Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-31
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Facts and Figures.
| The Cardiff Giant will be taken to Eu
rope.
THERE are twelve thousand varieties o.
roses.
THE average level of Iowa above the ocean
| is 500 feet.
CHICAGO has received Magnolia tree al
the way from Mobile.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, is talking water works
with Holly system.
Ii Massachusetts, it is proposed to col.
lect tax bills at the polls.
A DUBUQUE author has been writing a
drama called 1.-The Ten Squaws."
A BAPTIST CHURCH at st. Clair, Mich,
was destroyed by fire on the 7th.
BOSTON has been having a series of noon
day historical lectures by DIR. Lord.
HUNTING with tame alligator as q de-
coy is an amusement in Louisiana.
THE Iowa Senate has passed bill pro-
hibiting stock from running at large.
THERE are $50, 900, 600 unclaimed depos-
lie in the savings banks of New York State
THE State Auditor of Georgia reports a
loss of two-ffths of the negro population
iE nine years.
The trustees of Oberlin College have
elected colored graduate to the mathe-
matical chair.
A CHICAGO street conductor mas eloped
with the wife of an engineer on the Illinois
Central Railroad.
SALT LAKE is constantly rising. The
surface is seven feet higher than it was
seven years ago.
A CRAwFoRDsvIILE SoRosIsTKR took paste
pot and brush, and pasted the bills for Mrs.
Stanton's lecture.
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that Alaska
be turned into a sort of Van Dieman's land
for political roguss.
IT IS proposed that Cuban mass meetings
be held in all the large cities in this coun-
try some day in April.
A WOMAN in Chicago has just learned
that her husband obseiDed divorce from
her five months ago.
THEY have pair OF Cardiff giant rubber
shoes in Syracuse, New York, which brought
$500 at a church fair.
II is proposed in Wall street to build a
Founding Hospital for the benefit of
played-out brokers.
THE express men of New York city have
taken the initiatory steps toward the FORM
alton OF Protective Union.
A New YoRK doctor will give $1,000 for
authentic records of a case where any per-
son ever died of broken heart.
THE schooner Union, supposed to have
been lost on Lake Michigan, is said to be
safely frozen in at Bailey's harbor.
COMPRESSED air-drilling has been sue
cessfully begun at the west shaft of Hoosac
tunnel, making progress of feur feet per
day.
THE transactions of the gold room in
New York on the 9th were estimated at
over one hundred and ten millions of dol
lars.
TEXAS is suffering for rain. Flowing is
now rendered difficult in the hill lands,
from the parched condition of the surface
soil.
The transactions Of the New York Gold
Board on Friday last amounted to SS5, ,000,-
COO, the largest days work since last Sep
tember.
A HAIR from King Theodcre's head was
among the ''obJects of interest" at late
meeting of the London Microscopical So
ciety.
A MAN in Richmond, Va, advertises for
news OF his wife, who went out to take tea
with friend in August last, and never re-
turned.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany recently executed mortgage for
50. S52, 600 in gold, to Barring Brothers, of
London.
A MAN living near Clinton, Lenawee
county, Mich, recently killed Al skunks in
three days, and drew the skins to Adrian
on hand sled
LARGE cotton train passed through San
Antonio, Texas, on the 4th, for Monterey,
Mexico. Each wagon was drawn by ten
Jules.
A MAN in Somerset county, Del, who
bought his coffin two years ago, became dis
couraged on Thursday, feeling that he was
losing the interest on his investment, and
with a knife cut his throat. His wounds
are not fatal
The whaling fleet in the North Pacific,
Ochotsk and Arctic Seas secured 45, GA
barrels OF CID, 596, 795 pounds OF whalebone
and ii 1856 pounds of walrus ivory. during
the year 1869.
AT the second battle at Manassas, a
horse bestrode by General A. r. Wright
was struck ia the chest by a minnie ball.
The other day this ball was extracted from
the animals knee.
TAE Albany Knickerbocker says Olive
Logan's lecture tour has damaged the busi-
ness OF manufacturers of single bedsteads
80 per cent, and increased clergymen's
business in the same ratio.
IT is estimated that there will be manu-
e. Atxx.- n ~
Ohio and West Virginia sides of the river,
five million bushels of salt, during the cur
rent year.
A coLoRED woman at the Wayne county
mich. } Insane Asylum apparently died, q
day or two since, but the night before her
funeral awoke from what proved to be a
trance, and is now well again.
In Hancock county, Ind a school teach
er named Dunn struck q pupil named
Gaut on the head with ruler. The boy
died in short time.
A SPANISH bishop has become insane
since the opening of the Roman
Council. He was 30 violent that he has
been carried to the asylum.
In Bartlett, N. H., recently, four men,
in five days, two of which were spent in
travel, gathered six bushels of spruce gum,
which they sold for about 500.
Two Southern gentlemen, Messrs. Git
and Williams. are at present in Hong Kong
making arrangements to send 1, 900 Chinese
laborers to Savannah and New Orleans.
WHITE immigrants are pouring into Miss
issippi at an unprecedented rate. Chicka-
saw county has imported over 700 white
laborers, and Lowdnes county 800 up to
this time.
THERE was great swindle psrpetrated
in New York, in the laying of the Fisk
pavement on Fifth avenue, last year, and
the present Legislature has been called on
for relief.
ENGLISH tea-drinkers are of opinion that
tea carried to them by way of San Francis
co and New York is less liable to lose its
flavor than when shipped by way of Good
Hope or the Horn.
THE total value of imports at the port of
Boston, to March IL, is 81, SOC, 789, against
So, 739, Ala for the corresponding period
last year. The value of exports for the
same time was 50, 81, ,260, against 81, $685.