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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
The CENTENSIAL BUILDNG.-The

The CENTENNIAL BUILDNG.-The
Philadelphia papers publish the ground
plan of the building for the centennial
exhibition. 1t is 1882 feet in length,
aud AGA feet in breadth, covering over
20 acres of ground. Nearly three
fourths of the space is allotted to for
eign countries, every nation of the
earth being put down for slice. As it
is probable that not one-twentieth part
of this space will ever be needed, the
bnilding is wisely designed so that only
so much as is actually required will he
constructed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Discovery Of the Bones Of a Monster,

A letter from Argos, Marshall county,
Ind, says: On the farm of Mr.. Alex.
Bland, who lives about five miles east
of Argos, has been found a portion of
the bones of an animal which must
have been, when living, at least twice
the size of the elephant Romeo. A
part of the head, that which undoubt-
edly formed the skull or crown, is over
eighteen inches across, and about an
inch thick. The underside is set off in
compartments, and much resembles a
Goodyear rubber door-mat. From the
shape of one side, it appears that the
eye must have been larger round than
the crown of man's hat. Thus far
only three of the molar teeth have been
found, which measure eight and a half
inches in length each, thus making the
entire length of the molar teeth alone
forty-two and half inches, to say moth
ing about the eye-tooth and the nippers,
of which there are three. The teeth are
In state of almost perfect preserva-
ton, although one of them was broken
by rough usage. Portions of the back
bone show that the spine must have
been six inches in diameter, while one
of the ribs is four feet in length. A
portion of what appears to be the
shoulder blade is two feet across and
four feet long, and weighs about sixty
pounds. OF fragments of bones there
are about one hundred, among them
some that nave been recognized as
those belonging to the mastodon. Two
bones, one two feet and the other nine
feet in length, which appear to belong
to the same animal, were found close
together. Various theories have been
advanced as to what caused the boIes
of the two animals, the mastodon and
the monster (be it whatever it might
have been), to be intermixed, the most
plausible of which being that, as that
part OF the premises was formerly a
lake, the animals then roaming the
forest came there to drink and fought
to the death, their heavy carcasses sink
ing into the quicksands that abound
throughout this entire region.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

THE Democrats this year have had
unusual luck in carrying very close
Congressiona' districts. Albert G. FL
bert Dem is elected in the Twenty
seventh Pennsylvania District by eleven
majority; Carter 81. Harrison Dem. }
In the Second Illinois District by seven
majority; and Augustus W. Cutler
(Dem.) over William Walter Phelps in
the Fourth New Jersey District by four
majority. The closest shave, however
is that of George w. Cate Dem.), of
the Eighth Wisconsin District, who re-
ceived 9,446 votes to 8, IA for his Re-
publican opponent, and is thus elected
by tro L.ajority.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Marriage Statistics.

According to the last census of the
population of England and Wales, out
of nearly 5000, 900 about 13,50O,O6
are single, the number of unmarried
males and females being almost equal
but of these, 5000, 600, or more than
two-thirds, are under Is; or, if the pc
Rod is extended to 20 years, another g.
600, 900 are added, leaving the number
unmarried above 20years of age at only
three millions and half, or scarcely
one-seventh of the whole population.
The remainder of the population have
been married, and are either husbands
and wives or widowers and widows. AT
the taking of the census there were
3, S83, 1863 husbands and 3,948,527
wives the difference between the fig
ures being caused by the absence from
the country of 65, 600 of the husbands.
Of the husbands 1851 were under 20
years of age Gncluding also those. I'M
der 10; 219,197 between 20 and 25
500, $40 between 25 and 80; $50, 537 be-
tween 30 and 35; 524, 427 between 35
and 40; 492, 40 between 40 and As;
426, 872 between As and so. The num-
bers then gradually decrease, until be-
tween 80 and IS, there are only Ia, 1872.
In the next five years the number is
1913, but between 90 and 95 there are
500, in the next period SO, and above a
hundred are returned. The ages of
the wives form striking contrast. In
the first period, between Is and 20,
there are 34,573, nearly six times the
number of husbands at that period of
age; in the next period, 20 to %, there
are about 140, 900 more wives than hus-
bands, after which the figures approach
each other gradually, the last period at
which the wives are In excess of the
husbands being 25 to 40, where
they are 1000 above. In the next pc
riod the results are different and tine
husbands of 40 to 40 are 1000 in excess
of the wives. The proportion increases
with age, and from 80 and upwards, the
number of husbands is double that of
the wives.
A WHITE bittern, said to be the only
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

HIS name is Samuel w. Allen. He
has a ranch 80 miles long by 40 vide,
lying between the Nevada and Colorado
rivers, in Texas he has 225, 900 cattle,
and he is the greatest herdsman in the
world.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

MEIGGs, the railway king OF ChlIl,
once had peculiar surprise party. A
Bangor washerwoman. who went to
California some years ago, had 81, 600
or $1,000 deposited in Meiggs' Frisco
California Bank before she busted up. I"
After he went to South America this
woman heard of his success in specula-
tion, shipped to Chill, and one day
turned up in Mr.. Meiggs' Office. The
result of the interview was that he not
only paid her the principal and interest
of her account, but also paid the entire
expenses of her trip from Maine: to his
presence and return.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
To CORRESPONDENCE.

All communications for this paper should be &C,
fOmpaaied BY the name OF the author; not necee'
iarily for publication, but as evidence Of goot
saith the part of the writer. Write only on one
sido of the paper Be particularly careful, IN Civ
ing names and dates to have the letters and figures
plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

YOUNG Virginia is going to school at
all events. DR.. Bnffner, superintend-
ent, reports 173 .875 enrolled pupils in
the public schcols-121, 7S9 white, ST.
0S6 colored. The percentage of gain
is much larger among the blacks than
the whites.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

THE head of the United States Signal
Service has completed arrangements
with European meteorological stations
to send daily reports to the United
States, to be used in connection with
the reports from four hundred stations
in this country. From this combina.
ton of observations we may expect
some valuable discoveries.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

FRESH COWS in New York, for best, are
from $50 to $3.50. An inferior quality
are $50 to $50.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Receipts from Customs for the Past
TMentY.Six Years.
MEIaes, the railway king of Chill,

Estimated from telegraphic abstract of Treas
urer Spinners report.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

A WHITE bittern, said to be the only
Que ever seen, was recently shot near
Virginia City, New.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
A Story About Crows.

A Delaware correspondent writes to
a Baltimore paper on the subject OF
cows as follows ga novel amusement,
which is at present INDUCED in to a
great extent in the upper part of this
State, is crow-shooting as substitute
for pigeon-matches. The rules and
customs are the same in either case.
The substitute was made out of sort
of humanitarian notion among the peo-
pie, as we'll as to benefit, pecuniarily,
residents about Reedy Island, in the
Delaware, from whence crows are taken.
1 have been told that this spot is the
favorite roosting- ground of these birds,
and that toward nightfall they congre-
gate there by thousands. When dark
ness overspreads the island, the catchers
enter among the low trees with bags,
and capture any desired number, SIM
ply plucking them from the limbs like
so much fruit. The birds cannot fly in
the darkness, and, even if shaken from
their roosts, they cling to the first OBJ
ject that comes within reach. 1t is
said that man, standing beneath The
tree from which the birds are shaken
with outstretched arms, will soon be
covered with them"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
That Bottle Hoax.

George w. Blunt writes to the New
York Post that the bottle purporting to
have been thrown from the lost steamer
City of Boston, could not have been on
that vessel when she went down. He
declares that the the account written on
the paper alleged to have been found
in the bottle sis the product of some
silly fool, rs there is no current in the
North Atlantic ocean which could drift
bottle there from the region where
the Boston probably was when she
foundered, the drift of the ocean through
which she necessarily passed being al
ways to the eastward, whether in the
Gulf stream or north of it. Mr.. Nichol-
son, of the Inman line, agrees with Mr..
Blunt in regarding the pretended mes
sage as heartless joke, and says that
there was no MCPHERSON asJ John Caswell
among the cabin passengers, or even of
the lost sesmen, and that any such at
tempt as this to quicken the anxiety of
the friends of those persons who were
lost ought to be severely condemned.
He also says that bottles are now found
periodically, containing scraps of refer
ence to the City of Boston disaster, all
of which he believes to have been
fOrgeries.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

house, where they remained in consultation
several hours.
New YORK, Aug. 12.-Theodore Tilton gave
an emphatic contradiction, to-day, to the
story which has been kept afoat since the
suppression of the statement made by Moul-
ton, that compromise would be satisfactory
to all concerned in the scandal. Tilton saws
for his part, that he will enter upon a com
promise when paving blossom into
roses"
The presentation to the committee by
Moulton of his short statement, instead of
the long one which he had first prepared. is
said to have been the result of another Z" tri-
parite agreement" the parties thereto being
Gen. Butler. Gen. Tracy, of counsel for
Beecher, and the investigating committee and
Moulton. Butler and Tracy are represented
to have agreed that Moulton should confine
himself in his statement to the documents al
luded to by Tilton in his statement, and Moul-
ton consented, in the hope that some way
might be found to bring about satisfactory
condition of affairs.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
What Morton Reminded Jones OF.

think, " said Dom Piatt to Sena-
tor Jones, Morton stuck on that word
d0ctrfnaire it had such a dreadful
sound to him"
He reminded me-" responded the
Senator, "of queer character we once
had In Nevada by the name of Poke
bury. He was lawyer Of some prom
Use, but came to do nothing through
drink. Losing all his clients, he went
to mining, and joined rough miner by
the name of Spokes. At the end of a
week Pekebury appeared in town with
black eye, swollen nose and lacerated
garments. OF course we were anxious
to know all about it: well, you see,'
said he, Billy and 1 were partners.
and like Billy, for he's well-meaning
man for an uneducated cuss. But Billy
and L dissolved partnership. we settled
and struck-leastwise We struck each
other and Billy settled. Our first little
difference was of an astronomical char
acter. We divided the day different.
Billy divided on a. m. and / divided
on 10 a. m, and Billy, instead of allow
ing for astronomical difference, said 1
was lazy dog. But [ didn't mind
S~-eeN3 40 my "oo YOU SEE.
and had right to his views. Then we
differed on ablution. Billy abluted be-
fore breakfast, and said 1 was a dirty
dog, for you see 1 always ablute after
breakfast. But didn't mind that, for
people will differ, and so long as the
difference don't affect business what's
the odds. But the third difference was
just a little too much for me. We were
sitting down to beans and slap-iacks,
and Billy blowing about my being
greedy dog, when suddenly the fellow
said to me, I'd thank you for those
molasses. This was too much-no man
can say those molasses to me and
live; and I just took him in the counte-
nance with highlander that settled
him and his damned insulting bad
grammar together. That's the way We
dissolved. I'm in town, and I guess
Bill will be here in couple Of weeks
And So" continued the Senator,
"Morton stuck on d0ctrinaire."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

THE following are some of the prices
paid for noted American horses Ken
lucky, $4,000; Norfolk, $4,000 ;
Lexington, s15, 600; Kingfsher, s15,-
600; Gleneig, $4,000; Smuggler, s15,-
900; Blackwood, $4,000; Jay Gould,
$4,000; Dexter $50, 900; Lady Thorne,
10000; Jim Irving, $50, 600; Goldsmith
Maid, 10000; Startle, SO, 900 Pros
pero, $50, 900; Rosalind, $4,000; Lulu,
$4,000; Happy Medium, $4,000 ;
Clara g., $50, 900; Pocahontas, $685.
600; Edward Everett, $40, 600 J; Auburn
horse, $4,000; Judge Fullerton, 10000;
Mambrino BERTHE, $4,000; Socrates,
$4,000; George Palmer $4,000;
Mambrino Pilot, $4,000; George P.
Daniels, $1,000; J. G. Brown. $40, 900.
Flora Temple sold, when aged, for s.
900, for brood mare; $4,000 was
offered and refused for Tom Bowling
last summer; $4,000 was offered and
refused for Bassett in his 3-year-old
form; S25, 900 will not to-day buy Bay
wood or Asteroid; $40, 700 was offered
and refused for Woodford Mambrino,
and 800, 900 for Thorndale.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
The GrasshOppers.

A correspondent writing from Elk
Point, d. T., July 90, gives the follow
ing account of the ''grasshopper plague
in that section
"The grasshoppers, like a mighty
horde, have swept down upon us. All
the corn in this section is destroyed.
There will be some wheat and oats.
Garden vegetables are all gone. 1t
would seem, from present Indications,
that this scourge upon our country is
to become more general. Each year the
area of their destruction becomes more
extended. They are much farther east
this year than they were last, and from
reports the destruction wrought is full
as complete far toward the central part
of Iowa.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
typographical Errors,

GA lady's wedding trowsers in Rich
mond is said to contain a $40 pair of
stockings.
The compositor should have set it up
"trousseau. A very great difference.
We are told that she of the SO pair of
stockings felt offended when she saw
the item.
The Rev. DR.. Spurgeon seems to be
sufferer from the types. Here is an
other:
From this peculiarly, 1 fancy. arises
the discrepancy between the estimates
of Mr.. Surgeons regular hearers ard
those who listen to him once or twice and
go away disappointed. The latter
anatomize his sermons, while the former
take them as whales.
We presume that it was intended
"take them as wholes.''
Rev. DIR. Furness, of Philadelphia,
has had sole charge of church longer
than any other Unitarian minister in
the United States. He was settled in
1926"
So says one of our papers. Either
there is typographical error here, or
the Doctor is very old man. Conld it
be 1925?
An editor referred-or thought he
did-to a political opponent as IAN old
poppy" but he was somewhat startled
to find the types made him say what he
did not mean, san old puppy Not
much difference here, we think. We
would as leave be called an old puppy
as an old poppy.
Curious item from Western paper
San Ohio man cursed $4,000 hams
last season."
Dry work, we should say and why
did he curse them? Upon reflection,
we thought it must be typographical
error, and that he cure: not cursed that
number of hams. The other reading
appears more natural. q tT
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
Judaism Not Declining.

TIE much discussed question, SIS
Judaism declining? ?" is taken up this
week by the Jeaoish Messenger, which
says "Our religion is not declining.
We concede that many there are, born
in the faith of Israel, who, for various
causes, have become recreant to their
trust; their conduct, however injurious,
is, after all, an individual act between
themselves and their Heavenly Father.
We do not hesitate in saying that in no
period in our modern history have we
maintained better condition before
the world than we do now and this
assertion can be maintained by the
most substantial evidence. -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
Strikingly COincident.

When you talk of Coincidence, u
commend me to the following In my
prying into some statistics, which 1 have
come to regard as the true eye-sight OF
the State, / found this puzzler in a
table published by authority of Him
ois, in 1870. This paper says that the
population of Georgia is l, 185, 0G0; that
of Iowa, 1882. The insane in
Georgia were 1,1S5; of Iowa j, 1873.
Georgia had 100 idiots; Iowa 7S9.
Georgia's deaf mutes numbered 677 ;
Iowa's 676. Geogia's blind 474; Iowa's
473. Total for Georgia, 3, 226 for Iowa
1921. The difference in the popula-
ton of the two States is 2.067; In their
insane, just two; in their idiots, just
one in their deaf mutes just one; in
their blind, only one.-Attd'sta Herald
Correspondence.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
The Small Bow of MERGED River.

Where the road between MERGED and
Smelling crosses the MERGED river, that
stream is about two hundred yards in
width, and even at this season of the
year, when the water is quite low, ii
looks like dangerous and deep stream
to cross. Recently a patent medicine
agent, travelling on horseback rough
that section, came to the river, and
hesitated about attempting to ford it,
as he saw the wide expanse of the rush
ing waters. There is no bridge any
where along there, so, after some de-
cision, he concluded to swim his horse
across. Spying small boy fishing in
a small punt tied to the bank, he said !:
"Hello, bub?
Hello yourself p
"Can I get you to take my clothes
across the river IN your boat %
81 rekin you KIN, if you have got any
SOAP"
IAN right. I'll give you quarter to
take over my clothes and this carpet
sack to the opposite shore.
To this the boy nodded assent. The
stranger disrobed and turned over the
carpet sack and habiliments to the ju-
venile, who padded out into the stream,
and mounted his horse preparatory to
swim the river and enjoy the luxury of
bath. With plash at every moment
the horse stepped into the stream and
walked across. The water was nowhere
more than eighteen inches deep. To
say that the medicine man, perched on
the back of his horse, was a man of in
EQUITY for the space of half an hour
would hardly do justice to the occasion.
There were enough "dams" along the
MERGED that afternoon to supply hum
dred miu Sites California Exchange.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

FRANK MoULToN, their "mutual
friend" is described as thirty-fve years
of age, OF very sandy complexion,
and, according to correspondent, has
the reputation of being impetuous,
fiery, and at times belligerent.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
Japanese characteristics.

The Japan Mail, which reflects the
opinions of Englishmen in Japan, re-
fers thus disparagingly to the progress
i've movement in that country: ''Su-
perfciality is eminently a japanese
characteristic, and the idea soon takes
possession of them that they know every
thing about subject before they know
almost anything. There is an absence
of solidity, of thoroUghness, AMI, as a
consequence, of profundity. The ex-
element of novelty. the love of change,
and curiosity of semi-simple, half
childish character, carries them abroad
where they want to see everything.
Their garrulity is unbounded. Every
thing, no matter what, is of about equal
Importance in their eyes. They ask a
thousand questions, scarcely waiting
for answers, which are speedy forgot
ten in whole or in part. By and-by,
when their funds become exhausted and
themselves 6lase, they return home dis
satisfied and querulous. They are no
longer content with their own country,
and know not how to set about the
necessary measures to secure its eleva-
ton to the high level of the countries
they have visited. They are spoilt
japanese, with warnings after the in
definite, of no use abroad, and of little
at home"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
An Embryo Emperor i'm Training.

The Empress Eugene has not many
English friends, but her son takes home
companion now and then from Wool
witch. One who knows him we'll tells
me he is being tutored beyond all rea-
son. From the moment he giz up
until the time he goes to bed he 10 1der
this forcing pressure, and the result is
he looks but sickly plant. He seems
to get paler and thinner as he becomes
sensible of the expectations formed of
him and as he strives to answer them.
The Empress has become proselytist,
and more than one of her English
visitors have been embarrassed by re-
ceiving at her hands what would be
called in Protestant phraseology "re-
ligious tracts" and what are really con-
troversial books ON Roman Catholic
theology. In presenting them, she
invii es attention to passages which she
has marked, and which bear more espe-
cially upon the errors of the reformed
religion. She speaks English pretty
freely. though with a strong accent I;
the Prince. of course, understands our
tongue, though he also preserves an
accent. 1t is said that he is about to
leave for a soiourn in Switzerland
London Cor. Boston advertiser.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20

CADET SMITH (coloreD is out in another
two-column card in Fred Douglass paper
: detailing the indignities heaped upon him by
other officers and cadets of West Point. 49,.
The proceedings of the Episcopal Concention
in session near this city, were disturbed on
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-20
NEWS SUMMARY.


The New York Sun says Wall street is be-
ing patrolled by larger number of detective:
than at any other time since the Gray forger
les, which cost Wall street $50 900. The ex.
listing stagnation of trade, causes great
many men to be out of employment, and they
are ready for almost any deed of desperation
THE failure of Sutton d Co., of New York
publishers of the Aldi'bs, an illustrated jour.
nal. is announced. 80. A dispatch from New
York states that Tweed is to have a new tria
at the next general term in October. :. On
the 9th inst, a fire in Philadelphia DESTROYED
the Columbia avenue mills. Loss S22.OOO.
GOLDSMITH MAID beat her own time al
Buffalo on the 7th, making mile in 2:151.