Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-01
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Miscellaneous Items.

EIGHT CENTS Is all the doctors fee the Law
allows in China.
CHICAGO will open a vomen's mcdica
college in the fall.
AT Msrtha's Vineyard the camp meeting
meets under huge awning.
In England, the hop crop this year, it il
said, viii be partial failure.
The Kansas press is said to be unani
nous In favor of female suffrage.
The late rain-storm extended over ALI the
New England and Middle States.
WHEAT is arriving at the Atlantic ports
In large quantities from the west.
OwNa to the intense heat in Madrid
business is suspended after o q. m.
THERE are five female preachers In the
Universalist churches in this country.
SINCE the war began they have been
singing the Marseillaiss at Tipperary.
A New York paper has been humbugine
the people with unimportant "extras.
The tea plant is being successfully cul.
tivated at Auburn, Placer county, Cal.
MENDocINo county will ship 800, 600 rail.
road ties this year.
The farmers of San joaquin valley are
club.
A CANDIDATE for Congress in Arkansas
originally went there as ''bones" in a min.
strel show.
1T is said that Carl Formes lost his great
bass voice by drinking the inferior lager
beer of Ameyica.
SAILORS In the United States navy are to
receive a dollar and half per month ad-
diuonal pay instead of grog.
KANSAS CRY arrests hackmen for solicit.
ing passengers on the depot platform.
THERE are London pickpockets = the
most skilful in the world--in San Francisco.
FRANCE very quickly initiates Americas
legal tender plan when war comes upon
her.
THrEvEs and highway robbers are IN.
comfortably numerous about Portland, Ore
gon.
A SAN JOSE recruit for the army stands
SIX feet seven and a half inches high in his
socks.
FoaTY-FoUa marriage licenses have been
issued In White Pine county since its or
ganizations.
HE census returns Indicate that Maine
has a population of 10000, about s. 900
less than in 1850.
FIFTEEN thonsand cotton spinners OF
Fan River are on strike to prevent q re-
duction of wages.
In Indiana, man had fainting ft while
neing married recently, and died during
the ceremony.
THE iron-clad Miantonomah is being
thoroughly overhauled at the Charlcstown
(Mass.) Navy yard.
Two LITTLE girls in Cincinnati, recently,
sat down in tub of boiling water, and
were scalded to death.
IN Richmond they will not allow their
policemen to carry umbrellas, smoke, or
wear busters while on duty.
THE census, so far. shows that most of
The towns In Rhode Island have had an in
crease of population since 1865.
They never execute murderers In Swe.
den until they make a confession. That
plan would hardly work well In this coun-
Try.
A SUMMER boarder at Southern hotel
nad MS false teeth stolen a few nights ago,
and nearly starved before he could replace
them.
PHILADELPHIA paper, anxious to have
theory OF Its own about the Nathan mur-
der, suggests that the murderer was prob
ably insane.
A BOY in Maryland fell dead, recently.
after making run around the bases in a
base ball game. The exertion was too
much for him.
IHE towns along the line of the Kansas
Pac'f1c railroad are becoming the most ex-
'ensive markets for the shipment of Texas
,attle to the east.
A CINCINNATI man was so much incensed
't an assessor for rating his property too
1lgn, that he and his wife pounded him
nearly to death with clubs.
The excursions of the bees to collect
honey are variously estimated at from one
20 three milas each, and they are supposed
% make each about ten trips day.
PEOPLE supposed to have been shot.
anced, or fogged to death by the late
President of Paraguay, are turning up and
aaiming their houses and property.
THE peanut crop of Virginia this year is
'stimated at 400,0 bushels, while Ten.
,essee raises 300, 900 bushels, and Georgia
md the Carolinas from 100, 600 to LIS, 600.
wonM lozenges sold in several Massa-
husetts towns have been analyzed and
ound to contain strychnine. in quantity
calculated to cause great injury, if not
leath.
A SUPPLY" once prayed for an absent
'astor. referring to his arrival in England
8 ''worshipping God in foreign land,
where the language is the same, but the
'ccent different"
The Grenzboten, a German literary or.
;an, says that Dickens's 'Pickwick Pa-
,ers emancipsted the German mind from
he predominating influence of French
iction, and had most powerful and
healthy influence on German literature.
CHANGING ones name is illegal in France,
md the authorities are petitioned for per-
mission In due form which il frequently
efused, especially if people want, as is Of
en- the case, to change their name for one
.lready appropriated by distinguished
amily. Last year one hundred and forty
'sked permission. and thirty got it
WITHIN siz days after the arrival of the
swedish colony in Aroostook, Me-, q few of
he Sweds hand-piled, burned and cleared
wo acres of land and sowed it with Eng.
ish turnips. The larger portion of the
'oleny have been steadily at work building
louses and Telling trees, says the Sunrise.
The immigrants are well pleased with their
lew homes, are very industrious, at work
arly and late. and promise all and znore
han was ever expected of them.
SOME experiments have been made this
ummer in watering portions of the Lon
lon streets with q patented preparation,
composed of water, common salt. and
hloride of calcium dissolved. The expert
nent thus far has been no satisfactory that
,ower has been given to the Sanitary Com
nittee to arrange for the watering of the
ntire district of the Westminster Board
4 Works with this patent solution for one
-ear.
STIRRING TEE SorL.-Those persons who
10 not believe in deep culture, or in stir
iRg the soil in time of drought, have an
EXCELLENT opportunity the presenf season of