Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The ferries of Boston have been pur
chased by the city.
The Illinois State Prison now contain
thirteen hundred prisoners.
The Boston Coliseum building will b,
disposed of by lottery on Saturday next.
i Bonner, few days since, trotted Dex
ter one half mile In one mil,ie and four sec
onds, the fastest time ever made by horse
The New York female doctors onl,
charge half the regular fee for attendance
and they are beginning to monopolize the
business.
The Ritchie coal oil distillery, on the
Washington turnpike, q few miles from
Baltimore, was destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss, $4,000.
The Atlanta (Ga-) Constitution learns
that northern capitalists propose to invest
s1OO, 900 in a cotton factory there, provided
another SlOO, 900 can be raised in the city.
"A dog in New Orleans found pocket.
book on the street, and takil g it in his
month immediately proceeded to the police
station and delivered his prize to the
keeper.
The Meadville Republican. speaking
about the robbery of safe in the railroad
station at Sagerstown, says it is robbed
quarterly as regular as landlord collects
his rent.
-Enemies are as necessary to the proper
development of the full-grown man as
friends When lived that man that amoun.
ted to anything but could count his enemies
by the scores?
The presiding elder of a Michigan
camp-meetinS snatched a pipe from the
mouth of one of his audience with such
violence that he has now to answer in 9 suit
t, assault and battery.
An exchange, to show the depreciation
in the value Of velocipedes. says that 'sa
first-class wheelbarrow would bring better
price IN junk shop than bicycle once
bestridden by Napoleon.
Between August Is and September IA
there were shipped from Muskegon, Mich
igan. over $4,000. 900 feet of lumber. over
5000, 900 feet of lath and large quantity
OF other articles in the lumber line.
The Boston authorities propose to
close the public schools on stormy days.
A certain number of strokes on the fire
alarm bell will announce to all school
children that they can stay at home and
play.
There is disease called inland yellow
iever. or Addison fever, prevailing in the
vicinity Of Columbus Miss, that is quite
fatal. 1t has all. or nearly all, the charac-
teristics OF the Gulf yellow fever, terminal
ing with black vomit.
"A party of twelve men under Nelson
Buck set out in June last to survey a por-
tion of the public lands in western Nebras-
ka, and since the middle of July have not
been heard from, and it is thought they
have been killed by the Indians
"A gentleman of Kalamazoo, while en-
gagged In cleaning his garden recently, was
bitten by spider on the hand His hand
and arm began to swell badly, and for ten
days he suffered great pain, though using
the most powerful remedies. The poison
was nearly as powerful as the bite of a SER
pent
"A jealous woman in Chicago tried to
commit suicide by taking laudanum. After
swallowing the fatal dose she wrote the fol-
lowing: "DEAR HUSBAND. You have wrong
ed me deeply. Goodbye. In my cold
corpse you behold the victim of your cold
conduct and of cold poizen." But the DIR.
prevented his beholding the 'victim."
The Book of Mormon, entire, has been
translated by Elder Orson Pratt, into pho
netics, known as the Deseret Alphabet, and
the Salt Lake Evening News predicts that
sit will do more towards spreading a cor
rect style of speaking English among the
polyglottian people of this Territory than
anything else ever attempted"
The Concord Statesman gives a list of
eighty'five women and fifty.one men who
died In New Hampshire a hundred years
old and upwards. Six were colored per-
sons, and only four of the one hundred
and thirty six had double names. One wo-
man who died at one hundred and one
years of age, had daughter who died at
one hundred and two.
"A Canadian paper reports that since
Prince Alfred landed at Halifax, he has re-
ceived and renlied to l59 addresses, attend
ed lO5 public dinners, and 80 balls, danced
with $40 partners, received !, 700 bouquets,
shaken 1000 hands, shot $50 head of game
gwen % presents, travelled 4, 500 miles,
been elected an Indian chief, and has heard
2. 1000 900 God bless him."
The Tribune learns by private advices
from Madrid that the Capt. Gen. of Cuba
sent an urgent demand to the Madrid Gov
eminent for 81, ,0O0 900, bnt he was inform
ed in reply that the Spanish treasury was
empty. and that hereafter he must raise in
Cuba itself the money he required for mill
tary and political purposes. Spain will
furnish troops, bat Cuba must supply the
cash
During the recent food in New Eng
land. an engineer discovered a COW swim
ming In the Hartford Meadows, near the
railroad track. He fastened a rope to her
horns, making the other end fast to his To-
comotive, and towed the beast ashore She
proved to be a valuable COW, which had
come down stream from the up-country
somewhere. nobody knew from what State
"A sacrilegious thief recently entered
the Church OF the Holy Trinity, ip/New
Orleans, under pretext of worshpping;
and, when alone in the building, he lost no
time in breaking open the sacristy, and
helping himself to the sacred vessels. He
succeeded in carrying off three chalices,
valued respectively at 500, $40, and S40,a
large silver dish valued at 500, and three
altar cloths.