Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-11-09
Distinguished Visitors.


able to chronicle the sayings and doings
of distinguished men Some persons may
not at first comprehend the significance
and wisdom of the apparently small talk
of tlne great, but time and observation
will ultimately make it apparent Mr..
Metcalf, of the Rochester Sentind, honored
Plymouth with his presence on the 18th
ult, when the Editorial Convention was
lield here. We do not now understand
the meaning of all he says in the follow
ing article from his gifted pen, or pencil
but we do think he is rather severe on
our citizens. Even if it be true, as he af-
firms, that Plymouth is his place of ma
tivity, there is no good reason why the
present Inhabitants of this place should
be tainted With an event in its history
over which they had no control. Here is
what he says:
On the fourth page ofthis paper will be
found the proceedings Of the editorial
convention, which met at Plymouth on
the 18th. If our readers can find ANYTHING
of interest to them therein, they will have
done well, and will have proven them
selves capable of great aiscernment
| Every one else who attended the csnven-
ton, has had his say about the town of
Plymouth, the good people, and good
things there to be seen and enjoyed, but
| still they have not told it all
Plymouth is happy little city of less
than few thousand inhabitants, and ma
jestically straddles the Yellow river, on
| I,As hao ol-s,i z q
greatness.
Plymouth is chiefly renowned as being
! the birth place of ours elf and other great
and good men: and to Montgomery, that
old temperance war-horse of the Misha-
waka Enterprise, we pointed out the
house which in future ages will be rever-
enced as the house in which we were
born; but as that event happened some
"a years ago, on dark night, we are not
i positive as to the exact location Never
theless, as Plymouth is the place where
we lived and loved through many happy
summers and hoary winters, we are some
what partial to Plymouth. Her greatest
fault is in the changableness of her eli
mate, causing many of her brightest and
4 best young ladies to mitten a fellow when
/ he least expects it. The new court house
will be handsome, cOmmodious and CON
venlently arranged structure; there is no
county in the state where they do so omuch
( counting for little marrying as in Mar
4 shall and none where they do so little
courting for so much unmarrvine. Ply
mouth has fewer dogs than Rochester,
| fewer f1eas than Knox, and fewer real
pretty girls than both places She has a
few men who are inclined to manufacture.
and they should be encouraged They
buy their baby wagons of Palmer & Son,
and their soothing syrups of Col. DR..
Poe, brother to the Raven; the Colonel
actually insists that Mary had little
lamb, but thinks it happened in the days
: of miracles. II. G. Thayer buys the bulk
of the grain raised in that vicinity; he oc-
! casionally reads the Sentira and is, there
fore, both virtuous and happy he assist
ed Dan Mcdonald to show the editors
2 through the mysterious ramiications OF
Masonic Hall, which is certainly one OF
the finest in the state. The Parker House
furnished free grub for the editorial breth
rem, as did also the Empire, and both eX
: pect great deal ofpuffing; they deserve
. it, for though no special pains were taken
the tables were covered with just sucl
food as makes no dyspeptics; we tool
supper and dinner at the Parker, and ad
+ wise you, if you should ever get up to p
2 to go there too. Plymouth has several
] churches, and she can have several more
. without doing serious injury to her sa
| looms; her schools are good enough, anC
the teachers employed are rood looking
which is certainly very pleasant for the
older scholars None of the inhabitant:
of that place dye their hair red. as enough
e is naturally SO. Husbands and wive:
I quarrel about enough to keep the dentists
making new teeth If we had the space
to spare, We might fill il with lot more
just such pointless nonsense as the above
: but we feel inclined to say that the peo
+ pie of Plymouth are pretty much like the
/ people of this place they are good, so
!, cial folks, and some of them more so. They
didn't take any pains to do the handsome
e for the convention, and what we saw OF
: that occasion could be seen there ever,
o day r},Irsed 44i 8aa. a.
!, Concerning the convention, we reall.
7 do not know much. In the evening W
l., would have been there if we had not beel
!. somewhere else-probably at church. o.
j Saturday we were compelled to pass ava,
), the time by running around town in tn
II company of Conklin and Montgomery
r. who told us some good stories, and seN
e eral of them we expect to see in the Er
= terprise, especially that one about Sass
!, We had the pleasure of meeting Mr.. Wi
n liam of the Indianian, and Mr.. Beane, {
h the Goshen Democrat; both these gentle
5. men are making excellent papers, and al
:. hard to beat at anything in the newspap'
business.