Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-24

Miscellaneous Items.

PHILADELPHIA CANDLES.
The Davenports are in Richmond. vir-
ginia.
THE Yale navy owns % boats.
How many knots an hour can person
tle7
THE university of Virginia has over 450
students.
THE Union bridge depot at Atlanta is
nearly finished.
A SKATING rink has been commenced ia
Memphis, Tenn.
SLOW are your chills?" is the ordinary
salutation in Macon, Ga.
A WATER works company has been or.
ganized in Denver.
OVER 10000 people at the Atlanta fair on
Thursday.
THE original number of cannon on the
forts around Paris was 1926.
A STEAM road engine will be exhibited at
the Virginia State Fair,
DALTON, Georgia. is strutting over
sweet potato which is seven-pounder.
SIxTY-one per cent. of the people of Mis-
sissippi can neither read nor write.
The fruit crop of Orange county, N. c.,
is estimated to be worth 100000.
OF the 500 CONGREGATIONAL churches in
Massachusetts,, only 294 have settled pas
tors
The model switchman thinks that train
ing the mind is needful in minding the
train.
Sr. LOUIS, No., is going to have park of
1900 acres, six miles away from the Mis-
sissippi
THERE are 900 convicts in the N. G. PEN
Tertiary.
In many orchards in Monroe county, New
York, the winter fruit still remains on the
trees.
PORTSMOUTH, Va, is in a bad way fnan-
cially, and her police have not been paid
of for three months.
The lone flesh" that an Indiana couple
were recently made weighed 1000 pounds
avoirdupois-
AMOUNT of butter shipped from st. Al
bans. w., on Tuesday last, was 1,0O7 tubs
and 302 boxes of cheese
The German ladies' bazaar in New York
has been very successful, and some $780,.
900 have been raised.
THERE has been great food in Western
Texas recently. causing N immense de-
struction ofproperty.
THERE will be grand tournament at the
coming fair of the South Carolina institute
in Charleston.
WILMINGTON, North Carolina, is exercis-
ed over grand colored base ball levee,
whatever that may be.
The baseball clubs in various States are
resolving themselves into clubs for dancing
during the winter season.
GREECE was devasted by terrible hur-
ricane in the latter part of August 1t de-
strovad the entire wine crnn
BUFFALO dissatisfied with one Chinaman,
but whether one Chinaman is satisfied with
Buffalo the papers don't stay.
A NUMBER of excursionists from st. Louis
were la Charleston, South Carolina, on
Thursday. They were the guests of the
Board of Trade.
The Indians are very hostile in Arizona,
and papers from there are filed with ac-
counts of Indian fights and outrages.
the trumpet offered as a premium for the
best hand-engine company at the North
Carolina State Fair.
CLUB of students in the Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, at Chicago. are boarding
themselves at a cost for provisions 81 a
week each.
CHICAGO coquettes have new Irritation
sign. 1t is made by placing the little fin
fer of the right hand up to the mouth and
Struggling the shoulders.
AYoUNG man was found drowned at New
Orleans. The papers do not give his name
''for fear OF shocking the sensibilities of his
parents, who are absent from the city,"
The silver miners on Lake Superior are
said to be quite successful in their labors. |
$50. 900 worth of silver ore has recently |
been brought on one vessel to Detroit.
THE contract for building the great rail-
road and carriage bridge across the Missis- |
suppl. at Davenport, Iowa, has been award
ed TO Baltimore firm, for s400, 900.
A VIGILANCE committee has been organ
lied at Hugo, Colorado, and the roughs,
who now infest that town, have been given |
"a hours in which to leave.
1AE IOTtiduu anu hSQueOec railroad |
company advertise that they are ready to |
pay the bonds given by the cities and towns |
on the roa3, 20 years ago, to help build the |
road.
TIE Berlin manufacturers are busily EN-. |
ploved in providing winter garments for |
the troops. Large numbers of wooden |
shirts are continually being made, as well !
as caps, furs and clothes Of all kinds.
A COMPANY proposes to desulphurize ILL., |
nois coal TO make pure coke for blast fur |
naces. The coal, after being ground aud |
washed, makes very strong illuminating |
gas.
IT is estimated that at least 1000 trunks |
full Of valuable articles belonging to the |
Americans are now at the railway station |
In Paris. The trains would take no bag |
gage during the stampede from the gay |
capital.
A NASHVILLE paper rhapsodizes over q |
marvellous mule. 1T is 19A hands high, |
well proportioned, and is cnly four years |
old. When it gets it's growth il will be, |
according to measurement "a hands |
high"
A LErTER-writer describing a recent blll,
says the feature which made the deepest |
RTcSoiOu Ou uiul Wao t4c -uuucOal uUku-
Der of very plump women foaming over the |
tops of their dresses"
EIGHTEEN hundred men make q locomo-
tive engine in one day-boiler. cylinders,
frame, driving wheels, truck, stack; cab,
pilot and tender complete-the speed of
40 miles an hour and the power Of ], 900 |
tons created in day.
TIE Peoria (Illiuois) Transcript says:-j
seThere wers Al marriage licenses granted
by the csurity clerk of that county, last |
month, That is rather above the average.
and shows healthy state of affairs"
OK the 9th inst, at six mile rancho.
near Fort Laramie, q half-breed Indian |
shot and killed j. McC cCloskey, the interpre-
| ter. and man named Lowry. No motive |
is assjqness for the shooting, other than |
that Nice Closkey had inforraed the authori- |
ties at the Fort of the half-breed having |
sold whisky to the Indians, which was the |
cause of his being locked up in toe guard |
house. Cheyenne Leader.
| ApooR Young Hungarian painter, named |