Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-01-20
Miscellaneous Items.
Happy virginians get their oysters 9
50cents bushel.

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I'm Iowa there are 1874 families of
Friends, and $40 parts of families with
1899 members.
Toledo tobacco manufacturers use in
their business about 2. 500 hogsheads of the
raw material per annum.
"A St Louis court has decided that the
guardian of an orphan must be of the same
religious faitn as the child.
The South Bend, Ind, Register has
an illustration of the quail trap used by
Schuyler Colfax when a boy.
The Morris & Essex r. r. will issue no
more d. d. Clergymens tickets. They
must hereafter pay if they ride.
Policeman John Sullivan was shot dead
in Savannah, Ga, on Christmas day, while
endeavoring to quell negro riot.
Samuel Hoar, son of the Attorney
General, is soon to marry Miss Laura Wise,
one of the reigning Bellies of Baltimore"
Thirty Swiss men and women have
lately reached Terry, Mississippi and have
gone to work on the adjacent plantations.
"A Memphis bride deserted her hus-
band the morning after her marriage, be-
cause he refused to send the breakfast up
to her room.
There is an artesian well in San Ber-
nardino, California, which is throwing a
torrent thirty inches in diameter forty feet
high.
"A young rascal has accumulated for
tune, in New York. of $4,000 by several
years industry at begging in the disguise
of an old man.
The Philadelphia Press says that with
in q few years past, four persons have died
in that city of hydrophobia, caused by the
bites ofpet dogs, in play.
The notorious Lord Hubert .Ainsley,
alias Dick Radford, who married New
York heiress on the strength of his title,
has deserted his wife and left the country.
James Fisk. Jr., has procured mon
ument at a cost of 81, $50, which is to be
placed over the grave of Polly Albro, OF
Pownal, VT, who took care of him in his
childhood.
Capt. Fred w. Smith, of the ninth U.
s. cavalry, was instantly killed on Decem-
Der 22d, at Fort McKavett, Texas, by the
accidental discharge of revolver in his
own hands.
1t is rumored that Wagner is about to
marry the divorced wife of Herr Won Bulow.
She is the daughter of Liszt, and the Coun-
tess dAgoult and the sister of the wife OF
Emile OLIVER.
| At Meare's Bluff, near the city of vii
mington, N. c., there is being established
manufactory for the making of guano,
Company.
A correspondent writing to Zion's
Herald, Boston, says that quiet Is SO far
restored in Georgia that he believes the
time for killing Methodist preachers has
gone by forever.
| I'm garden near Boston violets are IN
bloom, rose bushes are shooting out leaves,
crocuses and the little iris have made their
appearance, and even seeds planted have
sprung up.
Two mammoth teeth-one weighing
seven pounds and the other fve-wert
lately found three miles north of Cow creek
Kansas, eight feet under ground, by rail
road grading party.
The University of Edinburg has made
arrangements to enable ladies to study
medicine. They are taughti in separate
classes from the men. Five lady students
have already presented themselves for the
medical matriculation examination.
Geo. Seavey, at one time connected
with the London Times, and afterward for
eign correspondent of the Boston Post
died in the poor house in Portland on Sun
day. Sickness and misfortune were hi
enemies
4 Thomas Gavnor, of Stamford, Conn.
lately had piece of dirk knife 81 inche
long cut from the roof of his mouth, whicl
he had carried in his head since last May
when he was stabbed in the head during
fight.
Joseph Anthony of So Portsmouth, r
l., shot and killed an eagle one day las
J week, weighing one hundred and thre
pounds and measuring seven and hal
feet from tip 10 tip. 1t is said to be tn
largest ever killed there
The Overton Hotel at Memphis manu-
, lectures it own gas .-om water, acid an
iron-molding, at q cost of two dollars pc
!, 900 feet. The gasometer is of copper
! three feet high, weighing about fftee
pounds.
"A traveller who has circumnavigate
the earth says that everywhere he toun
the houses of worship free, all over th
world, among all religions except tn
Christians. The very people whose wor
is to disciple all nations, have adopted
D system which shuts out from the house {
. God large part of the common people.
I'm Ohio, last year, there were on
! Thousand and three divorces granted
) against eight hundred and forty-seven
1868, and nine hundred and seventy-fve
r 1867 In three hundred and thirty-for
cases, where the custody of children va
disputed, the mothers were successful
;, while only fifty-eight fathers were consit
! cred worthy of the charge. This is nearl
+ q reverse of the rule at common law
4 Ohio.
The Texas pecan market is quite bris
at So. 25 per bushel, specie. The deman
} for shipment to northern markets seem
{ be steadily increasing, whilst the supp
s is gradually diminishing every year, OWN
r to the fact that pecan trees are being col
= stantly cut for the fruit, lumber or 9TH
purposes. The trees make tolerably got
: lumber, but the time will come when thu
' will be worth hundreds of dollars per &C
: for the fruit alone.
}, "A wedding occurred recently at far
g house few miles southeast of Ksns
), City. The bridegroom was named Brow
!. and 50 also was the bride. None but I
. lations attended the wedding; and no I
2 lations of the family were present exceI
J. ing those whose names were Brown. Fat
l. ers, mothers, uncles and aunts and cou
y ins, uncles and nephews of the marrl
9 couple to the number of sixty-one. were
I attendance. The minister's name "
/ Brown.
q The Paris papers announce the deaf
4 few days ago, . woman well known
= ftequenters Of the Luxembourg Gardt
. by the name of the Francee de fOrn
For nearly thirty years she has not faile
whatever the weather might be, to 81
herself on the same bench in the gard
0, from midday to o'clock in the afternoc
% When any one attempted to enter II
re conversation with her she would ansv
]. imperturbably, "Will he not Gomez
,. promised me he would" Her deserti
% BY her lover deprived her OF her sens
many years ago.