Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-11

10 marry BaVarlan nobleman, name
not given. - -- j
HE oyster interests at Key West,
Fla.,. are assuming quite important pro
portions.
IHE London omnibuses pay an annual
tax OF over 100000 to the Government.
and employ 5000 persons.
THE Mayor, Marshall, Treasurer. As
SCISSOR, and eight Aldermen of Lansing.
Iowa, are all named John.
ABOUT S250,0O0 worth of cigar-stumps
are annually picked up in TIE cutters of
Paris and remanufactured.
A JURY in Indianapolis has decided
that man had right to run skunk
skin tannery within the city limits.
A DoUBLE-BoDIED, doubled headed, and
double-talled lamb is an Indiana con
tribut;on to the list of uniformed
beasts.
FORGED Bank of England notes are in
circulation. They appear to have been
printed on the bank paper stolen some
years ago.
A MARRIED man by the name Of Dake,
OF Chester, Wis, and Mrs. J. Thomp-
son, formerly of that place, eloped on
Sunday last.
AMONG the medical profession in Eng
land there have been thirty-one physi-
clans and thirteen surgeons created
baronets since 1915.
THOMAS MAST, the wellknown carica-
turist, has purchased fine house at
Morristown, n. j., and will make that
place his permanent residence.
In constructing railroad in Putnam
county, N. Y, swamp has to be
crossed, and piles have been driven
ninetythree feet before finding bottom.
The wife of Mr.. Henry Webster, of
Grant county, KY, gave birth to a
child, about two months since, that has
three legs and three feet. The child is
still living.
CHARLES JOHNSON, a young man of 20,
convicted of an attempt at rape, has re-
Gently received twenty-five lashes in the
Jail at Toronto, besides undergoing I'M
prisonment.
The largest rope in the world has
been completed in Birmingham. 1t is
about six miles long, FIVE and quarter
inches in circumference, and weighs
over sixty tons.
SOME of the finest sleighs in use at st.
Petersburg are of American manufac-
ture. Hartford manufacturers built
and sold over one hundred Russian
sleighs last fall.
MATTE MORGAN, of Burlington, Vt,
dieted on slate pencils, arsenic, and
vinegar to acquire distinguished pal
Tor of complexion. When last seen she
had succeeded-permanently.
On Monday night, Francis J. Parker,
of Lewiston, Me-, passenger from New
York for Boston by the steamer Ston-
ington, fell overheard while suffering
from seasickness and was drowned.
A WAYNE COUNTY, Mich, farmer pur-
chased pair of handouts and leg
shackles in Detroit, on Friday, remark
ing that he guessed that boy would
change his mind about running away
now.
ELKHART, Lagrange, and Menden,
Ind, each has an editor named Sweet.
The Elkhart man was recently inter
viewed by lady with rawhide, and
the Menden Sweet was knocked down
by doctor.
AN eccentric Partisan capitalist, re-
Gently deceased by throwing himself
out of a fourth story window, has left
his entire property to the first person
who shall attempt selfdestruction I'M
successfully.
CAPT. STRONG, of Kalamazoo, Mich,
whose wife died last week from the eff,
fects of the explosion of lamp, died
few days since from the burning which
he received in trying to save his wife.
Capt. Strong was SO years old.
THOMAS CAIN, of Wenona, who was de-
prived of both legs by railroad acct
dent at La Sale, on the 18th inst, and
the sight of whose sad condition caused
his aged mother to fall dead in his
sight, is recovering.
Mrs. LILIES, of Wyandotte, Kansas,
went visiting few days since and left
her two children, one of them an in
FAINT, at home alone. During her alb
sence the elder baby covered the little
one up with shavings, and then set fire
to the pile with match. The child
was burned to crisp before help could
arrive.
A GOOD instance of sharp practice is
that of man in Ohio who was acquit-
ted of murder on plea of insanity. He
had secured his lawyers by giving them
mortgage on the farm, but now re-
pudiates the mortgage on the ground
that he was insane when he made it, &C
cording to the showing of these same
lawyers.
The first velvet-factory in the United
States has been started by French
colony in Kansas, at the town of Frank
lin, eighteen miles southwest of Ottawa.
The colony began operations last sum-
mer on the cooperative plan, and have
already, besides their mandatory,
comfortable dwellings, stores, shops and
farms under cultivation.
DAVID sEREIT, who had taken the con-
tract to remove all dead animals found
in the streets of Indianapolis, became
inoculated some days since, with poison
Gus matter from carcass which he was
skinning. The virus infused itself