Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-08-11
CURRENT PARAGRAPHs,
Miscellaneous Items.

e ueNiu'O hot W Nioit lfcidui- tuIS year.
: FoRTY-FoUR THOUSAND women are en-
Z ployed as outdoor laborers in England.
OVER twenty casualties occurred by sun
: stroke in New York on Wednesday last
s On the 2lst inst, jefferson Davis left
5 Memphis for Europe to bring his family
home. f-iA'
The st. Crispins Of San Francisco have
!, ssnmed military organization. That
will be but poor solution of the Mon
golian question. -.t...
{ CAPT. SHUFELD will command the expe-
| ditioD to survey the Nicaragua and Tehu-
antepec canal routes, and leaves in Sep
tember., .,s.d - ~ ytsr
NIGHT-BLooMrNa cerius, in the green
house of Hubbard Il Davis, Detroit, bios
somed one night last week, with only one
flower foot in breadth and pure white.
BONNER has been offered $50. 600 for Dex-
ter by Fawcett, of whom Mr.. Bonner pur-
chased him. The latter also refused re-
cent offer of $50, 200 for his mare Poca-
hontas.
PRESIDENT GRANT has pardoned James
Barry, who, in July, 1866, was convicted
! of stealing letters out of the Detroit post
office,and was sentenced to the State prison
for 10 years. -,c.,,i Lar arf 1
An Indiana man escaped death by drown
ing three times, served all through the
war, was seriously wounded six times and
then was automatically killed by patent
reaper the other day. 81 r'' 1f I'-
A LABoRING man at Brunswick, Me-, has
paid for morphine, for the use Of his wife,
within the past IA years, nearly 81, 300. -
She uses it constantly, and declares that
she could not do without it.
THE international workingmen's associa-
ton is one ofthe most formidable organize
tions in Europe, numbering fully ZOO, 900
members, distributed as follows: In
France, 433, ,S75; Germany, 10000; Aus
4 tSia and Hungary, 100. 900; England, SO-
600; Switzerland. As, 220; Spain, 2,71S..
Mrs SABAH A. GRANT, residing in And.
over, Mass, died suddenly on Friday after
noon, from the sting of bee. Immedi-
ately after she was stung she lay down on
a lounge, saying, 81 am dead, and going
into commissions, died in about two hours
afterward
IT is rnmo ed in Wall street, that Mr.
Belmont is shortly to sever his connection
with the Rothschilds, whose agent he is in
New York, and, that his place is to be filled
by the Rothschilds present New Orleans
agent. The reason assigned for the change
is that the Rothschilds complain that Mr..
Belmont devotes more time 10 his own bu-
siness than to theirs.
The age at which we are apt to regard
ourselves with the greatest complacency--
when the bump of self-ssteem would seem
to be at its maximum growth, whilst those
bumps indicative of other and better
qualities are only just beginning to devel-
op themselves s-when we appear the most
ridiculous in the eyes of other people-may
be placed between the years of sixteen and
twenty. 9"i
! JOE MILLER has been arrested at Buffalo.
He had a lot o. money and a gold watch,
which he said he got in house. The po-
lice captain asked him whose watch it was.
milne, F" said he. Didn't you Just say you
stole it?" '.Yes, took it, and now it's
mine." "No it isn't" "Whose is it them"
II do not know, )" said the captain "well,
hen, what are you talking about?" said
the fellow; and with this conundrum un-
solved, the interview terminated.
4 MAN who, in the struggles of life, has
no home to retire to. in fact or in memory,
| is without life's best defenses. Away from
home, shut off from the income of those
influences which feed his life-from those
relations along which the life of God is ac-
csstomed to few to him man stands
exactly where evil will the most readily get
| the mastery of him. man is always
nearest III bis good when at home and
| furthest from it when away.
| WIRE baskets, made to be suspended
from the curtain poles of windows, are now
! sold In most of the wire-workers' and IRON
mongers' shops. 1t is time to begin to put
them into use. Nothing is better for the |
interior than good ordinary garden pot
and saucer, wherein the plants are to grow. |
The basket should be lined with dry moss.
which can be purchased in sixpenny bun |
dies, already dyed of a permanent green.
The saucer can be woo bedded into this.
and then the pot will stand in it firm.
| WHILE man in Elko, Nevada, was re-
Gently at work on a telegraph wire, with
the end of it in his hand flash struck the
line some distance away, instantly split
three of the mans fingers, passed up his
arm, across his breast, and down his side,
darting out at his knee, lesvening black /
ened oriice like bullet hole, and plung-
into the ground. The man was knocked
| senseless, but recovered. The sensa- |
ton, he he said was not very painful, but !
seemed like the pricking of sharp pins.
| AN TTINERENT Boston swell who is "do- |
ing" London aid dresses four times q day,
has been thrown almost into spasms by |
meeting Thomas Carlyle on the street wear
ing a dreadfully rough sort of shooting
coat, shock ng bad straw hat, aud pair
of trowsers that were positively frightful in
their bagginess and coarseness. Fortunate
| ly friend was with him and caught the
q indy in his arms as he fell back, pale with
horrorand palpitating with su ppressed dis
gust ~ -s -.
A HAPPY reunion was ccnsummated in
Albany, few nights since between young
married couple from the West, who had
been travelling about in search of each 9TH
er for three months The husband had
been to the East for new stock of goods,
sickened on the way, and continued in a
| condition between life and death during
the tirae mentioned The wife finally
heard of his death, and came on to recov-
| er his remains They were brought to-
gether accidentally in turning the corner of
a street. uaL ..i... 49, r f
CoTroN seed has been found available by
Lancashire Eng. manufacturer for the
production of paper of very excellent
quality. Of all substitutes for rags hither-
to tried, it is regarded by practical judges
| dS the mObt QeblIdDte. Out upOIIhut ltd-
ture in it's use is that it renders necessary
little alteration in the ordinary machinery
Of paper mills. This discovery is of great
value to the southern. states. Some of the
best paper mills in the country before the
war were in Virginia and North Carolina,
and the Quantities of cotton seed that could
be furnished at their very doors will enable
them to manufacture the new paper to the
best advantage. ~ 4
4 LAST Friday the last rail on the St. Louis
and St. Joseph railroad was laid at Platts-
burg, Missouri, when the silver spike
was driven by some one duly selected for
that purpose. Construction trains will i'm
mediately commence running between st.
Joe and Richmond; and in q short time
there will be an excursion through to st.
Louis on the new road and the North Mis-
souri, which latter company has leased the
st. Louis and st. Joseph road. - q
i The PRuss1AN CRowN PRINCE. He is q.
middle-aged man, gentlemanly in his man
ners, with features expressive of a cultured