Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-24
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
DIR. S. Tyler, a son of President Tyler,
lectures on temperance in San Fran
cisco.
A MAINE postmaster recently con-
tracted the smallpox from a letter which
he handled.
The new house of the President of
Cornell University (New York; contains
THE prize-package fend of the rail-
way train is about to be suppressed in
New York State.
FIFTY-FoUR thousand four hundred
and fifty of the people of Boston live in
tenement houses.
A DELAWARE Judge fined a lawyer
only n dollar for calling him ca bloat-
ed old ~rhinoceros."
PROF. NUDGE says that, as Kan
sas becomes nor thickly settled, many
fossilizep elephants will be dug up.
HORACE GREELEY's sanctum will not
be disturbed during the erection of the
new Tribune building in New York.
MACDONALD, the Bank OF England
forger, turns out to be an old and prac-
ticed swindler, who has lived by his wits
for years.
THERE is now a movement among the
railroad engineers throughout the
country to have Sunday freight traffic
on the railroads abolished.
IT took a special train with four cars
to carry a Kentuckian's relatives to the
residence of his bride, where the nup-
tials were to be celebrated.
IT is said that a maple tree does not
yield more than thirty cents worth of
sugar per year, and that the labor re-
quired represents half of hat amount.
The Wyandotte (Kan.) poorhouse
shelters two sisters, the elder of whom
IS six feet three inches in height, the
younger six feet eight, and still grow
ing.
The temperance societies are disgust
ed with August Pickard, of Rochester,
who is 106 years old, uses tobacco to ex-
cess, and has a weakness for mixed
drinks.
IT is said that after the approaching
opera season In London, Madame AIDE
lima Patti will make a musical tour in the
United States. 1t is twelve years since
she left this country.
The United States has become the
leading cheese-producing country in the
world and from an expectation of
1000, 900 pounds in 1852 the amount has
risen to 60, 000, 900 in 1872.
Mr.. BERGH has placedi in all the stables
throughout New York city cards bearing
the following inscription 81 promise
to protect dumb animals, and may the
Lord in his mercy protect me-"
Mr.. JOHN T. GREEN, a Baltimore gen
tleman who energetically embezzled q
good many thousand dollars recently,
was turned loose on trial because the
word fraudulently' in his Indictment
was spelled "fraudently."
ONLY four of the New York dailies,
the Times, the Express, the NeWs, and
the Journal of Commerce, are regularly
delivered to subscribers in Russia. Most
of the other journals are confscated at
, least four times a week.
, THE first white man who publicly sang
? a song with his face blackened is said to
have been a parsonage popularity known
: as "Potpie Herbert" His song was en-
Z titled the "Battle of Plattsbnrg," and
was sung by him in 1915 ON the stage of
!. the theater of Albany.
THE official journal of Georgia has
shown a c~ommendable bit Of enterprise.
1t is now only a little over ten years since
: the 80 savages were executed at Man
kato, Mimi, yet the journal in question
, has heard of the affair, and in a recent
issue publishes full details of the hang
ing. It is probable that the account viii
r be extensively copied at the South.
AMONG the presents at the old-fash-
! toned wedding in Indiana the other day
! was a gallon mug filed with beer. The
= bride drank first, and then all the women
- present followed her example. When
. it came to the men there was nothing
= left. The bridegroom filed an old.
Il fashioned, long-stemmed pipe, took the
= initial Whit, and then all the men tool
| a long pull each in his turn.
! The question, "Was John Wesley
e bad husband? ?" has been settled by 6
correspondent of a Philadelphia paper
who gives the authority of an eye
witneG that Mrs. Wesley used to in.
# dulge in the luxury of dragging he,
husband around the room by the hair o
O his head. This treatment no doubt CAV,
II the great Methodist apostle a realizing
sense of the necessity of some future
- state of reward and nrnisbmant