The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-10

zens visit the hardware stores every
morning to learn who have purchased
| pistols, is emphatically denied. The ed
itor of the Reyiier is doing his part to-
wards furnishing material for the next
Census pounds, and doing well. Two
/ brothers. named Gardner, just over the
Michigan line. to test the strength OF
their teams, drew into Elkhart loads OF
stone weighing 1910 and 500 on
wheels, with single span of horses tc
each load.
! SOUTH BEND.
An inhuman wretch, named Herman
Culver, school teacher in Center town
ship, ST. Joseph county, was recently
brought before the city judge of South
Bend, charged with inhumanly whip
| ping boy 13 years old. He used two
whips, one Of Eastwood, five feet long,
and one of tough elm, six feet long,
with which he administered one hun
bred and seyenty-fve blows, occupying
one hour Defenders of hogging IN
our public schools can now obtain no
BILE champion in TIE person of Herman
Culver. The Register says the Beech
& Keedy paper mill manufactured 200
reams of paper for the Chicago Evening
Journal. last week. Charles Vinson is
building an elegant business house on
Washington street. Last Saturday, a
boy was playfu!ly tickling ahorse's side,
when the horse playfully bit the playful
boy $ arm; the playful boy then thought
the playful play was played out. Nat.
Shelton, of South Bend, has brought
suit against L. S. & NJ. S. railway, in
the supreme court Of Chicago, for inju-
ries received by being forcibly elected
from train, after paying his fare, by
which proceeding he was injur d in
mind and body to the amount of 81, 600
according to his estimate. The north
ern Indiana college building, with eight
acres Of ground, was recently sold at
Sheriff sale, for s9,625; the original
cost was $4,000. Mrs. Malloy, Of the
National Union, delivered her lecture
on Woman" at Goods opera house, to
large and appreciative audience; prov
ing that the Scriptural statement, that
a prophet is without honor in his own
country, does not apply to woman.
LAPoRTE.
The Arg,,s says the Second Presbyte-
rians are now holding their regular ser
vices at the court house. The Advent
lists have been holding protracted
meeting at Union Mills, and have made
a number Of converts; quite 4 number
were baptized. The Christian church has
recently been re-paperedand new carpet.
ing has been put down, which makes
the interior Of the building very at
tractive A Chicago ice firm has put
up an extensive ice-houSe, and new en-
ploy 80 men in filing il; its capacity is
about 5000 tons. J. B. Bedford writes
TO Gov Baker on the subject of prison
reform, and the governor responds IA
vorably.
The Herald mixes the bad, the good
and the Indifferent, in this wise :" Cock
fighting at Michigan City. Churches
waking Up in Laporte. The Dutch
doctor has departed" Mr. J. w Mum
dy has been rendered clerkship in the
patent Office at Washington. r. Boards
ley, of Elkhart, lecturcd in Laporte on
Saturday evening, on 'Pompeii." The
calico hop, on Wednesday evening of
last week, was an exceedingly brilliant
and happy affair. The number in at
tendance was over $50 including several
from Michigan City, and six couples
from Lafayette. a log house near
Kingsbury was set On fire and burned
down one week ago last Thursday night.
Mr.. Strong. adventist, from Iowa, has
been preaching for some three weeks in
the school house at Byron, and has Gre
ated 10 small stir in that village and
the country roundabout.
THERE'S considerable religious awaken
ing in and about Union Mills, Laporte
county. The Presbyterians and Meth
odists have recently held protracted
meeting with satisfactory results: the
Adventists also held series Of meetings,
conducted BY Elder Mansfield, Of Blu
chanan, and Mathewson Of New York,
which resulted highly satisfactory to all
in sympathy with the church. A num-
Der Laporteans accompanied the excur.
sion from New Buffalo to St. Joseph,
on the occasion Of the opening of the
new railroad.
VALPARAISO.
The Tidctte says there are promising
reyivals going on in the churches Good
many persons out of employment. Clear,
thick ice being putup out Of Salt Creek.
The venerable appearance of our court