Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-08-10
Laporte Correspondence.

Laporte Correspondence.
An Argus-eyed publisher of this place
has accused a late correspondent of the
REPUBLICAN of giving your readers more
Plymouth than Laporte items. Perhaps
I have not enough items of local interest
to justify this writing, much less to salts
fy the aforesaid critic. However | shall
not attempt To please al the editors who
may happen to scrutinize your paper .rr
something to make paragraph of, but
shall be content if my poor effort finds
sufficient favor in your eyes to keep it
from the waste basket.
That item about the man who blew out
the gas in the Tecgarden House, which
has been kept standing in SO many print
ing offices, and been used every now and
then under the head 'Laporte." Qcst the
world might forget the existence of such
"a hotel and such u town., is about played
out. Lately there has been enough doing
here to furnish the papers with plenty of
widc-awake, thriving locals, having the
impress of real enterprise, and the magne-
tism of healthy business energy; so that
the Herald and the 1rgus have become
representative papers, their local pages
generally more heavily laden with current
news than most of their contemporaries
Your correspondent has incidentally
observed the workings of the strict cash
in advance system" adhered TO by both
these journals, and the result is eminent
~ satisfactory The best men in the place
do not grumble when the carrier has pass
Ell them by, but show their cheerful faces
at the top of two flights, with the re-
mark, "'spose my times up--didn't get
any paper this week. It's all right Here /;
please credit me with this, and give me Il
copy of your last, if there's one left" The
best way in the world TO be considered
good for nothing is to hold yourself cheap
and one is very apt TO read and prize
what costs something Men instructive
ly distrust a slipshod way of doing bust
ness, even if the result is in their favor.
Last week the Herald moved into new
quarters, and is now running its presses
by steam The engine, boiler and fur
mace occupy about as much space q. two
flour barrels, one upon the other. Every
thing about the office is bright, clean and
brisk, and the departments are under the
supervision of competent men. Less can
not be said of the Argus. Both irlstitu-
tons have good power presses and job
bers. BY the way, your Gordon press
will be likely to inaugurate a new era in
rapid printing in Plymouth. Friends
Van and Mac. won't let you get much the
start of them, though, and Marshall coun-
ty will gain from the commendable and
fraternal rivalry.
The late storm (of which there was
scarcely trace in Plymoth) rained "par
ticular thunder" hereabouts, forcing in the
walls of some of the partially erected
brick structures, carrying away roofs, and
fatally demolishing the windmill of the
Lake Shore Railroad Co. 1t was still
more terrific just west and southwest of
here
Yesterday visited the Laporte Water
Works building. There is an immensely
of ponderous machinery therin, which was
about as ineligible to me as-well. as
photographic characters to novice in
shorthand. In few days the fires will
be lightedi in the furnace and trial made.*
There is occasional grumbling because of
the heavy tax which this enterprise causes.
but the general feeling is one ofpride and
satisfaction. Laporte is making good
progress cityward. The building move.
ment which the fire last winter necessi-
tated will not stop, now that it is fairly
commenced. There is a sort of contagion
about it, il is endemic if not epidemic, and
succeeding years. will witness similar ac-
tivity in this direction. But Laporte is
not an elysium more than other places :;
she, too, has enough defects toadd sig
nifieance to the old lady's adage that all
places and communities are pretty much
of muchness." Three successive num-
bers on her principal street are fourth-rate
beer shops, and the usual proportion of
them are promiscuously located elsewhere
within the corporation precincts, verita-
BILE sores upon the body polite
Looking for a shady retreat whore 7
might write unmolested, espied thick
ct of trees and underbrush bordering the
city. 1t proved to be neglected and di-
lapidated cemetery, the most uncared for
and unsightly resting place for loved ones
that everI sat eyes upon.
Hoping that | have not wearied you,
am respectfully, s
*This communication was unavoidably
crowded out last week. We understand
that the trial above referred to has been
made with satisfactory results