Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-01
Editorial Clippings.


There was $4,000 worth of hogs were
shipped from Wells county last week.
Farmers in Pike county complain that
cholera is killing off their hogs.
A citizen OF Putnam county has worn
one coat for fifteen years, and it is still
serviceable.
Twelve clover threshers and separators
are shipped from South Bend every week
by the Birdsell manufacturing company.
Ethiopians eat the locusts; the Arabs
make them into bread; the Hottentots
stew then and make soup of their eggs;
they also eat ants. raw and toiled.
Thomas Jay, president of the First Ma
ticnal Bank, and John w. Korn, lawyer
and both of Kokomo, made foolish boot
backing wager on the election. The FORM
er lost, and the penalty was paid on the
18th inst with imposing ceremonies.
A's5y in Jasper comfy whose age is
near IS, wants a divorce because her hus-
band, now in his s7th year, "spends hall
his time running about with the girls"
A Chicago boy being asked If be had q
mother, said he didn't know, as he hadn'
been home since morning, and when he
left his father and mother were quarreling,
with odds in favor of his father, as he had
tho hatchet in bia barH
The total population Of Ohio, according
to the late census is 2,652, 3c2--all the
State being heard from but single subdi.
vision in Wayne county. 1t still holds its
position as the third State In the Union,
leading Illinois $500.
Rev. Maxwell p. Gaddis, OF Cincinnati,
the gited methodist preacher, has been
convicted ofreceiving brides and conspir-
ing with others to defraud the government.
while collector in the second Ohio dis
trlct.
Ex-Governor Packer, of Pennsylvania,
'eft collection of Old coins valued at
nearly twenty thousand dollars, and sup
pos, d to be second to bit che other collec
ton in The United States. This immen Sc
collection he made with great sacrifice Of
time and money, and il consists of many
rare specimens from date anterior to the
Christian era down 10 the present time.
Mr.. Nunly, contractor for building the
Whiteiand Gravel Road, in johnson
county, hired all the men and teams he
could, rushed the work through, drew
his money: and then dccamped without
paying his employees cent.
The wife cfa farmer in Western New
York thought she was clipping with the
family cowdoctor, few nights ago, but
found her own husband In the cowdoctor g
clothes when they arrived at the hotel of
their destination. The matt er was fixed
up and good supper followed.
The Manttoon Journal says a Demo
cratic candidate is bewailing the fact on
every stump in that district that ''the tax
is taken off Of pelIn',ers what we don't
use, and kept on whisky-what we dol"
The amount Of cash. required for the
North German army every day is about
one million dollars. As the war has lasted
not quite four months, so far about one
hundred and fifteen millions of dollars
have been ex renbed for. pay.
Pittsburg b Las 80 iron,..s steel, and 3
copper mills, The daily consumption of
the iron mills, is I. 26o tons and their an
nual production is S23, 200, 900. There
are As foundries, employing 1000 men In
all, and adding $4,000, 900 per year to the
wealth of our country.
In New York city they have a private
post Office. on Broadway, where they
charge ten cents letter for delivery. 1t
is the headquarters of flirtations, amours,
lntrigles, plots, robberies, and all sorts of
clandestine and Illicit correspondence.
When Gen. Grant became President
the greenback dollar was worth SEVERITY
five cents, but 1t is now worth eight Eight
and half cents, making the entire vol
umne Of our currency worth nearly 800,
100000, more in the pockets of the peo-
pie.