Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-03-16

LOUISIANA has debt Of t28, 00oI 900.
ATHENS, in Greece. has ao2 churches.

IHE nndlng OF gOlQ at luckanOe, n.
j., has excited considerable interest.
HARVARD has not yet accepted Yale's
challenge for the annual University
race.
"OBsERvATIoNIsT in New York is
defined by an expert to mean, looking
round during the day to observe what
ecould steal in the night.
NORTH CAROLINA is the fourteenth
State in the Union in point of popula-
ton. She is one of the sixteen that
have over one million inhabitants.
AN anti-kissing society has been
formed by the Galena OIL } girls. "No
kissing before marriage" is their motto.
FRENCH PORTS are filed with provis-
ions bound for Paris, but which cannot
be forwarded for want of transporta-
ton.
Two printers left Selma few days
since in skiff, for Mobile. Stores on
board-two bottles of benzine and
blanket.
An aeronaut has discovered that n
woman's voice is audible at a height of
two miles, while mans voice has never
been heard higher than mile.
The banks on the shores of Lake
Ontario are more lofty at present than
for some years-indicating heavy seas
and greater period of cold weather.
AT lecture given in Frankfort Indi
ana, not long since, the tickets read:
BLESSED are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God. Admit one.
THE famous Pantheon of Paris has
escaped serious injury, although the
dome and outer walls bear marks of the
bombardment.
THE Asphalte Pavements in Paris du-
ring the siege were, it is stated, exclu-
sively used for fuel in the Chocolate
factories and rice mills.
IT is said that white, smooth, and
unchapped hands can be obtained by
washing them in equal parts of corn
starch and carbonate of magnesia.
A LARGE number of lovers quarrels
have been reported in Terre Haute, be
invest months salary in two Nilsson
concert tickets.
Missouri laments the fact that its
State prison, with 700 able bodied con-
victs, has in the last three years cost
1921, 900, more than it has earned.
THE agent of the Mobile and Girard
road reports that a large number of
immigrants are about to settle on the
lands granted to the company
The Inman steamship line will put
new frst-class steamer on their line
this spring, and have contracted for
another to be built in time for the
spring of 1872.
Or the French prisoners In Belgium,
more than 700 who were without any
instruction, have been taught to read,
write and cipher since their residence
In that country.
That the war must have told terribly
on the resources of the Germans is evi-
dent from the fact that they accept for
garrison duty volunteers of sixty years
of age and upward.
In Baltimore the Friends have.built
meeting-hous with front of pressed
brick and brown stone trimmings. The
interior is fitted up with walnut pews,
cushions and carpets.
HARRoDsBURG, Kentucky, reports a
marvellous meteor, followed by waves
of straw -colored and blue light, and
"long, torn, faded, but beautiful gar
ment of light"
The Maryland Court of Appeals has
decided that man who marries minor
becomes responsible for any debts
which might have been enforced against
her notwithstanding her minority.
THE new missionary packet Morning
Star will sail from Boston for Honolulu
this week-a messenger from the Sab
bath schools of America to the isles of
the sea.
In Clarion county, Pa, recently, a
man, who recklessly discharged pis
tol into a crowd and killed an unoffend-
ing person, was convicted of involun-
tary manslaughter only, and sentenced
to but eight months imprisonment.
DIcKENs's executors, Mr.. John Fros-
ter and Mr.. Dickns's sister-in-law, Miss
Hogarth, having disposed of the au-
thor's entire series of copyrights to
Messrs. Chapman and Hall at very
high price
IT is said that the Republican mem
bers of the West Virginia General As
sembly have adopted a platform, one
plank of which is "a fair and equitable
adjustment of the matter of the old
Virginia debt"
THE Kansas Senate has passed bill
making liquor dealers liable to be sued
for damages by the persons to whom
they sell liquor. The owner of the
building where the liquor is sold is al
so liable for damages.
SOME consider the frightful small-pox
epidemic now prevailing in London, to
he the result of the anti vaccination war
Of few years ago, as 80 per cent. of the
cases prove fatal where vaccination is
neglected.
A GEORGIA colored debating society
was lately discussing, (which is the
best for the laboring man, to work for
wages or part of the crops 2" An old
uncle" spoke the.sense of the meeting
when he thought, bofe was de pest,
if dey could only be brung togedder
somehow.
ONE of tho Prussian shells entered
through the roof of the bath house in
Paris, and fell into bath in which
there was bather at the time OF
course it did not explode, but the gen
tleman in the bath Immediately vaca-
ted it in favor of the new conner, and
got away with few slight bruises.
LONDON has 316 newspapers, of which
q are daily, ZIG are weekiles, 100 OF
which are issued on Saturday and only
one on Sunday. 1t has also 4S3 periodi-
cal publications, such as magazines,
reviews, etc, of which 299 are reli-
gious, representing every shade of opin-
ion. 1t has 90 juvenile publications,
nao rlxv oil Of than, i1lrafrafad