Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-12


passed. The bill amends the existing law so that
the entre forty need not be planted the first
year, hut gradually, or ten acres each year . The
House consumed a considerable portion of the day
in considering the Army Appropriation bill. The
bill to incorporate the Colorado Canal Irrigation
and Land Company was defeated.
ALI Sorts.
CHrEF-JUsTICE WAITE has eleven
children.
FLORIDA dandies wear sleeve buttons
made of alligator's teeth.
THREE women burglars were lately
arrested In New Orleans.
THE cultivation of jute in India is
almost entirely superseding that of
cotton.
MANY of the Pennsylvania farmers
crops this year.
BERLIN has the reputation of being
one of the worst governed and dirtiest
cities in Europe.
GERMANY and Italy are now large
consumers of American corn in the man.
ufacture of alcohol.
KEY WEST is the only place in the
United States which never has frost,
which produces cocoa-nut.
THE Winnebago county, Wisconsin,
Patrons of Husbandry have organized
cooperative stock company, with a
capital fixed at 100000, in shares of
SIS each, to be issued only to members.
The object is to start stores of their
own.
AN excellent cement, we read, may be
made from rice -four. 1t is only neces-
sary to mix the rice -four intimately
with cold water, and gently simmer it
over fire, when it readily forms deli
cate and durable cement. When made
of the consistence of plaster, models,
busts, relieves, ETC., may be formed
from it.
The pay of members of a Territorial
has been fixed by Congress
at Sc a day, and of the Speaker
of the House and President of
the Upper House at SO day. Many
of these men are worth as much as
members of Congress, and are as self
sacrificing in devoting themselves to
Legislative duties.
ONE of the most remarkable cases of
desperate madness on record, is that of
an Italian sailor who was lately shipped
on board vessel at Leghorn. He
stabbed four of the crew in their births,
the mate and watch on deck,
drove them to the rigging, fastened the
cabin doors, steered the vessel near the
shore, jumped overheard and swan to
land.
GERMANS are not very numerous this
winter. The "kettledrum has been
found more economical and far more
entertainment, both to
guest and hostess. Some of our social
leaders, however, in their anxiety to
kill two birds with one stone, combined
the German and kettledrums, and get
the credit of ingenuity.
A SUBSTANCE which exudes from the
earth in small quantities, at the head of
the Coorang river, in South Australia,
contains about seventy gallons of kero-
sene, thirty of lubricating oil, and
seven of asphaltum, per ton. The
substance resembles asphalite. Tests
show that the kerosene will not burn,
except through a wick, until heated to
one hundred and twenty five degrees.
THE Richmond Enquirer says that
hundreds of well-to-do families in En-
gland are preparing to emigrate to
Virginia in the spring, thinking it bet
ion than to lease them in England at an
annual rental of sos per acre. A num-
Der of English families have already
bought $50, 600 worth of lands in Amelia
county, and are highly pleased with
them.
JOE SMITH, the son of the founder of
the Mormon church, and the leader of
a sect of Mormons which repudiates
polygamy, is about to establish himself
and his followers at Nauvoo, Illinois,
the town from which the Mormons were
driven a good many years ago. As this
sect is not only homogeneous but gener-
ally well behaved and thrifty, Nauvoo,
which has 1,600 people, where she once
had 40, 900, is glad to welcome the new
corners.
SOME peoples idea of geography are
a trife mixed. Three foreign letters
recently received at the New York post
Office illustrates this pretty sharply.
One of them is directed "Care of Town
Hall, Broadway, Massachusetts, State
of New York" Another reads, Mon
tevideo, Florida, South America, United
States, n. "" and the third has it
!" America, Washington St., New Jersey,
Illinois % We rejoice that we are not
postmaster.
Sad Case Of DestitutiOn.
The following is one out of the many
axernnles of the sufferings to which the