Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-22
CURRENT rAEAexAPas
Miscellaneous Items.

IHE United states uSeu leSt year bA, ,UUU,-
900 lbs. of zinc.
THE King of Prussia as opened a French
boarding house
A COTTON picking machine has been in-
vented In Louisville. lr
NEWSPAPERS never had so many readers
as during the past six weeks.
New YORK has about Is, 600 French in
habitantg.
VIRGINIA's schools are to be re-establish-
ed on the New England sys tenn.
The United States now have about 49,
900 miles of railroad.
A ROCHESTER clairvoyand declines TO
state who killed Mr.. Nathan.
MEMPHIS realized only $1,000 from the
dog ordinance.
KNOXVILLE is to have opera by the Tenn
pleton troupe,
WHITE SULrHUn SPRINGS brags of 500
guests yet.
ST.. LOUIS has killel just 5, los dogs this
Season.
ST. LOUIS is iubiant over three prize
fights In one day.
LAKE winnipiseogee is sol feet above
the level of the sea.
FARMERS in Southern Kansas intend to
plant cotton next season.
AT Auburn, \. Y, each convict in the
State prison cost the State for his support
but 154 cents day.
II Cincinnati, the excessive mortality
%, g Efr,B taI 40 ha
pure milk sold in the city.
II is said the census will show a falling
off in ihe population of nearly all the
Southern cities.
THE Nashua. n H., house of correction
harbors girl IL years old, for being COM
mon drunkard,
UP to the first of September, nearly
1000 persons had visited the summit OF
Mount Washington this year.
A CHICAGO woman wants divorce be-
cause her husband won't support her and
talks free love.
THE Tennessee and Pacific railroad will
be completed to Lebanon by next Saturday
night
LARGE quantities of broom corn are COM
ing to the Nashville market. The prices
are lower than last year
The Georgia State Fair is to give prem.
ium OF $40 to the best printed daily or tri-
weekly paper in the State.
In Catoosa county, Georgia, woman re-
Gently shouted herself to death under ex-
cessive religious excitement.
A SHIPMENT of 10000 pounds of sumac
wis made. from Nashville, over the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad, Tuesday, to
the east.
TIE North Georgia coal region is estin-
ated 10 extend through an area of 2i0
square miles, expected to yield 1,3G0, 000,-
900 tons
LOUISIANA planters claim that the catar-
pillars can do the cotton no harm, as the
season is too far advanced.
The annual review OF the New Orleans
market occupies about 25 close columns OF
the Picayune.
THE Sandwich Islands appropriate ST.
116. 296 this year for the running expenses
of the government.
THE new shops of the Pennsylvania rail-
road now building at Altoona, cover an
area OF 20 acres.
AT Evansville. Indiana, they ring the
fire bells when they want to wake up the
police to effect an arrest.
IT is estimated that the cotton crop this
year will exceed that of last by more than
!, 5000. 600 of bales.
THE New Jersey State association of base
ball players will hold its annual session at
Elizabeth, October 9th.
IN Virginia, q ..hunting club" has been
organized for the improvement of hounds
and the promotion of coursing.
AwHrTE bat, AS rare q curiosity as
white blackbird, was captured in Nippert's
saloon in Paris.
MORE car loads of Cinnamon passed
through Corinth on the Oath for the Men,
phis and Selma General Forests railroad.
THE American scientific association wants
TO establish an observatory on the highest
points of the Pacific railroad.
A WURrEMB ErG German paper says that
the Anglican Canon Biddon has been to
confer with the Catholic Professor Dol
inger, at Munich, for a concert of action
in reference to the dogma of infallibility.
IT is said that Gen. Frossard was at din.
ner during all the affair at Wissembcrg.
and although messengers came aud told
him the state of affairs he remained at din
ner, and smoked his cigar till four o'clock
T. NJ
JAMES M. WALTERS, who abandoned his
wife and three children in Iowa, two years
ago, leaving them without cent while
he had hundreds which belonged to his
creditors, is about to be hung in Texas for
murder.
GRAND SIRE Il. d. FARNswoRrH, who
reached New York a few days since on his
return from Europe, arrived at home in
Nashville on Tuesday. He is in good
health, and well pleased with his trip
abroad, with the single exception of the
occurrence of war upon his arrival in Ger
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