Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-17
Miscellaneous.
THE Shah wears a million dollar oyt

Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is at st.
GATHERINGS, Canada, where she will pass
the summer
THERE is tree standing in front of
the Dyersburg, Tenn, Presbyterian
Church that has been struck by light
ming nineteen times and it is a good
tree yet.
LAST February there were thirteen
oranges in Georgia now there are sixty.
and by next Christmas it is believed
there will be two hundred. The move
ment is gaining i'll volume and strength
every day, though it encounters some
opposition from the middlemen.
NEARLY all of the $3.50, 900 worth of
bonds stolen from the Falls City Tobacco
Bank, in Louisville, KY, last February,
have been recovered, by compromising
with the thieves, at 25 per cent. The
negotiations were conducted in New
York.
A FEW days ago one of the attaches of
the Spanish Legation entered barber
shop at Providence, R. l., to get
shave. He was politely shown the door
with the exclamation, ''We don't shave
no niggers hyah.p
A wELL-KNowN physician of New
York recommends dancing for old peo-
pie, who, he says, require it more than
| the young. He would not have them
tread the mazes of the courtly minuet.
but inclines rather to iigs and horn
pipes, and such other dances as REQUIRE
gentle physical exertion. Under his di-
rection dancing class has already been
formed, the junior member of which is
lady of sixty-fve, and the senior a
lively old bachelor who has Just COM
pleted his eightieth year.
WHILE Theirs was President of the
French Assembly, it is said that he gen
orally received seven hundred letters a
day. The usual proportion of the diff
ferent classes was Application for as
slstance, 250 petitions having apolitical
object, 80; others against some preiu-
dice suffered, 100; complaints against
functionaries, 100; abuse, 80; menaces
OF death, 20. They do not seem to have
hurt him any, and he could doubtless be
threatened with death forty times day,
and be as alive as ever at the end of the
year.
IMMIGRATION to Brazil has succeeded
in a single instance that of German
colonization of the southernmost prov
ince of the Empire, where the climate
IS temperate enough to be propitious.
In the northern provinces immigrants
will be killed by the climate sooner or
later on the coast, and if they 90 far
inland to a better climate they find
themselves isolated in wilderness. with
out roads and without market for their
produce.
The citizens of Georgia town were
surprised to read in their local journal,
the other day, that perhaps it was not
worth while for them to attempt to raise
boys. The afflicted editor insists that
he wrote hogs.
MISSISSIPPI papers record the death
IN that State, on the 9th of May last,
of John Owens, at the age of ia years,
months, and 6 days. He was re-
markable man for although he admitted
that he used whisky occasionally, and
that he had smoked and chewed for 1O3
years, he never claimed that he had seen
Washington.
THE California people are wondering
how they shall vote. The new election
law is very particular in requiring that
the tickets shall be twelve inches long,
and that the printed matter shall be
single-leaded" and in long primer
type. Now, in San Francisco, sixty-two
officers are to be voted for, and their
names and those of the offices which
they seek cannot possibly be printed on
a Pinch ticket in legal form. 1t is
simply typographical impossibility.
GEN. MosBY, the Confederate cavalry
man, predicts that Gen. Grant will be
the candidate of the Southern white
people for President in 1876. He an
nounces that as his ticket.
A WASHINGTON reporter having been
struck with the familiar gait of two
zebras exhibited by travelling menage-
RE there last week, made friends with
their keeper, and extorted from him a
confession that they were only painted
mules.
EDMUND YATES describes Leon Gam
BETA as fat, gross man of middle
height, with reddish brown complexion
and decidedly red nose, with a queer
touche or cock-eye, which gives him a
half jovial, half sinister expression. He
wears curly brimmed, grease-stained
hat, tortoise-shel1 double eye-glass
hanging loose round his neck, shining
coat and trousers, into the pockets of
which his hands are thrust up to the
wrists.
The CHEF UsTICEsH1P. Washing
ton letter says, that in a conversation
recently the President limited the num-
Der OF those from whom he will nomi-
nate successor to the late Chief Justice
Chase to five Individuals, to wit
William M. Evarts, Mr.. Attorney-Gene-
raj Williams ex-Attorney-G General
Hoar, of Massachusetts Judge B. r.
Curtis, of Massachusetts, who was
Associate Justice of the United States,
at the time of Judge Taneys bred
Scott decision, and who resigned in con-
sequence thereof, and Senator Howe, of
Wisconsin. The friends of all these
gentlemen claim for their especial