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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Editorial Matter.

In his address to convention OF
Ohio editors assembled at Columbus,
in that State, few days ago, Mr.. Oscar
T. Martin, formerly of the Springfield
CO., Advertiser, told some truths about
the partisan press which Messrs. Reid
and Watterson, in their journalistic lee
lures, had forgotten to mention. Said
he: "There is not an editor here or
elsewhere who is not writhing in chains,
who does not daily choke back senti-
ments of an honest heart from fear or
favor. This is a bitter truth, but none
the less truth. The offal that is thrown
to you, in the shape of country print
ing, buys your silence, Just as the mid
night burglar buys the silence of the
faithful Watchdog with meat that is
thrown to it. Neither can bark; their
mouths are full. You ride free to this
convention over the railroad of a corpo-
ration notorious for its bad management.
A complimentary to the theatre is the
paltry price paid for an unfaithful and
untrue critique of the performance, and
you sell yourself, body and soul, for an
enthusiastically less sum than Judas re-
ceived for the betrayal of his Master.
The public contracts, for which the ex-
orbitant bid of favorite on slim secu-
rity is preferred to the conscientious bid
of a master workman, is not exposed by
the journal that advertises the bids.
The rival over the way begins the howl.
The fraud and corruption of your mu-
nicipal bodies is not unmaslled because
you are a member of the ring. You
quake with holy horror at the only
symptom of virtue manifested by oul
legislators, in reforming our postal re
lations, whereby your privileges may be
abridged, and break out in bad erup
lions of loaded indignation, will
frowning black headlines, over the sal
airy steal of your poverty stricken Con
gressmen. On the title-page of you
paper you fly such Haunting lies as 'Th
, freedom of the press is the safeguar
} of the nationr Truth crushed to cart
&C., and you prostitute the patriot mot
to Give me liberty or give me death
You are bound hand and foot. "-Ea
cH0g10P
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Salt for Pear Trees.

Sailing around pear trees to prevent
the blight is becoming general prac-
tice in Central New York. From 400 to
900 pounds per acre are regularly APP
piled each year, with satisfactory re-
suits. A correspondent of the Small
Fruit Recorder writes as follows on this
subject: Last spring 1 put up a
small shovelful of the refuse material
from the salt works-which is composed,
L believe, of salt, lime and ash-around
a four year old pear tree. 1t has made
a very thrifty growth, and the leaves
are all free from blight or spot, and
have a very glossy, healthy look; while
others of the same lot, MANFRED with
barnyard manure, have grown but
little, and the foliage is spotted and
dull"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Importance of Salt.

Notwithstanding the assertions of a
certain school of hygienists, salt is alb
solutely necessary to the health of all
vegetable eating animals Those living
exclusively on flesh get the saline mat
tiers contained therein, and consequently
do not need salt. Scientific investiga-
ito s have proved that portion of the
blood consists of common salt. This is
continually evolved through the kidneys
and pores of the skin. The bile and
the cartilages of the body contain soda,
one of the constituents of salt. If the
supply is cut off, digestion cannot be
properly carried on, and the animal suf-
fers. Farm animals should always have
a supply of this necessary mineral, that
they may take it at will ; in which case
they viii not eat more than they natur
ally require.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
A Lovely POstOffice Business in Mon
tana.

An amusing experience which recent
ly befell special agent of the Post
Office Department illustrates the ideas
which postmasters in the far West en-
terrain regarding the dignity and i'm
portance of their position. The agent,
commonly called 9 Mac, while official
ly visiting various offices in Montana
Territory for the purpose of correcting
any irregularities of postmasters, stop
ped at Iron Hood. Going into the post
office he found the room divided into
three sections-frst saloon, next the
postofice, and the last faro bank.
The mail bag was brought in, rough
looking customer opened it and emptled
the contents on the floor. The entire
crowd got down on their hands and
knees and commenced overhauhng the
letters, among which were several regis
tered, and selected such as they wanted.
After they were through, the remaining
letters were shoveled into candle box
and placed on the bar. The special
agent, thinking the Office needed little
regulating, asked the bartender, who
had received and distributed the mail
if he was postmaster. He answered
emo" care you the assistant post
master ?" "No." "Where is the
postmaster ?" "Out mining" where's
the assistant postmaster ?" "Gone tC
Hell's Canyon, and by thunder Bill
Jones has got to run this office mex
week /; it's his turn The Government
official then asked who he was, and de
manded the keys of the Office. The bar
tender coolly took the candle box from
the bar, put it on the floor, and gave /
kick, sending it out of the door, say
ing: There's your postoffice, ant
now git. The agent says: "Know
ing the customs of the country,
lost no time in following this ad
, vice, and got" That Office was dis
. |
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Feeble Frenchmen.

Recent figures shed startling light
on some of the causes which doubtless
led to the French defeat in the late war.
1t appears that the standard of height
and physical condition of the French is
so low that, in order to obtain ten
thousand sound-bodied soldiers, four
teen thousand conscripts in the rural
districts, and over twenty thousand
in manufacturing neighborhoods, have
to be drawn. That is, less than one-half
of the full-grown males, in the latter To-
calities, are capable of bearing arms.
It reveals state OF disease, physical
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Extraordinary Physical Strength.

The strength and dexterity of the
" hamals" Of Constantinople in carrying
enormous burdens are, says the Levant
Herald, proVerbial, and it is surprising
to see one of these poor Eastern porters
quietly plodding his way up or down
some billy street with perfect noun
tain of material piled upon his back.
The loads they carry are most miscel-
laneons, but even old residents, bLases
on this point, were astonished recently
to see a hamal staggering along the
Grande Rue de Pera with large four
wheeled carriage-all complete except
the horses-lashed on to his porter's
knot. It would be interesting to know
what are the habits and diet of this
Is he teetotaller? Does he smoke?
and how did he bring himself into such
condition that he can carry carriage
instead of requiring carriage to carry
him ? His muscular power must far
exceed not only that of Milo, but even
that OF the famous English athlete,
Thomas Topham, of Islington, who on
the Dist of April, 1879, advertised him.
self to perform several feats of strength
at the Nag's Head, Gateshead, on the
23d of that month, namely " He bends
an iron poker, three inches in circum-
ference, over his arm, and one of two
inches and quarter round his neck he
breaks a rope that will bear 2, 900 weight,
and with his finger rolls up pewter
dish of seven pounds hard metal; be lays
the back part of his head on one chair
and his heels on another, and, suffering
four men to stand on his body, he moves
them up and down at pleasure he Lifts
a table six feet in length by his teeth,
with 100 weight hanging at the fur
ther end of it, and lastly, to oblige the
public, he will lift butt full of water. -
Topham, however, did not, like the
hamal of Constantinople, carry four
wheeled carriage on his back, nor did
his extraordinary strength conduce to
the equanimity Of his temper or to his
peace of mind, if we may judge by his
end, for in the obituary notices of last
century it is stated that on Aug. 10, 1749,
died Thomas Topham, known by the
name of the Strong Man, master of a
public-house in Shoreditch, London.
In a fit of jealousy he stabbed his wife,
then cut his own throat and stabbed
himself, after which he lived two days. u
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03

A bee-keeper gives the following plan
to prevent swarm of bees from getting
far away from the hive, with the state
ment that after ten years experience he
has never known it to fail once. As
soon as they show the first symptoms of
swarming, stop up most of the outlets of
the hive so as to force them to be a con-
siderable time coming out. The swarm
being made up in part of young bees,
many OF whom cannot fly well, and as
nothing can be done by the swarm until
all are out, they fly about in the air; by
prolonging their exit the feeble ones be-
come tired, and finding their plans
frustrated, they alight to rearrange
their journey. If they can leave the old
hive all at once, they care very little
about alighting.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Pos1Na FOR A PHoroeRApH.-Af ia

PosING FOR PHOTOGRAPH farm
er and his wife called at Detroit pho
tograph gallery to order some pho
tographs of her, and while the operator
was getting ready the husband gave the
wife little advice as to how she must
act "Fasten your mind on some
thing" he said, cor else you will laugh
and Spite the job. Think about early
days, how your father got in Jail, and
your mother was an old scolder. and
what you'd have done if I hadn't
pitied you! Jest fasten your mind on
that p She didn't have any photographs
taken.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Smoke It in Sugar.

In my own case rusty nail had made
bad wound in the bottom of my foot.
The pain and nervous irritation was Sc
we're. This was all removed by holding
it in the smoke for fifteen minutes, and
/ was able to resume my reading in COM
fort. We have often recommended it
to others with like results. Last week
one of my men had a finger nail torn out
by pair of ice tongs. It became very
painful, as was to have been expected.
Held in sugar smoke for twenty min
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03

CLERICAL PREsUMPT1oN.-A Keokuk
pastor told his congregation that the
late tornado in Iowa was the visitation
of special providence to punish people
for their sins. eve know" says the
Louisville Courier-Jou7nGl, "of few
sins much worse than the presumptuous
familiarity which prompts weak and
erring mortal to talk about the purposes
and Intentions of the Deity with as
much freedom as if he was discussing
the points of yoke of oxen"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Russia,s Peaceful Revenge.

The Russians have launched an iron
clad vessel in the Black Sea. The event
itself seems trifing one, but it becomes
of tremendous Importance, when it is
considered that the launching of the
vessel is a sponge which wipes out all
the bloody triumphs achieved by COM
bined France and England in the
Crimean war. One of the points which
was secured by that conflict was the va
cation of this sea by Russia, for the
reason that its occupation by that power
was constant menace to Turkey, whose
integrity England and France we're
and are-yitally interested in maintain
ing. But, to-day, France has ample oe-
cupation in caring for its internal af-
fairs, and in securing the vacation of its
territory by the German troops. 1t has
far more interest in the doings of Mac
Mahon than in those of Alexander /; and
it has sufficient sickness demanding its
attention at home, without sitting up
with and caring for the sick man of the
Orient.
England is not given to fighting OF
late, except with powerful allies. II
has enough to do to watch the progress
of Russia southwark through Asia and,
however much it may care, can do moth
| ing to arrest the Russian re-occupation
of the Black Sea. And thus it happens
that the launching of this iron-elad re-
venges Sebastopol, and redeems all the
defeats and humiliations which Russif
sustained IN the Crimean war conflict.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Large Fowls.

Persons DESTROYS of obtaining large
fowls, equally good as layers of large
eggs, and also combining good table
qualities with early maturity, and being
perfectly hardy, should cross the Dork-
ing hens with small Brahma cock.
The cross between the Dorkings and
dark Brahmas is also good for the table,
being also easily raised, but their eggs
are small
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
utes, the pain ceased, and it promises
speedy recovery.-EGch01age. 49,
Houses for Farm Laborers.

Many of our best farmers are coming
to the conclusion thrt it does not pay to
keep their homes as boarding-houses for
their farm hands, and are erecting
houses in which the men can board with
their own families, thus releasing the
farmers wife from much of her pro-
verbal drudgery. It works well in
other kinds of business, why not in
farming ?-Erchanqe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03

A FARMER in Harrison county, KY,
has eifectually destroyed potato bugs by
sprinkling tobacco juice upon them.
He also sprinkles elder leaves on cab
bages, and thus drives off and kills
worms and bugs that infest them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
To CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the name of the author not necessarily or
publication bat as evidence OF good 1alth on the
part of the Write onlyon one side OF the paper
Be particui airy careful in giving names and dates to
have the letters and figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03

A BRILLIANT party was lately given by
an Indiana lady on the day she got a
divorce from her husband. On leaving,
at late hour, each of her guests wish
ed her "many returns Of the happy oc-
casion."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
Flowers.

Flowers stimulate industry as well as
tighten toil-for we must have them.
We are cold without them, but to have
them requires patient study, patient
culture, and untiring determination.
Every one must be studied alone. In
perfection, they can be had only in con-
nection with art and kind of horticul-
turai genius. Their culture is an art.
How they breathe, and eat, and drink.
How they vary their species-under
what laws.
Flowers are also servitors of our I'M
agination they bring food to the poet
They produce an atmosphere that is Pc
culiarly conducive to rhythm. l do not
know why it is color and grace OF mo-
ton and delicacy of form and perfume
have such tendency to make every
eighth or tenth syllable rhyme, and
every line begin with capital, but so it
is. What constant tribute poetry pays
to flowers. Can you find one of the
great singers who has not at least line,
and mostly poem, in honor OF floral
charms? Take away noble landscapes,
level down the hills, make the sun rise
and set in drab, kill out the flowers
and the poets corner would become
very speedily bean patch. Now the
flowers come to the brain with dell
cate touch, like the finger of mother
in sleep that takes wrinkles out OF
dreams-tiny children with their arms
full of every imaginable grace. You
can see purity, modesty, benevolence,
ambition, watchfulness, patience, truth,
all somewhere about your feet. But
not only do they inspire much of the
rhyme of life. What do you suppose
must be the power of single fuchsia III
a family It never catches the eye OF
the mother without resulting in a song
it calls the attention of the children,
and displaces the rudeness of coarse
work or vulgar contact. 1t doubtless
has powerful influence in making the
whole family more neat, more tasteful
more courteous, more refined. like tC
take out the animal-the feeding plague
of eating-by putting bouquet among
the dishes. -Gardeners' Monthly.
Fattening Hogs-Maintaining their APP
petites.
It not unfrequently happens tina
hogs put up to fatten show a loss o
appetite for weeks at time, eating bu
little and wasting good deal. Messrs
Lawes and Gilbert, the well-knowl
English farmers, have encountered thi
difficulty, more or less, in addition t.
positive disease, and after many expert
ments have prepared compound which
they state has been very effectual. TIL
following are its ingredients, and tn
proportions 20 TBS. finely sifted Goa
ashes 4 lbs. common salt; 1b. super
phosphate of lime. They are dul,
mixed and put into trough where TIL
hogs can have free access to them at al
times. In case where three pigs wer
troubled with swellings and difficulty c
breathing, they consumed nine pound
of this mixture during the first fort
night, six pounds the second, and min
again during the third. The expense {
materials is very light. Those VIII
have occasion to test the prescriptio
would confer favor on others by TT
porting the result.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03

THERE were 1853 deaths from small
pox at st. Louis last year. The cases
were l in SO of the population, the
deaths in 262.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-06

The jury in the great Richmond
Eureka case at Eureka failed to agree.
OF the standing of the jury upon
the questions presented, the Sentinel
of June 8 says:
We interviewed some of the jurymen
after they were turned loose, and ascer-
tanned that on the first ballot they stood
six and six, and remained SO until sun
dav evening when Jim Foulke. the col
ored juror. chopped. Following is
the last ballot. as We heard it on the
street: For the Eureka Consolidated,
Rarstow, Gilmore, Hymens, Cushman,
and Bass. For the Richmond, Jacohy,
Whitaker, Richmond. Foulke, Pagan.
Bartholomew and Williams. All OF the
iurvmen with whom We talked seemed
satisfied that verdict would have been
arrived at had Judge McKenny allowed
them to remain out twelve or fifteen
hours longer. The whole community
we're interested in having this matter
settled, aud all regret that Judge Nc
Kenny should have thought proper to
discharge the jury, as long as there was
the slightest hope of verdict.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-06

Carson street, next door to the County Buildings,
CARSON CITY. NEVADA.
Private entrance for Ladies' through the alley
in the rear Of Willis Drug Store.
Thanking the Ladies and Gentlemen Of Carson
and ,."inity for their liberal patronage hereto
fore bes. owed upon me, ! now respectfully in
vi,e . continuance Of the same. As no pains or
expense will be spared to make this the neatest
and most comfortable establishment in the State
Of Nevada. Give me \ call
sl.tf JACOB MULLER.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-06
LATEST TELEG RAMS.

Arumor comes from Albany that
the Court of Appeals has denied
Stokes a new trial. II this be true
his death is pretty much certainty,
for Governor Dix can hardly be ex-
pected to interfere.
The United States steamer Frolic.
from St. Johns with the survivors OF
the Polaris. has been expected to arrive
at this port for several days past. She
has probably gone direct to WashIngton.
Five European steamers arrived IN
port yesterday bringing 4.soo emlsrants.
1t 10 stated in Wall street that the
Quicksilver mining companies have en-
tered into an arrangement with the new
Idria Company limiting the production
ri quicksilver in this country for the
year ending April, 1874, to $4,000 TASKS:
One company is restricted to "A, ,OOO and
the New Idria to 10000 TASKS. Each
company has the privilege to sell at any
price. having for one year at least gwen
M the system of contracting for num-
Der of years.
BosToS. June 5. The State Senate to-
hay rejected the bill for the State man
ape,nent of the Hoosac Tunnel.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. June 5. Secre-
tarv Robeson received the following dis
patch this morning:
Annapolis. june 5. To Secretary
Robeson, Washington: The following
midshipmen, who failed to pass their
examination and whom it was Intended
10 drop from the rolls, are now under
arrest and in close confinement for being
> ncerned in an assault with stones on
the colered midshipman Conyers: Wise
and Young Of Mississippi, Butterheid OF
Kansas. Sacket of Georgia, Rowan OF
West Virginia, Mum, Oriof and Gridley
of New York.
The sailing Match.
NEW YORK, June 5. A telegram from
Quarantine. dated l:3O P. NJ. says
brisk breeze is blowing, and an exciting
contest is going on for the victory among
the yatchts OF the New York Yatch Club.
The Maggie passed the line at II :3s A. N.
the Dreadnaught passed fhe line five
minutes later: all the yatchts are SAILING
we'll. and it is hard to tell as yet which
is leading.
SAN Francisco. June 5. = Speaker
Blaine left this city to-day en- route East.
Senator Sargent accompanied this party.
They will 90 to the southern end of the
San JOAQUIN Valley Railroad to inspect
the great valley and judge OF Its capac-
ity for the support of large Popuiation
and understand the schemes for lrrlsa-
tion.
u. S. Sur ar General Harderbere
is TO arrive ~, ~onlng.
Robe, ,....as one OF the men ar
A. TucE has
made :. - confessing he vas
present al IL, OF the murder, ou'
throwing AZ. .l- blame on John Bran
nan. who il said to be insane now
Manning says Brannan Knocked the
Chinaman down and then stabbed HIM
Brannan is very violent in his conduct
to-day. oo
Gold, 1ls; greenbacks, s5H@s5A.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-06

RuMoR with her thousand tongues
saws that the Ex Empress Eugenia
Is in Paris and has been there these
three days. Dubious?
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-06

The DUTCH are still peppering
awav, in . very spicy fashion. at the
Atcheenese. It is pepper they are
fighting about.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-06

SCHOOL CxNsus.-According to the re.
mort Of S. o. Clifford. Census Marshal.
there are in Austin School District 1893
children between the ages Of six and
eighteen and lS8 under the age OF six.
~ the .t,ys lJ2 were born in the State
~ V.-.3, ana l65 arc now attending
sehool.-Rseee Rive Rereale.
Orr artesisn friend Kendall u In
Great Salt Lake City. He 10 accom-.
DopieA by his ~ife.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-13

Some twenty-five years ago, when was
a pastor of a church in A, took oc-
casion one evening, to vista social meeting
in another church. Ole after another gave
in his or her experience. After time a
man in humble circumstances, small in
stature, and effeminate, squeaking voice
rose to givea piece of his experience, which
was done in the following maner
Brethren, I have been a member of
this church many years. have seen hard
times. My family have been much afflict-
ed, but have, for the first time in my life,
to see my pastor or the trustees of this
church cross the threshold of my door,"
No sooner had he uttered this part of his
experience than he was interrupted by one
of the trustees, an aged man who rose and
said in firm, loud voice:
my dear brother you must put the devil
behind YOU" .DTTII8I u3 s74 ia
On taking. his seat the pastor in charge
arose and replied to the little man as fol-
lows .nTIGOOIY
My dear brother, you must remember
that we shepherds are sent to find the lost
sheep of the house of Israel" 80 . ~ z
+ Whereupon the little man arose again,
and, in answer, said in very loud tome:
,".Yes, andif I'd been a fat one, you would
g,ave found me long ago."
| The effect upon the audience can better be
Imagined than than described.