Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-20
Personal and General,

Personal and General.
Two hundred and fifty miles of paving
permeate New York City.
BAYARD TAYLOR and his German wife
Will make Germany their home.
THE Golden Age calls Emilio Caste
lar 9 Wendell Phillips translated into
Spanish"
NORTHERN New England's snowfall
this winter has been one hundred inches
on level
Tom ScoTT estimates the wealth of
the railroads which he controls at
$3.50, O00,O0
THERE are now 10000 men and 1OO,-
900 horses and oxen employed in the
lumber regions in Maine.
MANY old women in New Hampshire
wear strings of beans around their necks
to keep off the rheumatism.
The revision of Alabama laws has
been trusted to a Legislative committee
wholly composed of black men.
SANTA ANNA isn't dead yet. He is
going to visit New York in the spring
unless another rebellion occurs.
GEORGE W. CHILDs, who has made a
colossal fortune out of the Philadelphia
Ledger, is not yet A years old
We mourn for the fate of the Ameri-
can press since the mighty Ben Butler
has expressed his contempt for it.
PUNCTUATION was first used in litera-
ture in 1920. Before that time words
andsentenceswereputtogetherlikethis.
Mrs. ANNA PoMERoY, former wife of
Brick " Pomeroy, of Lacrosse, has
married James III. Reed, of Fulton, Ill
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL says that she
will leave America on April 5, with great
regret. Her asthma has been SO severe
IN this country that her physicians or
der her immediate departure.
81 AM man that God made. not the
newspapers, roared the irrepressible
Ben Butler, ON the floor of the House.
+" 1t is supposed that God made the
devil, too, retorts an irate newspaper
man.
A COMPANY of New York and Pennsyl-
vania capitalists have purchased ten
acres of land at McKinney's Station.
ten miles from Pittsburgh, Pa, for the
purpose of establishing works for the
manufacture of steel by the Bessemer
process. The company has a capital of
81 100000
ALEX. II. STEPHENS, Just elected to
the next Congress, first entered the
House, Wing, in 1913, and was con
tlnued in his seat until 1859. He voted
for the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854
and was thereafter classified as Demo-
GRAFT, which he now claims is be of the
straightest sort. Mr. Stephens is now
81 years old, and retains all his mental
vigor.
The Utica Herald has made the graf
Tying discovery that, cit is now I'M
lawful for tobacco chewers to beg a
chew The United States internal
revenue law allows no person or persons
to sell or dispose of tobacco in any form,
no matter how great the bulk, without
paying first license of S." Some men
would insist upon begging their tobacco,
even if they had to pay S. chew.
The Pennsylvania road is said to con-
troll Il, 900 miles of railway, and above
$500, 900, 900 of stock power, watered re-
peatedly, and still paying great dividends
upon the latest stock subdivision; and
still wheat in Iowa, Kansas and Nebras-
ka is depressed by freight impositions,
until the farmer cannot find the boots
and shoes of his family in whole land
scape of grain. r vsss. ~.
The latest proposed venture by the
gentle sex, in a business line, is the es-
adjustment of a life insurance company
in New York. Quite number of prom-
inent and wealthy ladies recently held a
meeting to discuss the feasibility of the
venture. Only females will be insured
in this company, if started, and it's
Office, and nearly all of its general work,
will be done by female employees, ~