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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
Freaks of Lightning.

At the last sitting OF the French
Academy of Sciences, letter was read
from NJ. A. Parent, giving an account
of the effects of q violent stroke of light
ming which fell on the Doth ult., at
Troyes (Aube), in a central quarter of
the town, with q noise equal to the re.
port of several pieces of artillery. The
phenomenon seems to have been con-
fined to the Rue de la Monnaie, where,
at No. 81, young girl who was stand
ing on the threshold of her dwelling,
saw fiery globe, of the size of an
orange, fall at her feet, then roll along
the street, and disappear. She expert
enced violent shock, causing a tremb-
ling that did not cease until the follow
ing day. The pins in her hair were
torn away, as well as all the other metal
articles she Lad about her person. Her
father, who was leaning against the iron
bars of q window of the next house, was
paralzyed for few seconds, and did not
recover from the commotion for several
days. At No. %, same street, in the
"Election-house," as it is called, the
electric fluid tell ON turret behind the
house, pierced a hole through the
weather-cock, slid down the roof along
the zinc which covered it, got inside by
loosening the beams that supported the
woodwork, broke through the floor into
the lower story, made its way through a
hall into the spouts and pipes laid down
to the first story thence passed to the
next house, broke INTO warehouse
where there were some iron stoves, with
the usual cast-iron ornaments, such as
wreaths, flowers, etc., all of which it
faithfully designed on the ceiling with
the precision of photography; then
melted the wire of bell, the trace of
which it left on the wall, and at length
took fancy to some gilt wooden rods
intended for sale and wrapped up in
paper. These it enriched with fantas-
tic but elegant designs, and after few
more vagaries, took its leave.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
A Wonderful Story.

The Dude (India) Excelsior prints
the following story: every recently a
native, having ornaments on her person
worth about 400 or 500 rupees, accom-
paip. by her daughter, who also wore
ornal ,ents worth about 200 rupees,
alighted from the train at Hurdui, and
hired an ekka to convey them to their
village. On arriving at lonely spot
about six miles from Hurdui, there be-
ing no villages within miles, the ekka
drew up at the side of the road, and the
driver suddenly demanded the whole of
the jewelry to be given to him. On be-
ing refused he tied the woman and the
girl up to the ekka, and cody Invested
them of every article. He then drew a
knife with the intention of numbering
them, but In the excitement of the mo-
ment let the weapon fall into ditch
about three feet deep. He jumped
down, and was just in the act of clutch
ing at the knife when a black snake
darted from hole, and fixed its fangs
in his hand knowing the snake to be
an extremely venomous one, he fell down
almost senseless with terror, and died in
few minutes. The woman and girl
remained there about two hours, when,
seeing some villagers at a distance, they
screamed for assistance, and, on being
released, gave information at the near
est thannah. The police came to the
spot, and found the corpse of the ekka-
driver, and the snake still there. The
corpse was taken to the nearest station
for an inquest to be held. The snake
was blocked in its hole with large
stone, as the police had not the courage
to kill it. The ornaments were found
tied up in the kummerbund of the
corpse, and were restored to their own
ers. The foregoing facts were related to
us by one whose yeracity We have 10
reason tn 1oubt -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

in the faces of the Liberals, and tell
them they never attempted to abandon
their old faith and party, and merely
wanted to use their fingers to pull the
chestnuts out OF the fire
The Liberal Republicans believed last
year they had captured the Democracy
and led them to make final renuncia-
ton of their Old principles, and to recog-
nize in good faith the constitutional
amendments, the Acknowledgement of
the colored race, and the general re-
suits of the war. And their ambition to
accomplish this was noble one. and
might well appeal to the highest patriot
ism but all their efforts have proved a
lamentable failure. Last year, under
their lead, the Democracy professed to
recognize the natural and political
rights of the colored man and the valid
ity of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments but In their
several State platforms this year they
significantly ignore all these things, de-
claring that upon all great questions
they stand where they have always
stood. And as up to last year they had
denied the validity of the amendments,
and refused to accept colored suffrage
as finality, they have again distinctly
placed themselves upon that ground.
What faith can the nation have in
any professions of reform made by these
politicians, who, after flirting and mas
querading on all political questions,
finally throw off the mask, and, with
derisive shouts, tell their late allies
"We were only trying to use you; we
are nothing but old-fashioned, ante-war,
pro-slayely Democrats, and deny the
existence of the nation and assert the
sovereignty of the States.''
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

The men are few to whose lot it has
fallen to be married three times rare,
though less rare, are the women who
have achieved three ceremonies of that
interesting character but here we have
a couple who have been married three
times to each other. Nine years ago
Mr.. Charles Wood, then living in De
Kalb county, of this State, was united
in marriage to Miss Martha Bailey.
Within year or two, she developed
what Capt. Dalroy calls, ga very
large temper" and Mr.. Wood procured
a divorce. A year or two more elapsed,
they came together again, buried the
Ratchet or the broom-stick, or whatever
it is that typifes domestic warfare, and
were married again. This time the con-
nubial peace was destroyed by the
green-eyed monster, and the second d.
vorce was procured at his suit on a
charge of adultery. Then Mr.. Wood
moved to Iowa, his divorced wife re-
naming in De Kalb county. A short
time ago she wrote to him, asking if he
would not take care of the children, to
which petition came the reply, Eyes,
and of you too" She went to him. and
is now, for the third time, his wife,
Chicago Times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

Some people have agreeable ways of
amusing themselves in the Southwest
An Austin (Texas) paper tells of bar
Der living in Lampasas, who ornament
ed the front door of his shop with a
white door-knob. 1t was the first in
troduced into that fashionable Watering
place. The Horrell gang, after killing
Capt. Williams and his men, and being
rescued from the Georgetown Jail (pa-
renthically remarks the journal referred
to-, returned to Lampasas, where they
go and come unmolested. Spying the
white door-knob, they deliberately be-
gan to practice at it with their six-shoot-
ers-it vas such nice MARYLAND fairly
riddled the knob and the door, and now
the barber finds the climate more in
MIGRATING on the avenue of our city.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

From a recent sermon by Brigham
Young we extract these touching re-
marks
Brother George @. Cannon says the
sisters have borne great deal. So they
have, but if they could only stand in the
shoes of their husbands, who are good,
true, and faithful, they would know
that they are by no means free from
perplexities. Just fancy a man with
two, three or half dozen of his beloved
wives catching him on one side, and be-
fore he can take three steps more catch
ing him on the other, and CT want
this, y" want that" and "This is not
right, This is not right" and SO on
their minds just pulled to pieces. L say
if the hair is spared ON their heads, they
may consider that they have blessed
good wives. / have as many wives as
any other man, and / keep my hair yet.
But as to trials, why, bless your hearts,
the man or woman who tries to live &C
cording to the Gospel of the Son of
God, and at the same time clings to the
spirit of the world, has trials and sor-
rows acute and keen, that too continu-
ally.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
The Nile.

The sources of the Nile are contained
in the rain-clouds of the equator, which
pour themselves down on the forest
plateau, form into a thousand rivers,
and finally collect in enormous lakes,
the precise number and importance of
which are yet to be determined. From
Bakers Albert Nyanza-the most north
erly in latitude and lowest in level of
these inland seas-the Nile runs toward
Europe and plunges into the Sahara.
From its great equatorial reservoirs it
receives suficiency Of water to main
tain its existence throughout this land
of fire, where all other rivers re speed
lily extinguished. But the Nile not only
flows through the Sahara, it also over
flows the fiat country lying near its
mouth, and, casting mud ON the surface
of the sand, creates that meadow which
is called Egypt.
Now this black mud does not come
from the lands of the equator; the
waters of the Nile are clear, or tohite i;
and although the lakes can keep the
Nile alive in its journey through the
desert, they cannot make it overflow.
Whence, then, proceed these rich soil
laden and redundant waters to the weary
Nile?
On the right-hand side of that flowing
river, between its waters and the Red
sea, cluster of mountains rises in the
air. These are the highlands of Ethio-
pia-the romantic Abyssinia, the Swift
erland of Africa; and down these hilly
slopes, at a certain season of the year,
rush two noisy streams-the Blue or
Black Nile, and the Atbara-which,
stripping their country of its black up
per soil, fall into the Nile, and bestow
upon it such wealth of water that, as
soon as it escapes from the rocky walls
which line its course in the Nubian
desert, it is forced to overflow.
Thus the Nile is created by the rain
fall of the equator, and Egypt by the
rainfall of the tropics. If the White
Nile did not exist, the Black Nile would
be nothing-it would perish in the sand.
But if the Black Nile did not exist, the
White Nile would be merely barren
river in sandy plain, with some Arab
encampments on it's banks WinWOOd
.Pedde''s "Afiican Sketch-BOok.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
ALPS Well That Ends Well.

Saturday evening, says the Sacra-
mento Union, gentleman in the en-
ploy of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company drove out to a place about
fifteen miles from the city, where his
family are stopping, and soon afterward
started on his return to town. Before
starting he lighted his meerschaum and
Indulged In long and pleasant smoke
as he drove along. This over, he placed
the pipe in the outer breast pocket of
his coat, and paid no more attention to
it. By and by peculiar smell greeted
his olfactories--a smell of burning WOOL
en- cloth-and, a. it increased, he began
were on fire, and at the first movement
he found that the whole pocket had
burned out of his coat, and the fire was
spreading rapidly. He grabbed at the
burning material hastily, but was so
nervous about it that he frightened the
horse, and the animal ran. To make
matters worse, the lines were not
buckled together, and one slipped out
of his grasp while he was endeavoring
to smother the fire with his other hand
Still worse, the increased speed increas-
ed the breeze, which famed the fire,
and portions of it dropped down upon
his pants, burning through them, and
causing him to bounce up and down on
the seat as though he were trying to
settle an unusually hearty meal And
there he was horse running away, line
dragging, and fire rapidly making the
cuticle of his leg rival the hue of his
red-fannel underclothing At last by
dent of dexterous clawing he managed
to smother the fire, then stepped out on
the shafts and recovered the line, and
In course of time subdued the horse.
Exceedingly thankful to get out of his
trouble without broken bones, he rode
on to the city in a subdued frame of
mind, and never thought of being pro-
fame prtii. Just as he was quietly slip
ping into clothing-store with the
buffalo robe gathered about him to con-
ceal the deficiency of his wardrobe, he
met full in the face two lady friends,
who insisted upon his escorting them
home, and wanted to know what In the
world he had got himself wrapped up
that way for?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
The Instinct of Locality.

A short time ago an account was given
of dog that had been carried seven
hundred miles somewhere at the West,
but not liking the place, alone, guided
by faculty quite unknown to man, he
footed his way to his old loved home
without making inquiries, consulting a
guide-book, or travelling out of the way,
at the rate of nearly hundred miles
each day. An old horse, purchased of
farmer in Vermont, many years since,
was shipped at Seabrook, Conn. with
others, to the West Indies, for grinding
cane. A storm occurring in Long Island
Sound, the deck horses were washed
overheard and supposed to have been
lost. The old Vermonter, however,
reached land in the darkness of a stormy
night, and, finally, was found standing
at the barn-door of his old home. The
horse had never been far from the town
till sold, therefore could not have been
familiar with the way. Carrier pigeons
perform feats as swift messengers through
the air because they are in hurry to
reach home. However far they may be
carried confined in baskets, they invari
ably speed their way, without resting on
the voyage, till they reach the place
dear to their affections. In 1919, with
a view to ascertain their speed, pigeon
was carried from Antwerp to London,
and there liberated. The bird was at
its cote, having flown $50 miles in
straight line In just six hours. Horses,
mules, dogs, cats, and all the migrating
birds, find their way as unerringly as
the carrier pigeon does, but how they
do it is beyond our ken. Some imagine
birds see telescopically one or two hun
dred miles, when high in the air, and
over tops of mountains. But the theory
throws no light upon the movements of
the mule that found his home in Brazil,
hundreds of miles over region where
man could hardly move, having neither
path to follow nor companion to lead
the way. Science, therefore, has some
thing more to do to clear up this
mystery.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
A Delicate Operation.

The Davenport Qowa) Democrat says
that DIR. E. n. Hazen, few days ago,
performed the rare and delicate surgi-
cal operation of removing the crystal
line lens from the left eye of Mr..
Rhoads, of Muscatine, aged Sc. The
lens had become opaque, and the eye
was practically valueless to him. As
and aqueous humor, the extreme delica-
cy of the operation may be imagined.
A slight tremor in the hand of the ope-
rator, or slight movement of the pa
tient, might have resulted in the perma-
nent ruin of the eye. Fortunately the
operation was highly successful, and,
with the adjustment of glass of the
proper focus to the eye, Mr.. Rhoads will
again have the use of it.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
Gen, Sherman.

The General of our army, whose sal
airy is $4,000 a year, came among us
three days, and we shook off bureau re-
straint and conventionality, and ex-
changed opinions freely.
Sherman IS pure, frank type of man,
who will have and hold his own. He
substitutes for mere imagination a
shortcut, original observation, which is
charming and surprising. In thirty
minutes he will say SO many new,
pithy, inn ocent things of depth that
you begin to feel that your man has
just come into the world seeking after
truth, and does not know what anybody
had said previously on the same SUBJ
jects. This quality of frst-sight never
grows vagarious and lapses into the
mere verbosity of a professional
talker-one of those elbow-chair fellows
who sentimentalize, talk a straight
rhapsody sprinklcd with inconsequential
anecdote, and kill time and thought like
a masculine Dorcas Society. Sherman
says much in little, with yistas of ST.
lence between, like the passing ships
you see, small and suggestive, on the
water-Gne. Not dogmatic, but little
given to qualifying anything he is sure
of, there is yet cool, soldiers materi-
alism about him which is contented with
a fact, and leaves the reason for it to
somebody else.
"The French are not a military peo-
pie" he said /; "they may have been at
some day, but the spirit is not there
now. They live in a simple way in
their little villages, and try to avoid the
CONSUMPTION. How palpable, and yet
previously unsaid, is this remark
Again, Sherman remarked: 81 think
city and county corporations, and their
abuses, are more dangerous than the
railroad corporations. The one is a
long line; the other is the whole area.
Every town of any proportions In
America is bonded away by the least
responsible people in it, and taxation is
rising around US like a freshet. Stop
these local politicians from selling good
citizens ont that's where competition
begins and ends" At another time he
alluded to Washington City life, and
wholly satisfied with it all. There were
a set of bureau-offcers there who were
tenacious of their places, and perpetu-
ally AMI annoyingly apprehensive of be-
ing transferred to some other points of
duty. 81 prefer the West" said the
General, "and think my California ex-
perience was the healthiest and most
useful 1 ever had" He further said he
had formed no very high estimate of the
destinies of Europe had little or no de-
sire to return there, and had never been
tired but once in his life, when he
assembled Vesuvius and returned the
same afternoon.-Seoside Letter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
Kentucky Equestrianism.

4 Kentucky paper tells a story of a
negro, whose mule took fright and ran
away with him straight toward preci-
pice at point where there is a sheer
descent of fifty feet. The mule saw his
danger, and stopped suddenly at the
very brink, but the shock threw the
negro over his head. de didn't fall,
however, for just as he was going over
the mules head, he clutched at the rein,
and held on to it, and, as the mule
sprang bac, at that instant, he was
landed in safety on the bank.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
A Question with Only One Answer.

A young man from the provinces, who
was sent to Paris to finish his education,
had the misfortune of getting into bad
company. He went so far as to wish
and say there is no God, God was only
word. After staying several years in
the capital, the young man returned to
his family. One day he was invited to
a respectable house where there was
numerous company. While all were en-
tertaining themselves with news, pleas
ures and business, two girls, aged re-
spectively IL and Is, were seated in a
bay window reading together. The
young man approached them and
asked:
"What beautiful romance are you
reading so attentively, young ladies?"
We are reading no romance, sir; we
are reading the history of Gods chosen
people.
"You believe, then, that there is a
God?"
Astonished at such question, the
girls looked at each other, the blood
mounting to their cheeks.
"And you, sir-do you not believe
it ?"
"Once I believed it, but after living
in Paris, and studying philosophy,
mathematics and politics, / am con-
WINGED that God is an empty word"
sir, was never in Paris, have never
studied philosophy or mathematics, or
all those beautiful things which you
know-I only know my catechism but
since you are so learned, and say there
is no God, you can easily tell me whence
the egg comes?"
GA funny question. Truly the egg
comes from the hen."
"And now, sir, whence comes the
hen 2"
You know that as well as I do,
miss; the hen comes from the egg"
(Which of them existed first, the egg
or the hemp
II really do not know what you in
tend with this question and your hen,
but vet that which existed first was the
hen"
"There is hen, then, which did not
come from an egg?"
"Beg your pardon, miss, / did not
take notice that the egg existed first"
"There is, then, an egg which did not
come from hen?"
"Ohl if you-beg pardon-that is
you see"
CT see, sir, that you do not know
whether the egg existed before the hen
or the hen before the egg."
"Well, then, I say the hen"
every well, here is, then, a hen
which did not come from an egg. Tell
me, now, who made this first from
which all other hens and eggs Gomez
With your hens and eggs, it seems
to me you take me for poultry dealer"
"By no means only asked you to
tell me whence come the mother of all
hens and eggs"
But for what object ?"
"Well, since you do not know, you
will permit me to tell you. He who
created the first hen, or, as you would
rather have it, the first egg, is the same
who created the world, and this being
we call God. You, who cannot explain
the existence of a hen or an egg without
God, still wish to maintain to be able
to explain the existence of this world
without God"
The young man was silent. He
quietly took his hat, and, full of shame,
departed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

SINGULAR LIGHTNING STRoKE.-The
Wilmington Commercial says that on
Tuesday last. while working in the woods,
William Palmer, of Concord, Delaware
county, was struck by lightning. The
current entered below the left shoulder
blade, and passed down the left side,
tearing and burning the skin, but not
injuring the clothes in any way. Mr..
Palmer was not stunned in the least,
but felt disposed to lie down, and so
walked to good place, where he pros
trated himself, and instructed his son
to throw some water over him, when he
<the SOM took his shoe and carried some
water, which ne dashed on his father.
Mr.. Palmer was afterward taken home,
and has not yet recovered from the
shock received. He had been driving
wedges with maui at the time he was
struck, and the handle of that nipple
ment was shivered to splinters by the
current which struck him.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

DECIDEDLY the newest thing in the
way of expositions is the one that is now
in progress at the North Woolwich Gar
dens, near London. Ii is an exhition of
boards and mustaches, to compete for
certain prizes. Surely it must be an in
spring sight, these hirsuted specimens
of manhood standing in row, each
duly ticketed to show his class and
number. OF course the judges are
ladies, ladies, let us hope, and
beyond the years of susceptibility.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the of the author; not necessarily for
publication, but evidence of good faith on the
part Of the Write only one side of the paper
Be parficu arly careful in giving names and oates IL
have the letters and figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-11

EMMA BLACK, living in small town
on the Mississippi, saved mans life
the other day in curious way. He
was fishing, and tumbled out of his
boat, and being unable to swim, would
have persisted had not the maiden, dis
covering his danger, swan out to him,
and throwing into his hands her back
hair, four feet IN length, towed him to
the land.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-27
CA RID.

To the people Of Austin and victnity.
I wish 70 call your special attention
to the Haines Bros and Chickering T.
Sons Pianos: Of New York city, as
the cheapest and best Pianos in the
market, as they possess all the quail
ties of other first.class Instruments, !. e.
fallness sweetness, singing quality pow
er Of tone ard beauty Of finish, CON-
tined with one other very important
qualification, chenpncss. They are the
cheapest instruments ever offered in
the market, when Che real worth and
value are taken into consideration.
cordially invite all teachers Of music,
and all others, wishing to purchase In
strumsnts, to call at my residence aud
examine for themselves.
have now on hand, Haines Bro
and Chickering 4 Sons Pianos and
Taylor & Farley's Organs, which I will
sell on terms to suit.
j. n. WHEAT.
Austin. Mimi. n27-v6.tf