Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-04
Current Items.

WORCESTER, Mass, is to have Union
Passenger Depot 700 feet long.
THE largest orchard in California con-
tains $4,000 fruit trees.
HE Harvard University has confer
red the honorary D. D. upon Senator
Pomeroy and Frederick Douglass.
CAMP meetings have been introduced
IN Berlin. The penitents find their
love divided between the Lord and
lager.
AMERICAN Railway Master Mechanics
resolved recently in, Boston. that while
England produces the best iron, Ameri-
cans make the best steel.
THE great S25, 900 painting of Perry's
Victory on Lake Erie, for the Capitol at
Washington, is done.
STRIPED snakes are the natural enc
mics of the potato bug.
A PONTIAC Mich bed-quilt is com
posed of 1870 pieces.
NEARLY nine million dollars worth Of
lard has been exported from this coun.
try within the last six months.
ToMATo vines become trees in Califor-
MA, the highest thereof being eighteen
feet.
IHE entire Congressional appropria-
tons for the next fiscal year amount to
$l66,358,111.
BLAsT1SG POWDER" is the name OF a
campaign paper published in North
Carolina. An incendiary sheet, doubt
less.
INSECTS rob American farmers of
s3OO,OO0,O00 every year.
The five japanese girls at Washing
ton will be educated by the Kindergar
ten system.
LoBsTERs are yearly growing more
scarce along the New England coast.
The low price of lands in louisiana is
subject of newspaper comment in that
State.
LARGE quantities of quinine are manu-
featured in India.
HE woodland of Virginia covers
nearly quarter of million acres.
A CREMoNA violin, made in the if
teenth century, was sold at New York
recently for $1,000.
CIRCUS companies are reaping an i'm
mense harvest throughout the country.
The season has not opened so prosper
ously for many years.
THERE are within the boundaries of
the Southern Baptist Convention ass
associations, II, les churches, 6,403 min
listers, and S93,037 members.
NICARAGUA has whole lake Of min.
eral water, which not only cures cutane-
Gus diseases, but takes away all appetite
for liquor.
A VIRGINIA soldier has recently sent
ten cents to the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac railroad for ride he
received in 1865.
SAN Francisco has sent forty cargoes
Of wheat to ENGLAND since july last,
valued at S2,95l 900.
THE East Havenites are in a state Of
virtuous indignation at the scanty uni
forms of the Yale crew who pull up
through the bridge.
AT Salem, Oregon, the Methodists
are building a chapel on which they
allow no one to work who INDUCES in
whisky.
PoRTLANDERs now claim that their
harbor it unsul passed by any on the
Atlantic coast. The channel made is
1850 feet long, 500 feet wide, and with
20 to 25 feet of water at low tide. Yes
sells of the largest size can now go at
once up to the wharves, even at low
water.
IT is estimated that the total water
power Of Maine is equal to the
combined total energy of 100000
men laboring day and night all the
year round, or exceeding the actual
working power of all the men in the
United States, England, France, and
Germany.
THE negotiations which have been
pending between a combination of Eng
lish capitalists and number of Califor-
mans, for the sale Q 100000 acres of
land in that State for S3,000,OOO, have
failed, because the legal adviser of the
Englishmen has told them that, as non
resident aliens, they are not secure of
their titles.