Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-22
Current Items.

"THE Pigs Ear Oil Company" is the
romantic style adopted by company
in Western Virginia. Itdepends on the
capacity of the well whether they will
make silk purse out of it or not.
On Wednesday last, in Pekin, ILL.,, a
| woman named Clara Kirk committed
| suicide by taking strychnine. She is
| supposed to have been goaded to the
act by the prosecutions of one Kennedy,
her divorced husband.
AT Louisville, on Thursday, in the
City Court, negro lawyer appeared for
a colored client, and examined witness
of the sa ne hue-an event hitherto I'M
known in the annals of kentucky
jurisprudence.
In Dade county, Ga, recently, Mr..
John D. Ashers was married to Miss
Kate Ashers. The proper thing for the
photographers to say in this connection
is Ashers to Ashers.
A BosToN man has preserved all the
Heather Chinee" that he found in the
productions.
A SURVEY of the country between
Lake Michigan and the Mississippi has
demonstrated that the highest land be-
tween the two is the spot on which the
State Normal School at Whitewater,
Wis, is located.
Mrs. C. NJ. PUTNAM, of Washington,
takes advantage of the lucrative posi-
ton of w. d. Davis, as Indian Agent,
and sues him for $4,000 for breach of
promise.
HEART-BRoKEN maiden Of Syracuse
did not apply to the law for balm for
her lacerated affections, but, watching
her opportunity, gave her tickle lover 3
good, sound thrashing.
Mr.. JOHN McPH1LLIPs, blacksmith
of Montgomery, Miss, committed sui
eide last week by placing the stock of a
loaded gun in his fire, taking the muz-
zle in his mouth, and blowing the fire
with the bellows till the gun went off.
New JERSEY has population as large
as that of New York city, but hangs
her murderers. The consequence is that
New Jersey as against one hundred and
, | i
THE Messaula (Montanal Pioneer, for
Dec. 9, was printed on half sheet of
/ wrapping paper. The edition consumed
; all that was left in town, and the editor
announced that the next issue would
be printed on gunny bags, unless it
a stopped showing.
WIN. THOMPSON, formerly an Adjutant
under General jackson, and once the
wealthiest banker in New Orleans, was
: found recently in Broadway, New
York, in small Office, sick and half
starved, and taken to the hospital by
!, the police.
D HOWARD, the Rochester negro who
o was SO summarily dealt with for brutally
|. ravishjng little girl, was recently in
/ terviewed in jail by Rochester re-
Y porter. He still protests that he is
0 innocent, and says he entered the plea
t of guilty to avoid being lynched. He
says he has no desire to regain his free
dom, inasmuch as he would again IN
!. doubtedly be seized by the mob.
AN Ohio man has had dose o.
e mother-in-law that should commend
d him to the commisaration of sym
s pathizing world. He has been married
y rs years, and has had his mother-in-l Law
o as boarder during the whole time
a Although she is now los years old, there
:, seems to be no prospect of his immediate
J. relief
I THE Page (Va.) Courier says Mrs. Isaa.
y Jenkins of that county, "on Tuesday
! last had three live girl babies, on,
- weighing only four pounds, the othei
:. two weighing six pounds each anC
: stranger still, one of them has six toe
on each foot. All three, together will
>, the mother, are doing as well as coulC
. be expected.
@ THE Hon. George Bancroft, United
It States Minister at Berlin, has forwarded
d to Harvard College the first instalmen
IL of permanent fund which he propose
l. to establish, the income of which is t.
defray the expenses of travelling fel
lowship. The incumbent thereof is t.
be selected from each graduating class
Us and is to travel in foreign countries
n under instructions from the college, TO
n the term of one year.
a A BRUTAL murder was committed a
ic Saltwater, Mimi, on Friday evening
n A quarrel occurred between Henri
s. Lachpell and Frank johnson, the latte
,e striking the former with slung shot
t. cracking his skull, from the effects @
l. which he died on Saturday. johnson
lie was arrested and brought back to Still
d water.