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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
Miscellaneous.

HENRY Glars gig is running yet in
Lexington, Ky.
A. YANKEE is the name of a gentleman
residing in Milwaukee.
IT takes three hours and a quarter to
wash, comb and perfume a New York
lap-dog.
Mr.. JOSEPH SWEET, the newly elected
President of q Providence bank, is 81
years old.
The New York Sun has had twenty
eight libel suits in seven years, and never
had to pay a cent of damages.
Mrs. CONWAY, of Tifin, O., mas taken
the contract to grade seventeen miles Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
THE New York Legislature has passed
the Michigan law making it a criminal
offense to point a gun at a person in
sport.
MEssRs. JEFFERSON DAVIS and Gideon
J. Pillow were last week elected vestry-
men of St. Lazarus Church, at Mem
phis, Tenn.
The lightning recently struck a house
at Sandusky four times In one night, and
then succeeded in rousing only part of
the family.
IT is stated that one of the moneyed
institutions of Hartford has so, 600, 900
of Chicago mortgages, drawing al aver
age of 9 per cent.
A LYNN man has invented a substitute
for sole leather, which, he claims, is
cheaper in price and superior in durabil-
ity to that article.
THOMAS JEFFERsoN's family carriage,
imported from Europe by him, has been
sent to a shop in Staunton, Va, from
Charlottesville, where it is owned, to be
repaired.
THE tor.b and monument of President
Lincoln, at Springfield, ILL.,, are said to
be in a d~isgraceful condition, not even
affording shelter to the coffin from the
ravages of the weather.
A FARMERS wife in Dakota thought
1essly used a bundle of old letters to stuff
up the cracks of their cabin, and the
farmer is now in search of the writer of
them with a shotgun.
A STORY is current that Charles A.
Dana intends to leave the San after the
present year, and reside permanently
abroad. w. o. Bartlett, who has long
been Dana's assistant, is spoken of as
his successor.
A BEAUTIFUL young girl was married
in San Francisco last week, and at the
conclusion of the marriage ceremony
she turned to her husband and said,
"George, kiss me /; / am dying" The
husband complied with the request, and
at that moment the young bride fell
dead to the floor.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
Heirs to S~5.OOO,OOO.

A letter from from pelhi, N. Y, says:
In 1857 an English family named
Howard came to this country and settled
in what is now Delaware county, n. Y.
They were very genteel, and never lost
an opportunity to impress upon the
natives that they were descendants of an
immensely wealthy family. They had
one child, q son named James. The old
people died when James had arrived at
mans estate. He married here, and be-
came the father of two daughters. He
died at a good old age. His daughters
married brothers-one Daniel and the
other Isaac Williams. One of these
daughters had two sons, Joshua and
Thomas. Joshua a few years ago went
to Warren, Pa, to live.
A few days since these descendants of
James Howard were notified officially
from England that they had fallen he'll
to an estate valued at SIS, 600, 900. They
are requested to furnish proof of theil
descent from James Howard, who would
be the direct heir if living. The vii
liamses are actively engaged in getting
the necessary dispositions and gathering
evidence of their identity and wher
the chain is complete the Ioldest brother
will sail for England to look after The
inheritance. The matter has thrown
Delaware county into a fever of excite
ment.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
Starch.

The use of starch was first discovered
by the Dutch. Previous to and in tbs
early part of the reign of Queen Eliza
beth, kerchiefs, ruffs and cuffs were
worn, made of fine linen brought from
Holland which required but little stiff
fleming. With the introduction of cam
brics and fabrics containing less body,
the necessity for some substance which
would give firmness and keep the plaits
of the ruff in place led to the use of
starch. British gum, or dextrine, which
is largely used for stiffening cotton
goods, is starch brought to a high de-
gree of heat. The discovery that dex-
trine could be produced was made by ac-
cident. A starch factory was burned
down. A workman observed this new
substance among the ruins, and being
impressed with the idea that it was valu-
able and would supply a large want,
tried it. It proved the new agent he
hoped it would be. He communicated
his discovery to a friend, and the two
proceeded to manufacture the gum.
They were successful, and had many APP
plications from manufacturers for the
secret, but refused to tell They, how
ever, fell upon evil times. They had no
capital, and either guarded their secret
i'll, or were forced to sell it for an in
significant sum-. AS in most instances
of great discoveries, they reaped but
little benefit from it, while others made
fortunes. .-t ar
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
Novel Horse Protector.

1t is a common thing in our cities to
protect the heads of draft horses with a
bonnet or cushion to keep off the blaze
of the sun. But Dublin protector pro-
poses to extend a similar protection over
the entire animal. He makes a frame
of wood, whalebone, iron rods, or other
flexible, but strong material, and this
he places over the horse, a few inches
above him, the frame being supported
either by attachment to the harness or
to the thrills of the vehicle. Upon this
frame he stretches a sheet of canvas,
oiled cloth, or sheet rubber, which forms
a complete penthouse, to keep off either
rain or sun. The space between the
animal and the covering permits a free
passage of air, which aids Transportation
and helps to keep the animal cool. The
principle, as far as this is concerned, is
similar to that of the odd o~val-shaped
hats worn by men in the East Indies
from time immemorial. These com
prise a light frame of bamboo slips en-.
circling the forehead and sustaining
covering lined with cork an inch above.
and out of contact with the head. The
slight rustling of the breeze through
ones hair is said to be very refreshing,
and quite possibly a horse furnished
with one of the new protectors" may
coincide with this experience during hot
! summer days.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
Dipping the Hand Into Molten Iron.

The thing has been done over and
over again, observed Dr.. Carpenter in a
recent lecture-that a man has gone and
held his naked hand in such a stream of
molten iron, and has done it without the
least injury ; all that is required being
to have his hand moist, and if his hand
is dry, ne has merely to dip it in water,
and he may hold his hand for a certain
time IN that stream of molten iron with
out receiving any injury whatever. This
was exhibited publicly at a meeting of
the British Association at Ipswich, many
years ago. 1t is one of the miracles Of
science, SO to speak /; they are perfectly
credible to scientific men, because they
know the principle upon which it hap
pens, and that principle is familiar to
you all, that if you throw a drop of water
upon hot iron, the water retains it's
spherical form, and does not spread upon
it and wet it. Vapor is brought to that
condition by intense heat, that it forms
a sort of film, or atmosphere, between
the hand and the hot iron, and for a
time that atmosphere is not too hot to
be perfectly bearable. There are a
number of these miracles of science.
which we believe, however incredible at
first sight they may appear, because
they can be brought to the test of ex-
perience and can be at any time repro
duced under the necessary conditions.
Houdin, the conjurer, in his very inter-
esting autobiography little book /
would really recommend to any of
you who are interested in the study of
the workings of the mind. Houdin tells
you that he himself tried this expert
ment, after a good deal of persuasion
and he says that the sensation of i'm
mersing his hand in this molten metal
was like handling liquid velvet.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
GUILDS SIGNAL.

[Mr. Bret Harte, in the New York Tribune, cele-
brates William Guild, the engineer of the train
which, on the 10Th of April, plunged into Meadow
Brook, on the line of the Stonington and Provi-
dence railway. 1t was his custom, as often as he
passed his home, to whistle an " all's well to his
wife. He was found, after the disaster, dead, with
The low whistles, quaint and clear,
That was the signal The engineer
That was the signal that Guild, it's said
Gave to his wife at Providence.
As through the sleeping town, and Themes,
Ont n t5 ssi ii eishf' 8IU1
Down past the farms, lying white, he sped.
AS a husbands greeting, scant no doubt
Yet to the woman looking out,
Watching and waiting, no serenade,
Love song or midnight roundelay,
Said what that whistle seemed to saw:
"To my trust true,
So love to you
Working or waiting, Good night !" it said.
Brisk young bagmen, tourists fine,
Old commuters along the line,
Brakemen and porters glanced ahead,
Smiled as the signal, sharp, intense,
Pierced through the shadows of Providence
Nothing amlss-
Nothing it is
Only Guild calling his wife" they said.
Summer and winter, the old refrain
Rang DER the pillows of ripening grain,
Pierced through the budding boughs o'erhead,
Flew down the track when the red leaves burned
Like living Goals from the engine spurned f;
Sang as it flew;
"To our trust true,
First of all Duty-good night" it said
And then, one night. it was heard no more,
From Stonington over Rhode Island shore,
And the folk in Providence smiled and said,
AS they turned in their beds, " The engineer
Has once forgotten his midnight cheers
One only knew,
To lis trust true,
Guild lay under his engine dead,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
The GOslin.

The goslin IL the old goose's yung
child. They are yeller all over and az
soft az a bail ov worsted. Their foot IL
wove whole, and they kan swim az eazy
az a drop ov kastor oil on the water.
They are born annually about the 18th
ov May, and never waz known tew die
naturally.
If a man should tell rae he had saw a
goose die a natral and square deth, [
wouldn't believe him under oath after
that, not even if he swore he had lied
about seeing a goose die.
The goose are different in one respekt
from the human family, who are sed tew
grow weaker, but wizer whereaz a Cos
lin alwus grows tuffer and more phool-
ish.
! hav seen a goose that they sed waz
70 years old last June, and he didn't
look an hour older than one that wa II.
The goslin waddles when he walks,
and paddles when he swims, but never
dives, like a duk, out ov sight in the
water, but only changes ends.
The food ov the goslin IL rye, corn,
oats, and barley, sweet apples, hasty
pudding, and billed cabbage, cooked
potatoze, raw meat, and tcrnips, stale
bred, kold hash, and the buckwheat
kakes that are left over.
They amt SO partiklar az sum pholks
what they eat, and won't git mad and
quit if they kant hav wet toast and lam
chops every morning for breakfast.
If i waz a going tew keep boarders,
wouldn't want emmy better feeders thar
an old she goose and II goslins. If
kouldn't suit them i should konklude
had mistaken mi kalling.
Roast goslin IL good nourishment, i
you kan git enuff ov it, but there aint
much waste meat on a goslin, after VI
have got rid ov their feathers, and dug
them out inside.
I have alwus notissed, when you pass
yure plate up for sum more baked Cos
lin, at a hotel, the colored brother cum:
bak empty with plate, and tells you
"Mister, the roast goslin IL no more
Josh Billings.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
THE NOSE.
The Domestic Realm,

Home is the bright realm of which a
wife is the sovereign, and her sover-
eighty will bring honor and love accord
ing as her rule over the matters commit
ted to her trust is wisely and benefcent-
ly ordered. The realm, limited as it is,
demands for its government a much
greater and more underwriting effort
of thought than is always given to it;
for when a wife, intent upon making the
home of her family all that is possible
to make it, studies daily how best, by
skillful management, she can crafty
preferences, please tastes, anticipate
wishes, keep out of sight little worries,
Irvine privations with decoration of love,
and lift off for awhile burdens of care,
all of which appeal to her for thoughtful
and graceful Intervention, she seldom
fails of securing the reward which she
most dearly prizes. se sssg
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22
THE SPINNING WHEEL.
BY WILLARD E. COULTER.

Bugzing and whirling with merry sound,
BuzZing loudly as the wheels went round,
From wheel to wheel with a elickety-clack!
An keeping time to the musical clank
of the up and down stroke of the treadle-crank-
AS grandmother moved it with steady beat
Hour by hour with her slippered feet,
And drawing out with her m igic hand
The yarn from the spindle, strand by strand.
While. soft and beautiful as the snow
Dropped from the clouds to the earth below,
Pure and bright as though spotless of sin,
Was the carded wool she used to spin;
And each moment, as the spindle hew,
The threads were twisted and the white skein
grew,
Smoothly and evenly, spun with care,
Ready for knitting and future wear.
As grandmother turned the wheels, anon,
What were her eyes resting upon?
For they gazed only at empty space
But the keen expression on her face
Evinced that her mind was occupied
With something more than the wheel beside
Thoughts, perhaps, OF her absent dead,
Who encircled her hearth in the years now fled.
Children and friends that on earth were fond,
One by one had departed beyond
The spirit of Death one morning came chill,
And grandfather too grew cold and still
In the church-yard, meath the willows shade.
His form at rest was mournfully laid;
Yet grandmother bemoaned not her fate,
But patiently waited the opening gate.
The wheel still turned and the spindle whirled,
But grandmother's thoughts were beyond the
world,
And often that voice caught her ear,
None but grandmother herself could hear,
Why, do you not hear those words 2" asked she !;
Grandfather is here singing to me
The very hymns we we're wont to sing
In family prayer and worshiping."
Sometimes her eyes you'd kindle with light,
CFor grandmother was blest with second Sigh0
" H. is now standing beside my chair
Look, he is smiling so kindly there !"
And she would point the place Will her trembling
hand,
But we were too mortal to understand
Buzz and hum the wheels would run,
Slowly the carded wool was spun.
But the spinning-wheel has seen its days,
Hid in the attic from peoples gaze
Covered with dust, as the years creep by,
1t is going to ruin silently
The spindle turns on its spool no more,
And the straps are worn that played of yore,
Treadle and crank alike are dumb,
With the cresking wheel and busy hum.
Its life is gone with the buzz and whirr,
And it is among the things that were;
The feet that once the treadle propelled,
The hands that once the white wool held,
That guided the swift revolving thread.
And the life chat gave the power are dead
But grandmother's spirit is only gone,
And beyond the grave, in joy, lives on
No grief Expresses, no anxious care,
Nor burdens Of sorrow or pain to bear.
The skein is finished, the life is spun,
The wheels are stopped, and her work is done.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22

Mr.. BONNER, on Saturday last, drove
his young stallion tartle over Fleetwood
Park, New York, to his road wagon, q
half mile, in LOG.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22

WILLIAM SCHWARTZ, of Hillsboro, O.,
has Just drawn 1898 from the Govern
ment for his share of the 800, 600 re-
ward offered for the capture OF JEFF.
Davis.
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A fearful tragedy Is recorded in Bel
GUM. The Progress du NOrd states
that in II small village young girl in
service had saved little fortune of =
500 francs. Hearing her mother was i'll
and required her care, she left her
home by rail, and had to alight about
q league distant therelrom. To reach
her destination she would have TO pass
a wood, and fearing the dangers Of the
way, she resolved to pass the night at
The house of an uncle who lived near.
She knocked up her relations, told her
story and her fears, and was pat into
the room of her female cousin who was
out ut work. While lying awake she
overheard conversation which filled
her with horror. Her hosts We're plan
ming to murder her for the money she
carried Thercupon she leaped from
the window and fled, half naked, until
utterly exhausted she encountered two
gendarmes.
After she had told them what had
happened, they led her back to her UNI
clc'5 house, where a light was observed
in distant part of the garden. The
gcndarmes approached the spot silent
", and found that both the uncle and
aunt were engaged in hurying body
enwmpted in n blood-stained cloth.
the cloth was suddenly snatched away,
and the mmdercrs uttered Il common
cry of terror The victim was their
daughter, who, having come home
late, had crept up stairs quietly, so MS
not to alarm her parents, and had been
killed in mistake for her cousin. The
aunt went mad forthwith, and the UNI
Gle stabbed himself from remorsc and
dread of the consequences of hiscri
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The next week Doctor clifton oumo
70 the village, and Went with Doctor
Nelson 10 sec his whllom patient VII
Tic linsti who was now u bright rosy
boy of four summers
On the following Sunday morning
Milldale was shaken to iM crntoE when,
just before the hour for morning Hcrv-
Ice, carriage drove up % the church
door, Dr Clifton sprang ont, assisting
Maggie Hurst TO ullght aud walked
straight up the aisle To The altar fol-
lowed only 10y Dr. Nelson, leading little
Willie by the hand,
AIaggic's black robes had dsap-
pearod, and shcWorc a pretty lilac silk,
trimmed with white satin, = gem Of u
bonnet TO match, and her little white
gl0ved hand resting on Gilbert Clii-
toms arm,
You could have heard a pin drop IN
the church rs the good old clergyman
opened the book at the marriage scry-
ice, and, after the usual questions and
answers pronounced Gilbert Clifton
and Maggie Hurst "husband and wife,
in the name Of the Father Son, and
Holy Ghost.n
The little party then took their seats
IN DR.. Nelson's pew, and oponcd their
praycr-books at the morning service
as quietly as though nothing unusual
had happened,
Heads were turned this way and
that in the congregation, smiles We're
exchanged, and nm excited, merry
crowd waited on the church steps to
congratulate the bridal pair ut the
close of the service.
Maggie looked bright and happy in
her cheerful attire, and Mrs Hebron
could scarcely express her good wishes
from sheer astonishmcnt,
"NhO would have dreamed of such n
thing" she said looking after the
bride and groom as they entered the
carriage and drove back 70 the cot
tage, 81 never was so thunderstuck
in my lifo,n
81 told you so,n said Aunty Brown,
81 knowit was ag'in natur fora young,
pretty woman to gricvc always for one
husband when there were plenty more
TO be had. Pm not Thunderstorm nj all.
| knew how il would be from the
first. ~
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BANKING AND INSURANCE.
r. 0, IoRpAN, Il, T., AuNsPAUGH.
President, Cashier
CITYBANK Of DALLAS
CAPITAL $3.50, 900.
DIRECTORS.
t. O. JORDAN, J.R. CoUTs,
W. e. HUGHES, &C. SLAUGHTER.

This Institution, chartered by the Leglsa.
tnro ot the State OF 1'exns, win confluence
operation June |, 1873 aud wlll do a general
banking, exchange, and collection business,
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rates. receive deposits subject 10 cheek AZ
sight and Issue billsuf oNcnuugo on the prln-
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mNde 10 nll the leading cities OF Europe.
Special attention given 10 the collection OF
notes, drafts ETC., throughout the state and
elsewhere, The business otbanks, merchants
and manufacturers solicited.
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