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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
How He Spent His Money.

A marked instance in which a" a fool
and his money soon parted has lately
reached its elimination ii New Ork.
A young man named Buttle came to his
majority about two years since, MS
twenty first birthday bringing him into
control of a fortune of $250,000. He
soon married Southern lady, who. it
would seem, had TO an uncommon de-
gree a weakness peculiarly pertaining
to Southern women-fondness for jew
elry and dress-for she permitted her
husband to load her down, in their first
year Of married life, with $4,000 in
diamonds, and also sported a $4,000
wardrobe. This spendthrift took very
expensive rooms at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, drove his fast horses. and the
two devoted their time to cutting a
swell generally. He, also, gambled in
| Wall street. On the Black Friday he
lost $4,000, and the expenses the first
year of himself and wife were some
100000. Becoming rapidly impecuni-
Gus he sold his horses. and changed his
boarding place, going to the Gilsey
| House where he forged draft in pay
ment of his board, was detected and
dIT0Steu. Ills 1rIcIluo casting duOu-, "
help him out, discovered that he had
sold for less than half their cost his
wife's diamonds back to the jewellers Of
whom they were purchased: that he lost
that money in three days in stocks, and
that he had secretly pawned his wife,
wardrobe, and was not only forger bu
beggar; the only son of one of tn,
old-style merchant princes who had bat
tied the world successfully, and died il
the delusion that his son would not b.
forced to work for living.
The wife, it is said, was ignorant o
the condition of things until the arres
of her husband as forger.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
Yicter EmmanueI,s Army.

How well prepared Italy is to main
tain an army may be understood from
the present unsatisfactory character of
her financial position. The idea of
making Rome the capital of the United
Kingdom has already cost as much as
it was worth. Its public revenue for
1870 was f38,02l $50, its expenditure
f44, 4S5, 040, showing clear deficit of
nearly $30,000,000. Its public debt in
April, 1869. was at such an uncertain
amount that it must be expressed in
round numbers at e300,COO,00O. Il
paid interest on the debt in 1870
amounting to 91s,692,592. Its exports
in 1S67-the last year of which we have
any record-were e6,000,000 less than
its imports. From one country alone
last year it exported but one half of
what it imported. 1t has a population
of 25,000,000, of whom Two years since,
before the Convention of September
was broken. 4 were Generals, Is Lieu
tenant-Generals, 81 Major-Generals, 22l
Colonel, 263 Lieutenant-C Colonies, 759
Majors, about 1900 other offcert, and
100000 were effective soldiers, or is not
effective, at least so described in the Of
fetal reports. Thus on the 1st of
January. 1870, there we're under colors
546,442 men. These were withdrawn
from positions in which their superior
intelligence might have made them Of
of material benefit to the country
II ,232 officers, besides 1884 who were
available ana might be called or at any
time to ave.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
How Alexis was Swindled.

1t is highly probable that Alexis will
have reason to remember Niagara Falls
in future, not only by the magnitude of
the cataract, but also by the correspond,
ing magnitude of his hotel bill there.
Swindling has long been a characteristic
Of all entertainers of the public at that
place, from hackmen to hotel-keepers
of the second class. As all the first
class houses are closed for the winter, il
was matter OF necessity that the Duke
and party should stop AZ a second-class
house. The Spencer House was selected.
and the party stopped three-fourths of a
day and ate one meal. The landlord
presented bill of 81 500 a. his idea of
moderate compensation. The bill was
refused, of course, whereupon the land
lord had the baggage Of the party seized
for the purpose of compelling payment.
The matter was finally compromised by
the payment of $1,000, the Duke not
caring to involve himself in a lawsuit.
Niagara has now capped the climax as
the meanest place IN the United States.
As a souvenir of the most disgracefui
swindling and robbery on record, Alexis
should preserve that bill and take il
back to Russia with him, as warning
to all future Russian travellers who may
purpose visiting the Falls. Any caution
to Americans is unnecessary, as the
character of the place is too well known
for any man with money in his pocke'
to venture there and expect to come
away with a penny left Chicago Tn
6,,,-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
Who Owns the TrOtters.

Before Lady Thorne met with the
accident which incapacitated her for the
turf, the world was kept in ignorance as
to her ownership. After the accident,
and when it was settled beyond doubt
that the old mare would never be her
self again. Mr.. Fl. n. Smith, as we are
prepared to prove, admitted to gentle
man a. Fleetwood Park that Lady
Thorne belonged 10 him. He also said
with something Of boastful air that he
was the owner of Goldsmith Maid The
inference was plain. Mr.. Smith pur-
chased Lady Thorne and Goldsmith
Maid, not so much to crafty love OF
sport, as to mystify the public and add
to his bank account Had Lady Thorne
not met with the serious accident
at Rochester, good many people firmly
believe that Mr.. Smith would not have
been known as the proprietor Of her
ladyship, and it is more than probable
that we should have had series Of
hippodrome exhibitions over the coun-
try in the fall of 1870, the same as we
have had the past fall with Lucy and
Goldsmith Maid. Circumstances GER
tainly point very strongly to this
conclusion they also give firm color to
the opinion as generally entertained by
well-informed horsemen, that Mr.. Smith
is now and has been for some months,
the owner of Lucy as well as the owner
of Goldsmith Maid. all cards to the
contrary Notwithstanding Tarf, FielO
and Farm
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
Marshall Gountp Republitan
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
The Doorstep.

By EDMUND C. sTEADMAN.
The conference meeting through at last.
We boys around the vestry waited
To see the girls come tripping past,
Like snow birds waiting to be mat
Not drawer he that leaps the wall
By level musket flashes litten,
Than I. who stepped before them all.
Who longed to see me get the mitten.
But no, she blushed and took my arm!
We let the old folks take the highway.
And started toward Maple Farm
Along sort of lovers byway.
/ can't remember what we said,
Twas nothing worth a song or story,
Yet that rude path by which we sped
Seemed all transformed and in a glory.
The snow was crisp beneath our feet,
The moon was full, the fields were cleaning;
By hood and tippet sheltered sweet,
Her face with youth and health was beaming
The little hand outside her muff-
O sculptor. If you could but mold it'll
So lightly touched my jacket cuff,
To keep it warm had to hold it.
Te have her with me there alone,
Twas love and fear and triumph blended
At last we reached the foot-worn stone.
Where that delicious Journey ended.
She shook. her. ringlets from her brow.
And with Thank you. Ned" dissembled;
But yet knew she understood
With what daring wish l trembled.
A cloud passed kindly overhead,
The moon was slowly peeping through it.
Yet. hid its face as if it said,
Come now OF never! do 1t! do At :!
My lips till then had only known
The kiss of mother and of sister.
But. somehow, full upon her own
Sweet. rosy, darling MOUTH kissed her
Perhaps twas only boyish love, yet, still
@, listlesS woman ! weary loyer
To feel once more that fresh wild thrill
I'd give-but who can live life over?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
TOYS.

Toys for the million are peculiar TO
the age. Wood is by far too dear in
England for their production, conse-
quently the chief seat of their manu-
facture is in the dense woods of Ger
many. From out the somber pine
forests of Thuringia issue the penny
boxes of toys destined to make the
homes of all Europe ring with joyous
laughter tea-things, Noah's
arks, filed with only the leading ami.
"screechingest'' articles that ever de
lighted the urchins' ear and rnaddened
the old folks. How so many pieces as
90 within these boxes can be made,
brought from such distance, and sold
with profit for a penny, is a marvel
that can only be understood when the
mystery of their manufacture is IN
CURED into. In the first place, the pine
wood costs next to nothing women and
children are chiefly employed IN their
manufacture and great speed in their
production is obtained by the division
of labor, every toy passing through half
dozen hands. 1t would, at first sight,
seem impossible that the. lathe should
| be used in the production of animals,
but here we have an example, ring
Of elephants, if we may use the term.
All those who have been abroad are
familiar with the round rings of bread,
eight or ten inches in diameter, seen in
bakers shops. In a toy-ease, we saw
what at first sight appeared TO be one OF
these, but upon examining it more mar
rowly we perceived that it was ring OF
pine wood turned in lathe, not exactly
in the form of ring, but in the form
OF ring of elephants-there were the
trunk, the peculiar shaped head, ard
the legs Gu, around the ringr as it were !;
and it was evident that the workman
had only 10 split this ring into suffi-
cient number of segments, according
to appropriate thiekness), to transform
the circle into a given number of ele-
plants. 1hese segmental elephants re-
quire, of course, to be rounded and fin
ished by hand, but the process is most
curious, and is applicable to the pro
duction of any other animal, and ac-
counts for the cheap rate at which these
,yondrous- toys can be produced. When
manufactured, they come to this coun
try by water carriage. OF course, art i
out of the question in these penny arti
Giles but the imagination OF children i
lively enough to fiji up all deficiencies,
and, as may be expected, their sale Is
, CdSsers Magazine.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11

May telegram from Mckinney, Texas
was received, announcing the discovery
iii the heart of dense cIappar&l. the
remains OF human being, supposed to
be those If young Golden.
Subsequent Developments showed that
after seducing his victim into the chap.
Daral and numbering him, the econom-
ical assassin had stripped the clothes
and boots from the body-clothing
which he wore at the altar when he mar
ried Golden's sister.
Tae case was sufficiently developed to
warrant the Governor of Texas in max
ing a requisition on Governor Palmer
for the custody of Ballou. The prisoner
suffered a preliminary investigation in
June last, and in October was put CT
final trial for his life. The case in the
meanwhile had been worked up with
indefatigable energy by Colonel Ewing.
who went to Texas TO press the prose
cution. The chain of evidence was
wound around him with terrible power,
and day by day the guilty wretch saw
all his subtle articles for concealment
torn into shreds, and the coil of circum-
stance tightening about him. His guilt
was almost instantly determined on by
the jury, and he now awaits fate
which is as certain as his crime was hor-
rible
But word remains to be said of the
most melancholy victim in the desolated
family. The wife of Ballou, only the
bride of fortnight, never saw her
guilty husband after he rode to town to
attend to the proposed land transfer.
She is now gibbering maniac, total
wreck in mind and body, with an occa-
sienal CLEAN of sense, when the awful
rush of thought instantly drives her
into commissions.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11
The Civil Service Rules.

A Washington dispatch of the 29th
ult. says:
"The President to-day adhered to his
determination to enforce the rules OF
the Civil Service Commission in all
appointments to be hereafter made.
The Commission will reassemble on
Wednesday next as an advisory board,
to supervise and regulate all future ap-
pointments. The President will also
appoint a board of three persons for
each department, who will personally
examine the qualifications of all appE-
cants under the existing rules, and such
as may be submitted by the Advisory
Commission hereafter. The Secretary
of the Treasury to-day inclosed the
rules to all Collectors of Customs, and
instructed strict compliance with
them in all promotions and appoint
ments made after Monday next. Col
lectors are also required to appoint
Commissioners in their own offices to
examine applicants and conduct coE1-
petitive examinations. All appoint
ments, promotions. examinations, etc,
are to be subject as usual to the Secres
tary's approval. The rules do not ap
Div to anyone now in the civil service,
except when selected for promotion. As
soon as Congress reassembles it is ex-
pected that the House Special Commit
tee on Civil Service will make prelim-
mary report for the application of these
rules to all the officials under the con-
troll of the two houses. The Postmaster
| General will also issue orders similar to
those of Secretary Boutwell, to cover all
future appointments and promotions in
the postal service of the country. ~
How TO SLEEP ScIENTIF1oALIY.--Pe PEG
pie who are willing to sleep shit up
like a jack. knife will be delighted to
know of new process of insuring long
evity. A California scientist, whose
head like his back must be trife
weak, declares that he has prolonged
his life by sleeping with his finger tips
touching his toes, and has invented q
machine to hold the body in that grace
full and pleasant position. He con
tends that the s.vital electric currents
on the principle we suppose of the
, understanding stove" are thu;
kept in even circumhow, instead of be
ing thrown off at the extremities and
} wasted" There is no patent upon the
great discovery, and any one with sui
iciently supple back is of course free g
+ try the experiment.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11

The following appears in an exchange
as a s.weather item" rrof. Thatcher is
not the author: The court was called.
There was cloud upon the brow of the
Judge. Silence reigned. William Null
ligan was hailed, but William was mist.
The Judge Numbered. The prosecut-
ing attorney stormed. The jury's la
bors lightened. William Mulligan had
mizzled.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11

A DISCOVERY has recently been made
in San Francisco, which throws some
light on the so-cailed spirit photographs
which appear on windows. One of
these photographs was recently recog-
nized on window in that city, and by
chemical experiments twas ascertained
to be merely an accidental discoloration
in the material of the glass. never before
discovered.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11

for this here policy, an I'm goin' ter
keep it! Yer can't fool mel And
after delivering himself thus, he stalked
away indignant.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-11

Miss MARY H. GRAVES was lately or
dained as pastor of the Unitarian
church. in Mansfield, Mass. She IS
graduate of the State Normal School at
Salem.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
FOR EIcN.

LONDON, May 24.-The interest in the
action of the United States Senate upon
the proposed additional article to the
Treaty of Washington Is undiminished.
The leading editorial articles Of all the
London morning joornals to-day are de-
voted to the subject, and joy ~ expressed
over the probability that the proposition
submitted by Earl Granville will be favor
ably received.
The Gaulois publishes a letter from Ma
poleon, dated Chiselhurst, May IL, and adj
dressed to the General and commandants
of the French army. In this communica-
ton the Emperor makes the following ac-
acknowledgement: d" ! am responsible for
Sedan. The army fought hcroically with
an enemy double its strength. After four
thousand men had been killed or wounded,
| saw that the contest was merely one of
desperation. The army's honor having
been saved, | exercised my sovereign right
and unfurled the flag of truce. It was inn
possible that go, 900 men could save France.
| obeyed n cruel, memorable necessity. My
heart was broken but my conscience was
tranquil"
Dispatches announcing the passage by
the United States Senate of the resolution
advising President Grant to negotiate an
additional article to the Treaty Of WASH
| ington, for the settlement of the indirect
claims dispute, were received here yester-
day. The effect to favorable rate Is
seen i'm the market for American securi
| ties this morning, which opened tirmer
with an advance on the prices of Satur
day last.
! PRAGUE, May 27.-Heavy and increased
rains have prevailed in this vicinity fol
the past few days. The volume of water
which fell was so great as to inundate the
surrounding country. Several Villages
and the growing crops have been swep
away, and numbers of lives have been los
j but IL was not stated exactly how many.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29

BUFFALO, May 2G.-Rev. John T..
Roberts, editor of the Christian 4dUocdte
and one of the Oldest Methodist Ministers
of Western New York, died suddenly yes
terday ut Cowlcsville of apopleXy.
In the Methodist Conference q motion Is
pending that the restrictions placed upon
Bishop Roberts, who presdcs over Liberia
Conference in Africa be removed, and he
be elevated to the full dignity of Bishop
and admitted to this Conference.
\ colored delegate addressed the Confer
ence on the question of the secretary of
the Freedman's Aid Society, and said that
he was sorry to see in this Conference n
disposition to keep colored men Off the
committee. He then moved that the
secretary be colored man. The election
was then taken, which resulted i'm the
choice Of Rev. DIR. r. S Rush.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM L0UDON.
Three Men Drowned Their Bodies
Recovered.
Special 10 the Daily Chronicle.l

LoUDoN, May u, 1872.
Three men, two white and one colored,
were drowned about one mile above this
place to-day. The white men were Robert
and William Brewer The name of the
colored man was Henry Rice. These men
were in the employ of Christian & Co., of
this place.
1t appears that they were sent up the
river after a raft of logs for the use of the
saw mill run by the above mentioned firm.
They were attempting to cross the river in
a small sl<iff. The wind was very strong
on the river and their boat was upset by
the waves. The men sank Immediately
and never rose.
A large number of the citizens Of Loudon
and vicinity are engaged in dragging the
river this evening for the purpose of re-
covering the bodies of the unfortunate
men. The chances for finding them APP
pear very unfavorable, rs the river is mud
dy and has risen considerably within few
days past.
The bodies of the two white men drown
ed here yesterday, William and Robert
Brewer, were found to-day. They were
found about ten feet from the west bank of
the river, and about ten feet from each
other.
The body of Henry Rice, the colorcd
man who was drowned at Loudon on last
Friday morning, was found on Sunday,
two or three miles below where hewas lost.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
4 Maniac Secured.

A correspondent Of the Rogersville Re
porter. writing from Rutledge, states that
that on Monday last n crazy negro named
King Dotson, while working in a field be-
longing to Mr.. Wood, suddenly quit
work and came toward that gentleman's
house, and stopping at a fence, drew his
knife softly across his own throat. Mr..
Wood became alarmed for his safety, and
fastened to inform Kings brother of the
state of the case. While he was gone, a
colored man passed up the street, and be-
ing slightly acquainted with King, stop
ped with him a moment. The usual salu-
tations passed between them, and King, in
the friendliest manner conceivable, reach
ed out his hand, but no sooner did he get
hold of the others hand than he drew him
unexpectedly down on the fence, and
with a quick, nervous stroke, cut his
throat from ear to ear. Then, az if fear
full of retaliation, or feeling assured that his
work was complete, he dropped his hand
and ran off q short distance, but soon re-
turned to his former position.
After considerable trouble, the maniac
was secured, though not until he had
wounded his brother slightly in the breast,
and lodged in the Rutledge jail The
wounded man had his injuries attended to,
which are very severe, but not considered
mortal
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
The Clergy in Politics.

We clip the following vigorous senten-
ces on this subject from the New York
Observer! :
A minister is not 50 good o pastor or
preacher who mingles actively in political
controversies. His mind is pre-occupied
by them. His spiritual nature is degraded
and clouded and soiled. The temporal rath-
er than the eternal, the seen not the uL-
should not, forget under any circum-
stances, the personal relations of men to.
things near and tangible; aud if he preaclA-
es the whole Gospel, he will constrsin
men 10 actin the fear of God when they
vote, as when they pray. But no minister
was ever an active partisan in politics, and
when he sought only the spiritual instruc-
ton of his people.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29

MOTHER CAN PRAY.-Twenty-five or
thirty years ago Rev. Charles G. Finney,
now President of Oberlin College, was car
rying on series of revival meetings in
some Eastern city-Boston, we think. One
day gentleman called to see him on busi-
ness. Mr.. Finney's daughter, perhaps five
years Old answered his ring. as your
father in2n "No,n replied the demure
maiden. "But walk in, poor dying sim
ner Mother can pray for you"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29

A Detroit man has juot PARTED his house
black, his doors a bright reya and the win
dow sash a sky blue. TIE picket fence IS
to be red, white and blue, and then he ex-
poets to have place thAt viii attract atten-
ton.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29

before the two literary societies of tho College
az Messy Creek on Friday next The widely
known ability of this gentleman is sufficient
TO insure him large audience on any ocea-
sion.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
Tennessee Claims.

Among the claims allowed by the Claims
Commission at Washington up to Decem-
Der last, for the payment of which a bill
passed the Lower House in Congress on
the 18th inst, we find the following to
citizens of this State: