Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-07
Current Items.
WEST PoINT has 249 cadets.
YALE COLLEGE has S3S students

j WEST POINT has 249 cadets.
/ YALE COLLEGE has S3S students.
CHINESE women sell or.$7oO apiece in
British Columbia. pew III
THERE are tive million Methodists IN
the United States. -
MAINE has just admitted to nract;ca
its first female lawyer.
CAIRO, ILL.,, with over 10, 900 population
has only 500 church members.
A New HAVEN lady's hustle burst IN
church, and out rolled a Police Gazette.
CLEVELAND, with population OF little
more than 100000, has nlnety-fve
| churches.
The cereal crops of the United States
Tor leI aggregated $50, 100000 bushels,
valued at 81 ,0o0,0OO,O0O.
Or 100000 feet of logs put into Bad
river, Mich. last spring, less than S. OOO.-
OO0 feet will reach the mills. Bad. bad
river.
IT is stated by some of the profession
that there are less than sixty really COM
petent shorthand writers in the United
States.
HE Boston journal was the first paper
Stanley handed to Livingstone, and from
1t the latter got his first information of
the Franco Prussian war.
SIX establishments in New O,les no
with an aggregate capital of 81, 500, COO
are engaged in the manufacture of oil
and oil cake from cotton seed, the Yield
being 100000 tons per annum.
The total quantity Of coal used in the
world is estimated at 1851 million tons
Europe yielding 1911 millions America
q millions, almost entirely from the
United States; Asia and Austria nearly
?! millions.
HE ices of Mayor Blackmore. of Pitts
| burgh, are now at the rate Of SIS. 900 nar
annum, and will be at the rate of s25.-
OOO when, few months hence. the
South Side comes into the municipal;tv.
1t IS therefore proposed TO salary the
next Mayor on $1,000.
A REVIEW of the amount of gold and
silver yielded in California shows that
there is a slow but steady decline in the
product Numerous claims that have
been worked by sluicing and the hy-
draulc process are exhausted every
year, and very few are opened.
SIR FREDERICK ARROW, deputy master
OF Trinity House, who has laterly visited
large number of light houses on the
lake and Atlantic coasts of this country.
stated that our system of fog signals IS
ahead of England, though the English
lighthouse system is superior to ours.
San Francisco recognizes a great rival
in San Diego, the western terminus of
the Texas and Pacific road. The Alto.
of the former city, says that :. Oakland
will do the exporting and importing Of
the State and coast, and San Diego the
overland business, in connection with
all the trade of the Southern country.
CINCINNATI builds its stock pens or
the bank of the river above the city.
and then puts its water works below the
stock pens, and so obtains a bucolic
flavor in the fluid mud it supplies as
water. manifestations Cincinnatians
are now debating the subject whether
the cattle and hog pens don't slope too
much toward the river.
The absurdity of post-dating weekly
papers is exemplifed in the New Y oriz
Ledger, the edition Of which bearing date
Oct. 26 was printed on the 10th of that
menth. This paper says their popular
contributor, Fanny Fern, is extremely
i'll, when the fact is she will be dead lust
sixteen days when the date of this paper
shall have been reached.
IT is somewhat remarkable, the MN
Der of fortunes that are lying about this
season waiting for servant-girls, washer
women, and other useful members Of
the community TO come and claim them.
The last of which we have heard is the
snug little sum of 100000 francs, said
to be ready for st. Louis washerwoman
whenever she proves her title thereto.
SOME of the Chicago packers are con-
fdent that the coming winter packing
season will be an unusually active one,
and opinions are expressed that that
city alone will pack 100000 hogs dur
ing the months of November, Deem
Der and January, or an average of lOO,-
600 hogs per week. One firm calculates
to pack $4,000 hogs during the season.
A WOMAN of the period has been found
in Market street, San Francisco. She
keeps a fruit store, teaches private
school, runs sewing machine, does
knitting, pinking, and embroidery, goes
out as nurse, and "attends ladies'
In addition to her other accomplish
ments, she is a widow, and having
hunted one poor devil out of the world
with her barbarous industry, is now
spreading her net for another.
The Commissioner of Patents has
granted the application of Ross Winans
and Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, for
an extension of their patent for % cigar
steamers" 1t was shown that Messrs.
Winans, in attempting to dem onstrate.
the utility of their invention, have ex-
pended over Sl,OO0,000, without receiv
ing cent. They have built one cigar
shaped vessel in Baltimore, two in En-
gland, and one in Russia.
ap More Misery in Ireland.