Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-10-06

4 hE ia9e Boiu Drlck from Nevada Welghe
81 ounces
ELEVEN female clerks are employed in
the Boston post Office.
NEW JERSEY clamors for rain. She must
wait till her turn comes.
THEY sell pumpkin pies upon the street
stands in Detroit.
CALIFORNIA has recenuy imported 1000
| chestnut trees from Japan.
THE census of Niagara Falls shows
slight falling OF IN population
Two colored teachers are teaching in the
public schools of Terre Haute, Ind.
The defeated candidates in Kansas City
smile frequently.
The asylum for aged and INDECENT wo-
men. at Augusta, is now being prepared.
SIX languages derived from the Latin
are now spoken, The most important is
the French.
THE business of the Dead-letter Office is
ON the increase.
TUE Sea Island cotton introduced into
Texas takes kindly.
IN several towns of Maine apples are
offered st ten cents bashel at the or
chards.
ENGLISH journals boast that their navy
is stronger now than it has ever been.
The silk mills are very busy, and the
demand for fall goods Is unprecedented.
| The yellow fever in New Orleans appears
too late in the season To create much alarm.
LIVERPOOL has discovered that the
"deiences Of the Mersey'' are perfectly
useless.
Nor contented with regatta and tub
race. the Norfolk people are 20 have
goose race.
The American Baptisls are about to es-
tablish a school of theology at Hamburg,
| Germany.
THE population of Cleveland is 92,9S5,
an increase of 81, SIS since 1860 That Of
Boston is 253, ,92f.
A GEGMAS paper in New York is publish
ing the official lists Of the killed rn the
| recent battles.
WAKE county, N. C., wants a county
treasurer who can give =. bond Of $50 OOt.
The one elected can't do it.
THERE is so mEcn blue-stockinsisla in
North CstrolIua that some OF the plpers are
printed in blue ,nk
noRE than $50. 900 worth OF tht u. 8.
bonds stolen from the Boyiston Bank have
been purchased by the Treasury Depart
ment
CENsus9TAkER in Jefferson township,
Ohio, has discovered lady III years OF
age She vas an eve witness of Braddocks
defeat
one HUNDRED white families areabout
l.. -
for failure to pay taxes.
AMONG the new books IN London the
title of one asks: what hall Ny Son
BE r Well, be quiet, for one thing.
a LARGE number of free colored people.
who left Louisiana and settled in Mexico
about twelve years ago, have returned.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says il there IL
anything about lying that Spaniards do
not know, it is hardly worth knowing.
THE three edge tool companies at West
Waterviie, manufacture annually 10000
doz- of scythes and also 5000 doz. axes.
I've wise men are considering the qnes-
| tion, ''iIow it feels 70 be under fire. Tse
verdict viii probably be that al feels hot
THERE is q bird in the islands of the In
dian Ocean which has upon its head a
beautiful tuft of feathers shaped like
spoon. fis called the queens pigeon.
The letters d. D., placed after the name
of Bostonian, are said to indicate that he
resides in the Dorchester District.
HoN. NATHAN f. DrxoN, for ten years
representative in Congress from Rhode
Island publishes letter declining
denomination.
THE Stamford Woolen Factory Company
are erecting another factory at West Stam-
ford, Connecticut.
Coal boats are lying three abreast for a
space of seven miles along the river about
JeffersonviIle, Indiana, waiting for an OPP
portunity TO get over the falls.
TIE oasis of Ell Dakleh, in the deaert of
Egypt is % miles long and Is miles wide.
Delicious fruits grow there, and there are
several villages, besides some ruins of
towns and temples.
IT takes seven volumes of the Congress
sienal Globs to contain the debates OF last
| session-two volumes mere than were ever
required before
The Delaware and Hudson Canal, of
New York, is dried up, and 800 boats and
| j, 900 men are thrown out of employment
by the sudden close of navigation.
! THE State Board of Public Charities
have asccrtained that thes are 5000 cases
of diocy and insanity in tho State of Iii
nois.
THE population Of Paris, according to a
census taken in 1868. amounted TO 2, 150.-
9l6 souls, of whom 2,02S, ,736 were bonn in
France.
SEVERAL of the Fall River mills improved
the suspension occasioned by the strike 10y
an introduction of now aud greatly i'm
proved machinery.
Tas Mckay Iron and Locomotive Works,
at Jersey City, employ two hundred and
| fifty workmen, and complete locomotives at
the rate of one s. week. ~ N
| The smoke from the burning woods in
Canada has rendered navigation on Lake
Ontario difficult and dangerous, pariicu-
| lsrly at night.
CHALoNs is An open town--that Is, not
| fortified with a promenade planted with
1000 elm trees. IL is great seat OF the
champagne wine trade. There is one mer-
chsnt there who holds 4, ,000, 600 bottles as
his ordinary stock. His galleries. excayat-
cd ip the chalk rocks, are six miles long,
| and are traversed with trsmwavs through
1 which loaded wagons ars driven.
! SoNs startling statistics of inebriation
il. the United States have been compiled
by st. Louis physician. Taking $50 men,
it is found that l22 never drink spirits at
all; 100 drink moderately, but not TO ia
/ toxication; so are occasional drinkers, =
periodically. called ''spseeing; and > are
/ habitlIal drupksrds. There is I Confined
mebriate i'm every 50 of drinking men.
Counting ON 700 women, GOO never taste
alcoholics of any, kind; 10 taste wine os-
casioDally; IL taste ardent splrits; 80 ale or
l - 4 .l..x.r at1s
Periodically; and three are habitual inebri-
ates.
u TRE PUREsr AND SwEErEsr Cop LIVER OU
the sea shore, from fresh, selected iivars,
u bv CASWEIL, HAZARD 4 Co., New York.