Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-18
Current Items.


CHICAGO, not to be behind any com
petitor, has cotton mill in operation,
which Is said to be the only one in the
State of Illinois.
HENRY N. SMITH, the owner of Gold
smith Maid, has purchased the mile
track at Trenton, N. j., for private
training ground, for $4,000.
A PROMINENT saloon on one of the
principal streets of Windsor, Ont, is
kept by Mathew d Mark the two bar
tenders are named Luke and John.
EASTERN capitalists are visiting Keo-
kuk, Iowa, with the view Of starting
a mammoth car mandatory in that
city if sufficient inducements are of
fered.
The Methodists of Cambridge, Ind,
have organized sewing society, and
one of the conditions of membership
is, that the neighbors shall not be talked
about.
THE low ground in the Green Bay
burnt district is still smouldering, and
it is apparently impossible to extinguish
the fire, SO deep-seated in the soil has it
! become.
A TILTED Arkansas lover being much
cut up by his rejection, literally cut
out his successful rival with q broad-axe
last week, and then went ard ax.d the
lady again.
An elocutionist at Carliuvi..a. Ill.
among other novelties, ADVERTISE ), re-
citation Of the Lords Prayer. The
Democrat says the feat has never before
/ To, ~,
Mr.. WATERS, an ancient fisherman
residing near Seneca River, New York.
had his twenty-second child, son, born
to him last Sunday night, Mr.. Waters
himself is 81 years of age and his better
half so.
A wRETcHED husband at st. Paul adj
vertises for the recovery of his wife. "
taul woman, with gray eyes. and small
baby just beginning to wauk,'i who have
been appropriated BY a =" taul pok ma1kt
felier with red hare"
3 FATHER and son, who have been
living in the same house at Brantford.
Ct, concluded that they had better SCI
cure 9. housekeeper, and each, unaware
of the others intention, brought home
new wife on Friday.
SIX weeks ago a Pittsfeld IN. HI
man and woman were divorced from
their respective spouses, and in three
weeks were married to each other. Last
week a child was born, and the query is.
What shall it be named?
Mrs. PHEBE ScoFIELD, of Fort. Wayne,
Ind, is 105 years of age, and can detail
many interesting "reminiscences of the
Revolutionary war. She has succeeded
in obtaining ten thousand dollars in
back pensions, as the widow of a Revo-
lutionary soldier.
PAULINE VoGEL was considered an in
durable idiot FIVE years ago. She is now
an assistant teacher IN the asylum on
Randall's Island, New York, at $500,
can write beautiful hand and ever
lastingly paw ivory. George Francis
Train need not despair. Chicago Post.
THE United States light-keeper on
Green Island, in Green Bay states that
at the time of the Peshtigo fire, the gar
rnents from the FIRMLY wash, hanging
upon the clothes-line in the yard, were
saturated with turpentine brought in
: the atmosphere over the water from the
land ten miles distant.
A LITTLE son of Mr.. L. F. Richardson,
Of Dublin, n. H., on March 90 fell upon
pair Of shears, driving the blade,
, which penetrated back of his ear,
f through the skull into the brain about
four inches. At last accounts the child
| was alive, though but little hopes were
, entertained of its recovery.
A New York farmer laughed when
his prudent wife advised him not to
smoke on load of hay. He footed it
home that night with his hair singed,
most f his garments prey to the de-
vouring elements, and the iron work OF
the wagon in a potato sack and then
his wife laughed.
A YOUNG girl named Carrie Vain
committed snicide at Eau Claire, Wis,
few days since, by ieaping into the
river. She had been forced by cruel
stepmother to abandon her fathers
house, and was employed in the family
of Mrs. Friswold, a neighbor. That
! lady sharply reproYed her for refusing
to obey orders, whereupon the girl left
the house and drowned herself in the