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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21

That is to say, we Chicago printers
pay an average of about sixty three
cents pound for type, while the To
ronto printers get theirs for forty-four.
We pay penalty of fifty per cent. for
the privilege of printing a newspaper
in a free" republic -
There are $500 newspapers and peri
odicals in the country, employing lOO,.
600 skilled and unskilled laborers, on
whom at least 100000 people depend
for their daily bread. They do bust
ness of $l00,000,000 year. In the
production of metal type there are
only 200 men employed in the entire
country; yet the interests of those
100000 are made subservient toIthe in
terests of these 200. A fifty per cent.
burden is put upon type so that the
!, 200 men may not be compelled to go
into some other business A tax is levied
on knowledge and penalty assessed on
popular intelligence; books are made
dearer, and struggling newspapers are
driven into bankruptcy, in order that
half dozen opportunities may be To-
Gated in New York instead of in Toron-
to
But this is not the worst. The dozen
type manufacturers in the United
States, not content with the advantage
which the tariff affords them, have as
ISOLATED themselves together in a close
corporation for the purpose of still fur
ther bleeding their defenseless victims,
and have adopted a scale of prices
which each member binds himself to
adhere to by the most solemn treaty
stipulations, and any variation from this
scale subjects the offender to species
of persecution as relentless and as
merciless as that of the inquisition in
the times of the thumbscrew! Their
methods Of procedure, though different
in kind, are the same in the animating
and governing spirit.
1t is amazing that the American press
will longer tolerate this imposition
The plea that the tariff is needed fol
revenue will not avail; for it produces
no revenue. tits practically prohibitory
Very little paper and still less type are
imported under it. The hateful system
only operates to enable the American
manufacturers to add the tariff to the
previous price of their wares, and
pocket the whole. Why is it that an
immense institution like the American
press, which, if not all-powerful, is not
entirely without influence when it acts
in concert, will permit itself and its
special parishioners to be robbed SC
Systematically, SO disgracefully, and SC
inexcusably? There is predatory fish
that takes its prey by first mesmerizing
him, psychologizing him or chloroform
ing him into Inconsistencies, and then
eating him up at leisure; and spiders
have been known to operate in this
fashion on beetles and cockroaches. and
lead them as captive slaves to their
dens. So must American journalism
have been somehow manipulated pre-
paratory to being f1eeced, else it would
not allow itself to be made the prey OF
contemplate monopoly for the pur.
pose of gratifying the high-tarif dis.
seminators of seductive lie. Is it not
about time for the newspapers of this
country to shake off their shackles, and
cease to kiss the rod that smites them =!
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21
The Lumber Trade of Canada.
From the Quebec Mercury.


Few persons among us have any ade-
quate idea of the enormous proportions
of the lumber trade of the Dominion.
Take, for instance, the trade of the val
leys of the St. Lawrence and the
tributary valleys. The Ottawa val
leys provided during the past season
l00,O00,000 feet of sawn deals, 2S5,000,-
600 feet of sawn boards, and the ST.
Lawrence valley provided 225,000,000
feet of sawn deals and 150,000,0OO of
sawn boards. In the Ottawa valley the
proposed get out of logs was 1900, 600,
and in the st. Lawrence 2,350,000. The
exports for the year 1870 and 1871
show a favorable condition of affairs,
and tend still further to impress one
with the magnitude of the lumber in
terest of the Dominion.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21
The Oyster Traffic of Baltimore.

a Baltimore correspondent gives some
interesting facts in regard to the oyster
traffic in that city. There are twenty
seven establishments devoted exclusive
ly to the packing business. In one,
over six hundred colored men are en-
ployed in opening oysters. Sometimes
as many as 10000 bushels are opened in
day, packed in ice, or picked, and
sent to all parts of the world. Large
quantities packed in ice 90 to San Fran
cisco, where, if the weather prove favor
able, they arrive fresh and delicious.
The oysters from Chesapeake Bay are
celebrated and highly esteemed all over
the country, and 1t is hardly possible to
supply the demand for them. The New
York oyster, so well known, was origi-
nally obtained from the Chesapeake.
There is great variation in the guam
tity and quality of the oyster crop, as
In that OF fruit, though why there should
be that variation none can tell. Last
year, the oysters were remarkably fine
and very numerous. Superior qualities
could be bought for $3.50 per barrel.
This season the crop is comparatively
small, and correspondingly poor in
quality. TIE superior kinds cannot be
bought for less than So per barrel
Some of the oyster beds are located in
very salt water, others in quite fresh.
Before sending the salt water oyster to
| market, he is taken from his briny bed
and dumped" into fresh water, to lie
for twenty-four hours. This process in
creases the bulk of the oyster, which
iattens up to remarkable plumpness /;
| and, although number are lost, an ac-
tual gain of 25 per cent. is made by the
operation. The same thing, with the
same effect, is done with the fresh water
oysters, which are given saline bath of
twenty-fou hours. So great is the repu-
tation of the Baltimore oyster that a
company in London sent, at great ex-
pense, a vessel there last fall to pur-
chase oysters for planting at the mouth
of the Thames. 1t was the first time
anything of the kind was ever tried.
The. vessel remained in port about six
weeks, and left with $1,000 bushels of
Chesapeake Bay oysters in her hold.
VI course great many will be spoiled
before the vessel reaches London, and
some of the old oystermen aver that
none will live, because there are so
many together that they can't breathe,
and, consequently, will be smothered
before land is reached-a sort of I" Black
Hole-of-Calcutta" arrangement. Should
the experiment prove successful, it will
inaugurate the establishment Of regu-
lar line of vessels exclusively in the
oyster business. The prospect of such
a drain upon the great oyster beds of
Maryland and Virginia already fills de-
pendent oystermen with forebodings of
an oyster famine, while the more hope
full laugh at the thought of it being
possible to exhaust the almost incalcu-
plable quantity, of the bivalves. s.,5
l. A BLUsHING bride in Missouri handed
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21

L
FEW OF OUR INSTITUTIONS are accom-
plishing SO much for the general well-beine
of society as the system of Life Assurance.
Numberless families have been saved by its
lnstrumentaiity from poverty and depend
enee. 1t furnishes an incentive to and the
means for a wise provision against the fu-
ture, and the changes which it may have in
store. This system is yearly growing in the
favor of the public, and all classes, whether
rich or poor, are more and more disposed to
avail themselves of the advantages which it
brings within their reach. This ia demon
strated by the rapidly increasing business Of
some of our leading fire insurance COM
panies. The annual statement of the New
York Life Insurance Company, of 346 and
346 Broadway, New York, just published,
makes an exhibit, with which It's poIicy-
holders may well be gratifed, and of which
its officers have good reason to be proud.
The assets of this Company have increased
during the last ten years from So 500, 000 to
nearly $4,000, 600. The number of apol iei es
issued by it during the last year is S.908, i'm
surfing over S24, 100000. An annual dividend
has been declared from its diYisibie surplus
of nearly Sl,5OO,OO0. Such a Statement as
this speaks loudly in favor of the prudenee
ar zeal with which the business manages
ment OF this Company has been conducted.
Ths New York Life has age and experience,
andls we'll known to be one OF the soundest
corporations in the country, and the eff
cheney OF management which las secured it
such success in the past is a sufficient war
rant Tor the expectation Of continued pros
perlty IN the future.-Nelg York Tribune
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21
A Poor Investment.

When Mr.. Oakley, of Columbia
county, New York, insured the life of
a female relative aged sixty-eight years,
he unquestionably expected that after
few payments he would realize a
handsome profit on his investment.
But, when she had persisted. in living
seven years afterward, he became dis
couraged, and assigned the policy to
one Peter Conkling. Mr.. Conkling
continued to pay the premiums as long
as he lived, and when he died, his
executors kept on, The other day she.
died, aged ninety, three. having been
insured for twenty-five years. The
executors received 81, 800 on the policy,
less than one-half of the total sum that
had been paid for premiums.l ri
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21

to report a balance of 45e,oOO,ooo francs on
hand. -&---E a ~ ~ *
A DISPATCH from Pisa, Italy, announces
the death of Joseph Mazzini, the we'll Unknown
Italian Republican.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21

THERE is in Boston young woman
who acts as engineer at manufacturing
establishment.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21

Z A BLUsHING bride in Missouri handed
her marriage certificate to the conduo-
tor instead of her ticket, and was hor-
rifed to hear the announcement that it
wasn't good.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

Newport, r. l., in I'LL, received O
grant for seven years, of funds derived
from the importation of slaves, for the
purpose OF paving some of it's principal
streets. The fund was created by duty
OF hfteen dollars on each slave imported.
A story is told of q Davenport boy
who, two years ago, was given ten cents,
which ne invested in matches and sold
at retail, and re.invested the proceeds in
trade, and to-day is worth $1,15O, all
made In Legitimate trade from that ten
cents.
AN lrlah gentleman hearing it said
that the Chapter coffee room was the
Oldest coffee house in London, inter.
posed, Il beg your pardon; tho Chapter
coffee house was the oldest coffee house
in London, but it is not 80 now, for an
older one has been set up"
The following composition has been
turned out by New York scholar aged
nine years: "a boy without father is
norphan, without mother double
norphan, but is oftenest without q grand
fnther or grand mother, and then he is
an norphanst.
a new kind of rice, with large grains
"'as large as melon seed, and not IN.
IKE that in its creamy white color'-is
oelng used in Boston, eays q ionrnal of
that city. It is imported from the Eeat
Indies.
wife OF month committed suicide
IN London last month, hy driving a
needle into her heart. All this because
her husband found fault because his
mutton was over cooked.
A French fashion writer SAYS: "Almost
every year, fashion adds another button
to the ladies' kid gloves. They will
reach to the elbow shortly, as in the days
of our grandmothers.
lady at watering-pla hotel is re.
ported to have complained because they
charged her twenty-five cents for wash
ing collar which originally cost fifteen
cents.
Women are said to be angels just two
months-a month before marriage aud
for thirty days after death.
New Orleans is in dilemma. She ia
at present entirely out of political aspi-
rants.
Nine divorced husbands are in one
ouslness house in New York, two of
whom are members of the firm.
The Madison, Ind, Jail has four mur-
derers, three of whom are under twenty
one years.
On an average, eighty new pieces of
music are published in London every
day.
The church OF st. Isaac, at Moscow. ;g
| the richest in the world.
New Hampshire family has lost
seven members by suicide.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

An Instance OF rare honesty, and show
ing how dog may desire TO pay his
board bill, recently occurred ia Fitch
ourg, Mass. a lady saw dog frequent
ly about her house picking mp odd bits
which had been thrown out, and one
day sho called him in and fed him. The
next day, he came back, and as she
opened the door he walked in and placed
an egg on the floor, when he was again
fed. The following day, lie brought an
other egg to pay for his dinner; and on
the fourth day, he brought the old hen
herself. who, it seems, had failed to fur.
nlsh the required egg.
The discovery of new "Mammoth
Oave,. IN Boone County, Kentucky, is
reported, and is causing much excite.
ment. The local papers say that the
neighborhood has been the resort of
Plc'nlcs for years; and yet. until July
d6, 1t has remained entirely unknown.
Inc cave, 80 far as explored, is said to
be more than Two miles long, and cou.
tains single chambers no less than 100
feet In length by forty feet in width and
twenty in height
We understand that Mr.. Boozer haa
been compelled to decline the apnoint-
ment as Chief Supervisor Of Elections.
on account of sickness. Judge Bond
has recommended the appointment of
United States Commissioner s. #. Poi
nier in his place.
HoMICIDE.-A difficulty occurred near
Gladden's Grove, Saturday. betwaan
George Moore and Ned GLADDEN.. both
colored, which resulted in the death of
tho latter at the hands of the former.
IVinns6oro Ne,vs.
Not satisfied with bare.faced displays
at the exposition in Louisville, they huye
actually uncovered their "cele6rated
Magnolia hams"
A Terre Haute woman's puppy swal-
lowed a diamond ring. The jewel being
valuable one the consderate little
animal was quite cut up.
Rosenzweig, who killed Alice Bowlsbv
with drugs, has become excessively
plous.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

The London Times, in connection with
the recent attempt to swim across the
English Channel, says: Tradition at
hrms that some seventy years ago. three
men convicted Of political offence, to
escape punishment, swan from Calais to
Dover. One was drowned, the other two
landed on the beach, one in an utter
state OF exhaustion, from which he died;
the third recovered and lived in the town
for several years" The distance across
the channel from Dover to Calais is
abont twenty-five miles, but the curront
would probably nearly double the dis
tance for swimmer.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

New Coal BEDs.-If the coal beds of
the earth should ever become exhausted.
1T Is possible that these sources of supply
may be replaced by new beds rising from
the bottom OF the seas. Indeed, some
thing of tho kind is now actually occur
ring. The island of Newfoundland.
which contains $1,000 square miles, and
has population of 100. 900, is Joined by
banks or shoals much larger than the
island itself. It is on these banks that
The cod fisheries are so extensively pur-
sued. The Grand Bank is GOO miles
long by 300 miles broad. Now il has
been conclusively shown that the whole
Island is rising from the sea, and in the
course OF time may be expected to ioin
the banks, which are also rising. Great
seams OF coal. which are pronounced in
eexhaustible, have been discovered in
Newfoundland, and there is no reason to
doubt that those seams also extend under
the banks. So it appears that in one
case, at least, coal beds are now coming
to the surface from tho depths of the
ocean, and it is not improbable that
similar forbes may be producing similar
results in other parts of the world.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

Death is not laughing matter, but
even those who found the body OF n
young Frenchman must have smiled
when they found in his pocket note
saying: 'My name is -; I had not
the least intention of committing suicide.
| merely went into tho sea for bath. u
How did he know he was dead when he
wrote the note?
This was master Johnny's conundrum
What is that which has two legs, Il
belly and no head?" After posing the
entire family and the neighbor who had
dropped IN, Johnny said it was ''a pair
OF pantaloons. The poor little fellow
was Immediately put to bed. with mus.
tard drafts on his feet and o wet towe]
about his head.
GLOW far is it to Cub Creek?" asked 8
traveller Of u Dutch woman at O toll. .oate
in Canada. "Only shoost little vays. >
lis it four, six, eight, or ten miles? P" i'm.
patiently asked the fretful traveller.
"Yas, l dinks it is" serenely replied the
unmoved gate-keeper.
Bismarck, says o Berlin jenkins,
smokes daily nine twsnty-cent cigars,
and drinks about four dollars worth OF
beer and wine. His tailor's bill annual
y amounts, on an average, to 5000; and
he pays his servants, in the aggregate,
about 50. 400 year.
A wealthy hut miserly old man, dining
in the city one day, with his son, ut a
restaurant, whispered in his ear, ''Tom,
you must eat for to-day and tomorrow" f"
"Oh, yes" retorted tha half starved lad.
'butt I ha'n't eaten for yesterday and the
day before, yet, fatherP'
A FAILuRE.-Dolly Warden, though
popular as name, has proved very un.
profitable to manufacturers and dealers
in dress goods, many of whom have
been driven to the verge of bankruptcy
by investing in large stocks of this class.
Blanton Duncan has started the 15.ut
Democrat, in Louisville, with the picture
OF rooster as figure head, and the le.
gend, Neither Grant nor Greeley car
scare this chicken"
a club of Boston ladies are hard nj
work endcavoring to obtain the passage
OF city ordinance providing that AL
tobacco chewers shall be muzzled when
on the street.
AN Alabama paper published the fol.
lowing notice: Married, at Flintstone, by
the Rev. Mr.. Windstone, Mr.. Nehemiah
Sandstone and Miss Welhelmina Eggle-
stone, both OF Limestone.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

ACurENEss OF THE "HEArHES CuINEE. /"
The San Francisco Bulletin states that q
manufacturer of bird cages and other
ware in that city, short time since.
thought to enlarge his revenue BY sub.
shutting Chinese cheap labor for the
white workmen he had in his employ.
The Mongols did we'll enough at one
dollar day, for short time, until they
mastered the business, when the whole
party resigned and set up for themselves.
and are now bearing" the bird cage
market at q fearful rate. The author of
this enlargement of their sphere of en-
terprise is prone to believe 1--WE are
ruined by Chinese cheap labor"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

Heavensl Let all ladies who wear de-
ceitful locks read what the British Aadi-
cG Journal tells US about false hair
There is Il NJ. Lindeman who has given
Ills mind to this subject, and who an
nounces thnt every huir in a false plat
ends with ga nodosity;" each nodosity
contains fifty 'psorosperms;" and each
psorosperm throws off minute spheres
which become eudo-nayicelifc. But
this IS by no means the end of bad
matter. The pseudo -navicellr in ball
room containing fifty ladies. all with the
spurious tendrils, amount to As, 900, 600.
which, when inhaled, make their way
into the circulation and bring on cardiac
affections! This is too bad; but then
doesn't real hair sometimes produce car
diao Affections?
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

The WIFE.-.When prospects are
ciouded by the dark shadows of ang uish.
and the world seems, in moment Of
wretched forgetfulness, like barren de-
sert, what bliss in the thought that there
is one being who will syr1pathize with
our sorrow, and cheer us with the ten
derest affection! When those we set up
as idols in the temple of friendship and
esteem, shall basely desert the post of
honor and integrity. is it not happiness
to have one who looks fondly as ever on
our fortune, and loves with purity and
and warmth unknown to the most sacred
friendship!
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

Victoria Woodruff seems to be fit
subject for lunatic asylum At q Spi-
ritualists' convention in Boston, Wednes-
day. she accused Henry Ward Beecher,
>. s. Jones and the editor of Boston
paper with adultery. Her language was
most foul and indecent.
Not wishing to muss up the premises
burglars ut Mt Vision, N. Y, removed
from store safe weighing 500
pounds, md "blowed" it in rear of n
church. Their tender thoughtfulness
was rewarded with 81, 200 in bonds and
$500 in currency.
One rainy Sunday, q number of
strangers crowded into Surrey Chapel
for shelter; whereupon, the eccentric
Rowland Hill said: "Some people are
blamed for making religion cloak, but
do not think those are much better
who make it an umbrella"
"Josh. I say, was going down the
street, the other day, and seed tree
bark" "Golly, Sam, I seed it hollow!'
II seed the samo one leave!" "Did it
take its trunk with it?" "Oh, it left that
for board''
A person who came upon n scientific
treatise in the Velocity of Light" says
he can understand now how it ia that his
gas bill runs up so rapidly.
"Ef de whito folks be rs dark as dat
out dar," said negro who was gazing at
some Japanese in California, II wonder
what is de colour oh do black folks?"
A negro thus philosophizes and
reasons with the white world: "All men
are made of clay; and, likoa meorschnum
pipe. are more valuable when highly CO.
lored."
y large dry goods firm in New York
Gid business last week amounting to
50, 100000.
A young colored gentleman has en-.
tered the Theological Seminary in New
Haven.
A political refugee, it is said, swan
from Calais to Dover seventy years ago
In Chicago lately man was tried and
convicted of murder in twenty minutes
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

The 10000 Russians who propose to
emigrate and settle in Nebraska are what
are called Memnonites, their religious
faith being something between the Bap-
tist and Quaker. They went from Prns-
sia to Russia in the time of Queen Ca
tharine, and now, under the present
Gar, they are obliged to join the militia
ry service or leave the country. Ten
years time was given them to make up
their minds what to do. whether to bear
arms or to emigrate. Some of the allot,
ted time has passed. and they have de.
termined to emigrate and try their for
tunes in the new world. where the air of
liberty can be breathed by all. They are
to leave by installments, and according to
age.