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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
A Word to Girls.

The woman who is Indifferent to her
looks Is no tue woman. God meant
woman to be attractive, to look well, to
please, and it is one of her duties ia
carry out this intention of her Maker.
hut that dress is to do all, and to suffice,
is more than we can be brought to be-
lieve. Just because we do love to see
girls look well, as well as to live to some
purpose, we would urge upon them
such a course of reading and study as
will confer such as no modiste can sup.
ply. A well known author once wrote
a pretty essay on the power of educa-
ton to beautify that it absolutely
chiseled the features that he had seen
many clumsy nose and pair of thick
lips so modified by thoug hit awakened
and active sentiment as to be unrecog-
nizible. And he put it on that ground
that we SO often see people, homely and
unattractive in youth, bloom in mid.
die life into softened Indian summer
OF good looks and mellow tones.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
Extraordinary Fishing.

The Maysville (Ky.) Republican has
this account of fishing extraordinary
Mr.. c. J. Cheshire, during his recent
trip up the Kanawha, made some ex.
perlments with nitro-g ly cerine as an
agent for catching fish. At the Kan
awha Falls he sunk tin cartridge con.
tanning about one pound of glycerine.
and connecting it with a battery, its
explosion threw up a volume of water
some thirty feet high. With the water
was thrown up some eighty-six fish,
averaging from one and half to thir.
teen pounds each. The fish were no,
killed, being merely stunned, and were
rapidly picked up by boat at the foot
OF the rapids. The experiment was re.
poeeated twice, being equally successful.
The prime results were that three
pounds OF glycerine were used, and $50
pounds OF fish secured. If any of our
piscatorial friends can beat this fishing
we would like to hear from them.n
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
Aleutian Character and Customs.
From the Alaska Herald.

Father Innocentius Veniaminoff. for
many years faithful missionary among
the Aleutes, gives description of their
habits and characteristic traits. from
which we make the following extracts !:
=" 1t is the custom Of the Aleutians for
the successful hunter or fisher, particu-
larly In times of scarcity, TO share his
prize with all not only taking no larger
share, but often less than the Others !:
and II he has forgotten any one in the
distribution, or any one arrives too late.
he shares the remainder with him. All
those IN need of assistance hasten to
meet the returning hunters at the land.
ing, and sit down silently by the shore
Ihls is a sign that they ask for aid
only the inhrm or orphans send persons
to represent them; and the hunter
divides his prize without expecting
thanks OF restitution. He rarely re-.
celves other than the expressive zach,
OF the recipient. If any of those on
shore obtain berries or roots (which
are never divided), such persons do not
go to the landing, that they may not be
counted among the needed. This GEN
crosby evidently comes from the heart.
Durlng my ten years stay in Una
lashka, not single case of murder has
happened among the Aleutians. Not
an attempt to kill, no fight, nor even a
considerable dispute, although 1 have
often seen them drunk.
1t is remarkable thing, almost un-
paralleled, that among l.500 people 1.-THE
minimum) in 40 years equal 10 $4,000
in one Year,, there has not occurred a
single capital crime This is the case
with the Aleutians since the introduce
ton of Christianity.
" If any one is injured or offended,
he never uses force to defend himself
and rarely complains. Hi-..only revenge
is to fix on his prosecutor some apt nick
name, but he never will reproach him.
Even when the children get into dispute
among themselves Ia are occurrence)
they do not fight or Sold each other
but reproach each other with the short.
conings of their parents"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
Vain Neutrality-suspicious. Months on
Foot i'm Search of Relatives.

The readers of the Press will probably
remember an account, some three or
four months since, in which it was
stated that woman had travelled on
foot from Missouri to this CITY in search
of her relatives. She again arrived in
the city on ri'iay, almost heart broke n.
her search yet unsuccessful. About
fifteen months ago her home was in
Missouri. Her husband died suddenly.
and, being in destitute circumstances,
she determined to return TO her parents.
who lived in illinois. Disposing of her
few household articles, she started on
foot, with two children, for her far-away
destination. What hardships she en-
dured on the way can best be imagined.
One OF her children fourteen years old)
died before she reached her old home.
1t was buried by the kindness of vii.
layers. After ten months of weary
travel she reached her old home, only
to be terribly disappointed; her parents
had emigrated West, probably to Mn
nesota, and this was all the information
the neighbors could give her. With her
only child the determined woman then
started for, Minnesota, and reached St
oeeAA NOOoO OiA GO ago. Since
that time she has been vainly wander.
ing up and down the State, searching
for her parents, whose name is Ran
dolph. She happily found kind hearted
people, railroad conductors not the least
portion OF them, who assisted her in
her Journeyings. She first went out on
the line of the Northern Pacific, then
to Duluth, and from thence back to
Southern Minnesota. While in Man
kato the Revieo of that place published
her story, and eventually its editor re-
ceived letter stating that family by
the name of Randolph had lately settled
near Kasota, in LIE Seuer county. But
the unfortunate woman had gone. no
one knew whittier, and not until Fri
day, when she again visited this city,
did she learn of the letter written to
Mr.. Wise. This was the first material
she had received, and she
again started out, this time with her
heart full of hope.-N. TauL Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
A Close Fit.

In the neighboring village of B,
writes Western correspondent, lived
an old gentleman of the name of New.
berry, whose fault-fnding propensities
had won for him the cognomen of "Old
Grower" Across the way lived another
Newbury spelled with ~, who enioy.
ed getting off joke at the expense of
his grumbling neighbor. One morning
a stranger came into the store of New.
bury in search of pair of boots. Not
finding any to fit, the obliging shop
keeper Informed him that maybe cold
Growler" across the way could fit him
with a pair. Over the way he went,
and asked, $ Mr.. erowler, can yon fit
me to a pair of boots?" The cord
wainer. irate at being thus trifed with,
instantly sprang to the door, and ap.
Piled his own boot to the person of the
offender, with such force as to effect his
speedy exit from the room, at the same
time mildly inquiring, " How does that
pair t?n
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
A Scotch PRAYER.

"God bless this house and all within
twa miles ilka side this house. o bless
the cow and the meal, and the kali
yard, and the muckle toun o. Dunn bar
ton. o God bless the Scotch Crews
that are in lien in Hamilton barracks.
They are brave chiefs-they are not
the English whalps that dash their foot
against stone, and damn the soul o.
the stone-as if stone had soul to
be saved. 0 put a strong dyke between
US and the wild Irish. 0, Lord, preserve
US frae a. witches and warlocks, and a.
lang-nebbet beasties that gang through
the heather. 0, Lord put a pair o.
6ranks about the king O. Frances neck
gle me the halter in my ain hand,
that may lead him about when l like,
for thy names sake-Amen ~
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
Ever Present.

Inc sun of yesterday is set
forever set to time and me:
ct OF its warmth and of its light,
Something l feel and something see.
The flower of yesterday is not
Its faded leaves are scattered wide.
ct of its perfume do 1 breathe,
Still does its beauty stir my pride.
The friend of yesterday is dead
On yonder hill his grave doth lie.
Yet there are moments when | feel
His presence as of old, draw nigh.
A part of what has been remains:
The essences of what is gone
are ever present to my sense:
Though left. I am not yet forlorn.
In thought in feeling, and in love.
Things do not perish, though they pass;
The form is shattered to the eve.
But only broken in the glass.
Sun. friend. and flower have each become
"A part of my immortal part;
Ihey are not lost. but evermore
Shine, live. and bloom within my heart,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25

A NEVADA paper speaking of the rar-
lty OF the atmosphere at Virginia Civ.
says that ballet dancers are freouentIy
unable to go through their parts. and
encores are impossible. Persons arriv-
ing from near the level of the sea who
are at home rapid walkers, soon find
themselves brought up with a round
turn, and either spit blood or bleed at
the nose. Little brisk walking is ever
seen IN the city. People do not seem to
De SO active as they really are, for the
reason that they have been compelled
TO adopt gait which if not law is at
least leisurely. Hot weather is felt
much more severely and is much more
debllltating than at the sea level. When
the thermometer marks eighty degrees
In this elevated region the air is of much
less value than it is at the sea level
under the same heat. Pigeons that ly
very strongly in California are almost
like untiedged birds when brought here.
Lots OF pigeons brought from California
Tor pigeon shooting matches are often
almost worthless, as being sprung upon
the trap they will flutter and come to
the ground before going two rods.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
A Satanic Journal.

Florence, Italy, rejoices in the pos
session of a new paper, !" Satasaa." It's
contributors sign themselves Cain .
!" Pluto" The Postman of the Inferno,n
" The Familiar Devil" etc. This queer
journal is ably edited, from simply
literary point of view. 1t is, of course,
lconoclastic in everything and bias
phemous in everything. If it escapes
its probable fate of speedy suppression,
1t will doubtless attain very great and
gainful notoriety.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
PreGOciOuS.

Louisville rejoioes in the possession of
a precocious four-year oldster, who, be-
ing placed in closet by his father the
other day for disobedience of paternal
authority, instead of crying, put his wits
to work to get out. Calling to his father
to come in and see what he had found,
the unsuspecting paterfamilias walked
in, while the four-year-old slipped out
and quickly turned the key, leaving
him to sweat it out. Presently the
youngster called to his pa to know if
it was hot in there; nor did he let his
prisoner out until he replied in the af-
frmatiVe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
An Anti-CiyiI Rights Hen.

Out in Ohio there is a hen which has
subjected herself to the penalties of the
civil-rights bill for making " "a distinc-
ton on account of race, color, or pre-
vious condition" The other day, after
Matching a brood of eight chickens, four
black and four white, she deliberately
went to work and picked off the heads
of the darkies, while she still continues
to manifest all of a mothers care and
tenderness for the white ones.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
Inc World Would be the Better
for r.

'tOulu NC tuc beCIel
for IT.
Ii men cared less for wealth and fame
ana less for battle fields and glory.
IL writ In human hearts a name
TcDeemed better than in song or story.
II wren Hleh instead of nursing pride
would learn to hate it and abbor;+
II more relied -"
r1 On love to guide
Inc world would be the better-for-;t
Ii man dealt less in stocks and lands
ana more IN bonds and deeds fratarro1
Ii Ioye,s work had more willing bands
,cl 10 INK TINS world with the supernsI
II men stored up loves oil and vine
ana on bruised human hearts would ;.
II yours and mine" p- A''
Would once combine
Inc world would be the better for If
If more would act the play of life
And fewer spoil it in rehearsal.
Ii b1gotry would sheath its knife
I'LL good became more universal.
II custom, gray with ages grown.
Had fewer blind men to adore it.
1t talent shone
n truth alone
Ihe world would be the better for It.
Ii men were wise in little things
Affecting less in all their dealings:
Ii hearts had fewer rusted strings
10 isolate their kindred feelings:
II men, when wrong beats dc,vn the right
would strike together to restore it,
II right made might
nv In every fight
Inc world would be the better for it.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25
Singular Friendship.

A doe in public park in Louisville,
n.y., has constant and inseparable
companion in little black dog. which
manltests for it the most singular affec-
ton. When the doe moves about the
dog goes with it; when it lies down the
dog nestles closely by its side; and con-
tinually ticks, fondles, and plays with it
as If it were one of its own species.
And at all times this little black dog as
sumes the guardianship of her deer
ship, and protects her against every
approach. When the doe, now about
one year old, was carried to the park,
the dog refused to be deferred from fol-
lowing, and there he stays.
A PHYSICIAN Of Montpelier, in France,
has lately been making experiments
with fowls to see what effect wine,
brandy, and absinthe would have on
them. They took to the liquors as
naturally as could be, and soon grew
very fond of them. Two months de-
voted to absinthe killed the strongest
cock or hen; those who more wisely
used brandy died at the end of four
months and a half; but those who
loved the rubywine heightened out their
days SO as to die only at the compare
lively mellow old age of ten months.
1t was found that under the developing
power of strong drink the cocks
crests increased to three or four times
their original size, and became fiery
red, as the noses of old topers come in
time to bloom and blossom like the
rose.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25

A SEAT at the London Opera House
Drury Lane) costs six dollars in gold.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-25

SIMPLE and effective mode of kill.
ing ones creditors without fear of de-
lection has been invented in New
Hampshire. it consists of writing to
the intended letter requiring an i'm
mediate answer, and inclosing a power
1ully poisoned stamp for return postage.
Agents who will take the patent right
Tor States or counties where there are
many mothers-in-law may realize hand.
some profits.
, 1872-01-08

the unShangeahle Church, Must |, an
educated American citizen, stuItify nv
self by believing contradictions? 1
want to believe what the old Catholic
Church believed, and no more. 1
would be cursed now for asserting lust
the doctrines Iavowed in 1860. Icannot
accept this new religion. Ifone change,
one variation is made in my short life,
how many changes will be made in the
next 1000 years? Why, the Catholic
Christian of 2o72 would not consider the
Catholic Christian of 1872 as orthodox
at all. One rises into the celestial city
with doctrines which the other is totally
ignorant of. Is this lone Lord. one
faith, one baptism?" Dollipger I be-
lieve to be right. I am an American
citizen who fears not to indorse him and
the old Catholics. I am layman, the
author of six books, which have sold by
tens of thousands over the United States.
Possibly I may answer to the Methodist S
term. prominent lay Catholic. ;" If
not, then I am only simple lay Catho-
lie, who fearlessly indorses Dollinger.
, 1872-01-08

The FINANCES OF THE NATroN.-The
annual report of the Secretary of the
Treasury ought to be among the most
instructive and interesting documents of
the year. The nation is now making
experiments in finance upon the largest
scale. Its daily experience throws light
upon questions of taxation, of banking,
of currency, which have been doubtfully
discussed for generations by the ablest
thinkers. He has all the rich results of
this experience laid before him; he di-
directs and controls all these expert
ments; and once a year he ought to
make to Congress report which should
be permanent page in the history at
once of his country an Of financial sci
ence.
Mr.. Boutwell's report this year is no.
thing Of the kind. Its statements of the
revenues and expenses of the Govern
ment are clear and satisfactory; its de-
tailed summary of the work of the de-
partment is written in an intelligent,
business style; but these clerical merits
are its only claim to craftsmanship. We
shall have occasion hereafter to discuss
its narrow recommendations of revenue
reform, its utter and confessed incapaci-
ty in dealing with the subject of the
currency. and its idle, not to say child
ish call for subsidies to domestic ship
ping, in order to restore it to that equal
ity with foreign shipping which our
revenue laws have taken away. For the
present it is enough to remark that the
document is utterly inadequate, as a
whole, to the occasion, and will prove
disappointing to the eountry.-N. I.
EreniRg Post.
, 1872-01-08
NEXT.

Shall we ever get to the bottom of this
dung-heap of corruption which has been
uncovered by the exposure of the Tweed
conspiracy? Every day We make a new
discovery, and as the foul mass is
raked over we End all manner of unex-
pected things underneath it. Here is
Mr.. James o 'Brien's little bill, indorsed
by the Committee of Seventy, and here
turns up Controller Connolly, locked in
the embrace of Mr.. George Jones. Mr..
Tweed's charter is seen to be the man
ufacture of renegade Republicans, and
Mr.. Tweed himself to be editor of the
principal Republican newspaper of the
State capital. The Albany Euening
Journal has been preternatuaally solemn
and distressingly virtuous in its hom-
lies over Tweed's iniquity; it has been
inexpressibly shocked at the mere name
of Tammany Republican; has held
that The TRIBUNE ought to be ashamed
of itself; and having improved the occa-
sion of the ruin of the Ring to offer
most beautiful remarks upon the wick
edness of being vicious and the propr;ety
of being good. But it turns out that
while the charter was under discussion
in March and April, 1870, Mr.. Tweed
himself held the pen of revision in the
Office of that very paper; the leading
articles on the reorganiza ton of the
government of New York City were sub
mitted to the Boss for approval; and it
is stated by The argus (Which probably
knew great deal about the secret-ser-
vice money of Tammary) that for the
valuable assistance it rendered to the
Ring The Journal was handsomely paid.
The present editors of The Journal
have succeeded to power since that hap
py period, and We must believe that
when they assure US that, whatever
baser men may have done, they have
never invited Mr.. Tweed to dictate the
policy of the paper, and never got any
of his money. But shall the fame of a
political institution like The Ereni'lg
Journal be carried in the pockets Of the
obscure individuals who happen for the
moment to be its managers? Editors
may come and editors may go. but The
Ereaisg Journal goes on forever. If it
has no better defense to offer than this
mild disclaimer of personal responsible
ity by the gentlemen who now write for
it-a sort of confession and avoidance
which no court of public opinion could
accept-we must throw it aside with the
many other shattered idols that now
strew the political highway. What
humbug shall be discovered next?
= Tribune.
, 1872-01-08

MONTGOMERY BLAIR TALKING.-The
most fruitful source of conversation
among the few members of Congress
aud other leading politicians now in
Washington is the future policy of the
Democratic party. Montgomery Blair,
in a recent interview with local re-
porter, discussed this subject very freely.
In the course of the conversation he
said:
knew Gen. Grants politics in 1868
to be Democratic, and I was in favor OF
giving him the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency. In fact, there was
considerable talk about this step at that
time, and it was not distasteful to Grant.
1 went to New York and talked with S.
J. Tilden, Sanford E. Church, and
others, and they authorized me to offer
Grant the Democratic nomination,
which I did, but Grant fooled me; he
was only coquetting with us. Wash
burne had got hold of him, and just
afterward Rawlins came out with his
Galena speech. He would have taken
the Democratic nomination if he hadn't
got the Republican; but his good sense
told him that Republican nomination
would be more likely to result in his
election.
In answer to the suggestion that Gen.
Grants administration has been Re
publican one, Mr. Blair exclaimed:
Why! with what old Republican is
Grant on familiar terms. He shakes all
the old Anti-Slavery leaders. Look at
his treatment of Bryant, Sumner, Schurz
and Trumbull. He has not an original
or representative Republican in his
Cabinet whom replaces there by choice.
BoutweIls nomination was clear ac-
cident, and something which Grant
could not avoid.
Mr.. Blair announces his adherence
to the passive doctrine of The st. Louis
Republican, and says that the leading
Democrats are fast coming up to it.
Senators Casserly and Stockton have
already assured him that they warmly
approve his policy. Robert Ould and
Wade Hampton will support it. and
Mr.. Blair thinks that it will meet with
very little opposition. When asked
, 1872-01-08

FThe recommendation of nation
al postal telegraph, made, in somewhat
different forms. both by the President
and the Postmaster General, has ap-
parently in its favor but the one argu-
ment urged by the President; that the
Government is rich enough to build tel
egraph lines where private enterprise
will not build them. The same reason
ing will apply to every other business
in the country; Let the Government do
all the railway business and publish all
the newspapers, because it can afford to
build railways and to publish journals
where private enterprise will not do
these things, because they viii not pay.
If this reversal of all economical princi-
pies is to be accepted as truth, then let
the Government do all the Improbable
building of telegraphs. and carry on the
business where money is to be sunk in
it; but do not let it monopolize the bu-
siness in the other places. and bring the
burden of its political and inefficient
management upon all the trade of the
country.
, 1872-01-08

next question is, what shall be done
with the S75, 600, 00O of surplus revenue
now extorted from the people? This
brings the naked issue of tariff reform
plainly before Congress and the coun-
try, and it will be absolutely impossible
to avoid it, so as to keep it out of the
next national election. No party which
refuses to apply large part of this sur
plus to the repeal Of what are called
protective duties can reasonably ex-
peet to carry Illinois OF any other north
western State next year.
, 1872-01-08

y As an instance showing the rea-
dinsss with which human bones disap-
pear, Mr.. Pengelly cites the fact that
the Dutch Government in 1858 drained
off the HARLEM lake, on which there
had been many shipwrecks and naval
fights, and where thousands had found
a watery grave. The canals and trench
es dug to a considerable depth through
the rescued land must have had an ag-
gregate length of thousands of miles.
and yet not single bone was exhumed
from first to last. Some weapons and "a
few coins, and one or two wrecked yes
sells, alone rewarded the antiquries who
watched the operation with the hope Of
rich harvest. Here, as in cavern de-
posits, and river gravels generally, works
of art alone furnished evidence of the
existence of man, even though no part
of the deposit could be more than three
hundred years old, as the lake was forn-
ed by an inundation towards the end Of
the sixteenth century.