Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-23
Current Items.

THERE is silver cannon at Gibraltar
weighing 225 pounds.
THE Missouri river is rapidly wearing
away the Kansas shore at Wathena.
UNITED STATES currency of all kinds
outstanding at this date is $40l, 595, 273.
CONGRESSMAN PLATT, of Virginia, is
going to run sassafras- mill in Peters
burg.
AN Indiana matron is doing as we'll
as could be expected" at the age of Y.
It's girl.
ALEXANDER BoRG1A, Grand Comman-
der of the Knights of st. John, died in
Rome recently.
ONE Of the Tichborne bonds of the
denomination of 9l00 has found its way
to Atlanta, Georgia.
The State Historical Society of Min
nesota is collecting the biographies and
"reminiscences of early residents.
PEACE has been re-established in
Hayti, and the country is now quiet.
CAPTAIN LANGwoRTHY, Chairman of the
Wisconsin Relief Committee for the
burned district, calls for donations of
seed potatoes.
RUSSIA, Austria Italy, France, Spain,
and the United States, six of the eight
| foremost nations in the world, have a
legal-tender paper money.
LAST week, at an uptown funeral in
| New York, three OF the pail bearers,
while carrying the coffin from the house
to the hearse, were robbed of their
watches.
| MARYLAND Jews are obliged to leave
| that State in order to marry, as mar
riages are not valid there unless per-
forlued by minister of the Gospel"
RETURNS of the Massachusetts Bureau
of Labor Statistics show that the cash
value of farms in that State has de-
creased nearly 100000 within the past
ten years.
THOMAS NJ. TYING, son of the celebrated
New York divine, has lately married
| Mrs. Emma Louisa Moffett, the au-
thoress, of Columbus, GA.
Tom O'CoNNoR, an unassuming Irish
man, is said to be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. He does not know ex-
actly how many he has, but the total
will not vary much from 10000.
A Missouri farmer attempted to
| smoke out rabbit, and burned up half
| mile of fence and over hundred
apple trees. He caught the rabbit.
A Boston printer has invented, and
the Boston and Maine railroad is to
| make trial of, an entirely new signal
for insuring safety upon railroads.
DORA, the seventeen year-old daugh-
ter of j. T. Woodwork, rich farmer
| living near Hillsdale, Mich, eloped with
barber the other night, and the two
were married before the father overlook
them.
CANADIAN papers say that the emigra-
ton of French Canadians to the United
| States from the townships is assuming
| larger proportions than ever.
A COLLECTION of 275 specimens of post
age stamps was lately sold in London,
realizing 9252 lis. Cd. A fve-cent Con-
federate stamp, unused, and very
scarce, brought f5, and two-cent Mem
phis stamp the same price.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, the poet
painter, is dangerously i'll with pleuro-
pneumonia, at the Astor House, New
York.
PIsToLIcIDE and Inflammation are
the latest sorts of obituary coined by the
genial photographers.
A JOLLY and reckless young fellow
named Tomlin-now in the spring-time
of his 10th ysar-eloped from Greenup,
XIV, on the 2Sth ult, with the wife of
Shelton Keeton and $50 in money.
GAs-FITTERs who carry an open lamp
into room filed with gas to look for
the leak usually find it. One tried it in
New York, last Friday, and confirms the
general rule. Damage $1,000, mostly
to the plate-glass front.
IT may perhaps afford some consola-
ton to the American ship-building in
terest to learn that M. Adhemar pre-
diets another universal deluge for the
year 7253.-Ne,o York World.
THE Savings Banks of the United
States contain deposits of 81 ,O00, 900, 900
mainly the surplus earnings OF mechan-
les and laboring men. OF this amount
over $163,O00,OOO are deposited in the
Savings Banks of Massachusetts,, $780,
OOO, 900 IN the rest of New England, and
nearly $500, 100000 in New York.
The steamers Of the Inman line are
named after cities, the White Star line
after oceans and seas, the National line
after nations, the Williams & Guion
after American States, the Cunard
after islands and colonies, and the
French line after eminent men.