Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30
Current Items.

| Current Items.
MOST of the sailors who struck work
at southampton, England, have re-
turned to work.
A FEARFUL hail-storm occurred in Salt
Lake City, Tuesday afternoon, doing
great damage to the fruit blossoms.
The directory census of Grand Rapids,
Mich, completed, gives the city 1898
| inhabitants.
The new directory census of Kansas
City, Mo-, gives the population of the
city at 40, ISL.
THE tariff on Injuries at Paducah. XIV.
is very moderate. The quotations for
wife-beating are $40.
DURING the past II months, Hudson
county, New Jersey, has paid $4,000 for
post norton examinations of suicides.
THE sum of S25O,0OO was realized last
year by the sponge gatherers on the
lower gulf coast of Florida.
Mr.. BRACE, of Pennington, Illinois,
has invented and is about patenting
machine to drive hens out of garden.
CHEROKEE county, Alabama, has
bearded negress. Her whiskers are
about three inches long, and quite
gray.
}. WIscHENDoRF accidentally fell from
a train on the jackson railroad. near
Amite, La, on Saturday night. and was
instantly killed.
In the United States, during a period
of twelve years, 262 persons were killed
by lightning, and 430 more or less in
jured.
UNDER the new license laws Of South
Carolina, clergymen must take out
license before they are permitted to
preach.
FERDINAND SPANN, Of Webster county,
Ga, hanged his wife the other night.
who had but one leg, and eloped with
girl that had an uninjured pair.
DEFINITE arrangements have been
made for developing the valuable beds
of slate near the head-waters Of Huron
bay, in Houghton county, Mich.
An alligator eighteen feet in length,
and weighing eight hundred pounds,
was recently killed near the mouth Of
the Ocklawaha river, Florida.
THE French Internationals Of New
York have repudiated Woodruff and
the action of the Apollo Hall e national
convention"
IT is stated that thirteen children
were born on board the steamer Scandi-
navian on her recent voyage from Liver
pool to Quebec.
| Mpe M.rrtn. Joxpc a. a1dorl e.
male, has appeared in an English police
court and pleaded that she was " chemi-
Called from sewer" not drunk. Five
shillings and costs.
The man Wright, who was shot in
Detroit last week in brothel by its
keeper, Elizabeth Gardner, died Thurs
day. The woman is IN jail, and will be
tried for murder.
Mrs. WILLIAM G. RHODES, Of Platts-
burg, n. Y, caught brook trout in
Cleazy lake, on the 8th inst, which
weighed % pounds. This is the largest
trout on record.
WIN. Nixon, agent for a mining COM
pany, had a quarrel with miner named
| Harlow, at Little Cottonwood, Utah, on
Monday, which resulted in Nixon shoot
ing Harlow through the heart.
JEREMIAH Collins, who killed his wifi
with hoe in st. Louis, has been re-
spited until the 18th of July by Gov.
Brown. He repudiates Executive Glenn
ency and is anxious to be hung.
THE last expedition to Cocos Island
in search Of treasure, supposed TO have
been buried there by pirates, has failed,
and fourteen persons from the expe-
dition have returned to San Francisco.
The heirs of Robert Harper, of Albany,
n. Y, have been compelled by court
of law to refund S765, being principal
and interest of bet of 5000 which til e
deceased wen on the Presidential cleo
ton of 1868.
AT noon Tuesday the sengine and
twelve cars of an empty coal-train ran
off the track Of the Erie railroad at
Wallis Gait junction, five miles from
Newburg. The conductor and fire.
man were slightly injured.
SOMEBODY at Albany selected another
mans yard as suitable place for dead
cat. The man thought his next neigh
Dor was responsible, and the conse-
quence is that Grimalkin travels across
the fence about seven times day.
DUNLOP says that in all European
literature there are not more than 300
distinct plots, and $50 of these are
earlier than Christianity. Almost all
the newspaper jokes have reached
venerable old age, and all the Irish bulls
are Greek.
Amateur TheatricaiS.
A London journal laments the evil
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