Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-04-14
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Items i'm General.

i IL Items i'm General.
q THERE is not one Protestant or America
z minister in Alaska. ...-
"A BEaaAR who lately died in Portage Co
Ohio, had 81 900 sewed up in his coat,
The Baltimore city authorities hav
issued an order interdicting organ grind
ers. rr :
II Some of the daily papers in Scotlan
| have telegraph line of their own to Lon
don. !
tt THERE have been 100000 Baltimor
oysters planted in California and Oregon
waters.
The Chicago Court House which tum
bled down recently cost nearly millio,
: dollars.
The British House of Lords now mum
bers 474 members, only 81 of whom ar
unmarried.
Il HE prospects for a large yield of whea
10 East tennessee were never more fayora
BILE than now.-
SEVEN merchants, all doing business OF
the same street, were lost in the steame
City of Boston.
AN astronomical observatory has beer
established by the Russian Government Oh
| Mount Ararat.
THERE are 20 oyster houses in Baltimore
the largest of which uses 5000 bushels OF
oysters per day.
AN enterprising Frenchman has offered
o,ooO,OOO lire for ten years lease OF Pom.
pen, as q ''show."
HE I'D anniversary of Modern Spirit
uallsm was celebrated in Philadelphia on
the 3lst ult
THERE are three men in New York who
make good livings by writing advertise
ments for the public.
AN old bachelor is described as a traveller
on hfe's journey who has entirely failed to
make the proper connections.
They have fined Nevada minister"
$40 for performing mock marriage, The
victim being girl of II years.
DYNAMITE. the safe substitute for nitro
glycerlne is three-quarters nitro-glycerine,
the rest porous earth and sand.
An average crop of fifty bushels of pea
nuts to the acre, is what the North Caro-
lima farmers can safely count on.
Boston paper says: a snow plow with
BIZ horses got stuck in fremont row, on
Tuesday afternoon, and lad to be dug out.
A LETTER reached Washington Saturday.
dated august z, 1S49," having been
tweniy-one years on its passage from Ger
manv. at.Tl-l 4.
A BILL is in the Pennsylvania LegisIa
ture to compel railroads to open their
ticket offices at least an hour before train
time. - :.
The new hotel at Hot Springs, Arkansas.
intended to accommodate hundred and
nifty guests, will be opened about the first
of April
A WRITER from chihuahua saws he at
Shoeo dance where he saw sign over
the door which read: "No gentlemen ad-
mitted without pants on"
Two Mexican lions that escaped from
show In Falls county, Texas, recently, ara
twelve miles from Brenham, and siayiue
hogs, sheep, etc., quite lively. s.
The feminine journalists at Washington
are irnportuning Congressman to have a
portion of the public galleries set apart for
their exclusive accommodation.
IT Is said that a '.Lean Mems Assoeia-
ton ID about forming in Hackensack
Crawling through a key-hole is the first
step in the initiation ceremonies
ABOUT 5000 beer houses have been closed
throughout Great Britain, by stringent
amendment in the excise law. England
spends 500, OOo, 600 year in beer
Or THE forty-6ve baseball players in
the five leading clubs of the country
Cincinnati, Athletics, Mutuals, Atlantics,
and Chicago twenty-one are Brooklyn
men.
A MAINE man is prospecting in South
Carolina for large tract of marsh land,
where he can go into the raising of
frogs on large scale, for the northern
Market.
The London Spectator regards the ad-
mission of MIR. Revels to seat in the United
States Senate as o work of Divine power
quite as conspicuous as the deliverance of
Israel from Egypt
LORD NAPIER, of Magdala, lately told
committee Of the House Of Commons that
on the borders of the Red Sea the effect of
putting the bulb of thermometer into a
mans month was to send down tho mercury
ten degrees
The eldest daughter of ex-King George
of Hanover, will soon be married to the
Archduke Victor, of Austria. This will be
the first time in the history of the Haps-
burg dynasty when one of its princes mar
ries Protestant lady. l7ftf
A FINE fat buck was run over and killed
by the passenger train of the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad, Monday night, on Pea
Creek mountain. This is a new ..inyen-
ton" in the sporting line.
The Louisville Courier Journal saws:
'The only argument that can possibly be
urged in favor of the annexation of San
Domingo Is, that the island would furnish
rs with home market for the ice we raise
in Alaska" .ft
JUDITH MCCARTY, O colored woman log
years old, who died few days ago, was
doubtless the oldest inhabitant of Fall
River, Mass. She retained her faculties
to an extraordinary degree till short time
before her death.
A CoIoREp woman has got a verdict for
fifteen hundred dollars against the WASH
ington and Alexandria Railroad. She
would not obey the rules and got into the
smoking car, and in putting her off she
was seriously injured. ir
q. d soUrHEkN paper says: 1t seems Texas
has been boarding gold for years. Fifty
millions, probably are, now IN the state.
The fall in gold has cost Texas, on account
of this boarding, at least five millions This
capital viii now be employed. 80 70 4
=. a "N1AaS - A16iies o0toOotC ihoibts tlttt
divorced women have right to vote under
the Fifteenth amendment, which provides
that the right of suffrage shall not be denied
or abridged on account of race, color, or
previous condition Of servitude" ,,,
G "A CONFLICT is raging between the mana,
gers of the Paris theatres, who decline
giving up ten per cent. Of their daily gross
receipts, and the Government, which in.
sists upon the execution of the law raquir-
ing this subsidy to be given to the poor.~s
vTHs Detroit Tribune says, the Michigan
Agricultural College will have over one
hundred students, as soon as the winter
schools close, in which many of them are
teacherG Q The Freshman class will eoutain
abouse uselghfy-sisisss s',so,.s> ait
9iAr Lanssboto', Mass, on Wednesday of
laat week. the steeple of the. Episcopal
church was blown down., The bell was
carried twenty feet striking the roof
breaking several rafters, and then rolling to
the ground mbroksn.aosusss sf.t ,-s',,.
II rs stated there are more .israelites In
New York city than in the Holy Land, or
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