The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-03
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The motto of conscience-inquire
within.
Paris is tranquil" So is a keg of
gun powder before it goes off.
Eleven cattle thieves were recently
hanged on one tree i'll Texas.
Josh Billings Farmers Almanix
has reached a sale of II 600 copies.
The King Of Prussia smokes every
day from ten TO fifteen strong cigars.
There are only two bachelors in the
Alabama legislature, and one is en-
gagged.
About eleven hundred men, employed
in the Philadelphia navy yard, received
notice Of discharge, 10 take effect on
Monday, i'll the construction and steam
engineering departments.
Delegates from the various base ball
clubs in this country met at Tammany
hall, New York. To effect the perman-
ent organization Of the National Associ-
alton of Baso Ball Payers.
Eleven prisoners escaped from Jail, at
Camden, New Jersey, by removing
bar from the door of the corridor, where
they were permitted to be for short
time. None of them have been recap
tured.
A resolution passed at the New York
stock exchange, this morning, prevent
ing the telegraph which sends quotations
to different Offices in the city, sending
the price of Rock Island over their
wires.
A portion of delegates to the Work
ingmen's assembly at Albany, held
meeting and resolved to form labor re-
form party. Measures were taken to
organize party union in every ward
and district in the state.
The secretary of the treasury has
directed the assistant treasurer at New
York, 10 sell one million dollars of gold
each alternate week in February, and
purchase one million dollars of bonds on
each alternate week, on account Of sink
ing fund.
Work at the Mare Island navy yard,
California, suspended yesterday, by or
der from Washington. About twelve
hundred men were discharged. The
cause Of the suspension is unknown, as
there is plenty of work for two thousand
men, and no lack of funds.
The county solicitor of Hamilton
county Ohio, has given his opinion to
the county commissioners that they
have no authority to appoint county
clerk in the place OF General McGroarty,
elected last fall, but who died before
the time to enter upon his duty until
after October.
The remains Of Gen. Rousseau and
Watkins reached Louisville, this morn
inc, from New Orleans, and were con-
veyed to the court house under military
escort. They will lie in state until to-
morrow afternoon, when they will be
inferred with civic and military honors.
Efforts are now making to erect mon
umcnt over Rousseau.
The Cuban charitable aid society, Of
New York, has published an address to
the people of the United States asking
for donations, as it is their purpose,
should an inscrutible providence decree
the lapse of the Cuban people into des-
potism, to project charity for this
ruined and destitute people, such as has
not been more desired and urgently
needed since the christian era.
Jay Gould, president of the Erie
railroad, has issued circular, saying
that hereafter there will be kept in the
general Office, a careful and complete
record Of all the employees OF the COM
pany, showing the date When each en-
tered their service. position first engaged
III, date of all promotion or change, to-
gether with a record Of any meritorious
or noteworthy act performed, for the
purpose Of laying the foundation of an
intelligent system of promotion in every
department.