Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-18
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OWEGO, Kansas, mas brass Dand
composed of ten ladies.
Topeka, Kansas, proposes to have
water works. t
AN instruction of the Indians in
Southern Florida is anticipated.
GENERAL SPINNER has found that
women are more honest than men.
MT. PLEASANT, Iowa, bred, fed, educa-
ted, and admitted the first female
lawyer in the United States.
A cUT-sToNE water-tank, 90 feet high,
to cost $4,000, is building at Ottumwa,
Iowa. ...
THE sale of Theodore Tilton's bio
graphy of Victoria Woodruff has been
prohibited in Germany.
IT is said that Washington negro is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Calhoun homestead in South Carolina.
DANIEL PRATT, the Great American
Traveller" has been arrested in Manches-
ter, N. H., for vagrancy.
THREE hundred incipient topers have
signed the temperance pledge at Iowa
City.
TAYLoR's Falls, Mimi, ships three or
four tons of venison to New York each
week.
JOHN CoRNELIssE, a grocer of Grand
Rapids, Mich, has absconded, leaving
debts to the amount of $4,000.
Iowa College, at Grinnell, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of SUM-
| day, the oath ult. The building was
insured for $4,000.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, is making an effort
to secure United States court and
postofice building.
The Topeka, Kansas, Record states
that 1000 tons of English iron have ar
rived in New Orleans for the use of the
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad.
A CHILD was recently born in Sparta,
ILL.,, which, when one day old, weighed
seventeen pounds.
A KANSAS CITY, (Mo.,) man named
Tupman went out sleigh-riding the
other day with pretty widow. Hewas
pursued by Mrs. Tupman in a hack,
overtaken, and horsewhipped soundly
by his irate and unappreciated better
half
WoMAN's rights were fairly exempli-
fed at South Bend, Ind, few years
ago. A woman, who never heard of
Victoria Woodruff or Lucy Stone,
killed three hogs, hung them up and
dressed them without any help what
ever from any lord of creation.
, THE Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company are shipping water from their
well in Bloomington to MINER, on the
, Jacksonville Road, for their own use,
being unable to obtain any at that
} point.
S. NJ. MOORE, a married man of Wata-
ga, H., forged his fathers name to an
order for $50. last week, and then eloped
with the wife of NJ. S. Tompkins. De
I tectives are on track of the amatory
:, fugitives.
t On Thursday, Mary McKarroll, while
crossing the Lake Shore railroad a
9 Buffalo, with a child in her arms, wa
] instantly killed by passing train. Tht
S child was thrown between the rails anc
t escaped unhurt.
I1RS. SOLI, vi 11dI ID ilOtCN
> for her munifcent and constant CHAIR
Q ties, has determined to build schoo
;. for her workpeople's children, to cos
u not less than 100000.
s LIZZIE WALBRIDGE, noted courtesal
It of Cairo, H., was found lying dead in
% howell in that city on Thursday nigh
S last. She died alone and unattended
It her body had lain untouched day AM
e half; the very clothing had bee
stolen from the bed on which the corps
lay and all the surroundings shove
the effects of the most desperate d,
q. pravity, misery and want.
1. A JACKSONVILLE Fla, pullet has a
Re tonished the natives BY producing a
p egg six inches and quarter in circun
r ference and over seven inches long Sh
lie challenges the world. The Lay of til
of Last Minstrel wasn't equal to hers.
= A MEMBER of the Tennessee Legisl
=, ture, named Swipes, had his jawbor
a. a broken by a recent smash-up on tt
- Nashville and Northwestern railroa
~ If some of our Illinois legislators woul
II travel a while on that railroad / Chica
- Times.
ne SOME young Texan hunters, feelir
Il cold built fire in the woods. Abol
Ie- the time it got well under way they hs
ol, reason to believe that the fire was sbui
OF over their powder flask, for the on
on one who was not hurt by the explosic
ce counted the others as they came dow
~ The Pressure Cure.
of The Chicago Republican says: IN