Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-10
FROM ARGOS.
ARGOS. Ina, March 8, 10.

E,A z :--B Isinsss in Argos appca r.
to be- reviving, especially the Grocery and
Provision trade. There has been re.
mMkable tumble in prices n the last 1--WE
or three days, which is dependant on the
decline in the price of gold. or the opening
of a new grocery store by couple of gen
tlemen from Plymouth. we cannot say.
Eleven pounds of very good 'sngsf for one
dollar, and the best grade OF Rio Coffee
for 25cts per ID. at Dale SCos. So much
for decline in gold, or the advent OF OF en-
terprising Jews.
We are credilably informed that our &c.
commodating r. X. agent is about TO re-
sign, for what reason we know not. He
will probably Engage in more lucrative
business. but We. in common with all who
arc interested, regret that Re cannot re.
main. We are not Informed " Ito VIII be
his successor. but presume one who Under
stands telegraphy will be selected 10y the
company. The wires connect with the
Office, and an instrument was left here as
soon as the line was compile ted, SO oil we
nee Is an operator.
\ fatal accident oc cured about one mile
south of up ossum Trot" one day lest
week? a man by the name of English
workman al the mill OF NJ Her & Co.
perched himself upon the top Of ,he boil
er 10 warm, when his coat was caught by
| drive wheel Of the force puwp, drawing
him under and cutting him almost il
twain. About twenty-.our hours after the
accident one of physicians was sent for,
when be arrived he pronounced the inju
ries mortal, and that nothing could be done
but TO alleviate the poor mans suferings
he died twentyfour hours after. Wher
will men leara TO be more careful abou
machinery In nine out of ten cssses o
injuries TO persons working about steam
engines may he traced to carelessness.
One of our inn ortant! citizens, char
acterized by his (dont want to say it ,hi
time) accuses the RepU ticdn and Indi
onion Of running the Wheeler and vi
nall matter into politics" He was reques
ted to produce The issas and the articl,
containing the running" affair, but he o
course Jailed so 10 do. But the joke i
yet to come. Not more than ten minute
before he was contending that Vinall wa
Republican-he ksacsU it-his infor
nation ,cas reliable. The point is essil.
seen.
| Argos is having a course of Phrsnolog
| ical lectures, yariously Interspersed, b.
one Everett. Last night he delivered
; discourse in the NJ. Z. Church on the LOG
ical and phiiosophica al evidences or th
$ immortality of men. His arguments wer
: not original, and we cannot say mucl
|, for his eIoquence. In the course OF th
e lecture he spoke oil Eastern and Wester
f medical schools, and observed that Yves
0 tern colleges had not yet built up \ repu
o tation, THAT they were more or less gov
b erned by quackery, because they did nc
g recognize Phrenology as science. East
Tern schools were the only truly scientific
, ones.--they recognized Phrenology. w
= were perfectly astonished az the man
Ignorance and concluded that his prope
{: sphere was amoug the Free Lovers of th
4 East. We never heard ola single first
e class Medical College liz the East ths
o teaches or recognizes Phrenology,--thc,
0 hare nothing to DO Nth IL one way o
4 another. Then we wonder If the gentle
e men ever heard of such Western Needles
|, men as Drake, Mussey. Brainard, Biacs
s man. Comegys, Allan and a host Of other
T; who have given name fame TO Wester
a colleges ? Some of them have bee
y i..gathered to their fathers" but their fam
|, can never be furnished or def1led by sue
O men as Everett. The opinion OF IN
majority of the Argosonians is tn at th
e said Everett is Physiological and Phi
Il osophical humbug. We would inforI
It the fellow that small towns are not entire
n ly inhabited by phools. No more at pre-
n ana. N. Dow
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