Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-02-24
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Miscellaneous Items.


Paris has 81 daily papers.
New York has 10000 saloons.
Chicago hackmen carry revolvers.
Ice sells at $50 per ton in New York.
New York city has ''shoo fly" socia
club.
jackson" is the name of 81 township
n Indiana.
Maple sugar is being made all owe
Kentucky.
Lager beer is down to four cents il
New York.
.,Pittsburg is supplying England will
nail machines.
The theatres of Boston are given up t.
Sunday sermons.
Portland, Oregon, has six miles o
Nicholson pavement.
New York makes olive oil from th,
lard of western hogs.
There are over 100 trade-unions il
New York and Brooklyn.
Cincinnati has packed over 3O,OO(
more hogs than last year.
Pennsylvania spends $50, 900, 900 {
year for whisky and other drinks
-Oberlin College, Ohio, wants dona
ton OF $4,000 from Congress.
The mildness of the season is the sub
Ject of remark at New Orleans.
The National Hotel at st. Joseph, No.
was burned on Friday. Loss $4,000.
The big drum of the Boston Jubilee is
being made into tooth-picks.
England will reduce her army by dis
charging 10000 soldiers this year.
The primary production of iron in this
country employs lao, 900 men.
"A counterfeit money dealer, named
Mace has been arrested in Chicago
The receipts of the Avondale fund are
nearly s14O, 900, and yet coming in.
st Louis is agitating the propriety o.
Sunday evening theatrical performances.
Don Piatt says the Episcopal church
is the mildest form of civilized religion.
The sun ross and set as usual at Bos
ton during the visit of Prince Arthur.
"A little boy at Fort Laramie has trap
ped $500 worth of furs this winter
The Chinese in Texas are thinning out
the dogs. A fat cur at Calvert is now worth
$40 for his meat
A southern writer informs us thai
Southern literature has one popularity oi
being billinguous."
collars, shirts, stockings, etc, are the rage
just now among the '.fancy."
"A bill has passed The Ohio House max.
ing teachers certificates obtained ia one
county valid in all sounties of the State.
The Secretary of War recommends the
sale of %, ,0O0, 900 pounds of pig lead on
hand in the various public arsenals.
Detroit, Mich. will have an information
al wrestling tournament in March, over q
$500 champion belt.
There are eleven Scandinavian news.
papers in the United States, four of which
hail from Chicago.
The California legislature has repealed
the act prohibiting the carrying of con-
cealed weapons.
There are but two Welsh newspapers
in this country, both of which are printed
in Utica, N Y.
"A North Carolina preacher has made
s11, 600 out of a rat trap of his own inven.
tion.
Oysters are selling at the wharves al
Washington city for 25 cents to 50 cents q
bushel,
Fresh strawberries, grown in the open
air, are selling in Mobile at two dollars pei
quart.
The old United States hotel in Rich
mond, Va, has been converted into freed
mems school
Seven Americans, who are making @
tour round the world, have arrived at Cal
cutta
1t is contemplated in Russia to build
barracks for the army, which numbers
800, 900 men.
1t is said the autocrats of society have
noted hand-shaking out of fashion except
between intimate friends.
"A ship load of Mormon emigrants,
mostly from Wales arrived at New York on
the 9th.
American carpet-makers produce nine.
tenths of all the carpets consumed III the
United States.
In France there is Jew to 240 of the
population; in England, i to 728; and in
Austria, l to 81.
The capital employed in the wholesale
boot and shoe trade in New York city il
nearly 500, 900, 600.
"A state woman's suffrage convention
was held at Springfield, Illinois on the 9Th
inst.
In johnson county, Kansas, corn il
now being burnt as fuel, as it was once il
times before the war.
The New York board of education ash
50, 366, 900 for current expenses for the yeal
1870.
An English coast steamer lately burn
100 pigs in order to get into port, having
exhausted her coal.
in 1869 the State dog tax of Kentucky
netted 81, ,109, and that year dogs killed
Il, LOG sheep, valued at s59,342,
The New York Commercial Advertise
says suicide is the sickle with which tn,
Almighty reaps the harvest of fools"
"A mounted police is recommended fol
the outskirts Of New York city, and vigi
lance committee is threatened.
IF. A. Burrell, one of the oldest mem
bers of the New York Stock Exchange
died suddenly on Wednesday evening.
Why is the animal upon which the far
rier operates like the farrier himself? Be
cause he's horse, sure.
Professor Cox, state geologist of In
diana estimates the total value of coal stu
ated in Clay county at Sc. S35, ,000, 600.
The widows wood society, of Port
land, Maine, has distributed this winte
568 tons of coal and about 200 cords O
wood.
"A Belfast, Me-, woman lately sold
litter of young Kittens to rag-man, whit
bought them for paper-rags at three cent
q pound.
The Chicago Journal says: The mos
prevalent complaint in Chicago, this win
ter, is the complaint about high taxes ant
big gas bills.
The returns of the recent census take,
in Charleston, s. @. makes the populatio,
A, 923. composed of 24,570 colored, ant
20. 353 whites:
The South Bend Ind.) Register, com
menting on the high price of eggs, think
that ''hens could make piles of money nov
by paying strict attention to business"
"A school boy, being asked by his teach
er of what is the German diet composed
replied: "Sour krout. schnapps, lager bee
and nix cumarou use."
During the violent storm which rage,
in Germany ON the 18th of December, NOR
than 400 trees were broken in the Zoolog