Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-08
Personal Notes.

Personal Notes.
THE health of President Juarez is i'm
proving.
SENATOR SPRAGUE reports the health
of Judge Chase much improved.
THE prospect of Porfirio D1az as can
didate for President in Mexico is i'm
proving.
THE Princess Editha is to be married
to Brooklyn gentleman this week.
GENERAL SWORDS, of the United
States army, returned from a European
tour yesterday.
B. @. BANFELD, Solicitor of the
Treasury Department, is in this city on
official business.
PROFESSOR Edward w. Root, of Ham.
ilton College, died yesterday, at the age
of twenty nine years.
Mrs. PLANK, of Killingly, Conn, is
los years old, and in full possession ol
her faculties.
THE Rev. DR.. Ballard, a well-known
Episcopal preacher of Maine, died very
suddenly at Brunswick, ON Monday.
SAMANrANAN ToMMYHAwk is the name
of young Canadian Indian recently or
dained into the Christian ministry
Boston is to have a Catholic Choral
Society, organized by Dr. J. Fl, Wilcox,
G.. s. Whiting, NJ Falkenstein and
others.
JOSEPH TUrrLE, for half century a
respected citizen of Dorchester, Mass,
died on Monday, at the age of eighty
four
Mrs LENA RAUDEN, who is lecturing
in Indiana against woman suffrage, is a
Cherokee Indian, and educated herself
GENERAL FITZPATRICK lectured on Sun
day evening in the Bay State Course, at
Boston, on the Incidents and Battle
Scenes of the rebellion.
/ BRAZIL, with nearly 1000, 900, 900
acres of land, has q population of less
than 10, 000,000 souls, and is, therefore,
manifestly in great want of inhabitants
! SENATOR CATTELL has been i'll for some
time, but his health has so much improv-
ed that he expects to take his seat at the
meeting of Congress.
/ THE heads of bureaus in the Treasury
+ Department, except the Treasurer and
Sixth Auditor, have requested an in
crease of salaries.
SENATOR YATES, of Illinois, has been
confined for a short time with fever, bat
he is now convalescent, and will be in
Washington in few days.
RoDERICK r. BUTLER, of Tennessee,
reports that he will he in Washington in
few days to answer the charges brought
ageinst him in connection with frauds
in the Pension Bureau.
TIE Maine Historical Society has
suffered a great loss by the death of the
Rev DR.. Ballard, of New Brunswick.
He has been for many years one of its
most earnest and learned members.
Mrs. PALLIsER, well known for her
I" History of Lace" is bringing ont in
England curious work, cepiously IL
Illustrated, on s.War Cries. Devices, En-
bjeDis, &C.
SUPERVISOR Emery, of Tennessee,
writes that under the new ruling of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, allowing the
use of certain mechanical means of dis
tillation, several hundred new distiller-
les will be started.
Mrs. SARAH JANE HALE, the we'll
known authoress, is a native of Newport,
N. H., and in 1852 was a dress-maker in
that village. She is now seventy-fve
years old, and resides in Philadelphia.
Mrs. BoLLEs has knocked one sob
lection" entirely out of sight by the
statement that an invention has been
perfected in Boston by which the cradle
can be satisfactorily, securely and con-
tinuously rocked while the women go to
vote.
DIR. DECHAUMoNT, an English lecturer
on military hygiene, regards tea, coffee
or cocoa the best beverages to work on.
He considers the issue of spirit rations
to soldiers a mistake, but thinks that a
moderate ration of good beer or red
wine would be beneficial.
HELEN A. BRAsToN declares that as a
rule, Interesting" American girls de-
velop into sickly, complaining women,
who break down and grow prematurely
old, and peevish, and morbid, and good
for nothing, under the first burden of
maternity.
THE heirs of Lochy Ostrom, the wo-
man miser of Poughkeepsie, who died
recently, are multiplying, and numerous
bills are presented against the "estate.
The largest charge is that of her attor-
new, John P. Tolman, for legal services
during a period of twelve years.
JAMES RUSSELL, of Sutton, n. d.,
committed suicide lately by hanging
himself in his barn. A piece OF paper
was found on which he had written, 81
came into the world in 1900; have lived
seventy years, and seen the machine, but
don't understand it. I came into the
world by the neck, and if they will ac-
cept, go out by the neck" 1t is thought
he was insane.
AUBER and Grounod, the great COM
posers, are at present living in London.
Prince Poniatowski, the amateur COM
poser and singer, is also in that city
The Prince is said to be in such reduced
circumstances that he is compelled to
earn his living by giving singing lessons.
Mr.. LACHMAN, the man who had the
contract for furnishing provisions to the
whole Prussian army during the war, as
he had done in 1866 with Austria, died
on the 14th of September in Berlin. He
came up to his contract in both wars in
most exemplary manner, and contrib
uted thus in great measure to their
success. His contract will, In future, be
fulfilled by his heirs, and no stoppage
will eusue.
THE large Elk of Col. Ames' menag-
erie was aboard the freight train that
met with such disaster on the Bruins
wick road in Georgia last week. 1t was
badly wounded in several places, but
not killed. It escaped from the wreck
and got into the swamp and bushes, from
which it was taken out in the afternoon
and taken to Atlanta. It both ate and
drank that night when offered food and
water, and it may survive.