Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
Personal and General.
POSTAL CARDS after May 1.

= OSATAA OAhDo tl1tCI
The Khedive squanders So, OOO,OUO
year.
GARIBALDI is living quietlife at Cap
rera.
JOHN B. COUGH likewise halls from
England
LIEUT.. FRED GRANT, unlike his father,
is voluble talker.
Mr.. GREELEY left $40, 600 in worth
less notes and paper
PAULINE LUCIA has taken out her first
naturalization papers.
REPRESENTATIVE JAMES BROOKS, of
New York. is hopelessly Ill.
THE mother of ex-Empress Eugene
has been stricken with blindness.
PENNSYLVANIA exported two and half
million barrels of petroleum last year.
MRS. HESTER SHAW, of Lumberton,
n. D., died last week at the age of 104.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER returned home
from his Western tour of seventeen lee
lures with 81 600 as his net profits.
KANSAS lawyers are fined for profanity
and contempt of court when they under
take to quote Latin to the judge.
To REVENGE himself on his wife. a
Montreal man mutilated costly monu-
ment she had erected over her first hus-
band
HENRY WATTERsoN, of the Louisville
Courier-Jourraal, will deliver the annual
address to the Indiana editors, at Indi-
annapolis, on the LIST of May.
THERE is an orange tree atSan Gabriel,
Los Angeles county, Cal, supposed to
be eighty years old, which is said to have
yielded in one season {, 200 oranges.
A RHODE ISLAND man has invented a
torpedo in the shape of kernel of corn,
which is designed for the beguilement
of crows. As soon as that offensive bird
takes hold of it, it explodes and blows
the top of his head off.
IT was splendid joke on the part of
three Albany men to cut one of the hind
quarters from a Newfoundland dog that
had been killed, dress it, and send it to
a friend, who had it cooked and ate it,
thinking it was mutton. Yes, it was
good joke.
/ "PERMIT me, said an eminent Sena-
tor to stranger the other day, 'to in
troduce you to the authoress of the
world. 81 beg your pardon" cried the
witty Miss Gruudy (Miss Snead), 81 do
not care to have myself designated as the
wife of Adam
SARA WALKER, IS years of age, reached
Lowell, Mass, the other day, after
20-mile walk, in search of work in the
mills. She stated that her object was to
lay up little money against the day
when old age should render her unable
to perform hard labor
IT is claimed that 70 per cent. of al
the land in the State of Illinois is within
five miles of railways in actual operation,
21} per cent. lies between five and ten
miles, per cent. lies between ten and
fifteen miles, and l. per cent. lies be-
| tween fifteen and twenty miles.
THERE will not be another inaugu-
ration on the 4th of March for eight
years, as the 4th of that month In 1877
falls on Sunday. The last instance of
this kind was the inauguration Of Presi-
dent Taylor, who was necessarily inaugu-
rated on Monday, March 5.
JOE SMITH, the leader of the anti
polygamy Mormons, and son of their
founder, is reported to have recently
purchased the first Mormon temple in
Kirkland, Ohio, and it is supposed that
the Mormons now living in Illinois mean
to return to their early settlement at
Kirkland.
THE editors and publishers of Maine
newspapers having met In convention at
Augusta the other day, the Portland
Press ventures to affirm that there were
gathered the every wisest and most vir-
tuous little crowd of men, in the seedi
est of last years clothes, that ever met
at the State capital"
The people of North Carolina are to
vote upon eight amendments to their
State Constitution at the August election.
Among other things, they strike out the
clauserequiring the Legislature to levy
tax to pay the public debt, provide for
biennial sessions of the Legislature,
and make Federal and State officers in
eligible to seats in that body.
IT may not be generally known that
our world is running on credit, and what
is still worse all but three countries are
getting deeper and deeper into debt each
year-these countries are Great Britain,
Germany and America. At present the
debt the world is revolving under is
81, 400, 000,0 which is putting it at its
, lowest figure. Its pretty respectable
world that can owe that much.
BE careful how you go to sleep at an
| auction. A gentleman settled himself in
comfortable chair, and, his senses
soothed by the auctioneer's lullaby, soon
dropped asleep. When his nap was over
he left the place. The next day he was
astounded at the receipt of bill for
several hundred dollars worth of carpets
1 and other things. The auctioneer had
f received his somniculous mods for bids.
A MARKED proof that people can have
I too much even of good thing is fur
:. nished by the population of Texas, a
: large proportion of which is little better
! than tribe of gipsies. The vast extent
= of their territory encourages them to
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