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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Took Refuge in q Log.

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The romancer of the Detroit Press
talks as follows GA Detroiter named
Andrew Stedman, who buys cattle, deals
in hides, and occasionally makes dollar
by buying and selling produce, went out
to Nankin township few days ago to
buy span of heavy horses which were
wanted by a firm in the city. Upon
reaching the farmers house he found
that the man was working with a neigh
Dor mile away. To save the distance
he cut across lots, but was warned be-
fore he started to look out for savage
bovine which had the run of ten-acre
field. Thinking how he was going to
get that span or horses for $50 less than
their value, Steadman kept plodding
through the field, which had strip of
bushes two or three rods wide running
half way across it. There were few
stumps and logs, one small tree, but
nothing which prevented any one from
crossing the strip. The Detroiter was
about ten rods from the bushes when
he heard I. a distant thunder sound, and
looked around to see from which way
the shower was coming. About thirty
rods away he beheld the old bovine
coming for him, head down, back up
and eyes blazing. Steadman was salts
fed that he was the man who was wanted,
and he went for the bushes. He thought
the bull would stop and run around the
strip, and was startled when the old fell
low dashed through them on his trail,
uttering deep boom ! every instant.
Steadman lodged this way and that, but
the bovine took along after him, smash
ing bushes and leaping logs, and it was
getting to be red-hot affair when, the
man sped the open end of q large hollow
log. The bull was not over forty feet
behind. and into the log went Steadman,
| finding an orifice about twelve feet long,
and large enough to be roomy. The
bovine had seen the movement, and
stopped at the log and ripped off a
bushel of bark at the first dash. Then
putting his horns under it he gave it q
roll, and Steadman spun around like a
dried pea in policeman's whistle The
log was large, but old and tender, and
every time the bull hauled back and
jumped for it he covered himself with
glory and clouds of bark and wood.
Sometimes he whirled one end, and then
he gave the center heave, and then he
knocked foot off the other end. Stead
man swore, shrieked and pleaded, his
eyes full of bark and his mouth stopped
up, and every act of his life passed be-
fore him like a vision. 'W-o-o-hi
w-h-o-o-pp beloved the bovine, as he
slammed away at the log, and every mo-
ment Steadman expected to see the roof
cave in ON him. He was in despair,
when he heard the barking of dogs and
the shouts of men, and after few min
utes the farmers succeeded in releasing
him, but it took good hour to get the
kinks out of his back and the rotten
wood from his ears and eyes," .r
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Niagara HumbugS.

A late letter from the Falls says
Going under the falls for two dollars
especially when you don't go under the
falls-is one of the swindles paying
fifty cents to see the whirlpool is
another-especially when there is no
whirlpool to see the same sum for the
whirlpool rapids is another-especially
when you can see them better for moth
ing, unless you happen to have your
mother-in-law with you, and to be ami
mated with the hope that her love of
natures great phenomenon may tempt
her too far, and give you the double ad-
vantage of her death and cheap funer-
al. I met a party of three in the vicin-
ity of these rapids yesterday. One was
6 gentleman recently married, whom
had known for 6. long time, and the two
others were his wife and his mothcr-in-
law. The old lady went farther and
tarrfed longer than the rest. I suggest
ed doubt as to the safety of her ven
turings. "Oh," whispered the kind
hearted youth, "that's my mother-in-
law, and there amt rapids enough this
side of - to carry her off"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Mormon Dome.

Among the events of the famous Nor
mon war was the burning of the Nauvoo
temple. The structure was burned in
the night time, and so successful was
the party engaged in its firing that prob
ably he was never suspected. The re-
cent death of the incendiary, however,
has removed the necessity of further
secrecy, and day or two ago we were
put in possession of his name and the
facts connected with the burning of the
temple, by the only living person cogni-
zant of them. The temple was fred by
Joseph B. Agnew, who recently died in
Appanoose township, Hancock county,
in Illinois, at the age of IS years. 1t
was always supposed that the party who
burned the building had entered
through the basement, but the facts are
Mr.. Agnew surreptitiously obtained a
key to one of the doors of the temple
sometime before the act. No one was
engaged with him, and only four knew
he was the party. Agnew prepared his
fire balls and other combustibles at his
residence. Placing them in his saddle
bags, he rode on horseback to Nauvoo,
and in the night entered the temple
with his key, passed up the cupola, ar
ranged his materials and fired them, and
then quietly escaped the way he came.
Our informant, who is a responsible
and prominent citizen of the western
part of the State, says he can produce
the key of the temple which Agnew
secured in order to accomplish his work.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
A Clergyman on the Gallows.

The Rev. DR.. Carpenter, formerly OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, has gained an unen-
viable notoriety since the Russell exc
cution, last Friday. This divine has
been in constant attendance on the
murderer, and became devotedly at
tached to hirn. On the morning of the
execution, while The criminal was being
removed from one cell to another, this
preacher of the Gospel whether for
effect, notoriety, or show, will never be
known mounted the scaffold, and, while
in position on the drop, artistically
placed the moose around his ecclesias-
teal neck, put the black cap over his
head, and meditated for nearly five
minutes. The reporters present seemed
to be trustful that the trap would drop,
and the reverend hang himself for their
especial benefit. DR.. Carpenter, not
yet satisfied, must needs, after the
doomed man hung suspended from the
gallows beam, exclaim, in tragic tones
and melodramatic style, Murder most
foul San Francisco Letter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Time Devoted to Meals.

DIR. Derry states that the average
time occupied in the process of taking
food by the people of Massachusetts, does
not exceed from twelve to fifteen min
utes for each meal. Such haste is in
jurous to health for many reasons. The
process of digestion begins in the mouth
with the acton of the teeth, and through
the excitement of the salivary glands by
the presence of food. Unless Iva is
abundantly mingled with the latter, the
first act of digestion is INSTRUCTED, and
natures plan is changed. This fluid
not only lubricates but acts chemically
in the mouth, if reasonable time be
given it, upon all the starchy elements
which make up the great bulk of what
we eat. When eating in haste, great
deal of air is swallowed. Air is, to a
certain extent, always entangled in the
saliva and assists digestion, but when
"wads" of food succeed each other very
rapidly, they seem to act like pistons in
the tube leading from the back to the
throat, and drive before and between
them into the stomach such amounts of
air as to distend that organ and impede
its functions. Another effect of eating
in this way is that the masses of food
imperfectly mixed with saliva become
impacted in the esophagus, checking
its muscular action, which is obviously
intended to propel only one piece at a
time. This embarrassment is overcome
by taking at one gulp as much fluid as
the mouth will hold, thus distending
the elastic food, and washing the OBJ
structed food into the stomach. All this
is unnatural, and can hardly fail to work
mischief
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
A Mad HOOsier.

There are some fine specimens of man.
hood among the rural population of In
diana-regular Spartan fellows, in fact.
A heightened agriculturist of that State
last week had his barn-yard fence
burned by the sparks from passing To-
connective. He swore, and went into the
house to make out bill against the
corporation. The next day a recently
completed calf-pen was burned by
sparks from the same locomotive. There
was no swearing about it, however.
The time for words was past. With
stern determination he went to work
and piled a couple of cords of fence
rails upon the track, and, about the
time the train was due, set fire to them.
Then taking his double-barreled shot
gun he calmly awaited the issue. The
rails were seen quick enough for the en-
gineer to stop the train; but, though
justice was foiled in that particular, the
old man had his artillery in reserve and
brought it into immediate action. He
emptied both barrels into the express
car, and then, feeling that his mission
was accomplished, set down his gun
and surrendered. 1t is considered
highly improbable in that section of the
country that he will do his own harvest
ing next season.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

THE trial of General Bazaine is likely
to furnish as extensive end just about
as interesting a fund of literature as
some of our American court-martials
or the reports on the Ku-Klux cases.
The preliminary report of Gen. Riviere
in Gen. Bazaine's case fills four oc-
tavo volumes. This is before the trial
has commenced. 1t comprises an ac-
count of the battles about Metz, a vol
ume on the artillery, another on food
supplies, and fourth on the communi-
cations. The conclusion of the report
accuses Bazaine of having capitulated
without having exhausted all his means
of defense, and of having caused his
troops to lay down their arms without
having made every effort in his power to
avert this disgrace. These offenses, ac-
cording to the code of military justice,
are punishable with death and military
degradation.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Effects of Tobacco.

The use of tobacco has so much ex-
tended itself in the present generation
that we are all obliged to make deci-
sion for ourselves on the ancient contro-
versy between its friends and enemies.
We cannot form reasonable opinion
about tobacco without bearing in mind
that it produces, according to circum-
stances, one of two entirely distinct
and even opposite classes of effects.
In certain states of the body it acts as a
stimulant, In other states as narcotic
People who have a dislike to smoking
affirm that it stupefes but this asser-
ton, at least so far as the temporary
consequences are concerned, is not sup
ported by experience. Most of the
really brilliant conversations that / have
listened to have been accompanied by
clouds of tobacco smoke and great
deal of the best literary composition
that is produced by contemporary au-
thors is wrought by men who are actu-
ally smoking while they work. My
own experience is that very moderate
smoking acts as a pleasant stimulus
upon the brain, while it produces tenn
porary lassitude of the muscular sys-
tenn, not perceptible in times of rest,
but an appreciable hindrance in times
of muscular exertion. 1t is better.
therefore, for men who feel these effects
from tobacco to avoid it when in exer-
else, and to use it only when the body
rests and the mind labors. Pray re-
member, however, that this is the ex-
perience of an exceedingly moderate
smoker, who has not yet got himself
into the general condition of the body
which is brought ON by larger indul-
gence in tobacco. On the other hand,
it is evident that men engaged in physi-
cal labor find a muscular stimulus In
occasional smoking, and not tempo
rary lassitude. 1t is probable that the
effect varies with individual cases, and
is never precisely what our own ex-
perience would lead us to imagine. Fol-
excessive smokers, it appears to be little
more than the tranquilizing of a sort OF
uneasiness, the continual satisfaction OF
a continual craving. / have never beer
able to ascertain that moderate smok-
ing diminished intellectual force; but
have observed in excessive smokers 6
decided weakening of the will, and 6
preference for talking about work to the
effort of actual labor. The opinions o.
medical men on this subject are SC
much at variance that their science only
adds to our uncertainty. One doctor
tells me that the most moderate smok
ing is unquestionably injurious, while
others affirm that it is innocent. Speak
ing simply from self-observation, fine
that in my own case tea and coffee arr
far more perilous than tobacco.-Philil
Gilbert Hal7lertOn.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
NarrOw-Gauge Railways.

The difference between the cost of
narrow-gauge railroads and ordinary
four feet eight and half inch gauge is
rather more than most people imagine
that is, if we are to take the word of
a writer in the FTnancier. There are
now fifteen narrow-gauge railroads in
operation in the United States, having
700 miles of track, and there are no less
than twenty organizations and 1850
miles under process of construction
The roads have been planned and con-
structed in the past two years. The
cost through level country is about
$4,000 mile, including equipment of
rolling stock, while the broad-gauge
costs from $50, 900 to $40, 900 per mile.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
The Danger of Laughing in the Wrong
Place.

In addition to the regular claque ut
the Paris theaters, new profession has
sprung mp with similar object, though
the means of attaining the latter are not
the same. The scene of action, too, is
different, being in this in the Cafes
Chantants. Attached to these establish
ments are certain individuals who, for
the modest sum of two or three francs
a night, engage to indulge in hilarious
and contagious merriment, and at par
ticular couplets supposed TO be more
than usually comic, to split their sides
with laughter. But mere roatine is
occasionally rather dangerous, as was
proved not long since by the following
incident. Without the fact having been
communicated to the professional laugh
ter at the Cafe Chantant in the Champs
Elysees, a particular song had been
withdrawn from the programme and
another substituted. The Laughter had
been quietly doing without attending
to what was going on, when suddenly
rousing himself and looking at the
clock inside the gate, he perceived, be-
heving the programme unchanged, that
it was time for him to indulge in one of
his most excruciating fits of cachinna-
tory excitement. He did so. In an
other instant he was nearly murdered.
He had burst out in the midst of a
touching couplet about Alsace and Lor-
raine. Though he escaped with his life,
his hat was smashed in, and his clothes
torn off his body by the deeply-moved
and patriotic audience, before he could
explain that he was not a German in
disguise, but an unfortunate profes.
sional Laughter, who had exercised his
calling in the wrong place.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

A GREAT MODERN CoNUNDRUM
SOLvED.-In select school in the Sixth
Ward, the other day, a class of boys
were spelling, when the teacher came to
the word sacrifice" and stopped to
explain it and make good moral point.
She told them that sacrifice meant to
slay, to kill, and also to forego ones
own convenience for the sake of making
others happy. For instance" she
said, ct have kite, and lame boy,
who can't roll a hoop, or play like other
boys, comes along and asks for it, what
should I do? A youth, named Sny-
der, raised his hand, and when nod
ded at, roared: "Smash him in the
mouth and run p'-Detroit Free Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Sunrise Among the Clouds.

An aerial voyager thus relates his ex-
perience among the clouds at sunrise:
" AT $40 a. M, We gained our greatest
elevation, which was about 200 feet,
from which objects were seen at dis
lance of $50 miles on every side. The
view of this stupendous landscape was
enjoyed for about an hour, and at 5:15
we had the satisfaction of seeing the
sun rise, which still more enhanced the
beauties of the scene. Shortly after
the balloon descended rapidly to lower
level, and all again was dark and it
was not until we had seen the sun set
twice and rise three times that daylight
was fairly established"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Foreign Postal Rates.

Letters to all parts of the New Do
minion (Canada) 10 cents per half pound
if unpaid; paid, 6 cents newspapers 2
cents each.
The following are the postal rates with
Europe, prepayment in the case of
letters being optional, that of news
papers compulsory. Unless otherwise
indicated, the rates for letters are for
the half ounce or fraction thereof, and
those for newspapers for four ounces or
fraction thereof
To Great Britain and Ireland, letters,
6 cents, newspapers, 2 cents France,
letters, direct mail, 10 cents, via En-
gland for one-third ounce and under, 10
cents, from one-third to one-half ounce,
16 cents, newspapers 2 cents each; Spain,
letters, under one-third ounce, 16 cents,
one-half ounce and under, % cents,
newspapers cents each all parts of
Germany, including Austria, letters,
direct mail, 6 cents, closed mail, via
England, cents, newspapers 4 cents
Denmark, letters, direct mail, 9 cents,
newspapers 2 cents each Switzerland,
letters, direct mail, 10 cents, via Bre-
men or Hamburg, 8 cents, newspapers,
4 cents Italy, letters, direct mail, 10
cents, newspapers, 4 cents Russia, let
tiers, direct mail, IL cents, closed mail
via England, II cents, newspapers, 6
cents /; Norway, letters, direct mail, IL
cents, closed mail via England, II cents,
newspapers, 8 cents Sweden, letters,
direct mail, 10 cents, closed mad via
England, IL cents, newspapers, cents
Turkey, European and Asiatic, letters,
direct mail, II cents, closed mail via
England, II cents, newspapers, cents;
Egypt, letters, direct mail, 16 cents,
closed mail via England, IL cents, news
papers, 9 cents.
For Asiatic countries, the half ounce
limit for letters and the ounces for
newspapers still holding good:
To Australia, letters, via Southamp-
ton, Is cents, via Brindisi % cents, to
be prepaid, newspapers, and s cents
by the respective routes British India,
via San Francisco, 10 cents, via South
ampton % cents, via Brindisi % cents,
to be prepaid, newspapers, via San
Francisco, 2 cents each, by the other
routes and cents respectively per 4
ounces or fraction; China, letters, via
San Francisco, 10 cents, via Brindisi, %
cents, to be prepaid, newspapers, cents
each Japan, letters, via San Francisco,
10 cents, via Brindisi, 81 cents, to be
prepaid, newspapers, 2 cents each by the
former route, and 8 cents per 4 ounces
by the latter. stt-< =
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
How to Take a Drink of Brandy.

If young men will drink liquors, we
insist that they should do it gracefully.
A great many accomplished bar tenders
and polite by-standers have their risi-
bilities excited to degree dangerous to
proper saloon decorum by the awkward
manner in which upstart green 'uns take
their grog, to say nothing of the danger
from strangulation incident to starting
a horn of brandy down the wrong way.
The following is the proper way to do
the business. 1t may come little awk-
ward at first, but practice Will make it
easy, and the habit of doing the thing
gracefully and easily will save You from
a world os ridicule, and from many of
the evils which crazy temperance people
are always charging as sure to follow
drinking. Stand up straight like a
man your left side to the bar; take the
glass neatly and firmly between the tips
of the thumb and four fingers of the
right hand, letting the little finger drop
down to near the bottom of the glass !;
swing the glass in plane exactly CORE
spending with the top of the bar, until
it is precisely before you. Just then
throw the head back a little, push the
chin forward, so as to leave the throat
in full open, easy position. Compress
the lips tightly, draw full breath
through the nostril, and, with a graceful
curve of the arm, raise the glass until
the rim is within about three inches of
your chin. Now is the supreme mo-
ment. Just here, turn your eyes up
ward, think of your mother, and-open
yo,r hand, instead of your mouth If
anybody laughs it will be an insult
which you should resent by never going
there again. -Eykader Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Encouraged by the

been contending. Encouraged by the
Pharisees of the North, this class stands
behind the more ignorant and reckless,
urging them on to violence by indirect
appeals to theirpassions, and by tanning
the dying embers of the war at every
opportunity. There is probably no
remedy for this, save in the dawn of a
better spirit in the South, and the unfal-
tering devotion of the loyal masses of
the North, who shall prove by their rigid
adherence to principle that their union
ism is something more than a mere
name,-Illter- Ocean.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
Two Pounds OF Baby.

William NJ. States has secured lease
of the diminutive baby which was on ex-
hibition at the recent baby show at Pa
cific Hall, and proposes to start upon a
tour of the Eastern States and Europe
with this wonderful infant. The child
was brought to Edouard & Cobb's pho
togrsph gallery, yesterday, to have his
picture taken. Previous to the sitting a
pair of scales were brought, and the
weight of the infant, clothes and all,
was found to be but two pounds and a
half. Its name is jeanne Orlanie, and
it is three months and half old The
father weighs upward of 90pounds and
the mother $50 pounds. This is their
sixth child, all the others having at
tanned the usual weight of children OF
their age. The little novelty is perfect
in form, though not a very handsome
babe.-.San francisco Chronicle.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

WATER THE Docs. During these warm
days, be sure that the dogs have plenty
of fresh water. There is reason to be-
lieve that many cases of dog-madness
are owing to the fact that the animals
are Infatuated with thirst, while they
have no water to drink. When you find
a dog drinking water that is not clean,
you may be sure that the requirements
of his thirst are not fully provided for.
Let the dogs have plenty of fresh water.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
THE FnurE.-Like many good things.

THE FLUrE.-Like many good things,
the flute is a very old instrument. The
Egyptians played upon it more than
four thousand years ago, and the ancient
Greeks, especially the Spartans, loved
its strains. The name flute comes from
the Latin Jauta. lamprey or kind of
eel inhabiting the waters of Sicily,
whose side is perforated with seven
holes, as the flute was in primitive days.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04

ICE-CREAM.-Here is pleasant item
for lovers of ice-cream. It is said that
in some of the Paris restaurants ice
cream is made of corn-starch, French
clay, and coloring matter, the beautiful
pink tint being given by cochineal. It
is not only in Paris that the art of max
ing ice-cream without cream is we'll
understood.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
THEY tell of a harvest hand who was

IHE1 C6u Oh q HHIVCSI HdHu WHO "do
severely attacked with cholera morbus,
and his physician asked if he had eaten
anything the night before. "Oh, no I;
nothing but a couple of cucumbers, q
can OF cove oysters and watermelon or
two" Some peoples stomachs cant
bear anything.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-04
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