The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-13

called upon to contribute to the purchase
of a present to their employer, or boss
The motive Tor this is sometimes pure.
and sometimes not Very few of the
recipients of such presents but know
that there is not untrequently a desire
on the part of the donors to propitiate
their employers, and secure for them
selves permanent employment.
y couple of pickpockcts were arrested
in hlkhart on Saturday, of last week.
A sto len watch was found in the boot
leg Of one Of them.
The Valparaiso -Fl,deae and Northern
h'('onia"- have an photographed diff
ference, which seems to be stirring bad
blood. Better submit to arbitration,
gentlemen. The JIaeHc sounds the
note OF warning, that rich, but incom-
petent man, is working for the Republi-
can nomination for congress. in this
district. The person alluded to is sup
posed to be senator JOHN REYNOLDS.
of st. Joseph county. Bad for JOHN.
Some radicals begin to think that the
I"{ette is trying to run the party ma
chinery in this part of the state 1t
may be that GCRNEY speaks his senti-
mcnts with more plainncss than radical
editors are generally wont to do. If he
speaks honestly and candidly he will
havcthe whole radical pack at hishccls.
The Sullivan County Jn;on claims to
give more reading matter than any
weekly paper published in the state.
Our first page contains about third
more than its whole sheet
A correspondent of the LaPorte
Herald, (Republiean,) dominates Hon.
JAMES BRADLEY, of LaPortc, to the
circuit Judgship, in case Hon. A. i
OSBORN should be put upon the Repub-
| lisan state ticket us a candidate for SUI
premeJ Judge. We believe there was no OPP
position to Judge OSBORN when he was
last elected to the place he now fills.
The judicial Office is one that should be
free from party rancor.
The Peru Rcpubhean complains that
their printers ':set up" a portion Of
their delinquent list twice, and that the
;'doublet" was not discovered until it
had appeared once in the paper. Be
careful. neighbor. and don't make out
your bill from one Of your first publ
| cations.
The LaPorte papers chronicle the
narrow escape from suffocation of a
married couple, at one of the hotels. by
reason of 'blowing out the GAS when
retiring, instead fshutting it, off When
discovered they were nearly sufFocatcd.
and at first it was thought the man
would die, but he finally recovered
| The mans name is DANIEL CLApP. and
he and his wife were on their way to
visit his father, who resides in Plymouth
Don't know him. 1t would be a sad
misfortune to the LaPorte editors, if
they did not occasionally have such a
story Of horror to dish up. The gener-
al disposition of things in LaPortc to
leakincss. causes rs To think that tho
escape of gas was but a natural result
of the leaky condition Of the gas fix
lures. Or the misfortune may have
been caused by northwest wind the
two printing Offices being located in
that direction from the hotel
One day last week, boy named
WINTERS committed suicidcb by shooting
himself at the residence of his
father, at Five Corners, near the
dividing line of Miami and Fulton
counties. He had been afflicted with
white swelling, which caused him to
think that he was aburden to his friends.
Wonders will never ceasc--one man
has paid the South Bend Register for
five years in advance We would be
glad if some of our ong-w;ndcd sub
scribers would pay us for the past five
years or less. South Bend has got a
savings bank. The average attend
ancc at the city schools, during the
past month was .25.