Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
Miscellaneous.

that Henry N. Smith, the well-known
speculator, has lost 81, 100000 in the
last three months.
WILLIAM NJ. TWEED, the champion
thief of America, has issued invitations
to a grand ball, to be given soon at
G. snwich, Conn.
AT a masquerade at Saratoga, Mr..
costume made entirely of Confederate
money $50, 900 worth.
FOURTEEN of the Berlin newspapers
give notice that, by reason of the in
creased wages demanded by printers,
the charges for advertisements will be
increased.
On the night of Aug. 1, Mrs. Cassius
Claxton, of Shelby county, KY. heard
man climbing into her window. She
had revolver handy, and she killed the
intruder. She was tried and honorably
acquitted.
The largest wrought-iron bridge in
the United States has just been COM
pleted across White river for the Wis
consin Central Railroad Company. Its
length is 1,525 feet, its extreme Height
107 feet, with an average of 80 fees the
entire distance.
A WEALTHY New Yorker got into a
dispute with his brother over a game of
billiards, the other day, and went off
and committed suicide He willed his
head to physician for dissection, and
the balance of his body and $3.50 to his
brother-in-law.
RUMoR has it that Miss Anna Dickin-
son will appear ON the stage next season
with play written for her by Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe. Coupled with this
is the announcement that John
Brougham will leave the stage and take
to the rOstrum.
AN Oregon paper states that the rage
for the sic termination has come to a
disastrous conclusion in one family in
Portland. A farmer named AXE christ
ened his eldest girl Belle. She had
some cards printed in the sic" fashion,
and-well, after looking at the result,
she concluded Belle was pretty enough
for her, and burned them.
DURING a thunderstorm in Salt Lake
City flash of lightning caught locust
tree, and in its course struck another
tree, travelled up the house to the Sec
ond floor, cutting away the flowers
arourd glass, traversed the ceiling,
making its way out by cutting groove
in the side of the house from top to bot
tom. No other damage was done.
THE Newark co. Adcertiser sadly
mentions the fact that Tom Corwin rests
in an unmarked grave, without so much
as the simplest headstone to indicate
who sleeps below. 1t calls upon the
State, which was so honored by her
loved and distinguished son, to rescue
his grave from the oblivion which will
otherwise soon blot it from the knowl-
edge of men.
The Shah was highly amused at see-
ing a copy of lie Figaro, the other
morning, containing on the front page a
long letter in Persian characters. The
writing was perfectly correct, but, un-
fortunately, it had been reproduced by
photography, and all the letters were
reversed. His Majesty and his suite all
laughed heartily at this oversight
London Press.
RATHER a laughable incident took
place on the entrance of the Shah. The
Count and Countess of Manyacres had
left Paris for the season, it was thought.
They returned, however, suddenly ON
the day of the arrival of the Shah, and
found the entire house in the possession
of strangers, who had been accommo-
dated with good sight of the Shah at
so much head by their speculative
butler. 1t is financing age.-Paris
Paper.
JOURNALISM appears to be prosperous
10 England just now. The will of the
late NJ. j. Whitby, founder of the Liv-
erpool Daily Post, has been "proved y
for f4O, 900 personal property. indie
pendent of real estate; and sundry adj
mirers of E. Mall, M. P, editor of the
Nonconf0rmist, the organ of the En-
glish dissenters, lately gave him din
ner, at which the Chairman handed him
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