Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
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ENGLAND imported $40, 500, 900 worth
of potatoes last year.
SIR SAMUEL BAKERS African expedi-
ton cost the Khedive of Egypt over
e400, 900.
THREE of the nine Judges of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court are natives of
Connecticut.
The last day that Henry Clay ever sat
in the Senate was Charles Summers
first day in the Senate.
GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland are about
as large as New Mexico, but not as large
as Iowa and Nebraska.
THE Red sea would reach from Wash
ington to Colorado, and it is three times
as wide as Lake Ontario.
THE oyster-beds of Virginia cover an
area equal to $40, 600 acres, and yield an
annual money value of 800, 100000.
A GREEN BAY preacher rode thirteen
miles, married couple on the ice, took
so cents as his fee, and returned home
without losing his smile.
IT is said that Donald Mckay and his
band of Warm Spring Indians, who did
such valuable service during the Modoc
war, are coming East on an exhibition
tour.
1T has been decided in Delaware that
a man is not necessarily drunk because
he tries to unlock the front door at
midnight with the butt end of his to-
baccO box.
A CALIFORNIA farmer, according to a
rural press, cut sixty tons of hay from
sixteen acres of lucerne, pastured fifty
calves three months, and harvested fifty
bushels of s, ed.
THE patentee of the punch now used
by the passenger railroad companies
makes over $50, 600 per annum he re-
ceives royalty of twenty cents day
for each punch in use.
A FEMALE graduate of the Medical
Department of Iowa University has ia
ken the first prize for the best perform
ed dissection in surgical anatomy, in a
class consisting Of twenty-four young
men and one other young woman.
STATISTICS of hog packing for the
season of 1873 show that Chicago leads
the world, with indianapolis second,
st. Louis bad third, with Cleveland
and Cincinnati neck and Reck, bringing
up the rear, but almost out of sight.
A FASHIONABLE christening party
in New York was postponed last week
in consequence of the non-arrival of a
steamer from Europe having on board
the lace dress made to order) in which
the baby was to have appeared. The
clergyman engaged was Disguised.
THE gravity of the situation in India
is shown by the fact that loan of $50
600, 900 is announced as about to be put
upon the market for the relief of the
famine. 1t is said that the necessities
of the suffering natives are such as to
require Immediately the sum of S15,-
100000.
A FEW days ago New Orleans horse
railroad company sunk Al, 900 counterfeit
nickel coins in the Mississippi river, the
receipts of one year. The counterfeiting
of these coins is carried on SO extensively
in New Orleans that the Picdyune esti-
mates that ], 200 people daily pay their
fares on the horse railroad with bogus
coin.
FRANCE pays her ambassadors fairly.
Her new minister to London, the Due
de la Rochefoucauld-B isaccia, gets
$40, 900 year, the highest sum paid to
any diplomatist except the ambassador
to st. Petersburg, who receives $780,
600. The ambassador at Vienna re-
ceives S34, 600; the one at Berlin, $28,
600.
In the year 1872 the five leading de-
nominations of the United States raised
for their church expenses, for home and
foreign missions, for the theological in
stitutlons, etc., the following sums
The Baptist, S., 341 ,276; the Congrega-
tionalists, about 81, OOO,O 900; the Epis-
copalians. S6,3O4, sos; the Methodists,
81, 427, 1S4; the Presbyterians, S11,-
070,325.
OK the announcement of the death OF
ex-President Fillmore, in the United
States Senate, Senator Sherman asked
if there was a precedent for adjourn
ment. Senator Anthony replied that
Congress adjourned upon the death OF
General Washington, and it was upon
that day that the phrase, First in
war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countryme n " was uttered.
SENATOR SUMNERnever kept carriage
during his long residence in Washing
ton, but generally walked on fine days
and patrOnized the horse cars in unfa-
vorable weather. He sometimes ex-
pressed the wish to be the possessor OF
horses and carriage, but would add
81 cannot afford it. either must give
up buying books and keep a carriage,
or forego the carriage and keep myself
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