Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-17
Editorial Clippings.


Editorial Clippings. !
Connecticut granted 4Is divorces last
year.
The chintz bog has done damage TO the
growing wheat in'places in Newton Co.
As shown by the recent censas. 'ladlana
now has population Of ,6es. 16s.
/. costs New York $4,000 900. annually
to have its streets sprinkIed.
The Northern States Of Mexico are
complaining of excessive taxation.
Base ball has killed twenty nYe persons
during the past season.
Thirty two pound pickerel are gtgged
In the Wabash ut Terre Hante.
Snow fell in various parts of New HAmp-
shire and Maine on the night Of theSeth
ut.
In runaway on Wednesday last, John
Glenn, of Benton county, was nearly Kill
led.
The indianapolis and St. Louis railway
company are building large freigh house
at Terre Haute.
A"F&lber Mathew Total Abstinence
Benevolent Society''ihas been formed In
Logansport.
A venerable couple, aged respectfully
sixteen and fourteen, were married on last
Sunday week, In Whitley county.
Colorado Territory has three hundred
miles Of railroad, but no taxpayers were
taxed q cent to build them.
There were recently confined in the
jail at Cleveland, Ohio. five murderers,
four OF them wife murderers.
Upward of twenty young women are
studying theology in the United States
with the view of becoming preachers
The Post Ofice Department sold sI6.-
sSl 900 of stamps and stamped envelopes
and W rappers during the last fiscal year.
The health of Senat'r BrowLlow of Ten
nessee, has improved so much since his
return from Washington, tbat he Is now
able to be out again.
Two boarding house thieves, Clark and
Moore. have been operating for some days
past in Lafayette. They won't operate
anymore.
There are in the State Of Ohio 3o3 LODI
ges of Odd. Fellows, with members hip
OF 80 1885, Amount of relief fur nished du
RUG the last year, $76,s14 2s.
Iowa has ninety counties. Three'cou q.
ties at the election did not poll Demo.
cratic ballot and one county gives sim
gle Democratic vote.
The World says Daniel Mcfarland
has been placed in an insane asylum by
his friends, who declare him an incurabie
subject to paroxysms Of yiolex rage.
Rhode Island is the most densely pop.
ulated State in the Union, having 200
persons to lie square mile. Massacbu-
sets comesie8t having 1877 &c the square
mile.
A FARMER Of Scipio, New York. has a
turkey that has laid one hundred eggs IN
one hundred days, never missing a day
on account Of sickness or q circus in town
oranythipg.
Another shock of an earthquake was
experienced in Buffalo on the afternoon
Of the LIST. twassharp but short. Doors
and windows were shaken bur no dun
age was done.
But seven women hsve been incarcera-
ted in the female prison Of Richmond,
Ind, since it was established. The num-
Der of males incarcerated during the same
period numbers over two hundred.
A company has been formed at New
York, with q capital of 81 ,O00, 900, to
make canal across the FLORIDA reninsu-
Ia, from Jacksonville to Key West, a dis
lance of twenty miles.
The magnetic iron mine discovered at
Wenstead, Conn.,, some short time since,
proves to be very rich. At the depth OF
eight feet from the suface IL shows well
defined vein OF six feet wide.
As an evidence OF the value of the new
invention for consuming sparks and cha
ders on railroads, we are informed that on
a recent trip OF forty I'VE miles, In Massa-
chusetts, fourteen bushels Of this stuff was
accumulated.
OF the ll,Slf Chinese In San Francisco,
900 are females. They oxn, altogether,
real estate and personal property valued
at 81 ,262, $50: The city valuation gives
less than clio for each celestial, while 1t
gives an average Of 1000 to each white
person.
In portion Of Walworth county. Wis.
the farmers have been obliged to spend
time In their buckwheat
fields, armed with shot guns. to protect
that crop from the depredatIons Of NAL
lard ducks.
An editor In New Jersey recently pub
lished long obituary notice of IA uncle
OF his who died out in Australia and left
$500, 100000 TO his only nephew. The in
innate acqnaintances Of the editor regard
this story Is the preliminary measures Of
. carefully devised scheme to get trusted
for couple of winter un6ershirts.
The United States GeoIogist has jus; re-
turned from his explorations In Wyoming
Territory. His success the present sea-
son has been greater than ever before
No part Of the Territory was found that
would not. by irrigation, yield forty bush-
els of wheat to eke acre.
In Sioux City, lows, the Democratic
minority performed the huge joke Of nom.
mating two colored men for constablcs.-
The Republicans took stock In the joke