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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
The Wisconsin Reformers.

The entree of the new Independent
administration in Wisconsin, and the
harmonious organization of the Legis-
lature, have, so far, disappointed a
good many prophets of evil.
Instead of giving encouragement to
the sinister hopes of the professional
politicians that have sought to foment
dissensions among them, the Wisconsin
Independents appear to realize fully the
great responsibility which the situation
imposes on them. Permit me to i'm
press it upon you that the position We
occupy is a position of great response
bility." said Speaker Bouck, on taking
the chair in the popular assembly.
Let me impress on your minds that
we and we alone are responsible for
the legislation of this body" Still
more significant are the grand words
which Governor Taylor addresses to the
representatives of the Independent
party, to whose hands are now, for the
first time, committed the well-being of
the commonwealth. ''The influences
of your action and e. AMPLE" he says,
"are not wholly limited to your imme-
date constituency, but In an important
degree possess a national aspect. 1t Is
for us to determine whether the pur-
poses of government are superior to
the purposes of party whether honesty
and intelligence or personal avarice and
importantly constitute qualifications
for Office whether Legislatures shall
intelligently reflect the popular
will or become the instruments
of the impertinent, the importunate,
the mercenary, and the corrupt politi-
cal organizations. 1t is true that po-
htical organizations are necessary to the
triumph of right over wrong, but let us
also remember that development and
progress are ordained by the law of
God that all parties that are blind to
this decree must decay and die that a
political partisanship which renders the
public good subservient to the success
of party, or which requires electors,
under any circumstances, to elevate vice
and ignorance to public station as a
party obligation, is to be deplored and
condemned and that the greatest re-
ward of political service is the con-
seriousness of having faithfully. dis
charged public duty. No political
party which fails to recognize these
principles of action is worthy of tolera-
ton"
The utterance of our public men from
the foundation of the republic to the
present time give expression to no SEN
timents more lofty, or more worthy to
be taken as the guide of our political
activities. They are sentiments which
place William r. Taylor by the side of
Newton Booth, as among the new men
most worthy to be standard bearers in
the onward march of the Independent
power. The Wisconsin Independents
are to be congratulated for having found
such leader, and for having placed at
the front other citizens whose convic-
tons and sympathies are in like man.
ner wholly and unreseryedly given to the
INDEPENDENT cause Chicago Times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
Cushing's Wit.

Caleb Gushing, the new Minister to
Spain, has wit as well as wisdom. Once
upon time-it must have been many
years ago-Miss Hannah F. Gould
wrote and sent him the follovsne
epitaph:
Lie aside, all we dead,
For in the next bed
Reposes the body of Cushing
Who elbowed his way
Through the world, as they say, ~
And perhaps, now he's dead, t
He'll be pushing.
Mr.. Gushing, who is a poet as well az
a lawyer, reported as follows:
Here lies enc whose wit
Without wounding, could HIT
May the turf lie lightly above her;
She has sent every beau
To the regions below,
And gone down herself for lover.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29

water, and introduce, while warm, so
parts of barley, wheat, or oats, stirring
frequently during "a to SO hours then
heat the grain and stir it with paddle
until it appears dry externally. For use
in the house it may be advisable to color
the grain by adding 1-5O0 part of liquid
fuchsin. Clean the kettle after use by
securing with lime. In most cities,
however, the arsenite of potash can be
obtained ready made, and thus the
trouble md danger of preparation is
saved, -,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
neutrality-suspicious. After Twenty
Years.

On the 9th of November the people
of La Chenette, in the French Depart
ment of La Gironde, witnessed the exc
cution of Valentine Fouloir, for the
murder of his sister, Annie Marie Fou-
loir, killed In 1852. Fouloir lived with
her at La Chenette for twenty-six years.
Quite wealthy, she had been envied by
him, as he was of dissipated habits.
One day, being under the influence of
liquor, he beat her until she seemed
dead, and then appropriating what
money and valuables he found in the
house, he ran away to South America.
His victim, however, told, before ex-
piring, who her assassin was The
assassin went to Rio Janeiro, thence to
Valparaiso, where, under an assumed
name, he opened dry goods store. In
1866 he was worth several hundred
thousand dollars. He married beau
tifrl Peruvian lady and was naturalized.
In 1872 Fouloir, who then called him.
self Irnoix, felt a desire to revisit
France. He took his young wife and
child to Paris, where remained for sew
eral months. He then went to Bor-
deaux, where he was recognized by an
old acquaintance. When Fouloir pre-
tended not to know him him he informed
the police. Fouloir was taken in chains
to La Chenette, where he was identified
by large number of those who had
formerly known him. His means, how
ever, enabled him to stave off his trial
until the 4th of June last. On that day
he was sentenced to be .guilotined.
Fouloir cried like child, and that night
made an unsuccessful attempt at self
destruction. At 7 o'clock in the morn
ing Fouloir was led out to the scafold.
Among the spectators was his young
wife. Fouloir begged permission to
embrace his wife a last time. "No,
no" said the headsman, gruffiy, "you
can do nothing of the kind. You must
die now. Step upon the plank" Fou-
loir shrieked "My poor wife My poor
wife" The executioner cursed him
aloud, and had considerable difficulty in
tying him to the plank. He then turned
it over, and lowered the oblique knife,
which struck the neck of the doomed
man with dull thud. At the same
time Fouloir's wife uttered a terrible
shrek and tainted away. The tragedy
was over
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
Farmers Storing Their Own Grain.

The following letter written by a
farmer is taken from the Western Farm
Journal,
We've heard of several instances of
the Patrons of Husbandry combining
together and building warehouses for
their grain upon railroad tracks, each
farmer owning his own bin, instead of
building gram bins on their farms.
There is a house Of this kind at Biairs-
town, Benton county, Iowa, which has
one hundred stockholders, in success
Iful operation ; and the system gives
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
Atlantic-Pacifc.

Capt. Jones of the smaller Yellow
stone expedition, while at Two Ocean
pass, short distance south of Yellow
stone lake, confirmed most important
discovery, 1t had been reported a
small stream of water which, close to
the pass. was split in two by small
peninsula, one branch following the
Yellowstone and Missouri to the Gulf,
the other making its way into the Snake
river, and thence to the Pacific,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
A NASHVILLE printer recently

A NASHVILLE printer recently bed
some very bad manuscript copy to eel
up. Every word needed close study
before its meaning could be guessed 81,
but at length two or three words came
In succession, which it was quite impos-
sible to decipher. All hands in the
office tried and failed, until at length
the printer, In despair, set up copy
books ten cents EACH" and continued
the work, 'afterward sending the prod
to the author for correction. The hint
was taken, and the author employed an
amanuensis. saser-s
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29

RAT Polsos.-The following method
OF preparing poison for rats is said to b
more effectual than moistening gram
with a solution of strychnine Make
clear solution of arsenite of potash, by
boiling In a large iron kettle one part of
white arsenic, one OF carbonate OF
potash, and % Of water, stirring the
whole well together add % parts OF
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29

good satisfaction to all parties. There
is another house Of this kind in process
of erection at Bonaparte, Van Buren,
county, Iowa, and quite number In
Illinois-all modelled after house built
on a cheap plan, in Peoria, H., by
Chase & Co., of that city. The advan-
tages accruing to the farmer in this
system are - H~TTaf
/. The bins, built in large numbers
together, are much cheaper than those
built singly on the farm.
2. The farmers can haul their grain at
their leisure when they have good roads,
and are not rushed in busy season,
and bad roads, to market their grain.
3. The grain can be hauled directly
from the thrashing machine and thrown
into the bin in the warehouse, and
cleaned by horsepower with improved
cleaners, both for grain and grass seeds,
at much less expense than when it is
cleaned in the common tanning mill by
hand.
4. The grain is much safer stored in
the warehouses, and is less liable to
damage by dampness or heating.
5. The farmer Is not compelled to sell
his grain till he gets good price for it,
but can deliver his grain to the elevator
and get an elevator receipt for it, and
use his receipt as collateral to raise money
at the banks. These receipts are a
favorite collateral with all bankers, and
will command money over all other Sc
curities.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All Communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by of the author; necessarily Tor
publication, but evidence of good faith on the
part Of the writer Write only side OF the paper
Be parfcH arly careful in giving and dates u
have the letters aud figures plain and distinct
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
Internal Revenue-What 1t Costs to
Collect 1t.

The following table shows the amount
of internal revenue collected in each
State and Territory in the United States
In 1873, the cost of collection and the
rate per cent. which the cost of collec-
makes of the whole amount:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
Hartford Insurance Dividends.

The amount of dividends declared by
Hartford Conn business corporations
for the last half of the year just closed
is 80, $50, 243. OF this the insurance
companies contribute the following
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
The Farmers and the Pork. Packers.

The Farmers and the Pork. Packers.
From the Industrial Agel
The last RuraL World has the fol-
lowing article about the effect of the
resolutions at the Farmers Convention,
in this city. last fall, in relation to sell
ing pork at less than S5 per hundred
weight. Some of the faint-hearted
newspaper friends of the farmers, and
all of their enemies, were much dis
tressed for them-they feared the farm
ers were going to ruin themselves.
There are few prominent newspapers,
which, whenever the farmers meet,
or pass resolutions without their con-
sent, seem intensely apprehensive they
are going to run away with themselves,
and smash up things generally. Thus
far the farmers have made but few mis-
takes and their proceedings have re-
suited much at variance with the appre-
tensions of timid friends or open ene-
mics:
GONE THING THE CHANGERS HAVE
DoNE.-They have broken tn. power
and combinations of the pork-packers.
They started out the past fall as they
did the fall before, to buy pork at about
three dOllars-expecting again to get
double the price when they sold it as
they did last year. But the Changers
were too sharp for them this time. They
said, rather than sell at these low fig
ures We will pack our own pork. So all
over the West the Changers combined,
determined to pack unless they could
get what their pork was honestly worth.
Pork came in slow, not fast enough to
meet the demands of the packers. The
Changers went to putting up their own
pork. The packers became alarmed
and thought they had better make
smaller profits, and so commenced offer
ing higher prices. The Changers were
firm, resolnte, and insisted on fair
prices, and the packers were compelled
to pay them. The result is, pork to-
day is worth from 1925 to S5.75 per
hundred, instead of So.
"The farmers have triumphed over
the combinations to wrong them. Mill
ions more of dollars have been saved to
them than otherwise would have been.
They needed the money and have got
it. They were entitled to it, and have
got only what was their due. The farm
ers can combine ON a larger and
grander scale than any other class,
when 1T becomes necessary"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29

THE cry for Lew party in South
Carolina gathers strength. Its plat
form will be built of two planks Old
party ties, race and color ought to be
disregarded the State ought to be gov
erned honestly. 1t is proposed to or
ganize oranges" open to all honest
men to pledge the members not to ac-
cept Office for two years, in order that
demagogues may be kept away to raise
fund by contribution from each per-
son in proportion to his State tax and
to employ the best legal talent in the
prosecution of all dishonest State
officials. That such a programme
can be hopefully proposed in South
Carolina shows the strength of the ma
tional discomfort with the survivor of
the two old parties. The Anti-Monop-
oily party is forming precisely as the
Wings and Republicans did-by the
spontaneous and Independent move
ment of the people of the different
States. Like them, it viii some day
control the country. Like them, when
its work is done, it will de- Chicago
l Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29

~ CAPITAL AND LABOR. The New Haven
Union well says ss
'..The truth is just here there is not
an intelligent man living that believes
labor is properly adjusted Every man
knows IN his heart that system of So
cial or political economy which puts the
wealth of the country into the hands of
a few, and allows that few to rob labor
and create paupers, is contrary to the
teachings of divine Law and the genius
of our Government. Every human being
endowed with conscienceis aware that
something is wrong" sre},
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
IOWA CHANGERS.

Their Probable influence I'm LIE gislation-
The Question OF Regulating Railroad
Tarins-Gran&e Reading Rooms and
Co-Operative S4ores-Etc., Etc.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-05

A wonderful piece of mechanism has
recently been produced in Europe by f.
Schroeder, an Amsterdam jeweler. 1t
is called the Great Mechanical City"
and is twenty feet long by fifteen feet
wide. There are houses, castles. churches
and stores in it, just as they appear in
almost any European city. People walk
and ride about. Horses and wagons and
railway cars pass through the streets.
Boats pass up and down the river, while
some are loading and others unloading
at the docks. Mills are in motion. A
fountain plays in the public park, and
band of music fills the air with melody
There are also forts with soldiers parad-
ing about them, blacksmith shops, with
artizans at work in them, and pleasure
gardens with people dancing in them
Other scenes 60 to make this a wonder
full structure indeed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-05
Quebec.

Quebec we found full of stone houses,
with walls about two yards thick, grated
windows and gables toward the street,
and long dead walls surrounding con-
vents or old mansions, powered in trees,
and priests and nuns, and church bells,
and tin roofs and caleches and hills.
Whether the caleche was invented to
economic the hills, or the hills created
to render possible the utilization OF
caleches, can't decide. The big hill
Mountain hills about two hundred
yards long, and has rise of more than
foot to the yard. If the swine in the
New Testament had undertaken to run
violently down this steep place, they
never would have persisted in the wa
ter, because they would either have
been dashed to pieces on the way
down, or the impetus received would
have carried them through or over the
river, sea or lake in Palestine. The
houses that are built along this hill must
be particularly puzzling to their inmates
whenever they come home drunk. At
the lower end you have to climb up into
a cellar by ladder, and at the upper
end you 90 down a long staircase Tito
the garnet. The caleche, which is going
out of fashion, has two high wheels.
Surmount these with two G springs and
put wooden bath tub on them, with a
seat six inches wide at the foot end Of
the driver, and you have it. When you,
your driver and your horse are all in the
vehicle, very small pocket handker'
chief would suffice to cover the driver,
touching at the same time your toes and
the pony's tail. When you come to a
hill the driver jumps out, catches hold
OF the iron steps attached to the shaft
and pulls you, the horse and the caleche
to the top.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-05
Recent soundlngs in the PacInc.

A special dispatch from Washington
to the Boston Globe says: Captain Bel
khan, commander United States steam
ship Tuscarora, engaged in deep sound
ings. in a report dated Hakodadi, Japan.
June 26, gives an interesting and yalua-
BILE account of the recent soundings. 1t
will be remembered that he first ran a
course of sounding from Puget Sound
to San Diego, thence to Yokohama via
Sandwich Islands. 1t was his intention
TO return on the line of the great circle,
passing through the Island of Sanoga,
of the Aleutian group, and towards
Psget Sound. He left Yokohama on
his return voyage July s at daylight, and
the next morning began sounding home
ward. When about 100 miles east by
south of King Kasan, or Sendia Bay,
on the east coast of Japan, the lead
sunk to depth of 3427 fathoms, show
ING a descent Of 1894 fathoms in a
run of thirty miles. The result
seemed extrac rdinary, especially in
view of the short distance from land;
but the next coast revealed a depth still
more astonishing, the sinker carrying
the wire down 4,643 fathoms without
reaching bottom. On this occasion,
when some two hundred fathoms of wire
had run out, the sinker was suddenly
swept under the ships bottom by a
strong under current. All efforts to get
the wire clear and to keep it from tend
ing underneath were unavailing, the
difficulty being increased by fresh
breeze and moderately heavy sea.
Finally, when 4,643 fathoms of wire
had run out and only about one hundred
and fifty fathoms were left on the reel,
it broke close to the surface, and about
five miles we're lost, After this expert
ence, Commander Belknap concluded
that the currents of the Japan stream
proved too strong for blight of six or
seven miles of telegraph cable and per-
haps will render the process of laying it
impossible. He therefore ran back in
shore in order to skirt the stream, and
began now the great circle off Point
Komato, in latitude 40 degrees north
On this new line he found very deep
water. At one cast the sinker reached
a depth of 1866 fathoms, but with
very slight current. The conditions
under which these latter deep casts were
made were conveniently favorable. The
wind was light and the sea smooth, the
swell being remarkably gentle for the
Pacific, and the ship was as quiet and
steady as though at anchor. The wire
ran straight down. and in moment
touched bottom, which was instantly
and accurately known at 1856 fathoms,
or more than FIVE miles and a quarter,
as at 1000 or leo fathoms, the indica-
ton of the dynamometer being wonder
fully accurate AMI Enthusiastically clear
in all deep soundings made. On the
return trip the wire broke three different
times. involving loss of fifteen miles
of wire. The line will be abandoned, as
it is impracticable for telegraphic cables,
and new line, close to the northern
shore, will be taken up, and, if found
practicable, continued to the American
coast,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-05
FOREIGN.

LONDON, September ga special dis
patch says that General Sabala remains
at Madridge, and that Don Carlos has
gone to Alsana to meet the ex-Duke OF
Parma. The Carlists have picked up a
sailor who had probably deserted from
the German man-of.war, Albatross.
They sent him across the frontier to the
French authorities, by whom be was
delivered to the German Consul at
Bayoune.
Later accounts of the Austrian polar
expedition state that the explorers
penetrated to the SD degree of latitude
A London special from Madrid says
that either General Moriones will be
appointed commander in chief of the
army or that Marshal Serrano will be
STYLED Generalissimo, with the power to
appoint General.
The Times says the Marquis of Ripon
has become Roman Catholic, and the
announcement made a few days ago that
he had resigned the Grand Mastership
of Freemasons and would be succeeded
temporarily by the Prince of Wales
caused much excitement, and which is
heightened by the news that the Mar
ouis has entered the Church of Rome.
PARIS, September 5.-Thc Count De
Dourtal, member of the Assembly from
the Department Of Seine ct Disc, is
load
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-05
THE MKT LEGISLATURE.

The Radicals of this county as well al
in other counties are trying the game o.
mastery inactivity in the hope that oui
people will become overconfdent anc
careless. We should not forget the I'M
portance of unity and thorough organl'
zation. In the selection of candidates
men should be put on the Congressional
and Legislative tickets who can do the
best public service Mere personal
friendship and preference should not
come in the way of the general welfare.
There are grave questions to consider,
and these will necessarily occupy the
attention of the next Legislature, and as
the session is limited to seventy.five days
the members will have to work hard day
and night if they are to vote intelligently
and render any signal service. A great
deal depends upon the action of the
next Legislature, and the people and
press will hold their representatives to
q very rigid accountability, Practical
men are wanted, and will doubtless be
chosen, who know the wants of the peo-
pie, understand the system Of taxation
and can originate measures of economy,
relief and reform. This is not squab-
Bile for Office, as the members generally
return in debt and complain of it as a
losing business. We have excellent ma
terial from which to select, announced
as well as unannounced, and the dele
gates elect cannot attach too much i'm
portance to the nomination of compe-
tent men to 90 to the next Legislature.
The Radicals played sharp trick on us
the last time, but one they will not be
allowed to repeat this year. In the first
place, let us have strong ticket avoid
all unpleasant discussions or the revival
of old feuds, and its election will be a
foregone conclusion.