davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
A Determination to be Swindled.


Adams d Co. s Express carry large
number of the bogus watch and coun-
terfeit money packages which are sent
to those who are fools enough to reply
to the advertisements of concerns offer
ing large inducements for small invest
ments. The watches always come IN
neat packages, tied with red tape, and
securely sealed. They are marked col
lect on delivery, $3.50. In every case
the Express Company warns the recip-
tents that the watch in the package is
valueless, and advises the party not to
take the package. In some cases they
are successful in stopping the fraud, but
In the majority of cases the party is i'm
pressed with the belief that the watch
Is genuine, as advertised.
The other day a party of father,
mother, and daughter appeared at the
office and inquired for such package.
1t was handed to the daughter, who
had sent for it, the clerk at the same
time advising her to send it back. The
father was of the same opinion, but the
mother "voted" with the daughter.
and advised her to take the package.
She paid her 50. 50and opened the bun
die. Inside lay little brass toy watch,
with three or four inches of brass chain
and fancy key attached. The tears
rushed into the eyes of the daughter,
and that mothers Indignation knew no
bounds. Silently gathering up the
watch and box, the girl turned away.
1t is not likely she will invest in an
other. Such cases occur almost every
day.
In regard to the counterfeit money
packages nothing is done, except to de
liver them to the party addressed. As
they never contain anything except
sawdust, nothing can be done with the
party sending or receiving them. Both
are swindlers, but the man who has
sent his money to be exchanged for
counterfeit cannot complain of the man
who sends him sawdust instead without
eliminating himself, and so the hounds
escape the penalty of the law
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
MOtley's Lady Friend.

1t was mentioned a few days ago that
MIR. Motley, recently American Minis
ter at London, was about to take up
his residence in one of the royal pal
aces of the Hague, by invitation of the
Queen of Holland. The royal lady
took great interest in the historical re-
searches of Mr.. Motley preparatory to
writing his great works, "The Rise of
the Dutch Republic" and "The Uni
ted Netherlands" which were prcsecu-
ted chiefly at the Hague. The Queen
of Holland is the most accomplished
royal lady L. Europe. She is the
daughter of this old King of Wur
temberg Her mother was a sister of
the Emperor Nicholas. The Queen, a
fond and devoted daughter, is accus-
toned to spend from two to three
months with her mother every summer.
The King, her husband, who is famous
for his gayeties, meantime recreates
himself-at Wiesbaden, Hamburg, and
other places of fashionable resort The
Queen, on her return to the Hague,
gives an audience to the several foreien
ministers, and she makes it a point to
address each one of them in his own
language.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
Emigration Of Seeds.

Those who have travelled in Western
Kansas late in summer cannot have
failed to observe the hundreds and
hundreds of acres of sunfowers, wav-
ing "fields of cloth of gold," as far as
the eye can reach. As one went west
ward, they grew more and more scarce,
till at length they disappeared alto
gether. Now it is a singular fact, which
might bother Professor Huxley, that,
with the rapid advance of the rail
way during the last summer, the
sunhower went with it, pori pas
su As the soil was turned up to
light and moisture the width of the
track, the sunfower, whose seed is too
heavy to be carried by the winds, and
which man does not convey, as he may
grain or grass seed for use, sprung up
inevitably for hundreds of miles beyond
the point where heretofore it ceased to
grow. The same fact if true of grass
and of grain. The soil that, for count
less ages, had produced nothing but
the distinctive grass and limited flora
of the plains, greedily devoured the
seed of other vegetation which chance
had brought it, and the fresh-turned
earth along the railroad track suddenly
clothed itself, for the first time
since the Rocky Mountains burst up
from the bowels of the earth, with a
new verdure. Such facts, of course
could not pass unnoticed, and they led
to fresh theories and observations.
There are old settlers-and we believe
that Mr.. Elliott is among them-who
hold that the progress Of settlement
westward in western Kansas has
been marked by cognate phe-
nomena, which had hitherto at
tracted little attent on. Not only have
the cultivated grasses and other vege-
tation encroached upon the Desert ~
and changed its character, but with
this change also, it is asserted, has
come one of climate. The rainy re-
gion has kept pace with the altered
condition of the soil We doubt wheth-
er time enough and observation enough
haveyet been given to establish this
fact absolutely, but there is nothing a
Driori Incredible or unreasonable about
it. The influence of forests upon eli
mate is as well established as sny other
scientific fact
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
Particulars OF the Assassination OF
Marshal Prim.

The New York Heral Is special cor
respondent at Madrid writes the 29tl
OF December in regard to the assassin
alton of Prim:
81 was at the opera when the news
first reached us. The curtain fell Oh
the first act, when, as the audience
strolled through the lobbies, Govern.
ment messenger rushed in with haste
lnquirlng for Prim. Instantly, as il
by magic, the cry went forth all over
the house, 'Prim has been shot |
'Prlm has been assassinated How
the news was first uttered aloud, how.
with electric rapidity, it ran over the
pit, the boxes, the gallery, and the sa.
looms, 1T is impossible to say but
as the cry spread the effect was
tremendous. Deciding to go to
the fountain-head for news, l hastened
to the War Office, where the General
lives. There was crowd of carriages
at the entrance of the ornamented
grounds surrounding the palace of war.
A throng of idlers were obstructing the
sidewalks and ways, in spite of the
thick snow. As / went up the wide
staircase, the guard, which had been
instantly doubled, sorrowfully pointed
out the reddish blotches on the balus-
trade. The Generals blood, he whis-
pered The Generals Adjutant gave
me the first correct story. He witness
cd the scene, having occupied front
seat In the carriage. His own version
of the affair is as follows: Prim and
two aids, as usual, left the Cortes at the
conclusion of the debate in the evening,
at half-past o'clock, and entered
carriage and drove rapidly in the short
est way from the Cortes to the War
Office. The streets were deserted ut
the time. At the point where the Gale
del Tured debouches into the Alcalla.
the broadest street in the city, through
a narrow passage, two hired cabs were
drawn up and obstructed the way. This
is so common an event, however, that it
would scarcely attract notice: but Lieut..
Mayo, my informant, dropped the glass
In the door nearest him and looked out
Just In time to see two men, who were
carrying guns under their long Andalu-
sian cloaks, advancing from the shadow
of the cabs. He had barely time to
cry out Stop, General ThS are going
to fire.' when the muzzles of the blum
derbusses were dashed into the car
riage through the windows on either
hand, shivering the glass to atoms, and
the contents discharged point blank at
the occupants in the back seat, who
must have been undistinguishable in
the darkness. The next moment the
assassins darted back under cover of
the cabs, and so around into the Al
Gala, where they mounted two horses
that were there tied to trees, and in an
instant were safe from pursuit because
of the snow and darkness. The coach
man dashed the horses forward against
a number of cabs, upsetting one, and
drove in hot haste to the War Office,
where the wounded men alighted.
Prim simply remarked to the sentinel
/ am wounded, but not much.'"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
$4,000 Seeking an Owner.

1t is strange how difficult it some
times is to find the owners of very val
liable property. There is in the pos
session of one of the great English rail
way companies magnificent snuff box,
encrusted with diamonds, which was
found by some superatively honest
porter in one of the carriages. The
company advertised in every conceiva-
BILE manner to try and discover its own
er, but in vain, and it is now filed with
snuff, and handed round at meetings OF
"the board" It seems by the follow
ing advertisement, which has been 60
ing the round of London papers, that
an owner is wanted for still more val
liable property:
STOLEN DIAMONDS AND JEWELS.
tice is hereby given, that in the course
of the month of September, probably
the 18th, a casket was stolen at Rosen-
helm, in Bavaria, from the luggage of
travellers from Vienna TO Munich.
This casket contained several jewels,
hands of the police is estimated a.
200.
The jewels appear to be very old, ac-
cOrdlng to their cutting and setting, and
of Oriental workmanship.
Amongst others is triangular emer-
aid seal, engraved on the three sides, as
follows:
(a.) In niz beguzared.
(b.) Nasil chodoscha.
(c.) Nasil
Several gold and silver seals, on one
of which are the letters, Mani Schah.
As the owners of these Jewels have,
up to the present time, not claimed
their property, notice is hereby giver
them to apply either at the Royal
Police CourS at Munich, or at the Ba
varian Consulate General, London, A
Palmerston buildings.
WESLEY s. MEAD died in Poughkeep
sic, N. Y, Friday night. He celebrat
ed the seventieth anniversary of hi
birthday at the Morgan House two
weeks ago, on which occasion he gave
five thousand dollars to the Widow
Home in Cincinnati, making thirty
seven Thousand dollars he has givel
that institution in all He has givel
literally to the charitable institution
of Poughkecpsie. He was well know
in the West, and also in business cir
cles in New York.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
HunlOr.

TEEY have in Indiana q spring with a
pool sixty feet wide, in which no sound
ings can be found at the depth of 400
feet. The stream from it turns q grist
mill.
That is mean man they tell OF Port
land, who makes q practice of dropping
into store every morning, reading his
friends paper, pocketing it and giving
it to another friend, who pays him half
the subscription price for the privilege
of reading "his" paper.
IT will be remembered that the ex-
Empress Eugenie's retreat from France
was made in the yacht of Sir John
Montague Burgoyne His wife has
lately received from the ex-imperial
passenger handsome locket, in which
her portrait is to be enclosed.
"WHY don't you wear your ring, my
dear2" said father in ballroom to
his daughter. Because, papa, thurts
me when any one squeezes my hand. "
"What business have you to have your
have squeezed ?" Certainly none but
still, you know, papa, that one would
like to keep it in squeezable order ,
A BOY was sent by his mother to saw
some stove-wood out of railroad ties.
Going outdoors shortly after she found
the youth sitting on the saw-horse with
head down The mother asked herhope-
full son why he was cast down, and why
he didn't keep at his work. The boy
replied: 'My dear mother, find it hard,
very hard. 60 sever old ties"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

LAST Saturday afternoon, at Browns
town, Jefferson county, Kentucky, some
men and boys filed hollow anvil with
powder and placed another anvil upon
it, that the explosion might be loud.
When the explosion occurred, one piece
of the anvil struck negro in the breast,
killing him instantly. A boy in the
party was slightly injured at the same
time.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
O'DoSo7AN Rosa and other Fenian

O'DoN0YAN Rosa and other Fenians
were released from Chatham on the 9th.
They proc eede6 to Liverpool to leave
the country. The British Government,
it is said, pays their expenses to the
United States They sailed for New
York on tie 7th, in the steamer Cuba.
When the steamer reach,d Queenstown
a committee visited the prisoners and
gave them an outfit and twenty pounds
each. The men seemed to be satisfied
with their treatment by the Govern
mert. The people of Queen town gave
them a serenade before they sailed.
Their pardon is not complete So long
rs they remain within British domini-
ons, they are subject to the full penal
ti@ of the law under which they were
sentenced. Halpin still refuses to &C
ceptla conditional pardon.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

A BAND of Greek brigands, number
ing eighty, had fight on the 3lst ult
with Turkish troops near the frontier,
and were defeated with a loss of twenty
men. They were under command Of
the noted chieftain Arvanitelli
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

THs six leading news companies of
this cauntry do business, in selling
newspapers and monthly magazines, Of
over eight millions of dollars per an
mum.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
HORACE GREELEY's ESSAYS, "What

HORACE GREELEY's ESSAYS, "What /
Know of Farming" which have been
published in The Tribune cry week
during 1870, are to be printed in book
form, and copy will be sent, postpaid,
to each subscriber who sends SO for
The Daily, 81 for The Semi Weekly, OF
50 for The Weekly Tribune, and re-
quests the book at the time of sub
scribing. This wi | enable old sub
scribers to secure the Essays for preser-
vation, on renewing their subscriptions,
and new subscribers will, of course, be
glad to obtain them, free of cost.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
lFrom the Atlantic for January.I
DOROTHY q.
rAanx rozTHArr, BIZ oIIvEn wrspr1r nc

FAMILY PORTRAIT, sx OLIVER wEsDkII HOLMES.
Grandmother's mother; her age, guess,
Thirteen summers, or something less. fr
9irilsh bust, but womanly air,
smooth, square forehead with uprolled hair
Lips that lover has never kissed,
Taper fingers and slender wrist
Hanging sleeves of stiff brocade-
30 they Painted the little maid
On her hand parrot green
Sits unmoying and broods serene
Hold up the canvas full in view
Look! there's a rent, the light shines througb
Dark with a centuryis fringe of dust-
That was Red-Coat's rapier thrust
Such is the tale the lady old
Dorothys daughters daughter told.
who the painter was none may tell
One whose best was not over well:
Hard and dry, it must be confessed.
Iist IA. a. as rose that has long been pressed;
Yet IN her cheek the hues are bright 81.
Dalnty coiors OF red and white;
And In her slender shape are seen
HINT and promise OF stately mien.
Look not on her with eyes of scorn.-
Dorothy O. was a lady borni
Aye. siice the galloping Normans came,
Ensianas annals have known her name;
And still 70 the three-hiIled rebel town
Pear Is that ancient names renown,
For many civic wreath they won
Inc youthful sire and the gray-haired son.
o Damsel Dorothy. Dorothy OF
Strange b the gift that owe to you;
such gift as never king
save 10 daughter or son may bring
All ray tenure of heart and hand
All my title to house and land:
Mother and sister and child and wife
And JOY and sorrow and death and life,
What If hundred years ago
Inose close-shut bps had answered No
When forth the tremulous question came.
mat cost the maiden her Norman name,
And under the folds that look so stil
The bodice sweled with the bosoms thrill?
Should be i, CT would it be
One-tenth another, to nine-tenths me?
Soft Is the breath of a maiden's YEs;
Not the Light gossamer stirs with less;
But never cable that holds so fast
Through all the battles of wave and blast
And never an echo of speech or song
That lives In the babbhng air so longi
There we're tones IN the voice that whispered then
You may hear to-day In . hundred men
o lady and lover, how faint and far
Your images hover,-and here are,
Solid and stirring In flesh and bone,-
Edwards and Dorothy s-al their own,-
goodly record for time 70 show
OF SYLLABLE spoken so long ago.
Shall bless you, Dorothy, or forgive
For the little whisper that made me lives
1t shall be blessing, nv little maid
VIII heal the stab of the Red-Coats blade
And freshen the gold Of the tarnished Frame
And gild with rhyme your household name;
So You shall smile on us brave and bright
As first YOU greeted the mornings light,
And live untr 1ubled by woes and fears
Through second youth of hundred years.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

A LARGE number of invalids from the
east are spending the winter in Cali
fornia, attracted by the delightful eli
mate of it's more southern counties.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19
DR. ALBERT BARNES, the eminent re

Dr.. ALBERT BARNES, the eminent re-
lgious commentator, who died in Phil
adelphia last week, was a man of great
liberality. The Harpers have sold
more than a million copies of his works.
Whenever any minister or other person
solicited one of his books he would
send note to the Harpers to forward
the book to the party soliciting and
charge the bill to his account. Vol
umes have been constantly sent off in
response to such requests. He died on
the night of the 23d. AS showing the
suddenness of his death, the Harpers
received business letter from him
postmarkod December "a. 1t must
have been written the evening previous
and shipped in street letter-box.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

SENsELEss SUPERsTITIoN.-In Eng
land recently, the corpse Of drowned
man having been brought to land, a
woman brought to the spot her son,
afflicted with wens upon the neck. She
obtained of the Coroner permission
that the boy should draw his hand
seven times across the neck of the de-
ceased. This, if foolish, was at least
harmless. Another recent instance of
folly with disastrous results is record
ed. A man having died of typhoid
fever, a boy afflicted with wens was
brought to the side of the body, and
the dead hand was placed upon his
neck He took the disease in
consequence, and the malady was
communicated to the family and spread
through the whole neighborhood. The
disease was of violent type, and many
deaths followed. Such things, in the
nineteenth century, seem incredible,
but this occurrence is vouched for and
no doubt took place. Perhaps, after
all, it is not much more senseless than
many customs which still obtain, even
in our own midst. Not being attended
with disastrous consequences, we do
not hear of, or note them. But the
folly is no less absurd. The supersti-
tion which perpetuates the idolatry Of
the pagan ages defes education and
Christianity.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

The oyster trade of Boston, it is saidl
amounts to more than 600, 900 bushels
annually.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

The force now under Chauzey's CON-
mand is reported to be 200, 600 strong,
and ready for action
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

Where sailors gang to fish for cod"
Amid the dense fogs of that latitude
those so strangely sundered shall be
united, and the curtain of peace shall
envelope them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-01-19

AT THE NORTH HOLE.-Sapt. HILL,
the Arctic explorer, in his recent lee
ture in New York, was reported thus:
When he shall stand on the North
Pole there is one thing which will
trouble him, and that, how shall he
keep his chronometers regulated; how
shall he tell whether they are gaining
or losing. Every direction then will
be south. There will be no north, no
east, no west. The North Star will be
directly over head, or nearly SO, and on
the first day of March the sun will just
appear above the horizon and go
round and round, day by day, never
rising or setting, but gradually attain
ing greater altitude, until finally il
viii get to height of 23l degrees, and
then gradually get lower and lower, un-
til on the 23d of September it will dis
appear, to be seen no more for six
months. What object can he site to
regulate his chronometersl He has
asked the question of the best talent in
the country, and no man can answer
him. In the winter of 1872 he will be
where no sun can shine, but In a fine
place tor people fond of eating, for it
viii always be dinner-time-alway IL
o'clock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-27
HAPS AND NIsUAPg.

last evening.
The Brooklyn Water Commissioners require
s2l'Vo Tor the manhnnnce Of Tie Department daring 1871
Patrolman Conlon Of the Sixteenth Precinct shot
last evening 10 t Hlp place. mad dog
intense alarm * the residents OF that vicinity
The Iarbor Police found four pieces Of figured da-
mask under Pier No u. y. r. yeseIy portion of thu Drop
erty the So1irson steamboat pier 6e gh Of Ma ~
Thomas Quinn Of Orchard st. fell from a Second
ave car ye,ery Trtrseco1l l and wheel passed
cuzg compound fracture Removed - Bellevue Hospital
Diederch Kuse a German, age 90 died yesterday
In Bellevue Osis nuie. received THURSDAY by the bursting
VI boiler tLesug rehuer Blngs oekersha sen Co.
Patrick Fox a coachman, had his horses frightened
by some rowes Batc THURSDAY night and when be attempted
10 drive them awav be assaulted with Clubs md stones a14 severely
beaten Dempsey Nusen aud PttnA CaAeny were ar
rested and head to
Patrick Dorsey. age 60, of SecOnd-ave. and One
hundrsaJ hreenth while carrying wood into me oeAr 9 nu
In One-huIdle land gef m t, near FouhVe i hssllAs
steps striking on h hesd received conclusion OF the Dram
from which be died in short
Thomas McAlpine, alias Soap" q well known
ruan living No Is ashrgon arrested last evening "le
passing th Of Cedar and Nasngoss lie sug 20 1
been Tim Cons second IN the fgnt He viii be taken o'y
before Justice Bowling at the T0mba
The two-story frame dwelling nj Evergreen-aVe.
Mason Brooklyn owuei by G. r. AHacr aud occupl oy
families named Smith AMI wilson set On ire N tne e H ~
unknown nceni early YESTERDAY Damage about -lO on us
and little children ~ Mr.. smith hat narrow esPe
their bel having badly burned before the FIRE was discovered
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-27
OBII UARY.
GEN. BURGER.

Gen. Louis Burger died suddenly on Thurs
day afternoon his residence, No. 1O3 Pineappest,
Brooklyn, of disease Of the heart Gen. Thomas I.
Dakin of the Fifth Brigade was with him at the
time and the two were discussing military matters
when Gen. Burger who sitting III chair made
sudden movement casped his hand to his head and fell
over Hfeless. He born at Kaiserslautern IN the
Palanate in 1923. aud emgrated to NewNOrk In 1871
where ne establis he'd himself architect In 1884 he
organized the engineer corps Of TIE 6th Regiment ana
was elected CAPTAIN. He commanded the 5th Regiment
in a short campaign from Aprl 10 july y 1861, and on
the invasion Pennsylvania in 1865 again accompanied
his regiment 10 the field He appointed General OF
the Second Brigade. First Division " o. :. y. y. Dec
49, 1865 twice elected President Of the ledeI
Eraus Society He leaves wife and four small children
His funeral will take place, with military honors, TO-
morrow afternoon.