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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
4 Submarine Railway.

The Minister of Public Works at
Versailles, N. Desseilliguy, has address,
ed circular TO the French projects
regarding the proposal of constructing
a submarine railway between England
and France. He states that scheme
has been submitted to the two govern
ments by an Anglo French Company to
build tunnel under the channel OF
about $4,000 meters long, connected
with the railways or each shore by un-
derground lines of about ten kilometers
in length, the company asking no pecu-
mary assistance or guarantee, except
the perpetuity of the exclusive right to
work the railway and freedom from COM
petition. The English Government re-
piled that it saw no objection to the
proposal, except so far as regarded the
monopoly, to which it could in no case
give its assent. Before any building
arrangements were made, the principle
of the project should be submitted to
public examination. With this view,
instructions have been issued to the
Project of the Pas-de- Calais to open an
inquiry, and at the same time the Min
lister thinks it desirable that work of
this international importance should be
placed before the Chamber of Commerce,
and he requests the projects of the diff
ferent departments to invite the cham
bers within their jurisdiction to favor
him with their views on the project.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Railway Accidents in England and
America.

The recklessness of American railway
officials was once proverbial, if it not
now but English railroads are bearing
off the palm in the number of accidents
and in the number of lives DESTROYED.
The list of casualties by rail in that
country recently has been frightful, and
the people of England have become
alarmed to such an extent that per-
feet panic exists among railway travel
ers, and threatens to bankrupt the rail-
read companies. As many as eight ac-
cidents in one day were recently an
nounced by a cable dispatch, and
scarcely day passes that one or more
does not occur. A Parliamentary return
issued to the British Board of Trade
gives the statistics of railway disasters
for 1872 in the United Kingdom. The
return is the first which has been pre-
pared for an entire period of twelve
months under the regulation of rail-
ways act, 1871. The total number of
persons killed during the year, accord
ing to this return, was 1,145, and 3,O3S
were injured. The total number of pas
sengers killed was 127-24 from causes
beyond their own control, and lob from
their own misconduct or want of caution
The total number of passengers injured
was ] 1862, of whom l, 247 received their
injuries from car ses beyond their own
control, and 215 from their own miscon-
duct or want of caution. The number
of railway servants returned as killed
under the former head is Ga, and under
the latter 56S the injured in these two
classes are $40 and 1,019 respectively.
Seventy persons were killed and % In
jured while passing over railways at
level crossings. Under the head of tres
passers and suicides, 25S are reported
as killed and 107 injured and miscel-
laneous, not included in any of the pre-
ceding classes, 3S6 killed and 1Sl in
jured. A list is also given of the num-
Der of accidents unattended with loss of
life or personal injury. 1t extends over
thirty-two pages Of the blue-book, but
no summary is appended. 1t appears
from one of the tables in the book that
the total number of passengers killed
ON railways from causes beyond their
own control from 1862 to 1872 was 271.
In an Introductory note it was stated
that these returns are made by the COM
panies themselves, and the great dis
crepancies between the number of acct
dents returned by the various companies
leads to doubt whether they all make
the return with equal care and complete
ness.
The Railr0Gd Gazette publishes a
tabulated exhibited of accidents in this
country for the year beginning with
September j, 1872, and ending August
81, 1873. For the twelve months the
following table presents the figures
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30

which they paid her handsomely. The
day of her disappearance she had placed
her hat on the rivers bank, and had also
pushed the plank into the water. Ample
provisions, and her white clothes, had
been put in the ruins long beforehand.
That night when the accident befell her,
she had intended to return home with
us-as per prior arrangement with Ray
i'm a far different condition to what
she really did. She begged all to for
give her and Ray for the cruel joke,
and then peacefully died. Ray Glyn-
don devoted her life thereafter to God
and charity, as the best atonement for
her sin, for such she considered it and,
although educated Protestant, she
joined Catholic association, taking the
name of Sister Marie.
"Girls, my story is finished, and the
lesson hope it viii teach you is this /:
Never indulge in practical jokes, for
you have heard the fearful ending of
Jennie Griswold; SO once more i say,
let it be lifelong lesson for you both. "
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Judging by Appearance.

A good story is told by Yankee
editor, in illustration of the folly of
Judging from appearances. A person
dressed in suit of homespun clothes
stepped into a house in b ston, on
some business, where several ladies
were assembled in an inner room. One
of the company remarked in low tone
that countryman was in waiting, and
agreed to have some fun. The follow
ing dialogue ensued:
You're from the country, 1 sup
pose ?"
Eyes, I'm from the country"
Well, sir, what do you think of the
city ?"
Its got a tarnal sight of houses
in it."
81 expect there's great many ladies
where you come from?"
ooh, yes, a woundy sight; iist for all
the world like them,'' pointing 10 the
ladies.
"And you are quite a beau among
them, no doubt.
eyes, / beaus 'em to meetin' and
about"
Maybe the gentleman viii take a
glass of wine," said one of the company.
81 thankee; don't care If / do.
"But you must drink toast
"I eats toast what aunt Debby makes,
but as to drinkin', l never seed the
like"
What was the surprise of the COM
pany to hear the stranger speak as fol-
lows:
"Ladies and gentlemen, permit me
to wish you health and happiness, with
every other blessing the earth can
afford, and 1 advise you to bear in
mind that We are often deceived by ap-
pearances. You mistook me by my
dress for country BOBBY; l, from the
same cause, thought these men were
gentlemen. The deception was mutual.
L wish you good evening"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Wonderful Fertility of Peruvian Soil.
Lima Cor. Chicago Tribune.l

Lima Cor. Chicago Tribune.l
In speaking of the wonderful fertili-
ty of the soil in Peru, I have never
spoken of little plant, or leaf, they
have here, which / never met with in
any other place or country. / do not
know the botanical name, and 1 hope
that some botanist or savant can give
me the name and species. The natives
take simple pale-green leaf, something
like fern, and pin it to the wall with a
common pin stuck through it-just pin
it on to the plain adobe wall. Some
times they fasten it up with a tack.
The leaf itself is not SO large as a
geranium-leaf. Incredible as it may
seem, from this leaf will spread out tiny
tendrils and shoots, and delicate leaves
will form, and will spread, and run, and
cover the whole wall. I had one in nv
own side-yard, or corral, that covered
the entire side of the wall, and it grew
from one small leaf pinned on to the
adobe to fol9 It in place. It becomes
thrifty running vine. / would not be-
lieve it possible but that I have seen it
repeatedly and successfully tried. In
the poorer houses, the natives plant
OOAinioh OoLIOtd NOI oNetb pOtdlOJ IL
part of glass of water, changing the
water weekly, and leaving at least half
the potato above the water. This glass
is then placed in a corner of the room,
behind table-leg or a chair, on the
floor, and near the wall In fortnight
beautifully green vine shoots from the
top of the potato, and runs at will all
over the wall, curling its long green ten
drills around picture-frames, over cur
tain-cornices, anywhere you may choose
to train it, and often covering and en-
towering whole window-for the win
dows need never be closed for storm or
rain. Yet L have repeatedly sent the
same kind of potato to my friends in
New York and at the West, and, in
spite of all my directions and their at
tentions, the vine would never grow and
the plant never flourish. / presume it
requires other soil and temperature. /
presume it requires other soil and tenn
perature. But this is the country for
flowers. Flowers bloom here perpetu-
ally, and in great abundance.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

IT is the female mosquito that bites.
SAN Francisco had IL, $40 arrests last
year.
THE cattle driven from Texas this
year is likely to be about 100000 head.
NJ THEIRS is catcher for an Evans
ton, ILL.,, baseball club.
No ONE ever sees a drunken person
in the streets of Paris.
CHICAGO has abolished corporal pun
ishment in her schools.
JAMES G. VEAL, of Daviess county.
Ind, has sold 100, 900 watermelons this
season.
In Iowa the price Of marriage IL
cense has been reduced to a quarter of
a dollar.
Pope Plus TX. receives on an average
one hundred letters per day, and nearly
all contain religious remittances."
In England society has been formed
for the purpose of demonstrating to
mankind that the world is perfectly
fiat.
THE London market for ice is now
altogether supplied from Norway. The
amount varies from 10000 to $4,000
tons.
Forty years ago, there were twenty
three miles of railroad in the United
States, and now there are about 90, 600
miles.
A GENTLEMAN who vas once betrothed
to Susan B. Anthony resides at Du-
buque, and has an air of hopeless mel
ancholy.
The valuation of Milwaukee has in
creased 81, 600, 600 during the past year,
while the increase of business done was
$12,000,000.
THE porters of European railways
complain bitterly of the size and weight
of American trunks. No one there ever
thinks of Juggling about such portable
safes.
IT is now definitely settled that the
longer to be affixed to poles in the open
air, but are to be buried in underground
tubes.
A CALIFORNIA paper tells about a
boy climbing tomato-vine to get away
from mad dog Tomato vines obtain
an enormous size in California, and so
do lies.
The Paris Figaro informed its read
ers the other day that Marshall Jewell,
our new Minister to Versailles, is a
" Marshal in the army of the United
States -
The Icelanders are beginning to emf
CRATE quite extensively TO the United
States. They are said to resemble the
Scotch in appearance, and are bright,
clean and healthy-looking class of
people.
THERE are very few whisky bloais
among the Wisconsin newspaper men
not to exceed a dozen; and there are
100 or more who believe in and practice
total abstinence.-Fondd u Lac Conn
GlOntCedlth.
THE costly Devastation, the piece dc
resistance of the English navy, has ex-
perienced at last the long-wished for
trial of her sea-going qualities. In
clearing Eastern Bay, on the west coast
of Iceland, she encountered very heavy
seas, and her buoyancy elected univer-
sal admiration.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
MUSliuS.

A native woman with her fingers and
spindle alone, and native man with his
toes and bamboo loom alone, will spin
thread and finish a piece of muslin
which cannot, by the application of the
most delicate machinery, be produced
outside of India. There is one quality
of Dacca muslin, for example, which is
termed "woven air." 1t is made only
for kings daughters. So short is the
staple of the raw material, and so brittle
are it's fbres, that it must be spun by
woman under 25, and before the dew has
left the grass in the morning. As a
substitute for natural moisture, the
evaporation of water from a shallow pan
is sometimes used, but the quality of
the work in that case is inferior. And
yet, though the most delicate and finest
of fabrics, piece of four yards in
length by one yard in width often
weighs less than one ounce avoirdupois;
it is very durable and viii wash.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
GONE AFFAIR.


" She IS dead y they said to him; come away;
Kiss her, and leave her; thy love is clay"
They smoothed he tresses of dark brown hair,
On her forehead o, stone they laid it fair;
Over her eyes, WI ich gazed too much,
They drew the hes with gentle touch
With a tender touch they closed up well
The sweet, thin lips, that had secrets to tell;
About her brows and beautiful face
They tied her veil and her marriage lace,
And drew on her white feet her white silk shoes
Which vert the whitest no eye could choose
And over her bosom they. crossed her hands:
~Come away" they said, 90 God understands"
Aud there was silence, and nothing there
But silence, and scents of eglantare,
And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary;
And they said. " As lady should lie lies she !"
And they held their breath as they left the room
With shudder, 20 glance ar its stiffness and gloom
But he who loved her too well to dread
The sweet, the stately, and the beautiful dead,
He lit his lamp, and took the key
And turned it-alone again, he and she
he and she yet she would not speak,
Though he kissed in the old place the ie cheek.
BE and she yet she would not SMILE
Though he called her the n=me she loved erewhie.
He and she still she did not move
To any passionate whisper of love.
Then he sad cold lips, and breast without breath
Is there no voice. no language of death,
Dumb to the ear and still to the sense,
But TO heart and TO soul distinct, intense?
See, now, 1 will listen with soul. not ear;
What Was the secret of dying, dear?
Was it the infinite wonder Of ali
That you ever could let hfe's flower &?
Or was it 4 greater marvel to feel
The perfect calm DER the agony steal?
Was the miracle greater to find how deep
Beyond all dreams sank downward that sleep?
Did life roll back its record dear,
And show, as they say it does, past things clear?
And was it the innerrnost heart of the bliss
To find out so what wisdom love is
perfect dead. o dead most dear.
hold the breath Of my soul to hear;
listen as deer as to horrible hell,
As high as TO heaven, and you do not tell
There must be pleasure in dying, sweet,
To make you so placid from head to feet.
would tell you, darling, if 1 were dead,
And twere your hot tears upon my brow shed;
would say, though the angel of death had laid
bis sword ON my lips to keep it unsaid;
You should not ask yaiIly, with streaming eyes,
Which OF all deaths was the chiefest surprise
The very strangest and suddenest thing
OF all the surprises that dying must bring.
All, foolish world. most kind dead,
Though he told me, who viii believe ii was said?
Who viii believe what he heard her say
With the sweet. soft voice. in the dear old way?
The utmost wonder is this: 81 hear
Aud see you, and love you, and kiss you, dear;
And am your angel who your bride;
Ana know thar. though dead, have never died.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Origin of the Grange.

A writer in Old and Ne,0 says: The
idea of the order of Patrons of Hus-
bandry" was originally borrowed from
an association which for many years had
maintained feeble existence in COM
munity of Scotch farmers in South Car
DINA. The objects of this Scotch socie-
ty, so far as can be ascertained, appear
to have been the purchase of all needed
supplies from first hands and at whole
sale rates, and the cultivation of more
intimate and social relations among its
members that is, it was a secret coop
erative industrial and social association
among those already allied by mutual
work, interest and sympathy. 1t was
meager in number and narrow in infu-
ence to degree that the fact of its ex-
istence was unknown beyond the limits
of the little community affected by its
institutions.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Rousing the Sleepers.

On the 18th of April, 1925, John
Rudge bequeathed twenty shillings a
year to the parish of Irysell, Shropshire,
to fee q poor man to go about the
church and keep the people awake.
Less liberal, Richard Dovey, of Farm
cote, give eight shillings 60 another par
ish for the same purpose; while in
Cheshire the church warden performed
this duty. AS late as thirty years ago,
wand, forked a. one end, so as to catch
the nape of the ok, was employed
but, more calamity, in another place, a
fox's brush was at one end for the
ladies, while the hard end was applied
to the men.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
A Hean 0f News.

Writing of Manitoba as it was In the
olden time, before communication was
opened through st. Paul, and when the
mail reached the settlement just once
in six months, by way of Hudson Bay,
Edward Eggleston tells of one enthusi-
astic resident, who took the London
Times, receiving it in half-yearly INSTALL
ments, which he straightway spread out
in heap, Oldest paper uppermost. Ev-
cry morning he took off one paper, and
thus kept up the sensation of having
fresh news every day. He would lay
down bis paper in the midst of battle
and save the rest until next morning.
He was nearly year behind the world,
but that did not matter-the news was
fresh to him.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
The Panic and Americans Abroad.

The London correspondent of the
New York EUening Post writes as
follows:
The Yankee spectators, who have
mines, railways, and concessions of
other kinds for sale. are quietly folding
their tents and stealing away. They
know very well that in this market there
is no hope for any American enterprise
that requires money advances for the
next six months. The aggregation of
generals" colonies" and "commo-
dores" is now devoted to hand shaking.
With the hght-heartedness characteristic
of the country, they do not by any
means despair of the whole "steam-
boat" some time or other, notwithstand-
ing their inability to secure the "gang
plank" at present. Many of these Mark
Tapleys will go home in the steeage, or
work their passage, if need be, rati er
than confess to poverty.
Letters of credit are looked at askance
by everybody. England and the CONT
nent are full of Americans who are
really needy. A great many deposited
their all In New York before they started
ON their tours, and they find themselves
penniless now. Most of them, however,
can get all the money they want by be-
coming personally liable where they
draw. The local banks are helping to
that extent, but they will not recognize
nor listen to old letters of credit. Mean
time sharpers are plying their trade.
Self-styled Americans, who never saw
the United States, except on a map, are
telling doleful tales to kind hearted
clergymen and widows all over England,
and pocketing q "tidy income," OF
course.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Items for HOusekeepers.

Alum or vinegar is good to set colors,
red, green or yellow.
Sal soda will bleach one spoonful is
sufficient for kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden and
plants, or to harden yards when sandy
A hot shovel held over vanished fur
niture will take out spots.
A bit of glue dissolved in skim-milk
and water will restore old rusty Grape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed
in cold suds and not rinsed.
If fat-irons are rough rub them well
with salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying a carpet for dura-
bility, you must choose small figures.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of
doors Will prevent them from creaking.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes where
crickets run out, will destroy them.
Green should be the prevailing color
for bed-hangings and window-drapery.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Humorous.

LADIES who light up well at night
Those who have lantern jaws.
A WESTERN paper speaks of a new
paper-mill which twill be made of brick
It's feet long"
THE editor of Nevada newspaper
gives notice that ne cannot be bribed
with a five-cent cigar to write fve-dollar
puffs.
One Of the English comic papers says
of the system of taxation in that coun-
try 4" 1t hardly presses on the rich and
presses hardly on the poor"
A CoLPoRTEUR in Kansas was told
that this ere region hain't much on
Bibles, but if you want to make money
bring us out a load of shotguns.
II was once said of misery money
lender that he kept trunk containing
his securities near the head of his bed,
and lay awake to hear them accumulate
interest.
"STR, will make you feel the arrows
of my resentment" sab Miss. why
should I fear your arrows when you
never had a beau?" She Quivered
with rage.
Kate hates mustaches much hair
Makes every man look Ike bear.
But Nellie, who no thought could fetter,
Blunts out, the more like bears the better.
Because, her pretty shoulders Struggling.
Bears are such glorious chaps for hugging.
FIRST lesson in kissing-The gentle
man should be little the tallest. He
should have clean face, kind eye,
and mouth full of expression instead
of tobacco.
IT was an Irish Coroner who, when
he was asked how he accounted for an
extraordinary mortality in Limerick, re-
piled sadly SO 1 cannot tell. There are
people dying this year that never died
before"
A PLUMBER had an Irish lad in his en-
ploy, and one day having occasion to
use piece of zinc, ordered him to get
one twelve inches square. eyes, sir"
said Pat, "twelve inches square, but
how long?"
A SACRAMENTO man was found lying
entirely naked on the stairs leading to
a club-room, and when being removed
by policeman Indignantly exclaimed
" You have no business to enter my
room and take me out of bed
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
Christian Unity Letter from Bishop
CumminS.

A New York dispatch of the 14th
inst. says:
The fact that ON last Sunday the
Dean of Canterbury, England, and
Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, in at
tendance here at the Evangelical AL
lance, joined In the communion services
in Presbyterian churches, contrary to
the spirit and custom of the Episcopa-
lians, and, as the High Churchmen al
lege, in violation of the ecclesiastical
order of the Church, has given rise to a
spirited controversy among the Episco-
paliaps. The act of the English Dean
and the Kentucky Bishop having been
publicly animadverted upon, Bishop
Cummins has written letter vindi-
eating his course and that of the Dean of
Canterbury in the matter OF their COM
munion in Presbyterian churches. He
says: 81 deny, most emphatically, that
the Dean of Canterbury or myself has
violated an ecclesiastical order of the
Church of England or of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in this country, or
has been guilty of any open hostility to
the discipline. There is nothing in the
ecclesiastical order or discipline of the
Church of England or of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in this country for
bidding such an act of inter-communion
among Christian people who are in one
faith and love, and one In Christ, their
great Head. As far as 1 know, the lib
eral Episcopalians of New York rejoice
In the action of the Dean of Canterbury,
and thank God for it. When the Epis-
copal Church of England and the United
States has been able to clear herself
(Which may God in His infinite mercy
soon grant) of the deadly evil of ritual