Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-13

Personal
/ The salary of Rev. Adirondack Muir.
ray has been increased by his Boston
congregation to $1,000 year
The equestrian statue of. Gen. Scott.
ordered by Congress. is completed al
Newburg, N. Y. 1t cost $50, 600
Mr.. DYKE recovered of the Erie
railway $35, 600 for injuries received al
the Carr's Rock disaster-the largest
verdict ever rendered against rail
road.
JAMES FISK, jr., has his life insured
for $500, 600. He will be worth some
thing to somebody when he is dead,
whatever may be thought of him while
living. sE
A BosToN shoe dealer has been de
lighted by the receipt of an order fol
shoes for the family of Mormon Bish-
op at Salt Lake-twenty wives and
about fifty children.
BAYARD TAYLOR has, within a few
days, sent to market fresh cucumbers,
grown this season at his
country place, at Kennett Square,
Penn, without artificial heat.
INTERESTING to ladies: Silks are said
to be worth their weight in silver the
world over. The purchaser of heavy
silk for hight price is paying for dye
stuffs, and the dye soon destroys the
silk. 10
SENATOR SUMNER has one of the finest
private collections of engravings in the
country, and has spent very large sum
in their acquisition. Much of his
surplus income is devoted to their pur-
chase.
SINCE the Pope's loss of temporal
power he is reported to have been offer
ed presents aud contributions from all
sources ofthe value of several millions
of dollars, nearly all of which he has
declined.
JOHN b. GoUGH has been compelled
by ill health to give up all lecture en-
gagements, at least for the present.
He is said to have delivered more lee
lures and speeches since November
than any man in America.
WM. X. DAVIS, believed to be an
American, fell or leaped from the top
of the Pyramids lately, and broke his
neck. His conduct had been so strange
for some days that the probability is
he intended to commit suicide.
SPIELHAGEN is said to have made him.
self pecuniarily independent by his
works of fiction, and to have outlined a
series of novels illustrating the devlop-
ment of mind and character by poverty
and adverse circumstances.
Mrs. Victoria c.. Woodruff. who is
running against George Francis Train
for the Presidency, propounds the fol
lowing conundrum: How can per-
son, being woman, obtain the qualifi-
cations of being man." We are re-
luctantly compelled to give it up.
j. s. ANDERSON, a student of the Ken
tucky Agricultural College, at Lexing-
ton, died, and the faculty and stud
ents, accompanying his body to the
train to send it home, fired three vol
leys as the tram moved off, and the
band struck up "Home, Sweet Home
ONLY a rough board with his name
inscribed marks the graves OF Gen. Al
bert Sidney Johnson, in the cemetery
near Austin, Tex. Further honors to
the dead were forbidden by the radical
authorities at the time Of his burial,
and the matter has been neglected
since.
BISMARCK enjoys the reputation of
saying more witty things, with less
effort, than any man in Germany. A
correspondent, writing of him, says
he is as ready as an American, bright
as Frenchman, and stinging as Span
lard, in his conceits and epigrams.
A New YORK banker was so captivat-
ed by Alice Dunning of the Lingard
troupe, that he handed a $3.50 bouquet
over the footlights to the actress the
other evening; which being observed
by the audience, they called aloud
Keno" the name of the bank over
which the smitten banker presides.
STEPHEN M. WELLS, who recently
died very poor, near st Paul, Linn,
once owned 40 acres on which the
business part of the city now stands,
but sold it because he wanted money
and had not sufficient knowledge of
business to mortgage his real estate.
tAoA iO hcPc Hio property ne WOulu
have been the vealthiest man in the
State.
GUIsEPPI PARrINI, a young sculptor
OF Parma, carved with several years of
labor a statue of Venus, and sent it
to Florence, expecting it would make
him fame and fortune. The work was
severly criticised, and when he learned
the fact he stabbed himself a., tba
heart. The next day, as the story runs
his statue was praised by more compe-
tent critics, and sold for handsome
sum.
The Chinese government has paid
200, 900 indemnity for the French
property destroyed at Tien-tsin, and
has appointed a Frenchman to the post
of Imperial Interpreter, at salary of
S15, 900. These concessions are regard,
ed.as full settlement of the claims grow
ing out of the murderous outrage.