Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-17
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.


in without knocking.
'SHoo FLY" was sung by the Southern
negroes many years ago.
ROLLER Skating Kinks are coming into
fashion in the South.
"SHoo Fly" bonnets are out. They re
semble in form an elongated beet.
THE SAKE horn is said to take its name
from Marshal Saxes favorite drink.
A METHODIST church has been built in
three days in Chuton county, Iowa.
A CINCINNATI policeman is preparing tc
change his vocation to that of an actor.
A $4,000 libel suit has been CON.
menced against the San Francisco Bulletin.
Two-THIRDs of the expert pickpockets in
New York city are females under 20 years
of age.
The Thames was 80 blocked with ice on
tie 18th of Feb. that navigation was almost
suspended.
MANY prominent citizens of Chicago are
preparing to visit the Rocky Mountains
this spring.
A NEGRO woman of Lexington, KY, fifty
ears of age, has just given birth TO three
nfants.
| A NEGRO boy, twelve years old, recently
hung himself to an apple tree in Howard
county, Mo.
IT Is said that Mesdames Clafiin and
Woodruff, of New York, have sued the
Chicago Times for libel; fer s5O,0OO.
In breach of promise case at Nashville,
Tenn, the female exhibits two hundred
letters written her in three years by the de-
fendant.
WINCHESTER, truly Virginian town dur
ing the war changed hands eighty-seven
times; sometimes as many as three times
in a single day.
A NEW and original weekly publication is
announced in London,-a "gastronomic
journal" of high class to be called 1.-The
Knife and Fork"
BETWEEN thirty and forty large ships
it's opening. The amount of tolls received
from them was about $50, 900.
OMAHA has first-class divorce case on
hand, leading church member being
sued by bis wife for O dissolution of the
marriage band.
IT Is feared the Louisiana orange crop
will be a total loss this year. II is esti-
mated the loss IL. Plaquemines parish alone
will amount to $4,000.
The London Globe says that an invita-
ton will probably be offered to American
rifemen to visit Wimbledon for an inter.
national rifle match this year.
SOME of the English laws seem queer 10
Americans. Thus, at Leeds the other day,
a stoker at mill was sent to prison fer q
month for neglecting to fire his furnace
properly.
The Bombay Government Gazette re-
ports that in India there are 8, 253, 060 acres
devoted to cotton culture, showing an in
crease of thirty per cent. during the year
1869.
THE President of the Fenian Brother
hood of the United States has issued an or
der for the meeting of the annual congress
of the Brotherhood, in Chicago, on the
11th of April.
SOME excitement has been created in
Knoxville, Tenn, by baby which has de-
parted from the old established rules gov
erning ''cutting teeth" by cutting its back
teeth to start with.
ACCORDING TO the Revolution there is a
faro bank on Fourteenth street, Washing
ton, kept by woman, where the women
clerks ofthe Treasury 60 to gamble their
salaries away.
A PROJECT to establish a shelter for lost
dogs has recently been grated upon the
operations of the Woman's Branch Of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, in Philadelphia.
THE legal asszie OF bread in New Or
leans, on the basis of an average of 81. so
for -four, is fixed rs follows: AS ounces for
twenty cents; "a ounces for ten cents; IL
ounces for five cents.
One of the Charleston, s. G. military
companies will dedicate monument in
May to the memory of their comrades who
fell during the rebellion, and Gen. Wade
Hampton is to deliver the address.
THE Female Printers Union. OF New
York city, now numbers about fifty men,
bers. The total number of women type
settlers in that city is one hundred and fifty.
ONE of the Piute Indians predicts an
other food speedily, like tho one 1870
years ago. whsh it rained forty days and
forty nights, and all the people got into
the big boat built by Columbus.
In Saginaw, Mich, the lumber sales in
1869 amounted to So 600, 600; the fisheries
about 500, 900 and salt, 1,044, 528. The saw
mills employ abont 3 600 men shingle milli
600, and the salt business with its various
details, 5000 men.
IT is related of a centenarian who died
the other day that he learned to use to-
bacco at the age of so, but abandoned it al
81, having discovered that it made bis
hand little unsteady. His nerves
improved. he said, very much after that.
FIGARO tells of Russian poet who has
not only been able to dedicate a volume oi
verse to his mistress, but to furnish the
binding from his own person. Having had
a leg amputated, he devoted the epidermis
to the establishment of his rhymes.
A NICE young man in New Orleans rar
away with and married the daughter of g
highly respectable lady. and came back fol
J the lady's blessing, which was freely given
! together with the information that the CIR
was not her daughter, but quadroon ser
want girl. He said it was swindle, and
} went away SO rapidly that they couldn't
see his back for the dust
! In a divorce case at Detroit the other day
! Judge PatChin decided that farm should
be equally divided between the severed
! couple, on the ground that the woman
by her hard work, had done as much as the
man to acquire the property.
ANovEL and worthy enterprise is that o
the Boston and Albany Railroad, which
has recently established a library for the
use of its employees. Any employe on any
part of the line can obtain any book desir
ed without charge for use or transporta
ton.
A New YORK letter says: "The mos
elegant dress ever seen in America wal
!, worn at a late disreputable ball in the me
tropolis. Twelve hundred yards of delicat'
white illusion. forty yards of the costlies
gold cord. thirty-eight yards of salmon
colored satin, fifteen yards of white satiI
and eight yards of thread lace were used il
making this beautiful pattern dress. I
, was made by an American modiste, afte
, designs by the ,Iearsr."
QUEEN VIcTHIAs annual allowance i
e385, 900, besides f25, 600 from the Ouch,
Of Lancaster, and the fee rental of dozel
! castles. palaces. &c. As she accepted
legacy of $3.50, 600 from Mr.. Neeld (wh,
, passed over his own relations to enricl
! her), as she Inherited 81, 1,000,0O from
: Prince Albert in 1861, and as she has no
: spent third Of her allowance since hi
Geath, it is estimated that Her Majesty
skol &. L.