Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-28
Current Items.

Current Items.
The refusal of her husband to wash.
the dishes is said to be sufficient cause
Tor an oregon woman to apply for d.
vorce.
GEORGE WAsHINGroN's family clock
was on exhibition last week at the Insti-
tute Fair IN Baltimore, and tinker ser
it running.
APPLES are SO plenty in some parts of
the country that the supply of barrels
has been exhausted and dry goods boxes.
have been substituted.
WITHIN the past few years Boston has
added to its population thousands Of
young men and women from the lower
provinces Of Canada.
IT would appear that the AVERAGE
weight of human being is 100 pounds.
Sixteen thousand FIVE hundred persons
were weighed at the Cincinnati Exposi-
ton this summer, with that result.
In proof Of the fact that the cotton
manufacturing interest of the South is
rallying from the effects of the war. the
New Orleans Picagume notes that the con.
sumption last year was 10000 bales.
against $1,000 in 1870, and 10000 in
1869.
SOME person, who could have had
nothing else to do, has been making in
vestigations in regard to the amount of
food consumed by the common house
ny, and after patient investigation
reaches the conclusion that. estimating
sugar. at ten cents pound. each fv
costs the country twenty cents from its
birth to its demi.e.
In Italy, Savings Banks are estab-
lished and controlled by the Govern.
ment, and writer for the Philadelnbia
b"lIet" claims that such should be the
case mere. lie argues that while our
banking system is SO perfect that the
failure OF bank does not affect the
holders ofits notes, savings banksshould
be SO guarded that depositors cannot
possibly lose their money.
ACCORDING to recent report of the.
Wilmington Del Board Of Trade, iron
ships and steamers can now be buiIt i,
Delaware ship-yards at twelve per cent
exclusive OF the gold premium, of what
they would cost on the Clyde 1t is also
stated that this margin of twelve per
cent. would be entirely removed if the
same inferior quality Of iron were used
on American vessels as is employed in
English steamers.
The work of preparing for the coming
OF the " beautiful snow along the noun
tain division of the Union Pacific is pro-
crossing rapidly, about 500 men being
employed, of whom 225 are engaged on
the snow sheds alone Over 100 miles
of snow fence have been put up and
several miles of sheds. Fifteen miles
OF track have been raised, and other i'm
provements made, by which it is hoped
that blockade this winter will be pre-
vented.
truth is stronger than fiction. The
remark has been made before, but it is.
now emphatically made again. What
Goes the reader say to the corpse of a
young lady in Ohio getting out of her
coffin, going into the next room. and
there speaking family to the watchers =?
OF course it was shock to the watchers
but they had the presence of mind to
alton of their friend to full life: and at
the last accounts she was doing well and
likely to recover.
A REMARKABLE criminal is described
by the Asheville IN. c. Pioneer-the ex.
Rev. William Wilson, of Yancey county.
who has just been sent for nine wears tc.
the Penitentiary. Before the war, he
was Baptist minister in good standing,
and commanded the respect and esteem
of large circle of acquaintance. Do
nestle infelicity led him to abandon his.
wife. He thus fell into disfavor with
the religious community. SO that he
abandoned the ministry and betook
himself to highway robbery. SingularIy
enough, he goes to prison for robbing a
wagon in 1865. For five years he evade6
arrest, was then tried, carried his case
up on law points, and now the verdict
is sustained