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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Worth Knowing.

One pound of green copperas, costing
seven cents, dissolved in one quart of
water, and poured down a water closet,
will efectually concentrate and destroy
the foulest smells. On board ships and
steamboats,, about hotels and other pub.
lie places, there is nothing so nice to
purify the air. Simple green copperas,
dissolved under the bed in anything
that will hold water, will render hos
pital, or other places for the sick, free
from unpleasant smells. In fish mar
kets, slaughter-houses, sinks, and wher-
ever there are offensive putrid gases,
dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about,
and in few days the smell will pass
away. If a cat, rat or mouse dies about
the house, and sends forth an offensive
gas, place some dissolved copperas in
an open vessel near the place where the
nuisance is, and it will purify the at
mosphere.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Temperance Lekshur.

Don't look of dat lager when it bin
red, when it was given poorly much
COLOR in dat bier glass, und ven he vas
movin all rite; for of der last he sting
like one pumblbee, und bites like a
Newfoundland bulldog. No drunken
Teller don't could got by dat kingdom
Won heafen in. Who got droubles {?
who got fights? who got blue eyes und
red noses? Guess oncel Veil, told
you. Dem fellers vat hangs around of
dem Ticker ginmills' und trinken mixed
thinks, like hot Thomas and jeremiah,
for instinct-Don't it?
Uf you don't dought more Won your
II wifes und one children dan to vas
getting drunk, it vas better you gone
dead, by graciousl
Don't you bin ashamed NIT yourself
uf you vas comm home on a gouble
o'clock in der morning time, und don't
could found der keyholes.
Den ven you vas drying pooth much
how much too pool dem poots off NIT
elm TODD Thrush, und CLEAN dem pools
NIT a jack-boot-don't you bin drunk
den? Amt it? I vas been a little
hoarse, SO l don't could rite no more
lekshur. Who breads to lager next?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Rights of Smokers.

The New York Times comes out bold
ly for such rights as smokers have in
this censorious world. Ever since King
James counterblast against tobacco,
certain classes in every society have
been as vindictive against the weed as
If it were the concentrated essence of
everything vulgar and beastly.
Notwithstanding all this, tobacco
Hourishes as an article of commerce,
and is consumed among all peoples,
whether savage or civilized.
No one defends the smokers lack of
gallantry when he puffs the smoke of
his cigar, however fragrant, in the faces
of the fair sex, or into those of such
delicate gentlemen as one would think
ought to have been women; but smok.
ing is now so general that it can no
longer be considered sinful or ungen.
tlemanly habit without rejecting upon
masses of the male population of the
country. Says the Times:
"The smokers, who form a majority
of the whole population, have some
rights of their own. Yet they are
treated by all railway and steamboat
companies as though they deserved to
incur penalty for every cigar con.
sumed. On the railway. the smoking.
car is usually the Oldest, dirtiest, and
worst in the possession of the company,
and it is uniformly placed next to the
engine or baggage-car, so that in the
event of collision the presumably
worthless smoker shall have the first
opportunity to be smashed. On most
steamboats,, instead of permitting men
to smoke on the after-deck, they are
banished to the extreme bow, whence
their smoke is evenly distributed over
the boat, while they run the chances of
being trampled upon by horses and
crushed by falling boxes.''
There is good sense in the question
put by the Times, that, GAS every other
man is a smoker, why should he not be
decently accommodated? ?"
No reason in the world, except the
exploded one that smokers have no
rights because they are smokers To
bacco, like every other created thing,
has its use, and that seems to be its
singular properties both as an excitant
and a sedative.
At ell events the world has used it
for ages, will continue to use, and there
are rights appertaining to its consump-
ton which cannot be disregarded. The
abuse OF any article, created or invent
ed, for food or for pleasure, is intern
perance; and the abuse alone is the fit
subject of animadvers1on and reforma-
tion.-,S. Louis Globe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
A Hair.Raising Adventure.

Our citizens will remember how the
showers came, night before last, in fire.
quent succession, pouring torrents while
day lasted, but stopping after a brief
pour. Well, there were, at o'clock on
that evening, seven men at the point
in Sycamore and Abigail streets to
which is completed the great sewer
which Is really an uptown extension of
the big Eggleston avenue sewer. Their
business is to clean the open end of
that sewer, so as to prevent delay to
workmen engaged in constructing it up
Sycamore street. 1t had occurred to
them that, by stirring the sediment at
the bottom of the sewer, the water
from the showers would wash it away,
and their work would, in this way, be
greatly expedited. After long cessa.
ton in the rain, they went into the
sewer some distance, and continued
their work.
While so engaged, one of those
heavy, sudden showers which charac-
terized the evening, came up and poured
down its tremendous streams. The
first warning they had of their peril
was sudden rush of water upon them,
carrying the whole party off their feet.
The four men nearest the mouth of
the sewer escaped with difficulty, bat
ting up stream against powerful cur
rent; the other three were carried
down toward the river by the galloping
tide of defled waters. Two of them
caught at a man-hole near the canal
and succeeded in making themselves
heard by their four companions who
had escaped. They were drawn up to
the solid ground by these. But John
Clark, one of their companions, was
not SO fortunate. He continued to
travel down to Court street, where he
made short turn and thence proceeded
before the every moment increasing
volume of waters to Eggleston avenue
sewer, where he made a turn to the
right, whence it was straight road to
the river. Mr.. Clark tells the story
himself. He says he proceeded down
in the darkness, his back to the press
of waters and his face to their current.
As he could not stand up, he put him
self as nearly as possible in sitting
position, and went down the hill very
much as boy slides down hill on a
sled, only Mr.. Clark had no sled.
Coming to the mouth of the sewer
where its waters discharge into the Ohio
river, he cried tor help. Nj. Lewis,
who lives in tenement wharf. boat at
that point, and who hires rowboats to
parties, heard his cries, came to his re-
lief, and saved him. Mr.. Clark. last
night, exhibited a badly torn pair of
pants and pretty roughly bruised
body Cincinnati Gazette.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Personal.
OLE BULL is in Norway.

OLE BULL is in Norway.
AN Albany girl has sued her mother
for libel.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has arrived in
England.
GkS. SHERMAN will return home in
September.
LorrA is studying French and music
IN convent school near Paris.
ENos HENDERSON has just died in
Madison county, KY, aged 100 years.
Miss WADE, of Cincinnati, has just
made her sixty-first failure at suicide.
A DELILAH of SO summers eloped with
boy of so at Beaver Dam, Wis, re-
Gently.
Mrs. HARPER, who was lately pardon
ed out of the Connecticut State Prison,
refuses to leave it.
DR.. PETERS, of Hamilton College, N.
Y, reports the discovery, on the night
OF July 81, of two new planets.
The late Dean of Lincoln's will be.
queaths property valued at 100000, and
Is written on a half sheet of note. paper.
ANOTHER American girl goes to the
Court of Kaiser William as zone of
them y Miss Jay, daughter to our
Minister to Austria, is soon to be mar.
ried to Gen. De Schweinitz, German
Envoy to the same country.
ONE of the japanese Embassy dropped
81 900 bill on the floor of the Revere
House, at Boston, the other day, and
when the obliging waiter handed it to
him he said, "'Tis no matter, no mat
ter" and seemed reluctant to take it.
GEORGE @. CANNON, elected Delegate
to Congress from Utah, is editor of the
Deseret Ne,0s, paper published at Salt
Lake City in the interest of the Nor
mon church, of which, next to Brigham.
he is probably the ablest man anon 9
the Latter Day Saints.
Mr.. BERGH's heart ought to be full of
happiness over the receipt of nearly
nine thousand dollars in donations of
late. The society of which he is the
originator and President is popular with
the New York merchants, and they re-
spond to any call he makes for means
to protect and care for dumb animals.
The English are delighted with Mr..
Stanley, and even swallow without hes
Itatlon his shair-raising statement that
ne was stricken down % times with the
worst species of tropical fever, in a
swamp where he had neither bed nor
physician, and with no knowledge of
the therapeutics on his own part.
About seven or eight of these feyers
would be enough, they say, to kill
an ordinary pulling European, but
Stanley, being robust American Dur
sang, would have been able to survive
% more of them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Current Items,
oN's debt is $2S,628,53O.

BosroN's debt is $2S,62S,53O.
CONNECTICUT has 8S1 miles of railroad.
IT costs $50 day at Saratoga to live
in style.
No less than 10000 Americans will
visit Europe this year.
The great Red river raft grows at the
rate of two miles a year.
HARTFORD, Conn, is making dozen
lawn-mowers for the Sultan of Turkey.
THERE were 1874 persons punished
in London last year for cruelty to ami
mails.
OVER $4,000 miles of submarine tele-
graph cables have been laid within two
years.
THR Jubilee Coliseum, which cost
100000 has been sold to Gilmore for
$4,000.
WALTER ScoTT's monument in Central
Park, New York, will be dedicated No
vember 80.
THE value of the gold at present in
existence in the world is estimated at
upward OF S0,UUO,UUU,OUU.
A BOY at Underhill, VT, has Just
coughed up beechnut which he got
into his lungs two years and half ago.
THE United States have 5000 tele-
graph stations, $4,000 miles of line, over
1000 operators, and transmit over H.
100000 messages annually.
The complete census returns of the
United States show the total population
to be 3S,55S,37l, of which 19, 493, 565 are
males and 1904, 500 females.
IT is generally believed to be dan
gerous to II avel on railroads, but Stats
tics show it is the safest method of loco
motion on land ever yet devised.
ROMAN Catholics in the United States
have church accommodations for ], $780,
514, and Evangelical Protestants for
1852, lisa difference Of eight to one.
CAREFULLY-PREPARED statistics show
that during the last six years upward
of thirteen thousand collisions at sea
have taken place between vessels in all
parts of the world
THE usual quarterly sensation has
been created by Mr.. Beecher, who de-
clares against total abstinence, which
he thinks may he all very well for some,
but not so good for others, one of whom
he is which.
A PORTION of the Daniel Webster
homestead, at Marshfeld, was sold re-
Gently at S95 an acre. The estate CON-
prises one hundred and sixteen acres of
land fronting the ocean, sloping down
to the breakers.
REPORTER of the New York Herald
struggled himself on board the special
sleeping car assis ned President Grant
and family last week over the Delaware
and Lackawanna railroad, and was
booted off by the superintendent next
morning.
The largest ten cities of the United
States eat beef annually to the amount
OF 100000 head of cattle, exclusive of
pork, mutton, etc. Taking the other
cities and towns of the country, the
probabilities are that this number would
be swelled to at least 100000.
The springs at Saratoga are said to be
drying up. The flow is less strong, and
the residents and hotel keepers are pro-
hibited from obtaining pailfuls of the
water in the morning, as has been the
custom for years past. The water is
also less pungent than it used to be.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
The Man with the Lung.Tester.

The man with his lung-tester who &C.
companies Barnum, and makes an
honest penny by testing the wind of the
multitude, came to grief at Terre Haute
on Tuesday. A healthy farmers boy,
with chest on him like an emigrant's
valise, drew in mouthful of the atmos-
phere, wrapped quarter-section of his
lips over the nozzle and breathed. An
explosion followed, first of the machine
and then the by-standers, and the
professor" was heard to say, as he
gathered up the fragments of tinkling
brass and springs: He had been eating
onions; that's what made his breath so
strong."- Louis Globe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
a Blind Ship-BuiIder.

John Herreshoff, the Bristol [R. ~
ship builder, is thirty years of age, and
has been stone blind for fifteen years.
At nine years of age he began life as a
boat railor. Since his arrival at the age
of manhood he has been a boat builder.
and, though blind, he now buys and Sc.
lects his own lumber, makes his own
models, builds the finest yachts in the
country, and can sail any craft equal to
most experienced sailors.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29

THIRTY-sEYEN years ago the Feiee
Islands were an entire blank; not a
book, chapel, a church, or Christian
man in it. Up to this time they have
had 100000 converts to Christianity,
and now number 22,709 in full church
communion. They have $50 houses of
religious worship, and 47,240 pupils in
the Sunday-schools.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Location of the Diamond Fields.

We have information from an indie
pendent source, so particular and ex-
plicit as hardly to leave a doubt of the
true location of the diamond fields
which have created so much excitement
n this city for the last few days. The
diamond mines are situated in the
southeast corner of Arizona Territory,
south of latitude 80 degrees, at point
near to the boundaries OF New Mexico
and Sonora. Amy one, by taking map
of recent date, can readily find the
point where the boundary lines of Ari-
IONA and New Mexico intersect Mexico
ON the south. The country has several
silver mines laid down, and Apaches
are designated as occupying the same
district. The country is not surveyed.
It is situated at no great distance from
the old southern trail crossing the
country rom Fort Yuma to Ell Paso.
- 1t is pretty certain that one or more
parties are in this city who have bought
up specimens of rubies from that re-
gion, and whose operations are indie
pendent of the diamond adventures
who first brought in diamonds. We
give this information az we have re-
ceived it. We have not much reason to
doubt but the true locality has been sub
stantially given in this paragraph. Ifthat
is the diamond territory, we do not
think half dozen men will be able to
gobble it up or to keep everybody else
out of it. But we advise nobody to go
there. The.diamond hunters of South
Africa had hard luck. Hardly more
than dozen gained ANYTHING at all ade-
quate as compensation for the risks
and sufferings encountered. If any ex-
tensive diamond fields are discovered,
it will be very difficult to prevent as
free competition as was established in
South Africa. There is not sufficient
evidence within reach to warrant any
one running off blindly to this distant
and inhospitable territory. Diamonds
are used for cutting diamonds and lust
now very sharp men are disposed to try
the cutting powers of diamondf on the
public.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29

FATHER RYAN, of Mobile, the favorite
"poet-priest" Of the South, is unique
character In his priestly garments he
looks almost Ike awoman, and New
Orleans critic says of him: "The sun
shine of all the good and noble quail
ties that are SO often anequally divided
out between men, seem all to have met
IN perfect concord in his heart, throw
ing out their radiating lights through
his kindly features. His silken, auburn
hair falls in tresses young girl might
envy, low down on either cheek, while
ne wore the usual garb of the priest
hood He has been giving readings
IN New Orleans from long poem of his
own entitled " Love-" ~ =
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Lex misunderstanding OF Spanish
Officers i'm Cuba.

A correspondent writes from Havana
under date of Aug. IL:
The murder of the Mexican Gen. In.
clan and of his aid-de-camp by the
Spaniards has been partially balanced
by Gen. Agramonte. He had captured
seven Spanish officers, among them
very distinguished Colonel, and held
them prisoners in his camp. As soon
as the authorities in Puerto Principe
heard of this capture, the Government
Secretary and another officer repaired,
under flag of truce, to Agramonte's
camp. He received them Hospitality,
listened to their petition, informed them
that he then held seven Spanish officers
prisoners, that it was not his custom to
shoot prisoners, and that he was willing
to parole them on one condition. that
Gen. Inclan and his aid-de-camp be
liberated. Agramonte's establishment
when the Spanish commissioners re
GREETED that it was out of their power
to comply with that one condition, be-
cause the patriot prisoners had already
been shot, can be imagined. Agra
monte then invited the commissioners
to breakfast, and gave orders to his
chief of staff to have all the prisoners
shot at once. When the firing was
heard, Agramonte turned to his guests,
and regretted that he could not comply
with their wishes, because the Spanish
officers had already been shot.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29

The New York Herald of the 18th
inst. says: "We have received the sad
intelligence that Lexington, the great
est race-horse that America ever pro-
duced, died at Mr.. Alexander's stud
farm. at Spring Station, KY, few days
ago. This grand old horse ran the fast:
est four miles that were ever run where
accurate watches and timekeepers were
in vogue. BE was the sire of more race
horses than probably any horse that
ever lived. The best of his get were
Norfolk Asteroid, Kentucky, Harry
Bassett, Kingfsher, Idlewild, and Tom
Bowling. Asteroid and Kentucky have
already presented to the turf some noble
grandsons of the old horse. Kingfsher
and Harry Bassett will, if they i've, be
equally successful, if high form, pure
blood and splendid racing powers jus
tify such a prediction" Lexington was
% years old the 18th of last March. He
had been blind during the last fifteen
years of his life.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
Texas and Pacific Railway.

This road having lately passed into
the hands of Eastern and European cap
italists, is now being pushed ahead with
energy. Thomas A. Scott, of the Penn
sylvania Central, is President, and Gen.
6. NJ. Dodge, of the Union Pacific, is
Chief Engineer. The Texas and Pacific,
formerly known as the Southern Pacific,
extends from Shreveport, on Red river,
in Louisiana, to San Diego, California, a
distance of 1,40O miles. Its route is
near the thirty-second parallel. 1t ira.
verses fine agricultural country, much
of which is already under cultivation,
and producing large crop of cereals
and vegetables.
As far west as Fort Worth, the west
ern terminus of that portion of the road
to be finished in 1873, the country is
well settled, and the counties along the
line to Fort Worth contain a population
of from 10000 to 10000 each. it passes
through rich undeveloped mineral re-
gions, skirts the northern boundary of
Mexico, and as soon as it reaches the
Rio Grande it will control all the bust
ness of the northern portion of that
Republic, thus bringing to the United
States the trade of vast, rich and pro-
ductive empire that has heretofore
gone elsewhere.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29

!. FIVE persons have been carried over
Niagara falls this season. q
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-10-09
Rates of Advertising.

circumstances calculated to inhame
vanity or nourish self conceit." OF
course not. The Baltimore nominn.
ton had been originally promised by
the managers of the Democratic party
the successful aspirant in the Liberal
Republican Convention. Mr.. Greeley,
through Senator Fenton's management
had won the Democratic nomination
by his Cincinnati victory. Why should
he feel personal gratitude for simple
fulfillment of an original pledge,
which imposed obligations on him and
his political henchmen, requiring the
rendition Of full reciprocity on his part
in other fields Of strife.
THE NEW YORK WORLD CoNFEssEs THE
BARGAIN.
1t has found it necessary, in order
to secure harmonious Democratic sup
port for Greeley, to publish the terms
Of this disgraceful bargain. 1t asks
its readers whether it Is better to have
Grant for President, with Republi-
can Cabinet, Republican Congress,
and Republican State governments,
or to have Greeley for President, with
Democratic Cabinet, q Democratic
Congress, and Democratic State gov
ernments?
Our readers must agree with US, we
think, that this attempted coalition Of
the Democratic party and the Liberal
Republicans, instead of being con-
version of the Democracy in a body to
Repuhlicanism, is simple bargain
and sale e,and nothing more. The Dem,
ocratic leaders have agreed to bring to
the support Of Greeley and Brown
three millions Of Democratic votes if
the leaders Of the Liberal Republicans
will bring to the support of the Dem-
ocrGtic nominees in the closely-con-
tested States, like Pennsylvania, Indi-
ana, and New York, enough Republi.
can votes to secure the election of the
Democratic State tickets, and the
needed help in closely contested con-
gressional districts, so as to secure a
Democratic majority in the House,
and augment their strength in the
Senate. He who does not believe this,
as it appears to us, must be willfully
blind.
Now, whom do these sagacious man
ayers expect to deceive by pretending
thet there is no longer any Democrat
ic party; that it has been converted
in a body, and admitted to the Repub-
lican fold; Not the Democratic mass
es. These Liberals expect the Demo,
cratic leaders to keep in the Demo
cratic harness. But they do expect to
deceive few thousands of honest
Republican voters, and. make them
contribute to the triumph of the Dem.
ocratic party, where the Liberal Re
publican managers have already cast
their fortunes.