Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-06
Miscellaneous.


147,064 bodies are now sleeping in
Greenwood cemetery, New York.
PRAIRIE chickens are selling three for
quarter in Missouri.
TIE Mutual Life of Chicago makes
all its policies non-forfeitable.
TIE number of saving banks in Cali
fornia has rapidly increased within
five or six years.
ESSEX County, Mass, raised $4,000
barrels of onions, valued at 100000,
last season.
DITMAs Duryea, of Flatbush, l.. l.,
worth 100000, committed suicide,
Monday, because his recently deceased
wife left her own estate, OF about ST.
600, to her relatives.
The Paper, published pittsburg
three months, has suspended, having
cost its proprietors $4,000
The house in which Senator Cameron
resides in Harrisburg is one hundred
and five years old.
The London, Ont, Free Press says
menced on the Detroit River tunnel the
comming summer.
CALIFORNIA, the San Francisco Alta
insists, is better fitted for producing
wine, silk, fruits, nuts, olive oil, and
other articles of the semi tropical class,
than wheat,
AT ball in New York, Thursday
night. the band struck up "Weber's
last waltz, I" and Jacob Morris, who had
taken his place with partner on the
floor in response, fell dead.
THE expenses of our wars with In
dams since the beginning of the Gen.
tury amount to more than S400, 000,-
600, while the amount of money spent
in attempts to educate them has only
been $S,000,0O
The game law of Illinois has been
amended so as to allow farmers to hunt
on their own lands at pleasure. This
was opposed ON the ground that it was
Especial legislation" permitting far
mers to do what professional hunters
couldn't do.
THE latest dose of sicAy sentimental
song is entitled, "Give my button
string to Josie " The author is said to
be at work on Lend my chewing gum
to Gertle.
A PRoPosTTIoN to do away with the
present steamboat system of the Mis-
sissippi is somewhat original. 1t con-
sists of the substitution of powerful
tugs for steamboats,. the passenger
boats being towed thereby.
A SHIP, recently arrived at San Eran-
cisco from Rio Janerio, brought live
guanaco. In support of popular su-
perstition, the Captain of the vessel
reports that during the voyage of 100
days the animal did not drink drop
of water.
THE manufacture of reaping and
moving machines has attained such
large proportions as to make it one of
general interest The annual produc-
ton is now estimated at about lbs, 900
machines.
FORTY years ago Simon Cameron
purchased for 800 spur of the Broad
Mountain, Pa. 1t is now worth ST.,
600, 600. Coal has been mined out of
it for 35 years, and he has realized in
the shape of royalty about 500 day.
In Springfield ILL.,, there is new
Methodist church. The rear of the
building is in circular FORM, with a
steep slate roof, and the edifice is hu-
morously called "The Church of the
Capsized Schooner! !"
A CHICAGO detective made bet a
day or two ago that Forester was not
the murderer of Nathan, and that be
could write the names of three men,
two of whom would be convicted of
the crime within one year. He wrote
three names on a slip of paper, which
was put in charge of third person to
await results.
A TooTH-cARPKsTER lately visited
Warrenton. Va, and advertised to pull
all of persons teeth for 50, and in
sert newset for $40, giving six months
credit. He got through the pulling
contract and then eloped with the ho-
tel-keeper's wife, and now half the
people in town eat spoon victuals-
The women Of Connecticut are about
to test their right to vote under the
Fourteenth Amendment. Applications
ssto be maden have already been re-
ceived by the registers from three
prominent females in Bridgeport, aged
respectively IS, Sc and 6S, and in sew
eral other towns steps are being taken
to the same end.
D@ FARMERsi Look to your inter-
ests, and buy FuRsT a. .Brsdley's Garden City
Clipper Plows and Cultivators, made at Chi