Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

a carte blanche for his Harper's Week
W pictures.
A MISSOURI lady, who is known to law
as femme covert, declines to pay taxes
because she cannot earn the money with
which to pay the taxes.
THE statement is repeated that Alex
ander II. Stephens and Herschel V.
johnson are to start daily in Washing
ton, independent in politics.
In England there were 25, 7O5 Coro-
ner's inquests held last year, 1S,046
being on men. In the preceding year
there had been 1913 more inquests.
"VnLANoUs whisky is the cause of a
large percentage of the deaths in the
State. So says report to the State
Medical Association, In session at Little
Rock, Ark.
PRINCESS LOUISE, the wife of the Mar
quis OF Lorne, is a sculptor of consid-
siderable merit, and is now engaged in
designing busts for the adornment of
her London home.
OF the 80, 900 Americans permanently
residing in Paris nearly 10000 are from
Louisiana, 5000 from Virginia, 5000
from other Southern States, and only
1000 from the North and West.
THE IVonon's Journal thinks that if
Mr.. Alexander I. Stewart will let the
1000 women who are to occupy his
hotel uptown make their own code of
police regulations all will be well.
A RAILROAD is now in contemplation
from the Russian town of Orenburg to
Peshawar IN India, distance of $500
miles. When this portion of the line
shall be..finished, railroad will extend,
without break of gauge, from Calais to
Calcutta, through Warsaw and Moscow.
In view of the present iron scarcity in
England some of the papers are COM
planning of the absurdity of wasting it,
as is done IN tea. It is stated that a
very large percentage of iron and steel
filings is mixed with various grades of
teas, especially in those coming from
Canton.
Gov. STRAW, of New Hampshire, who
was one of the judges at the baby-show
at the State Fair, last week, was sur
prised Saturday by finding on his door
step an infant of about two months old.
Having had enough of babies for one
week, the Governor turned the infant
over to the police authorities.
P. j. PETERSON and F. Fl. Brandt,
the original discoveries of the Little
Annie, Del Norte, and Margaretta
lodes, in Colorado, have just sold out
their claims for $4,000 cash. These
men, one of whom is Swede and the
other a German, are thus suddenly
raised to opulence, and will immediate
ly visit their wondering relatives in Eu-
rope.
Among the awards of the Mixed Com
mission, which has been sitting during
the summer at Newport, was $4,000
to DIR. James Syme, Scotchman of
New Orleans, whose valuable store of
drugs was appropriated by Butler. The
doctor died about three years ago in
poverty, and the money will go to his
heirs.
New HAMPSHIRE has q compulsory
school law, requiring that every person
having in custody child between eight
and fourteen years of age shall send it
to school at least twelve weeks in the
year, of which six shall be consecutive.
The law provides that the child may be
instructed in private school or at
home.
Two nephews of Herschel V. john
son, of Georgia, named James and Ben
jamin Hardee, were killed recently in
Robertson county, Texas. They were
bearers of note to G.. w. Powell, a
well-known Desperate, who, upon read
ing the communication, Immediately
drew q pistol and shot them dead. The
young men were unarmed.
THERE will, it is estimated, be pro-
duced in California this year over
II, O00, 900 gallons of wine, of the value
of So, 500, 900; two millions of pounds
of grapes for table use, with $50, 900
pounds of raisins. The acreage under
cultivation of the vine is estimated at
less than 40, 600 acres, and it is further
estimated that 100000 of acres are
especi ally adapted to the cultivation of
the vine.
The state of education in France is
discouraging. There has been no i'm
proven ent of late years. Over 200, 900
children, from seven to thirteen years
of age, receive no instruction whatever.
Twenty three per cent. of the young
soldiers cannot read or write, and thirty
four per cent. of the married men and
women cannot sign the marriage act.
The most Ignorant departments are
Brittany, some of the central ones, and
those adjoining Spain and the Mediter-
ranean.
A NEwBURYPoRr (Mass.) paper says
that hundred and eight years ago a
meeting was held at the Wolf Tavern,
on State street, to consult ON "the
create Tumult and Uneasiness on Occa-
sion of the Stamp Act" Mr.. William
Davenport, who kept the tavern, charged
the guests with seventy-nine bowls of
punch, which at quart each would
seem to be liberal supply. The COM
pany stayed till morning, and took supper
and breakfast. There is a difference
between the customs of 1865 and 1873.