
In 1861 the number Of arrests for habit
| ual drunkenness, in London, was 1OO,35z
THE North German army contains 172
| ministers, 113 of whom are Protestants
| and 53 are Roman Catholics.
IL 1869 the English Chancellor of the
Exchequer received, as conscience money,
the sum of $20,970.
THE largest crop Of cotton ever pro-
duccd in the South was i'm 1860 1t stood
in the market at $160,000,000 in gold.
THE Moravian statistics show 4,S95 COM
municants are in Germany, 3,20S in Great
Britain, and G,s6S in North America.
STATISTICS show that about six thou
| sand vehicles and three thousand pcdcstri-
ans go through the Washington street
tunnel, in Chicago, daily.
TIE amount Of the peach and black
berry crop at st. Joseph, Mich, this year,
is estimated at 100000 baskets Of the for
mer, and 10000 bushels Of the latter
AMONG the bridal presents received the
other day 10y young lady in New York
the daughter Of a millionaire-was $70,-
600 house, with $4,000 worth of furni-
ture.
MD'LLE CARLoTTA PATTI has an En-
glish sparrow that accompanies her on all
her travels She picked it up on the road
=: cf,, With b.,4n 1fc Loo
broken.
1T is estimated that about $J00,000 Of
the new issue of ten and fifteen cent frac-
tional currency is kept out OF circulation,
by people keeping one of each for sam
piles.
THE Charleston Courier says the NOR
tality of the negro population in that city,
since the close of the war, as compared
with that of the whites, has been more
than two to one.
THE one hundredth anniversary Of the
death of George Whitfield will occur Sep
tember 80, 1870, and will probably bc
commemOrated at NewburypOrt, Mass.
He was buried there under the pulpit of
the church where lie had recently
preached.
WILLIAM TRACEY is the name of an cs-
timable keeper who has recently been dis
missed from a York shire insane asylum,
because when it was his duty To give pa
tient warm bath he dcputcd the task
to two lunatics who boiled the man 10
death.
FROM return recently made by the
British and Foreign Bible Society, ii ap
pears that by means of that agency there
have been distributed, up to 1869, 51,2l0,-
49, copies of the Holy Scriptures, the cx-
penditures incurred during the siXty-fivc
wears of the socicty's existence having
been e6,553, AGA.
For the last ninety years Christs
Church, Philadelphia, has had practically
but two reotors, Bishop White, who served
from 1919 to 1886, and the Rev. DR.. Ben
iamin Dorr, who died few days ago. The
Rev. John w. james, who succeeded
Bishop White and preceded DIR. Dorr,
survived the former but one month.
THE Cleveland Herald says: " We saw
in street car in this city, Il few days
since, an eXpensively-dressed woman not
only tell stranger to give up his seat, but.
upon his doing so, tender him five cents
and loudly insist on his taking it. She
said she was rich enough To ray for
everything she had, and didn't ask no IA
vors from nobody without paying for it.
IN
Mountioy, who is over GO years Of age,
undertook to travel 80 miles bv foot in
three davs. He started from the Bellevue
Hotel. Chpham-c0mmon. On the first
dav ne travelled 30 miles in - Leu, and
40 minutes; on the second he oc' Il pied IL
hours in the 30 miles journey n d on the
third he finished the $50 miles, ami per
formed 30 miles in thirteen hours, and at
o'clock he came to the winning goal and
accomplished his feat.
TIE movement in favor of woman SUI
frage has reached a more advanced stale
i'm England than i'm this country. Women
now have the privilege of voting IN mum
cipal affairs, and there are already be-
tween two and three thousand female No-
tiers on the municipal register at Leicester,
the total number on the roll being only
about sixteen thousand. There Is astronS
woman'S rights party in Leicester, and the
new voters are forming associations so as
to make the most of their lately acquired
privilege.
THE official statement of passengers ar
rived in the United States during the year
ending June 80 1869, has been compiled
NJ the Bureau of Statistics. The total
number arrived was 3S965i, of whom
240.417 were males, and 1914 females.
Ofthese. 53.342 were cabin, and 336,309
steerage passengers The actual lmlni-
Grants numbered 352 $50, ofwhom 2l4,1iS
were males, and 137, ,S21 females OF these
immigrants, 132,531 came from Germany,
60 936 from England and Scotland, 64,95S
from Ireland 81, PA from Sweden, l6,O6S
from Norway, and 1854 from China.
BRANDING TEXAS CATTLE.-The Shoe
and Leather Dealer says: "On the large
ranches there are many thousand head ot
cattle, and about twice a year the ranch
men 90 out with the branding irons OF the
owner, to drive up and brand all the calves
of the herd. 1t is curious fact that these
herds all run together, and yet seldom or
never become united. The stock raiser
NAV have a dozen herds, with rs many dii-
ferent brands, all grazing together, but
each retains its separate individuality.
We do not know that this peculiarlty has
ever been accounted for, but II is often the
case that all the cattle of a particular brand
will be sold, and then the herdsmen VIII
go out on the prairics, and by aid OF their
glasses, find the particular herd, and drive
them in, when there will he found no cat
tie of other brands in the whole herd.
The common law in Texas seems 10 bc
that any cattle found roaming without De
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