Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-19
Current Items.

Current Items.
ST. PAUL estimates her size at 10000.
The 81 gold pieces are to be with.
drawn from circulation.
CHICAGO will give $4,000 for the best
plan of new court house.
The new Episcopal cathedral in New
York city will cost $4,000. 600.
For the last 40 murders committed
in New York city, only two men have
been hung.
FERMENTATION of cider may be arrest
at any stage by putting in tiax-seed at
the rate of halt a pint to apint per
barrel.
THE Baptist churches of Illinois have
total membership of very nearly co..
600. They are divided into S46 churches
and 40 associations.
A BANK of excellent meerschaum clay
has been discovered IN Southern Cali
| fornla, and workmen are to be imported
from Europe to manufacture it into
pipes.
AN enterprising Washington news
dealer, in the absence of laws against
obscene literature, has republished the
libelous paper of Woodruff & Claflin
in pamphlet form.
THE valuation of property in Iowa.
for taxation in 1869, was $40. 900 600: in
1870 it was $53,OOO,OOO, showing an in
crease of % per cent. in twelve months.
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Ten American locomotives have al
ready been forwarded to fill orders from
Russia, and the Baldwin factory has
just received a contract for nine more
to be put on railway in Finland.
AN interesting feature of the Boston
public library are upwards of 1900
newspapers OF America and England
containing accounts of the assassination
of President Lincoln, with comments
thereon.
The History of the Devil" little
volume, seventy years old, was recently
sold at Washington, D. c., bringing a
good price. 1t is said that there was
quite competition among buyers to see
who would become possessed of the
demL.
THERE is now in course of construction
in Washington City sewer of nine feet
interior diameter, through which a six
mule team can be easily driven. Seven
hundred bricks and two barrels of ce.
ment are required for each foot of adj
vance made.
JUDGE MILLER, of the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of
Wisconsin, has decided that bankrupt
cannot sell his homestead and claim his
store as residence by moving into it,
and orders that the store and lot be de-
livered to the bankrupt's creditors.
THE Nashville (Tenn.) Union SAYS
" The lady members of the First Baptist
Church in this city have cgreed that
they will dispense with ali finery on
Sunday-wearing no jewels but consist
ency, and hereafter appear at church in
plain calico dresses"
The Union Pacific railroad is having
constructed at its shops in Omaha a
monster snow-plow, which when com.
pleted will be the largest in the world.
The trucks were cast especially for it,
and are very heavy and strong. The
platform n the trucks is % feet long,
and 10 feet and inches wide, composed
OF solid oak timbers Sx16 inches, held
together by large iron bolts running
crosswise. This solid bed is fastened to
the transom beams by 40 bolts, 20 over
each truck. The monster will weigh
so tons, and will be operated by three
of the newest engines on the road. The
cost will te over $1,000.
A MOST extraordinary female invalid is
reported to be at Denver, Col, to which
place she went from Chicago, for her
health. The popularity of the case of
Mrs. Clara Faircloth for such is her
name) is, that she has not slept fifteen
hours in nearly seven weeks. She moves
about the city like an invalid, at times
has spasms, and continually begs for
morphine. There is, of course, diseased
action of the brain. There is also
great crowd of consumptives thronging
to Denver, some of whom die and some
do not.
The gossips are already arranging for
President Grants Inauguration ball. The
question is, where to hold it. President
Harrison's Inauguration ball was held in
the old National Hotel, President Folks
In the National Theater, President Tay-
lor'S In temporary building erected for
the purpose in Judiciary square, where
the ball in honor of the Inauguration Of
President Buchanan, and afterward of
PRESIDENT Lincoln, took place. The
ball at President Grants first inaugu-
ration was given in the north wing of
the Treasury Department. The sugges-
ton Is that the Inauguration for the
second term take place in the new State
Department, which will be nearly COM
pleted by the 4th of March next.