Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-02-17
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The people of New Orleans want the
Chattanooga railroad completed to Texas
-"The Vallonian" is the name of a new
paper just started at Water Valley, Miss.
"A French war steamer lost forty of hel
crew by yellow fever at Port au Prince
"A colored lawyer has taken out a Ii.
cense to practice law in Troy, N Y.
-Philadelphia has 333 Sabbath schools
with an average attendance of SO, 1872.
The Chicago Library Association made
SlOO from Anna Dickinson's lecture.
A Charleston paper heads it's fashion
able intelligence, ''Our Chignon."
The eclipse of the sun on the 31st ult.
was partial to the northern regions.
"A cotton compress in Memphis, turns
out five hundred bales per day.
/ The London omnibusses carry forty
millions of passengers last year.
-"What her face said is the title of
new novel announced in London.
There We're 1885 births, and 5,522
deaths in Boston last year.
Columbus, Ga, has thirty-six lawyers
and forty-two physicians.
The Pope's table expenses rarely ex-
ceed thirty cents day.
The almond trees in and around Marvs-
vile, Cal. are in blossom.
-Dandelions and Mayfowers are in
bloom in Nova Scotia.
In Kansas City intoxicating drink is
nalI lad Ilxo Ix-D D.1, &c
"A new railroad town in Illinois is called
young America"
-Manton Marble, of the New York
World, is 35.
Chicago lost $50, 700 by fires last
month.
Sixteen Cardinals hats are waiting for
heads.
Chicago now has the original Cardiff
An English enthusiast is soliciting
funds for an exploration of Mount Ararat,
with view of recovering relics of the Ark.
Tuesday, the LIST, was the coldest day
of the season at Grand Rapids. Mich. the
mercury standing at 10 degrees ADORE Zero
of over $500 persons confined in the
city lookup of Pittsburgh last year. nine
tesn-twentieths were in for drunkenness
"A two headed child was recently born
in Tszewell, Tenn. The phenomenon"
did not live, and is preserved in spirits.
Chicago talks of going back to the
pillory and lash as punishment for
thievery and other petty rascality.
The law prohibiting the sale of liquors
rigidly enforced in Memphis.
One hundred and thirty NJ. D. 5 grad
uated at the recent comm mencement of Rush
Medical College in Chicago.
The Sun says infanticide is decreasing
in New York, while the foundling hospital
has an increase of business.
A man in New York the other day,
while laughing, burst a blood vessel and
died in fifteen minutes.
New York has nearly one thousand
shoe clerks. whose average weekly earnings
are about fifteen dollars.
The Government recently sold s. O0O,-
600 acres of land in Texas for unpaid taxes,
realizing only Sc, 600.
AT recent Bal Mosque in Philadelphia
the Spanish throne was wheeled al Il he
stage labelled ITO Let"
"A company of merchant. have resolved
to Introduce the culture of indigo on the
Isthmus of Panama.
"A Boston editor will soon issue book
entitled "The mysteries and miseries of a
Newspaper Life"
AT Belvidere. N. j., clergyman refns-
ed to marry a couple because they had only
sparked week.
The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal says no
troops are to be sent to Iowa to collect rail-
road bond taxes.
The Chinese in San Francisco held
Jubilee on Jan. 80, the first day of the Chi
nese new year.
The pay roll of the Chicago Fire De-
partment for the month of January foots
up SIS. 405.38.
The oyster inspector of Virginia col
lected S12. 900 in taxes during the month
of December.
The indianapolis Medical College gets
its subjects" from Chicago for thirty dol
lars apiece.
The new Presbyterian paper soon to
be started in Chicago will be called "The
Interior"
Great Britain has Is, 223 miles of rail-
wav. on which has been expended 81, 49,
0O0. 000
The London Telegraph sent report
er to Portland to describe the Peabody fu-
neral.
Great competition among tobacco buv-
ers in Lynchburg. Virginia, and prices rule
high.
Two splendid camels were recently
sold in San Antonio, Texas, for $500 IN
gold.
"A Frenchman was lately found in a
paroxysm of tea,s over the supposed tomb
of Washington OF Mount Vernon, but it
turned cut to be only the ice-house.
An industrious old man in Eastern
Connecticut, whose early education was
neglected. has put out a sign announcing:
"Goin out whitewashin done in here"
A reporter was discovered in the kitch-
en- of Minister Thornton. interviewing"
the cook about Prince Arthur, during bis
visit at Washington, last week.
The flag of the Red River insurgents
consists of three .fuer de lis above three
sharrocks, in a white field, with gold
fringe around the border.
Many of the people of Waterbury, CT,
have shut off their gas aud taken to kero-
sene, on account of the high prices and
poor quality of the gas.
The Court HOUSE OF Macoupin county,
Illinois, cost 81, 000,000 The property of
the whole county is estimated at but little
more thon So, 600, 600.
All of the storms in New Hampshire
and Vermont this winter have ended in rain.
so that sheet of ice has covered the coun-
try most of the time.
| The Nile has risen t''is wear to a
greater height than o.i an, within
living memory. The damage is about 2O0,-
600, 600 of francs.
A st. Louis paper says Life Insurance
companies in that city require condition
in the policy, that the insured shall not
visit Chicago.
The champion jumpist Of Massachu-
sets, one cay last week, arranged seven
teen barrels in a row, and jumped from one
into the other, without stopping, through
the whole number.
The gasolihe lamps in Huntsville,