Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
Miscellaneous.

New YORK doctors recommend figs for
dyspepsia.
SIX young ladies acted as pail bearers
at a funeral in New York, recently.
SeoT is said to be one of the best fer
t~ilizers, and quite as valuable as guano.
STOKES relatives are discouraged, and
they have plainly told him he must hang.
SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed 81 WTU Help Any Man."
A MEMPHIS printer has fallen heir to
a third of a $15, DOC, 900 estate in En-
gland.
ONE thousand Chinese arrived at San
Francisco, last week, on the steamer AL
toona.
THREE men were crushed to death by
the falling of a hay loft, in New York,
last week.
A MINNESOTA hen has got into the
newspapers by laying thirty-six eggs in
sixteen days.
THERE are strong movements in differ
ent States in favor of abolishing the
grand jury system.
The sale of oysters during the sum-
mer months is prohibited in Pennsyl-
vanla by Legislative enactment.
THE cotton seed of the South, which
were once thrown away as worthless, are
now worth S 5000, 900 per year.
A VESSEL was recently loaded with
So 900 bushels of corn, from a Chicago
elevator, in less than two hours.
THE first Chinaman ever arrested in
San Francisco for drunkenness turned
up in the police court the other day.
BRANDY made of figs is the latest Cali
fornia novelty. It is said to be verv
cheap, and yet to have excellent drunk
making qualities.
The Scientific american saws that
in less than twenty years most of the
heating and cooking will be done by
combustible gas"
THE death of Hon. Mr.. Orr is attrib-
uted to the severity of the climate at st.
Petersburg. Hon. Arson Burlingame
died from the same cause.
MORE immigrants have reached
America during the last three months
l11hh Ohl1InS I'LL liz NCdI 1CIA. ANU uOU 1t
third who intend to come this wear are
yet here.
THE Taunton Mass.) Gazette SAYS
that eff Ben Butler runs for Governor
of Mass achusetts he will be iattened
out so thin that his shadow Will disap-
pear from the earth"
Ex-SEcRETARY WELLEs declares that
nn1+hnr Mr. Cau-az1 oOr 49, ILL.,
Der of the Cabinet ever influenced or
controlled President Lincoln to any such
extent as Mr.. Adams implies in his ora
ton.
JUSTICE BOWLING wants SO, 900 from
the New York Sun for saying that he
opened court, the other day, by asking
a prisoner for a "chaw," and wound up
by adjoining to the front room to take
a drink.
THE Omaha Bridge Company, which
is a lesser Credit Mobilier ring in the
Union Pacific railroad, and which 1evies
tolls of its own on all railroad freight
is said to make $1,000 a day by its ex-
tortion.
In 1872 there were scaled in the six
Minnesota lumber districts about 4OO,-
000, 200 feet Of logs, and in the Chip
pewa, Black and Wisconsin river dis
tricts about the same quantity. The
production of the season of 1873 will be
even greater.
A NEW era in the history of American
horse-racing is to be ~inaugurated at
Long Branch this season. Admission
to the field is to be free to the general
public, and an admission fee is to be
charged only to the grand stand and
quarter stretch.
UNTIL recently it was supposed that
water had little motion below fifty faith
oms. It is now known, however, that
in certain localities there is motion in
the water at the depth of five hundred
fathoms and this motion has proved a
serious source of injury to submarine
cables.