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

FROM the New NOrk Evening NALL
JET has secured its old place in fash
ionable favor
NEVER before has lace been so much
worn as now.
CAMEL's HAIR lace is the latest novelty
in trimmings.
THE "Coronet and the "Caftan" are
the newest things in bonnets.
THE "Directorie basque" is one OF
the newest inventions in ladies' gar.
ments.
The "Persian" colors are much in
vogue just now; they are very rich and
very expensive.
THE most stylish dresses this season
will be as plain as possible. Black silk
will be the favorlte material for street
wear.
SOME few gentlemen, whose taste in
dress is for the gaudy, but not neat, are
wearing light silk waistcoats for full
dress.
You've LADIES who sigh after high
backed silver combs need only to hunt
among their grandmothers' relics to
find ''just the thing"
CUT steel has superseded oxidized sill
yer for belt-buciles, chatelaines, and
the like. Small jewelry of this material
is also coming into fashion again.
THE most gaudy garments will be
worn in the house this winter, such as
sleeveless jackets of scarlet cloth, en-
broidered in Nile-green, gray and violet.
IT is considered " the thing" to wear
a small feather stuck in the hat-band ;
but there's no necessity of wearing half
bird, as some fellows do.
NECKLACES will be much worn this
winter. A new style is of square blocks
of gold, enameled with Pompeiian de-
signs ON the six sides, and joined by
six light chains.
The styles in ladies' dresses have now
got back as far as the days of Catharine
de Medicis. At this rate we shall soon
have reached the styles prevalent in the
Garden of Eden.
THE new color predicted to sweep
everything before it this winter is as yet
unnamed. 1t is described as looking
like spoiled preserves, and will be worn
in polonaises over black silk.
A LADY in New York says she does
not want to be lectured about extrava-
gance, when, to her knowledge, the
young man of the period brings home
bills of $50 for neckties, and $3.50 for a
few pair of ivory and oxidized buttons,
and night-gown of blue India silk,
pulled and ruffied in sinful fashion, for
$50, and half dozen of raw silk under
wear, at S1S the set, and Balbriggan
socks for 81. IS pair, and dozen lawn
ties for 81 apiece.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
SchOnchin.

Old Schonchin, brother of the man
who was hanged with Capt. Jack, is the
noblest Modoc of them all. After the
execution, he went to Gen. Wheaton,
and, taking him by the hand, said ::
"To-day l have seen my only brother
die-not the death which the Great
Spirit sends quietly to all good men
but the hard death of the broken law.
We had but one father, butone mother.
There is fiery pain in my heart, but I
know the white mans law is good. He
brought this trouble upon himself, and
1 take the white mans hand and say it
is well. Many, many times have gone
into the Modoc country to talk to him,
and to try and persuade him to come
and live with me at Yainox. He would
not take my advice. You know / have
never broken the law, and I tell you
again that never will. I wish to take
the children of my brother and be a
father to them. I hope you will let me
have them, that may take them to my
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
Fatalities from Lightning.

The human mortality from lightning
is not generally on large scale, and
might be very much reduced by precau-
tions on the part of builders; so thinks
the BuiLdingNea Arago estimated that
the number of deaths from this cause
amounted in France to about 20 in the
year; BoEdin calculated that from 1885
to 1852 1,3OS so persisted none in
November, December, January and
February, but most in June and August.
The lowest rate is assigned to Belgium,
and the next to Sweden, the United
States and England being about on a
par. AS a rule, however, these fatali-
ties do not occur inside a structure of
any kind. The peril, as experience
shows, is less in crowded town than in
villcge or in the open country, and,
naturally, the more elevated structures
are the most liable to be struck.
Fuller, indeed, inhis "Church History"
asserts that there scarcely ever existed
great abbey in England which had not
been, at one time or another, wholly or
partially destroyed by lightning, and
his citations, taken in comparison with
the records of our times, are certainly
LII CASES III Is Ill6 SDl1o.
the tower, and the dome which has been
mutilated. As to ordinary habitations,
all sorts of theories are in vogue on the
subject of danger and safety. Some
rely on thick glass in the windows, and
some on register stoves; others recon-
mend stone roofs instead of slate, and
others tell timid people that they should
live in a hollow. 1t is contended on
this side that there should be at least
possible admixture of metal in the COM
bination of an inhabited structure; and
on that, that all the bells beneath the
roof should be kept continually ringing,
just as, in obedience to an old supersti-
ton, cannon are fired at sea. The mass
of evidence upon this topic points,
however, to the one conclusion already
suggested, that a good lightning con-
ductor is the solitary safeguard; but
that, unless good, it is worse than none.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
A WOman'S Community.
Boston (oct. 2s) Cor. Chicago Tribul

boston (Oct. 2S) Cor. Chicago Tribune.l
The establishment of woman's COM
munity within the limits of the town of
Woburn, about twelve miles from Bos-
ton, was begun yesterday by the formal
raising eff the frame of the first build
ing. In this community all the land is
to be owned by women, and so far as the
management of the affairs of the village
is concerned, woman suffrage is to be
realized to the extent of the utter polit-
ical disqualification of the sterner sex.
The members of the community are
obliged to assent to constitution which
is to govern it, but further than this
they are unrestralned except, how
ever, that they are expected to attend
at least once a week upon the unsecta-
rian service to be held. The occupa-
ton of the residents In Aurora village
will be varied, and industrial schools are
provided to fit persons for the different
kinds of work to be done, including a
domestic school for instruction in home
duties. Each homestead is to be &C
companied with a garden and garden
ing and fruit raising will be favorite
occupation. Cooperative schemes are
also planned. One of these, and that
which has been pushed nearer to reali-
cation than any other connected with
the enterprise, is the establishment of a
laundry, where full facilities are to be
afforded for doing work on large scale,
and bringing money into this, thus far,
decidedly needy village by competing
with famous Troy laundries. About
one thousand persons are committed to
the enterprise, though they are not all
women, and not to be residents. The
site of the village is a wilderness, and it
offers all manner of obstacles. The
community is called the Women's
Economical Garden Homestead League,
and it is established by an act of the
State Legislature.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
Unhappy Wall Street.

II you go down to Wall street you
will find the bluest, most "tired, +"
hopeless, woe-begone set of unfortu-
mates to be seen anywhere. The bottom
is all out. Everything is going to the
" demnition bow-wows," and general
"bust-up" is as firmly believed in as
the Second Advent is by the Miller
ties. just now Wall street is a good
place to keep away from, if you want to
be cheerful and to keep your head clear
and level. But outside of that limited
arena of sacrifice of gored Bears and
lacerated Bulls, the aspect of the situa-
ton is quite cheerful. While Lake
Shore stock is running down to most
melancholy depths of depression, the
road is doing an unparalleled business
having earned nearly 100000 more
this year than during the same time
last. The earnings of about twenty
five roads show an increase of receipts
last month over those of September,
1872, of more than ten per cent. OF
course there are sensible men by the
thousands here and across the water
who will "pick up" the low stocks.
The vast produce movement does not
stop in sympathy with Wall street dull
ness.-Nea0 York Mail.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
The Burial of the MOdOcs-EXecu-
toners PerquisiteS.

The correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin thus describes the scene
Immediately following the Modocs' exc
cution:
Having dispatched my message, /
remained behind to witness the closing
scenes of the tragedy. In exactly half
an hour from the falling of the drop,
the bodies of the hanged were cut down
and placed in their collins, which were
then removed to the blacksmith's tent,
where the shackles, which had partly
been disengaged, were entirely removed
and the remains put in decent order for
burial. Only the necks of Capt.
Jack and Black Jim were found to
have been broken. / saw strands of
the rope with which Jack was hanged,
and the locks of his hair shorn off
as perquisites by the executioners
sold as high as So apiece. While this
was done the troops were removed
from the ground by companies and dis
missed. After that the remains were
taken to the graves which had been
dug for them at the west side of the
guard house, and the interment COM
pleted. The Klamath Indians, about
500 or 600 in number, were marshaled
in column by their sub-chief, David
Hill, and moved away.
"Some, probably relatives of the vic
tins, appeared stricken with grief and
filed the air with their mournful wall
ing. The majority manifested indiffer-
ence. / have been informed by their
chief that there is not the remotest pos
sibility of any further difficulty be-
tween the whites and the remaining
Modocs. They consider the punish
ment of the Medocs proper and just.
He said that while some of the Modocs
at Yanoix may be angry for a while,
they will soon forget it.
81 have just been informed by Gen.
Wheaton that John Schonchin has
made an earnest and pathetic appeal to
him for the custody of the children of
Schonchin, his brother, who was exc
cuted this morning, whom he desires
to educate in love and respect for the
whites. The General informed him
that, owing to his loyalty to the whites
and his fidelity to treaty stipulations,
he would use his strongest efforts to
get the request granted by the Presi-
dent.
Early this morning Scar-Faced
Charley, Steamboat Frank, Hooka Jim,
Bogus Charley, and all others of the
Modocs who have temporarily enjoyed
freedom, were placed in confinement in
the stockade -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
An Extraordinary Case.
New York Cor. Chicago Times.


1t is asserted on the authority of one
of the most prominent physicians of
Brooklyn, that one of his patients. Miss
Mary Fancher, aged %, residing at the
corner of Myrtle avenue and Downing
street, has not eaten anything for ten
years. She broke down her nervous
system by over-study while at school,
and in 1868 was thrown from horse
and dragged behind street car, the
combined effect of these accidents be-
ing to completely paralyze her. Every
day she has horrible spasms, and the
most heroic treatment has no apparent
effect upon her. Her teeth are tightly
set, and sight, hearing, and the power
of deluglition are entirely lost. At first
food injections were given her, and when
it was found that she could get on bet
ter without them, they were stopped.
Emetics have since been administered
at intervals, but they have disclosed no
traces of nourishment. She has also
been visited at the most unexpected
hours, sometimes late at night, but
always with the same result. She has
actually worn out the springs of her
bedstead, and she lies in regular nest
she has made for herself. Her arms
are drawn up, and her legs are inter-
twined in a most remarkable manner
Her mind appears to be perfectly clear,
and by fastening the necessary instru-
ments to her fingers, she can write and
embroider beautifully. Sometimes she
goes into a trance, lasting from two
hours to four days, and while in this
condition possesses unmistakable clair
voyant powers. She can tell the time
by various watches set to deceive her,
read unopened letters, decipher the con-
tents of slatr, report the gossip of the
neighborhood, tell the color of the ar
ticle held behind her head, and even
prophesy events that are about to hap
pen. Before her illness she was en-
gagged to be speedily married to a
wealthy young man, who still con-
tinues unremitting in his attentions
to her, although her case is pronounced
hopeless.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
Prairie Fires Twenty-fOur Persons
Burned to Death in Nebraska.

The intensely dry weather of the past
season has rendered everything almost
as combustible as gunpowder, and al
ready the reports come in thick and fast
of the destruction of life and property
by fire on the prairies.
On Thursday afternoon last, near
Webster, Saline county, Nebraska, a
shocking fatality occurred to Mrs. Jacob
Morry, who was teaching school in a
wooden building in the center of large
prairie. Some thirty scholars were in
attendance, mostly very young children.
About o'clock dense cloud of smoke.
rolling up from the south, gave warning
of the approach of fire. Realizing the
danger, Mrs. Jacob Morry, the teacher,
instantly dismissed the school, and tax
ing the little ones under her protection,
started for a place of safety. She
scarcely made quarter of a mile before
the flames of the prairie came dashing
up with lightning speed. The grass
was as dry as finder, and the fiery ele-
ment swept on with resistless power. 1t
was an awful hour for the poor woman,
and yet she never shrank from the ter
rible danger, but pressed on with the
children to reach some spot where all
would be secure. All the brave woman s
efforts were in vain. The fire monster
described circle within which were the
doomed victims, and escape seemed i'm
possible. Still she struggled on, and
finally succeeded in placing twenty of
the children beyond the reach of danger,
and then, having done all that q human
being could do, the poor woman, with
SIX of the little ones, persisted in the
barely escaped with their lives, being
terribly burned. No sadder sight could
be conceived than the spectacle of those
six little charred and blackened corpses,
lying side by side with that of their
brave teacher, on a lone prairie in Ne
braska. And yet, perhaps there were
seven more angels in heaven.
A gentleman who came in from the
West last evening from FairbuIy, Neb.,
says that the whole country has been
burned over south of that place 1; that
the destruction OF property is immense !;
and that in Republic county alone sew
enteen persons have been burned to
death.
VII Vic llHC VI tuc 81 OSCp anu Dtu-
yer Railroad, from Alexandria to Has
tings, the entire country has been
burned over, resulting in the destruction
of considerable property.
Near Astell Station, on the same road
great deal of property has been de-
stroyed by fire. Among the heaviest
losers is Capt. Frank White, who had
500 bushels of corn and 100 tons of hay
destroyed. About half mile of the
ties on the st. Joseph and Denver track
were burned, and Conductor Billy Will
Jams had to relay it, as well as indulge
in much profanity, before he could get
his train over the road Many other
citizens in the vicinity also lost largely
in stock and grain.
From various other points in Kansas
and Nebraska we hear of prairie fires,
resulting in loss, but are without par
ticulars.-St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
was told to move. and fof the first time

WAS tOlQ W IuONc, anu luz tHc uIoo tiIuc
in several months found herself able to
do so. Then came the command.
"That the people may know the Son of
Man hath power on earth still to forgive
sins, arise and walk, and, obeying. she
arose and walked across the chamber.
This was ON the night of the 9th of
August.
From that time she commenced to re-
gain the old-time strength and vigor she
had MOI wholly possessed for fifteen
years, al 1 in week she was able to
make quite little journey. In public
and private she took all occasions to
bear evidence to her complete recovery
and the miraculous means by which it
was accomplished. OF her firm convic-
ton of the actual spiritual appearance
of her Savior, and the manifestation of
His healing power, there can be no
doubt. Her character and that of her
husband, the Rev. Moses Sherman, for
veracity are equally beyond doubt. OF
her cure, to whatever means it is at
tributable, there is no doubt.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
The Cattle of Europe.

According to report lately read by
Herr J. Ruegg, at a scientific meeting at
Seeberzig, in Switzerland, all the cattle
in Europe amount to "a, 700, 0OOhead. Of
these Germany owns Ii, 600, 900; Austria,
100000 France, 100000; Great
Britain, 10000, 600; Turkey, 5000, 900 +;
Spain and Portugal, 1900, 900; Den
mark, 1900, 900; Italy, $780, 600 ;
Sweden and Norway, 2, 500, 900; Holland
and Belgium, 1900, 900; Greece, 1,000,-
900; and Switzerland, 1000, 900. The
little Republic of Switzerland figures at
the head of the list in proportion to its
extent and population, owning 208 head
of cattle for each thousand acres, and
SGT head for each thousand inhabitants.
Spain has only 80 head for each thousand
acres of its superfcies.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
Specie RESUMPTION.

A Washington dispatch of the 9th
says /: Pursuant to the views regarding
resumption expressed by the President
and Secretary of the Treasury recently,
the Director of the Mint has been max
ing extensive arrangements for the COIN
age of both gold and silver to an extent
heretofore unprecedented, so as to be
ready for the resumption of specie pay
ments, there now being large quantities
of these metals awaiting coinage. The
first step in resumption has been taken,
it having been ascertained to-day from
the Secretary of the Treasury that the
Government will pay out silver as soon
as it can be proftably and conveniently
coined for that purpose.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
A Wonderful StOrJ.
Boston Cor. Chicago Journal

Boston Cor. Cn1cagO Jour
The Boston papers have published q
remarkable account of the appearance
of Christ to a Mrs. Sherman, of Pier
mont, n. H., which shows conclusively
the lady's belief in the actual manifesto
ton of Christ's healing power upon
herself, personally exercised by the
Savior. A condensed statement of the
narrative may not be without interest.
Mrs. Ellen G. Sherman is the wife of
the Rev. Moses Sherman, of Piermont,
Grafton county, n. H., where her hus-
band is the pastor of the Methodist
Church. She is described as q person
of good mental powers, and of a deeply
religious nature. She is about 80 years
of age, and previous to her sudden re-
covery, which she attributes to the per-
sonal exercise of Christ's healing power,
had been an invalid for many years,
during the greater part of the time
being confined to her bed. Up to the
close of August, she says, in a letter
published in the Mirror, she had not
thought of anything but to pass her
days In the bed of sickness; and as she
looked forward to years of suffering in
a bed-ridden state, she felt she must
have more help from God to enable her
to bear this ife-burden with perfect
submission and patience-and she
wished to be able to say, ''Thy will,
not mine" Her heart cried out in the
imploring language of the leper of old,
Lord, If thou wilt, thou canst make
me clean," and the voice answered, "I
will, be thou clean, and with the words
came the cleansing power of Christ's
most precious blood, and she was
cleansed- She was distinctly conscious
of Christ's presence, which seemed to
fill the room like a cloud. 81 never"
she says, in all my life, had such a
view of Gods love in saving sinners. :"
She felt that her sick and worn BODY
was but poor offering to make Him for
his dwelling IN return for such wonder
full love. But the Spirit said, He is
able to restore and fit it up for His own
temple" Then she knew the design of
the Great Physician, whose presence
had been such a comfort and strength
to her, and when the voice asked her,
Beleyest thou that 1 am able to do
this ?" and she averred her belief in this
miraculous power, she was conscious of
His bearer approach to the bedside, and
she felt His healing breath upon her
face and heard the words, "And He
breathed on them, and said, receive
We the Holy Ghost" The warm breath
passing invigoratingly through her body
brought with it the feeling of returning
strength and life. After while she
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
GOOd-by, Jay!

A morning paper thinks it of sufficient
Importance to the public to announce
that Mr.. Jay Gould, whilom partner of
the late James Fisk in a series of stu
pendous audacities, which ON lesser
scale would be called frauds, and more
recently one of the most dashing gam
blers of Wall street, is about to with
draw from business. He has already
given up the Presidency of the New Jer-
sey Southern Railroad, and been sue
ceeded by Mr.. Suratt, the late General
Manager and it is said that he is about
to close his arrangements with the sew
eral firms through which he conducted
his various Operations. The public,
if it has any feeling on the subject at
all, will be only glad to learn that the
retirement is likely to be final. If it
had taken place ten years ago we should
have been saved many scandalous exhi-
billions that have rendered our name for
commercial morality byword and a
disgrace. York Post.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-06
A Clerks Blunder, and the COnsc-
OuenceS.

An old lady who lives little distance
from the small village of Quesby, VT,
writes friend, went to the store In that
place few days ago for pot of paint,
with which she designed ornamenting her
kitchen floor. She told the clerk, who
went down stairs to prepare the decoc-
ton, to put In plenty of drying mate
rial, and he honestly intended to do so,
but missing some pomatum from one
side .of his mustache, the loss so
annoyed him that he omitted paying
that attention to the order which it re-
quired, and instead of turpentine,
poured in generous quantity of strip.
That evening the old lady painted her
floor, and the next morning made an
examination of it to test its condition.
When she opened the door, her cat,
which was following, playfully jumped
into the room and then stopped. The
old lady Immediately Showed the ami
NAL, but it didn't shew. 1t pulled away
and tore one foot from the floor, and
set it down again to pull up another,
which necessitated pulling up the first
one again. Then it tried the expert
ment over again, but with the same re-
suit. Finally it lifted one foot, and
kept it up until the other was lifted.
This gave the animal the appearance
of trying to stand on its head, but its
plaintive cries indicated that such was
not its purpose. While thus raised, it
attempted to Lift the third foot, but in
so doing fell over, and came down on it's
side in the paint, and there it stuck,
clawing the air with its paws, and spit
ting forth the most venomous sounds.
The old lady got a board, and laying it
to the cat, succeeded, with some diff
Guilty, in rescuing it. But she could
not understand why that paint should
be so moist. In the afternoon she test
ed the floor again with her finger, but
the paint was still sticky. The next
morning it was the same, and also in
the afternoon. The third morning there
was no improvement, nor any in the
afternoon. She was astonished. When
she touched her finger to the paint this
time, she transferred her finger to her
tongue, then opened her eyes little
wider, and tasted again. After that
she put on her things, harnessed her
horse, and started for that store. And
that evening the clerk shaved off his
mustache, and buried his pomatum
in the solitude of the forest. -Danbury
NelUS