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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
How to Crib Corn.

A correspondent of the Raral World
writes: "When the corn from the
wagon or cart is being put into the crib,
it should be assorted, and not thrown in
with a scoop or shovel. Throw the
small, unripe and imperfect ears by
themselves, and feed them out first. If
all the corn that has gone into the crib
is sound and dry, large quantities may
be piled up in the crib; but if these i'm
perfect ears are not removed, much of it
will become heated and destroyed. If
the crib is made quite large, it is well to
set up boards in the center of the crib
in the form of a chimney; this will allow
any moisture there may be then or that
has accumulated after it was cribbed, to
escape. Do not leave the top of the
crib uncovered, as many of our Western
farmers do; the rain and snow Will do
great damage to the corn. Let your
cribs be raised at least two and half
feet from the ground, and over the tops
of the posts that support the crib let
inverted pens be placed, so that the rats
and mice cannot climb up to feast upon
and damage the grain"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

337 East Ninth street, recognized the re-
mains of Margaret and Charlotte Bell.
also by their clothing, and the latter was
more fully identified by the absence of a
false tooth, which she usually wore next
the eye tooth on the right side of the
upper jaw. The cavity was there, but
the tooth had dropped out. Mr.. Bell
had worked hard and constantly in the
search for the remains of his only sisters.
He spoke of them as children, though
both were his seniors in years. He said
they were devoted to each other in life.
and he felt that they would not be found
separated in death. And his prediction
proved true. The sisters, when found
by Sergeant Douglass, were clasped in
each others arms some distance from the
other bodies. They, as well as the
others, had doubtless attempted to de-
scend the stairs. There, being cut off
by the flames and the ascending smoke,
they had tried to reach the fire escape.
Then, probably blinded by the dense
smoke and awed by the near and rapid
approach of the flames, they embraced
each other, and thus, as they had lived
united, they died united. When separ-
ated, the elder, Margaret, had her left
arm twisted over the back part of her
head, and the right arm was doubled up,
as though it had clafped her sister
around the waist. Both feet had been
burned away, but portions of the breast
which had without doubt been in contact
with her sisters breast, were only slight
ly discolored with smoke. The extrelni-
ties of the body were blackened and
charred, and mass of crinoline almost
surrounded the body. Charlotte Bell
had lost both hands and the right leg.
The trunk was mass of blackened flesh
and bone almost ground to powder. The
skull was fractured into hundred pieces
and crumbled into dust when touched.
Brain matter was effused through the
assures of the fractured skull, and the
whole emitted a sickening odor. Its
Identification was considered impossible
until Mr. Bell claimed it as the body of
his youngest sister.
The charred and disfgured bodies of
the victims were place in neat rosewood
collins, studded with silver nails. The
remains of the Donohue sisters and of
the Bell sisters were then removed to
Mr.. Kennedy's, 470 Pearl street.-NeaU
York Sun, Jan. 2.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
Growth of Liverpool,

If Liverpool continues to increase as
port at its present rate, it will soon be
the largest in the world, and there can
be little doubt that this will be the
case, for the growth of American
commerce means also the increase
of every species of commercial activity
in Liverpool. The very large scheme of
dock extension which Will probably be
decided upon soon, has greater interest
for others than the owners of ships who
trade to and from the Mersey. It is a
question whether application shall be
made to Parliament to carly out all of
three plans for the enlargement of the
docks, or whether one, and if only one,
then which, of the schemes that are
known in Liverpool as the north, east,
and south extensions. ALI three will
have ultimately to be adopted for the in
crease of shipping making use of the
docks is at present 236, 900 tons per an
mum. With this very considerable an
nual increase, and gross revenue which
last year amounted to more than one
million sterling, with enlarged accommo-
dation bringing largsr receipts, the Liv-
erpool Dock Board are in position to
undertake quite as large an extension of
their dock system as is designed. His
tory presents few, if any, more wonder
full examples of commercial growth than
that of the port of Liverpool. In 1857
the dock dues amounted to only 1886
15s in 1850, very nearly century later.
they had reached s242, 989 14s Cd, and
now, in the year 1872, the great neceesi-
ty is still for accommodation. The need
will become greater as the colonies and
independent States of the East and
West continue to develop their latent re-
sources.
THE TRADE OF CHIcAGo.-The fol-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
The Presidential Election.

In the following table is given the
actual vote for Grant and Greeley Presi-
Dental Electors in all the States in the
Union. The highest vote cast on each
ticket has been taken wherever attain
able. In Georgia and a few other
States the average vote is given.
Under the head of Scattering are
included the votes of O'Conor and
Black, the straight-out Democratic and
Temperance candidates. Their vote,
however, has not been returned from all
the States. In the cases of Louisiana
the vote is given as declared by the
Lynch Longstreet Returning Board.
The figures as declared by Warmoth's
Returning Board, were For Grant
Electors, 1882; Greeley Electors, Co.,
267
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
How FRANCE Has PAID GERMANY.

How FRANCE HAS PAID GERMANY.-
A Paris journal states, upon what it
alleges to be the highest authority, that
up to Oct. l, France has made her
payments to Germany in the following
form: In gold and silver, 100, ZOO, OOOf !;
in French bank notes, 125, 900, OOOf in
German bank notes and gold, so, 900, OOOf !;
in bills of exchange on Holland, 400, 600
00of; on England, 100000, OOOf; on
Germany, 100000, OOOf; by the pur-
chase money of the French Eastern
railway, 1916, 200, O0Of; in gold and bank
notes, levied during the war as contri-
buttons, 300, ,0OOf. If this statement
is correct, it explains the secret why the
effect of these enormous shiftings in
values should have been almost exclu-
sively confined to England. The direct
expectation of the precious metal from
France to Germany was thus relatively
insignificant when compared with the
bills of exchange.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
Varieties of Potatoes.

The american Rural Home says:
Notwithstanding the new varieties intro
duced within few years, we have not
succeeded in supplanting the old peach
blow with better kind Yet it has sew
eral faults, chief of which is its late pc
Rod of ripening and the amount of labor
required to dig it. 1t is almost impos-
sible to get it into market time enough
for shipment in the fall. We want very
much a potato that will keep as well as
the peach blow, look as well, be as fine
favored, yet ripen from two weeks to a
month earlier. The Harrison is aban-
doned; the peerless grows large and hol-
low, is good variety to grow for feed
ing hogs (when cooked, and no new va
riety promises remarkably well The
early rose leads on an early variety, but
it does not quite fill the place of the
peachblow.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
A REVELATION OF WALL STREET

A REVELATION OF WALL STREET.
Smith and Gould logged along pleasant
" and managed their affairs smar5ly, to
the CONSERVATION and terror of the
street. One day Smith went out of
town to witness the trotting of his favor
tie horse. While he was gone Gould
saw good chance and sold him out.
The little trick, it is said, cost Smith
half million of money. Smith had his
revenge. He took the private books of his
banking house over to the Erie Company
and placed in the hands of his old enc
mics the proofs of Gould's regulations
that led to the arrest, and the restora-
ton of the So, 600, 900 referred to.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
again dried, and are then ready for sale.
Saving Glover Seed.

A Canada farmer hit upon the novel
and ingenious method of putting wire
or sieve bottom in the bottom of a
trough in which he fed his stock, the
wire being two or three inches above the
close bottom of the trough. The stock
In pulling the clover hay from the rack
would scatter the seed, almost pure,
through the wire into the receptacle be-
low. 1t is said to have saved quite a
large amount of good seed in this way.
This may be, but there is room for a
query on the subject.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
Novel Hangings for Walls.

Paper-hangings for walls are known to
everybody. 1t is now proposed to use
hangings made of metal, and an account
of this new invention, which comes to us
from Paris, has been read before the So
ciety of Arts. The metal employed is
tinfoil in sheets about sixteen feet long,
and from thirty to forty inches wide.
The sheets are painted and dried at a
high temperature, and are then decorat-
ed with many different patterns, such as
foliage, flowers, geometrical figures, imi-
tation of wood, or landscapes. When
decorated, the sheets are vanished, and
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
HuskinR Corn.

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer.
tells how this used to be done: After
supper the old tin lantern was hunted
up, few candles and candlesticks taken,
and Dad, Jake, John, Jane, Sal and Sue
and half dozen neighbors of the same
ages, went to the barn. Pitchforks were
stuck in the hay NOW, the candles light
ed and hung on them, and then the fun
commenced. And it was fun. You did
not need husking machine nor husking
gloves, nor any such inventions. The
ears were waiting to come out of the
husk. All they had to do was to give
them jerk and it was done, and soon
there was pile of golden ears waiting
to be drawn up and spread to dry on the
scaffolds overhead. Then, when the
shortened candles indicated nine o'clock,
they all returned to the house, where
were pumpkin pies, sweet cider and
sweeter kisses.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
Chicken Cholera.

A correspondent writes us that in
many cases what is called chicken chol-
era is not that at all; that on the hind
parts of chickens are small nits; that the
chickens pick these nits off their own
bodies and swallow them; swallowed, the
nits hatch into httleworm in the gizzard,
and these worms kill the chickens. The
remedy is greasing the hind parts of the
chickens. We give this for what it is
worth.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
Judges MT Fairs.

The Massachusetts, Ploaonaan says:
The widespread dissatisfaction which
often follows the awards of premiums at
fairs is notorious. There is growing
distrust in the fairness and impartiality
of these awards, and we know of many
instances where this feeling or want of
confidence has deferred the owners of
fine stock from exhibiting at all, and
with any statement of their experience,
no one can wonder at this decision.
Everybody who has been accustomed to
attend these shows must have noticed
many instances of real grievance which
have arisen from such partiality in MAX
ing the awards.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

press. 1.-THE lecture was spiced with some
recltals of the remarkable feats of Jour
natstic enterprise and the Geographic
annihilation of space and time which dis
tlnguish the present era Of American
Journalism. Boston Journal
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

HARDENING COPPER. the stone
work OF ancient times, and it was i'm
mense, was accomplished with copper
chisels, so hardened as to cut the hard
est stone. Neither iron nor steel tools
seem to have been known. The art is
lost, but perhaps not irretrievably. A
few years ago it was ascertained that by
gradually sitting finely pulverized emery
with molten copper cutting edge could
be attained so very hard that the expect
alton was entertained that the lost art
had been recovered, but it proved fall
lacy. Chemists have puzzled their brains
over the hardening question till they
have finally abandoned the research as
hopeless.
1t is certain that long before the days
CT Solomon, gem cutting, extremely
minute and delicate as possible, with the
finest instruments at the disposal of mod
ern lapldarles, was accomplished with
copper tools. The Babylonians, alta still
more remote period, performed opera
lions on precious stones that now re-
quire the aid of multiplying glass to
see minute workings, and yet there is no
historical account of their having either
convex lenses or knowledge of steel.
Therefore it must be conceded that the
world In its social revolutions has actu-
ally lost one art, by which the nations of
antiquity accomplished works which
outllyed their historical records.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
Curious Facts About India.

Strange as it may appear, India, which
has been described as country "where
vegetation grows with tropical luxuri-
ance, and where few months neglect
causes land to be covered with impene-
trable jungle, many feet in height has
a scarcity of timber for building vessels
and houses, and does not, even in most
parts of the country, produce enough
fuel for warming houses and for cook
ing, the inhabitants resort to the use of
dried dung, the same as the people of
Northern Africa do. In the northwest
ern portions of the country it is said to
be the chief occupation of the native
peasant housewife, latter she has
drawn the water and kneaded the dough,
to make the cow-dung into pats and
spread them to dry in the SUM-" 1t is
subsequently stacked, or placed in long
piles, and if not wanted for some con-
siderable time, it is coated with mud
made from clay, to preserve it from the
wet. Tons of it, thus prepared, are sold
Id the large towns in the interior, where
it forms the principal fuel of the masses.
In cold weather, when fire at night or
IN the morning is necessary, every avail
able bit of horse, sheep, or goat dung is
gathered up and placed on the fire.
This destruction of nearly all the drop
pings of every KIND of stock is said to
result In impoverishing the land very
greatly, and it is affirmed that this waste
is one of the principal drawbacks to the
successful cultivation of the plant in
India.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

The Indian Territory contains 80, OOO,-
600 acres of land and $1,000 inhabitants.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

THE TRADE OF CHICAGo.-The fol-
lowing were the receipts and shipments
of breadstuffs and cattle during the past
wear.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05
A Plea for Peas cIaes.

A writer from Odessa is putting in plea
for the peach. In a letter to the Commercial
he says:
We have long held to the belief that
peaches would continue the most profitable
crop on this Peninsula Other fruits NAV Weld
greater returns from few acres, but for field
culture the peach stands unrivalled, and statis-
tics will show that more money comes into our
State from Its sales than all other products
combined.
We remember but one total failure in score
of years. Numerous partial failures might he
recorded but these seldom prove disastrous to
the grower. Half crop generally averages
double the price Of full crop, thus saving the
extra labor, freight, baskets &c.
The crop OF &C was the lightest, considerinp
the area devoted to this fruit, with one excen.
tion), within the period named. Mr.. II. 6.
Fenimore cleared about $50, 900 that wear from
about two thirds of CROP Many others in
this favored locality had plenty of fruit. A
neighbor priced basket of his own growing,
in the retail market OF Philadelphia, when the
modest sum OF $500 was asked. He received
not more than one half of that sum.
Our grain crops have frequently been light
during the last decade, with no perceptable eff
feet on prices. 1t must be conceded that
peaches are as reliable for crop in given
term of years as anything We raise.
Our most experienced growers say crop of
peaches at 25cts. basket will pay better than
grain.
Few averaged SO low with the unprecedented
crops of so and '72. Many cleared from 40 to
g. cts. per basket. Look at the figures: one
hundred trees per acre each yielding a basket
and half at 25cts., would be $3.50 Forty
FIVE bushels of corn, at 60cts make SIT.
Deductiug 2Octs. bushel cost of growing Ia
moderate allOwance) leaves only SIS. net on
one acre of corn. Peaches, then, in the most
unfavorable seasons pay 100 per cent better
than corn. Wheat yielding Is bushels
per acre at $l.75, amounts to $3l. so. If we
take of only Sc so expenses, we have $25. per
acre, or so per cent. less than the profit Of
peaches. We have not computed the cost of
trees, baskets, &C., but this will stand against
buildings for grain, seed-bsgs, &c, interest on
land being the same in both cases.
A word as to the Probabilities Climate has
said to this semi-tropical fruit "thus far shalt
thou come and no farther" 1t cannot be de-
pended on for market more than five miles
north of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal,
though few orchards have borne we'll much
beyond that line. The supply, therefore, must
ever be limited, while the demand is bounded
only BY the habitable portions of the EARTH AS
civilization advances and our population in.
creases, this luscious fruit will be more sought
after, and if our market facilities keep pace
with she growing demand, we may look for
better prices in the future.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

A noble young man in Indianapolis recently
determined to abandon the use of tobacco He
was told that iced drinks would cure his
hankering for the weed. So on the first day
he drank three gallons of iced water, and still
feeling desire to smoke, he added two quarts
of cold buttermilk. He went to bed with the
cheerful conviction that he had conquered his
craving. and so he had. The next day he did
not desire to smoke at all, for the simple
reason that he was dead. The iced water, the
iced buttermilk, the abandonment of his cigar.
and two doctors who were called in consulta-
tion, proved to be too much for the noble
young man.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

The Lowell Mass Courier tells story of
remarkable infant i'll that city, which was
born blind, but has wonderful memory, and
at nine months of age could articulate many
words. At present, at the age of eighteen
months, 1t asserts, the little one can repeat
m1st of the Catechism, correctly name the
different grand divisions of the earth and the
parts of speech, an repeat the Greek as well
as the English alphabet without prompting.
Moreover, if she hears the name of visitor
but once, she will associate it with his voice,
and be able to salute him by name weeks after.
ward, if he enters the house.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

:. At Peoria, Ill.,, George Schumann died sud.
denly in November last, and an insurance of
$1,000 on his life was paid over to his widow
Last Friday night Henry Schuman, the young
ssNn Of deceased, died with symptoms of poison
ins. Mrs. Schumann and j. p Wilder, with
whom she is accused of having had improper
relations, were arrested Friday on suspicion.
1t Is supposed they poisoned the elder Schu-
mann to obtain the amount of life insurance
and his son to secure some real estate left him
By bis father.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

The Greeley will case was reopened at
White Plains, N. Y, on Monday Judge
Hart stated that he had received letter from
Miss Ida Greeley, which had been approved
by her sister, begging that they might with.
draw from q contest which their opponents
we're determined to wage over their father
grave The contestants then proved the will
made by Mr. Greeley in 1871. 1t was stated
that Mr.. Greeley left property estimated al
2O6,0OO, and Mrs. Greeley's estate added
would make the amount $22j,OOO.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

Ihe Almanac Publishers complain that their
business Is destroyed By Ayers American Al
ppanac. The people prefer Il to any other, the
Farmers, Western, Southern or the numerous
local almanacs when they can get Ayers. 1t
supplies the best astronomical data, weather
.1d jokes of them all, and above all, medical
TIsViee which is invaluable for every family.
a. = supplied gratis by the druggists, and
SHOULD ne preserved for constant reference and
", We are sure that no good housekeeper
" grandmother goes willingly without one
A"s- Saaccry Standard, N. y sr
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05
RESOLUTIONS.

MAHON-In this town. the Sd inst Rev. c. L. Mahon NJ
d., in his s6th year.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Ministers smyrna their weekly meet
ing yesterday the 4th inst passed unanimously the following
resolutions:
Whereas it has pleased Almighty God BY
friend aud Brother Rev. Charles L. Mahon NJ D. therefore
be 1t
RESOLVED. That high appreciation the
moral WORTH and Christian beloved Brother-
OF his readiness to
humble quiet and unObtrusve pety constantly
BY him.
RESOLVED That a. Christian and gentleman his inter
with his Brethren all the citizens
generally, most pleasant.
REsoLVED3- That Physician his gentle deep
sympathy and tender interest afflicted poor
and the needy the widow and orphan made him very
deservedy a great favOrite.
RESOLVED, That his reinguishment Of lucrative profess
son his devoement the Christ and the desire
His gospel speaks loudly Of the ruling of his
soul. Ito do good to ALL"
RESOLVED. That rejoice In the Of God by which
he enabled to live consistent christian e and add the
testimony Of his dying hour Ths the blood Of Christ ceanseh
from all sim"
REsoLvED That we sincerely sympAthze with the family
in their bereavement and aectionaey and prayeuy
mend them that blessed Saviour showed much
sympathy for the bereaved and who spake life the widow
Main, and that God who pro-
claimed himself The God OF the Widow and the Father
the Fatherlesa."
RESOLVED That copy OF these resolutions be
Mrs Maho1, and to the papers Smyrna and The Presby
terian," TO- publication.
| Csc. W. KESxEDY.l
| GEO A. PHoEBUs' Com.
j. MORSELL,
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

= A delegation from Georgia called upon the
President Monday, and urged the appointment
Of o, Senator Pool to position in the Cabinet.
fhe Washington Star says that after ''satis-
factory interview" the President said he
Intended TO make tour of the Southern States,
accompanied by his Cabinet. He would start
about about the Goth of March, and would visit
richmond, Raleigh, Columbia, Charleston,
Savannah, Montgomery, Mobile and New
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

:, The amount Of pine lumber annually cut on
the Susquehanna river and it's tributaries ex-
ceeds FIVE hundred million feet. A careful
estimate has been made of the area of the
timber lands, and the average yield of lumber
per acre, aud the alarming conclusion is reached
mat three years stocking at the present rate
OF i've hundred million feet per year would
entirely exhaust all the pine lumber now
standing.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

:, At Boston, on Saturday, Alfred o. Love
shOt his daughter, Grace, aged years, through
the head, inficting mortal wound He then
committed suicide by shooting himself 10 the
nead. Domestic trouble is said to have caused
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05
THE, MARKETS
vi MARRIAGES.

GARRlSON-MAREE.-Att the residence of wm Surgeon, in
Smyrna the 18th ult by the Rev. Miller Mr. Jedediah
Garrison of Kent Miss H. Jennie Maree of this
DAGER-BROADWAY.0n the 2sth of January. 1873. at the
NJ parsonage Philadelphia, by Rev Z. l. D. Pepper Mr..
Harry VI. Dagger. of Camden, Miss Belle Broadway.
Willow Grove. Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

In New York, last Sunday evening, 4 boys
sntered lager beer saloon on Fourteenth ST.,
70 rob the till. Patrick Commiskey, who was
assigned to the task. falling to secure the
money, he was fatally stabbed by Matthew
halpine, one Of his comrades.