Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-17
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The keynote of good breeding is B nat
ural.
An amateur billiard tournament Il soon
to be held in Fort Wayne.
Jacob BeDce, of Whitley county, was
buried alive blythe ewing IN OF sand
bank last week, Sand vas barely dug out
In time.
A medical student says he has never
ton, and wants to know If 1t is not silua-
ted very near the jaw -bcne.
A good many men with 'shonor" enough
to fight duel about some fancied insult,
will take ADVANTAGE Of dark night to
slump" board bill.
A Wisconsin cheese maker is manufac-
turing a brand of cheese. which he has
named Truth. That cheese will 'douht-
less haye a great run, as " truth Is mighty
and will prevail"
They who doubt the truth OF religion
because they Can find no Christian VINO
is perfect, might as well deny the exist.
ence OF the sun because il Is not always
MONDAY.
A little boy was fatally Injured 'in
Brooklyn, by jumping from the fourth
story of o house to escape q fTightful
punishment from his step mother. She
was arrested.
Among the French prisoners at Stettin,
in Prussia, is black officer of Zouaves.
He is quite hero In that city, and count.
less steries are told of him. He Is said
TO be q nephew Of Theodore Of Abyssin-
ia.
"Are you not alarmed al the approach
Of the King Of Terrors?" said the minis
! ter TO sick man. "Oh, no / have beer
living six and thirty years with the queer
of terrors-the king cannot be much
worse!"
Aniincbriate man, walking along the
street, regarded the moon with sovereigr
rontempt: you needn't feel Sd proud,
he said, you are full only once q mouth
and am full every hight"
Three persons hsver been arrested Ii
France for q systematic plundering o
wounded men rs corpses on the field Of
battle. They are said TO have secured
plumber to the value Of $i50,000.
A Chicago widow was requested by the
aristocratic relatives Of the dear dettrt
ed tn give n false name when she wen
out washing, 50 as not to disgrace the
family. Such thoughtfulness is touching
Mr. W. II. Stevens, of this city, left a
our Office on Mondsy last, several peache
the second crop on one tree. They
were OF considerable size, perfectly RIP,
and Observation-Disclosures Republican.
Creditor" How often must I climl
three pal. OF stairs before 1 get th,
amount os this little account l'' Deiito
/" Do you think L. am going to rent
place on the first door to accommodate,
my creditors?
A marriage in high life was broken ,ot
in Terre Haute the other dry simply'tbe
cause the prospective bridegroom, in ex
aiming the family Bible. found th,
would-be bride uine years older than tn,
endorsement of fier mother Call ed for.
A thief came TO a sudden; Termination
In Iowa the other night. Undertaking Il
steal valuable horse nesr Lyons, he wa
kicked TO death by the animal. If that
horse were hitched to the New Yori
"strong box" what pile OF dead Dem
ocrats would soon be lying around
A farmer near Muscatine. yIows, who
has an aged fat ner W his employ at cheaI
wages, recently lost a child. The ole
man attended his gran dchild's funeral
On settlement, the farmer ''dOcked his
the child's funeral.
By returns now In from the Southl is
evident that no Southern State will show
q large increase of population except
Texas The gain in the whole territory
oo~,L ~ tho Potomac and the Ohio ey-
elusive OF Missouri, Is not likely Ia ex
coed a million and a half. or thirteen PEI
cent. Missouri has gained about half @
million, but nearly the whole of this
came from the north of Europe.
An Arkansas lawyer being engaged to
prosecute suit against widow, seeing
that he was going To be beaten, married
the defendant discharged her attor-
ney, won his case handily, and collected
the money-all OF which was considered
a coed joke; and then run away with the
whole amount, which some thought was
a still better joke.
On the afternoon Of Fhe first two m aga
zines containing $4,000 pounds of nitro
glvcerine exploded 1T Fahport. near
Painsville, Ohio. -Four persons were
blown to atoms. Their names were Patt
Scribner, two Malones, father and son,
and Ed Duncan. This is the second ex-
plosion of the kind at Fairp0ft within
two mobths.
II must be very encouraging tt wine
drinkers In this country to know that the
man soldiers over the large champagne
districts in France, has not raised the
price Of this brand Of wiue to American
consumers. But 90 loug as nineteen
tweriieths OF the wine drank here con-
tains no juice of the grape whatever the
destruction Of the whole foreign vintage
is Of slight moment to American guz-
zlers-
The other evening two specimens of
the genus Democracy were overheard
conyersing, when one asked the other
what he thought about the war. "What
war;" queried number 2. "Why, didn't
you know there was big war In France7
said No. l.. And thus replied the unp, o.
ed Democrat: "Well Il don't surprise
me; always teld 'em ef the Niger go
Q vote we'd have anoshee war"
The Prussians continue to force the
most eminent citizens living on the rail-
road b ride upon the locomotives, the OBJ
ject being to prevent accidents 70 trains.
The barbaSities Of the invaders increase
in proportion TO the resistance Of the pop
ulaiion to their cruel acquisitions. Many
scts q extreme feroc:ty ere reported.
It Is q sublime mo raj act to rise above
doubt, and believe in God a. an eterpal
personality and love. The tone Of life
and character is changed By belief In the
Lying God and In the trnth of the Chris
tisn revelation. To accept God and the
Bible is . belle: that win cAnge the
moral tone OF whole body Of men. 1t
viii make them strong, enduring and
moral forces In the world.
A number OF French officers, taken
prisoners at Sedan, were sitting 1t res
taurant at Berlin, when some private
Prussians entered, and, g all the other
tables were full, sat down at their table.
The arrogant lieutenants took offense ct
what they deemed an insult 10 their epau-
iettes- So one OF them asked one OF the