Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-25
Current Items,


THE mortal remains of III steamboats,
lie on the bottom of the Arkansas
river.
A POEM $500 feet long was sent to
New Orleans paper with a request to
publish it.
Mr. RICE, of Marblehead, Mass, has
a watch upward of a hundred years old,
the case of which is composed of tor
toise shell.
A GENTLEMAN in the suburbs of Mont
gomery, Ala, has recently Matched 700
chickens by steam, and has 1900 eggs
in progress of incubation.
AT recent ball in Cairo, ILL.,, gold
headed cane was put up, TO be given to
the best dressed gentleman present.
The prize was carried off by a heightened
negro.
A SUIT involving more than 81 100000
is pending against the Logansport, Craw-
louisville and Southwestern Railway
Company in the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania.
CASTLE THUNDER, at Richmond, Va,
has been transformed into tobacco
factory. Hundreds of people visit it
every year, curious to behold the place
where so many persons were confined
during the war.
MATHEW STACEY, the present Treasu-
rer of the city of Jacksonville, ILL.,, has
held that position thirty-nine years.
He was the first Treasurer selected by
the city, and the first assessment roll
| amounted to $3.50.
The true harbingers of spring have
arrived at Niagara Falls. They are a
popularity of that place, and are recog-
nized by white wells, bran-new clothes,
squeaky boots, delicate mustaches, and
| plenty of money and sweetness.
AN ingenious swindler at Buffalo has
enriched himself at the expense of the
New York Central railroad by purchas-
ing large number of tickets from
Brockport to Albion, and altering them
so that they read from Lockport to
Albany.
TEXAS has copper and silver ore in
practically inexhaustible quantities, and
coal which rivals the best anthracite of
Pennsylvania. These minerals are to
be found in the region known as the
Staked Plains, in the northwestern and
other portions of the State.
THE engineers employed in taking
soundings for the proposed bridge
across the st. Lawrence, between Pres
colt and Ogdensburg, have completed
their labors. The bridge will be 5000
feet long, and the piers will have to be
sunk in eighty feet of water
TEE ice men along the Illinois river
are not i'll cheerful frame of mind
Their ice barges, which generally &C
down the river in February, still repose
on the bottom of the Illinois, and will
not go out until rise occurs Mean
time, the season is not favorable for the
preservation of ice.
A LADY in Skowhegan, Me, lately
stepped upon furnace-register for the
purpose of warming her feet, when the
treacherous thing gave way and let hel
through the floor until she was caught
by the arms. Her husband was luckily
at hand, and speedily relieved her from
her embarrassing position.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind, is frightened. 4
handsome and stylishly- dressed LADY
walked into the opera house in that cit,
on Tuesday evening. Having neve
seen such person before, the audienc,
came to the immediate conclusion tina
the woman was Josie Mansfield, anC
there was sensation. The mystery ha
not been solved yet.
AN attempt has been made to stool
Chatauqua lake, New York, with salmon
, trout. Mr.. Green, the celebrated pisc
culturist, has successfully transferre
some 10000 young fish, artificial
| Matched, to the waters of the lake, an
there seems to be good prospect tina
l the experiment will prove a complet
: success in every respect.
5 AN English gentleman has leased
1 water lot in Pilatka, Fla, for ten years
: with the design Of putting up mo.
/, and paper factory. The moss will
manipulated into such things as hal
: cloth, etc. The paper mill is intende
to manufacture paper out of the con
mon saw palmetto. Paper made of TIL
material is now used by the Bank {
e England for bank notes.
INDIANA has more ghosts than an
! other State in the Union. This is tn
q latest narrative: Several years ago
= child was sent out to hunt up some COW
' in Ohio township, Crawford county, an
+ was never afterward seen. But its gho:
! still haunts the locality, and during til
! recent snow storm its footprints wer
found in field, distinctly impressed
; the snow for distance of fifty yards.
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