Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-10
MarmOnt correspondence.

uci-llu lnCItdSiHS.
The farmers are now busy threshinc
sowing wheat, and cutting corn.
Man that is born Of woman is of few
days an full of trouble He cometh forth
like a flower and is cut down; he fleeth
also as IA shadow and continueth not ;
In eXemplitication of this truth, dea:h,
the King OF terrors has since our last
communication visited this community,
and lain his cold and icy hands upon
Annie, the infant daughter of l.. j. and L
Baker, and conveyed her to that bourn
from which no traveller can return.
Dearest Annie, to the gave thou art gone,
From which none ever shall return:
Unlike the mourning who linger yet to weep,
In everlasting silence, dost thou sleep.
Tender and pure hast thou gone before
No more shall we see thee as in days of yore;
While angels are singing the songs OF the
blessed,
Thou art swte city slumbering in peaceful rest.
Asleep. asleep. how blessed is the sleep,
From which none ever awake To weep.
Peaceful be thy silent slumber
Till those Join the Heavenly number
Then with thy sweet angelic voice,
In heaven and glory can rejoice,
Aud with the heavenly h,uar,hy sing
Eternal praise % God, the King.
We see that the hec lun'iDory az is
again ont in very dazzling production,
ard with his red tipped nose and distend-
ed abdomen he lowered over Marmont
for while, when he leaped of, and with
one sweep OF his mighty wing he sores
away into Alexandria, Egypt, on the top
of Pompey's pillar where he runs The re
mander of his punch (of which he is SO
particularly fond) down his huge and
burning gullct-kicked the bowl 10 the
ground. and again flew away, dangling at
The tail of his Kite till he finally arrived in
the celestial regions, where amid The
planets he finally concluded that he and
not Juno, was the planetary system.
All. yes. he imaginS that he is the great
center of the solar system and the princi.
pa! source of light, and five hundred times
as large as all the planets put together
including Juno. May we inquire who
this pompos "" can be. Can he DC the
veritable inebriate that Juno not long
since was compelled through mercy sake
to prevent from driving and beating his
horse 10 death while in one of his drunk
cn fits, or can he be the man who is best
known here, by the rather enviable sobri
quot of Oid GInnny, or have they as may
be supposed united their stock, one fur.
nishing the brains and the other the pen
and ink. Now while we can Law no claim
to superior wisdom and rcnown we never
theless regard il as Il great honor 10 live
conlcinporaneous with, and especially in
the immediate vicinity of one possessing
such profound classica lore, such supurb
native ability and superior forethought.
Demostbenes and Cicero have been alb
solutely eclipsed by the modern astout
N" Shakespeare too has been knocked
into cooked hat, for while he is said
TO have used l. 500 different words in his
writing, and speaking more than any 9th
er one man ever did. Our lumminary 'Xp
Notwithstanding there are about 10000
words in the English language, (of which
he has swallowed the entire vocabulary
could not find words enough to express
himself, so he was Obliged to dive into the
Latin ana bring out 'casus beHs," (ahem.
that is jaw braker) and snuff the battle
from afar. We regret very much that 50
many of the wise and grea: men of the
world, including TX" are given 10 debase-
ment, and revcling in Iibation.
Never did an inebriate express more
plain and positive truth than did "X,n
when he grew poetic, and said of himself
as follows: We say of himself. because
he used the personal pronouns, my and /.
Hear what he says:
Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. all,
Come and witness my terrible fall,
Yet once was pure as the beautiful Snow,
Aerciful God! have fallen 80 low"
We will take the liberty of adding one
verse more.
Oh, poor wretched and miserable j,
While in the ditch and wallow lie.
This degradation and shame fain would eschew
Had The tonor of man to enable me to.
We have been informed since writing
the above, that j. Wise and Miss Hattie
Vankirk were united in the bonds of mat
rimony yesterday, at the home of the
brides father, near Maxinkuckee village
and now that they have set out on LIES
sea to battle with the world
may their lives ever be calm and serene as
the day on which they were united in
wedlock. JUNO.