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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Trees az Preyentiyes of Disease.

The Rev. Charles Kingsley, in one of
his recent local sketches, touches on a
subject which is no less worthy atten-
ton in this country than in England.
He says:
Do you remember the cattle plague
How the beasts died, or were killed and
buried by tens of thousands and how
misery and ruin fell on hundreds OF
honest men and women over many of
the richest counties of England, but
how we in this vale had no cattle plague,
and how there was none-so far as l
recollect-in the uplands of Devon and
Cornwall, nor of Wales, nor of the
Scotch Highlands? Now, do you know
why that was? Simply because we
here, like those other uplanders, are in
such country as Palestine was before
the foolish Jews cut down all their TIM
Der, and so destroyed their own rainfall
"a "land of brooks of water, of foun-
tains and depths that spring out of val
leys and hills" There is hardly field
here that has not, thank God, its run
ming brook, or its sweet spring, from
which our cattle were drinking their
health and life, while in the clay-lands
of Cheshire, and in the Cambridgeshire
fens-which are drained utterly dry
the poor things drank no water, too
often, save that of the very same putrid
ponds in which they had been standing
all day long to cool themselves and keep
off the flies. 1 do not say, of course,
that bad water caused the cattle plague.
It came by infection from the east of
Europe. But 1 say that bad water
made them ready to take it, and made
it spread over the country; and when
you are old enough 1 will give you
plenty of proof-some from the herds of
your own kinsman-that what 1 say is
truo.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
How to Promote Peace in the Family.


l. Remember that our will is likely
to be crossed every day, SO prepare
for it.
2. Everybody in the house has an evil
nature as well as ourselves, and there
fore we are not to expect too much.
3. To learn the different temper and
disposition of each individual.
4. To look on each member of the
famely as one for whom we should have
care.
5. When any good happens to any one
to rejoice at it.
6. When inclined to give an angry
answer, to "overcome evil with good. u
7. If from sickness, pain or inGrmity
we feel irritable, to keep strict watch
over ourselves.
8. To observe when others are suffer
ing, to drop ward of kindness and
sympathy suited to them.
9. To watch for little opportunities OF
pleasing, and to put little am oyances
out of the way.
10. To take a cheerful view of every
thing, of the weather, and encourage
hope.
IL. To speak kindly of the servants
to praise them for little things when
you can.
IL. In all little pleasures which may
occur to put self last.
IL. To try for "the soft answer which
turneth away wrath"
IA. When we have been panied by al
unkind word or deed, to ask ourselves
"Have / not often done the same ant
been forgiven ?"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
The Heir to Quarter of Million
Sent to State Prison,

George Fl. Mix, who was indicted for
stealing LOO worth of real lace from
the store of FL. B. Clafin & Co., and
pleaded guilty, was brought up for SEN
tence In the General Sessions yesterday.
Mix is of most respectable connections,
and the son of wealthy banker in
Hartford, Conn.,, who at his death be-
queathed the prisoner an estate said to
be worth $250,000. The trustees of the
estate allowed Mix 81, 500 year to live
on, but this sum proved entirely made
quate to crafty his tastes. Some time
ago he was arrested in the Gilsey House
for swindling, but through the inter-
cession of his family was saved from
State Prison. A short time ago Mix
again visited this city, and on the
strength of forged letters of recon-
mendation from number of prominent
citizens, obtained situation as sales
man in the lace department at Clafin's.
On the 9th inst he disappeared, and it
was ascertained that 81, 100 worth of
lace had been stolen. The prisoner was
arrested, and informed the detectives
where he had secreted the stolen prop
erty. In his trunk were found num-
Der of forged letters of recommends
ton to bankers in San Francisco and
other places. On being brought to the
bar, Mix wept bitterly, and piteously
pleaded for mercy. Recorder Hackett
said that the prisoner had brought dis
grace on his family and connections by
his conduct, and deserved no sympathy.
The sentence of the court was that he
be confined in State Prison at hard
labor for five years.-NeaO York Times,
Oct ri
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
The Hog Crop.

The receipts of live hogs at the Stock
Yards for the month of October were
35O,812 against 325,716 for the CORE
spending month in 1873, showing an
excess of receipts this year of 1906
head. The average weight. this year
was 1877 pounds, against 252 pounds in
October, 1873, a falling off of So pounds
per hog. The aggregate weights this
year were 60, l0S,9 1864 pounds, against
81, 980, $50 pounds in 1873, showing an
actual decrease in weight this year of
1882, 568 pounds. Contrary to the
ordinary rule, theaverage weight of the
hogs received during October were ID,
less than for the month of September.
The most reliable information received
from the hog growing States places the
falling off in the number of marketable
hogs at ], $50, 900 head, and the indica-
tons are that the actual decrease in
weight will be equally as large in pro-
portion as the falling off in numbers.
Packers who have opened their houses
say that the hogs they are cutting are
generally deficient in the yield of lard
as compared with former years. This
was to be expected, as it is useless to
suppose that the hogs cut this season
will be otherwise than poorly fatted, as
farmers are not inclined to feed corn
freely so long as it brings such prices
as have ruled in this market since the
beginning of the Chicago
Courier.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Schneider.

Mile. Hortense Schneider, the Paris
ian queen of the opera boufe, was, In
her youth, working girl, and the
daughter of humble tailor of Bor-
deaux. She is now, at about 40 years
of age, living in the style of sultana.
Her diamonds are valued at over
$500, 900, and among her other jewels of
fabulous cost is cited an emerald set of
surprising splendor. Her apartments
are crowded with the most elegant aud
expensive furniture andaof5ets de vertu:
Bronzes and marbles, aud pictures, and
crystal, and Sevres porcelain, and Gobe-
lin tapestry are scattered through her
rooms in sumptuous profusion. Al
though the charm Of youth is forever
lost to Mile. Schneider she still has the
handsomest arms and hands, the pref
test foot and the merriest blue eyes,
that flash and sparkle and entice, be-
hind the Partisan footIights.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Arnold,s Boy and ChandIer,s Boy.

The other evening Arnold's boy and
the Chandler boy were sitting in the
kitchen in the dark, telling stories of
Capt. Kidd and other free traders,
when Arnold senior sang out, for the
eleventh time within the half hour.
Benjamin Franklin, go downstairs
and get that kindliug Immediately /"
Chandeliers boy had just got to that
part of the story telling how the free
and easy sailor aforementioned used to
mix his grog in coffin and slice small
boys for favoring.
Now Ben never fancied going into a
cellar at night, and his fears were in
creased ten-fold, after hearing the weird
romance of the "Bloody Pirate" So
when he heard the suggestive tramp
of the governors boots in the hall, he
quietly slipped into the closet, leaving
Chambers boy sitting by the fire.
Arnold senior came In, and seeing
Ben, as he supposed, not even starting
for the cellar, he walked up to him and
lifted him by the ear.
"Easy Easy! |" shouted Chambers
boy in surprise.
"Easy ?" shouted the old man, com
pletely dumfounded by Ben's supposed
audacity; "easy," and he recovered
his presence of mind sufficient to kick
Chambers boy into the coal-hod and
out of the door before he discovered his
mistake.
Chambers boy says he is going to
knock the stufing out of Ben as soon as
the swelling goes down and his north
ear gets the crook out of it. Danbury
Mems
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Bad Beverages.

A New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal writes
sour community is greatly stirred by
the revelations made on the adultera-
tions of food. The practice runs into
jellies, and especially teas and coffee.
They buy the berry, burn it carefully,
and have the aromatic beverage made
under their own eye. After they have
done all, they are only drinking white
beans. There is machine here for
splitting beans and growing them.
They are then dried to the color of
coffee and soaked in a solution which
gives the coffee taste. Teas are sold
here cheaper than the pure article can
be bought in China. There is not tea
enough in all China to answer the Am
erican market, to say nothing of the
million pounds consumed in England
alone. Then there is a mile of houses
with boilers and coloring matter In the
open ports of China, run by English
and Scotchmen, whose business it is to
doctor the tea for the market for which
it is intended. This impure article,
made in huge kettles and dried in pans,
is called by the Chinese cheat-tea. We
have houses here that openly advertise
that they can color and make over teas
of any brand or style required, and of.
fer to repack it in the chests SO as to de.
fy detection. The tea trade here re.
quires capital of over thirty millions.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
THE BARN-YARD CRITICS.
A Fable-Paraphrased from the SpanisI
of Yriarte.
BY JOHN G. sAxR.

A Pig and Sheep together slept
In the same barn-yard; and with these
A gallant Cock his vigils kept
Who, with his fellows, dwelt in peace.
GA pleasant sort of life is this
The Porker said" Say, Madam Sheep
Is not the highest earthly bliss
To lie at ease, and eat and sleep?
For me, think the perfect leisure
And luxury in which we hive
Worth more than ali the ective pleasure
That men or gods have power to give ~
The woolly dame has naught to say:
Too meek to answer though she tries,
While listening in a civil way,
To look Tin vain y extremely wise
But Chdnticleer, who CHANGED TO hear
These sage reflections, cooked his eye,
Gave a shrill crow his throat to clear
And thus to Piggie made reply:
GA sleepy life, must confess,
We're very little to my taste;
To liye-like you-in idleness,
OF time is, sure, foolish waste.
" To rule the roost, and strut about,
That's happiness, in my belief;
A little sleep is we'll no doubt
But, for ones health, it should be brief.
Z" In fact, I've tried it /; and find
Ones SAUNDERS should be always light;
Sleep surely stupefies the mind,
While watching makes it clear and bright. y
While thus they argue, loud and long,
The patient Sheep has listened well;
But which is right, and which is wrong,
Is something more than she can tell;
She little dreams the wranglers draw
Qike other critics, great and smalD
Each from himself the narrow law
By which he seeks to govern all!
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Puss-in-the-Corner.

Two little bands hiding two rogulsh eyes,
Dear, sunny head, that is ever so WISE
Darling is laughlng and shouting with gee,
Playing at pass-in-the-corner with me
Patter the prettisst feet DER the floor,
Never was seen such playmate before;
Sly little one, in a way most unfair,
Steals in my corner before I'm AWARE
Here in our play ground-the sunshiny room,
Never has fallen . shadow of gloom;
Darling is teaching me sweet little games:
Wise little noddle 10 know all their names;
Clover-bsd Dsuth held to mine TO be kissed:
Silver-tonsd voice-how that voice would bt
missed
A corner you've wsa-did you know this before p
Deep in Ey he art, to be kept evermore,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
rhe West 10 danr;ved of tba ord;n,

The West is deprived of the ordinary
means of remittance to the East to this
extent, and as consequence currency is
going to the East, and thus increasing
money in the New York banks. We
quote "This movement is unhealthy
both to the West and the East. At the
West it will produce more or less strin-
gency in the money market, which, un-
der the existing condition of trade, is
the last thing that can be afforded by
the people of that section. At the East
it tends to check the expectation of
grain. and so helps to produce a firm
ness in the foreign exchanges quite I'M
natural to this season of the year.
Later in the season, our merchants must
expect to feel the effect of this grain
boarding in backwardness of Western
collections, with unsatisfactory conse-
quences this unwelcome anticipation,
however, finds some mitigation in the
fact that the Indebtedness of the West
to the East is probably much less this
season than usual, in consequence OF
the general depression of trade"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19

VALUABLE BANDs.-The other day,
after meeting of a certain famous
women's club in New York, the ladies
amused themselves comprising their
garters, to see which wore the handsom-
est /; for garters of extravaganza expense
have lately come into fashion, and sew
eral of these club members wear theirs
clasped with gold and precious stones.
The jewelers. are all introducing new
designs for garter clasps that promise
shortly to cost as much as the bracelets
that fashion nas discarded. A charming
woman aud singer in society is said tt
wear pair of carriers that cost $500.
WHERE impuuence is wit, it is foil.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Effect Of Holding Back Grain.

The New York Bulletin shows the
extent to which grain products have
been held back at the West this year.
The receipts at lake ports of wheat,
corn, barley and rye since August |, as
compared with former years, are f.:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper should be &C
companied by the name OF the author; not neces-
sarily for publication. but an EVIDENCE of good
faitn the part Of the writer. Write only on one
side Of the paper Be particularly careful, in Civ
i2enames and dates, to have the letters and figures
plain and distinck
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Pith and Point.

SISTERS of Charity-Faith and Hope.
THE real yellow fever Greed for
gold.
A CoNPosIToR on a st. Louis paper
made an editor say that this war-cry
is the key-hole of victory"
ct CAN always tell water when see
it, remarked Toddyblossom the other
day; "it looks so much like gin"
"To WHAT sect of fraternity do YOU
think I belong ?" asked fop of lady.
"To the insect fraternity" was the
reply.
A WITTY woman says that, as death is
reported to love shining mark, she is
constantly in dread of shaft being
aimed at her husbands nose.
In st. Louis everybody is considerate,
and therefore a daily paper remarks:
"Two gentlemen and lady left for the
renitentiary last evening""
A DETROIT paper noting the fact that
a man fell dead while combing his hair,
says "And yet there are people who
will persist in that dangerous habit"
A COUNTRY girl, coming from morn
ing walk, was told she looked as fresh
as daisy kissed by the dew, to which
she innocently replied: "You've got
my name right, Daisy; but his isn't
Dew"
THERE is an old Indian in Kansas
who has been nicknamed "Old Prob"
When asked to prophesy of the coming
weather. he sageIy and safely says,
Mebbe snow; mebbe heap id hot.
Better wait little, you bet.
81 SHOULD like sCourtship and Mar.
rage and THE Best of Husbands"
said pretty girl, tripping into Broad
way bookstore. 81 think I can fill that
bill, miss" replied the dapper young
salesman. Have you Ten Thousand
a Year p"
A CHARMING picture is that of Saxe's
widow at fashionable party:
Her shawl was as sable as night
Her gloves were as dark as her shawl,
And her jewels-that flashed in the light
Were black as funeral pail
Her robe had the hue of the rest
(How nicely it fitted her shape)
And the grief that was heaving her breast
Boiled over in pillows Of Grape!
north was instructing his daughter, a
little girl about eight years OF age, in
the principles of religion, and explain
ing to her the rewards and the punish
ments of future state. He told her,
among other things, that the wicked
would be sent to large pit, where
they would be roasted in an immense
fire by evil spirits. She was very at
tentive, and after pause, said:
"Papa, what good thing it would be
if you could get them to take their
Goals of your
TWO SOLnoQUIEs.
An Iowa editor, who attended, party,
was smitten with the charms of fair
damsel who wore arose on her forehead,
and thus gushed about it
Above her nose
There is a rose,
Below that rose
There is q nose.
Rose, nose,
Nose, rose,
Sweet rose,
Dear nose.
Below her chin
There is PIN
Above that pin
There is a chin.
Pin, chin,
Chin. pin,
Sweet pin,
Dear chin.
Whereupon a rival editor thus apos-
trophized the Iowa chap:
Above the stool
There is fool;
| Below the fool
There is stool.
| Stool, fool
| Fool, stool,
| Ola stool,
Damphool.
| Below his seat
| There are two feet.
| Above these feet
| There Is seat.
| Seat, feet,
| Feet, seat,
Soft seat,
| Big feet.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19

'ORRIBLE.-A Rhode Island clergy
man says that meeting a good woman
after great railway horror, she ex-
claimed, "Oh, Mr.. -, such terrible
thing has happened The engine and
cars on the - road collapsed, and be-
fore they could execrate the passengers
twenty of them were sophisticated.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19

THE total length of water-plpes in
New York is 400 miles in Chicago, $50
miles Baltimore, 30; Detroit, 10 !,
st. Louis, $50; Montreal, 10; Louis
vile, rs; Cleveland, 10; Jersey City,
e.; Milwaukee, 40; and Philadelphia,
5S5.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19

WHERE impuuence is wit, it is folly
to reply.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-19
Nettie's letter

DEAR MAMMA: We had, thanks be unto
God, turkey. and mince pie, and many other
kinds of fruit, last Thursday. ] love my
ia her and mother. There are three hundred
pupils in this institution. It's boys, l25 girls.
All the pu liz are well, but some are sick.
Your Loving daughter, NETTIH.
Little Corporal
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VOLUME X-NUMBER 90.
Wagon, dray or cart, private, store
or business for hauling. &C., into City
rrpaanrv. for hadoa go canfa

Wagon, dray or cart, private, store
or business for hauling, &C., into City
treasury, for badge. 80 cents.
No person shall let or hire any
wagon, cart, dray or other carriage or
vehicle for the transportation of goods
or passengers within the limits Of said
city. without having first obtained a
badge from the City Clerk, to be
placed on some conspicuous part Of
the vehicle, paying therefor into the
City treasury SO cents. under penalty
OF 70 Tor each md every day that such
vehicle shall be so run, to be recovered
by information before the Mayor:
Proc;ae9, That nothing harain CON
tained shall be construed to extend to
wagons, carts or other vehicles going
to or from market; and for any other
business or profession not otherwise
provided for. license tax of $40 to
$40: Propided, further, That where
two or more branches of business, not
necessarily connected, are conducted
IN one establishment, license shall
be charged and col!,c', for each
branch of business so conducted, as
specified in this ordinance. Dogs
upon each and every dog, to be paid
by the person or PERSONS on whose
premises the dog is kept, So; and the
police of the city Of Columbia are here
by authorized and required to seize
and confine every dog found running
at large, and2not having on city badge
or collar for current year, and for every
dog 80 taken up by the police 81 addi-
tional shall be paid for the same.
SEC. 8. All ordinances aud parts of
ordinances conflicting with this ordi-
nance are hereby repealed.
By order: W. r. JONES.
City Treasurer.
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Summer Meeting state Agricultural
and Mechanical Society.

Summer Meeting State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society.
The members of the State Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical Society and of tho
State Auxiliary Joint Stock Company
are notified that meeting Of the two
bodies will be Ind at Spartanburg G.
H., on Wednesday, 18th August next.
1t is earnestly urged upon the mem
bers and upon all other parties having
at heart the good Of Oarolina's agri-
cultural and mechanical interests, and
who desire her general prosperity, to
meet with Us, and aid us by their Wis
dom and counsels to perpetuate these
time.honored and vitally important in-
stitutions. 9tia
The fact is not to be disguised that
our financial status is not such as is de.
sirable, still our condition is far from
desperate. and I am not only hopeful
for the future, bat confident, that with
little concert of brain md muscle,
we will at this meeting place our or
ganization beyond tho iuaoh;nations of
vile enemies outside, and ont of reach
of the treacherous embraces of false
friends soitAin. who. infected with the
prevailing epidemic-ring farming
have 30 recently exerted themselves for
our destruction, that they might pur-
chase our valuable property for song.
In addition to these business mat
ters of suoh momentous import to our
down-trodden and plandered old State,
1 have assigned subjects for essays and
debate, which are believed will make
the Meeting both interesting aud in
structive: whilst I am in receipt of let.
tiers from Spartanburg, informing mo
that no efforts will be spared to mako
our visit pleasant, and apprising me of
the fact that the patrons intend the
compliment Of grand picnic on the
occasion. Come, then, my fellow
sufferers-dismiss your cares; forget
the expressions of your dnstnrdly go
vernment; put behind your backs the
gaunt images of poverty and Want that
now stalk broadcast over our country;
obliterate the present. and. recollect-
ing only the past, with it's peace,
plenty and hallowed associations, let
us have one more rallying of the old
school, old-fashioned, honest old clod-
hoppers and mechanics of South Caro-
lima. T. W. WOODWARD,
President.
WINNsBono, s. c., June l3, 1874.
R9"Papers favorable are requested
to give ut least one insertion, and
will ever pray for increased eubscrip.
ton lists. T. W. ".
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A VALUABLE INTENTIONAL CORES
pondent of the Vicksburg Herald gives
an account of new invention now in
practical operation in the Mountain
Cotton Mills, near Bolton Station, on
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
which, if it proves to be all that is
represented, must have more impor-
tant effect upon the production and
manufacture of cotton than even
Whitney's cotton gin has had. It
does away with the ordinary process of
ginning, converting the cotton, Just as
it is taken from the field, into thread
OF superior quality. It costs only
$500. and is attached to the ordinary
card stand. It is said that specimens
OF thread made by this machine have
been sent to nearly all the Northern
manufacturers. and have been pro-
nounced stronger and more lustrous
than that spun by the ordinary me.
thod. 1t is claimed that thread spun
by this means will sustain fully one
third more weight than thrend of
equal size made of cotton that has
passed through the proc, IS Of com
preston and the complicated machine
~ OF common cotton mills
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GOLUMBIA, y. G., JULY 7. 1s74.-HoN.
~ 4: b. ELLIOTT, Member to Congress of
the Third Congressional District of the
State OF South Carolina-PIease call at
Felix Cardarelli's and settle your tailor's
Dill. which has been standing since Janua.
ry, 1872. F. CARDARELII
a@Charlcs.on Ne,cs aud Courier copy
three times. Jnly O 1n,n
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Travel on the Georgia Central Rail
road, and over all the lines and
branches controlled By the Central.
has been reduced to two cents per
mile.