Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-01-06
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The HoIidays-ChfIdren' Presents
The Little Corporal-Financfal Mat
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The Holidays-C -ChfIdrenss Presents
The Little C0rp0ral-Ffnancfal Mat
ters-Gratn Recefpts-mO mOney--Amu use
ments.
CHICAGO, Christmas Eve, lS69.-The hoI-
days are ushered in with beautiful weather,
fine sleighing, and the merry ringing of
bells. To-day the streets have been throng-
ed and the stores crowded with the busy null
| titude, intent on completing their prepara-
tioDs for Christmas. State street and Lake
street we're literally full Of people, so that 10
comotion was seriously obstructed, and the
sleighs aud carriages whisked past so swiftly
| that crossing the stre ct was perilous enter
| prise. 1t has been gala-day to the shop
keepers, and a sober observer of this DAVIS
proceedings would be inclined to set us down
as a fast people fast in making money, and
| fast in spending It, To spend money
to make others comfortable and happy il
better than to hoard it with miserly intent.
and am glad that there are occasions on
which even Old Money Bags has to open his
purse. 1t Is true, many who celebrate Christ
mas beetow not thought upon the origin of
the holiday, or upon the person whose birth
1t Is designed to commemorate. But to open
the purse with gifts and the heart with glad
ness, has humanizlng influence, and we do
not have too many holidays.
CHTLDRES's PRESENTS.
tits becoming quite customary for parents,
guardians, and friends to present the chill
dreD with books, magazines such tokens as
hiend amusement with instruction, and will
be acceptable and useful al through the
year; Many are in the habit of subscribing
for them for
THE LITTLE CORPORAL
the best Juvenile magazine in this country.
LIS great excellence has given il almost a
fabulous circulation. and it is published by
AIRED L. Sewen & Co., Chicago.
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The Trbune's money article of TO-DAY has
luguDrious tone and prophecy o failures
which the present aspects of trade and the
condition OF the country do not Justify. Peo-
pie have contracted a chronic h4b:t Of com
planning of hard times especially in Chicago.
when almost every business man is expecting
to get rich speedily and because they don't
make money as fast as they did during the
millions of dollars here every month they
croak ana find fault. But the truth is, that
business has been better here this wear than
last year, collections, taking the whole
country tributary to Chicago, better.
there have been fewer failures than
last year, and GU leading merchants and
business men are rtronger and more hopeful
oil the future than ever before. Those busi-
ness men who have capital and conduct their
business on business principles, have pros
perez. VI course, those having little or no
capital, and giving long credits, may laii. In
But the great mass of our business men are
doing business on a sound basis. And tho
the pric' If grain is low, and those depending
solely On the grain crop may be straitened
yet bu'''r ind pork and beef command high
prices nd ccrn yesterday reached 75c, within
live ceui- o. the price Of wheat. And as there
Is a ssrge corn crop-despite the croakings
OF the habitual grumblers-the resources in
reserve arc by no means small.
GRAIN RECEIPTS
have increased materially within a week,
which distributes considerable money in the
MONEY
Is not easy to be obtained at legal rates, ex-
eept by the best customers, large sums being
used by the pork packers
ADJUSTMENTS
are lively. The Parepa-Rosz troupe have had
great success at the Opera House. Maggie
Mitchell is to be the attraction at Mcvicker's
another week. Aiken's Museum always pre-
sents good bill, and Emerson & Manning's
Minstrels at the Dearborn make the audi
ences laugh and grow fat. B.