Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-21
Bourbon Items.
BY TATTLER.

BOURBON, IND, March 18th, 10.
Last Saturday was one of the busy DAYS
here; the town was literally packed with
people from the country
Our city was thrown into intense ex-
citement Saturday, by the appearance of
dog suffering from Hydrophobia. The
animal after recovering partially from its
spasms, and chasing, swapping, and snarl-
ing after some children, finally started for
the country on run, and we hope we
never will hear from him or see him
again. We may expect mad dogs to be
quite common after this cold winter
Our Public School closes this week.
Professor Ramey has conducted it credi-
tably and acceptably to our citizens. He
is said to be one of the best teachers in
the State.
The spring term of Salem College opens
on the Goth day of March.
The Northern Indiana Manufacturing
and LAUNDERING Co, is one of the best
firms on the railroad this side OF Pitts
burg. -
MIR. VIM. Scar, the champion clothist,
operates host of hands in his business
here, and all the merchant tailors just step
aside, without an effort to compete with
INN, In getting a line, or an every day
suit of cloths. Hundreds of customers
come from distant towns to procure a
good and cheap suit of cloths from him.
Very recently my attention was called
to beautiful map of Plymouth and Mar
shall County, with a short history of P,
and the surrounding towns, and at the
same time, room enough left To write a
short letter in the space to any friend.
Marshall county is destined in short
period of time to become one of the
veal ;hiest and most populous counties in
the State. Plymouth is the county seat.
She has railroads running from her grow
ing and prosperous town, North, South.
East and West, and is surrounded BY
rich and fertile soil, large and lofty TIM
Der, beautiful and flourishing towns. One
of the foremost among the number is
Bourbon; she boasts the only Dunkard
College in the world, and her citizens are
full OF energy and enthusiasm and will
compare favorably with any town or city
in Indiana
Bourbon is a live town of some six
hundred people as described in the map
of Plymouth, and the east part of the
county on the railroad, is still living and
prospecting; the population is now be-
tween fifteen and sixteen hundred souls
according to latest estimates ofour den.
liens.
A Manufacturing Association is in pro-
cess OF organic alton, and will, we think in
few weeks, become one of the institu-
tons of Northern Indiana, credit to the
company and an honor to the county.
- We expect to be able to send you some
new subscribers to your valuable paper
this week; we are much pleased to learn
hot
nifty will also pretty soon renew their
subscription to your paper, accompanied
by the cash. We would be glad to see
that your paper was patronized according
to its merits we then should hear that at
least thousand new subscribers had
been added this week.
The Bourbon Mirror, which is a first
class paper, and an honorable reflector of
the good, the true and the beautiful of the
county is published here Her subscription
lists are growing astonishingly, the E0i-
tors still persist in saying they continue
to have three good square meals day.
yet 1t is thought by some of our people,
that neither they nor either of their devils
sleep-for their Office is always occupied
by working corps, just picking and dis
tributing type for dear life. Their job
press, is continually in motion and / am
informed that they will bring in new
power press to enable them to meet all
the demands made upon them for job
work, probably by the first of May.
/ am informed that we have another
natural born Poet If he is appreciated
as apprehend he will be, he is bound
sooner or later TO rise to garret.-where
the poetical works of all great Poets are
said to emanate from.
1t is hard for poet to be properly ap-
preciated We think this evangelical poet
can beat Nasty either in Prose or in Po-
etry while some might think the au-
thor fool, some unskilled in writing po-
etry might think there was too many fret
in one line and not enough in another,
but before long you will see the produc-
tons and then you can judge for your
self !
We like our Bourbon correspondents
style. He likes everything in Bourbon.